Lei Kugo

Lei Kugo is a major supporting character in the Imperial China chapter, "The Successor" of Live A Live and one of the three potential main protagonists of the chapter.
She was voiced by in Japanese and in English.
==Appearance==
Lei is a young woman with brown hair and pigtails. She wears a pink robe with a yellow belt and black shoes. Her official artwork depicts her with a cross scar on her face which can't be seen on her in-game sprite.
==Biography==
===The Successor===
Lei was a lone bandit who roamed the bamboo forest stealing from those who travel through it. One fateful day, she has a run in with the Earthen Heart Shifu who she attempts to mug only to get beaten. Rather than berate her though, the Shifu sees talent in her and offers to train her in exchange for her abandoning the life of the bandit. Frustrated over being beaten but interested, Lei accepts the offer.
Alongside Yun Jou and Hong Hakka, Lei begins her training under the Shifu. Three days of training pass before some bandits attack Yunfa Village which the Shifu leaves to handle. In his absence, the dojo is attacked. If Lei is not the most trained student of the three or is tied with Hong, her story ends here with her death.
If she is the most trained student, the Shifu finds her injured but alive as she reveals that the Indomitable Fist attacked the dojo while he was away, the two of them finding Yun and Hong dead shortly after. With this, the Shifu teaches Lei his most powerful technique, Heavenly Peaks Descent, before leaving to face the Indomitable Fist. However, Lei, wanting to settle a score with them herself as well as feeling responsible for the deaths of Yun and Hong, joins the Shifu. Together, they fight their way into the Indomitable Fist's domain to find its leader, Ou Di Wan Lee, who forces them to fight his most powerful martial artists, After beating them all, Ou Di Wan Lee then reveals he also has assassins to kill them. With this, the Shifu tells Lei to fight Ou Di Wan Lee in his place while he deals with the assassins.
Thanks to the Shifu's training and the power of Heavenly Peaks Descent, Lei manages to successfully defeat Ou Di Wan Lee and avenge Yun and Hong. However, she finds the Shifu dying from his won fight. He tells Lei that he is proud of her before passing. Later on, Lei breaks in half a boulder, proving herself a worthy successor and solidifying her status as the new Earthen Heart Master.
===The Dominion of Hate===
If Lei is the Earthen Heart Master, she will be sent to the middle ages by Odio, being warped to the Hero's Rest mountain, now the Last Hero's Grave. If she isn't selected as the main protagonist for the final chapter, then she will challenge whoever is the protagonist to a fight before she joins them. Regardless, she will be a part of the group as they work toward finding the Lord of Dark to defeat him and return to their own time periods.
After beating Odio and freeing Oersted from his own hate, if Lei is the protagonist, she will comment on how Oersted's plight reminds her of what she was like before she met the Shifu. After being sent home, the epilogue reveals she has started a class, training more students in the Earthen Heart.
===Bad Endings===
If Oersted is finished off after Purity of Odio's defeat, a concerned Lei can only utter "Tell me that I did it right, old man..." Since Oersted was killed too early, the Lord of Dark's hatred is free to continue the cycle, and Lei along with the other six heroes are presumably trapped in Lucrece.
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