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Ichizo Sorimachi
Ichizo Sorimachi
An old Yakuza from Kamakura who happens to have numerous connections with both the Shogunate and GHQ. His motives are shrouded in mystery, but all who meet him usually describes him as a dangerous individual out for blood, and he seems to have an interest for Kageaki ever since their second meeting.
- At Least I Admit It: He might be a scumbag, but he sure ain't a hypocrite. He is fully aware that he is very much a villain and has no illusions of the contrary.
- Bad Samaritan: He helps Ichijo by giving her the tsurugi Masamune, obviously having his own nefarious reasons for this decision. This is made clear in her route where he reveals what Kageaki has been doing, including the bit of killing innocents.
- Berserk Button: If there is one kind of person he absolutely cannot stand, it is hypocrites. To him, people are free to live life how they see fit and do what they think is right, but to try and pretend to be something they're not will thoroughly set him off and not live life honestly. It is a big reason to why he hates Kageaki with such a passion.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Be Yourself. Be a tyrannical oppressor, or a racist jerk, or a guy who's willing to throw a whole nation into chaos to make his dreams of freedom come true, be a professional criminal, be a hero who devotes themselves to justice no matter who it hurts or kills along the way or a guy who knowingly and willingly kills people as the price of righteousness. Nobody forces you to make the choices you make. If you're dragging your feet or bellyaching about something because you don't want to do it, then stop! Otherwise, admit you're making the choice to do it and commit to it! Be Yourself! He'll support anyone who has convictions strong enough to fight for and accepts who they are, no matter what they may be.
- The Bus Came Back: After vanishing from the plot following the route split he then comes back right at the end to try and ruin Kageaki's life one final time.
- Card-Carrying Villain: To him, calling him a villain is just the way things should be as the world needs both it's heroes and villains.
- Combat Pragmatist: This guy fights incredibly dirty and is not afraid to use cheap tactics or feints to get an upper hand.
- The Corrupter: He was the one that revealed the truth about Yuhi's death to Konatsu as well as giving her the resources to take her revenge on Kageaki, setting her on a new toxic path.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Although his cane, sallow skin, white hair, and tacky clothing might lead one to think he's just a vaguely scummy old Yakuza, he's actually an incredibly skilled fighter in perfect health.
- Disappointed in You: The main root of his problem with Kageaki.
- Double Agent: While he is officially working with the GHQ, he is not above offering aid to the Rokuhara when he feels it serves his purposes.
- Due to the Dead: He's disgusted at the fact that Kageaki killed two innocent children. Because by forcing himself to do it even as he was sobbing instead of accepting it as the price he had to pay for the choice he made to kill two villains in order to save a village, he was effectively robbing their deaths of significance.
- Evil Laugh: Is frequently either laughing or chuckling to some capacity, and is not exactly the most moral person about. Some characters find this quirk of his somewhat annoying.
- False Flag Operation: He's participating in the GHQ's plan to put Yamatoan tsurugi into the hands of insane or oppressive people so that the people of Yamato will look to GHQ for liberation from Rokuhara rather than native musha.
- Friendly Enemy: Of a sort, due to his nature of liking those that stick to their guns, he cheerily sees both Kageaki, Ichijo and Kanae off after the formers "No More Holding Back" Speech.
- Hate at First Sight: Pretty much as soon as he meet Kageaki he came to hate him due to viewing him as someone who was just a half-baked hypocrite.
- Insult Backfire: Gets called a scoundrel by Kageaki, Ichizo simply thanks him for the compliment.
- In the Back: Once he finally shows up again in the epilogue, he does so by stabbing Muramasa in the back before hauling her off.
- Jerkass Has a Point: If Kageaki is bound to kill someone he deems innocent every time he kills someone he deems guilty then he needs to either suck it up or stop running around pretending to be a hero. Anything else would be an insult to the people he's already killed in the name of justice.
- Master Swordsman: He's a master of the Itto-ryu school, in addition to having his own dirty tricks. He's so good that his outdated, mass-produced kazu'ichi can go toe-to-toe with Muramasa.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: While he seems like a fairly harmless guy that simply runs errands for the bad guys, he is far more dangerous than his meek appearance lets on.
- Ominous Adversarial Amusement: As Kageaki is bearing down on him, beating him bloody and senseless, all Ichizo is doing is laughing as Kageaki gives in to hatred thinking that Muramasa has been killed. And he will get the last laugh should Kageaki decide to go all the way in killing him.
