Gōgari Rikiya

Vice Admiral **Gōgari Rikiya** (*Kanji*: **傲雁**, **力家**; *English*: **Proud Cry of a Wild Goose**, **Powerhouse**) was naught but an unsanctioned explorer from Wano Country, until he was conscripted into the Marines. Notably, beyond the confines of Wano Country, he is more commonly known by his alias of **Kurozumi** (*Kanji*: **黒炭**; *English*: **Black Charcoal**).

He was a direct retainer of Kurozumi Orochi himself and thus a high-status samurai, until he departed from the Flower Capital in order to explore the rest of Wano Country and then departed from Wano Country in order to explore the rest of the world.

During his days of exploration, his preference for dressing in Doskoi Panda and reputation as a powerful swordsman caused the newspapers to nickname him as the **Doskoi Bandit** (*Romaji*: **Dosukoi Bandetto**; *Kana*: **ドスコイ・バンデット**). However, because neither the Marines nor the World Government regarded him as any sort of criminal or pirate, he was not issued a bounty and thus was not wanted to any extent.

Unfortunately for criminals and him alike, during the **World Military Draft** (*Romaji*: **Sekai Chōhei**; *Kanji*: **世界徴兵**), he was one of the many whom were conscripted into the Marines. Subsequently, he quickly worked his way up the ranks. In fact, his rise in rank was quick enough to allow him to become a full-fledged Vice Admiral by the time of the Straw Hat Pirates' return to and reunion in the Sabaody Archipelago! As such, many have come to regard him as the most talented marine of his generation! And he is feared and revered throughout the world as the **Candidate Admiral** (*English*: **Admiral Candidate**; *Romaji*: **Taishō-kōho**; *Kanji*: **大将候補**).

## ***Abilities and Equipment***

### *Authority*

As a Vice Admiral in the Marines and the Division Leader of Unit 04 of G-5, Rikiya is the captain of a battleship named the New World Dandy and the commander of a company of 50 marines who have come to be known as the Glasses Marines.

### *Fighting Styles and Martial Arts*

#### **Fisticuffs ~ Karyu Noso**

Rikiya is a martial artist who practices the **Karyū Nosō** (*Kanji*: **火竜の爪**; *English*; **Fire Dragon's Claws**), an explosive and incendiary style of bare-knuckle boxing.

The Karyū Nosō requires Rikiya to consistently vibrate a hand at a specific frequency. By doing so, Rikiya will be able to either detonate the air around his hand into an explosion or ignite the air around his hand into a flame. Subsequently, Rikiya will be able to use the explosion to blow an enemy apart and the flame to burn an enemy to ash.

It also possible for Rikiya to use a strike on an individual's chest as a means of conducting a vibration through the individual's chest and into the individual's lungs. Subsequently, the vibration will either detonate the lungs' air into an explosion or ignite the lungs' air into a flame! In addition, Rikiya can also use a strike on any portion of an individual's body as a means of conducting a vibration through the individual's skin and into the individual's blood. Subsequently, the vibration will either detonate the oxygen within the blood into an explosion or ignite the oxygen within the blood into a flame!

Notably, Rikiya can subject the detonated or ignited air to basic Busoshoku haki as a means of augmenting the force of the detonated air and the heat of the ignited air. Rikiya can also subject the detonated or ignited air to advance Busoshoku haki as a means of encasing the detonated or ignited air within a boundary and thereby providing the detonated or ignited air with a shape.

#### **Swordplay ~ Karyugiri**

Rikiya is a swordsman who practices a unique style of kenjutsu which has come to be referred to as the **Karyūgiri** (*Kanji*: **火竜切り**; *English*: **Fire Dragon-Cutter**).

The Karyūgiri is a **Jūken-ryu** (*Kanji*: **柔剣流**; *English*: **Gentle Blade Style**) which requires Rikiya to consistently shake his sword at very specific frequencies and in very specific manners. By doing so, Rikiya will be able to vibrate his sword's blade in a manner which causes the air around his sword's blade to iginite into a fiery and stationary **Flying Slash Attack** (*Romaji*: **Tobu Zangeki**; *Kanji*: **飛ぶ斬撃**).

