Rai Salazar Ryuuguin

**Rai Salazar Ryūguin** is the protagonist of the story arc, ***Exodus of the Kingdoms*** and a Kyo Edit in development by PhantomJS/Kazanryu with some sprites by Iori Yagami, Kim Kaphwan and some originel sprites. He is konwn by the alias **Crimson Sabertooth Tiger**.

He will be dubbed by PhantomJS/Kazanryu itself

## Story

### Lore

Rai's origin goes back to Barcelona in Venezuela where he did not even have a good experience, since the crisis in his city was enormous due to the corruption that the group The Corruption left in the city a day after his birth, and due to This crisis has had to face thieves, murderers and all kinds of problems, which affected his faction Kenshitora. but he found some other individual to trust and that's how he grew until he discovered what was causing the crisis but was several damaged by a bandit.

Then he woke up in a place where the flow of time stopped. Aware of his lession, he was certainly disappointed, but he met in that place an unknown individual with a young appearance of 15 years with black hair. Rai asked him who he was but that person replied with: "I am who I am". With this Rai got an idea of ​​who he was, and asked him why he brought him here, but he left him unanswered. With this Rai had no choice but to forget about it, but that person told him afterwards: "I brought you here to change you". then Rai hearing the answer became expressionless and then that person then said to him: "Do you want to live in my kingdom?" but Rai refused and said: "I've heard a lot about that but I won't stay now and besides you don't intervene in my world, no". The person said, "Oh, do you want to avoid more victims of your problem?" Rai said, "more or less I just need to get rid of it before the situation gets worse despite being another world just like the bunch I also have a lot of things that I haven't completed yet and I honestly don't want to leave them like that." to which that person decided to make a change (buff) now and said: "I'm going to tell you something, you are someone's relative which you have to try for my goal. so I order you to finish that problem from now on" . To which Rai replied: "I'm apparently part of your plan" and resurrected, he continues where he left off.

### Exodus from the Kingdoms

#### KOF: First Kingdom

Rai appears as an individual entry in KOF: 1st Kingdom and challenges some members of the tournament and reunites with two individuals he originally knew, Rosmeri Waran and Rustov Novgorod. then he sees some members of The Corruption, these being: Kenji Ren and Remembered, and ends up killing them. at the end he meets the sponsor of the tournament who is a member of The Corruption and was waiting for Kazanryu: Kuro no Ummei. in the end Rai defeats Kuro no Ummei and at least put an end to the evils of the tournament caused by corruption and then tells him: "now you see, you reap what you sow". because Kazanryu was already driving Kuro no Ummei crazy and then kills him. and finally he offers Rosmeri and Rustov to team up with him in the next tournament.

#### KOF: Second Kingdom

In KOF 2nd Kingdom, Rai teams up with Rosmeri and Rustov and participates in the tournament as he predicted one more attack from The Corruption. He did very well in the tournament and in the final he faced the Rival Team made up of Clio Sapphire, K-Failurer and Volk Nuremberg, and remain tied. during the final of the tournament without a defined winner, they are interrupted. it was a trap but Rai and Clio managed to take down the individuals named, Alstred and Laran, whom Rai and Clio interrogated but after they got the information, Rai killed them and then went to the sponsor's area but they are greeted by Thang Yi, who confronts them but is defeated by both triads and killed by Rai eventually. Later, they meet the sponsor of the tournament who was also a member of The Corruption, Fuhai, and he challenges them to get rid of them, but loses to the two thirds and is left dying by Rai and when Fuhai places his consciousness in Rai and Clio, he controls successfully to Clio but did not suffer the same luck with Rai who had already countermeasured it and had managed not to be controlled by Fuhai's conscience, then Rai reunites with his teammates and leaves the place.

#### KOF: Third Kingdom

In KOF: 3rd Kingdom, Rai repeats the same set but under the name of Crimson Team and participates in the tournament again, in the semifinal he faces the Japan Team made up of Kyo, Benimaru and Shingo and wins the semifinal and in the final he faces Clio again in the Sky Team with Gen and Kuson, tying again in the final. And in the end he and Clio are attacked by the leader of The Corruption, Kurushimu but easily defeat Kurushimu who was dying by Rai takes Rai to the place where the founder is and there Rai leaves Kurushimu dead and faces the founder and the founder is shown. there Rai understands what that person meant when he is someone's relative. the founder of The Corruption is Rai Salazar Ryuuguin, the first. with this Rai discovers that he is an alternate remnant of this Rai. then this Rai challenges Rai to a match to test his strength and in the end, Rai defeats Rai (Maker). with this Rai (Maker) asks Rai to kill him since he was the reason The Corruption existed, for his negative side but he warns Rai that this costs him his own life. here both he and Clio and Maker realize the requirement in a moment: He and Clio must kill him with everything. When Rai and Clio send a huge amount of Power towards Maker, a huge explosion is generated tearing Maker apart and sending them flying but killing them in the process.