- Perpetual Smiler: There are very few occasions when he's not smiling of cackling.
- The first time he meets Kageaki is in Kamakura City, when he strolls up to a group of yazuka threatening some kids and...kowtows, allowing them to beat on him rather than confronting them. A line of description reveals that rather than laughing and joking as he had been Sorimachi is utterly stone-faced. Once we learn more about both their characters, this makes more sense.
- During his "The Reason You Suck" Speech, he's also completely serious, even frowning.
- Post-Final Boss: While Hikaru was the main antagonistic force through the story, Ichizo was the only one who acted out of pure hate against Kageaki and once everything finally seems to have settled down he returns to settle the score.
- The Quisling: He is a Yamatoan yakuza that is helping the GHQ in their plans to take Yamato. Kageaki even calls him the worst kind of traitor.
- Rail-Car Separation: In Nemesis he separates the cars of the train Kageaki and Kanae are traveling in followed by Guts Eidar trashing the bridge.
- The Resenter: He ends up fostering quite the hatred for Kageaki for just the simple reason of Ichizo seeing him as a half-baked hypocrite. And he acts on this hatred to make Kageaki's life as miserable as possible.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The GHQ has banned the use of tsurugi to anyone who isn't a member of the standing military (i.e. the Rokuhara), resulting in many privately-owned tsurugi being confiscated and left to gather dust in a warehouse. Soramichi can not only arrange to have those tsurugi restored to their families, but he can take them out and leave them for perfect strangers like Ryobu Suzukawa to find if he feels like it.
- Secret Art: He has mastered the Immelmann Turn, a technique thought lost that a German officer who had learned Japanese sword arts had come up with where the tsurugi user climbs to dizzying heights, inducing a controlled stall before plummeting back towards the Earth, using gravity to power up their next strike, often catching pursuers off guard.
- Stating the Simple Solution: Do what you want to! You don't want to kill innocent people? Well, stop killing bad people and triggering your curse, then! Ginseigo will ravage the earth if you don't stop her plans and that means killing bad people? Well, either give up on stopping her or accept the fact that if you want to stop her you're going to have to kill innocent people! Why bother whining about it?
- Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: After making Kageaki believe that he killed Muramasa, Ichizo goads him on to kill him, this time in earnest and not in that half-baked way he had done in the past. If Kageaki falls for it then the Law of Balance will trigger forcing him to kill Muramasa, giving Ichizo the win regardless.
- Super-Reflexes: The guy has absolutely wicked reflexes to the point that he is able to react, assess the situation and move into a combat stance in spite of being caught by complete surprise by an experienced foe.
- Sword Cane: His weapon of choice is a sword he keeps hidden in his cane.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His whole battle against Kageaki above Enoshima Island can basically be summarized as him delivering a long tirade against Kageaki, utterly chewing him out for his half-hearted conviction.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He thoroughly calls out Kageaki on the fact that he takes lives but don't seem serious about it. If he is supposed to be a hero or demon as he says, then he should be honest about it. After all, how would the dead feel about being killed by someone who didn't take it seriously?"You ever think what it's like, huh!? To die for something the asshole killing you ain't even serious about!? How stupid that must feel!? How the fuck're you supposed to rest in peace like that!?"
- Would Hurt a Child: The narration from his POV notes that he plans to take Fuki and Funa hostage in order to escape their village safely. This despite that the elder sister's barely a teenager and that the two of them had found him after his battle with Kageaki and patched his wounds. After all, he's done worse.
Akitaka Kikuchi
Akitaka Kikuchi (formerly Minato)
The chief of the Kamakura Police Department and superior of Kageaki as well as his adoptive father. He also has close ties with the current heir of the Imperial Family, Haruhiro.
He was formerly part of the Minato Family, having married Subaru Minato. However, he was forced to left the family following a certain incident. Nonetheless, he feels guilty for leaving his children Kageaki and Hikaru, eventually becoming head of the Kamakura Police Department, giving Kageaki a home and helping him deal with Ginseigo thanks to his connections with the nobility.
- Badges and Dog Tags: Joined the police after taking part in the Russo-Japanese war.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Chachamaru shows up at Prince Haruhiro's place to kill him, striking Akitaka down. After he refuses Chachamaru's deal upon hearing that her end goal with all her planning is the end of the world, she strikes down Haruhiro as well, but Akitaka pulls himself back from the brink just long enough to stab her straight through the heart—a wound which even Kotetsu can't heal. As he dies, he notes that going out saving the world wasn't a bad way to go.
