Earthen Heart Shifu

The Earthen Heart Shifu (Shin Zan Ken Rōshi) is the main protagonist of the Imperial China chapter, "The Successor" of the game Live A Live.
He was voiced by in Japanese and Qiang Wu in English.
==Appearance==
==Biography==
While out practicing his kung fu atop the mountain, he strikes a nearby boulder in an effort to gauge his power. When the boulder doesn't even crack, he comes to the realization that he is on his last legs. With this revelation, he concludes that he needs to locate some disciples to pass on his skills to.
He leaves his dojo to go on his search, running into a female bandit in the bamboo forest who attempts to rob him. After besting her, he admires her skills and offers to train her if she abandons banditry. The bandit begrudgingly accepts and introduces herself as Lei Kugo.
In Wong Village, he gets pickpocketed by a boy named Yun Jou. He follows the boy who he notices has deep regrets over doing what he did as a bandit named Sun Tzu Wang threatens him when the boy decides he doesn't want to steal anymore. After the Shifu deals with the bandits, Yun asks to be trained as well.
The Shifu also finds a portly dine and dasher named Hong Hakka in Yunfa Market who he catches. He assures the restaurant owner that he will handle the young man. From there, the Shifu learns why Hong resorts to stealing and offers to train and feed him so that he wouldn't have to steal anymore.
With three students found, the Shifu begins training them his skills, strengthening them for three days before Sun Tzu Wang attacks Yunfa Market. Shifu tells his students to continue training while he goes to deal with the ruffians. After beating Sun Tzu Wang again, the Shifu returns to the dojo to find out it had been attacked with two of his disciples killed.
With this, the Shifu teaches his remaining disciple the Heavenly Peaks Descent, and then he heads toward the temple of the Indomitable Fist to avenge the students who had been killed. However, his remaining student refuses to let him do it alone and the two of them head inside to face the Indomitable Fist leader, Ou Di Wan Lee. The sadistic leader then forces the Shifu and his student to fight his best warriors before summoning a pair of assassins to finish them off. Upon being surrounded, the Shifu sends his disciple to fight Ou Di Wan Lee themself while he handles the assassins.
The student successfully beats Ou Di Wan Lee and avenges their fallen companions. However, the Shifu starts succumbing to his injuries. In his last moments, he lets his disciple know how proud he is of them. Said disciple then inherits his title of Earthen Heart Master.
===Bad Endings===
If Oersted is chosen for the final chapter, all of the Shifu's efforts are for naught as Odio's changes of history have the Indomitable Fist come out victorious and Earthen Heart forgotten.
==Trivia==
*Despite being promoted as one of the main protagonists of the game, the Shifu is only the protagonist of his own chapter and dies at the end of it with his disciples being the protagonists instead.
*No matter which path the final chapter takes, the Shifu is only protagonist guaranteed to die in all four of them. 
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