Hotoke Sawazaki

**Hotoke Sawazaki** 沢崎 仏 (さわざき ほとけ) is a bastard of one of the higher-ups, as he was born to one of that higher-up's mistresses.

As a gift to his mother, despite his lack of both an inherited technique and an innate technique as well, he was enrolled in the Kyoto Metropolitan Curse Technical College at his father's recommendation.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Although he may be a 1st-year, Hotoke is experienced and skilled in the usage of cursed energy. This is because, with the aid and encouragement of his mother, Hotoke has been learning about and practicing with cursed energy since he was a 5-year-old.

As a 12-year-old, an assassin and their shikigami attempted to murder Hotoke's mother as well. As he defended his mother from the assassin and the shikigami, the 12-year-old Hotoke defeated the assassin with a lucky Black Flash strike. Afterward, because of the Black Flash, acquired enough insight into cursed energy to also defeat all of the assassin's shikigami. In addition, also because of the Black Flash, Hotoke evolved from an average sorcerer into a prodigious sorcerer!

With the aid of his Black Flash-induced insight, for 3 years, Hotoke honed his body and sharpened his skills. By the present, as a result of his Black Flash and training, he's become a 1st-grade sorcerer!

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Hotoke battles with his fists through a combination of cursed energy manipulation and punches from both Boxing and Karate alike.

While battling with his fists, Hotoke augments his aura of cursed energy with Domain Amplification. By doing so, Hotoke can imbue his opponent's cursed technique into his domain amplification as a means of neutralizing his opponent's cursed technique! This allows Hotoke's punches to both bypass cursed technique-based defenses and smash through cursed technique-based offenses!

Normally, the drawback to one's domain amplification is that it prevents one from using one's cursed technique's. However, Hotoke does not exhibit a cursed technique, As such, Hotoke's domain amplification has no drawbacks!

### Jujutsu

Hotoke exhibits a 1st-grade amount of cursed energy, which is elite for a jujutsu sorcerer. As such, Hotoke can easily and extensively observe both cursed energy and cursed spirits as well. Hotoke can also perceive both a cursed spirit's residuals and a cursed technique's residuals as well.

Hotoke was not born with any Inherited Technique or Innate Technique. For that reason, Hotoke studied and trained in the usage of Barrier Techniques. More specifically, Hotoke studied and trained in the usage of Domain Expansion!

Hotoke's domain expansion both confines Hotoke's targets inside of it and manifests Hotoke's innate domain, but because Hotoke does not exhibit a cursed technique, Hotoke's domain expansion is not imbued with any cursed technique. Instead, Hotoke imbues his opponent's cursed technique into his domain expansion in order to neutralize his opponent's usage of the cursed technique! Frighteningly, because Hotoke's domain expansion exhibits neither an automatic hit of an imbued technique nor a lethal purpose, Hotoke is able to compress the domain expansion into a domain amplification and then maintain that domain amplification as a means of converting the neutralization of his opponent's cursed technique into a sealing of his opponent's cursed technique within the domain amplification! As such, in an instant, Hotoke is able to neutralize his opponent's cursed technique and then seal that cursed technique away!