Bastard Children of Sabaramond

Members featured: Soara, Lulu, and Civil.

The **Bastard Children of Sabaramond** (サバラモンドの落とし子 *Sabaramondo no Otoshigo*) is an organization that is attempting to recreate its Other World 'hometown' on Earth in the absence of the organization's namesake, Arius Sabaramond.

## Chronology

*This section is and will be subject to major revision as more details of the organization's history are made clear.*

### Pre-reincarnation

A hundred years prior to Corpse God's reincarnation, Arius Sabaramond's devotees from the Other World travel to Shinjuku, where, despite Arius failing to appear, the devotees pay homage to his name and commit to the mission at hand: recreating their 'hometown' on Earth. Efforts to this end include experimenting on humans in order to give them special abilities, though these early attempts end in failure. Such attempts entail the kidnapping of eighteen local children whom the devotees attempt to hypnotize and brainwash through songs and other aural methods rather than magic, which has too weak a presence in Shinjuku to be useable.

As the effectiveness of the hypnotism and brainwashing is consequently limited, the devotees eventually decide to scrap the plan, burn the evidence—including the children—and afterward switch focus to collecting and sending home Terran technology. Two of the eighteen children are rescued from the fire when a stranger offers them an umbrella; these children, Mitsu Haigawara and Takajirou Toura, are the first of many Fire-breathing Bugs to follow, all of whom pursue the Bastards' eradication.

Over the course of the next one hundred years, the Bastards withstand the Bugs' acts of arson while continuing to engage in human experimentation, though it takes more than half of those years before a single test subject manages to survive to graduation. This survivor is Soara Habaki, whose father, a corrupt member of the Tokyo Metropolitan police, donated her to the organization as a show of devotion.

At an unclear point in the organization's history, the Bastards, with the help of former enemy Pani Guldmarg, create a vessel intended to become Arius's heir by inheriting Arius' memories and personality. This is unable to take place due to Arius' absence, however, so the vessel—Civil A. Sabaramond—is left to inherit Arius' surname and struggle alone with his failed magic.

Civil spends his youth reading tomes about the Other World, becoming enamored in particular with the accounts of the Byandy Empire's combat forces and notable figures among them, including Corpse God and Easlies Swordfrail. Civil comes to command his own sub-faction within the organization as a young adult, with Soara and Lulu two of its key members; this sub-faction is often at odds with the organization's elders.

Five years before the Corpse God's reincarnation, Mr. Habaki arranges the murder of Miyabi Hosorogi, a police inspector who has been pursuing the Bastard Children of Sabarmond's trail, and takes Hosorogi's protégé Tsubaki Iwanome under his wing.

### Post-reincarnation

Over two weeks after Corpse God reincarnates in the corpse of his half-brother Polka Shinoyama, troublemaker Phantom Solitaire breaks out of prison and later into a potentially Bastard-affiliated mafia subsidiary front, from which he steals a scroll of human skin that contains a simplified version of the Byandy Empire's imperial emblem. Around the Day 22 mark, Solitaire deploys a fleet dirigibles that bear the simplified emblem throughout Shinjuku airspace; fifty-eight minutes later, two Agakura Clan-afiliated snipers, at the indirect behest of the Bastards, attempt to kill Solitaire but are unsuccessful. Solitaire will later speculate that the corrupt police were behind the murder attempt, much to the Bastard Children's aggravation.

At 3 AM in the wee hours of Day 24 (est.), a YouTuber livestreaming on Shinjuku's streets captures footage of a preternatural flock of enormous hands amidst smoke and balloons that stream from the rooftop of an Abandoned Building. When the Bastard Children of Sabaramond learn of this, they instruct Civil to travel to Japan and locate the magician responsible. Habaki also contacts Kuon Higuro with instructions to plant evidence in the building in advance of a planned police investigation.

That night, Kuon Higuro has his associate Momoya Agakura kill Nishida, a bartender employed at Youtoukorou and bring the headless body to the Abandoned Building's rooftop. The two men access the building's basement—via the same secret passageway the Bastards used for Hosorogi's corpse five years prior—and plant Nishida's body inside. Later, well into morning, Higuro and Momoya will monitor the building from across the street while the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Unit 1 conducts a search of its interior; by the time the police reach the basement, the basement has been emptied.

