In the Cleaner symbol I recognise:

• the sun
• an eye
• a bird
• an umbrella
• ocean waves

Curious.

For Enjin his umbrella is about rain and Alto. But the symbol of the umbrella (because it has to be quite old) would go further than that, most likely as a protection against trash that specifically fell from above. Maybe one of the first Givers who build the Cleaners was also an umbrella user, one who viewed the Sphere and its trash as an enemy.

The sun could go into the direction of Apollo and/or it could symbolise the lack of sun on the Ground because of the barrier that surrounds it. Related to that, it could symbolise the rising sun in that the cleaners bring the sun to the people by killing the trash beasts.

The ocean waves would be about water and life that's going to come back to the Ground, the famous wave painting also comes to mind. But this is a more violent depiction of water, in case it's really supposed to be that.

The bird >!reminds me of Kuro !<and all the crows we constantly see, and the eye makes me think of of Arkha but everything around it looks way different.

Rudo is 15 and small while Enjin is 12(!) and big.

Alto looks taller than he is because of his getup, especially his hood, while adult Enjin slouches. I hope Urana keeps the age/height differences of her characters in mind in case Rudo is ever an adult. Not that Rudo has to be small in height at age 28, but he definitely has to stay somewhere at shoulder or chin level of Enjin's 190cm of tallness.

(Rudo is already 163cm? He looks so much smaller but that's probably because he's around tall characters constantly...)

This entire time I was convinced that we were looking at the tip of Enjin's umbrella and how he thrusts that into Mymo from behind to cut him open. But now I realise that we're actually looking at Mymo's open cut already. There is nothing there. No blade, no umbrella.

Mymo suddenly gets ripped open without anyone being there.

No one other than Enjin's invisible astral projection created through his anima.

From what it looks like, this anima projection can use physical attacks, most likely by concentrating the anima at the tip of the umbrella so it hardens. Alternatively, all of Anima Enjin can be touched. The question here is, can Enjin interact with everything in this form or only with things that also consist of anima? And can people attuned to anima feel or even see him?

The bigger question is: are there instances in the story up to this point where Anima Enjin could've done something?

But also... could this Anima Enjin get lost from his body or be captured? Or maybe even turn into a trash beast?

...Enjin's use of Time Walk is Astral Projection where is anima self moves extremely fast compared to everyone else because his sense of external time slows down immensely.

This is specifically how Enjin uses the watch. Alto talked about time manipulation though, and from what Enjin said he did try to reverse and stop time, as well. But it didn't work for him because he couldn't pull that type ability out of the watch.

But from his own life he pulls out a near-death experience where everything around him slowed down because of his brain, and he also integrates a conversation he had with Arkha on how the world works into this, to give Time Walk's core ability a shape he can work with: Hyper fast Astral Projection.

But what does this mean?

• Enjin most likely does not have to face that severe consequence of using the watch that Alto talked about
• Alto most likely used the time stop/reverse ability of the watch and it fucked him up
• Escalation in the Future: someone will unlock the full ability of the watch and then we'll see the consequence of that. That's either going to be Enjin... or Rudo.

Original last name: (Endoarei) Lychima - raikima - kimaira - chimera

Written on the car in chapter 166: Chimera

Title of chapter 167.5: Chimaira

Why CH instead of K for kimaira, the actual japanese loan word for chimera? Most likely to connect the english and japanese spellings, which is probably the same reason why the spelling in Enjin's name went for CH as well instead of staying with the K.

What does this mean, though? The Chimera doesn't have any immediate connection to the current story or this arc. After all, Enjin uses the jinki of Canis Surebrec, in other words, the jinki of Cerberus. No, this goes beyond the immediate arc and tells us that Enjin is like Rudo and a descendent of one Macaca Icol's friends from 150 years ago. The one whose last name was Lychima.

I rote about it here once: https://www.reddit.com/r/gachiakuta/comments/1sxhlr6/the_cerberus_family_theory_confirmed/

Love the dynamic that Enjin has with Zanka and Rudo but it's so obvious that his dynamic with Riyo is based on... the same wavelength they have? A fundamental understanding of each other? Similar experiences they share? Sometimes it's like they have a secret language between them where they don't have to communicate with each other to get their thoughts across.