- Family Relationship Switcheroo: He is in fact not Hikaru's blood father. Due to having suffered an injury during war, he was rendered infertile and thus the family patriarch had Kageaki conceive Hikaru instead.
- Nepotism: He allowed his adoptive son enter the police force under his own command.
- Noodle Incident: His reason for leaving the Minato Family is never expanded upon, but sparse hints of it can be found near the very end of Conqueror.
- Not Quite Dead: In Ichijo's route it seems first like he succumbs to his wounds in the Rokuhara counterattack only for him to rise up again and take a strike meant for Haruhiro using the last of his strength.
- Only Sane Man: His role in the story can best be described as a tired everyman caught in a world gone mad.
- The Promise: In Nemesis it is revealed that Kageaki had made him promise that he would execute him once this was this was all over, all due to his overwhelming feelings of guilt. Suffice to say that Kageaki was not happy when both Akitaka and Haruhiro wish to pardon him as they are the ones giving the orders.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He knows that due to the Rokuhara Shogunate that the police have been rendered both lazy and corrupt, and yet he tries to do the right thing even when his hands are tied most of the time.
- Take Me Instead: As a result of miscalculating a plan in Nemesis, it leads to the GHQ coming after Prince Haruhiro with Kanae acting as their agent. Akitaka asks her that she takes him instead as he is his chief advisor as well as killing a prince would set a bad precedent.
- Taking the Bullet: Takes a strike originally meant for Prince Haruhiro in Ichijo's route.
- That Man Is Dead: A variation. Kageaki reveals to him Hikaru's true objectives of seeking her fathers love and thus, the false father known as Akitaka Minato can finally be laid to rest and that he no longer has to pretend as the true father is about to finally face her down.
Prince Haruhiro
His Highness Prince Haruhiro
The heir of the Imperial Family, making him the highest (nominal) authority of the country behind the Emperor himself. Due to the highly volatile tension in Yamato, he was able to regain actual political influence thanks to the help of Kikuchi, as the Imperial Family appears as a neutral power between the tyrannical Rokuhara Shogunate and the occupying Allied Forces of the GHQ.
- Big Good: As the head of the "third" faction of the story, he acts as the most prominent leader of the anti-Rokuhara forces and his authority as a prince allows Kageaki to get involved in local incidents despite not being part of the military.
- The Ditz: He is self admitted that he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, though he does try to work around it or with it in mind.
- Genius Ditz: He might be a bit scatterbrained and simple-minded, but he can be surprisingly adept when it comes to playing the political game.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: He is constantly hidden behind a bamboo screen with only his silhouette being visible. This may be due to a Japanese Real Life unwritten convention against portraying royalty which still lasted when the game was made.
- I Owe You My Life: During the war, Haruhiro did his duty as one of the members of the Imperial Family and took part in the military. Akitaka helped shepherd him through this time and he feels that he owes the now-Commissioner his life. For his part Akitaka feels that Haruhiro's help in joining the police force in spite of Akitaka's conflicts with the brass more than made up for any help he gave the prince.
- Modest Royalty: Despite his high rank as the heir of the Imperial family he is fairly easygoing and not a stickler for formalities even though he has to conform to them due to his position.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He understands the value of looking inept without being inept, and as such tends to fly under the radar of the shognuate's attempts at restricting the imperial court's actions.
- Out-Gambitted: While capable at the political game, he sadly finds himself in deep water more often than not being surrounded by those far more capable.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: The one holding the proverbial reins in regard to Kageaki's actions, at one point he requests that his agent give him detailed descriptions of his activities so that he might understand the full import of the actions he bids him to take, no matter how horrific those actions might be. He's also very friendly and caring to those who work for him.
- Stop Worshipping Me: Although as a member of the imperial family, he is considered divine, he's a flustered by how deferential and serious Kageaki is in his presence and tries to get him to loosen up a little.
- Technical Pacifist: He is very much a pacifist and wants nothing more than peace. He is however not above doing some dirty deeds if he deems it necessary.
- Uncertain Doom: What happened to him in the end during the Hero route is left ambiguous after Akitaka died.
Sayo Nagakura
Sayo Nagakura
Kanae's old and diminutive servant, who's always seen by her side.
- Battle Butler: Being the loyal servant of Kanae she has the skills in hand-to-hand combat to easily protect and keep up with her, easily beating Ichizo.
- Dual Age Modes: Thanks to her crux she is able to take on a much younger form when she wants to.
