Kessho

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Kessho is a vine-green colored cutlerine who possesses reflective cutlerine abilities, and was the fifth contender to sign up for the Blessed Tournament. He also lacks any emotion, which he uses to his advantage. He goes up against the lone wolf Jikan.

### Etymology

Kessho (けっしょ) roughly translates to writing in blood or crystal (the latter would make more sense), which inspired his cutlerine features.

## Biography

In his younger years, he was like any other stickman, but his cutlerine status was revealed when he became ill with an unknown illness, which he tried to hide. For a few weeks he succeeded in hiding his illness but due to the illness, multiple cutlerine cores started growing on his body, which was followed by the loss of emotions. Even though he was shunned often, he lived as a cutlerine for a while. One day, he heard word about the Blessed Tournament. Knowing that his apathy would aid him in hitting harder, he ran from his village and used his crystalline powers to arrive on Arter.

### The Blessed Tournament

Going up against Jikan in bracket A2, he expressed no opinions on his loss, but revealed that he had figured out Jikan's ability, but decides to keep it a secret. He then met Sura, and established their acquaintance through out the tournament. Later on in the losers' bracket, he fought Akuma in bracket A34 with the upper hand, but was defeated due to Akuma transforming into full demon. He also briefly met Shio.

Kessho, having figured out about Akuma being a demon, he went to the organizer, Arashi to express his concerns, to which Arashi tells him off. Kessho then starts a fight with Arashi, and wins, which subsequently grabs Jikan's attention, and they form an alliance, where Kessho tells Jikan everything he knows about the two demons in the tournament and it's organizer.

After Jikan's loss in the penultimate bracket, Kessho gets Saigai and Kemuri to join in and confront Arashi. Jikan and Kessho, now joined by the brothers Kemuri and Saigai along with Kurai, confront Arashi. During this, The Clarity reacts wildly to Oto's sound abilities, which causes a great calamity. Kessho escapes to safety, along with Saigai and Kemuri on a crystal, but Kemuri is accidentally dropped, killing him.

## Personality

Nothing much about how Kessho acted before he got his illness is known, but he shows a degree of carelessness when fighting the other contestants, accepting defeat with open arms. However, Kessho is shown to be very shrewd, as he was the first to figure out Jikan's ability, and pulled clever tricks such as pulling out one of his cutlerine cores to parry Akuma. He has the incapability to feel emotions, except when he accidentally dropped Kemuri, he was overcome with the feeling of guilt, which at least shows a capacity to care.

Before the tournament, he was shunned by some of the villagers, however, he did not seem to care much about this.

## Abilities

Cutlerine Features: Has the durability of a cutlerine, but seems to have multiple cutlerine cores instead of one.

Crystal manifestation: Kessho can manifest crystals akin to a cutlerine, but can't seem to fire the energy beams of cutlerines. However, he can still create crystals to a great extent, as shown when fighting Akuma when he created giant crystal pillars.

Intellect: Kessho is shown to be very smart, as he used his cutlerine cores as an offensive weapon when fighting Akuma, and when he deduced that his crystals would deflect the light beams fired by Arashi. He also memorized Akuma's attack pattern, dodging his attacks casually.

Apathy: Kessho doesn't have emotions. Due to this, pain of any kind does not faze him. Kessho uses this to his advantage, getting back to his feet quickly after being knocked down.

## Relations

### Jikan

After his defeat, Kessho seemed to have respect for Jikan. enough respect in fact, to not reveal her power after learning about it.

### Sura

Kessho was at first confused by Sura's annoyance-filled banter to him, but they end up connecting over being shunned by their peers, which leads to a friendship. During Kessho's match against Akuma, Sura threw slime traps for Akuma to step into, which Kessho remarks as being bold, but brave after his loss.

### Akuma

Kessho actively expresses disdain for Akuma, albeit monotonously. He also figured out Akuma's true nature, and told the organizer of the tournament, Arashi.

### Arashi

Kessho expressed disappointment and anger toward Arashi, disapproving of his inaction against a demon in the tournament.

### Kazan

When Arashi said that he has something bigger planned after his defeat at the hands of Kessho, Kessho replies with "It's with that Kazan guy, isn't it." suggesting that Kazan and him have met eachother or spoke at some point during the tournament.

### Saigai

During the tournament, Saigai is implied to have at least respected Kessho. In the final bracket, Kessho tries to comfort Saigai after Kemuri's accidental death, but Saigai is unresponsive. In their very last interaction, Saigai tells him to "Get out of my sight." suggesting a one-sided hatred coming from Saigai.

### Kemuri

He and Kessho got along well, and were friends during the course of the tournament. After Kessho accidentally drops him, Kessho seemingly feels a feeling for the first time, that being guilt, which made his crystalline infection retract for a period of time.

## Trivia

* Though Kessho is a cutlerine, his powers seem to be more akin to an ice elemental.