DDD

Decoration Disorder Disconnection is a mystery novel written by Nasu Kinoko and published irregularly on Faust magazine.

Plot summary
Abnormal Antagonist Syndrome, commonly known as "Demonic possession" prevailed in Japan. Patients of the syndrome have malfunction in the secretion of the neurotransmitters and it gives rise to the acquisition of new parts in the body and supernatural power. The patients of "A-Syndrome" were unnaturally concentrated in Shikura city. Ishizue Arika lost his left arm in the A-syndrome related accident and hospitalized. After he left the hospital and went back to Shikura, he met a beautiful boy named Karyou Kaie who has no limbs and is living in a dark basement. The boy asked him to exorcise the "Demons" possessing A-Syndrome patients. Arika was involved in the bizarre cases and the fights with the "Demons".

Shikura City
Shikura City is the DDD setting. Located in western Japan.The population of Shikura City is 150,000. More than half of town is made up of fields and mountains. No matter how much money gets invested in the station front, it’s still a town out in the country, two hours away by commuter express from the urban center.

Water tank - Unmarked on the map and located in a forest five kilometers away from the station of Shikura. Looks sort of like a spaceship. Underneath it is Kaie's room.

Mikishiro Suisan Shikura 2nd Factory - An abandoned (more like unfinished) can factory.

Origa Memorial Institute - A national hospital and the one and the ultimate treatment center for those with Agonist Disorder. Those with "Agonist Disorder" are transported to this hospital after being taken into custody by the government. Blocked off by a concrete wall, even at the 10 meter tall glass entrance of the hospital. Incoming and outgoing patients come and go by helicopter. Said to be located in western Japan and is some 3 hours away from Shikura by helicopter/car. Doesn't take outpatients; if you come there, you're going to be staying there for a while. In that sense, it's more like an asylum. Made up of a large compound and 5 wards (A, B, C, D specifically for those with A Disorder) and relatively small number of staff in comparison to the size (only in the hundreds). Patients in each ward are allowed to move only to the adjacent wards and only according to allotted free time

Those in Ward A are those with tumors and no new parts (abilities) or those normal people who just happened to be harmed by those with Agonist Disorder and bear some after-effects. Basically the same as regular hospital life, excluding a limit to free time and lack of outcoming patients. Three examinations a day and optional communication with other patients. Around some 20 A ward patients.

Ward B has the most number of patients. Mainly those who have become comparatively mentally stabilized and whose treatment is just barely realistically possible. Basically the people who probably will be allowed to get surgery. Treatment is basically at a level where excision of tumor = won't die. Whether surgery is commenced with depends on whether an accurate surgical method is discovered. Problem being however that the symptoms are different so research into that field to develop a generally effective practice is slow.

Ward C are where those who are popularly called "demon possessed" reside, of course, their conditions have stabilized. Oddly enough, they're less dangerous than those in Ward B since these ones have been emotionally shattered and will not leave their wards. Those allowed free action have already stabilized so they won't go violent; but the result is that it looks like a prison-like abandoned ward since patients whose bodies have mutated won't leaving their rooms, even if they are emotionally peaceful.

Ward D can best be described as being abandoned, if Ward C were to be described to be a prison. Security (equipped openly with submachine guns) and doctors can only be found in the entrance. Left dark since many of the patients are fearful of light. Basically made up of those patients in the terminal stage whose bodies have matured and treatment is impossible. Around 30 people that are alive in there and about 40 bodies are "currently in" the room. A steel corridor maze complete with layers and layers of steel gates.

Main Characters


Ishizue Kanata (石杖火鉈), is Arika’s younger sister and a freakishly powerful demon-possessed. She ate Arikas left arm and killed their parents. She was taken to the D Block of the Origa Memorial Institute. Her ability is superhuman strength and she is listed as one of the most powerful individuals afflicted by the syndrome. It’s not uncommon to see her drenched in blood. She has unlimited growth and unlimited access to the durabilityof the body. She’s 14 around the time of Hand(S) and looks 20. She has a small role in the last few pages of DDD’s second volume. It’s a small memo in which she describes demolishing Origa Memorial Hospital and all it’s wardees. Bear in mind that these wardees are afflicted with A-disorder and have powers of their own, like temporal distortion, telepathy and mass alteration.



Ishizue Arika (石杖所在), the protagonist in DDD. Who uses the left demon hand of Karyou Kaie. He works for Karyou Kaie but is often short on money. His memories will disappear during the day and his night memory will continue and important things that happen during the day, will he write in a Notepad. He use's Kaie's left arm Hatred (憎悪) when he gets sent by Kaie on missions on which he needs to eliminate selected demon possessed.

Karyou Kaie (迦遼 海江), is the employer of Arika. He has dark silky hair and silver pupils his appearance fits more of that of a girl's, but he is male. He lives in the outskirts of the forest and is a 14 year old Demon Master who can "loan" his demon limbs to others. He is actually from a rich and powerful familiy and so he will have enough money to last a lifetime asset.

