Cutthroat

The Cutthroat is a tall, pale man with white neck-length hair and purple eyes. He dons a completely white attire composed of a long dress shirt underneath a knee-length overcoat and trousers that reach just over his boots, revealing black tights.

The Cutthroat's left hand is covered up with bandages, and he has a mole below his left eye. After he loses his legs and the Doctor reattaches them, he appears to have visible stitch marks.

The Cutthroat is a sadistic murderer who enjoys the sight of blood spurting out of his kills. In contrast, his usual behavior is innocent, like a child's. He becomes unable to control his murderous impulses under certain conditions. He gets overly excited when he sees red.

The Cutthroat acts very child-like and friendly in idle situations, often singing children's rhymes or frolicking around carefreely. However, as shown in Episode 1 when he is first released from his shackles, he immediately beheads the chief police in a cool and calm manner. He then admires how the blood is beautiful, claiming it is like a blooming flower. The Cutthroat is often seen admiring the beauty of his surroundings, although the color red appears to be the only "beautiful thing" he cannot keep himself from touching.

He can also be extremely serious when something of interest to him is being threatened, namely when the Swindler is about to be hurt, and would go to any lengths to prevent it from happening. As he is later revealed to have been waiting to kill her, it appears that he can keep his calm and lie easily in order to achieve his goals.

When he finally chases the Swindler, the Cutthroat, however, cannot contain himself and his childish behavior becomes extreme. He uses childish language and appears not to realize the gruesomeness of his supposed gift to the object of his affection. Still, when she hides from him, he attempts to lie by falsely apologizing, but he is overly excited about killing her and stumbles over his words, revealing his true intentions.

The story starts on the day the Cutthroat is meant to be executed. Having been caught for unknown reasons, he is only seen wearing a mask and a straitjacket up until the Akudama come to interrupt his execution. He frees himself from the straitjacket and receives the case containing the bomb-collars, delivered by the Courier, which he appears to have been expecting. The Black Cat had, in fact, already contacted him while he was imprisoned. As it turns out, the Cutthroat had been caught by a Kansai Police detective who had been obsessively pursuing him and gave his own life to trap and capture him.

The Execution Rescue

The same day the Cutthroat's execution was to be held, some Akudama, more specifically the Doctor, Hacker, Brawler and Courier, were requested by an anonymous mastermind to rescue him in exchange for a ¥100,000,000 reward. Right as the execution began, the Akudama arrived on the scene, along with a tank robot that was attempting to stop them. At some point during or after the fight, the Cutthroat freed himself, allowing him, once the tank had been defeated, to reveal himself and kill the Inspector and police officers holding him captive, claiming that "if they caught him", then they "really should have killed him". Having killed them, the Cutthroat surpassed his own record and reached 1,000 kills.

Shinkansen Raid

As the execution had been successfully interrupted and everyone was finally safe, especially the Cutthroat, the Courier revealed himself to have a different mission: to deliver him a strange case. The former gladly opened it, claiming it was "just as he had been told", and suddenly installed bomb necklaces around all the present Akudama's necks. A Black Cat that had been rescued by one of them, the Swindler, began to talk, standing on her head. It revealed itself to be a robot controlled by an anonymous mastermind who planned to force the Akudama to participate in a raid at the Shinkansen, a sacred place in Kansai, in order to test them and see everyone's potential during this first phase of their plan. The mastermind proceeded, as they had completed the first part of their mission, to pay the Akudama a total of ¥100,000,000 each, sent to their seal e-payment, claiming that if the group successfully raided Shinkansen they would get a total of ¥1,000,000,000.

With the help of the Brawler and Hacker, they successfully boarded a flying bus to initiate their plan. Inside the bus, the Cutthroat admired the red city lights, revealing a strong liking of anything red, before pressing all the red emergency buttons, causing the bus to gain max speed and crash on Seven-Star Hotel Geisha and Dancing Girls. The group survived the crash, and landed inside the hotel, at which point the Cutthroat politely asked the Swindler if she was alright and formally introduced himself to her. As he did, he pondered on his liking for the color pink, seeing as it contained red, but suddenly interrupted himself and stared at her in awe.

Considering the hotel a proper hideout, the Black Cat revealed the details of its plan to the Akudama. The mastermind intended to "steal" cargo from the Kyushu Plant, currently at the Kansai station to be transported to Kanto. As they discussed the plan, however, Executioners arrived at their room and began to fight them. The Cutthroat tried to aim for the Execution Division Apprentice's red eyes, but the Execution Division Master intervened and threw him out the window, only cueing him to complain about losing his "precious knife". Having survived the fall, he later met up with everyone else at the Abandoned Factory, where the Black Cat explained the details the details of the second phase of their plan, grouping him with the Swindler and Hacker for the next day.

