Jin'en

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Orphanage and adoption

Jin'en grew up in an orphanage without knowing his exact birthday. He learned to obey, flee, or remain silent as circumstances demanded. After seeing another child taken away following an unusual ability manifestation, he feared being discovered himself. He escaped over the orphanage fence at midnight, both to avoid removal and to keep his own unstable power from hurting anyone 1.

He sheltered in an abandoned apartment and survived on scraps, eventually having only water to drink. Inanna found him during a rainstorm, temporarily stabilized his fissures, and warned that their deterioration could spread beyond his wrist within three months. She explicitly described her purpose as picking up “a blade,” rather than rescuing him out of charity. Jin'en nevertheless followed her because Red Letter offered a chance to control his power 1.

Life at Scarlet Letter Mansion

Jin'en became the mansion’s first boy among roughly a dozen girls. Inanna provided a room and necessities but warned him not to damage the house with his spatial rifts. Daffodil volunteered to practice alongside him, while Broken Rainbow immediately began calling him her big brother 2 4.

Over the following decade, his life settled into training and missions. He developed a fishing-rod-based method of sensing rift boundaries and acquired enough operational familiarity to review Daffodil’s mission files before her assignments. A past loss-of-control incident in the Bridge District left Mili as its sole survivor, a connection that later resurfaced during an assassination mission 11 14 21.

Appearance

• As a child: Dirty and severely undernourished when found, with tangled hair and dark gray eyes that appeared unusually large because of his thinness 1.
• As an adult: A sharp jawline, dark gray eyes, and black hair with silver-gray streaks extending from beside his ears toward the back of his head 11.
• Ability markings: Silver fissure-like patterns beneath the skin of his right wrist; their brightness changes with his spatial power’s activity. Black radiance winds around them when his second ability awakens 2 29.
• Usual clothing: Dark, close-cuffed coats, including a long black trench coat used to conceal his wrist and equipment; military boots 11 14.
• Mission accessory: A fingerless leather glove on his right hand, adopted because Daffodil wore gloves on missions 15.

Personality

Jin'en is guarded, observant, and sparing with words. His early instinct is to hide both his power and his vulnerability: he denies pain to Inanna, conceals his wrist, and assesses unfamiliar people as possible threats. Years of restraint leave him capable of maintaining a calm expression even when his second awakening overturns everything he knows about abilities 1 2 29.

His protectiveness is practical rather than demonstrative. He treats Broken Rainbow’s wounds, finances Daffodil’s escape, and teaches Porsette how to maintain her footing, assess a mission site, and plan a retreat. Broken Rainbow identifies a recurring flaw in that care: he arranges everyone else’s escape first, then places himself at the final opening 7 13 19 24 43.

He is capable of killing but remains sensitive to collateral harm. He rejects a close-range approach that would also shred a target’s bodyguards and hesitates before killing Hermann Voss. At the same time, he becomes increasingly calculating against Prism, using surveillance, released intermediaries, and bait to expose its network 15 21 41 43.

His relationship with authority grows more defiant. He comes to view the mansion as an elaborate cage, hides his new ability from Inanna, and pursues leads before reporting his decisions. Inanna distinguishes him from Daffodil precisely because he completes his calculations and actions before calmly explaining them 29 30 43.

Abilities & Skills

Space Manipulation

Jin'en’s original ability is light-attributed, despite the dark appearance of some opened rifts. Inanna identifies its three operations as folding, tearing, and stitching 5 29.

• Spatial Folding: Repositions him through folded space; used to follow Daffodil and enter a building’s fourth-floor corridor 13 25.
• Spatial tearing: Splits stone and can cut through chains, floors, and the surrounding environment. Inanna describes his rifts as capable of tearing reality and severing connections 4 5.
• Spatial stitching: Available in a rudimentary form after his decade of training; no detailed application is shown in the supplied passages 11.
• Restraint and killing: Uses a narrow rift to restrain Mili. Broken Rainbow later describes his lethal folding as resembling the removal of a person from a picture 21 22.
• Rod-assisted use: Originally channels spatial damage through a physical fishing rod; later practices with a conjured silver rod 29 34.

Limits and risks

• Fear accelerates spatial collapse, while forcibly suppressing an opened rift can worsen its instability 4 5 6.
• His instinctive fear prevents him from consistently reaching the deeper spatial effects he sometimes approaches during extreme training 11.
• A close-range opening could shred everything within a one-meter radius in the assassination scenario he considers 15.
• Spatial use is detectable: Mili senses the room’s structure change from three meters away 22.

Spatial Perception

Jin'en perceives space as a coordinate network and can distinguish living presences within it 13 25 32.

