Transer

Transer is a Ruby Eye formerly affiliated with the Syndicate. He has the power to control the phase transitions of water.

## Background

From an early age, Transer was neglected by his mother, who spent no efforts in caring for him. As a result, he sympathized with and became close friends with a girl named OO, who was also a victim of parental abuse.

One day six years ago, Transer found a key on the side of the road with a plastic tag marking it as for the nearby cold-storage warehouse. Curious, Transer and OO decided to sneak inside. Standing in the F2 cold-storage room, the icy negative thirty-degree environment felt like a whole different world, and they could only stay inside for a few minutes before running back outside.

In the same year, they visited the warehouse once again, but this time with a different intent. The abuse suffered by the two was starting to become more than they could handle. As such, they turned to a dangerous method of escape: cryonics. Also known as “cold sleep”, cryonics was the storing of a human body in extremely low temperatures so that they could be awoken later in the future. Transer and OO sought to do exactly that: they wished to freeze themselves, believing that they would wake up someday in the far future in a society where child abuse didn’t exist. So this time, in the F2 negative thirty degrees cold storage room, they planned to stay for good.

The unconscious Transer was found by the warehouse staff shortly afterwards. However, OO was never found, and her body remained locked within the F2 cold-storage room. Even though he learned later that a human body would perish when frozen, Transer — unwilling to accept the truth — wished to believe that OO was merely sleeping within the warehouse and would someday wake up in an idealistic future.

Six years later in the September of 2019, Transer was parasitized by a Ruby Eye, granting him the power to control the phase transitions of water. With a quick burst of breath, Transer could freely turn steam into water, water into ice, and vice versa.

However, in exchange for the power, the Ruby Eye demanded murder. Transer was initially reluctant to do so — his first kill had been done in self-defense when two shady men had approached him demanding money. A mere two days later, he was approached by Liquidizer with an offer to join the Syndicate. Transer accepted and began training under Liquidizer as her apprentice. A few weeks later on October 5, Transer participated in his first Syndicate mission, in which he helped capture Claire Saito — and also where he first met his bitter enemy, Olivier Saito.

## Appearance

Transer has a rather thin build, with medium-length dark hair hanging down in spiky bangs.

## Personality

Transer has an abrasive outward personality, using various taunts and insults during his battles with Jet Eyes. He holds distrust even towards his allies, shown notably through his interactions with Liquidizer, in which he often contemplates whether he could defeat her in the case of a conflict between them.

Under his aggressive exterior, however, Transer holds deep trauma, the source of which lay in the incident six years ago where his friend OO froze to death in the nearby F2 cold-storage room. Even though he knew deep down that his friend had died the moment her body froze over, Transer continues to use his power to regularly maintain her icy cage in the vain hope that she would someday wake up, believing that the moment he accepted her death would be the moment that he would lose himself.

## Third Eye

### Abilities

Transer has the ability to control the phase transitions of water. By varying the way he exhales, he can turn water into ice, water into steam, ice into water, etc.

Transer is very experienced in his ability and has utilized it in the following ways:

* When his opponent is doused in water, he can encase them in an immobilizing shell of ice
* In conditions of abundant rain, he can freeze incoming bullets, increasing their mass and dramatically slowing their speed, thus rendering them harmless
* Severe wounds can be frozen to stop bleeding
* When the need arises, he can convert water into high-temperature steam which injures his opponents while also creating a sort of smokescreen
* As his most advanced technique, Transer can create ice grenades by encasing water within a hollow shell of ice. He can then turn the trapped water into rapidly expanding steam, causing the shell of ice to explode, sending sharp bits of ice shrapnel in all directions

Transer’s potential is greatly amplified during rainy weather.

### Detection Radius

Transer’s detection radius has never been explicitly stated, but it should be relatively large as his water-transition powers have a large degree of atomic manipulation.

### Affiliation

Transer was formerly a member of the Syndicate. However, after being attacked by Stinger, captured by the SFD, and subsequently rescued, he has been guarded by and “on the run” with Liquidizer, who had left the Syndicate.

## Trivia

* Transer had formerly rejected the code name of “Freezer” (which had been given to him by the SFD on the false assumption that his power was to freeze water), advising them to instead call him “Transer”

## References

1. ↑ **Volume 4:** *“. . . Mikawa and OO were both victims of abuse, the former from his mother and the latter from her father . . . Mikawa’s mother had abandoned all pretense of taking care of him . . .”*
2. ↑ **Volume 4:** *“. . . Six years ago . . . he found a key on the side of a road near this storehouse . . . There was a plastic tag attached to the key with the business name and warehouse designation. . . Mikawa managed to convince the reluctant OO, and . . . they . . . headed to the cold-storage warehouse indicated on the plate . . . For Mikawa and OO, who were both born and raised in Tokyo, seeing the negative-thirty-degree space for the first time was like entering a frozen area from an anime or video game . . . That day, they were only able to handle the cold for a few minutes before bursting back outside through the double doors.”*
3. ↑ **Volume 4:** *“. . . Mikawa and OO decided to escape to the future . . . They once again entered the frigid warehouse. This time, they had no plans of running away, no matter how cold it got. Cold sleep. Mikawa had read about it in a book, and the two of them intended to carry it out. When they next woke up, they would be in a far-off future, in an ideal society where no adult would ever mistreat a child . . . They truly believed that.”*
4. ↑ **Volume 4:** *“Why was only Mikawa found right away and not OO? He still didn’t understand how it had happened. When he woke up, Mikawa was in the break room of the storage warehouse, where he was wrapped in a warm blanket and given a cup of hot cocoa . . . Mikawa had failed, but OO would go on to the future and find happiness there. A year passed, then two . . . but Mikawa still believed that. It was three years later that he finally learned that humans can’t enter cold sleep just by being frozen . . . the cells in a human being’s body would be destroyed in the process, and even if thawed, they would never wake again. In the present, deep down, Mikawa already knew the truth. OO wasn’t sleeping in that pillar of ice in the warehouse . . . she had died the moment her body froze over. However, her death would truly be final if that ice were to melt.”*
5. ↑ **Volume 4:** *“When Mikawa first became a Third Eye host, he’d been unable to handle the life of a cold-blooded murderer; his first kill had been on September 16 of last year. He had used his ability on two shady men who were wandering the streets on a drizzly evening and approached him to demand some money.”*
6. ↑ **Volume 4:** *“it wasn’t a police officer who rang the doorbell of his apartment two days later but the woman [Liquidizer] who now sat across from him. Liquidizer was the person who gave him information about the Third Eyes . . . From that point onward, his combat training using his abilities and firearms began, and on the evening of October 5 . . . Mikawa participated in a Syndicate mission for the first time. This was also the first time that he met his archenemy at the SFD, Divider.*