Enjin stands on uneven grounds with Zanka because of Zanka's hero worship. Personality or experience-wise they're not similar to each other either.

With Rudo he shows empathy to his struggles and he shares his experiences with him like an older brother would. But their relationship is also on uneven grounds because of that. To Rudo, Enjin is an adult while he is not.

I have not seen that uneven ground with Riyo. More often than not, those two talk and act like equals to each other. Enjin has neither a mentor nor an adult role in Riyo's life - they're simply just friends - so I'm curious about their shared backstory and how that came to be.

#RiyoshotEnjinandcausedthatscaronhishead
#whichexplainstheirfriendshipthat'sonequalgrounds

After reading about the mythological story of Corvus I thought of how that myth could relate to Arkha and a possible descendent of the Hydra family line.

What you need to know, really short: Macaca Icol's friends are named after 4 mythological siblings: Cerberus (confirmed), Orthrus (most likely), Chimera (name dropped 2x), and Hydra (no appearance yet).

Going by the myth above, a descendent from the Hydra friend could play an antagonistic role towards Arkha or vice versa. At the same time, Arkha's tattoos also resemble one of the symbols from one of those four friends, so Arkha himself could also be a descendent from them, maybe even from the Hydra line itself. Then we'd get more of a mishmash of the old myths than a straight retelling of them.

But a thought popped into my head: Arkha seems to have an ability that's presented to us as premonition, an ability that isn't unlike Enjin's sixth sense and intuition. Enjin's first name has the Chimera hidden in it (lychima) which designates him as a descendent of the Chimera line. But what if Arkha is also from that line and the premonition/intuition ability is their family heritage?

So, another theory: Arkha and Enjin are distantly related.

This could give us a clue to his jinki as well. If the jinki of all four friends are equally special like Macaca Icol's pen and the WMS, then we will see those other jinki as well at some point. This includes Hii which is a yet unexplained jinki in Fu Orostor's (Orthrus) possession. This leaves us with the missing jinki of the Chimera and Hydra line. Enjin is from the Chimera line but the passed-down jinki he possess is from the Cerberus line.

That missing Chimera jinki could be Arkha's, which would explain why there is such a mystery around it. The same as how Enjin kept the Wacthman watch a secret, so too could Arkha have kept his Chimera jinki a secret, even from Enjin.

>!Hope Rudo didn't eat his curse, too.!<

Translation by me.

While we're already on this Enjin-high, why not just recommend my fic on here while we're at it, I thought. If you like fanfic or want to try it out, be my guest.

30k words. Nothing explicit but sexually charged. EnjinxGris and EnjinxKyoka but romantic relationships are not the focus. It's about Enjin and how he deals with a traumatic childhood event (fic completed in February). Because his parents died on top of him, he developed an integral desire for others to lie down on him, too, hence the name of the fic Security Blanket. The biggest part of the plot starts when heterosexual Enjin realises that he's too big and muscular for lightweight women to keep on scratching that particular itch he has, so he decides to find men who'll lie on him, too.

My writing goes between funny and Enjin's serious introspections. Some queer exploration here and there, also Enjin is in deep denial about being bisexual, though that does make sense because he's mostly into women, not men.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Security Blanket

So that no child or teenager he meets starts trusting him because of superficial kindness.

Enjin feels immense guilt for turning his shitty orphanage into a slave market just by trusting the wrong person for the wrong reasons: Money (because if only the orphanage had more money than everything would be better, right?) and kindness (that man looks and obviously acts nice towards the children but soon everything would turn worse than before.)

Enjin is a good person. Going by his team and how he was described as a stray collector, he especially helps the destitute teenagers he meets. But while his motives are about helping people, on the surface a first meeting with him and such teenagers and children wouldn't look different to his own first time meeting with that man in the suit.

Even though Enjin has no ulterior motifs or intention to harm any children, making those children trust him 5 seconds after meeting them would awaken guilt inside of him, I'm sure. It would feel like taking advantage of them, like that man in the suit, regardless of what would actually happen to the children afterwards.

