Kougetsu Yamashita

**Kougetsu Yamashita**(山下 光月, *Yamashita Kougetsu*) is a major character of the Seventh Garden main canon. He is a Magic King candidate of Royal Biblia Academy and is in possession of the 30th Magic King Element associated with **Marquis Forneus.** Kougetsu is one of the top freshmen students, possessing the Rebellio Thema, along with being the Magic King candidate closest to the Trinity Seven.

## Profile

### **Background**

Kougetsu Yamashita was born to a seemingly normal family, his parents regularly traveled for their work and he got to regularly travel across Japan as he grew up. This left him fairly isolated as a result, though he developed a strong relationship with his parents as the only people he really consistently spent time with. An only child, Kougetsu had plenty of chances to meet new people when they'd spend a few months in a new city or town but after Kougetsu turned 11, his father moved overseas on a particularly important job and his mother decided to finally settle down with him in Shinjuku.

While initially happy to stay in one place, strange events began to unfold around him, unexplainable phenomenon started to happen around him, things that Kougetsu couldn't be responsible for but due to him being the one constant factor, the other children would blame him for and ostracize him. Bullied across his young life, Kougetsu began to develop a strong sense of self. He'd push back and deny the others who tried to hurt him for seemingly nothing across his entire childhood, gifting him a strong spirit that would carry him into high school, though how much of this was simply his defense mechanism and how much of this is how strong he wishes to be is unknown.

When Kougetsu turned 14, his mother was forced to leave for a work related assignment in America with his father, fully alone, he was gifted a pair of books and was asked by her to keep them safe. Wearing them to sleep, Kougetsu's life would change forever as the moon began to rise.

A massive, city wide event began to take shape, a giant silver sun, almost identical to a star, began to form above the whole of Shinjuku, bringing chaos as all who lacked magical power began to vanish. Unbeknownst to Kougetsu, his power couldn't be contained anymore and it began to shape into a Breakdown Phenomenon. As the young teen slept, his body was taken to the tallest rooftop in Shinjuku and he rested soundly as the city became quiet. This rest was short lived as a young woman began to find him. The city was at rest and she was here to stop whatever caused this. He was given an ultimatum: dispel the Breakdown Phenomenon, hand over his grimoire, the Astil Codex, and have his memories erased or refuse to do so and die. Kougetsu, terrified of this interaction, began to calm as he started to smile. Finally having an answer to what's plagued him across his young life, he was contempt but refused to accept her offer.

Declaring that he'll create his own "Option 3", Kougetsu raised the Astil Codex higher as a second Grimoire began to form with it, almost like they were a pair. The teen requested that the two books "bring back the blue sky" and the world began to unfold, returning to what it once was as Kougetsu stood tall at the top of the now ruined city. Stating that he will become a Magus like the girl before him, Kougetsu joined her in the Royal Biblia Academy with a smile. He finally understood who he was meant to be.

Before the new year began, Kougetsu was given rudimentary lessons on magic, along with developing a friendship with his grimoire, Sora and Illia. With them, he managed to develop and understand thema, allowing Kougetsu to manifest his personal Thema, along with Illias developing a secondary thema to help Kougetsu's magic control.

#### Personality

Kougetsu is, on the outside, a bold and highly confident individual (bordering on arrogance), capable of stepping forward despite being unendingly out of his depth regarding magic. He's almost always smiling, capable of staring down death without so much as a whimper with the first use of real magic being a prime example. Unabashedly perverted, openly sarcastic and occasionally a little snarky, he comes off as a well meaning- if somewhat annoying individual.

Kougetsu's prime trait is his seemingly unending will power (Second only to his perversion), he is the last person to give up and shows it every chance he can. Having the will to stand up under an ending pressure, Kougetsu's desire to simply prove people wrong or protect them (All while showing off) can be his most endearing and confusing trait. It's never fully clear what he truly wants to be, aside from the Magic King, though it's clear he wouldn't give up, regardless of the challenges thrown at him. Due to his lack of experience in the supernatural but his continual connection to it, Kougetsu shows many times that he's lacking confidence due to his inexperience and occasionally questions if he would be a true mage without his Magic King Element.

Kougetsu's perversion is something that's become a subject of confusion. He seemingly acts perverted due to a high libido and genuine interest in the female body, though he later admits that it's secretly just a way to hide his fears and laugh. How much of his actions are genuine or an act is unclear, though he is ultimately labeled "The enemy of all Women" because of it.

Following the near opening of the Labyrinth, Kougetsu's attitude took a drastic change. While initially somewhat lazy when it came to understanding magic, Kougetsu's power was less than satisfactory to him and as Natsuki's sacrifice was used to save everyone, he began to figure out what he'd need to do to ensure he lived up to his promise of removing everyone's need to sacrifice themselves for the betterment of all. Having held in his fears, Kougetsu's mind began to break and crack. He wanted to be the best mage he could be and began to buckle down to do the work, all the while ignoring the mounting doubt that he had been hiding from day one. During this period, despite how much he hides it, his will seemingly breaks and he's incapable of smiling or reacting in his same confident manner, Kougetsu's interactions with Arisa primarily makes it clear how much fear and doubt he had been fighting. Trying to meet with Natsuki everyday, Kougetsu's later talk with Karen of the Tolissi Fragment (Who had recently gained sentience due to her interaction with his Magic King Element) had put a lot of his fears into perspective and he began to regain his former strength, now unafraid of stepping forward to get the best results possible.

## Chronology

### Introduction Arc

While initially an unknown entity, Kougetsu's introduction to the school was one that certainly began an interesting school life. Being requested to make some kind of speech to the student body by the headmaster, Kougetsu was fairly out of his depth and almost immediately made himself a target, along with enemy. By declaring himself a Magic King Candidate, along with his intent to marry as many cute girls as possible, Kougetsu's introduction was one that didn't gather much confidence in him as a student. Following this, he met with a few students, including members of the Trinity Seven and Asuna Himenomiya.

After the Labyrinth was forcibly opened, Kougetsu was one of the first students to start assisting the Trinity Seven and officially activated his magus mode for the first time. For the first time, he acted as a Mage.

With the help of Sora and Illia, Kougetsu managed to use his naturally high amount of Magic to destroy a massive selection of Monsters with a spell that he made up in the instant, though his first use of magic was far from perfect and Kougetsu was forced to adapt quickly to the situation without much time beyond the moments between destroying waves of monsters. Though initially having trouble coming to terms to the dangers around them, Kougetsu tried his hardest to ignore his fears to create a better outcome with his power, much to the Chagrin of Sora. The two took a moment to speak, allowing Kougetsu to vent his fears and admit his terror.

Both him and Sora came to better terms, allowing him to reveal a bit of the truth. With Kougetsu now fully working in sync, he is able to fight off more monsters until they enter the Labyrinth. In this time, Kougetsu became friendly with Hikari Yukigawa, along with other members of the student council. When inside the Labyrinth, Kougetsu assisted with the defeat of the monsters until the seal managed to close itself as Natsuki was ultimately able to save the day.

Following this, Kougetsu had interacted with more students, including making an intimate relationship with Arisa Asakura, managing to feel her up in a lab room between his studying in a laboratory, even kissing Hikari as he tried to take his mind away from feeling weak. In this time, Kougetsu tried to focus away from his weakness but still went out of his way to visit Natsuki everyday. During this time, Kougetsu had unintentionally passed on his Magic King element onto five different Grimoire (specifically those used by Natsuki and Hikari), Kougetsu's magic king element had unintentionally accelerated the development of the Grimoire and caused them to manifest as familiar's like his two grimoire.