Itami

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> "*Let me tell you why you can't enter the realm of the highest. Because you're a human. Because you're going to grow old. Because you're going to die. Become a demon, Otoichi. Do that, and you can go on training for a hundred, two hundred years. You can become stronger!!!!.*"
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***-Itami To Otoichi-***

Itami is a major supporting antagonist of The Begining. He is a demon affiliated with the Twelve Kizuki, holding the position of Upper Rank Three.

## Appearance

As a demon, Itami took the form of a tall and muscular young man with skin so fair that appears bright green-tinged white. Itami had short, bright cyan hair that fluffed out around his head, and inward-tilting ice blue eyes with black eyelashes and blue sclera that looked somewhat like cracked glass, the kanji for "Upper Rank Three" etched into their irises.

## Personality

Itami is a strong, stubborn and impulsive demon who enjoys fighting, especially against strong Demon Slayers. He looked down on anybody he deemed weak, but genuinely respected those who were strong in his eyes, regardless of their race. Once he met someone he deems strong, he demanded to know their name, and would not stop until he finds out; he remembers all the names he's committed to memory as tribute to their strength.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: As the holder of the 'Upper Rank Three' title, Itami possessed a tremendous amount of power, having been able to defeat Otoichi Shinozaki, the Feather Hashira, and also several past Hashira.

## Blood Demon Art

**Destructive Frost:** Itami's Blood Demon Art takes the form of a martial arts style that combines shockwave-like techniques and his Soryu Style (素流式 *Soryū Shiki*) he mastered when he was human. The shockwaves appear to be the same shade of blue as his tattoos and can be unleashed in both close and far range. Destructive Frost, similar to the Soryu Style, is a martial arts style that utilizes both a user's arms and legs to unleash swift and powerful strikes that target an opponent's neck and weapon. This Blood Demon Art combined with his superhuman strength and speed makes him a formidable opponent in both close and ranged combat.

## Fighting Style

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Itami's most notable attribute as a human and as a demon is his extraordinary skill in unarmed combat and bare-fisted martial arts. Even before transforming into a demon, Itami has displayed prodigious abilities and skills in hand-to-hand combat, being able to completely lay waste to several grown men at the age of 15 without any prior martial arts training, and annihilate 67 adult kendo masters with his bare fists, brutally mutilating their bodies until they were mangled piles of flesh when he was 25. After becoming a demon, his hand-to-hand combat prowess was further augmented to the point he could effectively fight at speeds faster than the eye can see while fully utilizing his bare-fisted martial arts skills for both offense and defense. Furthermore, when combined with his Blood Demon Art, his blows and strikes become even more powerful and lethal, making him unparalleled in unarmed combat.

* **Soryu Style** (素流式 *Soryū Shiki*): A bare-fisted martial arts style taught to him by Kensaki when he lived with him and took care of Himiko. The Soryu Style utilizes both a user's arms and legs to unleash swift and powerful strikes that target an opponent's neck and weapon. He used it to kill 67 kenjutsu masters with ease and it is the main inspiration of his Destructive Frost Style used when he became Itami.

* **Bell Splitter** (鈴割り *Suzu Wari*): A technique likely created or inspired from the Soryu Style where Itami strikes a sword from the side as it is descending to break it with ease.

### Techniques

* **Compass Frost** (羅針盤霜 *Rashinban shimo*): Deploying a cyan snowflake-shaped compass underneath him with numbers from 1 to 12 that can detect and track the locations of his opponents and incoming attacks through sensing a person's will to fight. This technique can also be used to enhance the accuracy of his attacks, as stated by Tsuneto Kushihara when Itami always instinctively aimed for his vital points as if his fists were magnets attracted to them. Itami always has this technique activated when engaging in combat, making all other techniques he unleashes extremely difficult to counter and evade while making his techniques all the more lethal.