Dedan

## Background

**Dedan** is the Guardian of Zone 1. He is notable for his nasty temperament, and seems to be constantly enraged. He interacts with cruelty towards various beings, including his own working staff.

Dedan is a supervisor working with the Queen. As Guardian of Zone 1, he is the first boss that the Batter must face. He is first met in the barns of Pentel, where he is angrily shouting at an Elsen for getting in his way. He is then met personally in the office of Shachihata, where he is fighting the spectres that are infiltrating his building. He believes that the Batter is the "chief of spectres" and warns him to leave, saying "If I see you again... you're dead". He then teleports away to Alma (possibly through the use of his Zodiac Card). After encountering him again in his secret office, where he is even more aggressive, he will call the Batter "insane" and engage him in combat. After he is defeated, he is in denial that he has lost and is then purified by the Batter; thus purifying the Zone. Later, in Zone 2, a short description of how Dedan became a Guardian is found in a page in the massive library of Bismark.
Once the Batter gains access to The Room, he is able to visit beings that are altered versions of previous bosses. One of them, titled "The Tall Mister", is a counterpart of Dedan. Other beings in the area include "The Bird" and "The Big Mister", which bear resemblance to Japhet and Enoch respectively. The Tall Mister is an entity which appears to be a time-skipped version of Dedan before he became a Guardian. The Tall Mister's personality traits are the opposite of Dedan's, as he is observed to have a compassionate and sedate manner. The alternate Dedan has a particular interest in dates and times, commenting about this to the Batter, which could point to the Tall Mister having been an organized and prompt leader before his personality deteriorated.
Dedan sees the Batter as a particularly aggressive specter, calling him a "sick spirit". It is unclear if Dedan has any awareness of The Player or of the overall nature of the Batter's purification mission.

## General Information

**Name:** Dedan

**Origin:** OFF

**Sex:** Male

**Age:** Unknown

**Classification:** Boss

**Species:** Unknown

**Occupation:** Zone 1 Guardian, Zone Guardian, Queen's Inspector

**Status:** **Deceased** (Killed by The Batter in combat)

**Alignment** **Lawful Evil** (Zone Guardians are corrupted inspectors of their zones, meant to take out phantoms though Dedan in specific interacts with unjust cruelty towards his subjects)

## Codex Statistics

**Tier:** **6-C**

**Dimensionality:** **3-D**

**Attack Potency:** **Island level** (Is the creator of Zone 1, which are described as islets, it’s specifically noted the zone guardians draws infinite power from the sun)

**Durability:** **Island level**

**Striking Strength:** **Island Class**

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown**

**Travel Speed:** **Regular Human**, **Speed of Light** in the nothingness (Stated to be able to travel in the nothingness at the speed of light)

**Combat Speed:** **Speed of Light**

**Reaction Speed:** **Speed of Light** (Can naturally move in the nothingness, a void outside of space and time, at the speed of light)

**Stamina:** **Unknown**

**Range:** **Standard Melee Range**, likely **Higher** with Competences, **Kilometers** with abilities (Created Zone 1, which like other zones should be the size of an islet)

**Intelligence:** **Genius** (Naturally the ruler of his zone, applying all of the systems, sets of logic, etcetera. His zone in specific holds a massive factory issuing every element)

## Powers and Abilities

**Superhuman Physical Characteristics**, **Enhanced Senses** (Can still attack enemies while under the blinded status effect), **Non-Physical Interaction**, **Metaphysics Manipulation** (Soul Manipulation), **Immortality Negation** (Type 7; Can harm and kill spectres. Should be comparable to other Zone Guardians and Batter who can harm and kill specters, undead ghost, and can harm **nonexistent enemies** within purified zones), **Conceptual Manipulation**, **Linguistic Manipulation**, **Information Manipulation**, **Text Manipulation**, **Space-Time Manipulation**, **Reality Warping**, **Matter Manipulation**, **Creation**, **Energy Manipulation**, **Elemental Manipulation** & **Pocket Reality Manipulation** (All Zone Guardians created their zones, which are pocket realities sculpted from the energy given by **The Queen** it also contains its own space and time as it's separate from the other zones from the nothingness, a place outside of space-time. Likely created the elements. Zone guardians would have also created and have their energy tied to the concepts of their world which upon Batter killing them, it erases areas to the extent that they no longer have names and are replaced with “???” along with books and signs being unreadable, and color along with everything being gone. Can imbue his attacks with abstract ideas, can use his own words as attacks. Should be comparable to Batter who can harm and kill abstract specters and speech bubbles), **Summoning** (Can summon speech bubbles to fight with him), Limited **Time Manipulation** (His competences are all time based), **Status Effect Inducement**, **Sleep Manipulation** (**With “Hour Hand”, inflicts the sleep status effect**), **Empathic Manipulation** (**With “Minute Hand”, inflicts the furious status effect**), **Teleportation** & **Dimensional Travel** (Should be comparable to other Zone Guardians like **Japhet**, who can teleport directly into the nothingness and back to their zones)

**Resistance** to **Madness Manipulation** (Does not go insane due to lack of sugar, which is directly stated to make people go mad without it), **Metaphysics Manipulation** (Soul Manipulation; Can take attacks from Batter and his Add-Ons), **Spatial Manipulation** (Can take attacks under the plastic element), **Nothingness Manipulation**, **Conceptual Manipulation**, **Linguistic Manipulation**, **Information Manipulation**, **Text Manipulation**, & **Purification** (Can travel in the nothingness, a non-existent realm outside of space-time. Zone Guardians existence is what stops Batter’s purification of a zone, which upon purifying zones he erases to them to an extent that the names for areas get re-named “???”, along with books, and posters becoming unreadable. It is even noted that the color and everything is gone), **Metal Manipulation** (Can take attacks from the metal attribute. Should be able to like **The Judge** walk around in a purified zone where metal no longer exists, which it was stated without metal there would be no way to walk without sinking into the ground), **Organic Manipulation** (Can take attacks from the meat attribute)

## Notable Techniques

* **Minute Hand:** A special attack of mediocre impact.
* **Hour Hand:** Afflicts an enemy with Sleep, causing the enemy to fall asleep.
* **Sweep Hand:** A special attack that can also afflict the enemy with furious, making them lose all sense of reasoning and strategy and just rapidly attacking. It also deals low impact.
* **Summoning:** Dedan can manifest laughter, in the form of speech bubbles bearing the "laughter" kanji, to assist him in combat.

## Other

**Standard Tactics:** Dedan will use different competences or attacks as he sees fit.

**Weaknesses:** Quick to temper and unreasonable.

**Note:** A lot of OFF’s explanations and concepts are very limited and require many different interpretations, thus making it difficult to completely ascertain what certain elements mean, thus using what one can piece together in game along with Mortis’ statements, we have supplied the following profile.

## Battle Records

**0-1-0**

* Victories
* Losses
* Inconclusive

None.

* **The Batter** - Fight
	+ **Conditions:** The Batter had help from his add-on.
	+ **Location:** Office of Shachihata

None.