Chapter 2

## Publication Order

**Pseudo-Creatures** (生物もどき *Seibutsu Modoki*) is the second chapter in the Gachiakuta manga series written and illustrated by Kei Urana. It was published in the 13th Weekly Shōnen Magazine issue on February 22, 2022.

## Summary

A person is dropped into the Abyss and a young Rudo overhears people talking about the impure tribespeople, he wonders why everyone is so concerned about the criminals yet no one considers what would happen if they themselves fell into the Abyss.

In the Abyss, Rudo wonders what the bizarre trash creatures chasing him are. When one of the creatures snaps its jaws right towards him he rolls away and coincidentally presses into a human skull that was lying on the ground. Terrified and furious, he screams and curses the people that threw him into this hellscape. When he tries to climb up a pile of trash, he trips and falls down the pile of filth. He notices the air in this place is toxic and he would have to escape somewhere before his lungs give out. But he starts vomiting blood, cursing himself for his incapability. The creatures make their way toward the weakened Rudo again but when he starts losing consciousness he hallucinates and sees Regto's dying body right next to him staring into his eyes. Rudo suddenly starts to remember the things he has to do before he dies—to beat the people who framed and looked down on him to death. With this newfound purpose, he picks up a pipe from the trash and charges toward the creatures.

From afar, a masked person sitting with an umbrella on top of a garbage heap watches the fight through binoculars. Rudo throws his pipe towards one of the creature's throats and tries to get to its flank but the creature blasts him away with its garbage-built paws. Rudo gets up again this time with a wide roof plate and along with a roar he manages to slash through the creature. But just when he lets his guard down a little the creature's scattered pieces start piling on each other again and shoot toward him. Lying flat, when Rudo opens his eyes, he finds the mysterious masked person was standing before him holding an umbrella over both of them. The masked person violently kick Rudo causing him to cough and forces a mask on his face, enabling him to finally breathe freely again.

Rudo starts to ask questions about the masked person and this underground world but the person tells him to shut up in a low voice. Rudo starts shouting at him for his unclear voice and the masked man finally snaps. The man screams in his face that this is not the underground but the surface where Skypeople have dumped their waste and the trash heap creatures known as Aberrant Beasts cannot be beaten with a normal weapon. After blaming Rudo for causing him to make a ruckus, he focuses on his umbrella and starts drawing out energy from it. When he snaps it open, the umbrella transformed into a battle-ready weapon with blades growing out of the ribs and a spearhead from the tip. The man twists the handle towards a charging beast and shreds it to pieces within a few moments. Rudo is awestruck by the man's ability and the strange umbrella as he watches the beasts being killed one by one. Rudo begins to believe if he could attain his power, he could take out the people from above that he despises. He asks the identity of the man and the man finally takes off his helmet-like mask to introduce himself as Engine, an average janitor, before complaining about the stink and quickly putting back his headwear again.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Rudo
* Engine

### Terminologies

* Tribespeople
* Skypeople
* Aberrant Beasts