Ichiro Nakabachi

Ichiro Nakabachi is the newly appointed vice principal of Toshiro Kasukabe and Eri Natsuhara's school. His cognitive version is the leader of the Rebel Club Legionnaires in the Nakabachi Kingdom.
==Appearances==
*Persona 5 Tactica: Major Antagonist (Cognition), Supporting Character (Real)
==Personality==
Nakabachi is a shady, manipulative man who obtained power in Toshiro's school through layers of corruption and blackmail. Being a master of blackmail and extortion, he manipulated his students into snitching against other students by threatening to leak their own school records. The fact that none of his victims dare speak against him in fear of him leaking their private lives and ruining their college record made him convince himself of his superiority among the school until Toshiro and Natsuhara performed a thorough investigation against him.
After being ousted by Toshiro and Natsuhara, Nakabachi was mercilessly hunted down and used as a scapegoat by the student body, to the point where people blamed events that have nothing to do with him on him and several students began raiding his home. This led to him being turned into a broken wreck of a man who didn't leave his home bar except for questioning. He became so insane that he attempted to kill Natsuhara out of revenge, something that caused her to slip onto the train tracks trying to run away from him and end up permanently handicapped.
As a manifestation of Toshiro's inner guilt, Cognitive Nakabachi's personality bears very little resemblance to his actual self until he's about to attack the Phantom Thieves. Instead of convincing the Phantom Thieves of his superiority, cognitive Nakabachi only warns Toshiro of the consequences of opposing him, reminding him of his "grave sin" and claims that Toshiro does not believe that his rebellion was just. He however, does act similar to his real self when about to attack the Phantom Thieves, going into a diatribe on how people climb the social ladder by turning their backs on each other.
==Profile==
===Persona 5 Tactica===
Nakabachi was a music teacher before he got appointed to vice principal in Toshiro Kasukabe and Eri Natsuhara's school. A shady man, he was responsible for blackmailing students, sexual harrassment, extortion and embezzlement. He built a spy network inside his school where students are encouraged to dig up each other's dark secrets. One victim was a girl called Yuri Kurano, who was blackmailed after she got exposed for working at a nightclub and told Toshiro and Natsuhara about him.
This led to Toshiro and Natsuhara forming a private investigation against him, and cornered him to the rooftop of the school, where they gathered his victims and shown him the voice recordings of his crimes. Shortly after, he was kicked out of school. The sentiment against him became so severe that there are students barging into his home to harass him, causing him to break down. One winter night when Toshiro and Natsuhara were waiting for a train at the rail station, Nakabachi was stalking Natsuhara looking rather mentally broken like a shell of his former-self and approached her with the intent of pushing her into an oncoming train out of vengeance for being kicked out, causing her to try running only to slip away and fall onto the train tracks where she was ran over by it. She survives, but ends up being hospitalized and permanently handicapped, requiring a cane to walk. It's also heavily implied that she can no longer see with her right eye. Nakabachi and all the students who harassed him were arrested afterwards and Toshiro became the scapegoat for the incident, until Yoshiki Kasukabe presumably used his status as a prestigious politician to silence them to protect his son's track record.
A copy of Nakabachi is supposed to be the Nakabachi Kingdom's master. His manipulation and blackmail are exaggerated to the form of outright spy networks where its other denizens are forced to snitch against and report each other. Furthermore, unlike Marie and Yoshiki, he never leaves his room, which is in place of the music faculty room of Toshiro's high school. In actuality, he is not the true leader of the Legionnaires, but a scapegoat to be removed by Shadow Toshiro, a manifestation of Toshiro's guilt of ruining Natsuhara's life. 
The Phantom Thieves initially believe that he is the leader of the Kingdom and gathers four keys (all of them taking the form of objects related to his school life) to the music room. Despite the "keys" being a bandage, an empty student council voting box, a calling card and a voice recorder, the four items merge into the music room key that would open the door to Nakabachi's room.
Once confronted by the Phantom Thieves and several rebels, a cognitive version of Nakabachi shows up. Instead of assuring his superiority like the real one did during flashbacks, Nakabachi instead acts disappointed by Toshiro's sense of justice and claims that he does not believe that Toshiro thought he did the right thing. However, after some confrontation, cognitive Nakabachi starts acting more like his real-life counterpart and claiming that people climb the social ladder by using the backs of others before transforming into a large robot to fight the Phantom Thieves.
After the Phantom Thieves defeat the cognitive Nakabachi, he pretends to be done for, before standing back up and asking if this is what Toshiro wants to hear from him. He then tells Toshiro that it's time to remember his crime and transforms the school that forms the Kingdom into a clocktower on a snowy night. Erina was then abducted by Shadow Toshiro, who reveals that the cognitive Nakabachi is a decoy and he is the real tyrant of the Kingdom.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
* Unlike most boss fights, the fight against Nakabachi has awards. This foreshadows that he is not the real tyrant of the third Kingdom.
==References==
Category:Persona 5 Tactica Characters
Category:Persona 5 Tactica Enemies
Category:Legionnaires Leaders
Category:Cognitive Existences