Dulio Gesualdo

**Dulio Gesualdo** is an exorcist reincarnated into an Angel by the Archangel Michael as his "Joker". He possesses the second-strongest Longinus, **Zenith Tempest**. He is also the leader of the anti-terrorist team D×D.

## Appearance

Dulio is a young man with blond hair, green eyes, and dressed in priest clothes. He has 10 pure white wings, which are a symbol of his powers.

## Personality

Dulio is known to be a carefree person, and has shown to be quite lazy, as demonstrated when Michael ordered him to take care of any suspicious Grim Reapers, he ended up freezing all of the Grim Reapers because he couldn't be bothered to check all of them. Dulio has, however, shown that he was also a kind and easy going man during his interactions with the Devils of Kuoh Academy.

Dulio is also constantly traveling around the world in his quest to savor tasty cuisines. In fact, Griselda Quarta mentions that the moment Dulio finds out about a delicious cuisine, he disappears immediately and cannot be contacted at all. He also has a hobby of walking around while eating something and sleeping during meetings.

As stated by Griselda, Dulio has immense kindness, being extremely compassionate towards people from the church, particularly orphaned children.

It was later revealed that Dulio does not travel around the world to look for tasty foods for personal satisfaction but to do research and bring them to the church facilities for the kids to eat. He treats those who came from church facilities as his brothers and sisters and will do anything for them.

## Powers & Abilities

**Immense Exorcist Skills**: He is known to be the strongest exorcist ever, capable of taking on High-Class Devils and monsters alone even before he was reincarnated into an Angel. He is, in fact, so skilled that he is being considered as a candidate to become a Seraph.

**Immense Strength**: Dulio is widely viewed as the strongest reincarnated Angel and is even called a genius. A testament to Dulio's power is the fact that he is the only reincarnated Angel who possesses 10 wings, same as that of a Seraph. He is also able to fight evenly with Crom Cruach, the strongest Evil Dragon in existence. In Volume 23 Dulio is able to fight on par with Issei who was in his Crimson Armor with partial Dragon Deification.

**Immense Speed**: Dulio is highly fast and an agile church warrior. He is capable of evading most of Issei and Saji's attacks during their training and sparring session with just minimal movements.

**Master Tactician**: Dulio is a highly ingenious strategist with exceptional understanding of psychological warfare, in Volume 19, during the battle against the rebelling exorcists, Dulio chose to allow the exorcists to fight first to fully vent their anger and indignation towards the alliance of the Three Factions before using Speranza Bolla di Sapone to effectively drain them of their fighting spirit, succeed in the DxD's mission to stop the rebelling exorcists without killing them. In Volume 23, during his Rating Game against Issei, Dulio was able to exploit Issei's perverted weakness towards beautiful women to his advantage, by showing a video projection of Gabriel changing into a bikini to Issei which is successful in distracting him.

**Master Hand-to-hand Combatant**: Duilo is shown to have some skills in hand-to-hand combat, able to hold his own against Issei. