Corpse

***WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD** This whole character page contains major spoilers for the end of the second and fourth arcs of Spy Classroom. Continue at your own risk.*

## Corpse

* Anime
* Light Novel

### **Alias**

Roland
Deepwater
pet dog (Purple Ant)

## Debuts

### **Anime Debut**

Episode 08

**Corpse** (鹿羽 *Shikabane*), alias **Roland**, is a character introduced in *Spy Classroom* series. His official codename is "**Deepwater**" and he was a Galgad master assassin who targeted anti-imperial politicians

## Appearance

Roland's appearance lives up to his moniker as he looks like a walking corpse. The skin on his cheeks is sunken and thin as if there is no meat on them at all and his eye sockets protruded from his face like embossed carvings. His eyes gleamed with a fiery light. In the anime, his hair is a bluish green and his eyes are light blue.

After the events of Volume 2, his days in captivity did a number to what little body fat he had. He grew weaker and thinner and closer to death.

## Personality

Roland is shown to have no moral compass when it comes to his career as an assassin. According to Klaus, the most dangerous thing about Corpse is their complete willingness to kill civilians if the ends justify the means and would do so without a second thought. Talking about ending human lives like it was some sort of menial labor. Unlike your conventional spy, Roland appears to see assassination as a sport and grows bored when he isn't given a challenging opponent. Killing people was too easy for him. Due to his profound talent, assassination had been reduced to a mere item on his daily itinerary. The question he asked himself was, what was the purpose in his life. He spent ages trying to figure it out. He prefers to be called Roland is it is what he is most used to.

As one of Purple Ant's Ants, he is forcibly obedient to him. After a long period of going around the world and killing Galgad enemies, Roland got bored as there was no goal behind the killings. All Roland was doing was following Purple Ant's orders.. He brainwashed him so he couldn't disobey. He was a slave, a puppet a machine.

## Plot

### Prior to meeting Purple Ant

Up until five years ago, Roland, when talking to Thea, called himself a boring dude. He was born to a couple of well-to-do parents in Mouzaia. His parents told him that he needed to inherit the family business. So that's what he spent his life getting ready to do. Roland was a med student at Mitario University. People called him a prodigy, and his grades were excellent. In fact, rumor has it that he was at the top of his class and captain of the cricket team. And ladies loved him. His days were rich and full and he had a bright future ahead of him.

When he became an ant, he gave everything up, his education, his family, his girlfriend, his dreams, and his identity, and became Purple Ant's dog. Running around the world doing exactly what Purple Ant told him to, killing spies and politicians. He surpassed all the other Worker Ants in a flash and got all sorts of special treatment from Purple Ant. Eventually, Roland got bored.

### Volume 2

Corse was on a mission to assassinate left wing politicians in Din, trying to find and battle with Klaus as he believed he was his one true rival. After getting defeated by Klaus, he was captured by The Din Republic.

### Volume 4

In the events before Volume 4, Corpse managed to put two of the Din Republic's torturers in the hospital, even in his weakened state. Saying that they left the restraints to loose, swearing it was like 'amateur hour.'

## Skillset

### Assassination

Roland’s method for eliminating politicians was to frame their deaths as suicides by making them jump to their deaths and faking suicide notes. The goal of his assassination to shift the course of Din politics and reshape the world, eliminating politicians getting in the way of the goals of the empire and get imperial sympathizers elected so Galgad could turn Din into a puppet state without starting a war on the battlefield However, Roland lost passion. To quote himself, *"the conveyor belt brought me people, and I slapped a big old 'assassined' sticker on them. There was nothing more to it."*

### Marksmanship

Roland can fire a series of ultra-rapid quick shots with seemingly no time to draw his gun or take any time to line up his shots. His skills with guns reflect that off a polished assassin and don't have a single wasted movement to them

### Speed

Even in a weakened state, corpse can charge at speeds that are downright inhuman.

## Relationships

### Olivia

According to Roland, All he had to do was tell Olivia he loved her and she was willing to go out and risk her life for him and good as far as pawns went.

### Klaus

Roland ran into someone who told him that they knew someone who could fill the void in his heart. Klaus. Those words felt like a prophecy. Before meeting Klaus, Roland had delusions of Klaus being his fated rival and his true match that nobody else can compare to. He had waited years for Klaus to take him in a fight. Roland figured that meeting him would give his life meaning. That is until Klaus beat him in a fight.He showed immense disappointment when Olivia called and heard Klaus wasn't going to show up experiencing a sense of futility and defeatism.

Even after being captured by Klaus in Volume 4, he still believes his bond with Klaus is one forged in blood. Though he admits he got his ass handed to him on a silver platter after all the embarrassing stuff he shouted about being his rival.

### Glint

Roland specifically points out in the battle to stop Corpse that he likes Monika though for all her skills were worth, still soft.

### Dreamspeaker

Back when they fought, Roland thought Thea accomplished nothing, that all she did was quiver in her boots and run for her life. He told Klaus that he should get rid of her.  and thinks her negotiation skill is nothing more than a party trick. In Volume 4, he claims he grew a soft spot for Thea. He does not think him and Thea are so different, they both made a big blunder and broke their hearts into pieces, and neither of them have any idea to get their lives back on track.

### Purple Ant

Purple Ant kidnapped Roland and molded him into a spy on the side of the Galgad Empire. He didn't end up minding it much, Roland thought he was good at being one. Purple Ant does not have as much sway over Roland as he does for the other Ants. The order Purple Ant gave him for if he lost wasn't to kill himself, but to trick his enemies and make his way back by any means necessary.

## Trivia

* The name **Shikabane** means "deer, venison" (鹿) (**shika**) and "feather" (羽) (**hane**/**bane**).
	+ Deepwater's code name is a foil  to Klaus’s code name Bonfire

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Spy Classroom* Volume 2, Page 20
2. ↑ vol 4 page 15
3. ↑ Volume 3 page 9
4. ↑ Volume 3 page 98
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Vol 4 page 138
6. ↑ Vol 4 page 44
7. ↑ Vol 4 page 45
8. ↑ *Spy Classroom* Volume 4, Page 17
9. ↑ *Spy Classroom* Volume 2, Page 122
10. ↑ Volume 3 page 99
11. ↑ vol 4 page 17
12. ↑ Vol 4 page 50
13. ↑ Vol 4 page 138-139
14. ↑ '*Spy Classroom* Volume 2, Page 173
15. ↑ Vol 4 page 137
16. ↑ Volume 3 page 99
17. ↑ vol 4 page 19
18. ↑ Vol 4 page 136
19. ↑ Vol 4 page 139
20. ↑ Vol 4 page 141