Risk Disorder

The **Risk Disorder**, also known as the Disorder of Risk is manifested from the increasing number of risk taken across the world. It is the primary antagonist of the Risk Disorder arc and a minor one later in the Solitary Disorder arc.

## Appearance

The Risk Disorder takes the form of a crocodile with a skinless head and notable dangerously sharp teeth. It gives off an animalistic look of the Grim Reaper, towering over sixteen feet in height. As mentioned earlier, its head comprises of no skin, only that of a skull of a crocodile. It has multiple legs to paddle across its swamp, being compared to that of the wheels of a train. Its tail is surprisingly long with razor sharp scales capable of tearing flesh.

## Personality

As monstrous as its portrayal is, the Risk Disorder is one of the most intelligent recorded disorders in history as mentioned by Iris. Being capable of understanding human emotions and can hold conversations fluently as seen during its encounter with Graves. The way it talks is a huge contrast to its appearance as it communicates in a very deadly but polite tone, giving respect to even its victims. It was shown to feel fear when Graves boasted about killing the Mercy Disorder, calling him a fool in the process. It showed a clear enough understanding of Graves' seriousness about his task and offered to make a pact that would allow the hitman to hunt and exorcise the disorder without its interference, willing to show a deep apprehension of human motives.

Though despite everything, due its nature as a disorder, loyalty comes first more than anything. This is showed when it attacks Graves immediately after the Solitary Disorder commands it to.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

* **Exceptional Swimming**: As it takes the shape of a pernicious crocodile, it has the ability to flexibly swim for hours on end. It is notably a fast swimmer as Graves couldn't even see it coming despite staring at its direction.
* **Exceptional Jaw Strength**: The Risk Disorder possesses incomprehensible biting and crushing strength in its jaws which it uses to effectively prey on its victims. Its jaw is so strong, it bit through Graves' hand in one chomp, even managing to handle the gruesome force of his axe.
* **Exceptional Senses**: It has shown just how strong its natural senses are in its swamp, finding Graves and Jackie's locations in a matter of seconds despite all the 28 floors of the hotel being casted as its territory.

### Disordered Abilities

* **Risk Awareness**: The Risk Disorder is able to feel when and where ''a risk occurs''. It is fully aware of every single risk committed and chooses to feed on victims with the deadliest taken risks. It tracked down Jackie and Graves' location by ''smelling an absurd scent of peril'', this was caused due to the young hunters' attempt at exorcising Jackie's possessed sister's disorder while remaining cautious of her human-self. It is because of this ability of the disorder that an international law was passed which involved marking civil communities with a seal that specifically restricts the disorder from casting its domain .

* **Territory Expansion**: The Risk Disorder has the power to cast and expand its territory in order to prey upon its targets. It expands a territory of a swamp or a marshland wherever it is and whenever it wants. An example of it being during its attack on Jackie and Graves in their hotel, taking over all twenty eight floors of the building, forcefully confining them into its domain. The deeper one wanders into the swamp, the more likely it gets to being feasted on by the disorder. Furthermore, the swamp works in favor of the Risk Disorder; luring, attacking and trapping its prey in the process. The swamp creates illusions to mentally torment its target in order for them to wander deeper into the marshland and uses the environment around it to capitalize on the victim's fragile state of mind.
	+ **Mental Torture Inducement**: As mentioned, the swamp uses the target's memories and mind to lure it towards the disorder. It used Graves' intense hatred towards the Mercy Disorder to entice him further into the dark swamp, flashing memories of his childhood along the way, simultaneously opening closed memories and locked trauma. Similarly, it used Jackie's hopeless drive to save his sister in order to destroy his mind and trap him deep inside the lagoon.
	+ **Live Swamp Control**: The Risk Disorder's domain is sentient, given emphasis on how it can easily find its victims in the deep swamp. As it controls the marshland, it can use attributes of the terrain to use to its advantage. It restrained Jackie's hands, legs and neck using the plant vines of the habitat and even used the mud-caked water to attempt to drown Graves.
* **Immortality**: Due to its nature as a disorder, death is not possible when it comes to them and they can only be exorcised back into the cluster. While exorcism is a painful process for many disorders, it is not the same as death because they can continue to escape the cluster time and time again. On account of this, disorders are immortal and can never actually die.

### Pacts and Contracts

* **Graves Runnerman**: To date, Graves has made one known pact with the Disorder of Risk. The pact was made out of fear when Graves boasted that he would slaughter the Mercy Disorder, implying that even the Risk Disorder was afraid of the mother of all sins. The Risk Disorder agreed to a contract that excluded Graves from being one of its possible victims until he kills the Mercy Disorder, in fear of encountering the terrifying creature itself.