Secondary characters


Mihaya Tsuranui (貫井未早), is Arika's slightly eccentric kouhai. She has a crush on him and is commonly known as: Tsuranui. An old tie back from high school that Arika can’t get rid of, she’s always been like this since way back. To sum her up roughly, she’s cheerfully lively and a straightforward fumbler that can’t lie. Arika has problems dealing with her as she’s a monster that’s jump from statement to execution in no more than a few seconds. She lives in a former girl’s dormitory, but the apartment is still off limits to the male gender.



Touma Mato (戸馬的),or more affectionately known as Tomato-san, she’s a female cop, in her twenties, that is very interested in demon-posession but not to the lengths of becoming one of them herself. After all, she’s a Public Security special agent. You’d have to be a superintendent to voice your opinions to her. As a matter of fact, in Shikura City, she’s invincible. Oh, and just to let you know, a superintendent would be the chief of police in Shikura City. She is a cold-blooded animal that Arika had been under complete supervision of for two years but she apparently has a nice side to her as well. The true nature of that woman is a sadist that loves tormenting weaklings like Arika and in the eyes of Arika, isn’t a shred of justice in this woman. But according to Mato-san, is Akira a harmless demon possessed and gets used by her to get information about demon possed one's. She was the one that introduced Arika to Kaie and his limbs. She is, also a weapons expert and deadly with shotguns and pistols.



Kazumi Iguruma (鋳車和観), known as the “Sinker”. A friend of a friend of Arika’s who is a star baseball player who fell from grace when his teammates break his pitching arm when they get too envious of his skills. His mom eventually dies by suicide after finding out he tried to continue pitching to not worry her despite his broken elbow. He was eventually expelled from school and made a homeless wanderer. After a few months, a mysterious man bestowed upon him his powers in exchange for his life and sanity. After contracting A-disorder, he goes around killing those on the street playing a game called SVS, a simplified version of baseball. After he drove himself insane, he embarked on a maddened slaughter spree. It didn’t matter who died, as long as they died.



Shuusei Hinomori (日守秋星), is a hunter of the demon-possessed who is one himself. His power is basically immensely heightened reflexes cause by a condition his brain has that allows him to percieve the world in a adrenaline-enhanced state, similar to that of a human being when they know their life is in danger and death is imminent. He fights Tomato-san on one occasion and demonstrates speed enough to dodge bullets from a H&K MP5 SMG.



Hisaori Makina (巻菜久織)she is Shinya’s older sister and has the ability to copy anyone. In her case, she tried to copy her brother because of apparent suffering at the hands of her parents. She exists as a hollow person who could not exist without wearing the face of another. She assumes her brother’s identity and becomes an exact carbon copy of Shinya. Makina's imitation of Shinya began to take over the original by becoming a better Shinya than even Shinya himself. Shinya worked hard to gain the popularity and accomplishments he enjoyed, but Makina's Shinya did even better simply by imitating. Despite the irony in that, those who once supported Shinya soon switched camp to the new Shinya. She thought of an psychotic master plan engineered to drive him insane and kill her parents. After this is done, she assumes Arika’s identity as soon as Shinya’s parents are killed in a freak accident. Shinya, however, manages to smoke her out by committing a series of crimes as Arika culminating in his eventual death. With no facade left to wear, she tries to copy Kaie as a final, last act of vengeance. Needless to say that ended messily.Their story is a tragic one, but essentially, Makina develops a severe case of A-disorder and uses her brother in an elaborate revenge scheme to get back at her parents, which backfires when her brother throws a monkey wrench into her plans. She dies when trying to assume Kaie’s existence, only to find out she cannot.

Hisaori Shinya is one of the agonists admitted into a place known as the Origa Memorial Hospital, wherein Arika was also briefly warded. He was warded for A-disorder under the grounds of trying to kill his parents. He was discharged later on counts of being “rehabilitated” and that the incident was deemed to be an accident. "Hisaori Shinya", a fellow patient who befriended Arika when they met during their free activity times.

Fusou Yukio is a high school girl with intensified physical abnormalities. Because of anorexia and fasting she gained agonist disorder. She wants to find food that does not make fat due to her fasting. And so came she to the conclusion that she should eat pet animals or humans. She usually sprinkles her food with vinegar. Her disorder lies in her stomach and so she produces highly corosive stomach acid which she can vomit or sweat out of her body.

Kizaki is a man with an affected the neck, caused through fatigue. People who meet his eyes are bound to rotate in the same way to fit his neck, but they die when their heads turn around 180 degrees. He himself does not die as his head rotates to 360 degrees. He used this method to kill his wife and daughter and two policemen.

Novels
Volume I Volume II
 * 1.JtheE.
 * 2.HandS. (R)
 * 2.HandS. (L)
 * 3.formal hunt
 * 1.S.vs.S-1
 * 2.S.vs.S-2
 * 3./FOMALHAUT.
 * 4.In day dream.