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• Complete Monster: The Masque, the main villain of Chikara Nagai's manga, Resonance, leads a cult known as "The Nameless Faith" that releases people from their individuality shell. Prior to becoming the Masque, he was a sadistic Serial Killer who killed around 6 children, stripping them naked afterwards, Driven by Envy of their good looks. After becoming the Masque, he then brainwashed several people, including the police chief, who is the acquaintance of Satoko, Resonance's protagonist. When Chikara travels through his own manga in order to retrieve the prototype that was stolen, the Masque then changes the authorship of the manga without Chikara's permission and tries to erase the world of the manga entirely to avoid his fate, while mocking Chikara that he can't save his own manga, and sends the brainwashed chief to kill Satoko. After Chikara and his companion travels through the past volume, and when the past version of the Masque accidentally found out about the manga based on him, the past Masque then kills a fatally wounded police officer, Sawamura, which changed the outcome of the ending. Despite his claims, the Masque is only obsessed with complete control towards other people, and ultimately strives to become a god in order to remake the world in his own image.

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