Billy Squire

Billy Squire (ビリー・スクワイア) is the current leader of the Red Circus group, and the main antagonist of the Red Circus Arc.

Appearance
Billy is a tall man with medium long hair that reaches his ears, and he has narrow eyes as they seem to be half open. He uses a black hat that, a long suit and black shirt with the initials RC on the left side (from “Red Circus”), with white pants and black boots. He seems to have a pale skin with with a little beard on his chin.

Personality
While he has a cold demeanor, he seems to have a soft spot for children, as he once had a daughter that was also a Red Circus member, but she was murdered by the state. Despite the group's respectful origins and intentions, after being victim to the state's cruelty, Billy seems to gain a more cruel and serious personality as he sees it fit that the State will reap what they sow.

History
Billy Squire is the leader of the Red Circus Group and commands a faction in Berlint. Together, they hijack two Eden school buses while on a field trip and take the students inside hostage. His demands are to free his imprisoned comrades and gain safe passage to Nortica.

Red Circus Arc
Billy casually gets on a Eden schoolbus alongside a partner, and immobilize the dorm tutor who was in the bus as a monitor. The he was reported that a car was going after them, so he heads to the back of the bus with a rifle, opens the a window and shots one of the car’s wheels. He later heads to the children and reports to them that their bus was hijacked.

He starts passing by the bus with a rifle in his hand, scaring all the children. Billy notices a kid stands up and starts talking, so he points the rifle at him so that he stops. Billy begins to tell them that he knows how important their parents are, while he begins to call the Eden students by their surnames and for the work of their parents, and tells them how they were born with all the luck in the world, threatening them to dare to pray to their parents to use the power they occupy to rescue them. Randomly, Billy notices that another kid shouts that she has to go to the bathroom and that she can’t hold it anymore, so he only tells her to hold on. Moments later, another student approaches Billy and tells him he has to poop so bad, making Billy wonder if Eden is now a moron factory, the moment he grabs the kid by his shirt, he notices that two girls throw something off the bus, angering Billy. After this situation, he grabs a strange collar and puts it on one of the girls, and tells all the students that it is a bomb, and if someone on the bus decides to do another idiocy, he's going to blow it up.

After watching the girl’s worries, he thinks to himself that the bomb if fake, but that he will be using his last resort plan if they decide to plan anything else. Some time later, Billy sees that one kid asks him to take the bomb off her and attach it to him instead. Billy acknowledges his courage so he decides to put another bomb on him instead of changing it. Moments later they are interrupted by a loud pop, and the bus starts to swerve around. The bus makes a stop, and the police surrounds the bus shortly after.

Billy and his squad are surprised to see that the Berlint City Police found them. The children, noticing the police cars outside, excitedly get up from their seats, but Billy stops them by shooting his pistol at the ceiling, threatening that if anyone tries to leave, he will shoot them. Over a megaphone, the Berlint City Police tell the Red Circus members to surrender. Billy asks Vadim if they can break through, but he replies that it will be impossible with their flat tires. The woman then warns Billy that the SSS is coming from the other side, so with no other choice, he grabs black sheets from his bag and orders the students to cover the windows. Then, Billy walks out with one of the kids he put a bomb on and tells them that if they plan on doing anything, he will blow up everyone inside the bus. Billy states his two demands: to free all his comrades in prison and to give all of them safe passage to the country of Nortica. He adds that he will release five students for each comrade the police free.

Back in the bus, Vadim scolds Billy for not making a bigger threat to the kids, but Billy says that as soon as they give the police a deadline, the SSS will start storming the bus, so what they can do now is stall for time, which would cause parents to start putting pressure on the government. After being held for too long, Billy notices some of the students squirming, so he orders anyone who needs to go raise their hand as they will go outside to do their business at the shrubs, one at a time. As one kid raises his hand, Billy reminds him not to run away. The two go outside, and after the student finishes doing his business, he admits being embarrassed at having to do it outside like this, and Billy says he has led a charmed life and to thank his parents for that. After that they go back to the bus.

Billy notices that more people arrive so he gets off the bus and asks the agents for the council’s answer, where they reply that they are still deciding but in the meantime, would like to bring food and water to the students. Billy agrees as long as a teacher is the one who delivers the food. As the headmaster gets escorted to the bus, he notices the tutor being seriously injured to he tells Billy he needs to go to a hospital. Billy denies it but after Henry says that they can have him in exchange for releasing the dorm tutor, he agrees and proceeds to tie up Henry and release the tutor.

Billy stares at the children with a tender look as they are chatting and eating. Henry asks him if he has children, to which he replies a daughter. Henry tries to appeal to Billy's parental side to make him free the students, but Billy interrupts him and reveals that his daughter was murdered by the state, as she was also a member of the group. He explains how the Red Circus was originally a student movement asking for peace and equality, but the state went violent against them. He tells Henry that he will not take any criticism from a member of the establishment, and will make sure the state will reap what they have sown.

Weapons handling
As seen in chapter 69, Billy has good aim and good handling of weapons, since he was able to shoot the tire of the car that was behind them chasing them, while the bus was on momevent. He also brought a variety of weapons with him when he got on the bus, like the electric shock he used to left unconscious the dorm tutor, or the two fake collar bombs he put on Anya and Damian,

Henry Henderson
Billy thinks of Henderson only as their hostages, and besides Henry’s attempt to sympathize with him for his appeal to his parental side, Billy tells the headmaster that he will not take any criticism from a member of the establishment

Chapter Appearances

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Trivia

 * His name is a reference to the American rock musician Billy Squier.