Subsequently, by altering the frequency at which he is shaking his sword, Rikiyia will be able to alter the size of the Flying Slash Attack. And by altering the manner in which he is shaking his sword, Rikiya will be able to alter the shape of his Flying Slash Attack. In addition, Rikiya will be able to use the Flying Slash Attack as a fiery and sharp extension of his sword's blade. As such, Rikiya will be able burn and cut a target at a distance beyond the range of his sword's blade. Rikiya will also be able to use just about any swing of his sword as a means of launching the Flying Slash Attack as an an explosive or just incendiary projectile.

Notably, Rikiya can subject the Flying Slash Attack to basic Busoshoku haki as a means of augmenting the heat and sharpness of the Flying Slash Attack. Also of note, by augmenting the heat of the Flying Slash Attack, Rikiya is able to cause the Flying Slash Attack to detonate a myriad of microscopic explosions along its edge and surface. And by causing the Flying Slash Attack to detonate those explosions, Rikiya is able to cause the Flying Slash Attack to emit a kinetic force and thereby cause the Flying Slash Attack to exhibit the same degree of tangibility as the blade of his sword! Lastly, Rikiya can encase the Flying Slash Attack in advance Busoshoku haki as a means of both providing the Flying Slash Attack with a boundary which makes it easier for him to quickly and seamlessly reshape the Flying Slash Attack on a whim and protecting the Flying Slash Attack from being disrupted or extinguished.

### *Gadgets and Weapons*

#### **Sword**

Main Article: Kurozumi

Rikiya possesses a black-bladed and shirasaya-like wakizashi named **Kurozumi** (*Kanji*: **黒炭**; *English*: **Black Charcoal**). He sheaths it within a saya which he prefers to keep attached to his back.

Notably, though Kurozumi may not be one of the, Supreme Grade Sword, its blade exhibits all of the durability and potency that is exhibited by the blades of the Supreme Grade Swords!

### *Devil Fruit*

#### **Gachin Gachin no Mi**

Rikiya is the consumer of the **Gachin Gachin no Mi** (*Kana and Kanji*: **がちんがちんの実**; *English*: **Tick-Tock Tick-Tock Fruit**), a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit which allows its consumer to subject any entity — regardless of whether it's a living being or a non-living thing — to tachypsychia and then manipulate the symptoms of the entity's tachypsychia.

By subjecting a living being to tachypsychia and then manipulating the symptoms of the living being's tachypsychia, Rikiya is able to alter the living being's perception of time. By doing so, Rikiya is able to deceive the living being into believing that an entity or event is faster or slower than it actually is. And thereby cause the living being to act too early or too late, compromise the living being's timing, subject the living being to a sort of lag, or throw off the living being's aim.

In addition, Rikiya is able to subject a non-living thing to tachypsychia as well and then manipulate the symptoms of the non-living thing's tachypsychia. However, unless the non-living thing exhibits at least a minimum amount of artificial intelligence, the non-living thing's functions will not be affected by the tachypsychia. For example, a Pacifista can be deceived into believing than an entity or event is faster or slower than it actually is. But most ships can not.

Frighteningly, Rikiya is able to manipulate the precognition that is provided by Kenbunshoku haki. By doing so, Rikiya is able to alter the foresight and premonition that an individual receives from their Kenbunshoku haki and thereby cause the individual to perceive an illusory future which does not have to exhibit any measure of basis or even possibility. Thus Rikiya can lead the individual into believing in the certainty of something that is unlikely to happen or even something that can not happen at all! It is also possible for Rikiya to bestow the individual with a foresight or premonition of his actions as a means of feinting the individual and it is possible for Rikiya to deprive the individual of the ability to receive any precognition from their Kenbunshoku haki at all! Worst of all, Rikiya can flood an individual with a swarm of foresights or premonitions as a means of disorienting or even incapacitating the individual!

