Leo Kurogami

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## Overview

Leo Kurogami a weapon instructor at Global Military Academy, and one of the legs of Spider. He is the master of Lucas Morningstar.

## Personality

Lucas described Leo as the most indifferent person in Joe's book. After taking Lucas as his student, we get to see his playful side. He often plays jokes and mess with his disciple, much to the dismay of Lucas. He is also somewhat Childish, as he sometimes does stuff just because it is cool.

## Power

Despite having low potential, he makes up for it by having a terrifying mastery of weapons. He is without a doubt the strongest human alive as it was stated that only if all of the vampire kings worked together could they be able to defeat him. His strength is only second to the Vampire Monarch on Earth. He has hidden technique that he created that allows him to get over low potential. This hidden technique was later revealed to be a technique known as symphony. This technique allows him to become one with nature and as such increase his mana capacity allowing him to surpass his natural low potential. Later it was revealed that symphony at the beginning was flawed, and Leo using often caused permanent damage to his soul and mana core. Although after he perfected symphony, it no longer caused any damage to his soul or mana core. However the damage was already. Due to the damage that had been done to his core and soul, he stated he will probably only be able to fight for 5 more years before his mana core gets destroyed and he becomes a normal human who can't sense mana again.

## Past and Plot

Leo as a child was shunned and abandoned by his father for having a low potential of Platinum 1. Leo's father Kazuya Kurogami, a descendant of Japan, wanted to take over the west and make it new Japan. The west was being ruled by the Morningstar. His father made deal with government in which if one of his heirs managed to beat the heir of the Morningstar family, then the Kurogami family would become the noble family of the west. This was the reason why Leo's father abandoned him, and instead choose to adopt Leo's cousin who had higher potential and made him heir. Bitter and upset, Leo would steal his father's money and use it to eventually enroll in Global Military Academy. There would run into the Heir of the Morningstar family, Reynold Morningstar, Lucas's Father. Leo blamed Reynold as he the reason why his father shunned him, causing him to challenge Reynolds. However, he lost causing Leo to become depressed and he almost gave, but Reynold told to not give up and to keep training stating that his hard work would eventually pay of.

Seeing his determined attitude and his talent, his master, an owner of a dojo would take him in and train him at his dojo. At this dojo he meet Yennefer , Lucas' Mother. He would often challenge Yennefer to duels and lose every time. Eventually they would end up becoming friends. They developed a close bond. One day he became frustrated, and challenged Reynolds and as usual he lost. Then he challenged him the next day, then the day after that, until it eventually became a part of his daily schedule to challenge Reynolds. During his fights, Reynolds would often help Leo with martials arts. Leo would then bring Reynolds to the dojo, causing a tight bond between Leo, Yennefer and Reynolds to form.

Alas, Yennefer and Reynolds were a year older than Leo, causing them to be drafted before him. A year later, he graduated and was excited to meet Yennefer and Reynolds on the battlefield. However, upon meeting them, he had found out that Reynolds and Yennefer were now engaged. Seeing this, he decided to put aside his feeling for Yennefer and served alongside them. Eventually they would give birth to Yelena Morningstar and appointed Leo as her God Father. For years he served the Morningstar Military unit, however it hurt Leo seeing Reynolds and Yennefer shine so brightly. He decide to a hand in a letter of resignation to Reynolds, who destroyed the letter and questioned him on his choice. After figuring that Leo was love in Yennefer , Reynolds was upset that he didn't tell him, stating that if he had he would have never made a move on Yennefer . Leo then was upset at the fact that Reynolds was willing to do that and got in a big fight over it, nearly destroying the Morningstar family. The next day they would make up, and Leo would officially resign. The fight end with Leo loss, which infuriated him but he managed to he hide it, but it would motivate him to go a journey to get stronger.