Initiating phase two, the Cutthroat and the others headed to their positions after successfully infiltrating the place and hacking the security system to reach the top floor of the station, only to find a barrier blocking their way, stopping them from going any further. The Cutthroat, disappointed that he could not reach the red button, threw a knife at the barrier, managing to cut through it but not going very far. At the Swindler's request, he continued to throw his knives in order to have them push each other all the way through, but he eventually ran out of them. In a panic, the Swindler stole one of Hacker's drones to push the knives one last time, managing to break the barrier and press the button. Having joined the rest of their group and successfully gotten inside the cargo train, they once again encountered the two Executioners, trying to stop them one last time. The Courier, Brawler, Doctor and, eventually, the Cutthroat and Hoodlum, fought back in order to proceed with their mission. Having successfully fought them off, they finally reached the Vault car, at which point the Black Cat disintegrated, leaving behind him a key. They used it to open the Vault, in which they found two children, a brother and a sister, as such completing the second phase.

Expo Park Escape

Forced by their bomb necklaces to continue with the mission and leaving the Hacker, who had managed to hack his in order to remove it, behind, the Akudama stopped and rested at the Abandoned Ward 3, waiting for the rain to stop. While the others avoided the precipitation, the Cutthroat laid inside a bathtub outside, singing in the rain. When the Swindler got in a fight with the Doctor and claimed she was bullying the children, the Cutthroat turned to admire her. Later, outside Kansai, the Akudama arrived at the North Side of the Fortification wall where they encountered the Master once again. The Master tried to fight the Akudama on his own, during which the Swindler tried to protect the children while the Cutthroat protected her. In order to do so, the Cutthroat eventually used the Brother as a shield in order to keep the Master from stabbing both him and her, and without hesitating, stabbed through the boy's torso to get to his opponent. The Swindler, believing the child to be dead, screamed in shock and disgust, but his sister insisted it was fine - the Brother was then revealed to be immortal. Then, upon arriving at the location, the Swindler confronted the Cutthroat about what he had done to the Brother, but seeing that he did not care so long as he protected his "angel", the Swindler slapped him in disappointment, to which he did not react.

When they arrived at the Expo Park, the Akudama found a rocket ship, which the children explained they were planning to board to escape the Earth. As they were preparing to leave, however, the Doctor revealed herself as a traitor. She threw a scalpel towards the Swindler, but the Cutthroat intercepted it, and supposing that she "did this because she wanted him to kill her", attempted to attack her. The Doctor, however, allowed Executioners to ambush the Akudama, forcing him to fight them off.

Red Halo

Having escaped from the Expo Park, the Cutthroat, seeing as the Swindler had escaped through the rocket ship and landed back in Kansai, decided to search for her around the city. Later revealed to have been following a large, red halo, the Cutthroat was able to track her down to her destination, the Execution Department HQ, where he massacred Executioners whilst waiting for her arrival. She eventually arrived along with the Courier and Sister, finding the Cutthroat standing atop a pile of bodies. Claiming to have "decorated the place just for her", he asked if he could kill her. The Courier shot in his direction and touched one of the bodies, at which point he whined that he had taken forever to stack this "cake" for the Swindler, and attacked him. The Swindler pushed the Cutthroat away to protect him, and he grabbed her, revealing that he had been waiting to see her "red angel halo" to grow and to kill her. He explained that he had seen many red halos before, and liked to kill people with those, but hers was "magnificent", and was "tiny at first, but it grew bigger and bigger". When he revealed that he had been wanting to kill her all along, the Swindler ran away from him, which he took as a game of hide and seek. She tried to hide in the bathroom but was easily found, as the Cutthroat had revealed that he could track her red halo from very far away. The Swindler managed to push him away and run from him again, and eventually hid inside a safe, at which point the Cutthroat, after banging at the door furiously, falsely apologized. The Swindler pretended to trust him, and opened the door, only to ambush him and kill him when he tried to strangle her, using an energy sword left behind by one of the Executioners he had killed.

Legacy

Having simply killed him, the Swindler left the Cutthroat behind in the safe, having laid his body on his back, removed the weapon from his torso and put his severed limbs back on top of him. She looked upset, but as she immediately ran into the Courier and Sister, immediately went back to her mission, never thinking about the Cutthroat again.

Japanese: Takahiro Sakurai

English: Matt Shipman

Italian: Marcello Gobbi

German: Louis Friedemann Thiele

Spanish: Rómulo Bernal & Rubén Felis

Portuguese (BR): Daniel Bertolucci

Stage Actor: Reo Honda

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