Bakurei Family

The **Bakurei Family** (獏麗家, *Bakurei-ka*) are a powerful league of mercenaries that are very notorious throughout the criminal underworld, where they are widely known as **The High Descendants** (上位の子孫, *Jōi no shison*).

## About

The Bakurei Clan was formed 4200 years ago, when the original Luyus Clan divided into four. While those who remained in the mainland and those who migrated to the occident kept the name or changed to Ugokomanurei or Ukiyogarasu, those who migrated to Tokyo founded the family today known as the Bakurei Clan.

Ever since the Jōmon period, the Bakurei Clan has undergone a 4000-year process of selective breeding, adoption of special techniques, and outside combat arts. As a result, with each genMoration, the Bakurei have become a race specialized for battle and were said to become more and more powerful as the genMorations went on.

With that said, it is said that the most powerful genMoration until now is the current genMoration of 2002. This genMoration consists of Tatsu and Yamato their older and younger siblings.

Yamato Bakurei and Mora were originally supposed to have an arranged marriage and have children. This marriage was attempted to be arranged by Shinobu Bakurei and Tsuya Bakurei to try mixing the Bakurei genes with a person that they saw as "incredibly powerful" in an attempt to make the Bakurei Clan even more powerful.

The Bakurei Clan, similarly to the Ugokomanurei Clan, is shown to have two mothers and no father, the two being Shinobu and Tsuya.

## Bakurei Traditions

The **Bakurei Clan Tradition** (獏 (ばく) 麗 (うるわ) 一 (いち) 族 (ぞく) 伝 (でん) ,, *Bakurei ichizoku-den*β) refer to the techniques, specifically the clan's mercenary arts, used by the Bakurei to take life away. According to the clan's current patriarch, Tsuya Bakurei, and one of her son, Tatsu Bakurei, there is no move the Bakurei cannot combat.

There is a separate set of techniques suited and designed for combat. Those are known as the **Bakurei Family Tradition** (獏 (ばく) 麗 (うるわ) 家 (か) 伝 (でん) ,, *Bakurei ka-den*β). Originally, only the main line Bakurei branch were taught the Family Traditions, though this custom had been long since abandoned by the time Tsuya became the head of the clan. As such, an outsider like Mora is able to learn the Family Traditions, proven when a young adolescent Mora learned them from his mentor, Tatsu Bakurei, with Baiko.

### Clan Traditions

#### Thermonuclear Leap

**Thermonuclear Leap** (熱 (ねつ) 核 (かく) 飛 (ひ) 躍 (やく) ,, *Netsukaku hiyaku*β) is a technique that can violently twist the necks of multiple individuals, if not just a single target. Thermonuclear Leap allows the user to leap at supernatural speeds towards something or someone. The more experienced the user is, the fastest and the farthest they will go. This technique is almost invariably lethal in execution and, as an experienced individual such as Tatsu Bakurei demonstrated, it can easily help deal with a small group of targets in a single movement.

#### Destructive Technique: Annihilation

The **Bakurei Clan Destructive Technique: Annihilation** (獏 (ばく) 麗 (うるわ) 一 (いち) 族 (ぞく) の破 (は) 壊 (こわ) 技 (わざ) 殲 (せん) 滅 (ほろ) ,, *Bakurei-ichizoku no hakai-waza: senmetsu*β) is said to be the most notable result of their selective breeding process.

It is the ability to consciously remove the brain's limits on an individual's muscular strength output. As such, while regular humans are naturally unable to access more than 30% of their body's muscular strength (except for Mora, who can passively use 103% via his ability), the Bakurei bred to access a greater amount of their latent muscular strength.

### Family Traditions

#### Shōsō

**Shōsō** (焦燥, lit "*Impatience*") is a spinning heel kick to the throat. It is supposed to cut any blood circulation to the brain from the speed of the kick.

#### Munasawagi

**Munasawagi** (胸騒ぎ, lit "*Heartbreak*") is a technique that stops the victim's heart from beating by hitting them in the heart area to create an internal shockwave in the victim's chest, stopping their heart from beating.

#### Gods' Hell

**Gods' Hell** (神々の地獄, *Kamigami no jigoku*) is a technique based on choking the victim in a strange-looking chokehold to snap the neck way faster. This technique was seen being also used with other limbs, such as Yamato Bakurei using the legs.

#### Thermic Explosion

**Thermic Explosion** (熱爆発, *Netsu bakuhatsu*) is a punch that genMorates an internal explosion of heat within the victim by using the speed of the punch to turn it into thermic energy centered into the fist.