Carlos

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Carlos
Alias(es)	Magician; A'Luo; Bai Luoyang
Species/Race	Magical entity; presents as human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Broken Mirror Squad
Occupation/Role	Deducer, magician, investigator
Status	Active

Background / History

Carlos was already known as the blue-eyed Magician during the Coffin Village deduction. He later focused almost exclusively on investigator-type deductions, building his methods around reconnaissance, deception, and paper-figure magic 76 321.

During the demon daoist’s tomb-palace investigation, he cooperated with Yu Xing despite mutual suspicion. Carlos used paper figures to search the complex, expose alterations to the team’s memories, and maintain contact with separated allies 312 331. He also revealed that he came from a different timeline, though the group did not pursue the matter 343.

Yu Xing recruited Carlos into the Broken Mirror Squad after locating him in reality. Carlos accepted, influenced partly by his experience in the tomb palace and the expectation that he and Yu Xing were meant to become teammates 424. His later actions confirm that he retains memories and knowledge from a future timeline, though much of that knowledge is fragmented or deliberately concealed 605 729.

Appearance

Carlos is a tall young man with mixed-race features, emerald-green eyes, and lightly curly hair usually dyed gray-blue. His clothing is often colorful or flamboyant, matching his self-styled magician persona 99 318 705.

• Emerald-green eyes noted for their vivid, gemlike color 694 705.
• Gray-blue dyed hair; its natural-looking shade is also described as light ash-blond in Base 51 99 705.
• Usually favors eclectic, brightly colored outfits over practical clothing 99 318.
• Wears tailored magician attire when playing the role publicly, including tailcoats, bow ties, top hats, and pocket watches 1075 1201.

Personality

Carlos is theatrical, flippant, and skilled at concealing his real thoughts behind charm, jokes, and a polished magician’s persona. He is highly perceptive of other people’s psychology, having spent years dealing with audiences attempting to expose his tricks; this makes him adept at mind games and reading hidden motives 312.

His friendliness is tempered by a practical, efficiency-first outlook. He supported bringing Yu Xing into the tomb-palace team because Yu Xing increased their odds of survival, not out of simple goodwill 321. Conversely, Carlos repeatedly protects people he considers vulnerable or useful to preserve: he shielded his young roommate from Lingren, saved Base 51 survivors, and used himself as a decoy to protect Cang Nong 694 713 1109.

Abilities & Skills

Paper Figure Magic

Carlos’s core Sacrifice is the paper figure. He can fold and control large numbers of them as long as his mental capacity permits, though dispersing too many figures reduces his direct control 309 425.

• Paper figures can follow preset commands, hide, search for people or objects, and act as stationary spies 309 425.
• Carlos can attach his senses to a figure and communicate through it over distance 309 696.
• His figures can detect injuries and curses affecting allies 313.
• Paper figures can substitute for Carlos against damage and curses; at great cost, they can even replace him in death once 425.
• Their effectiveness depends heavily on the quality of their drawn facial features; more detailed drawings create more flexible and powerful figures 425 698.
• Carlos deliberately used crudely drawn figures in the Base 51 timeline to suppress his apparent strength 698 702.

Magic Ink Pen

The Magic Ink Pen animates a paper figure after Carlos draws its facial features, allowing it to function independently within its assigned instructions 425.

• Enables paper figures to search, spy, and track targets autonomously.
• Better-drawn faces improve a figure’s mobility and ability ceiling 425.
• A blood-activated, carefully drawn figure can identify abnormal connections or dangers affecting Carlos 704 705.

Magic Substitute

Magic Substitute can enlarge a directly controlled paper figure into a life-sized duplicate of Carlos. The duplicate resembles him, possesses his magic, and can use three of his other Sacrifices not tied to paper figures 425.

• Creates convincing decoys capable of taking attacks in Carlos’s place.
• Allowed Carlos to evade Funai Er by leaving behind a dissolving substitute 1180.
• Lets him misdirect opponents during direct combat, including the Base 51 clearing squad 713.

Illusion and Replacement Magic

Carlos combines substitution with illusions that obscure movement, alter what observers perceive, and make attacks appear to strike the wrong target 343 713.

• Swapped places with Lin after the latter triggered a trap, without Yu Xing seeing how the exchange occurred 343.
• Caused gunfire to strike a paper substitute while he repositioned behind his attackers 713.
• Can use paper-based rituals to reveal harmful connections affecting his body, as when he exposed Yu Xing’s possession through a mirror 705.
• His escape methods can bypass physical confinement; he describes “escaping confinement” as a familiar magic trick 1182.

Spatial Magic

Carlos possesses spatial abilities linked to his paper figures and uses them for abrupt movement and teleportation 703 729.

