Pitch-Black Old Man

Background

Although the Pitch-Black Old Man's previous life remains largely unknown, Rohan Kishibe theorizes that he lived alone in Yuyanagidai, reaching old age before his death. After his burial, his corpse was left to rot underground for some time. Eventually, fed up with the noisy kids that lived in the neighborhood, the elderly residents began praying for Yuyanagidai to become a silent town. They prayed anywhere they could, from Buddhist altars and Jizo shrines to the graves of people they never knew.↗↗

One year prior to Rohan's encounter with him, the Pitch-Black Old Man would menace a boy named Ken twice before finally attacking him. Afterward, Ken was left unable to speak, for fear of the monster's return.↗↗

Yuyanagidai

One day, at a park in Morioh, Rohan meets Ken and his mother. The mother explains what happened to Ken and asks Rohan if he knows of any similar stories, which he denies. Before Ken leaves, Rohan asks him to draw the monster that attacked him, which he does. Mistaking the child's drawing for a "grinning black monkey," Rohan sets out for Yuyanagidai to unravel the mystery behind him.↗↗

When he arrives in Yuyanagidai, Rohan bears witness to a student on a bicycle being attacked by the "monkey," although he cannot see him. Suspecting the elders around him to be controlling the "monkey," Rohan loudly summons Heaven's Door, summoning the Pitch-Black Old Man to attack him. Reacting too late, Rohan glimpses his attacker's true form as he struggles to escape his chokehold. He summons Heaven's Door to defend himself, but his spirit falters just before he can reach the monster.↗

Realizing the Pitch-Black Old Man's true nature, Rohan turns the elders into books with Heaven's Door and writes the command, "I always talk loudly," into each of them. As he is doing so, he receives a call on his smartphone, causing the Pitch-Black Old Man to pounce on him once more. Before the monster can finish the job, however, the old people wake up and begin screaming. The Pitch-Black Old Man immediately strangles most of the elders, pinning the last one down as he pleads for mercy.↗↗

Abilities / Disturbance Elimination

Though he sometimes refrains from attacking if the target ceases all noise immediately, in most cases, he proceeds to pounce on the target and begin strangling or destroying them until they either break, pass out, or die.↗↗↗

Profile details

Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (TSKR)↗

He is the ghost of an old man who died alone long ago.↗