- Flash Step: On Enoshima Island she is able to quickly just disappear from her vantage point in the lighthouse and then reappear at her mistress side.
- Glass Cannon: Her crux exists solely to restore the wearers youth and beauty, and as such is heavily specialized to that job and only takes the shape of gloves from which thorny vines grow en masse to drain her enemies while leaving the rest of her body uncovered offering no defense. These vines appear (from context) to be able to break/sneak through the weak points in tsurugi and allow her to drain the pilot.
- Hide the Evidence: She and her brother worked hard to hide the evidence of Kanae having murdered not only a group of soldiers, but their hostages as well. And while the official story of the soldiers committing murder suicide fooled the masses thanks to the volatile landscape at the time, those of the Otori house figured out the truth in their hearts and knew that Kanae was a monster to the core.
- Mask of Sanity: Underneath the snarky and servile exterior she seems to be just as unsound of mind as her employer. She just manages to be better at hiding it.
- Medium Awareness: She certainly seems to be aware of the Affection Meter if Kageaki accepts her calling him a samurai.
- Miniature Senior Citizens: Is Kanae's elderly servant and is quite the shortstack, especially compared to her unusually tall employer. This is doubly noticable given her younger form is noticably taller.
- Never Mess with Granny: Don't let her age fool you, she can kick ass with the best of them.
- Older Than They Look: If what Jo'ansai said to her is correct, then Sayo is far, far older than she looks. The fact that her crux can restore her youth lends further credence to this.
- Old Master: This little old lady is the one who taught the Rokuhara troops stationed at the Otori estate how to fight. They never beat her once.
- One-Man Army: She is able to easily hold the Rokuhara troops of the Otori estate at bay with nothing but a machinegun, jeep and a grenade launcher. All by her lonesome.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Short and old she may be, but kicking ass is something she hasn't lost with age.
- Servile Snarker: She might as well be a genderswapped Alfred. She might be a loyal butler to Kanae, but that doesn't mean she is shy of delivering snide snipes at her employer.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: She and Jo'ansai used to be lovers who are now separated by being on opposite sides of the conflict.
- Super-Senses: She was the only one able to sense that Clive was trying to sneak up on the group as they where holding his nuke hostage.
- Red Baron: She is known as "The Lady of Blood" to those who knows of her.
- Vampiric Draining: Her crux is Bathory which sends out long thorned vines that pierce the enemy's armor and drains their blood, giving her youth in return.
- You Shall Not Pass!: She holds the ground against Jo'ansai in Muramasa's route after Ruby got killed by Clive, knowing full well just how dangerous of an opponent this is.
Nagakura Patriarch
The brother of Sayo and the current head of the Nagakura Family and main benefactor of the Otori Family.
- Miniature Senior Citizens: Seems to be a family trait. Just like his sister he is far shorter than anyone else around.
Yoshikiyo
Yoshikiyo
The young and effeminate page of Yusa Doshin, who acts as his personal servant and handyman.
- Aesop Collateral Damage: His sister was Doshin's most beloved concubine. When Ichijo killed him she was left distraught and fell down a set of stairs while pregnant, killing both her and her unborn child. All as a result of Ichijo's justice to show the faults in her line of thinking.
- Ax-Crazy: While it was unclear if he was always this way, it is clear that after Doshin's death and what happened to his sister and unborn nephew, he went thoroughly off his rocker.
- Chekhov's Gunman: While he seems at first to just be a minor background character that exists for some flavor and only to disappear one Doshin is dealt with, he comes back with a vengeance later in the Hero route where he sneaks up on Ichijo and mentally tortures both her and Masamune with the information of the collateral damage their "justice" had.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: He looks feminine to the point that it is pretty much impossible to tell that it is a guy.
- Foil: He and his sister had been living lavishly off the largesse of Yusa Doshin and because of that they have been turning a blind eye to the cruelties of their benefactor and the suffering he causes. Masamune and Ichijo have been living their ideal life of killing in the name of justice and have been ignorant of those left behind who are forced to live with the consequences of their actions. Eventually they all get a dose of reality that leaves them quite unhappy.
- Force Feeding: He forces Ichijo to "taste her justice" by force feeding her the dead fetus of his nephew.
- In the Back: Reappears in full by shooting Ichijo in the back just as she is about to armor up and stop a Rokuhara Salt the Earth strategy.
- Moral Myopia: He was fine with Yusa Doshin brutalizing and killing people, but when Ichijo kills Doshin because of his wicked deeds, he has a problem with it. Granted, the accidental deaths of his sister and unborn nephew and the whole "insanity" thing may have colored his opinions somewhat.
