Eco-Terrorist
The unnamed Eco-Terrorist is the main antagonist of the one-shot Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 11: Drip Painting Style.
He is a mentally ill man who worries about the fate of the Earth due to carbon dioxide emissions. No longer having hope, he plans to blow up a power plant in Morioh.
Appearance
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Personality
The eco-terrorist is a psychopathic man who is obsessed with saving the environment. After constantly being punished for his actions, the man has no qualms about killing innocent people as everyone is equally to blame for carbon dioxide emissions. He desires attention, wanting Rohan to witness his grand plan of blowing up the fossil fuel power plant so that his story can be immortalized.
Abilities
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History
Background
At some point, the man got married and had kids. Around 2009-2010, twelve years prior to when he met Rohan, he was part of an environmental organization dedicated to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. However, his leader was paid off by a big company that invested in the deforestation of tropical rainforests. The man tried to continue his work but was arrested several times by security officials and had people sent to try killing him. Consequently, he lost his job and his family also left him.
Around 2021-2022, he invited Rohan Kishibe to his house for an interview, although his goal was actually to lure Rohan to witness his plan. Planning to blow up Morioh's fossil fuel power plant along with himself, the man straps himself with explosives, hydrogen fuel tanks, and liquid oxidizer.
Drip Painting Style
The man notices a woman named Mitsuki driving near the power plant and decides to get into her car. He kneels near the passenger side of her car. Due to wearing a backpack and gear full of spikes, his silhouette resembles a boar, and Mitsuki assumes she hit something. She exits the car to check but doesn't see anything, as the man managed to hide. However, Rohan was driving behind Mitsuki and witnesses him climbing into the back of her car. Rohan desperately tries getting Mitsuki's attention by ramming into the back of her car, turning his headlights on, honking, and throwing a fire extinguisher at her windshield, but she just assumes someone is trying to kill her. Unfortunately for her, Rohan was trying to save her from the actual murderer. As soon as Rohan finally manages to tell her that the man is hiding behind her, he grabs Mitsuki's neck and snaps it. Rohan's car ends up colliding with hers.
Both Rohan and the eco-terrorist crawl out of the vehicles, though the man manages to escape with no injuries whereas Rohan is bleeding. He climbs on top of Mitsuki's car, eerily saying that he heard Rohan got a puppy named Bakin recently. He goes on to say that Bakin probably has about 15 to 20 years to live and Rohan will continue making memories with him during that time. However, their time together will soon become a painful memory for him. According to a prediction from the IPCC in 2018, there could be severe consequences for the planet if Earth's temperatures rise more than 1.5°C. At the moment, Earth is only 0.5°C away from reaching that number since the average global temperature jumped by 1°C in just 40 years. Thus, the man claims that Bakin won't be able to live a happy life like Rohan is hoping for.
The eco-terrorist continues his speech, going into details about his past. Now sick of everything, the man reveals his goal of blowing himself up at the nearby power plant. He shows off his equipment to Rohan and mentions how he prepared for everything. Rohan retorts that the man needs therapy and wonders why he invited Rohan to his house since Rohan is just a manga artist and not a journalist. The eco-terrorist claims that TV reporters would distort the truth and spread fake news about what happened, but Rohan could depict the truth in his manga using what he's about to see now. He lured Rohan all the way to this specific spot to keep him safe, and he just happened to kill that woman because she was driving nearby.
Hearing the police sirens approaching, the man starts making his move. Rohan cries for him to stop and go do his plan somewhere else since Morioh is his birth town. Rohan looks around and notices the nearby burs on the ground. He's thankful that Mitsuki's car is outdated and powered by gasoline, wondering if it's just a stroke of irony or the whim of the mountain gods. Summoning Heaven's Door, Rohan writes on the burs to shrivel up until they're hollow, then suck up fumes from the exhaust pipe of Mitsuki's car, and finally stick to the eco-terrorist's clothes. After the burs do so, the man falls unconscious due to the carbon monoxide released from all of them. The police officers finally arrive and approach him.[1]
Gallery
First appearance
Talking to Rohan about Bakin
The man explains how his family abandoned him
About to execute his plan at the power plant
Unconscious from breathing in carbon monoxide