### Tale of the Fragments

#### KOF: Begining of the Scource

As predicted, Rai would be revived again and this time repeats the Crimson Team from KOF 3rd Kingdom. Here he easily reaches the semifinal and faces who would be his biggest rival (Or rather arch enemy) since then, Hezeru Shian and won in the semifinal against her. Later in the final against Clio, here they tie without having a clear winner but they are interrupted by the anomaly but Rai confronts Ami Requiem and defeats her, discovering that he had been brainwashed into causing the disturbance. from there he goes to talk to Flavel Temps who is one of his contacts and has a brief fight with her. then he faces Ten Kuro and defeats him, and then in the Crimson Team ending, Rai finds out about the new threat that comes to the world with a bad omen.

## Appearance

Rai is seen as a light-skinned 20-25 year old man with a dark red saber tooth mark between his eyes, the bridge of his nose, and his cheeks, his right eye is deep red, and his right eye is red. black left eye and short mushroom-shaped black hair with a red streak on the right fringe of his hair. He wears a charcoal black V-fronted jacket with a matching hood and saber tooth mark of his face on the back and a blood red undershirt with a cross similar to Kyo's but poppy red inside. blood-red gloves, charcoal-black pants, and wine-red shoes.

## Personality

Rai is quite cautious and resourceful to prevent harm and is very distrustful but he is someone with experience who loves, wants and has other things like that for people or things but does not get attached to people or things or anything like that, so he can't be emotionally hurt. he is usually sarcastic on some occasions and usually speaks with words instead or code. he is not intimidated and is not easily intimidated and acts from experience. He is humble when it comes to his power or his undefeated time and sees potential in his opponents, even the rest. He hates to leave things unfinished and even if death forces him to do so. he is calm but aggressive and despite being a Christian, he does not express it too much but is conservative.

In his way of thinking, he does not see the value of virtues and does not consider himself a hero for knowing his own actions. he does not see that justice works and he kills without thinking twice, apart from the fact that he does not see the need to demonstrate that his values ​​are better. He does not see things in black and white and does not pretend to be vigilant, apart from being direct with a person only when the situation warrants it for him. He does not let himself do things and is usually cheeky when he sees the need to do so, normally he is usually lonely, but he only seeks company when he sees the need and does not trust his enormous strength.

## Powers

* **Pyrokinesis (Red Flames):** Rai wields amazing control over fire that has a deep red color coming to melt from stone to diamond (it even makes a hole in a planet if it wants to).
	+ **Silence:** Rai carries the ability to seal his opponent's power with his own flames (Which is featured in Nenryou: Murasame and Bakugeki: Fu-Ma-Kugi)
* **Frozen time physical flow:** Rai has the speed to physically and literally defy time. when he's going full speed, he's so fast that time stands still in his eyes.

## Fighting Style

Rai uses a personal art called Eien no Tanso-En in combat, maintaining his full strength and using deep red flames, while also cunning to make better techniques and using his combat experience to counterattack on.

The style consists in three divisions:

* **Nenryō:** This division consists of flame attacks empowering himself.
* **Hiwokesu:** This division consists of normal attacks without using their flames.
* **Bakugeki:** This division consists of direct flame attacks.

## Appearances

* *The King of Fighters: First Kingdom*
* *The King of Fighters: Second Kingdom*
* *The King of Fighters: Third Kingdom*
* *The King of Fighters: Begining of the Scourge*

## Similar Characters

* Kyo Kusanagi (Similar techniques)
* Iori Yagami (For the color pallete)
* Khriz
* Maker

## Trivia

* Rai bears many similarities to Kyo Kusanagi himself.
	+ He has a similar stance to Kyo's but his arm movement is vertical while Kyo's is horizontal.
	+ He has very similar movements to Kyo. (including his hypers)
	+ Rai wears a manner of dress somewhat similar to Kyo's.
	+ Rai shares many of Kyo's sprites.
* He would be one of the few characters voiced by his own author if he was ready. so far the only one is Kill by BLACK
* Rai is the first edit in present a heterochromia in his sprites.

## Notes

1. ↑ A heterochromia is when someone has two colors in their eyes, one in each eye.