Seiji Hojo

Seiji Hojo is a secondary character in Nazo No Kako. He is the Yoritakai of Akuma No Machi

## **Appearence**

Seiji is a considerably older man, with wrinkles on his forehead and slightly noticeable gray circles under his eyes, he has short wavy light brown hair, and his eyes are small and slanted black, while his skin is fair. He usually has an angry expression, all the time he looks in a bad mood. Seiji wears a black robe and a band with the Hojo symbol on his belly, he is also seen wearing baggy, ripped black pants.

## **Personality**

His personality is characterized by being very serious, irascible and intelligent, he is seldom seen laughing, all the time he is ready for a fight and he is too strong mentally. When he saw Aiko and Akira eating happily after a mission, he was angry that he never achieved happiness and was disappointed in himself seeing others happy. Also, Elly described him as "a bossy old man"

Although he is serious and angry almost all the time, with Abeba he becomes more sentimental and adapts the figure of a father, Seiji likes to protect Abeba at the cost of everything, even death, this is shown by that he takes care of her everywhere and has saved her on several occasions, it can be deduced that deep down he is someone affectionate because of this.

## **Story**

### **Before Nazo No Kako**

Seiji Hojo is the only child of Arata Hojo and Chiasa Hojo, he was born a few years after the death of the genocidal Katame Urami, and at that time there was a theory that Chiasa was an ally of Katame's past and helped her in her genocide, so they wanted to kill her. Every day, people went to Arata's house throwing stones looking for Chiasa, due to the danger that the Hojo family was in, they never let Seiji leave the house, so Seiji did not know the outside world. When Seiji was nine years old, some men from Bukiminahi broke a window of the house and abducted Chiasa, nothing was heard from her for three months, until one day the same men from Bukiminahi ended up in prison and revealed that they had abused and murdered Chiasa. When Arata found out about his wife's death, he tortured and killed the murderers in front of Seiji, a year after that everything was quiet in the Hojo family so they already let Seiji out of the house.

Seiji went to school, he was very shy and insecure, so he was teased and bullied, many people enjoyed humiliating him, but Seiji had a promise; Become a strong man and kill them. As the years and fights passed, the people who made fun of him died in war, and Seiji studied fighting techniques to learn how to be Yoritakai and fulfill his promise. When he turned 19, Seiji entered the old group of warriors number 2, made up of Fuji Katayama, Amelie, Asa Takeda and Seiji. The ancient and first Yoritakai of Akuma No Machi, Nobu Azai, saw Seiji's potential in wars, and named him as "the new Yoritakai of Akuma No Machi".

Some unknown members of the old rescue group found Abeba, a teenage girl at the time, she had a few bruises on her body and a recognition tattoo on one of her cheeks, she looked like she was mistreated in the past. Seiji realized that Abeba's bruises were caused by her being stoned, he had a flashback about how his house was stoned when he was a child, so he cried for the trauma, and decided to adopt the girl. Later, Abeba gained Seiji's trust and vice versa. When Abeba turned 18, Seiji had invented a strange syringe, which contained dangerous liquid , but this liquid would have these powers: see the past, present and future, read minds, create plans and act in zeptoseconds, superhuman strength and intelligence. But at the same time, the liquid would make the body heavier and slower. Abeba decided to be the test human, at the time of the test she had a necklace with a somewhat large stone, so when the liquid was injected it went to the blood streams, spinal cord and amazingly connected with Abeba's necklace, thus creating the jeridosutons. When the liquid finished being injected, Abeba vomited and secreted blood and cerebrospinal fluid, this is because the liquid that was injected supplants these two. That day, Abeba fainted 6 times and vomited 32 times, she says that day she almost died.

Years later, Arata went home drunk and had a serious fight with Seiji, in which Arata burned Seiji's left arm with a torch, leaving a third degree burn wound on his entire arm, Seiji completely distanced himself from his father after that, he never saw him the same again, even though his father apologized.

### **Nazo No Kako: First Season**

His first appearance is when Asuree and Elly seek information from the jeridosuton, in which, Seiji takes the two young women back to the village, then, the group of warriors number 2 makes their first appearance.