Sendo Masato

## Summary

The second son of the man who got married with Haruto's and Aki's mother after the divorce, Takahisa's little brother, Haruto's and Aki's little step-brother, due to mentioning Haruto in front of Aki being taboo he was never told that Haruto was his older step brother living away with his own father, the first day of his sixth year at the elementary school he got dragged into Takahisa's and Satsuki's hero summoning.

He suddenly appeared with Miharu and Aki in the middle of grassland near the border between the Galarc kingdom and the Centostella kingdom, the three walked together until they were near a high way where a slave trader spotted them and kidnapped them to be rescued a little later by Rio, his older stepbrother Haruto's reincarnation.

After being rescued by Rio he began to treat him as an older brother, he is invited to the rock house where he explains to Miharu, Aki and him that they are now in another world, since then Rio sheltered the three temporarily.

During the events of the night party in Galarc where the failed kidnapping of Miharu occurred by his siblings, Aki and Takahisa. Masato decides they can't be left alone in their current mental states and agrees to accompany them back to the Centostella Kingdom. Masato spends many months arguing, and fighting with his siblings in an attempt to get them to reflect. Aki is able to reflect and feels extreme guilt for what she did to Miharu, where his brother Takahisa refuses to accept his faults and continues to spiral into madness.

After the events of volume 20 where Rio became a transcendent existence after killing the hero Saint Erika. Masato was summoned as a hero to the location Erika died in the Galarc Kingdom. This was due to the Hero summoning system set in place by the Six wise gods which takes advantage of the divine-rules. Masato and the others currently have no memory that Erika or Rio ever existed to question why he has been summoned as a hero after the fact.

Masato is currently in the Galarc Kingdom with his step-sister Aki and Princess Lilianna while the Centostella and Galarc Kingdoms come to an agreement on which kingdom Masato will belong to as a Hero. During these negotations his older brother Takahisa gets completely rejected by Miharu and ends up running away from the Castle, and after the series of events of volume 24, ultimately defecting to the Proxia Empire under Reiss Vulfe. Masato currently doesn't know the fate of his brother.

## Appearance

Masato is described as a young primary school boy with brown hair.

## Personality

An honest, cheerful and easygoing boy that after meeting for the first time with a pretty older girl can't avoid falling in love with her temporarily.

## Relationships

**Rio**: his older step-brother's reincarnation, he treats him as his real older brother. Masato regards Rio as both his teacher in swordsmanship and a role model to look up to. Masato at times unconsciously imitates Rio's mannerisms in his actions, something Sumeragi Satsuki pointed out jokingly in volume 21.

**Takahisa Sendou**: His older brother. After the events of the night party in Galarc. Masato is deeply disgusted by what Takahisa attempted to do. He returns back to Centostella with Takahisa and is in a cold war state. Masato does not allow Takahisa to attempt deflect responsibility for kidnapping Miharu. He constantly engages Takahisa in both verbal arguments, and sparring matches in an attempt to get his old brother back and have him reflect.

**Aki Sendou**: his older step sister. After the events of volume 10, the night party in the Galarc Kingdom, he decides to act as a mature older brother to both Aki and his brother Takahisha to ensure they reflect on what they did and help guide them back on the correct path. He constantly is by Aki's side in the Centostella kingdom, provoking her to regret her actions but also encouraging her as a brother to make amends, accept responsibility and begin rebuilding the trust she lost with the others.

**Miharu Ayase**: he treats her as an older sister.

**Satsuki Sumeragi**: he treats her as an older sister.

**Lilianna Centostella**: Respects her as the first princess of Centostella. Due to his fondness for older women he finds her attractive. In volume 11 after the events of the night party, Lilianna jokingly agrees to marry Masato if she is still single when he gets older. As of volume 23, the Centostella King has directed Lilianna to get closer to Masato as a probable marriage partner.

## Abilities

### Magical Abilities

As someone summoned from the other world, Masato has a higher amount of odo (magical power) compared to the residents of the one he was summoned to. After awakening as the new Hero of Earth, he received the same amount of power as the other Heroes.

**Spirit Arts:** Same as his older sister, he learned Spirit Arts from the residents of Seirei no Tami, being able to use it more than other Humans, because of his odo amount, despite not being one of the Spirit Folk. Because of him training in the Spirit Arts, he learned to better handle his power as a Hero, in addition to wielding his divine sword.

### Martial Arts

Though his physical and magical prowess are inferior to his older brother, Sendou Takahisa, who was one of the Summoned Heroes; his martial arts, his swordsmanship, in particular, is superior, something that he learned from Rio.

### Equipment

After learning martial arts from Rio, Masato started wielding a sword and shield as his main weapons in combat.

* **Unnamed Sword:** Masato's Divine Weapon, an unnamed greatsword, in which allows him to manipulate the earth.

## Etymology

* **Sendou** means "thousand" (千) (**sen**) and "hall" (堂) (**dou**).
* **Masato** means "elegant, graceful" (雅) (**masa**) and "person" (人) (**to**).