Yoshiteru

**Yoshiteru Sawano** also known by his codename "**The Evil Reptilian**," was one of the primary antagonists of *Slayers Fall*. He is a Matsuyama's harbringers affiliated with the 9 Matsuyama's Harbringers, holding the position of Sixth of Nine Harbringers.

## Appearance

Yoshiteru has pale skin, long, black hair transitioning into a faded lime green gradient near the ends and pulled back into a cascade of tight braids down his shoulders, thick dark brown eyebrows, a sharp, prominent nose, and chocolate brown button eyes cross-stitched with white thread. Patches of olive green scales are visible on his neck and arms, and his fingernails are long, sharp black claws.

He wears a collared white shirt with a deep neckline showing a sculpted chest with a loose brown tie around the high collar as well as rolled-up cuffs, skinny, pinstriped brown trousers held up by leather suspenders, and leather loafers. A wooden box is secured to his waist with thin strands of string, and a white cotton square of bandage is secured over his forehead with two strands of string, concealing a large patch of olive green scales underneath. Tears are visible in his left forearm and right shoulder, showing cotton stuffing.

## Personality

Yoshiteru was cruel, ruthless, petty, and envious of anyone blessed with a better life than him, owing to a life of near-constant poverty and the harsh tragedies he experienced as a human. He developed a habit of sarcastically complimenting a person's best traits and then trying to vindictively kill them afterwards. Because of the hardships he faced as a human, Yoshiteru attained a personal belief that to take from those who have a better life than he had as a human was justified. A habit that developed from this belief was the penchant to inflict harm to himself whenever he was angry, frustrated or jealous, as seen when he scratched himself hard enough to tear deep wounds into his own flesh when he grew jealous of Morio. He also appeared to possess a high pain tolerance, never once showing any signs of pain from his self-inflicted wounds.

## Abilities

**Flesh Manipulation**: Yoshiteru possessed the ability to manipulate his own flesh to a certain extent. He mainly uses this ability to shape his flesh into an extremely sharp Sickle which he can control telekinetically. This was also evident as Yoshiteru could merge his body with Shizuka's and later managed to encroach and infect of the Morio and Tamaki with his Dual-Sickle in order to prevent them from uses ability, effectively keeping them in place. He also displayed the ability to twist his neck backwards.

**Core Detachment**: Yoshiteru possessed the ability to completely detach his "core" from his own body, with it seemingly taking the form of his right eye that he then implants into his sister Shizuka's forehead, that then enhances and strengthens all of his sister's abilities and powers. Through this, Yoshiteru also developed a psychic connection with her, which allowed him to see, hear and sense everything she does and even possess and take control of her body in order to better coordinate their attacks.

* **Decapitation Immunity**: Yoshiteru was immune to decapitation by all physical and elemental attacks. This effectively ensures that both he and his sister cannot be killed unless both of their heads are cut off simultaneously.
* **Shared Biology**: Yoshiteru and Shizuka possessed a rather abnormal trait not seen in most human Despite the fact the siblings are two different people, the two have essentially a single body. This can be seen with how Yoshiteru normally remains concealed within Shizuka without altering her physical mass in the slightest.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes**: As a 9 Matsuyama's Harbringers, Yoshiteru has assimilated an extremely high concentration of Anemo Vision which have greatly enhanced his own speed and reflexes to levels that can out-match the other peoples. As seen with most subordinates, Yoshiteru can also use bursts of speed so fast he appears to teleport.

**Immense Strength**: Yoshiteru possessed incredible physical strength, being able to clash head-on with Morio Koganeya, a Fighter who himself possessed a very large and muscular build. He was also able to break two of Tadao's fingers without much effort, send him flying into a building at high speeds, and cause Tadao to cough up blood with a single kick to the stomach. Yoshiteru was also able to send Morio flying back a great distance with another kick.

**Poison Generation**: Yoshiteru possessed the ability to generate extremely lethal poison, which he uses to coat his Dual-Blood Sickles. The poison was strong enough that it would almost instantly kill someone inflicted with it, and those who don't will be severely weakened and might be rendered unable to fight. Even Morio, who has developed a high tolerance to poison from his training, was greatly weakened by Yoshiteru's poison to the point he had to forcefully stop his heart to prevent it from spreading even further.

**Anemokinesis**: As a Anemo Vision user. Yoshiteru can create powerful torrents of air and whirlwinds, and replicates it with his movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve purely offensive attacks, most of which utilizing rotating movements to generate swift whirlwind-like slashes that greatly increase the wielder's striking range or utilizing the air around them to deliver sharp sickle-shaped attack.

* **Blood Manipulation**: Yoshiteru's Elemental Ability allowed him to manipulate his own body's blood in various ways. He was shown to generate them from his flesh Kama or from open wounds on his body or release blood at will from his veins. It was implied that Yoshiteru doesn't run out of blood due to his regenerative abilities, giving him a virtually infinite source of blood to fuel his techniques. In combat, he usually created barrages of solidified sickle-shaped blood as sharp as blades that can travel at immensely fast speeds to attack his opponents. Yoshiteru was capable of freely manipulating these blood slashes at will, altering their movements until they hit his opponent or shaping them however he pleases. Furthermore, his blood sickles are coated in deadly poison.