Manhunter

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Manhunter (人猎)
Gender	Male
Age	Nearly fifty during the Sorrow Hill City events 70
Affiliation	Sorrow Hill City: Mind Fasting Sect; disciple of Master Fleshbound. Farpoint: Collection Facility engineer; formerly involved in armed resistance against corporations 71 438 443 480
Occupation/Role	Former Prefectural Office official responsible for criminal matters; sect pursuer. Later appears as an electrical engineer and former mercenary 62 438 443
Classification	Identified as a High-Rank Heretic in the Sorrow Hill City scenario 66
Status	Sorrow Hill City: killed by Xia Lun at the Book Cave. Farpoint: alive in the latest provided appearance; believes he may be a fabricated person 81 480
First Appearance	Earliest documented appearance: Chapter 62. Farpoint appearance: Chapter 437 62 437

Background / History

Sorrow Hill City

Manhunter originally handled criminal matters for the Prefectural Office and supervised an investigation into Man in the Flesh, also known as Master Fleshbound. During that investigation, he voluntarily concealed information about her and became her disciple 62 71.

His obedience combined fear, admiration, and dependence on her Yin Longevity Pills. He had witnessed her reduce a Prefectural Office official to endlessly wailing pus with a single touch. Nevertheless, he sincerely believed her promise that the Nuo Ring Hour ritual would bring people eternal happiness in dreams 62 71.

Farpoint

In the later Farpoint scenario, Manhunter works as the Collection Facility’s electrical engineer. He says he came from Homeworld’s twelfth floor, formerly worked as a mercenary, and fled to Farpoint after getting into trouble. His past includes years of violent resistance against corporations and an attack on Jade Pharmaceuticals alongside his former boss 438 443 456 480.

The provided passages do not establish the exact relationship between the Sorrow Hill City and Farpoint appearances. Farpoint also introduces the possibility that Manhunter’s identity and history were fabricated by the Typewriter 471 480.

Appearance

• Sorrow Hill City: tall, lean, and muscular; his frame is also described as gaunt during the failed eyeball attack 62 74.
• Farpoint: towering and powerfully built 442 456.
• Sect attack clothing: wears a cloak when confronting Xuan Yan and Xia Lun with the crimson eyeball 73.
• Diving equipment: wears a diving suit during the underwater facility expedition; a crabified trash can tears it open at the thigh 457 458.

Personality

Fearful Devotion

The Sorrow Hill City Manhunter is reckless enough to dismiss a suspicious device as harmless because he considers Xuan Yan too foolish to set a trap. Around Master Fleshbound, however, he becomes submissive and terrified. His desire to remain useful is partly driven by fear of losing access to Yin Longevity Pills 62.

His faith is not merely opportunistic. He believes Master Fleshbound’s promised happiness is genuine and rationalizes her nature in ways that make her hidden motives seem unlikely. When the eyeball fails and Fungus Zombies accuse her of sacrificing him, he refuses to abandon his loyalty 71 74.

Defiance and Compassion

At Farpoint, Manhunter is blunt, argumentative, and openly hostile toward corporate hierarchy. He calls executives and their supporters “corporate lapdogs” and describes society as a system that controls behavior through economic dependence, consumption, and obscure symbols 438 443 473.

His aggression coexists with accountability and concern for others. After breaking Ailot’s leg during their escape, he apologizes and helps arrange treatment. He also argues for questioning Roman rather than immediately killing her, and offers to distract an armored enemy despite his own injured leg 441 442 458 459.

Although experienced in violent resistance, he fears supernatural threats. The sight of an apparently living duplicate of his own severed head leaves him screaming and falling backward onto the deck 456 463.

Abilities & Skills

Pursuit and Investigation

• Formerly responsible for criminal matters and the investigation into Man in the Flesh 62 71.
• Suspects that her visible human body is an illusion and her true existence lies within human consciousness; this is his theory, not a confirmed description of her nature 71.
• Serves as a major Mind Fasting Sect pursuer tasked with hunting Xuan Yan and later killing Master Danyang 62.

Close-Quarters Combat

• Ambushes Xia Lun with a spear-thick crossbow bolt followed by a sword attack at the Book Cave 81.
• The ensuing fight leaves Xia Lun’s right arm severed before Xia Lun kills him with a revolver 81.
• Manhunter and Rahu are jointly listed as sources for the redeemable Tianhuai Capture Fist specialization at Proficient 1%. The reward does not distinguish their individual contributions 87.

