Tokimaru

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**This article contains *FANSLATIONS* and needs to be updated to official translations.**

## Tokimaru

* Bio
* Status

## First Appearance

### Occupations

Shinobi

**Tokimaru** (朱 (ト) 鷺 (キ) 丸 (まる)  *****Tokimaru*****?) is a shinobi from Soga Village, tasked to protect Ai Tennoji.

## Appearance

Tokimaru is a young boy about the same height as Ai with short hair. He has a toned physique, and many scars across his body–which mostly came from his training as a shinobi. He wears shozoku, an utility belt and jika-tabi, alongside an old scarf, which was given to him by Ai.

## Personality

Tokimaru is serious and devoted to his village, especially Ai herself. He is quite stubborn about leaving Ai's side and is absolutely willing to give up his own life for her sake.

## Synopsis

### Volume 5

Tokimaru follows Ai through the city with the sole objective of taking her back to the village. When he finally finds her with other two girls, he is taken aback by one of her techniques, so they run away from him, going to a nearby temple. When she was about to fall down the stairs, Tokimaru saves her and introduces himself to the other two girls. They momentarily argue over torii, and as soon as they get down, Tokimaru stays nearby listening to them talking, refusing to leave.

When Ai asks for Teru's help to erase the evil, Tokimaru is immediately against it, and questions her to whether she even had somewhere to stay overnight. Ai decides on the spot she would be staying in Teru's house, surprising him. Iko leaves them to take care of her brother and Tokimaru is told to stay outside. However, after a while, Ai makes some food to him and tells him again to leave. He doesn't leave and stays at Teru's house's roof, noticing someone's menacingly presence in the distance.

Tokimaru was bathing by the river before Ai, alongside Iko and Teru, came. He is found by Ai at the top of a tree, observing the surroundings, and she tells him she was playing rock skipping with the other two. They briefly reminiscence over the time they trained together, until she finally notices he is half-naked, and he explains that he was washing his clothes before she came. Ai asks why he didn't take his carf off, too, to which he replies that it is something important to him and he doesn't want to lose it.

Ai tries to provoke him by saying that it was something that a girl he likes gave him, and he bluntly says it was Ai herself who gave it to him, but she doesn't appear to remember this fact. Tokimaru brushes it off and shows his worries over the path Ai is taking, however, she tells him that only she is able to rescue "her" soul. She then takes his hand and asks him to accompany her. While Ai comes back to Shy and Iko, Tokimaru receives a bird's message and thinks to himself that he will protect Ai even if it costs him his life. After a little while, Tokimaru notices some birds flying away from something.

## Abilities

* **Overall Abilities**: Just like Ai, Tokimaru was trained as a Shinobi. He has immense durability, which made him able to easily resist one of Ai's sword techniques, as well as come out unscathed from a high fall. He can easily get on top of constructions such as a torii and Teru's house's roof.

## Trivia

* His name has the kanji for "vermillion" (朱 ***"vermillion"***?), "heron" (鷺 ***"heron"***?) and "circle" (丸 ***"circle"***?).
	+ Interestingly, the furigana for *Toki* (朱鷺 ****Toki****?) is written in katakana instead of the usual hiragana.

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## References

1. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 37, page 20.
2. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 33.
3. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 34, page 1.
4. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 35, page 19.