Pops

**Pops** (real name unknown) was a member of a hunting club.

## Appearance

Pops was an older light skinned man with dark colored eyes. He wore a uniform consisting of a slightly dark colored jacket underneath a slightly lighter vest, slightly darker colored cargo pants, and dark colored boots, as well as a light colored baseball cap.

## Personality

Not much is known about him except that he had a cool head even when faced with death. He could bear through just about anything, including seeing his friends die right in front of him and losing his arm. Unlike Marika Chuujou, Pops was perfectly willing to listen to Mutsumi Oribe once he realized her knowledge was vital to the groups survival.

## Background

Not much is known about Pops' past except that he's a member of a hunting club and is an avid hunter of an assortment of mammals and other pests. He's good with a gun.

## Chronology

Pops arrived on Little East Island with the Mino as part of the rescue team. He and Zensan searched the island until he found the Houshou Private high school students being attacked by the giant Assassin bugs. He shot a few and questioned what was happening on the island. Pops noted that with the large amount of Assassin bugs, they would run out of ammo; Mutsumi said they had to go to the swamp since the bugs wouldn't follow them, and Pops rushed everyone to the swamp.

When Zensan was killed by the giant dragonfly nymph, Pops tried to kill it, but failed since the insects shell was too tough for the boar buckshot he's using. The nymph smashed him against a tree and then stuck him with its lower jaw, severing his left arm. RYoko yelled out to him, distracting the nymph and giving him a chance to shoot its underside; however, once again due to the tough carapace, he wasn't able to damage the nymph and called out to Ryoko to shoot in his place, which she refused. Pops was annoyed, since he couldn't reload with one hand, and accepted his imminent death. To his surprise, Misuzu Jinno grabbed the gun and loaded it, declaring her intention to live. Mutsumi was able to kill the nymph by luring it to the giant assassin bugs and the group began walking to the dock where the Mino was stationed. When Atsushi Kamijo accused Mutsumi of trying to set him up for death, Pops told him to be grateful he could still use his arm. The group rush to get out of the forest, only for a heavily mutilated body to be dropped in front of them. Pops recognizes it as Tatsuo, and questions what happened to him; the group is horrified to see that the culprit is a giant scolopendra subspinipes, which massacres the entire Mino crew.

Ryoko tries to rush to help the crew, but Mutsumi and Pops stop her, with Pops saying that she'd only be throwing her life away if she went. The group decides to try and use one of the islands fishing boats, only to find out that all the boats have sunk due to the weight of the giant Barnacles that have grown on their hulls; the groups second plan of using one of the Mino's lifeboats top get away is foiled by the giant centipede wrapping itself around the ship, mistaking the fumes of the fuel and gunpowder for a female centipede's pheromones.

Mutsumi comes up with a plan: one group will gather centipedes and burn them to lure the giant centipede away and another will load and lower the lifeboat. Pops goes with the Mino group since only he and Ryoko know where the Mino's supplies are and suggests Kayo Suzuki saty back since she was on the verge of an emotional breakdown. The centipede group succeeds in luring the giant centipede away, and the Mino group gets onto the ship. While Ryoko works on lowering the boat, Pops and Kazuhiko Kai work on gathering supplies. Misuzu, Mami Miura, and an unconscious Nozomi Aoyama join them, and Pops informs them that the ships fuel is vaporizing and they had to hurry before it exploded. Misuzu ends up sacrificing herself by causing an explosion to kill the centipede, and the remaining group members board the lifeboat and leave Little East Island. After ten hours, they reach Tatsuno Kami Island; Pops leaves the ferry waiting room to contact the island police, but gets bisected by a giant dragonfly, with his lower half landing right in front of the building.