Hiro Norowareta

**Hiro Norowareta** (ヒーロー呪われた, *Norowareta hiro*?) is a Jujutsu sorcerer and tutor at Tokyo Jujutsu High.

## Appearance

Hiro is a relatively young looking, muscular and tall man with scruffy, messy blonde hair, black eyes, a noticeably large scar on his left cheek and, most noticeably of all, a prosthetic arm in the place of his old left arm.

Hiro wears a custom uniform consisting of a long sleeve shirt, baggy black pants, brown-black boots and a large red cloak swept over his mechanical arm. Occasionally he is seen wearing standard-issue jujutsu sorcerer uniform, although this is only for special events.

## Personality

Despite his rough expressions and commanding demeanour on the battlefield, Hiro is surprisingly laxed around his fellow colleagues — peers or students alike. Trying to always keep a soft and welcoming persona on at all times, Hiro is a man who wants to ensure all feel safe in his company, be it safe in knowing they can trust him with business or even personal discussion, or safe in knowing they have such a skilled Sorcerer working to protect them.

Despite this, when in battle Hiro takes an entirely different demeanour. Belittling, crude and obstructive, Hiro ensures that, when exorcising curses or killing curse users, he makes them grovel in the shame of their path before swiftly putting them out of their miseries. At times, this attitude can be described as "sadistic", although Hiro views it more as a "friendly form of oppressive".

## Synopsis

### Introduction Arc

#### Hiro and Hendo vs Vritra

> Main Article: *Hiro and Hendo vs Vritra*
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After a brief conflict between grade four sorcerer Hendo Gojo and the special grade curse Vritra, Hiro arrives on the scene and rescues his colleague and student before challenging Vritra itself. Initially only using the basic level of Overdrive to get a feel for the curse's capabilities and technique, Hiro was quick to break down what Vritra could do on a base level. After this, Hiro used the maximum technique of Overdrive to quickly bash the giant, only to need to pull away with Hendo once Vritra used its own maximum technique.

Once out of the blast radius with an exasperated Hendo, Hiro took a moment to further break down Vritra's technique into a simply-worded form as to better understand. Once noticing his use of a maximum technique and a lack of any uses of a domain, Hiro opted to wield his own domain: Overheated Hegemony. Using the incessant flow of cursed energy in his domain, Hiro quickly struck Vritra with an overscaled blast of reversed cursed energy, gravely injuring the special grade curse and forcing it to retreat.

Once the battle was over, Hiro returned to Hendo, then beginning to walk back to Tokyo after commenting about knowing Haruto's frustration was to come.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: As a grade one jujutsu sorcerer and a prodigy of the field, Hiro is an exceptional combatant in both taijutsu and jujutsu skills. Before the birth and rise of Haruto Gojo in the jujutsu world, Hiro was looked at as one of the strongest in the current generation and, even after Haruto's dubbing of Special Grade, this honorific status is still upheld, given Hiro's effectivity on the battlefield and steadfast approach to his job. This skill is only made clearer as he almost effortlessly forced a special grade curse — Vritra — to retreat during their battle through use of Domain Expansion, which he pulled out immediately and with great effectiveness.

**Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Having not discovered his innate technique until late adolescence, Hiro relied on pure skill in his fighting to exorcise curses. Due to this, he spent several years practising and experimenting with use of cursed energy mixed into taijutsu, and by the time of his seniority and status as sorcerer, he was seen as one of the greatest pure fighters in the jujutsu world. In the modern age, Hiro has continued to refine his close-quarters fighting, putting it to great use in conjunction with Overdrive to quickly counter and clash with Vritra during their fight, blocking and avoiding the giant's attacks with haste.

**Tactical Intellect**: Hiro is fairly intelligent compared to most sorcerers, being able to rapidly decipher and break down an opponent's skillset and their limitations with it within battle, all whilst operating independently of that. This was shown as he fought Vritra, a special grade curse who, after only witnessing a handful of basic technique uses, was quick to catch onto Vritra's techniques' nature and counter accordingly through positive energy.

### Jujutsu

Hiro's cursed energy is so intense that, even before activating Overdrive in his fight with Vritra, he was a noticeable beacon from afar, then was able to knock back the giant curse with a reinforced blow.

When used in reverse via positive energy, Overdrive instead cools Hiro's cursed energy, causing it to slow down and flow more precisely, resulting in much more careful control of cursed energy output, similar to the control given from Haruto's Six Eyes. This does come at the cost of his techniques lacking as much strength however, due to the loss of the energy's speed.

Technique reversal causes the two attacks to overlap instead of be separated, increasing the kinetic force of the single blow rather than generating two. The same goes for Two Flames.

Due to Hiro also applying a binding vow onto the domain, this effect was only increased in exchange for creating an opening at the top of the domain, similar to a volcano's lip. With this included, Overheated Hegemony causes Hiro to be virtually unkillable, and due to the properties of Overdrive amplifying his cursed energy output, an incredibly lethal threat to any caught inside.

## Trivia

* Hiro's design is inspired by Dean from the manhwa/manhua Player.
	+ His prosthesis' name is also a reference to the manhwa, specifically to Dean's close friend, Ran.