Makoto Hatsushiba

**Makoto Hatsushiba** is Humanity's representative in the third round of Ragnarok, going against Rapu.

Makoto is a famed swordsman hailing from feudal Nashio, being referred to as "History's Strongest Loser"and later "Humanity's Strongest Swordsman". Despite being burdened by the many happenings of his past, Makoto still maintains an easygoing disposition.

## Appearance

Makoto is a muscular young man with rather fair skin and an athletic physique. He has smooth cyan hair and turquoise eyes. And he also wear white bandage of his hands.

Makoto wore a blue tinted version gakuran jacket and blue trousers. and he put a bandage on his chest. along with wearing a black bracelet on his left arm.

## Personality

From his youth Makoto was a carefree, confident and mostly lazy individual, as he was considered little more than dead weight to his peers and masters at the Mitsunari Iwakura dojo.

Makoto can also be cowardly at times, always surrendering before a match was complete. However, he can be very diligent and hardworking at times, as seen when he struggled constantly trying to defeat various swordsmen, and through tough and rigorous training, surpassed them in due time.

Makoto harbors great respect for swordsmen he has fought, unwilling to let himself lose as to not bring shame upon their names and even showing utmost gratitude for molding him into the person he is today, especially when he won against Rapu.

## Abilities

**Overall Ability**: Makoto possesses incredible innate talent in the sword, eventually becoming the greatest swordsman in existence, surpassing even Rapu in combat. He also has an innate talent of evolving and improving whenever he loses, which was the main factor which allowed him to surpass the likes of the gods with his mortal body.

**Godly Strength**: Makoto possesses immense physical strength, matching that of Rapu as shown when he could block and parry a majority of his trident attacks with the strength he channeled into his blade, even slicing his divine trident in 2. One of his techniques: **Jōka Fūkyō**, takes advantage of his phenomenal strength, allowing to stop the descent of a falling blade and swing it back up at speeds faster than the eye can see, a feat considered nigh-impossible with the strength of an average human being.

**Godly Speed & Reflexes**: Makoto can move at speeds matching the likes of Gods, as shown in his fight against Rapu where he could keep up with his countless afterimages and blinding speeds, even managing to overwhelming him. With the help of his innate ability, **Senju Musō**, Kojiro can predict his opponents movements with extreme accuracy, allowing him to react to attacks even faster. During his time on Earth, Makoto was shown to be capable of killing a bird in mid-flight.

**Immense Endurance & Stamina:** Makoto possesses immense stamina, being capable of keeping up with Rapu during their fight, despite having to dodge countless of his attacks that were moving at blinding speeds. He also seems to be capable of training for long periods of time, from midnight until sunrise.

**Strong Willpower**: Makoto possesses immense willpower, despite being told by his peers that he does not have talent for swordsmanship and losing multiple times, Therapat never gave up and always learned from his mistakes. Despite having a moment of doubt during his fight with Rapu, Makoto managed to regain his spirit through the support of his friends and rivals.

* **Accelerated Development**: Due to his immense willpower and his innate ability **Senju Musō**, Makoto is constantly improving his skills. Each time that he is defeated, he is able to learn from his mistakes and create a new training regimen to further improve his swordsmanship. Makoto can even use **Senju Musō** to simulate fights with opponents that he has faced before in order to train with them.

**Senju Musō** (千手無双, "Thousand Image Defence"): Makoto’s innate ability and talent which allows him to memorize and analyze his opponent's moves to form a simulation of them inside his mind, visualizing and battling said opponent until he finds a way to defeat them. This scanning ability is so advanced that he can already mentally simulate thousands of attack patterns that his opponent might possess after merely observing their constitution, gait, breath and blinking before the fight even begins. When fighting Rapu, Makoto was able to improve this ability to the point when he not only was able to analyze his opponent's movements but also analyze the vibrations that travel through the air and ground, his movements being comparable to a god's.

* **Image Training:** Makoto has memorized the attack patterns of all the opponents that he has faced through his life. Because of this, he can simulate fights with his previous opponents at anytime in order to train with them. After doing this process for a certain period of time, Makoto can also copy his opponents techniques and integrate them in his own fighting style.

* **Manju Musō** (萬手無双, "Infinite Image Defence"): When fighting Rapu, Makoto was able to improve this ability to the point where he not only was able to analyze his opponent's movements but also analyze all of the information present in his surroundings at once (from the vibrations that travel through the air to the slight trembles of the ground), allowing him to predict his opponents movements even further and make his movements comparable to that of a Supreme God.

**Swordsmanship**: Makoto possesses a godly swordsmanship prowess. Even when he was young, he possessed innate talent in swordsmanship, being able to block the opening strike of Mitsunari Iwakura without prior training. Throughout his lifetime, Makoto has fought a myriad of prominent and legendary swordsman in Nashio, surpassing all of them one after another. During War of Humanity, Makoto displayed his swordsmanship skill when he unsheathed his sword, which calmed the raging tides in an instant, which Mitsunari Iwakura remarked was a form of enlightenment. Even after his victorious, all of the opponents he has fought in the span of his lifetime, and later the entirety of Humanity, all acknowledge him as the most powerful swordsman in existence in his fight.

**Golden Age**: As a soul in the afterlife, Makoto possesses the appearance and skills that he had during his Golden Age, the age in which he was at his peak.

**Enhanced Hearing**: Makoto has displayed an extremely accurate hearing. During his fight with Rapu, he was able to hear and analyse the vibrations that travelled through the air.

**Survival Skills:** Makoto is very skilled at wilderness survival. After being defeated by Jirou, Makoto spend half a year in the wild all by himself. During this period of time, he was able to easily catch wild animals and build campfires., he was able to hear and analyse the vibrations that travel through the air.

## Techniques

**Isshin Art**: Makoto's main form of swordsmanship, which involves standard but skillful movements and techniques with using the "Kagotsurube Isshin", an katana which (despite having being unruly due to it's length and weight) Makoto wields using incredible speed and precision.

**Niten Isshin Art**: Makoto's true swordsmanship style which infuses the Niten Ichi-ryū of Mitsunari Iwakura and his initial "Isshin Style", Makoto uses all the swordsmanship techniques and forms he's amassed and perfected over the centuries and infuses them all into a single all-encompassing fightning style. This form mainly combines the singular powerful slashes of Shimada Shichirouji, the high speed movements of Shimura Kanbei, the swift thrusting attacks of Madarame Hyakubei, the swift strikes Takasaka Izumi and finally, the flowing movements of Tokibeitetsu Takatsukasa.