Civil A. Sabaramond

—**Civil**, *Dead Mount Death Play*: Chapter 63.

## Civil

* Manga
* Anime

### Aliases

Bastard Child of Sabaramond
Arius X

### Classification

Human (clone)
Veytoelka

### Affiliation

Bastard Children of Sabaramond (defected)
Fortuneteller Shop

### Relations

Arius Sabaramond (genetic template)
Lulu, Soara Habaki (companions)
Hideaki Habaki (former contact)
Corpse God(protector)

## Media

### Japanese VA

Ayumu Murase

**Civil A. Sabaramond** (シヴィル・A・サバラモンド *Shiviru A Sabaramondo*) is an elemental sorcerer from the Other World with a leadership position in the Bastard Children of Sabaramond.

Those with the Evil Eye will perceive a mass of large, bulbous eyeballs clustered around and over Civil's head via locks of dense threads, some of which coil down to his legs. Between and through these locks and threads outthrust small, humanoid hands with black fingernails.

## Appearance

Civil is an androgynous man with medium-length ginger hair and orange eyes. His usual outfit comprises: a black choker; black shorts with double white-grey vertical stripes on its outer sides; laced brown sneakers; and a long white tunic that displays the original simplified Byandy emblem on its back. The seams of the garment's capacious elbow-length sleeves are lined with thick black stripes.

## Personality

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## Chronology

Civil arrives in Japan on a rainy night approximately two days after the 'invisible hands' incident, hoping to meet the potential sorcerer responsible for it. His companions are Lulu and Soara Habaki, the latter the first test subject to survive the Bastard Children of Sabaramond's human experimentation.

While looking for a hotel, Civil receives word from 'HQ' that Hideaki Habaki, Soara's father, has placed an emergency call from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Civil triggers a temporary blackout of the MPD headquarters to facilitate Habaki's escape and waits for Habaki to join him on a building rooftop. Habaki arrives and greets Civil with relief, thinking Civil has acted to save him, but Civil tells him he is wrong—moreoever, Habaki has been wrong for years in assuming Soara to be dead. Soara steps forward, very much alive, and begins her revenge via violent assault. Her revenge is brought to a premature end when a sniper on another rooftop shoots Habaki through the head.

Soara looks to Civil for permission to act. He grants her three minutes to do as she wishes; Soara bounds over to the sniper siblings while Civil and Lulu descend to the streets. Shortly after Soara catches up to them, Civil senses a strange phenomenon taking place from the rooftop whence they came. He chooses not to head back due to Soara's collateral destruction, which may have alerted police to the scene.

Thus, the trio instead turn their sights on the scene of the *invisible hands* incident: The Torture Building. Soara strangles the Shinoyama personnel monitoring the Building's perimeter and steals their phones on Civil's behalf. By spending some or all of the upcoming day analyzing the phone's data, Civil learns that personnel's main duty is to monitor and protect Polka Shinoyama, even though Sayo Shinoyama also resides in the Building. He does further research on Polka's birth, confirming it to be real.

He discusses his findings with Lulu and Soara over a cafê meal the next day, and, having had enough of information-gathering, declares it is time for action. They thus proceed to the Torture Building, which is brimming with customers—and, to Soara's discomfort, is tinged with a disconcerting chill. The customer in front of them, overhearing, eagerly assures Soara that this 'chill' she feels is surely not nothing, for the resident fortuneteller is the 'real deal'. Civil asks if the other man minds telling them more about the fortuneteller; by the time the four of them reach the front of the queue, Civil has purported himself and his companions as 'tourists' who came to Japan upon hearing word of the fortuneteller's abilities. This backstory is also used for his survey form, upon which he leaves blank his name and gender, and writes "new encounters" and "fate that spans 100 years" for session topics.