• Detects lingering spatial “creases” to reconstruct Daffodil’s escape route 13.
• Locates people behind walls and identifies their positions before entering a room 25 32.
• Narrows his perception for surveillance, including counting occupants inside a van 34.
• Tracks Porsette’s landing points and corrects her portal placement during training 36.
• Covers a radius of roughly a dozen meters during a mailbox stakeout; this is a documented use, not a stated maximum 40.

Unity of Man and Rod

An independent dark-attributed ability that manifests as a pitch-black fishing rod. Unlike his original training tool, the rod forms entirely from his own power and requires no external vessel 29.

• Direct control: Synchronizes with his consciousness and body, moving in response to thought 29.
• Devouring spiritual power: Absorbs part of the power coating Daffodil’s blade, diverting its course during a test 30.
• Devouring matter: Erodes cement, brick, wood, stone, and sheet metal 30 31 34 49.
• Dismissal: Retracts into his palm without leaving a visible mark 30.
• Portal attack: Sends dark power through Porsette’s Anywhere Door openings. Daffodil describes their combined destructive effect as doubled, but notes that Porsette must open the door first and still needs protection 30.

The ability initially feels stable and obedient, without the involuntary ruptures associated with Space Manipulation. Broken Rainbow nevertheless warns that inadequate training could allow it to absorb Jin'en himself; this is a warning, not an observed outcome 29 31.

Operational and Teaching Skills

• Surveillance: Conducts prolonged stakeouts, follows cargo transfers, memorizes routes and license plates, and traces intermediaries instead of immediately seizing their goods 15 35 39 45.
• Intelligence work: Takes over Daffodil’s files and networks, then uses Prism’s records, photographs, negatives, and delivery schedules to dismantle its local operations 14 37 43 47.
• Instruction: Teaches Porsette balance, stance, route assessment, retreat planning, and spatial positioning 19 20 24 36.
• Basic wound care: Disinfects and bandages Broken Rainbow’s injured arm before Daffodil redresses it 7.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Jointed bamboo fishing rod — Bought secondhand in Hethereau. Slightly over a meter long, collapsible, and fitted with a hand-wrapped nonslip grip. Its fine tip transmits faint vibrations from rift boundaries, helping train his spatial sensitivity 11.
• Fishhook — First used to kill a target on the eleventh day after he assumes Daffodil’s position 15.
• Short dagger — Given to him by Inanna; has a blade under a foot long and a black sheath. Usually secured to a concealed fastening inside his trench coat 11.
• Modified trench coat — Contains a specially made fishing-rod pocket and concealed dagger attachment 11.
• Prism evidence — Keeps recovered negatives and documents as leverage, refusing to surrender them immediately because he intends to use them to draw out Old Zheng 43.

Relationships

• Inanna / Ms. T — Adoptive guardian, trainer, and superior. She stabilizes his childhood fissures and brings him into Red Letter. Their bond mixes dependence, coercion, and concern; his concealed awakening and independent investigation intensify her questions about his loyalty. She later authorizes separate dark-attribute training and raises the possibility of his leaving Red Letter 1 4 43 49.
• Daffodil — Training partner and acknowledged younger sister. She helps him make his first control breakthrough; he later gives her his savings, supports her departure, and takes over her work. She continues assisting his investigations after leaving the mansion 6 13 14 33 37.
• Broken Rainbow — Self-declared younger sister, mission partner, and frequent critic of his self-sacrificing plans. He tends her injuries; she helps test his rifts, supports his operations, and insists that he not always make himself the last line of defense 2 7 8 21 43.
• Porsette — Younger-sister figure, student, and operational partner. He teaches her combat fundamentals and mission preparation, helps expand her saved teleportation destinations, and develops a joint attack with her. She later offers to open a door behind him wherever he goes 17 19 24 27 30 49.
• Flora — Fellow mansion resident who helps him navigate the building and warns him not to touch the courtyard’s bare tree 7 10.
• Mili — Perception-type ability user and sole survivor of his earlier Bridge District loss of control. Their reunion exposes how different his current spatial control is from that incident 21 22.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“Yes. She’s my little sister.”
— Explaining why he protected Daffodil 14

“It’s that being afraid doesn’t help.”
— Challenging Inanna’s interpretation of his defiance 14

“If I really need you, I won’t keep it from you.”
— Responding to Porsette’s offer of support 49

Trivia

• His dual awakening contradicts Hethereau’s accepted rule that an ability user possesses only one ability and one attribute lineage for life 29.
• His original fishing rod began as a precision training instrument, not fishing equipment; Broken Rainbow initially laughed at the purchase before understanding its purpose 11.
• Although Inanna assigns him a birthday based on their meeting, his orphanage records only establish when he was left at its entrance—not when he was born 1.