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Sharden Flamberg is an antagonist in the manga Black Cat and its anime adaptation. He is one of the first members of the Apostles of the Star to be introduced in the story. Sharden wants to destroy Chronos, the secret organization to which Creed Diskenth belonged. Sharden is a very polite and courteous man, who isn't really villainous, in spite of being a cold-blooded murderer. He fights for a cause he believes right and he ultimately defects from the Apostles of the Star, upon realizing Creed's lack of interest for his own followers. The reason why he holds a grudge against Chronos is never fully explained.

Personality

Sharden is someone extremely polite and courteous, who speaks formally to friends, colleagues and foes alike. He respects the others Apostles, (especially his friend and partner Kyoko Kirisaki and also Maro and Leon with whom he is often seen interacting) and he regards them as his comrades.

Sharden is an antagonist but by no means a villain, in spite of being a prominent member the Apostles of the Star, and his only villainous trait (aside from the cold blooded murders) is his participation in the Apostles' terrorist actions. Though he does so because he is convinced that the goal they pursue is noble. To that extend, he can be considered as an adept of the "End justifies the means" policy. Even if he has no qualm about killing people, he almost always warns them that they would better run away. Sharden's most defining trait is his hatred for the secret society Chronos, as he believes it to be corrupt and malevolent, and that taking it down would help to make the world a better place. No one really knows if he has a personal vendetta against the organization or if he acts out of conviction, but the former seems more likely, as he dedicates his entire life to destroy it.

Powers and Abilities

Sharden's power of Tao is called "Blood" and likely comes from his liking for horror fictions. He is able to control his own blood like limbs and he can shape and manipulate it as he pleases. He uses it to create blood sculptures (for lack of a better term) usually shaped like skeletons, skulls or Grim Reaper-like figures, which he uses to attack his enemies with claws or a scythe, depending on the form it takes. He can also creates blood replicas of himself, through which he is able to see and talk, or streams of blood with which he binds his enemies, often squeezing them to death. Sharden can turn his blood into acid, which he does when performing his "Bloody Rain" technique. (countless drops of acidic blood which he hurls in all direction and is very hard to dodge, even for a Chrono Number.) He can also make his blood figures go underground to form a network of bloody Grim Reapers that surrounds his enemies and attack them from every side.

Sharden is an highly powerful warrior with a truly dreadful power, but using this power doesn't come in handy, as he needs to cut himself to activate it, and cannot use it as freely as the other Apostles. Moreover, Sharden cannot use his blood when it is not linked to his body. To compensate this, Sharden can absorb his victim's blood through his own, which means that when he strikes his enemy, they are already as good as dead. Also, because of all the blood he has assimilated, Sharden has an amount of blood way over the usual quantity at his disposal, making his "ammunitions" close to limitless, and rendering him very hard to kill through blood loss. Because of this, it is very likely that wounding Sharden would only increase his access to his weapon. In the manga, shooting the blood figures with a gun is useless, while in the anime, Train Heartnet destroys them with a single bullet.

Finally, Sharden appears to be the most able (or at least the most trained) to feel other peoples' ki, enabling him to locate anyone in a defined perimeter.

Role in the Manga

Sharden appears alongside Maro and Kyoko during the confrontation between Creed and his former partner, the main protagonist Train Heartnet, an extremely powerful gunfighter known and feared worldwide as the "Black Cat." Sharden is revealed to have taken part in the Apostles' many assassinations and terrorist actions during the previous months. He seems to be a field agent, often tasked to recruit new followers.

