Saito Hanjiro

Internal Affairs Bureau

**Hanjiro** Saito (斉藤 **半次郎**) is a teacher of Gosha Academy.

He is a boss in Taimanin RPGX and serial killer Taimanin.

## Personality

Hanjiro is a dangerous, cold-blooded serial killer, that views himself as just and noble and is antisocial and unwilling to help students as a teacher.

He presents himself as a calculating aristocrat with polite manners and thinks of himself as superhuman. In truth, he lacks empathy and is more impulsive than his twin brother, as he enjoys murder and prolonged torture. He values intelligence, strength of will and resistance but, will kill such people that he is impressed by, only more slowly or torture them.

He stated, himself, that other people are a simply an overpopulated "herd" and that it is his "mission" to thin them out. Looking down on everybody, he wishes to one day kill Asagi, that he views as a "noblewoman" but he dislikes her sister Sakura.

Hanjiro's views his brother more as an asset and extension of his own ability. His twisted view on murder and push, makes him very dangerous and hard to work with.

## Appearance

A glass wearing young man, with black hair and gray eyes.

## History

The twin brother of Saito Hanzo and a Taimanin. He was a teacher at Gosha Academy.

In reality, he was known as the "Evil Lurking in Gosha" a serial killer who had taken the lives of more than 20 people in the last 10 years. Hanjiro forced his twin brother to live within his body thanks to his ability and used him as a weapon, only allowing him to exist while, Hanjiro slept.

He used the ability to hide his twin brother to kill people and to get rid of evidence. Thanks to this, Hanjiro effectively could use two different Ninja Arts. He kept his true ability a secret.

When Nisha Gaiza started a revolt against Gosha Village early on in RPGX, he used this opportunity and kidnapped Izumo Tsuru in the confusion. Using her for many months for torture, removed her limbs and kept her at his home. In turn, this resulted in Tsuru's father Library returning to Gosha Village, thinking his daughter had died in the conflict.

Hanjiro became involved with the Internal Affairs Bureau and Mine Funako, which knew of his activities and hoped he could work together with them. Though he assisted, Hanjiro made sure to kill any loose end that presented itself, like Igawa Kageomi and Numazu Hikoshiro. He ultimately still agreed with the plans of Mine, to kill Asagi and torture her as part of his twisted view of reaching something beyond good and evil. One of his latest victims was a second year named Miori, which he killed but, he kept Tsuru alive as a twisted decoration, impressed by her resistance.

Hanjiro got rid of Numazu Hikoshiro, that worked in secret for the Internal Affairs Bureau, when he had been captured by the Independent Rangers, to keep his identity a secret. He tried to kill Fuuma Kotaro afterward in Gosha Library using the Book Club Member but this created a smaller number of possible suspects for the investigation into the Gosha serial killer.

Now with a possible ability and time of alibis in hand, Kotaro investigated together with Homare Nao, Shishimura Koro and Aishu Hebiko and questioned multiple people. Assuming, that the killer might have faked his true ability in documents, the search radius was increased and teacher Hanjiro was supposed to be question at his home. When the Independent Rangers arrived, Koro noticed something was wrong with the place, feeling the spiritual residue of the recently deceased. The group was attacked by, Saki Shino butler of the Saito Residence and a number of spiders. Thanks, too Onisaki Kirara the group could knock out Shino, and found the secret hatched going into the basement.

While, sending a message to the others for help, the group went in first. Hanjiro revealing himself after a sneak attack, by emerging out of the mutilated corpse of Asai, as he tried to kill Hebiko. Provoking the group, he revealed the tortured Izumo Tsuru, and a number of Demi Human, made from the other corpses. While Kotaro noticed that he couldn't have made the demi humans without outside help, Hanjiro did not reveal that he had been assisted by the Internal Affairs Bureau but did state it was the small army he was building to kill Asagi. Hanjiro tried to kill the others, but in a critical moment, the ninja art, of his brothers stopped working because his brother refused to cooperate and Onisaki Kirara froze and shattered Hanjiro.

His twin brother Saito Hanzo, left his corpse after his death but refused to continue a fight holding Koro hostage for him to flee, claiming that he also had gained the "invitation". From that point on in the year 2084, the Saito Residence remained empty, and was later noted by Sakura Fuunsai to be a place people avoid.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Ability

* **Ninja Art**: "**Human Recluse Technique**" He can hide other bodies inside him or dive into other bodies as a hiding spot.
	+ Claims that his ninja art allows him only to grow extra arms, this is a lie and the arms belong to his twin brother.
	+ Thanks to the stored brother, he can use: "**Wind Art**" can compress air and force hydrogen and oxygen to react and explode, a target touched by his brother's arms is destroyed.
* **Particle Control**: Taimanin are able to manipulate Taima Particles to enhance their physical strength, speed and defense. The particles are also used to counter demonic influences and strengthen damage to demons.

## Trivia

* Combined with his brother, he shares some qualities of Kira from JoJo.
* His house is mentioned by Sakura Fuunsai while he rampaged though town. Hunting Minasaki and Lilim, which used it for defense, in the hope he wouldn't destroy random buildings. Fuunsai stating nobody would care if he blew up an empty house of a serial killer.
* Asai **Miori** (浅井 **美織だ**) based on the fact, she had not yet been transformed into a demi human.
* The details of how Izumo Tsuru was kept were rather gruesome, as outside of removal of limbs performed a number of operations on her, to keep her alive as an ornament.