• Teleported himself and Yan Ming to a restaurant after capturing him 729.
• Set up a large-scale magic circle in advance to transport surviving priests out of Aiven’s domain 1201.
• His spatial power is subtle enough that Yu Xing needed to modify a paper figure’s underlying rules to trace it back to Carlos 703.

Combat and Firearms

Despite preferring to “kill people with magic,” Carlos has strong physical conditioning, steady hands, close-combat skill, and accurate firearms handling 425.

• Fought alongside Yu Xing in Coffin Village and displayed physical ability beyond what his magician image suggests 93 330.
• Disarmed and threw a Base 51 clearing-squad member into an incinerator before eliminating the remaining squad 713.
• Uses silver bullets against monsters and can reload while evading attacks in confined spaces 1183.
• Employs poker cards as cutting or pinning projectiles; they can disrupt supernatural attacks and target enemies’ weak points 1109 1183.

Equipment / Sacrifices

• Paper Figures — Core Sacrifice; scouts, substitutes, communication terminals, and decoys 425.
• Magic Ink Pen — Animates and strengthens paper figures through drawn facial features 425.
• Magic Substitute — Produces life-sized paper doubles able to use Carlos’s magic and selected Sacrifices 425.
• Magician’s Cane — A weapon Sacrifice that splits into two slender knives and confuses the observer’s sight 425.
• Wanderer’s Burial Object — Detects nearby ghostly creatures and abnormal items, with a guiding effect 425.
• Spirit-communicating Bracelet — A rarely used Sacrifice that requires an empty Sacrifice slot 425.
• Sacrificial Scissors — Used with a blood-activated paper figure to sever and reveal hidden connections 705.
• Poker Cards — Used as magical projectiles, distractions, and weapons against supernatural enemies 1109 1183.
• Silver Handgun and Bullets — Investigator equipment effective against monsters; Carlos can use them with high precision 1183 1184.

Relationships

• Yu Xing — Teammate and frequent investigative partner. Their relationship began with wary cooperation in Coffin Village and developed into mutual reliance, teasing, and occasional distrust over Carlos’s hidden strength 312 424 702.
• Broken Mirror Squad — Carlos joined the team at Yu Xing’s invitation. His paper figures serve as the squad’s principal long-range communication network 424 426.
• Zhao Yijiu — Teammate. Carlos communicates through paper figures connected to Zhao Yijiu and was one of the people whose concern prompted the search for Carlos at Base 51 695 696.
• Yi Qing — Teammate and partner during the Ideal Nation investigation. They bicker and tease one another, but Yi Qing is protective of Carlos and Carlos has purchased materials to strengthen Yi Qing’s spiritual body 662 1075.
• Lingren — A dangerous adversary who knows Carlos’s time-travel secret and targeted him at Base 51 695 696.
• Yan Ming — Carlos captured Yan Ming to prevent him from acquiring an entrance ticket that Carlos believed Lingren would otherwise take 728 729.
• Xiao Yao — A Base 51 survivor Carlos protected and brought out of the base, while also investigating Lingren’s influence over her 704 713.
• Cang Nong — An ally in the Yorikof archive investigation. Carlos protected him from the princess monster with a paper-figure substitute 1108 1109.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Coffin Village and Tomb Palace — Carlos forms an uneasy alliance with Yu Xing, deploys paper figures throughout the tomb palace, helps uncover the team’s memory anomaly, and protects Lin by taking his place in a trap 312 331 343.
• Formation of Broken Mirror — Yu Xing contacts Carlos in reality and recruits him into the newly formed squad 424.
• Base 51 — Operating under the identity A'Luo, Carlos hides his real strength while investigating Lingren and the base’s vengeful-spirit virus. He ultimately defeats the clearing squad and leads twelve survivors out of the base 694 713 722.
• Yin Yang City Ticket — Acting independently, Carlos intercepts Yan Ming to prevent a ticket connected to Yin Yang City from falling into Lingren’s hands 728 729.
• Ideal Nation Investigation — Carlos works publicly as a magician-investigator in Yorikof, using performances and social manipulation to gather funds and intelligence from the nobility 1075.
• Secret Cult and Funai Er Manor — Carlos infiltrates the manor, escapes Funai Er’s trap with a decoy, investigates Anthony’s condition, and later aids the assault on Aiven’s altar through a prearranged teleportation spell 1180 1182 1201.

Notable Quotes

“Don’t be nervous, it’s just a magic trick.” 713

“Asking first before making a move was a magician’s courtesy.” 713

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen~” 1201

“I said it wasn’t a teleportation array, it’s magic.” 1201