Tenji Umeda

**Tenji Umeda** is a major supporting character of *Meiyo no Yaiba : Blade of Honor* He is a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slayer Corps and the current **Wind Hashira** (風柱 *Kaze Bashira*).

Tenji is also the older brother of Shinya Umeda, a Demon Slayer who fought alongside Tatsuma Akeboshi. Before becoming a Hashira, Tenji, along with his partner Tomo Arata, defeated the former Lower Rank One, Kawasemi, with Tomo dying as a result.

## Appearance

Tenji is a tall and muscular man with spiky long white hair and large pale purple eyes. His face and body are covered with scars, accrued over his many years of fighting demons. He cuts his hair short somewhere in between the Rehabilitation Training Arc and the Mugen Train Arc. He is usually seen wearing a crazed expression on his face.

He wears a green-tinted version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform, unbuttoned to expose his chest and abs with a white long sleeved shirt over it with the kanji for kill (殺 satsu) etched on the back, white buckles around his shins and tabi socks with a pair of white zōri with green straps.

During his battle with Fuwa, he loses his right index finger and his right middle finger.

## Personality

Tenji is abrasive, hot-blooded, extroverted, and stubborn, often times impulsive and quick to lash out. He is often indifferent towards others and can get mad extremely easily. The only person Tenji displayed reverence towards was Hayato Fukamiya, and only after realizing the man was much more than his outward appearance suggested. Tenji has also displayed a hunger for battle, wishing that he could encounter Upper Rank demons and proclaiming his joy for fighting Upper Rank One, Fuwa.

Tenji's cold, rude, and dismissive behavior is the result of losing too many people he cared about in the past. Later, when he sees those people who have passed, such as his mother, he can't help but give her a smile to be able to see her again. When Shinya joins the Demon Slayers in search of him, Tenji repeatedly dismisses and lashes out during any chance of seeing him, but Tatsuma Akeboshi is able to tell Sanemi didn't truly hate him; and in fact still bore the same brotherly love he had for him in childhood. This was however never expressed outwardly as he tried to push Shinya away from him and the Demon Slayers so he wouldn't be exposed to danger.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kazuha is a very powerful and skilled combatant. He has displayed his extraordinary abilities and proficiency in combat on multiple occasions. When sparring with Touma Kamiyama, Kazuha was able to fight on equal grounds with the Water Hashira. In the Infinity Castle Arc, Kazuha was shown to be capable of annihilating dozens of demons comparable to Lower Rank demons in strength and later could hold his own against Upper Rank One, Hitobashira.

**Demon Slayer Mark**: Later during the battle against Hitobashira, Kazuha awakened his own Demon Slayer Mark that resembled a single paper origami windmill that is green in color with two dots on both sides on his right cheek. The mark dramatically increases his physical capabilities, as seen when Kazuha was still able to fight and contend with Hitobashira, despite being grievously injured and slashed across his abdomen.

* **Bright Red Nichirin Sword:** During the battle against Hitobashira, Kazuha strikes Itto's spiked flail with his sword, turning both of them briefly red which allowed them to decapitate the Upper Rank. Later in the fight against Horobi, Kazuha, learning from his previous encounter, forcefully clashes his sword together with Touma's turning both of their blades temporarily red. Turning his blade red granted him the ability to hamper the instantaneous regeneration of Horobi which proved effective in the battle.

**Marechi:** Tenji's blood was revealed to be one of the rarest blood types, making it incredibly intoxicating and mouth watering to demons.

**Weapon Versatility:** Tenji has shown to be fairly flexible in weapon usage, being able to use Genya's sword and shotgun along with his own Nichirin Sword in a high-speed battle against Fuwa. Additionally, when fighting Horobi, he utilized fire by dumping oil on the demon and lighting it with a match.

## Fighting Style

**Master Swordsman:** Being a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Tenji is one of the most powerful and skilled swordsmen in the entire organization. His swordsmanship proficiency matched that of Touma Kamiyama's, an extremely skilled swordsman in his own right, during their sparring match while undergoing pillar training. Tenji's skills with the sword allowed him to keep up with and impress Upper Rank One, Fuwa, a demon with centuries of swordsmanship skill under his belt. Tenji could also adapt and work with Ryo's Stone Breathing techniques to push back Fuwa.

### Wind Breathing

A Breathing Style that Sanemi learned and mastered with Tomo Arata after tutelage from an unknown cultivator. As the Wind Hashira, Tenji considered to be the most skilled Wind Breathing user of his generation. His level of skill with Wind Breathing reminded Fuwa of the first Wind Hashira during the Sengoku Era, the Golden Age of Demon Slayers.

#### Techniques

* **First Form: Dust Whirlwind Cutter** - The user dashes forward at blinding speeds and slashes continuously in a horizontal cyclone pattern.

* **Second Form: Claws, Purifying Wind** - The user lifts the sword upwards towards the right, above their head and unleashes four vertical slashes at once down on the enemy resembling claws.

* **Third Form: Clean Storm Wind Tree** - The user unleashes a whirlwind of slashes around their body that can defend them from incoming attacks and slice up their surroundings.

* **Fourth Form: Rising Dust Storm** - The user releases several slashes above them from below their target.

* **Fifth Form: Cold Mountain Wind** - The user creates several circular arched slashes that increase in size from above their target.

* **Sixth Form: Black Wind Mountain Mist** - The user rotates their body in an uppercut movement, creating a tornado of slashes.

* **Seventh Form: Gale, Sudden Gusts** - The user leaps into the air while swinging their blade which generates gale-force winds to shred their opponent apart.

* **Eighth Form: Primary Gale Slash** - The user leaps into the air and swings their blade which generates circular torrents of wind that slices up the opponent instantly.

* **Ninth Form: Idaten Typhoon** - The user backflips into the air and while upside-down, unleashes a powerful gust of circular wind that slashes apart anything below.

## Equipment

**Standard Nichirin Katana:** As a Demon Slayer, Tenji carries around a standard sized and shaped Nichirin katana with a jagged pattern resembling the jaw of a beast in a shade of green. His hilt is in an abstract shape with 8 points with an overlapping pattern; each plate has a forest green core with a silver border. As a Hashira, Tenji's blade has the words **Destroy Demons** engraved on the side. With his katana, Tenjo has a standard sword sheath that is a shade of deep gray with silver marks resembling scars strewn on it.