Higuro and Momoya that evening capture and interrogate Takumi Kuruya, one of the building's occupants during the search, for an explanation as to the corpse's disappearance. Takumi's associates Misaki Sakimiya and Xiaoyu Lei launch a rescue despite Momoya having killed Misaki during a prior rescue attempt, and Higuro slips away to call Habaki and inform him of what he has witnessed. This call is overheard by Iwanome, exposing Habaki as a traitor, and by Bug, who accuses Habaki of being a Bastard Child.

Habaki manages to make an emergency call to the Bastard Children's headquarters during the ensuing fray; the Bastard elders then contact Civil, who arrived in Japan earlier that day, with directions to hurry to Shinjuku and intervene. Civil causes a blackout in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters that allows Habaki to escape and meet with Civil and Lulu on a rooftop. Civil has not rescued Habaki, for whom he has little respect, but has instead given Soara the opportunity to take her revenge on her father for 'donating' her all those years ago. Soara's revenge is sabotaged when the same snipers who failed to kill Sorimura are now successful in shooting Habaki dead.

Two days after the invisible hands incident, Civil has his fortune read by the fortuneteller whose business was caught up in the incident in question and whom Civil suspects was the sorcerer responsible: Corpse God. Corpse God in turn suspects Civil of being a Bastard Child, for not only does Civil use magic, Civil uses magic that resembles that wielded by Arius Sabaramond. During the brouhaha leading up to Civil, Soara, and Lulu's getaway from the Building, they kidnap the shark plush in Corpse God's possession, unaware that it is possessed by Polka Shinoyama but at minimum aware that the Elementals consider it significant.

Later, after leaving the Fortuneteller Shop, Civil shows Soara and Lulu a YouTube deepfake via @Solitare\_TV that he is certain will send the Bastard elders into a frenzy. The video comprises doctored footage from one of idol Ryouma Kannagi's concerts wherein Higuro's head has replaced Kannagi's head, and Higuro introduces the world to the Bastard Children of Sabaramond: the Bastard Children, Higuro says, are the "baddies" who infiltrated the police and attempted to kill Solitaire and whom are friends with Bugs' enemies. Higuro asks for any information on the Bastards to be shared in the comments of the Solitaire TV channel.

This video has already begun trending on Japanese Twittia, much to Civil's amusement, and it is not long after that select Bastards—on behalf of the elders, who have already fled Japan—summon Civil to a meeting in an underground parking lot. There, they pass along the elders' latest orders—for Civil to leave Japan and go into hiding in the video's wake. All of the Bastards are defensively killed by Lulu's Elemental when one of them threateningly brandishes a handgun, none of them having been made privy to the existence of Elementals by the elders.

The Bastard trio and their captive Polka head to their Shinjuku headquarters to discuss the Bastard elders' latest moves. Civil explains that the elders have fled Japan in fear that Bug's fiery retaliation will reach HQ; unlike the elders, however, Civil believes this is an opportunity to crush the Bugs in one swoop.With Polka in tow, the trio meet up with Solitaire at a construction facility. They offer him information about their connection with Sabaramond, which he accepts on one condition: They must survive an ambush from Bug, revealing Solitaire's deception. Nevertheless, Civil manages to fend Bug off, causing them to retreat. Solitaire also escapes in a deck of cards, though not before daring them to prove that their powers are real. Civil is then contacted by The Grocer, revealing their long history between his descendants and the Sabaramond organization, and informs him that his "product" - information about Polka's mother, Kanon Shinoyama, is in stock

## Notable members and associates

* Cilvil's faction (defected, under Corpse God's protection)
	+ Civil A. Sabaramond (sub-faction leader)
	+ Soara Habaki
	+ Lulu
* Hideaki Habaki (deceased)
* Kuon Higuro

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 9, Chapter 72.
2. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 3, Chapter 25.
3. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 66.
4. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 68.
5. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 69.
6. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 9, Chapter 71.