Genbu

* Current
* The Partitioner

### Cause of Death

Died due to injuries after his fight against Brac Bronson, Ace, Tokki, hugo, and Mi-Suk

### Death Episode

Episode 38

**Genbu** is an NPC played by Dr. Bonehead in *Towers & Gods*. He is Regular who participated in the labyrinth tests for hundreds of years. He is also known as "**The Partitioner**" (not to be mixed with "The listener"). He plays a Secondary antagonist role in the end of the Labyrinth arc.

## History

### 27th floor:

Genbu has been taking the labyrinth test for hundreds of years defending the people throughout their journey in the labyrinth to deliver the Cargo.

After the arrival of Team Recall, Brac Bronson met Genbu in the hot springs, he told Brac that the Hot Springs of the village are the best to relax, then he left the Springs. at the night before the test, he met with Eden and suggested that they don't take the test because it's dangerous and they are always casualties and deaths, when he was asked about his team by Eden, he said is a one-man team.

Day 1 of the test, Genbu being a one-man team he became the Hero and went to venture in the labyrinth with the other heroes. inside the labyrinth he explained how the labyrinth functions like a maze and guides through the way despite having options, after they found the first chest, he explained the boon to Brac and Tokki. after they continue to venture through the labyrinth they find another chest, Tokki tries to collect whats inside the chest, but chest closed on his hand, Genbu confirmed he knew it was a trap, but he was too slow to protect Tokki. when the party find another chest with an inactive golem in front of it Genbu was ready to protect everyone from the golem if it activates, but it didn't. near the end of Day 1 they stumble in front of a riddle door and Genbu couldn't figure out the riddle, but they were interrupted by the moster known as "**The listener**" (who was initially thought to be the Partitioner), but they all remained quiet, and the listener left. After Hugo Solved the riddle, they all reach the first resting zone and Genbu goes to sleep in one of the corners with his stick.

on Day 2 of the test Genbu and the rest of the heroes' venture until they enter the crystal room where they find Ace crystalized, after she was freed from the crystal Genbu started explaining that she is the Cargo that they have to deliver to pass the Test. They walk through more corridors in the labyrinth until a split path where Ace scouts ahead to tell them there are Chests on one of the paths, Genbu goes alongside Brac and Hugo to secure the boxes and make sure they are not Traps, after opening the 3rd chest Genbu hears a sound that's summoning the listener and tells everyone that they have to hurry, while escaping they stumble upon a statue that requires blood sacrifice, Genbu slashes his hand deeply to fill in the bowl, they he tries to slash his other hand but Brac stops him and tell him that everyone should do it and he shouldnt do it for them, when the bowl was filled and the hidden passage appeared everyone rushed through the passage while Genbu stayed behind to find a shadow coin and follows the rest of the group to the bomb room. After the Bomb was dropped Genbu remained calmer and explained that the other teams outside are having a test, he mentioned if they failed to stop the bomb, he will try by his barriers to weaken the effect of the explosion. While waiting for the others to stop the bomb he helps Ace to scout the ceiling by making a stairway by the barriers, but they couldn't find a way out. After Lexi and the other engineers diffused the bomb Brac comes to ask Genbu if the reason that Genbu doesn't have teammates are the test of the outside, which Genbu replies to by saying the Brac is quite right, then they travel to the rest room and Genbu sleeps in the corner.

on Day 3, the heroes continued their journey in the labyrinth. He gives Brac the Shadow coin he got earlier so Brac can call team Recall. the Heroes find more chests and inactive Golem, Hedge kept watch on the Golem while Genbu and the rest went to the Chests, after opening the Chest the Golem starts moving and Genbu rushes to fight and defend the rest of the group, while Brac and Ace rush to fight. After beating the Golem and Ace stealing the Gem Genbu tries to stop Brac but Brac ignored him and tried to catch Ace, Genbu laughed and commented on them that this is the beauty of youth. After more traps and holes in the labyrinth the Group stumble against the listener, everyone stayed quiet, until Mi-Suk started screaming in Fear, Brac tried to stop the listener but failed, and Genbu starts using the barriers and orders everyone to run leaving him behind.