Even more frighteningly, Rikiya is able to subject himself to tachypsychia and then manipulate the symptoms of his tachypsychia. By doing so, Rikiya is able to maximize his reaction time and thinking speed by perceiving the world in slow motion. Rikiya is also able to exert complete and utter control over the foresight and premonition that he receives from his Kenbunshoku haki. And by doing so, Rikiya is able to perceive the future of anyone and anything that is within the range of his Kenbunshoku haki. Lastly, by using his control over his Kenbunshoku haki in conjunction with his ability to perceive the world in slow motion, Rikiya is able to perceive a month's worth of the future in just an instant!

But the most frightening ability that is granted to Rikiya by the Gachin Gachin no Mi is the ability to deceive an individual into believing that his or her perception of the future is his or her perception of the present. Because the Gachin Gachin no Mi allows Rikiya to manipulate an individual's perception of time, Rikiya is able to cause an individual to perceive an illusory future and deceive the individual into believing that his or her perception of that illusory future is actually his or her perception of the present. By doing so, Rikiya is able to entrap the individual within an illusion without the individual being aware of the existence of the illusion or of what is occurring outside of the illusion. It is this ability which allowed Rikiya to rise up the Marines' ranks with ease and qualify for the position of Admiral!

### *Haki*

#### **Busoshoku Haki**

Rikiya is a master of Bushoshoku haki. As Rikiya is able to augment the force of an attack, bypass any form of intangibility or protection that an individual may be receiving from a Logia-type Devil Fruit, emit an amount of kinetic energy as a short-range shockwave of concussive force, encase the blade or bludgeon of a weapon inside of a sort of force field as a means of protecting the blade or bludgeon from abrasion, enhance the potency of a weapon, increase the hardness of an entity to a degree that is superior to the hardness of diamond and seastone themselves, and inject an amount of kinetic energy into an entity as a means of subjecting the entity's interior to a short-range shockwave of concussive force!

##### Transcendency

In addition, Rikiya is one of the few masters of Transcendency in the entire world. As a **Transcendent** (*Romaji*: **Chōetsuka**; *Kanji*: **超越家**), Rikiya is able to harden his muscles with his Busoshoku haki and thereby augment the compressive strength of his muscles. By doing so, Rikiya is able to increase the amount of force that is exerted by his muscles. Unfortunately, Rikiya will also increase the amount of effort that it takes to maneuver his muscles and the amount of energy that is expended whenever he maneuvers his muscles.

Initially, whenever he used Transcendency, Rikiya would suffer from an encumbrance which hindered his maneuverability. However, after a year of training, Rikiya managed to overcome the aforementioned encumbrance and thereby relieve himself of Transcendenc's hindrance to his maneuverability as well. In addition, at first, Rikiya was unable to utilize basic Busoshoku haki while he was using Transcendency. But after yet another year of training, Rikiya managed to increase his reservoir of and skill with haki to the point where he could easily use advance Bushoshoku haki while he was using Transcendency.

#### **Kenbunshoku Haki**

Even without his Gachin Gachin no Mi, Rikiya is a master of Kenbunshoku haki. As Rikiya is able to detect the presence of other individuals, gauge the power of an individual in relation to himself and others, perceive the aura and silhouette of an individual whom is beyond the range of his physiological sensors, and sense the emotions and intentions of an individual. In addition, even without the Gachin Gachin no Mi, Rikiya is also able to both procure a precognition of the future with his Kenbunshoku haki and receive a precognition of the future from his Kenbunshoku haki.

However, if Rikiya has mastered his Kenbunshoku haki without the Gachin Gachin no Mi, then Rikiya has perfected his Kenbunshoku haki with the Gachin Gachin no Mi. For Rikiya is able to use the Gachin Gachin no Mi to augment his Kenbunshoku haki to an absurd extent. With his Gachin Gachin no Mi, Rikiya is able to subject himself to tachypsychia and then manipulate the symptoms of his tachypsychia. By doing so, Rikiya is able to exert complete and utter control over the foresight and premonition that he receives from his Kenbunshoku haki. As a result, Rikiya is able to perceive the future of anyone and anything that is within the range of Kenbunshoku haki! Rikiya is also able to use his control over his Kenbunshoku haki in conjunction with his ability to perceive the world in slow motion. And by doing so, Rikiya is able to perceive a month's worth of the possible future in an instant!