Sakurako Okabe
Sakurako Okabe
The young daughter of Okabe Yoritsuna, a rebel leader behind the most powerful rebellion against the Rokuhara Shogunate. After her father's death, she was taken in within the wall of the Fudaraku Fortress.
- All of the Other Reindeer: As the daughter of a rebel against the Rokuhara, she's ignored or treated badly by nearly everyone who wants to stay out of trouble. She's isolated in Fudaraku as a result and extremely grateful to find sympathetic ears in Ichijo and Kageaki.
- Commonality Connection: She and Ichijo bond immediately over their lacking sense of direction.
- Don't Create a Martyr: She's being kept in Fudaraku because is she's allowed freedom, she could easily become a figurehead for a rebel group using her father's memory. Rokuhara can't kill her so soon after the Okabe Rebellion because she'd become a symbol for the rebels. But in a year or so, when the memory of Okabe has faded, she may quietly disappear.
- Freak Out: The reveal that the mask she was gifted and the cup she just drank from was made from the bones of her father and brother respectively and with Doshin going into disgusting detail with how he made them makes her crack and thoroughly breaks her.
- Lonely Together: Sakurako accurately interprets Kuniuji gift of matthiolas to mean that they are both in lonely positions and that he would like to walk by her side. She doesn't seem to opposed to the idea—even sending him a slightly racy response and wearing one of the flowers in her hair when next seen. But then that damn "noh play" happens and ruins everything.
- Misplaced Retribution: She ends up going blind with hate after the whole Noh incident and kills Kuniuji due to his position as Rokuhara's leader despite the fact that he was the only one that actually tried to stop that whole mess.
- Mutual Kill: In a fit of hate she stabs Kuniuji to death and the young prince manages with the last of his strength slit her throat with tears streaming down his eyes.
- No Sense of Direction: She seems to have about as bad a sense of direction as Ichijo.
- Secret-Keeper: In the Hero route, when Kageaki and Ichijo infiltrate Fudaraku, she notices pretty quickly that they're not typical functionaries, but doesn't let on.
- Silk Hiding Steel: While she seems like a meek daughter of some noble house, underneath the surface she shows some of the same hatred and conviction as her father had. Even as Doshin rapes her in front of an entire audience she doesn't break and all she does is spit curses into his face.
- The Stoic: She puts a brave face on while a prisoner of Fudaraku.
Doji Kuronose
Doji Kuronose
A rebel leader related to Okabe Sakurako, who's sympathetic to her cause.
- Big Damn Heroes: Happens upon Muramasa by pure happenstance after she was chained up by Chachamaru, saving her and bringing her to Prince Haruhiro.
- Evil Wears Black: Inverted. His clothing is entirely black, but he's part of the anti-Rokuhara forces.
- The Faceless: His face is always shown hidden with only his eyes visible.
- Heroic Bastard: He is a bastard child and thus, thanks to his complicated family situation, managed to avoid the purge that claimed his family. He is also fighting as part of the resistance against the Rokuhara.
- This Cannot Be!: He can only react with complete disbelief at the fact that the brainwashed Kageaki actually managed to cut through the armor of his tsurugi while he himself was unarmored. This was a reaction shared by pretty much everyone else who witnessed the event as well.
Hanae Otori
Hanae Otori
The current heir of the Otori Clan, who's merely a puppet controlled by Shishiku in his bid for usurping power. She's also the young sister of Kanae, whom she treats poorly due to her upbringing.
- Arranged Marriage: In the Nemesis route she is to be married to the crown prince Kuniuji as a means for Shishiku to consolidate power. It is revealed that she was originally meant to marry Yuhi, however his death put a stop to that.
- Defiant Captive: She is clearly not pleased with being forced into an Arranged Marriage by Shishiku and repeatedly insult and berate him every chance she gets, even as he starts to get physical she still stands her ground.
- Jerkass: Very little of what leaves her mouth is not some kind of insult or belittlement of those around he. Given her position, however, this is rather understandable.
- Kissing Cousins: If she had married Yuhi as planned, they would have been this.
- Trap Master: Whereas Kanae is a manipulator, Hanae makes liberal use of traps and trickery to make life sour for those around her.
- Troll: She is a monster just like her sister, though unlike her she prefers to express that through more immediate means, often making use of traps and insults to trigger those around her for her own amusement.
Ruby Sarchant
Ruby Sarchant
A representative of the League of Nations.