The two begin discussing the invisible hands incident and Phantom Solitaire's involvement therein. The customer disagrees with the popular consensus that the incident was another mere "for-the-fun-of-it" trick via Solitaire, as the incident does not seem characteristic of Solitaire's usual methodology. However, when Civil asks if the customer is implying that some phenomenon attacked Solitaire, the customer demurs, suggesting it could very well be that Solitaire and the entity were rehearsing a dance routine.

Civil laughs at the very notion and the customer laughs with him, each quite taken with such a scenario. When Misaki Sakimiya calls out the customer's ticket—number 25—Civil asks for the man's name, learns it is Mikoto Saimyouji, and looks him up on 'Twittia'.

Once Misaki summons Civil, Civil tells Soara and Lulu to wait in the corridor, enters the divination room alone, and takes a seat across from Corpse God. They begin with the topic "new encounters," though Civil, deciding to pry, takes the opportunity to ask about Solitaire's rooftop visit from a few days prior. Corpse God quickly changes the subject to the second agenda item—"fate that spans 100 years"; Civil obliges.

He first asks Corpse God whether the relatives or friends of someone who has committed an 'unforgivable crime' should be judged and cursed. In his case, he and his friends have been exiled and targeted due to "troublesome characters" whose persisting hatred was incurred one hundred years ago. This, Civil and Corpse God seem to agree, is an unreasonable situation—however, Civil *wants* it to be as unreasonable as possible: one can "return unreasonable action with unreasonable action" with a clear conscience and without remorse, or so he believes.

Corpse God questions how this is different from the adversary's actions, so Civil explains it as a matter of order of operations: Civil's relative committed the first wrongdoing, which means Civil's adversary would be right to seek revenge against that relative. However, the adversary hating *Civil* solely for being a relation is a new, unreasonable attack—i.e. a first wrongdoing. Civil asks why he should not be allowed to retaliate, provided he successfully skirt the eyes of the law, for taking such action would surely feel wonderful. This prompts Corpse God to press whether Civil truly means what he is saying, but Civil prompts him in turn to simply divine the answer.

Corpse God agrees. Shortly after, the magic in Civil's body 'bursts'–at least, he thinks it does; he cannot quite tell. This is a sensation he has never experienced before. Smiling, thoughts racing, he ponders on just who could be sitting in front of him: perhaps an illusion, decoy, stand-in, descendant of a stowaway; or, perhaps, Polka-as-a-puppet. He asks whether Corpse God "[did] something" to him, immediately granting Corpse God permission to more deeply search his soul, but Lulu rushes into the room in that moment to warn Civil that, according to a guidance, the Building is under some sort of attack.

Disappointed, Civil nevertheless stands to leave and tells Corpse God that the next time he visits, it will be as a friend. He turns toward the door as Soara exits into the corridor—whereupon Taipei slams his palm into her side, sending her all the way to the corridor's end. Civil walks over to ask if she wants his aid, but she is adamant that she will "clean up [her] own mess." Civil steps back to watch Soara and Taipei fight, appreciative of how Taipei is able to keep pace with someone as strong as Soara; as Taipei knocks Soara to the floor with a punch, Civil reflects on the Shinoyamas' collection of "fine pawns."

Civil's cell phone rings, somewhat to Civil's chagrin—though Civil's countenance changes when Civil sees the Caller ID. He chuckles low before whispering something into Lulu's ear. Then he turns his attention to Taipei, who stands before a yet-to-straighten Soara. In the same moment Kochou Eightport's camera flashes from the other end of the corridor, Civil steps toward Taipei and sends him flying back with a powerful blast of magic—his magical technique echoing that which Lord Arius Sabaramond wielded.

## Trivia

* In the Japanese Chapter 66, Civil's full name is written in his passport in English as "CIVIL・A・SABARAMONDO".

## References

1. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 6, Chapter 52.
2. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 7, Chapter 53.
3. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 7, Chapter 54.
4. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 7, Chapter 57.
5. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 62.
6. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 63.
7. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 64.
8. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 65.