Sharden later goes with Kyoko to Rubeck City, a town where a deranged assassin named Ganzer Lejick uses the power of Tao that the Apostles revealed to terrorize the population. Sharden and Kyoko are tasked to recruit Ganzer as he promised in exchange for revealing his power, but Ganzer's power turned him into a barbaric homicidal maniac. If he recognizes the two Apostles of the Star and agrees to listen to them, he refuses to follow them and orders them to get out. Unimpressed, Sharden departs, stating to an aggravated Kyoko that a madman like him would only be an hindrance for the Apostles of the Star. Sharden and Kyoko are ordered by Shiki to remain in town, and Sharden later senses Ganzer's ki increasing, as he is fighting against Train and his team. The two Apostles witness the end of the fight and Ganzer's death, before introducing themselves to Train's team. In the following night, as they are waiting in a graveyard for the Apostles' airplane, they meet Belze Rochefort, the Number II of the Chrono Numbers, Chronos' elite brigade, who came to dispose of them. Kyoko and Sharden engage a fight against Belze, who is too powerful for them one-on-one, but is in serious danger against the two of them. Shiki then interrupts the fight and departs with them.

Sharden (sans lunettes)

Sharden without his glasses

Sharden later answers Creed's general calling and reunites with the other Apostles on Clarken Island, before the Apostles' large-scale terrorist attack on the World Conference. When Durham is killed by Creed, Sharden is the only Apostle who voices an objection. Upon hearing Creed's explanation, he realizes that the demented swordsman only regards his followers as mere tools, and is deeply disturbed by this. He confesses his doubts to Kyoko, who shares his opinion but is more interested in seeing his face without his sunglasses. (Which he remonved in his reflexion.)

When the Apostles are based in the ancient castle near Stoke Town, Sharden participates in killing the numerous bounty hunters who came after Creed and his 3 billions yen bounty. Maro remarks that Sharden seems upset, which Sharden dismisses despite Maro being right, as he is still bothered by Durham's case. When the Chrono Numbers V, VII and XI storm into the castle, Maro, Sharden and Leon engage a battle against them, but the Numbers manage to flee.

Upon learning that Creed hid his experiences on nanomachines to most of his followers, Sharden has enough and takes profit of the chaos caused by the battle against the Chrono Numbers to defect from the Apostles of the Star, followed by Kyoko. Back in Stoke Town, they meet Train and his friends and confess that they defected. Sharden also criptically states that he hasn't much time left and that he still wants to destroy Chronos. Later, Sharden is attacked by assassins from Chronos, who stand no chance against him and are quickly killed. Sharden spares one of them until he tells him where he can find Chronos' supreme elder, whom he intends to kill. The soon-to-be-dead assassin tells him that only a few superiors know about the supreme elder, including the Chrono Number I, Sephiria Arks. Shortly after, Sharden asks Train to ensure that Chronos would no longer target Kyoko, and departs to pursue his fight, never to be seen again in the manga.

At the very end of the final chapter, Sharden is seen coughing blood, implying an illness and following his previous statement about not having much time left. His final fate and the outcome of his personal war against Chronos is never revealed, to many fan's dismay.

Role in the Anime

Sharden (animé)

Sharden, as seen in the anime

In the anime, Sharden seems to be more violent and devoted to the cause of the Apostles of the Star. He and Kyoko still serves as field agent in charge of recruiting new members. To do so, they visit several towns following a river, and organize a massive break out from a jail, notincing the most promising criminals and offering them Shinkito to reveal their power of Tao, (if they have one) in order to recruit them. Among these criminals figure Igor Planter and Ganzer Lejick.

Sharden and Kyoko still defect from the Apostles of the Star after the showdown of the ancient castle, but contrary to the manga, Sharden does go after Sephiria Arks. Train Heartnet witnesses the fight between Sharden and Sephiria and manages to stop it, stating that there is better in life than seeking revenge.

Sharden (redeemed)

Sharden redeemed

Sharden reappears shortly before the battle against "Eden" and the Zero Numbers, alongside Kyoko. No one knows how he learnt about the threat but he might have sensed the strong concentration of Tao or more simply havng been warned by Kyoko. They join the heroes, the sweepers and the remaining Chrono Numbers.

Sharden no longer wears his glasses or his silk top hat and he confesses that he reflected about what would be his goal in life, after abandoning his goal of destroying Chronos (which ironically has been destroyed by the Zero Numbers) and that his research lead him here. Sharden takes part in the invasion of Eden annd is later seen departing, finally in peace with himself.

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