Ren Ayano

> Remember, Kaori and Mirai, nothing lasts forever in this world. We all experience difficult things, and happy things in this world, but all bad and good things will come to an end. However, do not bow down to tragedy or your problems, instead face it and solve it."
> Ren Ayano, to Kaori Ayano and Mirai before going on the mission on Navellia
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Ren Ayano is Mirai and Kaori's adoptive older brother, and is biologically born from the Ayano Family. He died from Luka Odayaka, who was the same god that killed Kaori. He only appears in Mirai's flashbacks, and in the Tower of Corrupted Reality Arc.

He was a major supporting character in Warped Eternity: Tales of the Lost Ash, and a member of the Moonlit Order and the Legend of the Eternal Flame. He was the former Floral Lush Kosho, before his death which was four years before the main story, *Warped Eternity: Living Destruction's Abyssal Remnants*.

After Ren and Kaori's death, Mirai became incredibly vengeful, as seen with her constant wrath and disgust for Luka Odayaka, the same god who also killed her mentor and was responsible for killing half of the Suwan Clan, and later Kaori and how she blamed Luka for being responsible for helping Daiki in cursing the Suwan Clan with the Black Blood's Symphonies alongside the Nine Elixirs formed out of Shentan.

## Personality

In the light novels and in Mirai's flashbacks, Ren was seen as a dutiful, easygoing, reckless and caring man, where he was always seen with a gentle smile at all times. This inspired Mirai to do the same, as she admired Ren's easygoing nature. Ren was seen as extremely laidback man, who was very caring and empathetic as evident when he sympathized with Kaori and Mirai proceeding to adopt them. Ren was also a very loving older brother, who would constantly lighten up the situation and motivate Kaori and Mirai. He often does not seem to care about societal norms and is too carefree for his own good. He often would use crude or impolite language towards others and wasn't too sensitive towards their feelings about it. This contrasted with Kaori, who disliked the insensitivity of Ren and his not so disciplined attitude. Apparently, Ren is revealed to be insensitive, due to his lack of knowledge about emotion-driven actions, and his tendency to rely mostly on logic. He often nonchalantly teases others, and is extremely relaxed, composed, energetic and carefree. His insensitive, eccentric, and easygoing nature was one of the reasons why Mirai was reminded of Ren through Ryuga Chisaka despite disliking Ryuga's bluntness and straightforwardness.

Despite this lack of politeness, Rei actually cared for others, beyond a professional level as evident by him constantly caring for others such as Caelus, and the citizens of Navellia when he went to the mission. He also extended this care to the Lucero Family as evident when he

Ren seemed to know about the Smile Curse, and was incredibly sympathetic towards those who experienced facing such a brutal experiment.

In the flashbacks, the problem Ren had the most with was affection, and was revealed to show the least amount of affection towards others even his own family. He couldn't really bring himself to express affection towards anyone, as he found it very awkward and weird. This was evident with him struggling to hug Mirai Ayano and his known problems with expressing affections towards others.

Despite this, Ren was somewhat knowledgeable about combat and completely disagreed with Miyuko's intention of forming the Numen Force of his Earth's Glaive into Shentan to strengthen it, even though Miyuko tried too hard to convince him it was out of "love". He also argued with Miyuko who desired to make more Shentan in their weapons and even outright denied finding and using the Elixir of the Black Blood even though Miyuko tried to deceive him it would make him stronger as they were forms of Shentan. This was due to the fact that he knew that Shentan was a very corrupted force and could twist his mind further, turning him into someone no different from the vessels of Tsumi and his absolute distaste for utilizing Shentan in combat. This also meant he had knowledge of Tsumi's existence and the fact Tsumi already existed as a disaster since the First Age. He also was somewhat honorable and did have a quite narrow-minded view as he refused to do corrupted things for the sake of "greater good". His honorable nature was one of the reasons he despised Shentan as seen in Mirai and the flashbacks of others, and in addition to this, Ren also hated Miyuko's obsession with him viewing her as someone who barely has love but complete obsession and as a heartless individual.

## Abilities and Powers

### Overall Abilities

As Ren was not truly seen alive in the anime, not much of his skills are known as he ws only seen in flashbacks. However, Ren was one of the strongest combatants during his time, wielding the Earth Numen Elements he possesses to it's maximum while combining it with the peak of his bodily force. A true testament to his combat-talent was the fact that he was able to battle Luka Odayaka, and strike him extremely efficiently even more than the skills possessed by Kaori Ayano. He also was claimed to be on pars with Akio Akimitsu, the strongest Kosho if he was still alive, clarifying he was the strongest while alive. However, not much could be told about him. Additionally, Ren was extremely agile and dextrous, and is one of the strongest Kosho during his time. Additionally, he has many feats such as when he was capable of eradicating hundreds of Dolls in a series of swings in minutes. He also is the second deadliest during his era, but it was claimed that Akio was far superior to him despite the lack of agility and dextrous body that Ren has.

## Equipment

**Curved Earth's Glaives:** In Mirai's flashback, Ren wields two curved glaives with the tip of it being utilized best for thrusting, stabbing, piercing, but was mainly best for slicing, slashing, and cutting. The glaives were immensely powerful, and contained tremendous amounts of abrasive poisons, corrosive acids, volcanic ashes, and were highly imbued with Earth Force.

**Dual Axes:**

## Quotes

*" Remember, Kaori and Mirai, nothing lasts forever in this world. We all experience difficult things, and happy things in this world, but all bad and good things will come to an end. However, do not bow down to tragedy or your problems, and do remember while it is certainly difficult to not be consumed by anger, do not let your emotions take away your humanity, otherwise you'll become no different from the corrupted gods." Ren Ayano, to Mirai and Kaori in their flashbacks*

*" Please defeat him for me and Kaori, Mirai. Please make sure he never kills or harms an innocent human again. Failing others is not an option here, so please do your best. Prove yourself worthy and not like the others." Ren Ayano to Mirai in the Dusk of Justice Arc about defeating Luka Odayaka*

*" Farewell, Mirai, please understand that I may be physically gone, I wouldn't ever leave you and Kaori in my spirit and I'll always be with you." Ren's last words upon his death*

*" My, my, don't worry, Kaori and Mirai, I'll do my best to always be with you until the end."*

*" Poison sheathes? That does not at all sound too bad, Asterio. You are quite impressive even if you're very fragile in arm strength." Ren Ayano to Asterio in Asterio's flashback*