So Enjin doesn't act nice with the people he meets. He lets his asshole side shine through so it isn't a first good impression, or his status as a cleaner, or being helpful, or being an adult, or being powerful and nice, that makes children and teenagers trust him.

He wants that trust to come from a critical evaluation of his actions.

Not from superficial impressions. So he kicks Rudo in the back to help with the blood in his lungs, and he chains him up to pull him out of No Man's Land instead of carrying him, and he gives Rudo his own money back after making sure Rudo thinks for a second that that money is a gift.

Just so that at no point Rudo gets lulled into trusting him because he's nice. Look what happened first thing to Rudo when he trusted the traffickers at the gas station after they were oh so kind to him.

When Rudo first declined Enjin's offer to join the Cleaners, Enjin was probably really, really happy about that.

Enjin's reflection already sprinting forward while he still stands in the back to activate his time powers is such an awesome detail I missed.

So now the question: what exactly did he do here? We have two options:

• he stopped the time and we're seeing the last millisecond of him before he did that while his reflection shows him moving forward
• he reversed the time and we're seeing two Enjins because the panel shows us two different timelines overlapping
• (there is also the option that Enjin accelerated his own time to move faster but that would've looked different, imo)

My gut tells me that stopping time is easier than reversing it. Which would make the repercussion Enjin will face more severe if he did the latter. The moment where he cuts Mymo doesn't show any strange effects like the special anima the watch exudes. So I'm leaning towards stopping time.

And also, splitting the punishment into two tiers gives us the option of dramatising his next use of it.

But if the watch only has one ability, and if that ability is of course the stronger one, then we will definitely see the last moments of chapter 164 again but not as they were presented to us. We'll see the original timeline of events; a scenario where Enjin was too late before he changed it:

Rudo killing Gountess.

But I have to go back to Alto's warning.

The immediate connection we made at the part "Not even... to help someone else" was a straightforward "don't even help this baby".

But what about Rudo's fingers? What did Alto do to make that happen? Common theory is that it's genetic and that Alto suffers the same. I'm presenting my own theory on that but it's more a thought experiment:

Rudo's blackened hands are the punishment for using the watch but it's a special kind of punishment that only affects those who should've died in the original timeline but were saved by reversing time and changing the events.

What could've happened to Alto was his family being killed. So in his desperation he used the watch to save Rudo at least. But then they both were punishment for it and Alto knows with what. He knows that Rudo's entire body will soon turn black and that his son will suffer immense pain until he dies miserably. The only option Alto sees against that fate is leaving the Ground for the Sphere with whatever method he has available to him.

So his warning against helping someone is specifically about preventing that painful and miserable death. Who else on the Ground would even have the option of fleeing to the Sphere? And as we know, Rudo still suffered heavily because of his hands. The user of the watch gets punished too, probably with an even worse fate, so why bother?

Better not use it. Better to let any event take its natural path.

But as Enjin said: Don't push the button is code for push the button.

And maybe the the two-tier split of the powers does exist which would prevent Enjin from becoming like Alto and Gountess from becoming like Rudo.

I've made a theory a long-ass time ago that Cerberus' siblings would be the other friends of Macaca Icol, and from the two options of Hydra and Chimera, Enjin recently went into the direction of Chimera with his name reveal: Endoareiraikima -> raikima -> kimaira -> Chimera.

And now we have this written name on the car beside Enjin that literally reads "Chimera".

In other words: Enjin is also a descendent of the old four, and he will have a second backstory because of it.

The original links: https://www.tumblr.com/runabout-river/808295967732400128/after-finding-out-that-fus-last-name-orostor-is

https://www.tumblr.com/runabout-river/813993132400279552/enjin-is-the-chimera-to-rudos-cerberus

Reddit links: https://www.reddit.com/r/gachiakuta/comments/1r2d3ll/fus_ancestry/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachiakuta/comments/1sllqio/deeper_connection_through_names_chapter_165/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I even have a Gachiakuta Meta Fic on Ao3 for anyone interested.