Kazetaro Takada

> *Everything you're saying is wrong. Your presence here now is proof. Everyone is a helpless baby when they're born. Same with you Akaza. You don't remember it, but when you were a baby... someone protected and helped you too. The strong protect the weak. Then the weak get stronger and help those weaker than themselves. **That is the law of nature!***
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**Kazetaro Takada** is a protagonist featured ***Demon Fall:Oni no Hokai***

He is a Demon Slayer in the Demon Slayer Corps, who joined to find a remedy to turn his sister, Masayuki Takada, back into a human and to hunt down and kill demons, and later swore to defeat Muzan Kibutsuji, the Demon King, in order to prevent others from suffering the same fate as him.

## Appearance

Kazetaro is a muscular young man.  There is a general height for men in this age range.  He had messy, dark brown hair that slightly shaded his right eye. and his eye is wide, dark amber eyes with white pupils that appear lighter around the lower section of his irises.

Kazetaro wears the standard Demon Slayer uniform, a tinted green gakuran jacket, a white belt, baggy pants that extend into tabi socks, a pair of zori with green straps, and bands of white cloth wrapped tightly around his calves resembling kyahan along with a plain creamish white haori.

## Personality

Kazetaro is very kind by nature and has been described by others as having very gentle eyes and a compassionate persona. He exhibits a great deal of determination and will not give up once he has a goal to achieve; the best example of this being his relentless quest to killing Akuryo. Even though he is relatively strong on his own, Kazetaro isn't opposed to asking others for help when he needs it. He is very protective his friends. However, despite his kind and understanding nature, Kazetaro does have a limit to his tolerance and has a distaste for rudeness and cowardice.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** From the start, Kazetaro was shown to be a prodigious fighter, having a strong natural aptitude for combat, especially in swordsmanship. Kazetaro was already introduced to have superhuman characteristics, like extraordinary senses, a heightened sense of smell, immense willpower and great intellect. His naturally obtained abilities go so far as to allow him to outsmart and defeated Gurimu Kosen, one of the most powerful Demon Slayers, off guard and nearly land a fatal blow on him with nothing but his intense emotions. Just after learning Wind Breathing and taking the Final Selection, he was able to easily take down many low-level demons without the help of others.

**Enhanced Strength:** After his training at Sagiri Mountain, Kazetaro has gained superhuman arm and leg strength and has demonstrated a great use of it, jumping over the humongous Hand Demon, and leaping over buildings effortlessly.

**Genius Intellect:** Kazetaro is incredibly analytical and sagacious, as well as showing a natural aptitude and innate intuition in many varied areas. Even against opponents that heavily outmatch him in multiple categories, Kazetaro is capable of creating strategies to beat an opponent on the fly and in danger even if it results in his own death.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** Kazetaro possesses superhuman speed and reaction time, being able to travel faster than the eye can see and even move faster than Gurimu, an extremely skilled sword master, and react to the blinding movement speeds of demon even before he started using **Total Concentration Breathing.** After a few months of training at the Flower Mansion.

**Immense Stamina & Endurance:** Kazetaro has incredible stamina and endurance, even before he became a Demon Slayer, showed when he had to train in a mountain will little to no oxygen for many days, dodging booby traps, running and traversing through it up and down, and improving his swordsmanship skills and physique all while under these harsh conditions. His stamina and endurance was further improved having mastered **Total Concentration: Constant.**

**Indomitable Will:** Kazetaro possesses an undaunted will and spirit, being able to fight and engage in battle against enemies stronger than him with his sheer will alone to kill Demons and protect his friends even when he sustained severe injuries and wounds. The death of his family also played a big role in his insurmountable willpower, his visions of his family members urging him on during times of crisis, allowing him to pull through any hardship.

**Demon Slayer Mark:** Kazetaro awakens his mark for the first time while fighting Upper Rank Six, Hanmyomaru, and once again against the split forms of Tokuchiyo, the Upper Rank Four. Later, the mark reappears during his rematch against Upper Rank 3, Abagi. Kazetaro awakened his own Demon Slayer Mark that resembled a single paper origami windmill that is glowing green in color with two dots on both sides on his left forehead. Kazetaro's strength, speed and reaction time increase drastically. In his fight with Abagi, after gaining access to the Transparent World in addition to his Demon Slayer mark, Kazetaro is able to move fast enough to cut off Abagi's head without giving him any time to react, a move which would've killed Abagi if it wasn't for him overcoming his weakness to Nichirin Sword decapitation. However, it should be noted Abagi's compass detection ability relied on him sensing battle spirit from his opponent, and Kazetaro was able to show no battle spirit while performing this attack.

### Wind Breathing

A Breathing Style Kazetaro learned and mastered with Kazashi Kamatobira from a former Wind Hashira Gurimu Kosen. His skill in this Breathing Style of the first Wind Hashira in the golden age of Demon Slayers in the Sengoku Era.

#### 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, Kazetaro carries around a standard sized and shaped Nichirin katana with a jagged pattern resembling the jaw of a beast in a shade of pale 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. Later His blade also has the words **Slay** (滅, *Metsu*) engraved on the side. engraved on the side. With his katana, Kazetaro has a standard sword sheath that is a shade of deep gray with silver marks resembling scars strewn on it.