Apart

**Apart** (アパート, *Apāto*?) is a serial killer from death row, because of his actions in the past. He served as one of the many major antagonists in the Death Row Prisoners Arc.

## Appearance

Apart is a young, fair-skinned man with light-colored hair with hair clips keeping bangs together that cover his eyes. He wears a black shirt, a leather jacket with a fur collar, and black pants.

A close-up of Apart's face
## Personality

Apart is a perfectionist to the point of obsession. After perfectly dismembering someone into equal pieces to "look inside them", he realizes that one of the manga on the wall is missing, thus breaking the perfect row, which causes him to go outside to purchase the manga to fulfill his perfectionism, even commenting that he "may be kind of a perfectionist". This is seen again when interrupts a fight in order to rearrange some figures that had fallen over. He is also cruel, barely caring about dismembering a small animal when he was young and feeling nothing when he dismembers people in his later years. He hates people who are unorganized, calling them crude and that they rub him the wrong way, saying how they annoy him without even caring, showing an egocentric side.

Apart has an urge to 'connect' with people, which are people he sees as strong, as he says he's enjoying his fight with Sakamoto and feels like he can connect to him. As he's walking around Tokyo Tower, he says that he wants to connect with more people, which stems from his childhood loneliness and parental abandonment. He sees his dismemberment of people as his way as reaffirming that connection, as a way to cope with his increasing loneliness. Apart's psychopathic killing makes him wonder why life is so painful, since no one likes him and that he's human like everyone else, asking Sakamoto why he rejects him to 'connect' with him (look inside).

Since he has never interacted with anyone in a friendly way, when he sits at the table with Sakamoto and company, and they talk to him like a regular person, he comments on how weird they are, with him blushing in the process, showing that he's shy.

## History

Apart never fit in, with the other children excluding him and his mother never talking to him, although his father was the only person who actually cared about him, who taught him that it's what's on the inside that matters. One day, Apart's father gave him a doll, and that day he tried to play with the other kids, but they called him a weirdo, causing him to go home and take his anger out on that doll, imagining it as the kid who called him a weirdo, where he laughs afterwards. Over time, he continues ripping the doll up with scissors, then a box cutter, then needles to stick in its face as he's further excluded by the other children and his mother's ignorance.

One day, his father comes home and sees Apart sitting on the floor with a box cutter in hand and blood behind him since he dismembered a small animal. The next day, his father brings him to a doctor to see what's wrong with him. The doctor says that he's perfectly healthy, with his father, in his frustration, saying how his son, who just dismembered an animal, is perfectly normal. His father lifts the doctor up by the collar, asking him if he's calling his son a monster. Apart goes to his father, but his father pushes him away with a scream and says, *S-stay away! What's wrong with you?* This line causes Apart to go mad, take a pair of scissors, and kill his father in cold blood, saying that there's nothing wrong with him and that both of their heads are the same, meaning that they're all the same on the inside, which made him realize that he was connected to everyone "after all". This is what spurred his streak for mass murder.

## Skills & Abilities

**Overall Skills and Abilities**: Apart has displayed abilities similar to assassins despite him just being a death row inmate. He is a powerful combatant, being able to be on-par (although eventually defeated) with Sakamoto.

* **Enhanced Strength**: He has displayed immense strength as he was able to effortlessly cut people apart with his wires.
* **Enhanced Durability**: Apart has immense durability, being able to effortlessly block a shot from Heisuke with his hand. He was able to take a punch from Sakamoto with minimal damage.
* **Enhanced Reflexes**: He was able to catch a replica of the Tokyo Tower that Sakamoto threw in an instant, using his wires to hold it steadily.

## Equipment

**Wires**: Apart carries strong wires made of an unknown material that he uses in his serial killings and for combat. They can easily dismember a person in an instant and cut through solid metal and glass. He can also use them as a swing, being able to use them to slash a window before entering. They have a long range. He is also able to use them to catch things, as he caught a replica of the Tokyo tower that Sakamoto threw at him.

## Battle and Events

* Death Row Prisoners Arc
	+ Taro Sakamoto & Keisuke Mashimo vs. Apart
	+ Taro Sakamoto, Shin Asakura & Apart vs. Kei Uzuki & Uda