Purple Ant

Purple Ant was a member of Serpent and a Galgad spy

## Appearance

Purple Ant had a distinct gentleness about his appearance, his perpetually smiling eyes and overall energy radiated a specific type of kindness that was suited for a job in a preschool or as a nurse. Deceptive to his actual personality. In the Light Novel description, he wore a double-breasted, navy-blue suit and a stylish hat. In Tomari's illustration, he wears a white blazer, white overcoat, and white dress pants with a navy blue collar underneath and a purple shawl.

## Personality

Purple Ant was in short, the lowest of the low. Purple Ant is the very definition of a sadist. He considered listening to people's dying words to be his life work, even though he so rarely managed to capture people alive.Purple Ant was perfectly happy taking things slow and leisurely thinking his plans over. Purple Ant keeps his instructions simple and cruel, and does not shy away from murder, though he sees massacring people as inelegant work and sees his trade as about controlling people, not killing them.

Purple Ant calls himself and believes himself to be the king of Mitario and was an unusually confident man. With a power such as his, it was only natural that one would feel omnipotent.

For some reason, Purple Ant is particularly polite with women and even considers himself to be a gentleman. Stating it as a policy of his, though never implementing it in practice, such as not abusing, torturing or breaking the minds of women. All of which he has done in some capacity to his Ants. Even so, it was a designation he never once doubted. After all, every time he did hit a woman, it filled him with remorse.

## Plot

### Before Volume 4

He had spent the past month carrying out countless assassinations. Between spies and secret policemen, he was already responsible for forty-eight kills.

## Skills

### Stun Gun

Purple Ant's stun gun is his weapon of choice, he uses it to punish and train his ants, and know how to use it in a way so they don't pass out from the pain.

### Domination

Purple Ant had this self described 'gift' for as long as he could remember. He could know exactly what kind of pain would chisel fear deep into a person's brain. If you gave Purple Ant a week with a person, he could make them fall in line. If he ordered them to die, they would do exactly that. Purple Ant named this domination, the way he saw it, it was a gift he'd been given by God himself. The pain he gave rewrote their very brains. It wasn't logic that made them obey; it was their primal instincts. Students, killers, fighters, bank clerks, and actresses alike all bowed before him--their king, until the day they die. There were more than just his soldiers, they were his Ants.

By day they went about their normal lives. But at night, they served as his slaves. They studied assassination techniques like their lives depended on it, all kill without a single scruple or qualm. They were people willing to sacrifice everything else in their lives to train. Those who carried out orders from him without hesitation and tried to kill themselves when they lost. There were so many Ant that that when one Ant was defeated, more would come in and crush their foes with sheer numbers. Purple Ant achieves this power by making his Ants throw away any sense of self.  The ants are lucid, they know what they are and who they are serving. In Purple Ant (3), Purple Ant tells a Bartender Ant to strangle himself, and he did so as he started letting out pained gaps, his mind and instinct rejecting his body. Thus he turned Mitario in his stronghold, and he had countless Worker Ants roaming its streets.

He turned these people into spy-hunters investigating the Tolfa Economic Conference. The Ant's murder methods being all over the spectrum. He had two hundred and eighty seven Worker Ants in Mitario. If you included ones scattered across the globe, they were more than four hundred strong. He had an inexhaustible supply of assassins who cared nothing for their own lives. Purple Ants position was nigh unassailable. He had the power to crush every spy who entered his territory and every member of the secret police trying to defend it. And do it all without lifting a finger.

Purple Ant's ability makes up for his lack of genuine fighting skills. His Ant's could technically kill him if they wanted too, but the way Purple Ant wired their minds, they couldn't even fathom doing so.

Purple Ant can replace the Ants fast as all he needs to do is track down promising civilians so he can capture and torment them.

#### List of named Ants

* Miranda
* Barron
* Deepwater
* Bartender

## Relationships

### White Spider

Despite the fact the two are on the same team. Purple Ant was not afarid of zapping White Spider for no reason other that thinking his tone was 'pompous' casually telling him he deserved to die 'thrice' over that, even though White Spider insisted he was talking normally.

### Hearth

After killing her, he sent her corpse back to the Din Republic with her heart gouged out and no return address.

### Ants

Purple ant holds no emotional value in his ants, only seeing them as a number and a particular set of skills. He abuses his Ants for fun or for example, and has complete confidence that they would never stand up against him. To Purple Ant, their lives are meaningless.

### Deepwater

According to Roland, Purple Ant took one look at him and saw that he had the potential, so he kidnapped Roland and molded him into a spy. Since he was such a natural when it came to spy and assassination skills, he received special treatment from Purple Ant. purple Ant gave him orders if he lost to not kill himself, but to trick his enemies and make his way back by any means necessary.

### Klaus

Purple Ant thinks of Klaus as tenacious. Purple Ant sent seventy-three Worker Ants after him and Klaus held out. It made him wonder if Klaus was really human.

## Trivia

* Despite his base of operations being an underground bar, he prefers cola and does not care for alcohol.

1. ↑ Vol 4 page 2
2. ↑ vol 4 page 5
3. ↑ vol 4 page 4
4. ↑ Vol 4 page 143
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Vol 4 page 117
6. ↑ Vol 4 page 44
7. ↑ vol 4 page 45
8. ↑ Vol 4 page 112
9. ↑ vol 4 page 60-61
10. ↑ Vol 4 page 115
11. ↑ Vol 4 page 4
12. ↑ vol 4 page 18
13. ↑ Vol 4 page 138
14. ↑ Vol 4 page 141
15. ↑ Vol 4 page 142
16. ↑ vol 4 page 5