at the night of Day 3 and the morning of Day 4 Genbu finally catches up to the group in the resting room being injured by the listener, he mentioned that he kept running and using barriers to confuse it, then he said that he is tired and needs to rest a bit, he goes to the corner as usual and sleeps for a short while. When he woke up the group continued further into the depth of the labyrinth. Genbu started telling everyone about the listener and the origins of the creature, that it was born blind but it's gotten bigger and stronger over hundreds of years, and its stronger than any regular and at this point cannot be killed, so running away from is the way to go. as they continue in the labyrinth, they arrive at the labyrinth waterfall. Genbu said to the others that he has never seen something like this before. Ace confirms that the other way is also similar to this one, which made the group to think that the only way to progress is to drink from the waterfall. After Hugo and Ace drank from the waterfall and saw some memories that they wanted to forget Genbu didn't want to drink from it. luckily the other path was opened for the group to meet the Merchants, in Genbu's case he had no teammates, so he stayed in the corner alone. When the group left the merchant to continue their journey, he reminded the group that the 'hero' role has the special case to tell the ranker to give up, but Brac told him that after what everyone has lost there is no to turn back, such as the loses of Team Loud and Pround and Team Lovers. It didn't take long for them to arrive at the rest room. However, the room had a limit of 6 life forms allowed, which resulted in the walls starting to close in and squish everyone inside, Genbu didnt say a word, meanwhile Brac asked him to explain but Genbu said nothing, everyone understood that one of them has to die, but Mi-Suk requested from the rankers to quit the test just like Genbu told them, but the rankers didn't answer. Genbu said they cannot surrender during an event like this, after a long debate Hedge prepares to kill Mi-Suk, but he stopped in the last moment, so Genbu made his move and back stabs Hedge by his stick into the chest killing him which made the walls to stop from closing saving the rest of the group, Genbu dropped tears after killing Hedge. At that night Genbu Slept like usual in the corner just like normal.

On Day 5 of the test, Genbu continued to venture with the group like nothing happened, the mood was down and Brac hinted on Hedge's demise, so Genbu asked if they wanted an explanation, Brac demanded that and told him that Hedge had the most out of everything and he should've killed the one that has the least, Genbu asked if Brac indicated that he should've killed himself and Brac replied quickly by yes, Genbu started explaining that this labyrinth changes people, it makes people go insane, lose their minds and humanity, they become corrupted, Hedge was the most unstable, so he was effected the most by the labyrinth. then he started talking about the climb in general, how this tower changes people and bring the worst of them. Brac disagreed with Genbu's view but Ace told him that she understands him, and she said he did what he had to do by killing Hedge, Brac asked Genbu what happens to the boon after someone dies, Genbu answered that it usually drops but in Hedge's Case it didnt drop because it's a special boon from the outside. Not long after and due to the battles in the sacrifices test in the outside Mi-Suk falls unconscious, Genbu tells everyone that we have to hurry and walk in front. They reach a place with a lot of gaps where Genbu started using his barriers as walkways for the group to maneuver around the gaps, they reach a big room with an exit in front of them, they started hearing chains and screeches, Genbu stands up to prepare to fight saying this is his fight, The listener enters the room, Genbu creates a wall to defend everyone, however, Tokki made it due to his speed across barrier to help out Genbu against the listener. During the fight Brac and Hugo broke the barrier to help Genbu and Tokki, Genbu was blocking many of the listener attacks, After dealing a lot of damage to the listener it starts moving way faster and became more aggressive, Genbu told everyone to run because the situation is bad, after most of the group left Brac carries Genbu to leave the room, Genbu hits the stick on the wall to make the ceiling collapse, then he calls Hugo to hit the wall, so Hugo does and the ceiling collapsed blocked the path on the listener, Genbu didn't stop and told everyone to hurry because they're almost in the end. They continued to progress through the labyrinth and Ace asked Genbu if he reached this point before, Genbu answered by a lot of times, and after moments the group was able to see the outside light, Genbu doesn't move a muscle and remind quiet, Tokki rushes to the outside in joy but he was blocked by a green barrier made by Genbu, Tokki said that the listener isn't here so they can put the barrier down, which Genbu doesn't reply to, Ace prepare her open, while Brac was in disbelief, Genbu starts talking to everyone and saying that this is the last time they can give up and surrender, but Brac replied to that by the exit is in front of them, and they managed to help their unconscious teammate Mi-Suk this far, Genbu started talking about the tower and the corruption again, and if the group continues they will be become corrupted, he adds to that by revealing he is '**The partitioner**', Brac told him that he is going to beat him and carry him outside, then Genbu started fighting the group. During the fight Genbu was using his barriers to defend and creates blades to attack, after Ace stole his stick which weakend him he started target Ace because if the cargo dies everyone will fail the test. In a last resort Genbu tried to unleash hundreds of blades by his barriers, but during that Mi-Suk regains consciousness and use her rock abilities to weakens Genbu's last attack, the group survived with the exception of Mi-Suk who got stabbed by a blade in her back and fell dead due to the injury not long after, Ace tried to kill Genbu but Brac stopped her telling her if they do kill Genbu they prove his point of the tower and the corruption. Brac came to Genbu to talk to him one last time, Genbu admired Brac, Brac told him that he will keep his promise of getting him out of this cave, so he carried Genbu on his back to leave the labyrinth, while they were walking to the exit Genbu was telling Brac about the people he saved from the dark labyrinth and wonders how are they doing now. When they leave the labyrinth Genbu dies due to his injury from the last fight.

## Major Battles

* **Genbu** vs. Brac Bronson, Ace, Tokki, Hugo, & Mi-Suk - **Loss**

## Quotes

* To everyone before the final battle of the labyrinth - "I'm the divider between hope and corruption. I'm the shield that protects the life of innocents. I'm the partitioner".

## Trivia

* He is currently the only Defender in the series

## Theories

(by multiple people) - Genbu is the true partitioner (*Confirmed*.)