Avakian

**Avakian** (アバキアン, *Abakian*), known as **Package of Darkness** (闇のニーモツ, *Yami no nīmotsu*) is Zaha Sanko's companion and caretaker. He has been traveling with Zaha since he was little. Together they are trying to find the one who spread the rumor of Zaha's bones granting wishes.

## Appearance

In his normal form, Avakian is a skeleton with black armor and a thin, glass-like membrane around his "stomach". The armor is actually Flesh of Darkness, most prominent around his hands. His skull has a handle on top. With the handle, he is around 200 cm tall, without it, 195 cm. He has a compartment in his mouth and neck to store Zaha's axe. Avakian's eye sockets glow at times, this is rendered white in colored pages, but yellow in a detailed cover page for chapter 13.

Avakian can fold himself into a backpack, with his limbs retracting into his torso, and his spine shortening.

## Personality

Avakian tries to be the voice of reason to any reckless adventure the crew is getting into. However, he can be emotional, impulsive and rude which leads to oversights, like being scammed by Misetani Box. He does have a humorous side, as seen when he relaxes in the café and laughs at Moja's interface cable. He is nurturing and kind with Sanko. Their relationship is familiar, with Avakian acting like a guardian when Sanko was younger. He becomes very frantic when Sanko is in danger and will risk his life to protect him. Avakian has a friendly relationship with Moja and has a fondness for Sakamanju.

Avakian dislikes Shimada, as he finds him careless and believes he puts Sanko in unnecessary danger. His dislike of Shimada can be irrationally petty at times, and he sulks at Sanko admiring him but innerly admits that the crew needs Shimada's strength.Ch. 13

Avakian uses the masculine personal pronoun **ore** (俺) to refer to himself.

## History

### 6 and half years ago

Zaha and Avakian infiltrated the Treegun Elementary School. Avakian hacked the system and made Zaha a student there, since it was a safe place for Zaha. As Avakian was finishing the registration, Zaha had to say his name, but since he was dying from hunger, he said Meatballs and Spaghetti and was registered under that name.

### 6 years ago

Avakian was accompanying Zaha on his daily life at the school. Zaha told Avakian he saw a scary person in a sealed section, Avakian got suspicious it may be someone after Zaha, so he wanted to go and check it at night. Using Dark Flesh, Avakian removed Zaha's Phylactery that makes him go to sleep at night and they headed towards the sealed section. When they entered the sealed section, they saw kids and followed them to a corridor full of dead bodies. The person Zaha saw appeared behind them and Zaha tried fighting him, but without success. The person explained he was Shimada Death, which Avakian immediately recognized as a mysterious being that consumes death. Avakian questioned Shimada if he killed those people, but Shimada explained it was the two Mini-Bucketmen, who proceeded to attack Zaha. Avakian tried helping Zaha, het got shot by one of the Mini-Bucketmen and wasn't able to move. Zaha managed to kill one of them, while Shimada killed the other one. As Shimada then left, Avakian was shocked that Zaha considered becoming friends with Shimada.

## Plot

Zaha was floating injured in space, when the Kahiya, a Waste Mafia Ship, took him in. While the ship captain was inspecting him, he saw Avakian and figured he was Zaha Sanko, so he decided to take everything from him. When everyone was asleep, Avakian awakened and used his Dark Flesh ability to copy the hand of the captain. He then went looking for Zaha and found him frozen in a room. Avakian started a fire to warm him up. As Zaha woke up and warmed up, they failed to maintain the fire and the fire spread. As the fire alarm went on and the crew came to check their room, Zaha came out on fire and caught crew members on fire too, while Avakian went out of the room calmly stating he was fireproof. When Zaha put out his fire, he fought the captain and the crew members and killed them all. Then they took the ship towards a nearby black hole and upon reaching it came out of the ship and jumped towards it.

As they went into the black hole, they saw a researcher who believed a world existed after the black hole. Zaha explained to him that indeed such a world exists and it's called Dark, but ordinary people can't reach it. As they arrived on Dark, Avakian saw the researcher turning into a Shadow like most outsiders, a creature with mutated flesh and mind. Avakian also explained that in Dark all light is absorbed, so outsiders can't see anything. Avakian and Zaha went looking for Misetani Box and upon finding her, they exchanged the bones they collected for a Dark Core to complete their ship and some Sakamanju. On the way of the ship, they got attacked by more people wanting to take Zaha's bones, but he quickly got rid of them. Installing the Dark Core to their hidden ship on Dark, they now were able to freely travel on and off from Dark. Wondering how they would drive the ship, the new A.I. Moja came and revealed himself. Zaha then contacted Shimada to tell him about their completed ship.

## Abilities

* **Breath of Fire** (火炎放射, *Kaen hōsha*): Avakian is able to breathe flames.
* **Dark Flesh** (闇の肉, *Yami no niku*): Avakian is capable of using Flesh of Darkness as armor and to shapeshift, as shown when he copies the hand of a ship's captain to unlock doors or when he takes on the appearance of Zaha at the Marutech Store.
* **Package Form**: As a Package, Avakian can fold himself into a backpack to go unnoticed, although his skull is still visible.
* **Hacking**: Avakian is somewhat proficient in hacking, being able to hack into the Treegun Registry and put down some of its barrier doors.