Tengo Azuri/Powers & Abilities

## Natural Abilities

**Advanced Strength -** Tengo is much stronger than the average human as a result of consistent and intense training - displaying that he can casually crash through stone walls and being capable of leaving a (small) injury on the **Fire God of Yuusho**.

**Extreme Speed -** Tengo is likely able to blitz an average human, being shown to outmatch other main characters in competitions of speed and even catch the **Fire God of Yuusho** off-guard with his speed while performing an attack.

**Extreme Athleticism -** Tengo consistently shows great skill in his complex movement during and outside of combat; always performing swift leaps, hops, high jumps, spins and more.

**Advanced Martial Arts -** Tengo has displayed excellent hand-to-hand combat, utilising martial arts surprisingly well for a swordsman; he was able to perform an axe kick on a child of Yuusho's Fire God without warming up and shown general affinity with various martial arts techniques.

**Superhuman Hearing -** Tengo has shown that his sense of hearing can be even greater than his sense of sight, relying on it multiple times during combat and tracking - for example he will sometimes close his eyes entirely and utilise purely his ears to detect his enemies on a higher level. His hearing can seemingly reach on for over 2 miles, though the precise distance is unknown.

**Eidetic Memory -** Tengo is able to recall practically every moment of his life perfectly, down to all of his senses, as if he's actually there - while this can be very useful in remembering vital information, it can also be emotionally and mentally straining on him.

## Swordsmanship

### Basic Sword Attacks

**Overall Skill -** Tengo is very skilled with his blade and far superior to the average swordsman soldier, being able to match extremely powerful opponents on many occasions and even creating his own techniques as opposed to only learning abilities that have been passed down. Tengo also fights with a very fluid style, dichotomously to the majority of other swordsmen (and particularly other **samurai**) who prioritise sudden strikes. Additionally, Tengo is explicitly faster when wielding his sword and can cut through light armour on his opponents as of now.

**Shredding Spiral -** Tengo leaps and spirals through the air with his blade, cutting through anything in his path like a blender; this uses the initial momentum of Tengo's leap and the rotation of his body to produce immense strength while also allowing him to cover a decent distance.

**Umbrella Arc -** A swift arcing slice that goes over Tengo's head in a rainbow shape, intended to slice through any attacks that would come from above.

**Ripping Whirlpool -** A rapid, multiple-time spinning slice that is omnidirectional; usually used by Tengo for a quick defence from overwhelming attacks or attacks he's predicting without being sure of their nature or direction they're coming from.

**Golden Shower -** Tengo leaps into the air directly above his opponent and dives down head-forwards, proceeding to perform a rapid flurry of thrusts with his blade as he's dropping; this attack can also continue into Tengo smashing his opponent's head between his knees and falling backwards to crash their head against the ground, their face close to Tengo's crotch.

**River's Redirection -** Tengo spirals in around his opponent to close the distance over time while forcing the opponent to keep track of him, before leaping in onto one foot and feinting a horizontal slash, then hopping to either his left or right side and drawing his sword back into a thrust instead; this attack is only reserved for confusing more powerful opponents in 1-on-1 duels.

### Sword Abilities

**Rippling Cuts -** Tengo can use this ability to make all attacks with his sword influence the surrounding area, not just where they physically cut; Tengo has displayed that, while using this ability, he can dash past opponents without hitting them at all and still cut their hip. As of now this ability's area of effect is fairly small, but it can be assumed that this will develop to higher levels.

**War's Calling -** This is one of Tengo's most powerful abilities, making it so that a spherical area forms with a place that Tengo has recently sliced as the point of origin; afterwards thousands of cuts and slices will occur within a few seconds in that area, utterly destroying anything within it. All these slices are equal to or stronger than the physical slice Tengo performed, however it should be noted that he can only use this ability when in his full-power state.

## Blessings

### Challenger Magic

This blessing was provided to Tengo Azuri by unknown demons who are presumed to be of extremely high power, it can be assumed this is part of the reason for certain things to do with Tengo's powers and personality.

**Lifelong Duel -** Tengo can "challenge" any living thing, regardless of their power relative to his own, and force them into a life-or-death duel against him. This can be used against multiple opponents at once, the current limit being unknown, and will make it so that both parties (Tengo and the opponent) cannot physically do anything that isn't related to battling, and killing, the other. This effect only goes away once one of the parties has met absolute death, meaning that it will not be released if the "dead" party can revive or is faking their death to an extreme level - as examples. It has also been shown that if Tengo is battling a challenged opponent, there is a seeming "chain of priority" for that person in which they'll always focus on Tengo himself rather than another external threat if Tengo is attacking them at the same time - though the specifics of this aren't clear.

**Indiscriminate Duel -** In addition to living things, Tengo can also "challenge" anything that is inorganic - so long as it isn't a concept (as shown when he failed to challenge the direction of West). This forces what he has challenged into attacking him as if they were an organic being, with no purpose other than to kill him. The inherent power of what Tengo challenges will transfer over into their state of attacking him - though it is to be apparent that anything Tengo challenges does not become organic or gain life, it's function as something inorganic merely changes. In addition to physical things, Tengo can also challenge something like the magical aura of his opponents, though what this accomplishes is unapparent as of now. Tengo has been shown to utilise this ability both for training and to skilfully use in combat against his opponents - an example of which being when he challenged grass behind the **Fire God of Yuusho** to shoot at him and instead hit the Fire God who stood between Tengo and the grass.

## Transformations

**Full Power -** While this is not exactly a transformation and more so a state, Tengo's entirely personality and demeanour changes upon tapping into his full power; he appears to be more serious and stoic than his regular self. In this form he has displayed his greatest feats, such as obliterating the head of the **Fire God's "Raiken"** form with seeming ease - even gaining abilities exclusive to only this state. It has been made apparent that Tengo only goes into his full-power form in extreme situations and usually reserves it, however it can be assumed that during the **Mordern Kalto-Motom War** he was always fighting in his full-power state.