Habaki Sakagami

****Habaki Sakagami******Tumor**

* Kajiri Kamui Kagura
* Pantheon

**Habaki Sakagami** (坂上覇吐, *Sakagami Habaki*?) is one of the main characters of Kajiri Kamui Kagura. He is the main protagonist of the **Birth of the Divine World** (神世創生, *Kamiyo Sōsei*?) story. A scion of the decadent House Sakagami, he ends up joining the Eastern Expedition's main force as Rindou's personal retainer after participating in the Gozenjiai in the capital, being fascinated by his commander in chief.

## Appearance

Habaki is a very handsome young man with fair skin and a fairly muscular build despite the number of sweets he eats. He has naturally spiky hair, which causes him no end of distress. His scarlet red hair is in a perpetually messy state, which is sometimes exaggerated into a frizzy afro when Habaki's hair is hit by extreme heat. He bordeaux-colored eyes and wears red-eyeliners under them.

His standard outfit consists of a brown yukata with a yokai pattern on it, worn so that his arm only goes through the left sleeve and the right half droops down over his obi. On his droopy sleeves, he has white leopard fur on them. Underneath, he wears dark green chestplate and a red kimono with purple linings on the v-neck. He also wears Geta sandals which appear to add about half an inch to his height. It is shown that he has a closet full of replicas of this outfit, so whenever it gets destroyed he can appear in the next episode or chapter with a new one. All in all, his outfit suggests an air of laziness and may be a reflection of Habaki's own personal sense of style, though it is revealed that his usual attire is actually the school jersey for the Zunborans

## Personality

Habaki is a cheerful and lively man who loves being noisy, and is friendly to all members of the Eastern Expedition. Though they see him as a lovable idiot. He has many childish personality traits despite his age, and has even called himself a "child in a man's body." One such trait is his insatiable love for sweets, which has placed him at risk of getting diabetes several times. His favorite food is chocolate parfait and he loves chugging down strawberry milk whenever he gets access to it.

Habaki is also extremely lazy. He is often seen wearing a dumb expression on his face and spends his days lounging around reading Shounen Jump whilst imparting wise and sage-like advice to his younger employees, even though he doesn't actually know what he's talking about most of the time. Due to his poverty and unwillingness to do mostly anything, he is always behind on his rent and often runs away when Otose, his landlady, comes to collect the payment. He often blows all of his savings on Pachinko and other gambling games, which Ren and Rindou often scold him for. However, even though he is lazy, Habaki is quite dedicated to his job and tries to help people with the best of his abilities (usually in a very strange and twisted way). He is sarcastic and unattached but he values connections more than anyone in the series. For the most part, Habaki is content with hanging out with his friends. However different aspects of his personality emerge depending on the situation. In the more comedy arcs he is characterized as cowardly and sarcastic, but in serious arcs he is a unwavering and will die for someone who he cares about. He very much enjoys, joking, being passionate, and arguing about stupid stuff so he and his friends at the end of a day can have a good laugh.

He is a very confident individual, facing adversity without fear, even if he has no grounds to build his confidence upon. Though he is rational, and has a viewpoint built upon a strong foundation of common sense.  While he's the butt-monkey of his squad, Habaki has shown to be rather perceptive, noticing abnormalities in Edo or in Madara's mental world and making rather crafty ideas during his fight with the Tenma.

Habaki's past continues to influence who he is and how he acts. He admitted to Umibozu in Episode 42 that he believes that having a loving family is all someone really needs in life, due to his lack of a family during his childhood. He is very respectful of the memory of his teacher Yoshida Shouyou due to his actions (the arrest of his teacher is one of the main reasons he joined the Joui War. The other was to protect his friends who also joined the war). When Jiraia called himself Rindou's teacher and yet harmed her both emotionally and physically, his ideal for what a teacher was supposed to be resulted in Habaki becoming enraged and taking his anger out on Jiraia.

Even in the battle with a strong enemy, he has his heroic character that scrambles his will, shouts his belief and is accepted. He is not afraid to resort of cheap tactics in order to achieve victory, such as blinding his foe with sand.

The more comical stories depict Habaki as a coward, attempting to leave behind many of his friends to save his own life. However, he is willing to risk his life for anyone and he is shown to be extremely caring towards his friends and has killed Naraku members, terrorists, and Amanto to protect them. He is extremely frightened of ghosts, but will usually deny their existence so that he doesn't look like a coward. His fear of the supernatural is shared by Hijikata and usually results in quite a few comic interactions between the two.

He is also a lustful individual, who would give a night crawling to anyone, and does tend to harass his fellow Expedition members. Thus his bad habits with women are not completely trusted in the Eastern Expedition.

