Rider of Kālasūtra Hell

is one of the seven Heroic Spirit Swordmasters created by Ashiya Douman in the Shimosa Singularity in Fate/Grand Order.
==Profile==
===Identity===
Possessing the Cursed Name Rider of Kālasūtra Hell, the True Name of Kālasūtra Hell's vessel is Minamoto-no-Raikou.
===Appearance===
===Personality===
==Role==
===Fate/Grand Order===
====Subspecies Singularity III: Shimosa====
Raikou was summoned by Amakusa Shirou Tokisada to serve as one of the Heroic Spirit Swordmasters.Fate/Grand Order - Shimosa Province: The Stage of Rivers of Blood and Mountains of Corpses, Section 5: Inferno (Middle) Her Cursed Name is Rider of Kālasūtra Hell.Fate/Grand Order - Shimosa Province: The Stage of Rivers of Blood and Mountains of Corpses, Section 2: Purgatorio (Middle) She slew her horse, Kyōgoku, shortly after becoming a Swordmaster.Fate/Grand Order - Shimosa Province: The Stage of Rivers of Blood and Mountains of Corpses, Section 11: Kalasutra Hell (Middle)
She and her fellow Swordmasters first encounter Ritsuka’s party as they tried to cut through a bamboo forest to reach Onui and Tasuke’s hermitage. She blocks Miyamoto Musashi’s attack that was aided by her Heavenly Eye. Shuten comments on Musashi being still alive after crossing swords with Raikou to mean the people of the Tokugawa era aren’t totally worthless. Raikou refutes this saying the only decent people in the Tokugawa era are children. She tells Shuten to commit suicide to atone for her lapse in judgement. She is surprised to hear that Ritsuka recognizes hers and Shuten’s voices. Soon afterwards, Raikou and her fellows watch Houzouin Inshun fight Yagyuu Munenori alone to let the others escape. This is followed by Ashiya Douman infusing Inshun with the Curse of Annihilation to become the final Swordmaster: Lancer of Purgatorio.
Raikou later slaughters an army near Arakawa River while they were en route to rendezvous with Munenori. She only spared a young soldier left mentally broken by the slaughter, believing he’d make a poor sacrifice. She and Shuten then depart for Sagami to unleash the latter’s Noble Phantasm upon it. Katou Danzou reminds them though that they weren’t ordered to do so, but they ignore her. They proceed to Sagami and destroy it with Shuten’s Noble Phantasm. Afterwards, they massacred larger settlements until high noon, only sparing smaller settlements because they vanished by then.Fate/Grand Order - Shimosa Province: The Stage of Rivers of Blood and Mountains of Corpses, Section 10: Kalasutra Hell (Beginning)
Ordered by Douman, Raikou and Shuten take Onui and Tasuke hostage. Musashi attacks Shuten, but Raikou blocks it. The Swordmasters then overwhelm the group using only a fraction of their power. Raikou tells them to come to the peak of the nearby mountain before high noon if they wish to save the children. She and Shuten then escape.
Raikou apologizing to Onui.jpg|Raikou apologizing to Onui.
Raikou leaving Onui and Tasuke.jpg|Raikou saying goodbye to Onui and Tasuke.
On the summit Raikou threatens to kill Shuten if she tries to eat a child in front of her when the latter threatens to eat Onui. She explains to a confused Onui that she could never kill a child, nor let one die in front of her. She commends Onui for doing her best to keep Tasuke safe. Then she tearfully apologizes for taking her and her brother hostage, saying all Swordmasters are broken. Some time later, she kicks Shuten off the summit.
Later that night, Onui cries herself to sleep. Raikou sings her lullaby as Onui joins in her sleep. She stops and fully wakes up upon accidentally calling Raikou mom. Raikou understands Onui misses her mother, saying it’s expected for her to confuse another long-haired woman for her mother sometimes. She then cuts the children free and places them in a nearby shrine. She then leaves to fight Ritsuka’s party, lying to the children that she’s going to talk to them.Fate/Grand Order - Shimosa Province: The Stage of Rivers of Blood and Mountains of Corpses, Section 12: Kalasutra Hell (Ending)
Ritsuka’s party demand she and Shuten return the children. They doubt Shuten’s claims that she ate them, and slay the Orochi she summoned. Afterwards, Shuten and Raikou bring Musashi to the bloody battlefield for their fight. After Shuten disappears, Raikou tells the group where she placed the children, confirming that they are safe and unharmed. She asks Muramasa to apologize to Onui for her, for tying her up, and getting a little rough when she cut her ropes. She also asks the group to defeat the Swordmasters and prevent the Onriedo’s arrival. Then, calling herself a disgrace of a mother, Raikou disappears.
== Abilities ==
Rider of Kālasūtra Hell is a Rider Class counterpart of Minamoto-no-Raikou appearing in the Shimosa Singularity, who became a Heroic Spirit Swordmaster after Caster of Limbo cast the Curse of Annihilation on her. In this form, her power has been greatly increased, and Katou Danzou claims that Berserker of Saṃghāta Hell's and her attacks are so strong that she is unable to measure them despite them fighting with just a fraction of their power. Despite boasting such power, Berserker wouldn't dare mess with Saber of Empireo and Caster of Limbo due to her having a "weak little Spirit Origin" and she doubts that Rider would either. If Berserker of Saṃghāta Hell and her had to fight them, Berserker'd want to at least have the same bodies and power that they did when we were alive.
Miyamoto Musashi comments that Rider and Berserker are not equally skilled, as she can deflect the best strike Musashi has, which almost cut Berserker's neck, with just a flick of her wrist. Each of her strikes has tremendous force behind it, and Musashi claims that she wouldn't be able to keep pace with her without Myoujingiri Muramasa, likely to the difference in their body weight. Berserker likes to play around, so Ritsuka's party should be able to handle her if they rushed her all at once, but that definitely wouldn't work on Rider. Rider is able to block Musashi's Heavenly Eye, much to Houzouin Inshun's surprise.
She was able to block Myoujingiri, but that wasn't enough. Musashi may have had a long way to go, but even she could see how completely her karma had stagnated. If she hadn't been able to cut something so obvious, she'd have no right to hold a sword. Rider of Kālasūtra Hell may excel at taking large armies, but in a one-on-one duel, she had the upper hand. Despite being physically stronger than Musashi, she lost, as Musashi had already battled others who were stronger than her.
When summoned as a Rider Class Servant, Minamoto-no-Raikou has access to a horse Noble Phantasm, however, as Rider of Kālasūtra Hell, she can no longer make use of it as she killed her without a second thought. Berserker of Saṃghāta Hell claims that she did it because she didn't need it as it wasn't embedded with the Curse of Annihilation.
==References==
Category:Heroic Spirit Swordmasters
Category:Rider-class Servants
Category:Characters in Fate/Grand Order (Part 1.5)
Category:Japanese Servants
Category:Humans
Category:Heaven Attribute Servants
Category:Introduced in 2017
Category:Voice - Haruka Tomatsu
Category:Four Heavenly Kings