In this journey, he joined the most powerful martial sects and schools, fought the most powerful individuals and Leo counited to hone his skills. He would eventually join the United Military and fight on the front lines where his name became synonymous with fear and death. However, his greed for power wasn't satiated. He would to start to learn the forbidden weapon arts that were banned by the government. However, even he with all this, he still considered himself to be weak. After years of trail and error combined effort and hard work, he finally managed to create a technique to surpass his limitations. With this technique his low potential no longer mattered and he became extremely powerful. However along the way he lost himself. Yennefer and Reynolds heard of this and tracked him down to help. They begged for Leo to return with them, but Leo didn't care as he was beyond reason at this point and had one thought in mind, which was defeating Reynolds.

He challenged Reynolds many times and provoked him endlessly, but Reynolds declined stating that he could feel if they fought again, it would be their last duel. Hearing this, Leo went back to his father and asked him to make him his heir. With him becoming the heir of Kurogami family, he gained the right to challenge the heir of the Morningstar family and winner would get the right to the west. He used this right and challenged Reynolds. Reynolds felt extremely betrayed by Leo's actions, but complied with the duel.

On day of the duel, Yennefer was in the process of giving birth to twins, Lucas and Adel. During birth, unnecessary complications came up putting Yennefer life at risk. Learning about this Leo backed down from the duel, and urged Reynolds to go back to Yennefer. However Reynolds refused stating that it was time to end it all. He stated the Leo was jealous of Reynolds for having loving parents, for having talent, and mainly for having Yennefer's love. Leo knew that Reynolds was right and their final fight began. They both fought with intent to kill each other, and destroyed the islands they fought on in the process. In the final clash of their fight, they bought out their strongest technique, Leo's Heaven Splitting Blade and Reynolds Dawnbreaker. Pouring everything into their final attack, their attack collided. Leo lost by hair's breath, but was sparred by Reynolds, who would banished him from setting foot in the West ever again. Seeing his loss, Leo's father disowned him again and he never talked with Reynolds or Yennefer ever again.

He would later end up joining Spider a separatist origination that opposed the government and become a instructor at Global Military Academy. At Global Military Academy, he would notice the existence of Lucas Morningstar. Upon seeing him, he felt disappointment wondering how a Morningstar could be so weak and untalented. Furthermore, hearing the things that Lucas had done in the past and Lucas' reputation made Leo see him a bad light. He did sympathize with Lucas, seeing how they both had been shunned by their parents for having low potential, but he more important things to do than a help a kid. Plus he learned the hard way to never get himself involved with Morningstars. However as time went, he interacted with Lucas a little, while teaching just he like he does the other student. Upon seeing him, Leo was a left a bit confused as he realized that Lucas was nothing like how he his reputations had described. He was by far the most calm laid back person he had met. Still, he didn't think much about it and went on with his life.

However, while he was reviewing the footage from the Silveserine Massacre, he recognized someone pulling off the first step of Dawnbreaker. After reading the report, he found out that only 3 people fought at the end of the Massacre; Nero, Anastasia, and Lucas. He suspected that it was Lucas who did it as he is the only with connections to Morningstar family. Furthermore, he knew that only Yelena Morningstar had been deemed worthy of learning Dawnbreaker from Reynolds, meaning that Lucas learned Dawnbreaker by simply watching him. If this was true, then Lucas would have been extremely talented. Trying to see, if his assumption is true, Leo summoned Lucas and tested him. After finding out that Lucas learned 88% of level 3 art within a few weeks without any help or any prior knowledge about spears, Leo found out that Lucas, just like he assumed, was extremely talented even more so than himself. After a light spar with Lucas, he revealed to him how even people like him with low potentials could become the strongest, and took Lucas as disciple seeing his younger self in Lucas. As he trained Lucas, he wondered why Reynolds shunned him. Reynolds of all people should know that if you have enough talent, which Lucas did indeed have, that a low potential wouldn't matter. Even if Lucas was untalented, he found it weird how Reynolds abandoned. He was friends with him and Yennefer for years, and knew that they wouldn't do something cruel to his own children. Eventually, the more time he spent with Lucas, the closer they became. He has high expectation for Lucas and believes that Lucas can become the strongest just like him and wants him to reach his potential.