He refers to himself as ore. He is a highly informal individual, rarely, if ever, using honorifics, even with his superiors.

## Abilities

As he was raised in a Samurai family he is a skilled martial artist, and has an inhuman degree of strength, to such an exceptional degree that he was chosen to be the personal retainer of Rindou Koga on the expedition into Edo.

**Omni-Empowerment**: Habaki has the ability to **draw power from everything**. This allows him to become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. from absolutely anything/everything, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. Habaki was able to draw power from the tumor (Which siphoned strength from Hajun) due to him being his sensory. During his battle with Housen, Habaki was able to draw power from Housen's raw strength to fuel his distortion and managed to overpower the Tenma. In the final battle with Hajun, Habaki's power had elevated to Near-Hegemony God levels of power.

**Immense Strength**: Of the Eastern Expedition, Habaki's physical strength is not as high as Shiori Kujou's, given the fact that he is human while Kagura is from the Yato Tribe. However, Habaki's physical strength is still nothing to scoff at, and he is probably the strongest known human so far, strong enough to even be recognized by Tenma Yato, one of the strongest Hegemony God in the series. He can destroy enormous pieces of machinery or drive his blunt bokuto through a man's skull with ease. He was also able to break Oboro's sword by biting it with his teeth. When fighting Kawakami Bansai, Habaki was able to break through his strings, which were stated to be as strong as steel, with nothing but brute strength alone. He was also able to pull down Bansai's helicopter just with his power. His strength can increase with the Tumor's power.

**Tremendous Endurance**: One of Habaki's defining traits is his extreme level of physical endurance. Habaki fights without consideration for his life, most of the time, and while this gives him the ability to fight without limits, it is also a testament to how little Habaki values his own life. Coupled with his incredibly high pain tolerance this makes him an incredibly fearsome fighter. A day after having his forearm impaled by Doromizu Jirochou, Habaki fought evenly alongside him to defeat dozens of Shinra assassins, withstanding countless injuries in the process and losing very high amounts of blood. After having his pressure points and body mangled by Oboro, Habaki is able to outmatch the elite Naraku swordsman in their second bout despite being completely incapacitated moments before. During his fight with Tenma Yato, Habaki takes blows from one of the strongest Yato warriors to exist and has his index finger broken completely, but continues to stand and fight. Umibozu notes Habaki's tremendous endurance, particularly his eyes, which keep coming back to life despite Kamui seemingly crippling him multiple times.

**Enhanced Speed and Agility**: Habaki is incredibly nimble, capable of matching the agility of the renowned shinobi Hattori Zenzou. In addition, his reflexes (while often downplayed for comedic purposes) are great and he is capable of dodging, deflecting bullets or in some instances throwback knives, arrows, and similar projectiles. When Habaki is particularly enraged, his speed and reflexes reach absurd heights, allowing him to perform such feats as shattering a titanium sword in mid-swing with his teeth or closing meters of distance between himself and his target within a fraction of a second.

**Master Swordsmanship Specialist**: Habaki's swordsmanship is rough, but far from unrefined. He tends to wield even full-length katanas one-handed with fair wide but quick chops. His level of skill has been complemented by several esteemed swordmasters, such as Yagyuu Binbokusai, who noted that his style is something not taught but developed by Habaki himself. He has regularly been able to prove himself equal to some of the best swordsman and warriors in the series, singlehandedly matching up with the likes of Hosen, Kamui, Utsuro, Oboro, and Jirochou. Most notably, Habaki held his own against Utsuro multiple times, something a team consisting of Sougo, Nobume and Kagura could not manage to do.

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: As part of his brawler-like fighting style, Habaki regularly uses his fists and kicks in combat. As such, he is far less bothered by being caught unarmed than most other swordsmen in the series. While his bokuto is usually used to deliver the final blow against an opponent, many of his most consistent damaging attacks are kicks delivered to the torso.

**Combat Intuition**: Habaki is noticeably skilled in terms of battlefield tactics, likely due to his extensive experience. He is capable of developing adaptive strategies as he fights, often within seconds, and knows exactly what to look for in an opponent's fighting style to create openings for himself. In his first encounter with Oboro, Habaki countered his pressure point needles mere minutes after experiencing them for the first time. Against Pluto Batou, Habaki quickly learned how to confuse Batou's third eye and deliver a crushing blow. When Utsuro and Habaki fought for the first time, Habaki parried and blocked Utsuro's impossibly fast swordsmanship based on his similarities to Shouyou's style and his own instinct alone.

