Kouu

**Xiang Yu**, also known as "***Kouu***" by his allies and the "***Tyrant King***" by his enemies, is one of the founding members of Forest of the Greats as well as the founder and leader of the Sinners. Due to his actions, he's the primary antagonist of **Reincarnation no Kaben**.

Best friend of Seiya (Touya's Brother) and one of Forest of the Greats' founders. While Seiya was pursuing world peace, Kouu  wanted to make a place for Returners to coexist. However, eventually their ideals clashed and Kouu ended up killing Seiya.

After that, Kouu gathered stray Returners and revolted against the Forest of the Greats as a group named "***Sinners***". The purpose of Sinners was not to create a place for Returners to coexist, but a battlefield for Returners so they could rampage to their heart's content before dying rather than living by repressing their impulse.

He also deduced that Neumann was being controlled and would declare war on the whole world. He entrusted Touya to solve this matter and what comes after before disappearing. He spent his last moments embracing Charlotte at the graveyard of his comrades before finally passing on by way of her Talent.

## Talent

『***Omnireceptacle***』- Allows him to control all of creation with his battle aura, enabling Kouu to use anything and everything as a weapon, this includes lifting pieces of the ground or rubble and throwing them as projectiles in a manner akin to telekinesis or even taking over and turning the spikes produced by Touya's "**Lord Impaler**" talent against him. Kouu's battle aura takes the form of a black energy that Kouu can extend from himself and into any object he wishes to manipulate. Since his talent is required to be used as a weapon, he tends to use his nails to make a small cut on the cheek of others when he uses it for other purposes, like teleporting himself and his allies around or when showing someone his memories.

* By covering any object using black aura that comes out from his body. Kouu can take control of that object and use it as a weapon. It might sound far-fetched, but he can take control of the earth by covering it with his aura.
* Caeser said that this talent is "*a talent that is the closest to the petal's true nature*". But to be able to take control of things and use it as weapons, he has to hurt someone. That's why every time he use his talent, he always cut his own cheeks or anyone's nearby.

『***Black Death of Harmony***』 - A technique of Omnireceptacle to make a barrier of destruction. Kouu can break matter down by repeatedly elongating and compressing it, breaking molecular bonds of that matter which eventually break the whole matter into atoms.

* Kou thinks this talent is like a miniature Big Bang, but he never actually use this talent to the end, so he doesn't know what will happen if he do it.

## Trivia

* The Japanese pronunciation of the name "**項羽**" is "**こうう**" ("**Kouu**") however the original name in the manga is "**項羽**" ("**Xiang Yu**").

## Adaptation

**Xiang Ji**, courtesy name "**Yu**" and better known as "**Xiang Yu**", was a prominent Chinese warlord in the late Qin dynasty. A noble of Xiaxiang, Xiang Yu was granted the title of "**Duke of Lu**" by King Huai II of the insurgent Chu state in 208 BC.

## References

1. ↑ {{#NewWindowLink:http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/34557/who-is-kouu-the-tyrant-king%7CKouu's name}}
2. ↑ {{#NewWindowLink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang\_Yu%7CXiang Yu }}