Anton Corbes (Eng)

Anton Corbes is the main character of Foribus Mentis Saga 1

## Summary

### The Arrival

Anton shows up for the first time working in the airport warehouse. But that day, he had been late again and his boss fires him after he tells her that he assumes it was his responsibility to be on time, but that it is because of how far he lives from his workplace. In addition, Anton tells his boss that she had also made mistakes in the past, that she had run over a person and that she had not been fired because her sister owned the airport. After reproaching her for this act of nepotism, he silently leaves the office but decides to stay for a few hours at the airport thinking about where else he could get a job. He is worried that he will not be able to pay the rent for the apartment in which he lives with other friends, but at the same time he is partly relieved that he no longer has to go to work in a place so far from home.

Later, he sees that the clock on his cell phone also begins to behave strangely, as it seems to indicate hours erratically and uncontrollably. When he looks up he sees to his horror that the whole place seems to be turned upside down and people are walking on the ceiling while he alone is on the floor. This causes him vertigo after seeing how one of his coins he had in his pocket falls to where it should be on the floor.

He often uses humor as an unconscious defense method to avoid being pressured by serious or conflictive situations, making people believe that he is an immature person who does not take anything seriously, but deep down, he knows perfectly well what he is doing.

He sometimes demonstrates an overbearing and conceited attitude at times, showing aspects of concern or seriousness only to those he considers close to him like Yukiko who seems to be the only person he has let know more about himself.

During an episode of the series, it is revealed that he had a brother with whom he had a very good relationship but due to an incident he suddenly decided to commit suicide leaving a repressed sadness in Anton, he always talks about this one to Yukiko. He also has a strong sense of work, to the point that he even continued to work during his grandmother's funeral years ago.

His goal is to investigate more about the portals, their origin, how they work and try to take advantage of these although as the series goes on, he realizes that it is best to try to seek a total shutdown of these to avoid further catastrophes in the world, even if it means losing his abilities.

One day, he wakes up without the others in an unknown place, in a strange world where the course of things does not seem to follow a natural order. So he decides to go investigate to get out of there. Suddenly, he meets an entity that tells him that from then on he only has 2 possible futures that could be happening at the same time. This entity wants Anton to make a quick decision and also tells him that all paths are correct when he questions which is the right path, only that some paths are more correct than others. Anton, with a serious look, discovers that it is a trap because of the mediocre attempt to trick him and it is the young man who tricks the creature pushing him towards one of the possible universes where he is devoured by a bigger entity. Anton realizes that this place is more dangerous than he thought and knows he must be more careful. He then discovers that this place is his own mind but does not mention it and states that there are many things inside his own subconscious that he does not know, but it is possible that the appearance of this entity is a metaphor for Anton's slight tendency to deceive some people, as well as his tendency to burn things and to feel a strong desire to take revenge on those who have hurt him.

This desire is sensed by an entity who can see the people's essence. The entity begins to talk to Anton about the grudge he holds for what happened to his brother. The entity tells him that this grudge will probably stay with him until after his death and will haunt him forever. Anton is so shocked to realize that the entity has knowledge of this event that he was speechless for a few seconds.

### Plague of Wrath

As the four characters are driving away in the bus during the night, the dealer who burned Sunno, being elsewhere far away in the city, gets into his car happy that he will be able to spend a nice vacation with his family. However, the doors close and a huge flame starts to emerge from inside the car for no visible reason. The individual starts screaming and trying to break the glass but it explodes in his face due to the increased temperature leaving him injured, his skin starts melting and sticking to the seats, this causes him to die an extremely slow and painful death without anyone hearing his screams. As this happens, Anton has an internal monologue indicating that he may have been responsible.

### Absurd World

Anton and the rest of the group wake up in an unknown place where an entity traps them and prevents them from escaping until they agree to create a story to entertain their immortal stay. Anton creates a character against his will which he must draw thanks to the momentary ability given to him by the entity. In this way he can generate strokes in the air and make the drawings he makes real. Anton thought of drawing something to attack the entity and kill it once and for all, but the entity punishes him by applying an electric current with the cable that has him tied up. The entity tells him that he had better not try to escape since he foresaw that and that it will be useless. Each character makes different drawings and characters as some were more experienced with the strokes. Cherith tells him that she will come up with a plan while he, Abstract and Yukiko distract him.

### Crying Walls

After Yukiko and Cherith defeat the water entity, Anton asks Yukiko if she has ever tried to remember a dream from the night before. Since he is sure that he dreamt something very important or something that caught his attention but he can't remember. Yukiko tells him that she has, but that she is not usually that interested in dreams.

One night, Anton waits in the bushes for his brother's killer to get into his car. Once inside, Anton appears a few feet behind the vehicle as he prevents the doors from opening. Anton regrets having had to stoop to his victim's level of human shit and sets the car on fire with the trail of gasoline he had left through the small opening he had made in the tank, while the fuel was still dripping. Once the fire reaches the tank and the car explodes, killing the man inside, Anton felt for a moment that everything was settled, but that he will have to carry that painful feeling of being a murderer just like that man, while he has a monologue about how feelings should not be above the law.

While Cherith was confronting the Original Entity, Anton manages to remove some debris he had on him to try to calm Cherith down so that she would not lose her temper at the provocation the entity had made to her in relation to her sister. In an internal dialogue he understands that letting himself be carried away by anger has brought him trouble many times in his life.

During the final meeting, Anton sees that S.A. succumbed to the nameless entity who revived his desire for revenge, so he hesitates, based on his previous experience, whether to kill it or not, since at that point, S.A. is more entity than human being. On the other hand, if he does nothing, he will most likely continue killing people unchecked.