Barron

## Appearance

The man's skin was tight as a drum, and even through his clothes, it was easy to picture how incredibly toned his muscles were. As his muscles could hardly fit inside his shirt.

While a VP of a tea manufacturing company told Sybilla that he had to retire from boxing because of his supposedly torn ligament, you could just looking at him, or fighting him in Sybilla's case, that wasn't the real story as it was obvious he was clearly in his prime.

## Personality

While the VP of the tea manufacturing company he was working at claimed he was local to Mitario, Barron has a habit of using 'Oui' casually in his sentences. He does not display any other knowledge of the French language.

During Purple Ant's torture of his family, Barron had to listen to his son wail his lungs out and his wife plead for her life. He understood the agony of watching his family suffer and knew how the pain burned its way into his brain.

## Plot

### Becoming an Ant

Up until a few years before the start of Volume 4, he was a middleweight boxer and quite accomplished.  Barron had been enjoying a Christmas get-together with his family before he was kidnapped by Purple Ant and his henchmen. Purple Ant dragged his family off and subjected them to horrible pain. Barron was powerless to do anything but watch his family suffer. After ten hours, purple ant whispered to him,

*"Become my Worker Anta and kill spies for me.* - Purple Ant to Barron.

After Purple Ant broke his mind, Barron had no choice but to obey. His body moved on its own. Devolved into his puppet. Barron could kill without hesitation, taking his years of boxing experience and using them to learn how to assassinate people. He was told to kill them all. If he lost, he had to kill himself. If he didn't, his family was done for.  He had been an Ant for three log years. About once a month, his phone would ring, and he would hear his wife and son screaming through the receiver.

## Skills

### Hearing

According to Barron, he trained long and hard to be able to fight without needing to see and his ears are sharp to a fault.He'd mastered the technique of relying on sound to move about in absolute darkness.

### Craftiness

While Barron's foes tended to be wary of his combat prowess and his sharp ears, his true weapon was his craftiness. whenever he went after someone, he made sure to carefully back them into a corner, then lure them back into his traps without ever relinquishing the advantage.

### Espionage

Barron trained in the art of espionage. He studied how long to extract information from people.

### Strength

Barron was a larger fellow with trained muscles from his experience as a boxer and later, as an Ant trained to kill spies. He'd learned the exact angle it took to snap someone's neck in close-quarters combat.

## Relationships

### Pandemonium

Barron thought that they were the same, that like him, Sybilla couldn't live out in the sun either.  People like them had nowhere to go, all they could do was scuttle about in the dark. Though he also thought that Sybilla was shallow-minded. She was too conspicuous, she showed him everything. Barron first spotted Sybilla by pure coincidence. When he saw a supposed apprentice journalist doggedly covering suspicious politicians, he immediately put his guard up. Then he used her personality to infer how she operated. By the time they both met officially, he already had a pretty solid idea about how god of a pickpocket she was.

### Family

Barron was a husband and a father. He fought to become an assassin to save his family, and Purple Ant eventually broke his mind as Barron tried to negotiate with him to save them. In his final moments, he wanted to live. He wanted to see his family again. He searched so badly to find a light in that darkness.

### Hero

Barron, like many of the Ants, had heard the rumors that a hero was coming. That they'll show up and save you when you're at your darkest hour. But you'll need to make sure you survive until they get there. As Barron was dying, reaching out to be saved, nobody came for him. And he died believing there was no hero in Mitario.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Volume 4 page 63
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Vol 4 page 97
3. ↑ Volume 4 page 64
4. ↑ Vol 4 page 103
5. ↑ Vol 4 pages 103-104
6. ↑ Vol 4 page 66
7. ↑ Vol 4 page 101
8. ↑ Vol4 page 100
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Vol 4 page 107