Ritsu Amakusa/HOTD

**Ritsu Amakusa** (天草律, *Amakusa Ritsu*) is an Australian-Japanese female and one of the survivors in Kyoko since the undead break at E-Day. She's seen as the overarching leader and strategist of her group as well an fortified combatant capable of fighting against the undead unarmed.

## Biography

### Early Life

Ritsu grew up and born on the continent country called Australia in a town called Alice Springs. Born between an Australian woman Alice Springs and an Japanese father of the Amakusa clan, an clan descending from Amakusa Shirō where she became interested in mechanical engineering and firearms during her childhood, while at the same time was taught martial arts at his private dojo.

However at some point however after her mother passed away, her father decided to move back to Japan to which she was enrolled at Fujimi Academy as and quickly rose to fame as one of the most intelligent students, having the highest I.Q. score. As she attended the academy, she was trained further by her father where by the time of her graduation she was able to utilize several forms of unarmed combat styles, making her a versatile combatant. She had also trained her physical body where she is very acrobatic utilized these prowess in her combat style. She is known despite being the senior come to blows with then first-year student Saya Takagi due to their rivalling intellect in class and other activities. However ultimately Saya backed off after losing in an game of Shogi.

Ritsu then graduated from Fujimi Academy roughly a year before the undead pandemic at E-Day where she got an job at an Maid café. She'd then enjoyed working as an maid and eventually became an permanent member where the Maid café where they can customized their outfit, which is an unique type of Maid café that allows multiple themes on the single maid. She went for an sharpshooting armoured maid with two prop pistols. While working, she'd then befriended one of the customers that often comes by, named Tokisada Tachibana and quickly grew an close bond.

### Takagi Estate

Ritsu's and her group then encountered an patrol sent out by the Takagi family with one of them recognizing Ritsu as an member of the Amakusa clan, one of the four noble clans in Japan's hierarchy closely related to the Imperial Clan. The patrol took them back to the Takagi Estate to which they were then introduced Souichiro Takagi, who is pleased to see Shiro Amakusa's child safe from the undead. In response to the politeness from Souichiro, she'd kneeled before him as well did her group as a sign of respect as one of her friends pulled out the Kusanagi no Tsurugi also in a sign of respect. Souichiro then asked them to rise and to not be so formal. As they did however, an shocked gasp is heard as Saya was shocked to see her intellect rival here, calling Ritsu on what she's doing here before walking to her face.

Before Souichiro can tell her daughter to show respect to an member of the Amakusa, Ritsu silently raised her left hand to signal it's alright. She'd then spoke words to Saya on the fact her attitude and superior complex will only get herself and others killed. She'd then faced Souichiro to inform of an new undead they called deviants began to appear and wish to speak more inside, now ignoring Saya as they walked inside with Souichiro to discuss further. Before entering howeber, she then faced the school nurse Shizuka Marikawa and smiled, happy she is alive and wish to speak to her after talking to Souichiro.

## Appearance

Ritsu is a young woman in of the age of eighteen born between a Australian (mother) and Japanese (father) but inherited most of her traits from her father. Standing at 190.5 cm (6'3ft/1.90m), she is born with long soft orange wavy hair with green eyes for which she is shown wearing an Buy contact lenses that gives her plus-sign yellow coloured pupil, while she wears an eyepatch due to a prior injury. She has an fit body almost hour-glass figure with average physique despite being a physically active student where she's considered an young athlete.

Ritsu before the breakout of E-Day work at an Maid café during her time attending school at Kyoko. On the day of E-Day and thanks to her father, was able to fortify her maid with the skirt covered by armour plating that hides for mobility, her corset is equipped with hard leather and a upper-arm long pauldron her her right side. Wearing a black shirt under her corset, both her hands has camouflaged gloves and wears an scarf around her neck with with an small bonnet on her head. Her lower legs is also armoured to which an protrusion extended above to protect her knee joints while exposing upper legs, fortified by hard leather, to which she is wearing dark long pants.

## Abilities

**Master Marksmanship**: Ritsu is an exceptional sharpshooter, to which utilizing the Modified Steyr AUG which has the range of 1,800 m (1,970 yd), she is capable of pinpointing long distance targets, and understands how the bullet travels through the air, taking consideration the speed, the wind and other notable factors. Many of her friends considers her the strongest out of them due to her various of combat skill and general prowess as if she was trained from a young age. At the firing range, she has proven her accuracy by nonstop shooting at the dummy targets in the single spot multiple times to the point the bullets themselves burnt through them, showing her deadly accuracy to be on-point.

**Expert Unarmed Combatant**: Ritsu while primarily an firearm specialist, she has demonstrated elevated skills in close-quarters combat as an expert martial artist, utilizing multiple forms of unarmed combat forms that enables her to even challange undead, to which possess above human strength. Endowed with her acrobatic feats, she can utilizing the full range of her body even in her armoured maid outfit, performing backflips while simultaneously striking undead with her feet and fists to deliver powerful blows and knocking them back. Thanks to her intensive training while in Australia, she can perform precise strikes at the vulnerable positions on the body and exploit them. She has shown to even engage arm villains and disarm them with her martial arts. Also to note that her armours plays an role in inflicting damage, to which the front of her armoured shoes if enough force applied, can destroy a undead's skull.

**Gifted Intelligence**: Ritsu is a highly gifted individual capable of fast quick judgements and calculating strategies. She's ranked in the top 5 in her class in the written examinations proving to be one of the smartest students at her school. She has an keen observational and analytic skills and able to quickly adapt to shifting conditions on what she knows and understand. She is also shown to be intelligent enough to easily speak seven languages to near flawlessly with only her first and second languages being flawlessly spoken. As someone who is trained in sharpshooting and often crossing harsh terrains and environments across Australia during her intensive training, she has an firm understanding on the geography and can utilize strategies by taking advantage of the land around her, often outsmarting her opponents for surprise attacks.

**Skilled Polyglot**: Ritsu is capable of speaking, writing and understanding several forms of languages from English and Japanese language being her first and second languages, all the while can almost perfectly speak German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Russian.