Seiunsai Toyano'ō

**Mitsuru Toyano'ō** (鳥屋尾 充), more commonly known by his stage name **Seiunsai Toyano'ō** (鳥屋尾 青雲斎), is a character featured in *Danganronpa Kirigiri*. He claims he is an escape artist whose skills rival that of Houdini. However, in reality, he is also a con artist being chased by Taehime Uozumi, due to selling counterfeit objects and scamming people of their money.

## Appearance

Seiunsai is a fair skinned fragile old man. He has long white hair tied in a ponytail and sideburns. He also has a long beard tied in the middle with a small pink ribbon, with the loose end curling back upward. Seiunsai has a wrinkled face, pale brown eyes and a rather large nose with a large beauty mark on it. He usually wears a white suit with a white dress shirt underneath, as well as a black tie with a white polka dot pattern.

## Personality

Seiunsai prides himself on being a high class magician and being an important figure, but often comes across as being quite gullible ,such as when Yui Samidare points out how obviously shady his invitation was, and has a tendency to lie to save face. He becomes quite upset when someone calls him out on his bravado and jabs that refer to his old age. Throughout his time in the Duel Noir, he is easily rattled by being placed in a life threatening situation. He is also very greedy, displayed when he tried to hoard money despite Norman telling them to give up all the cash that was on them. Despite this he appears to be rather friendly and social with others, as he plays cards with Yūzen Minase, Akio Chage and Meruko Mifune.

Given that he is a con artist with a record of swindling others out of their money, it can be said that he is a fairly good manipulator and shows no qualms of in fooling people of their money. When the Duel Noir was underway, he was concerned only with his own safety and tried to get everyone to ignore second auction so he could snag the Detective's Right for himself. Once it failed, he was quite upset that his gambit had failed.

## History

### Prior Life

Despite his claims of being a high class magician, it seems that was merely a cover for his job as a con artist. By selling counterfeit items, he gained a lot of money for his efforts, as well as the notice of Taehime Uozumi, who was investigating into him for months on end in order to catch him in the act, though he was unaware that she was prowling after him. During one auction he was approached by people claiming to be the from the Ercassam Group, which he believed that it was named after a famous auctioneer, and came in order to obtain rare artifacts.

### Norman's Hotel Murder Case

He boasted about being a famous magician, but was made fun of by Yūzen Minase for not figuring out a way to escape by now. After killing time by playing cards, he was present for Norman explaining the rules of the auction for the Detective Right and was extremely against having his money being burnt. He tried to keep some for himself, but was found out and, reluctantly, had to give it up. He was in a noticeably better mood once receiving a share of one hundred million yen like the rest of the participants. He was noticeably panicked after witnessing the death of Taehime and learning this his life would be in danger.

For the first auction, he opted not to to bid after seeing Susei's bold display as the detective bid first, something that turned out to be a wise decision as Suisei Nanamura had used all of his money to acquire the Detective's Right. Something that shocked Seiunsai as he wondered how would Susei fare for the next rounds. When it came to deciding how people should get a room, he offered to use his deck of cards to decide the order. However, in fear of cheating, the cards were inspected by Sae Yozuru (who used such a thing to ensure she get her desired room) and handled by Minase. As a result, he got the second to last room.

The next day, after Akio's death, he tried to get the others to not bid, under the claims that ignoring the auction and just hiding outside their rooms, huddled together with barricades to protect themselves from the culprit, would be a better solution. However, all of the remaining participants see through this act, and bid with Minase claiming the Detective's Right at the auction this time. Seiunsai is furious that his plan failed, but was told to be quiet from Minase, who flaunted his victory and grabbed the elderly man by the collar and shoved him aside.

### Seiunsai's Fate

Later that night, he was strangled to death in his hotel room by Sae Yozuru. After Sae's defeat, she admits that he was one of the target for revenge after he swindled her widowed mother out of her money prior to her suicide.

## Trivia

* His last name "Toyano'ō" (鳥屋尾) means "bird dealer's mountain slope". The character 尾 also means "tail" - matching how his beard curls.
* His stage name, "Seiunsai" (青雲斎), means "high-order ritual purification". Being a stage name, the reason for its grandiose meaning is quite understandable.
* His actual given name, "Mitsuru" (充), means "to be full", "to allot" and "to affect".