Kudo Yuki

## Overview

Gifted in weapons and mechanics. **Kudo Yuki** is a full-time superhero known as the master swordsman in armor, Slice**.** An orphaned child, Kudo was raised by his mother's sensei, Heizo Kurihara. He was raised alongside Ayana Kurihara. Kudo and Ayana were trained by Heizo at his dojo. Heizo taught them both Neko. Due to the G Corporation's constant mission to kill him, he was sent to the US for a better life.

Upon arrival to the US, he immediately got a job at a gun store. With his major skill in weapons, he had dreams of creating a big weapon company. He decided to start posting videos of himself creating his own weapons with the tools around him. The videos gave him a huge following. His skill attracted the successful businessman Javion Nash. Nash offered to fund his company as long as he gets 15% of its profits. Yuki Industries had a big growth when Kudo created the mechanical armor known as Shielded. He sold one of the armors to the US for 3.4 billion dollars and another to Japan for 800 million dollars. With the suit, he decides to become a hero and started saving locals in Brooklyn.

## History

### Early Life

Kudo Yuki was born in Tokyo, Japan to Kane and Katrina Yuki. He had an older brother named Kojo, who was five years old at the time, Katrina dies two years after his birth in a battle against Ms. G. Kudo and Kojo lived with their father unknown to their mother's death.

In his childhood years, Kudo grew to be a prodigy in multiple scholastic subjects at his school, Shōtō Junior High School, achieving high honors among his classmates. When he was thirteen, his life changed for the worst. The G Corporation, disguised as loan sharks. Where there to "claim their money." Kojo sends Kudo away to the Kurihara estate to protect him. Kojo fights off some of the G Corporation but is captured by Shinro and Charlotte. Kane had been shot in the neck accidentally.

Heizo Kurihara learns from their deaths and takes in Kudo as his own child and raises him alongside his daughter, Ayana Kurihara, for the next four years.

### Becoming Slice

Kudo and Ayana train under Heizo to learn Neko and various martial art styles. Kudo also attended school at the time and graduated early. With all the spare time he had, he focus on getting stronger with his blade. He eventually makes his own personal sword fit his style called the Slicer.

Kudo bets with Ayana; if he wins a fight against he, he gets to take her out on a date. Ayana accepts the bet and they brawl under the supervision of Heizo and the other members of the Dojo. Kudo wins and invites her to her favorite sweet shop and a parade that was in town.

When they arrive at the sweet shop, the store clerk wasn't there. Instead it was Shinro and Charrlotte. The owner of the shop, Charlotte actually worked for the G Corporation. However, Shinro and Charlotte were no longer human. They were now Half-Gyros.

A fight erupts, resulting in Charlotte's death and Shinro being extremely injured. Before they can finish Shinro off, a wind barrier blocks them from attacking him. The person who cast the barrier was Kojo himself. However, he was no longer himself and was brainwashed. He was also a Half-Gyro. Kojo had no memory of his past at all.

Kudo and Ayana team up to try to take him down but is easily out-maneuvered. Kudo incapacitates Ayana with one of his wind spheres. Kudo, who believed that Ayana was dead, got angry. Chimera takes this as an opportunity to take over his body, and Kudo gains the Bakeneko Scythe. He overpowers Kojo easily and almost kills him but is stopped by Heizo. Heizo seals Chimera back, and Kudo falls unconscious.

When he wakes, Heizo explains everything about his past. Heizo also reveals that he and Ayana are cat shape-shifters, also known as Ninkos. He also tells him that Ayana isn't dead but is incapacitated and he is sending him to America for a safer life from the G Corp. Kudo declines immediately but has no choice since Heizo roofies him.

He arrives in the US and immediately gets a job at a local gun store. His fascination with weapons led to him creating weapons on his own. This drives him to create his own gun-selling organization. His fellow co-worker inspires him to record himself making his own weapons. Within a week of posting his videos gain him a huge following on Youtube. His skill in weapons attracts the successful millionaire businessman Javion Nash. Nash offers to fund his company as long as he gets 15% of the profits. Kudo names his company Yuki Industries. The company has huge growth when Kudo creates the legendary mechanical armor known as Shielded. He creates three prototypes of the armor and posts them on his page. The video gets a mass amount of views, and it gets the attention of the US government. Yuki Industries sells one of the armors to the US for 3.4 billion dollars and another to Japan for 800 million dollars. He keeps one to himself to protect himself from the G Corp. He decides to use the armor to protect New York City and its people.

## Relationships

Kudo's has only been shown to be into Ayana. Ayana shared the same feelings, but he never expressed them before she became incapacitated. He also seems to find Chimera attractive.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

**Enhanced Swordsmanship:** Slice is so skilled with the sword it's scary. He is able to disrupt the wind around him and control it with his Tiger Style. When he uses Tiger Style with his blade he becomes significally stronger and is able to cut throught metal easily. With his sword he is also able to deflect almost any attack that comes his way.

**Enhanced Precision:** Slice is seen to have great aim with his sword. He is able to hit targets with his wind waves from long distances. Although he perfers to attack close range. The closer you are to him, the easier he can hit you with his sword.

**Superhuman Speed:** Slice can run faster than a normal human with the help of Neko. While wearing the Shielded he can run significally faster. When Chimera took over his body. He became so fast he was untrackable even for Vacanado.

**Superhuman Reflexes:** Slice can dodge highspeed attacks even from people that are faster than him. He was able to dodge a highspeed attack from Vacanado who was said to be way faster than Slice.

**Expert Martial Artist:** Slice is a master martial artist from being taught in the dojo by Heizo. Slice is so good at martial arts that despite being jumped by a mob of convicts he beat them all with his fists. He only punched a convict who was significally bigger than him, five times and knocked him out.

**Flight:** Slice is seen to be able to fly with his Shielded armor. When Chimera takes over he can fly without his armor.

### Abilities

**Gifted Intellect:** Slice is insanely smart and has advanced intellect in many categories of work. He also has advanced space knowledge.

**Weapon Mastery:** Slice has a mastery of all weapons and can break them down and recreate them with ease

**Expert Engineer/Inventor:** Slice is an expert at creating things on a spot or fixing electronics. Slice has created things such as Guns, Swords, and the Shielded armor.

**Bilingual:** Slice is able to speak two different languagess, Japanese and English.

### Physical Strength

Slice isn't the strongest superhero but he can defintely lift..

### Weakness

Slice has not been shown to have any notable weakness.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

**Slicer:** Slice's trusted sword that he's been using for five straight years. The sword was created by himself and specialized for himself. He is able to use Tiger Style with the sword which makes the blade even stronger.

**Bakaneko Scythe:** A stage two Neko weapon that Slice cannot control. Everytime he tries to wield it, Chimera takes over and overpowers him. The scythe is so strong it was said to be able to slice through a mountain.

**Shielded:** Slice's armor that he made specifically for himself. This armor can protect him from bullets and most attacks. He sold two duplicates of the armor to the US & Japanese governnment.

## Trivia

* Kudo is inspired by the One Piece character 'Zoro.'
* It took Kudo only a year to become fluent in English.
* Kudo finds Chimera very attractive.
* Kudo's least favorite meal is Soup ever since his brother was brainwashed.
* The artificial intelligence system he created known as RACHEL was named that because the first person who subscribed to his channel was named, RowdyRowdyRachel98.
* Kudo was originally going to be named "Blake."