Gaku

**Gaku** (楽がく, *****Gaku*****?) is an assassin working with Slur and a member of X's Organization as he aids him in overthrowing the JAA. He was an orphan at the Al-Kamar orphanage, a failed plan to create Order members.

## Appearance

Gaku is a tall young man with silver-colored hair styled in a slick back manner as well as blood-red eyes.

Gaku wears a pair of black square-shaped earrings, a high collared black jacket that loosely falls around his muscular body that's covered in multiple scars with the sleeves rolled up, bandaged hands, black baggy pants and strapped sneakers. He can often be seen carrying a cube-headed mace covered in wrappings over his shoulder.

After his fight with Takamura, Gaku lost his right ear, parts of his left middle and ring fingers as well as his entire right hand. Later on, Gaku has both his fingers and hand reattached, but his right ear was not and now wears a earring-like eye piece in place of it.

## Personality

Gaku is a relaxed and laidback man, talking calmly with Slur about the JAA and comparing their nervousness to a returning student going to school rather than a life-and-death situation, other examples of Gaku's nonchalant attitude can been seen when he's eating snacks whilst in the middle of a fight, using the restroom after getting blasted through a door, and by him playing video games during an important meeting.

Besides his extremely casual behavior, Gaku can also be quite cold and cruel having casually killed JAA's members without hesitation or mercy and brutalizing the teenage JAA applicants. And cared very little for the collateral damage or the pain he caused Shinaya when he overexerted the college student while controlling him.

## Skills & Abilities

**Overall Skill Level**: Gaku is a powerful fighter, easily capable of massacring hundreds of JAA members as well as holding his own against Takamura, an extremely skilled and deadly member of the Order, albeit barely. During their fight, Nagumo acknowledges how strong he is and states that Gaku is the strongest opponent he’s ever faced.

**Expert Combatant**: Gaku is a highly skilled armed and unarmed fighter. He can use his large mace in battle with incredible proficiency, and is also capable of using a one-inch punch with tremendous force behind it. His combat prowess are said to resemble Taro Sakamoto when he was younger.

**Enhanced Strength**: Gaku has incredible physical strength, capable of swinging his large mace around with ease. He obliterated half of a JAA guard's torso with a casual backhand strike and later on proceeds to literally tear apart multiple assassins with his mace. When controlling Shinaya, Gaku was nigh-unstoppable, wiping out almost every JCC faculty on the island, overwhelming Shin Asakura and Joichiro Kaji as well as manhandling powerful applicants such as Mafuyu Seba and Nao Toramaru until he was finally stopped by Sakamoto's arrival.

**Enhanced Speed and Reflexes**: Gaku is so fast that several JAA members, most of which are skilled assassins, were unable to defend themselves from his attacks. He also managed to somewhat avoid Takamura's extremely fast Iai attacks, turning otherwise-lethal blows into moderate injuries. When controlling Shinaya, Gaku was able to quickly respond to Sakamoto's attacks. His speed is shown to be on par with Nagumo.

**Enhanced Endurance**: Gaku can endure extreme amounts of pain, capable of taking multiple strikes that would kill any normal human being and remained completely unfazed. Even after losing his right hand and two of his fingers, he barely flinched and continued fighting.

## Equipment

**Mace**: Gaku carries around a large mace with a long pole and cubical head covered in spikes, vaguely resembling that of a meat tenderizer. The tip of the mace also contains a powerful laser cannon. It was destroyed in his fight with Takamura but was later replaced.

**Bulletproof Jacket**: Gaku's jacket appears to be bulletproof as it deflected multiple high-powered gunshots from the JAA's guards machine guns.

## Battles & Events

* Death Row Prisoners Arc
	+ JAA assassins & Takamura vs Gaku
* JCC Transfer Exams Arc
	+ Shin Asakura, Nao Toramaru, Joichiro Kaji, Taro Sakamoto & JCC Staff vs Gaku
* Assassin Exhibition of the Century Arc
	+ Gaku vs Nagumo: TBA

## Etymology

* **Gaku** means "ease/easy, comfort" (楽).

## Trivia

* Gaku ranked 9th place in the manga's 1st Character Popularity Poll with 2,472 votes.
* Gaku likes video games, playing a handheld console on the job, referencing "*Resident Evil*" at one point and commenting on the lag of a remote-control system.
* Gaku is the youngest amongst Slur's group.
* While fighting, Gaku pictures the battlefield as a video game.

## References

1. ↑ *Sakamoto Days* Manga: Chapter 151 (Page 2)
2. ↑ *Sakamoto Days* Manga: Chapter 149 (Pages 16-17)
3. ↑ *Sakamoto Days* Manga: Chapter 151 (Pages 6-8)
4. ↑ *Sakamoto Days* Manga: Chapter 151 (Page 8)
5. ↑ *Sakamoto Days* Manga: Chapter 150 (Pages 12-18)
6. ↑ *Sakamoto Days* Manga: Chapter 104 (Page 12)
7. ↑ *Sakamoto Days* Manga: Chapter 151 (Page 13)