Edward Wu

Edward Wu (エドワード・, Edowādo Ū), also known as The King of Hades (, Mei-ō), was the leader of the Westward Faction of the Wu Clan and an affiliate of the Worm. One of the main antagonists of Kengan Omega, Edward had a personal vendetta with the Kure Clan.
== Appearance ==
Edward was a large imposing man with a devilish face and slicked-back, light-colored hair. Like the other Wu and Kure, he had black-sclera eyes with white pupils. Edward tended to wear loud purple animal print short-sleeved shirts with slacks, dress shoes, and sunglasses that covered his distinctive eyes.
== Personality ==
A recipient of Wu Hei's memories and personality, Edward was both outwardly confident and extremely dangerous. He took his business with the Kure Clan very seriously, more so than his affiliation with The Worm. Edward was also quite prideful of his Clan, deeming them to be quite different if not superior to the Worm. However, he was still respectful enough to acknowledge Raian's strength, considering him, at the very least, someone interesting to have fun with.
He didn't appear to enjoy fighting that much, at least not for its own sake, given his continually shown preference for ending fights quickly and his annoyance at how the Kure he fought kept getting back up. He also proposed to Wu Xing and Kure Erioh that they stop fighting and negotiate, suggesting that he genuinely wanted to reunite the Westward and Mainline Wu along with the Kure Clan. However, it's just as likely that he was lying, trying to get them to let their guards down or just for taunting them.
== History ==
According to the head of the mainline Clan, Wu Xing, Edward was the leader of the Westward Faction of the Wu Clan, an offshoot group who traveled to the Occident, similarly to their Kure Clan relatives in Japan. Edward and his older brother Howard Wu were of English descent.
At an undisclosed point in time, Edward and the rest of the Westward Faction turned traitor from the Wu Clan, slaughtering many of the Wu Clan's elders, and later became an affiliate of the Worm. One of Edward's victims was Wu Xing's beloved mentor, who would later seek vengeance against him.
At some point, Edward taught the basics of Guihun to The Other Tokita Niko since the latter wanted his students to learn it. Lu Tian was the only one who proved capable of using the technique, though Edward himself didn't know who he was.
Thanks to his affiliation with the Worm, Edward would have a clone of himself made, Gilbert Wu, and raised him as his son. Through Huisheng, Gilbert inherited his template's memories and personality in case Edward was to die.
== Plot ==
=== Kengan Ashura ===
In Hong Kong, Edward appeared with Xia Ji and a cloaked Fei Wangfang, discussing the failed retrieval and supposed loss of Tokita Ohma, noting that the latter was the last remaining heir to the Niko Style.
=== Kengan Omega ===
Tracking Toyoda Idemitsu down, Edward requested that he be allowed to represent Purgatory in their contest against the Kengan Association. Toyoda agreed in exchange for why Edward wanted to join his side. Edward replied that the Kure had become an eyesore.
Later, called by Xia Ji to lend his student a hand in capturing Gaoh Ryuki, Edward arrived to find Ryuki had escaped and the student had been killed. Edward calls Ji and informs him that since Mumon's mess, all of Ji's students trailing Ryuki died. Ji casually reassures him that the situation was fine, telling him to have fun with Purgatory before hanging up. Despite his reservations, his accomplice reassured him they could trust Ji before asking whether Ryuki was a fake or an actual "Tiger's Vessel".
Even though he didn't personally join Purgatory's side in the tournament, Edward watched the fights inside Mt. Godslayer's hot spring pool. After the third round, Xia Ji visited him, expressing his anger for not securing Ohma. Edward simply responded that his fighter, Alan Wu, would take revenge for him. In the fifth round, Naidan Mönkhbat revealed himself as a direct subordinate of the Head of the Worm, to Edward's astonishment (and growing annoyance) at the Worm's secretiveness.
When Lu Tian revealed himself as part of the Worm, Edward confronted Xia Ji about the Worm's secretive nature. He asked him if he was hiding anything from him. After Lu Tian revealed that he knew how to release his latent strength, it was then that Edward recognized that Lu Tian was the prodigy The Other Niko was referring to.
During Alan's match against Kure Raian, Edward and Xia Ji went to the gates to watch the fight personally. Upon Raian catching them in his sights, his glee proved to Edward that he was "too naive" for the outcoming. After Alan's death and after acknowledging Raian's strength, Edward promptly hit Ji for his cowardice and seriousness on what was happening, telling him to relax.
Sometime later, Edward and Xia Ji witnessed the arrival of The Other Niko on the scene, who recorded himself talking to Fei. Despite not understanding the reasons behind the Worm agents' actions, Edward understood that Xia Yan had given up on his brother and other plans. However, Raian had finally caught up with him. Edward soon revealed he was with his spares, Solomon Wu and Fabio Wu. The three managed to keep Raian at bay until Erioh and Wu Xing arrived to help. With Fabio dead at Erioh's hands and Solomon left to fight Raian on his own, Edward faced the other two heads and kept them at bay with little effort.
Even with Raian soon joining Erioh and Wu Xing, Edward's strength was overwhelmed without much effort. Disparaging Solomon for struggling against them, Edward gave Solomon a knife to finish them off, only for Erioh to swiftly end him.
Kure Hollis and Kure Reiichi arrived to help in the fight against Edward, though it proved fruitless. Edward would then give Erioh a lethal bear hug, crushing his body. His subsequent conversation with him left him distracted, with Wu Xing striking Edward's neck with a poisoned needle. Though he survived it, the poison affected him in his last bout against Raian, with him also using the wound to slash through his neck. In his last moments, he taunted Raian and lamented that he wouldn't live to see the 'party' the Worm had planned, with Raian finishing him off soon after.
Edward would ultimately live on through his clone Gilbert Wu posing as his son and take over the entire Westward faction.
== Power & Abilities ==
Edward was a very powerful individual with a known body count consisting of many members of the main Wu Clan, with Muteba stating he's just as strong as the Other Tokita Niko, if not stronger. His combat prowess quickly matched and exceeded assassins of Erioh and Wu Xing's caliber, even while they were armed. Even when both heads and Raian were using Removal against him, he could still keep up. As a testament to his abilities, it took the cooperation and coordination of three elite Kure combatants and the heads of the Kure and Wu to kill him, with Raian being able to hold his ground and deal the final blow only after Edward had been weakened by a poisoned knife putting a hole in his neck.
Even for a Wu, Edward possessed a terrifying degree of strength, smacking Raian several meters away without any effort, and not just keeping up with, but physically overwhelming the 100% released joint Kure-Wu effort without even releasing his own power.
=== Guihun ===
As a member of the Wu Clan, Edward could release his latent power and free his body from his brain's limiters. His mastery over the technique was so deep that he could even teach its basics to The Other Niko, an outsider to his Clan. Edward's Guihun release rate is 100%, bringing his already absurd physical might up to the level he could overwhelm released Erioh, Xing, and Raian before they could react.
=== Huisheng ===
Edward possessed Wu Hei's ego through this technique as the head of the Wu clan. Despite despising working under others, even himself, he could still work and fight in sync with his 'spares'.
== Trivia ==
* Edward's favorite place was his local pub, and his favorite meat was dry-aged grass-fed Rubia Gallega beef.
* Edward was designed by the authors with the image of a movie's hulking, intimidating final villain in mind.