Revival Under Master Fleshbound

• Returns to life fifteen minutes after a mining-explosive trap pulverizes his organs and riddles his body with fragments 62.
• Later recognizes that Master Fleshbound forcibly recalled and revived him at the sect headquarters through a Secret Art 70.
• These recoveries do not establish an independent resurrection ability; the later revival is explicitly attributed to Master Fleshbound 70.

Electrical Engineering

• Recognized as the Collection Facility’s electrical engineer 438.
• Warns against repairing a live machine without a multimeter because the fault cannot be reliably identified 438.
• Uses electrical-circuit knowledge to explain how technical inaccuracies can expose a writer’s background 475.

Mercenary Experience

• Has a background in mercenary work and armed anti-corporate resistance 443 456.
• Helps prepare the submarine’s one-shot laser cannon for the Wheel of Moxie hunt 450.
• Carries a Bioelectric Harpoon Gun during later encounters and proposes using the laser cannon against the pursuing lighthouse 463 468.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Crimson eyeball — supplied by Master Fleshbound to make Xuan Yan look into it for three seconds. Its intended function is to activate the dream poison in Yin Longevity Pills, expelling consciousness and producing a Skinned Corpse 71.
• Crossbow and sword — used in the Book Cave ambush 81.
• Bioelectric Harpoon Guns — discovers two in the flooded facility and offers one to Xia Lun, who declines 456.
• Oar — used during the escape from the whirlpool and carried during underwater exploration 441 456.
• Underwater Breathing Potion — provided by Xia Lun before the containment-facility dive; saves him when his diving suit is damaged 457 458.

Relationships

• Master Fleshbound / Man in the Flesh — master and object of devotion in Sorrow Hill City. She controls, revives, and manipulates him while treating him as expendable insurance for her plan 62 70 71.
• Xia Lun / Master Danyang — enemy in Sorrow Hill City and his eventual killer. At Farpoint, Manhunter instead backs Xia Lun’s leadership and repeatedly defers to his judgment 62 81 442 457 459.
• Xuan Yan — pursuit target, later the intended victim of the crimson eyeball 62 71 73.
• Rahu — fellow formidable sect fighter; Rahu seeks to avenge Manhunter after the Book Cave fight 77 81.
• Roman — Farpoint companion with whom he frequently argues. He revises his opinion after learning of her anti-corporate reporting, but clashes with her dismissal of his former boss as insignificant 438 457 459.
• Carson — initially distrusted as a corporate executive; their relationship becomes more cooperative during the underwater expedition 438 457.
• Ailot — breaks her leg during the emergency escape, then apologizes and helps treat her 441 442.
• Former boss — unnamed resistance figure whose teachings shape Manhunter’s opposition to corporate control 459 473 480.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Events
Temple explosion	Investigates Xia Lun’s cylinder and triggers its explosive trap. After reviving, receives orders to kill Master Danyang instead of pursuing Xuan Yan 62.
Nuo Ring Hour pursuit	Reports Danyang’s arson to Master Fleshbound and fears that he could escape into real-world Seven Hills City 70.
Eyeball mission	Accepts the crimson eyeball and attacks Xuan Yan. Its initial failure shakes him; after Xia Lun shoots him, it activates and opens the Red Moon’s immense eye 71 73 74.
Book Cave ambush	Reappears to attack Xia Lun during the theft of the Evil Flesh Codices and is killed in their close-quarters fight 81.
Farpoint escape	Helps the survivors flee, supports Xia Lun over Carson as leader, and joins the Wheel of Moxie hunt 441 442 450.
Underwater expedition	Recovers weapons and supplies, suffers a diving-suit breach, and discovers a written account describing his death from that same injury 456 457 458.
Contradictory death clues	A golden salmon claims he is dead despite his survival. A box then arrives containing an apparently living head identical to his own, with waterproof papers hidden in a bottle inside its mouth 463.
Screenwriter investigation	Carson rules him out because the fragments prescribe his death. When Xia Lun identifies Ailot as the Screenwriter, Manhunter reluctantly accepts that his own detailed past may only establish a fabricated character’s motives 475 480.

Notable Quotes

“Bullshit! Don’t even think about shaking my loyalty!”
— Rejecting claims that Master Fleshbound betrayed him 74

“I’m sorry. … I broke your leg when I kicked you. That was my fault. I’m truly sorry.”
— Apologizing to Ailot 442

“Damn. Guess I really am a fake person.”
— Responding to the explanation of his narrative backstory 480