**Weapon Expertise**: While Habaki vastly prefers to make use of his swordsmanship in combat, he is well-versed in the use of many types of weapons, from naginatas and kunai to senbon and explosives, likely due to his training as a samurai and time spent on the battlefield. He is able to incorporate the use of almost anything he finds in a fight and frequently catches his opponents off-guard by using his surroundings against them.

**Reality Warping**: Through the manipulation of Taikyoku, Habaki has shown a powerful amount of reality-warping abilities. He can distort the physical phenomena of the world and possess some degree of control over matter. He states that this power actually works when he controls the very existential state of anything depending on its proficiency, regardless of whether or not the entity in question is an object or subject, among so many or most others depending on its power scale. It can range from transmogrifying objects or subjects into something different, altering the laws of reality, logic, and physics, creating things out of thin air, to outright erasing it on the spot. Habaki possesses the incredible ability to manipulate fire, heat, energy and matter in order to create Life and reshape the world. He first used the ability against Reinhard whilst fighting on the merged Earth. He managed to manipulate the surrounding matter to create mountain ranges and different ecosystems as well as completely re-construct the Tokyo Empire from rubble.

### Distortion

#### Misogiharae - Yomotsugaeri

**Misogiharae - Yomotsugaeri** (禊祓・黄泉返り?): Habaki's Distortion, though it is different from all other Distortions, for it is not the result of Edo's Pollution. But rather originates from the Tumor's dual desires of "I don't want to die" and "I want to live".  This ability allows Habaki to take his opponent's Distortion, attacks, or an ability and use it to resurrect himself after he's "killed". Ritual Purification - Turning Over of the Afterlife. The energy born of this resurrection is reflected back to his opponent, or whoever he wishes to be struck. This "reflected" attack is unavoidable, as it twists causality so that being struck by the reflected blow is a "casual response to his own death".  This was powerful enough that he was able to return after being slain by Tenma Yato. Though it does have the detriment of having a great negative effect on his mental and physical states, as he still does die from such strikes. Placing a great toll upon his mental state.

#### Sakagami Heirloom

The ****Sakagami Heirloom**** (坂上の家宝, *Sakagami no Kahō*?, lit. "Family Treasure of Sakagami") is Habaki's main weapon. A sword passed down to Habaki by his mother. It has uncanny shapeshifting abilities and can change form depending on the user's situation. Beside its standard form, it can split into whip sword with 20 segments to supplement his range and defense, change into giant scissors to set up traps, morph into a dragon-headed cannon that shoots compressed spheres of ki, and finally, a giant scythe that reaps lives apart, unlocked from his determination to win against Yato.

This weapon has five separate forms:

* Sword/Base Form
* Whip Sword
* Giant Scissors
* Giant Cannon
* Scythe Form
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* **Form 1: Giant Sword** (大剣, *Daiken*?): The sword's base form, Habaki usually fights with this form.
* **Form 2: Serpent Blade** (蛇腹剣, *Jabara Ken*?): The sword can split into a whip sword with 20 segments to supplement Habaki's range and defense. Even Keishirou who's used to odd abilities couldn't easily escape.
* **Form 3: Giant Scissors** (大鋏, *Daihasami*?): The sword changes into giant scissors to set up traps.
* **Form 4: Dragon Cannon** (竜砲, *Ryūhō*?): First unlocked and used in the second fight against Ootake. The sword morphs into a dragon-headed cannon that uses Habaki's emotions as ammunition to shoot compressed spheres of ki. It boasts the highest attack power of all the forms.
* **Form 5: Execution Sickle** (処刑鎌, *Shokei Kama*?): A giant scythe that reaps lives apart, unlocked during the final battle against Yato. It excels at ensuring its target's death via decapitation, making it reminiscent of a certain guillotine.

### Taikyoku

#### Amaterasu Suwasumeragi Omikami

**Amaterasu Suwasumeragi Omikami** (天照坐皇大御神あまてらす スわすめらぎ おみかみ?) is the combined Hegemony-type Taikyoku of Habaki and Rindou, illuminating the world as Izanagi and Izanami once did. It imposes the Law, "I won't give birth to (vengeful) outsiders", creating a world of coexistence and unification to provide all souls with the means to reach a bright future. It combines all of the previous Thrones ruled over the course of creation aside from Hajun's, as it was extinguished by Habaki.

#### Shokou Mandala - Yaoyorozu

**Shokou Mandala - Yaoyorozu** (曙光曼荼羅・八百万?) is the Manifestation of the Tumor's Law, and it is capable of healing all of creation. Thus can be considered the complete opposite of Hajun's Law, and was capable of ending his destruction of the universe.