Noh Mask

## Batista Hoshi

* Profile
* Behind the Mask
* Past

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**Batista Hoshi** (星・バティスタ, *Hoshi Batisuta*?) is a major antagonist of the *Choujin X* series. He has made multiple Choujin and has hired multiple Choujin to capture Tokio.

## Appearance

When he was younger, Batista Hoshi looked like a scrawny, short kid, at least when compared to his brother Sandek, with long dark hair covering his eyes. After he left Yamato Mori and joined the Nue Chimera group, Batista appears as a tall man who wears a Noh Mask, a black suit and a white dress shirt with a rope in place of a tie. He has medium-length black hair as well as stitches all over his body, especially on his face where he has transplanted different eyes and body parts of other Choujin in a chaotic menagerie.

## Background

Noh Mask seems to be competing with Chandra to get **Mother** the beast she seeks.

## Plot

Noh Mask shows up out of nowhere, seemingly just happening to be nearby, and tells Johnny he can heal his arms with one proffered syringe of three visible in a now popped-open briefcase, implicitly giving him the two others to use at his discretion.

Later, after the thug's defeat at the hands of Tokio, Noh Mask is seen interrogating Johnny about who used the other two syringes with a foot on his neck keeping him in place. Under threat of being chopped to pieces, Johnny admits that two high-schoolers used them and one turned into a monster, a huge beaked thing. Noh Masks asks for his name but is refused because of the look in his eye, one which says that to him, the person he is talking to is already dead. After hearing this response, Noh Mask kills him exactly the way he said he would.

Shortly, after we see Noh Mask sending Nari after Tokio, saying that he is a **"Beaked Choujin"**, asking her to nab him, depending on his abilities.

After Nari's failure, Noh Mask hires two new Choujin, Ririka and Ricardo, to clean up after her and capture Tokio.

Noh Mask also appeared to give syringes to Shiozaki's accomplices, turning them into **"Hand Choujins"**. He next appears idly on top of a building, playing with string.

After Ririka contacts Noh Mask saying that she has captured Tokio, he says he would like to visit immediately.

He appears later on, after the fight between Azuma and Tokio, seemingly, staring at Azuma on the beach, with what seems to be interest.

Soon after he goes to where Ririka and Ricardo are, talking about Azuma's Choujin abilities, they say he may be a "**Creator Choujin**". He asks them to get better first before going after Azuma or Tokio again. He leaves and thinks about what kind of choujin Azuma could be, he then contacts Chandra asking if he would join him on his "Beast Hunt".

Later, he uses the Loaned Sword of the deceased monk Rinbo, Madoromi, to intercept Simon Kagomura's path and turn the ground under his feet into quagmire. Greeting Simon, the Noh Mask is identified as the Nue Chimera and immediately engaged in combat.

## Abilities

Noh Mask is able to manipulate gravity and make people and objects levitate, including restraining people in midair. His skills in this field are inferior to his brother Sandek.
Noh Mask is able to restrain people in the air using his gravity.
Noh Mask is able to control gravity to create a barrier that repels objects or attacks that are directed at him.
Noh Mask is able to control gravity to make himself levitate in the air and fly freely.
Noh Mask is able to graft body parts of other Choujin onto himself, thus gaining access to their abilities. This power is inherited by Nue Chimeras.
Noh Mask is able to summon a sword that transforms anything it touches into mire. He is very good at wielding multiple of these swords at once, outclassing even Simon as a swordfighter, and his blades managed to clash with and neutralize the latter's "Pierced Viscera" swords by turning them into mud. "Madoromi" is a blade created by the monk Rinbo, and Noh Mask stole it from a member of the Kagomura Clan by taking his hand.
Noh Mask is able to create large portals in the air that allow things to move through the hole (穴, *ana*?) on his arm and emerge from another portal on the Omega Tower. He is also able to use the portals to block attacks directed at him, although they end up inside Omega Tower too. He stole this ability from Kate Nèether (ケイト・ネイザー, *Keito Neizā*?), forcing her into a permanent Chaos state to increase its effectiveness, and also using her body as the portal's destination point.
Using Kate Nèether's power, Noh Mask is able to create multiple portals around a target that can absorb and attract them in a short distance.
Noh Mask is able to release a large swarm of moths from his severed body parts. The scales of these moths release a strong hallucinogenic poison (幻視毒, *genshidoku*?) which within seconds makes a person harmless, confused and without strength. He stole this ability from an unknown Choujin.
Noh Mask is able to create a thin wire that stretches for several meters and can even cut through metal easily and quickly. He stole this ability from an unknown Choujin.

True to his epithet of *"Pharmacist"*, Batista is a master chemist and biologist with a deep knowledge of the human body, holding decades of experience in conducting a variety of experiments. He is capable of using a wide range of medical and scientific tools and possesses incredible knowledge of Choujin biology, having been able to create the XEMBER serum, capable of turning a normal human into a Choujin using the blood of Sora Siruha. In his youth he also developed **Plus Heal** and **Bastetol**, drugs still used to increase the healing and powers of a Choujin.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 18
2. ↑ Chapter 25
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 34-2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 34-3
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Chapter 41-5
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 32-2
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 29
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Chapter 39
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 30
10. ↑ Chapter 32-1
11. ↑ Chapter 42