- Everyone Has Standards: While he notes that he could easily end the conflict at Fudaraku Fortress if he used the Forged Bomb, to him that would just be wholesale slaughter and not really something that they should use.
- Large Ham: Constantly yells out his own name and has a very over-the-top delivery of his lines.
- Minor Major Character: He is both a count and an important member of the League of Nations with his role serving as throwing wrenches into several plans. Despite this he only get's about two to three scenes before he is shot dead by Clive.
- No Indoor Voice: "RUBYYYYY SARCHAAAANT!"
- Spanner in the Works: He ends up throwing quite a wrench into the works of not just Charles Willow's plans of independence, but also the plans of the Gruendrachen Gesellschaft when he gets wind of what they are planning.
- Verbal Tic: He has a habit of repeating himself three times, often with the third repeat being delivered in the the hammy fashion.
Spoiler Character
Konjin, the God of Metal
A mysterious being buried below the Earth, bestowing its supernatural powers upon the soil to allow humanity to build the Tsurugi.- Almighty Idiot: Chachamaru describes it as little more than blind power without any real will.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Is mentioned as early on as chapter 2 and mostly implied to just be a background element at the time. It becomes a lot more important much, much later.
- Chrome Champion: It is described as of having appeared in human form though as if they where completely made out of some kind of living metal. This also happens in Kageaki's battle against it where it summons Ukyo Nagasaka's likeness as a metallic giant.
- Climax Boss: Perhaps the most important being Kageaki has to do battle with before the final bout with Hikaru.
- God: A mysterious being that Dr. Wolfram speculates is what people through history has attributed the title of God to and it is what allowed for the creation of the Power Armor's that permeate the setting.
- Hero-Tracking Failure: The one saving grace for Kageaki in his fight against this thing is due to its lack of a real will it doesn't really lead its shots and only aims where he currently is, not where he will be, making it somewhat easy to dodge. Just as well as even a glancing blow would spell doom for him.
- I Have Many Names: If it is indeed the same being that is worshipped across much of the world then it has several names aside from Konjin such as Sanat Kumara, Yahweh, Prometheus, Vishvakarman and Chiyou among presumably many others.
- It Can Think: Kageaki eventually realizes something is off when this supposed dumb lump of rock suddenly starts to make use of actual battle tactics to try and get him. Turns out it is making use of Ukyo Nagasaka's battlefield knowledge, having taken him once he died. Even though the thing is dumb, it know instinctively what it lacks and thus tries to find ways to fix that.
- Magic Meteor: Supposedly came to Earth millions of years ago thanks to some kind of meteor.
- Multi-Directional Barrage: When the Wave-Motion Gun doesn't really work and Kageaki manages to close the distance, it responds by firing wildly in every direction. Though much harder to avoid, the fortunate tradeoff is that each shot is weaker due to the greater quantity.
- Pillar of Light: As it is awakened huge pillars of light erupt all over Yamato before rising from one of them.
- Reality Warper: All shinogi originate from Konjin, so of course it can warp reality just like all of the tsurugi, just on a far grater scale and with even more extreme power. Time and Space alike twist and bend to this things whims.
- Silicon-Based Life: It is some kind of living metal of extraterrestrial origin that is dissolved in the water of a giant underground aquifer.
- Sinister Geometry: Takes the form of a huge geometric shape with bristly tree-like structures sticking out of the corners.
- Taken for Granite: Once it is awakened, a golden rain starts to spread across the world that slowly transforms those hit by it into statues made of some kind of metallic crystal as hard as a tsurugi's armor.
- Time Travel: With the use of it's spatial distortion abilities it flings Kageaki and Muramasa back and forth through time causing all kinds of confusion as well as causing them to risk being trapped in a new timeline.
- Wave-Motion Gun: Frequently fires a kind of gravitational beam of gigantic proportions that would mangle anything hit into to dust even from a glancing blow.
Hikari
An orphaned girl who shelters Kageaki some time after the final battle against Ginseigo.
- Children Are Innocent: A young girl and someone who is still not old enough to understand much of the world, yet she still gives Kageaki her rations in spite of her already poor situation, reasoning that he simply needed the food more at the moment.
Origa
The main ambassador of the Warlords, a mercenary group appearing during the Epilogue.
- Flat Character: She doesn't have much characterization aside from being the ambassador of Kageaki's mercenary group.
- Last Episode, New Character: Appears for all of one scene during Muramasa's true end to establish that Kageaki, now a warlord, has acquired his own mercenary group.
