Olbart Dunkelkenn

Olbart Dunkelkenn (オルバルト・ダンクルケン), also known as the Vicious Old Man (悪辣翁), is the 3rd ranking Divine General of the Sacred Empire Of Vollachia.

First appearing in the The Crimson Countess and the Gladiator side story which was later adapted into Re:Zero Ex Volume 5, Olbart played a minor supporting role. Officially debuting in Arc 7, Olbart currently seems to be following the orders of Chisha Gold, who is embodying Vincent Vollachia, the 77th Emperor of the Vollachia Empire.

Appearance
Olbart Dunkelkenn is a wrinkled old man with a stooped-over physique, natural for someone bearing over 90 years of life on their shoulders. His seemingly-glowing yellow eyes are usually covered with very thick and long eyebrows which happen to be of the same colour as his relatively long greyish-white hair. Perhaps his most characteristic feature are his two white and black antennas sprouting out of his forehead. Incidentally, these two antennas happen to add another 30 centimetres to Olbart's high, elevating the old man from mere 100 centimetres to a much more respectable height of 130 centimetres. Additionally, Olbart sports a long and thin beard, which can sometimes be hard to spot due to his colour pallet, and two golden earrings per each ear.

Olbart clads himself in a tight white and black body suit that strongly resembles a kimono. Half of the suit is white, while the other half is black, creating a pattern that strongly resembles yin and yang. The sleeves of his suit are large enough to allow Olbart to hide his hands inside of them, and are adorned with a half-circular pattern which completes itself when both sleeves are put together. To finish off his look, the old man wraps a purple scarf around his neck, which fits the body suit perfectly as the sleeves have purple accents. The scarf itself also has a yellow-coloured motive drawn on it, as well as a yellow star. Finally, to hold the suit in place, Olbart uses a purple belt which he ties around his waist.

Personality
Despite his extremely old age, Olbart is a very lively and warm individual who seems to be a very good ally to have, and one of the worst enemies imaginable. He usually likes to stay away from the centre of attention, until his presence is needed, either for de-escalation or to put the situation under control by force. Whatever the case may be, Olbart never fails to seize the opportunity to crack jokes and lighten up the mood with his mostly light-hearted view on situations, though it should also be worth mentioning that some of his remarks can be strangely morbid, sending chills down his enemies' or allies' spines, such as when he threatened Kafma Irulux that he'll chop his head off on the spot, for deeming his remarks a bit overly egotistical.

Furthermore, due to his old age, Olbart has a habit of forgetting or mixing up different dates. Such an example can be seen when he mistakenly thought the Ginunhive rebellion took place two or three years ago, when in fact, it happened over eight years ago.

Ex5 Side Story
Shortly after Vincent Vollachia's coronation as the 77th Emperor of the Sacred Empire of Vollachia roughly 7 years before the start of the main story, a large uprising had happened on the Gladiator Island of Ginunhive, with the gladiators–led by Ubilk–wanting to become independent from the mainland. In order to squash the rebellion, Vincent had dispatched a regiment of the Imperial Army led by two Divine Generals–Arakiya and Olbart Dunkelkenn. While Arakiya infiltrated the island in order to lower the bridge and let the main force inside the island, Olbart passionately waited outside the island.

Abilities
Shinobi Arts (シノビ): As a Shinobi, Olbart is an extremely skilled fighter, able to easily overpower most people he faces off. Olbart has numerous odd Shinobi techniques that he can use against his opponents. One such technique is one where he can seemingly pierce his opponent's chest without any lasting damage and alter one's Od, thereby allowing him to make his targets physically younger as seen in the case of Subaru, Medium, and Al, with their deductive reasoning skills also diminishing after prolonged periods of time in their younger forms. Olbart also revealed this to be one of his most rare techniques and that it was employed to extort or quickly depose of enemies and their bodies. As a Shinobi, Olbart carries many traditional weapons associated with them, such as kunai and shuriken, as well as compressed spirit stone bombs.

Superhuman Speed: Olbart was shown moving at great speeds, appearing in front of Subaru in an instant while sitting on the other side of the room a moment before. The speed of his movement seems to be similar to Dorkell's Leaper Technique, which was widely used by the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony.

Keen Battle Experience: Due to his long life span, Olbart has seen many fights and toppled countless opponents. This allowed him to become quite proficient at figuring out his opponents' tricks and tactics, allowing him to form destructive counters to incoming attacks. Olbart immediately recognized Al's use of his unknown Authority, noting he had some strange tricks up his sleeve –something that completely flew over Kafma Irulux's head.