Reizo Yasunaga

Reizo Yasunaga

**Reizo Yasunaga** (安永霊ぞ) is the current **Shugo** of the Chūgoku Region for the Battotai. Having served since his early teens, Reizo began as a blacksmith and gunsmith for the Hiroshima Battotai at an early age - his father being one of several armorers for the region's swordsmen, and his brother being the Chūgoku Shugo. Working up a prodigious talent for gunpowder weaponry, he combined his intricate knowledge of gunpowder with his combat training to produce powerful, lethal weapons against the Oni populations that plagued Hiroshima.

It is a common legend that the reason Reizo wears his goblin mask is to hide his disfigured face, the result of a reckless experiment when testing the efficacy of his Tamahagane-laden grenades. His talents for such trinkets earned him the right to be trained in the Kansai Region where he was provided training from the Shinobi of Mie Prefecture, swiftly learning to integrate stealth and assassination methodology into his training.

After a year of training, he returned to Hiroshima Prefecture to inherit the position of *Jito* from his predecessor who was killed in a battle against a Gashadokoro. For several years, Reizo's leadership produced a generation of skilled swordsmen and successfully mitigated a surge of Oni through the coming winters. By his early 20s, the masked Jito was chosen by his peers to become the new Chūgoku Shugo after the death of his brother. It is believed the former Shugo — his older and only brother — was killed in a battle against a Shinigami.

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### Physical Description

Reizo is dressed peculiarly, dressing in the garbs of a rural wanderer which befits his role as a **Shugo**. Dressed in leathers and furs, the most prominent feature of Reizo would be his hand-carved, maned goblin mask. When looking directly into his mask, witnesses are flooded with feelings of gloom and fear. His clothes are notably airy and lightweight as he fights without the use of heavy armor, preferring to fight without any restrictions to his movement. Below his cloak is a loaded belt of incendiary grenades, a wakizashi, and a kyoketsu-shoge. Tall for the average Japanese man, his build is athletic and toned, suggesting a high capacity for speed and strength.

### Personality

Reizo is notably cold and indifferent to students, preferring to speak with his Jito and on very rare occasions, students. It is unknown as to why he is like this when considering his past experience as a former mentor in his Jito years. Despite this, he has demonstrated empathy and compassion for wounded swordsmen, visiting the swordsmen that assisted in his liberation in the Battle of Nozumo Mine. He has expressed a disregard for many traditional Japanese social norms, forgoing formal introductions, and coming off as vulgar and blunt to anyone who speaks to him. However, this is also accompanied by indiscriminate honesty, loyalty, and a sharpened mind for tactical intuition and long-term strategy. This reflects considerably in combat when he can combine his Tengoku abilities with his training and weapons, leading to creative strategies to inflict maximium levels of damage against an opponent in a methodical manner.

### Abilities

**Tengoku of Kagutsuchi** | As the Tengoku of Kagutsuchi, Reizo is well acquainted with using his Tengoku powers of destructive pyrokinesis. By channeling flames onto his body and weapons, Reizo is able to inflict overwhelming levels of damage against any number of opponents, whether it be up-close or from afar. Preferring to be a close-quarter combatant, Reizo's history displays a record of terrifying speed, unprecedented shows of strength, and flame techniques that flare to temperatures so high, Tamahagane weapons have been shown to grow deformed when exposed for too long to his body. His flames are also unable to be extinguished and can greatly hinder the regenerative properties of Oni. By shrouding his body in volcanic fire, it acts like a layer of impenetrable armor that threatens to incinerate anything that attempts to pierce it.

In addition, his experience with *ninjutsu* allows him to combine his destructive techniques with the stealthy approach of the Shinobi, allowing him to inflict a diverse range of hidden and disorienting attacks against any number of opponents without fail.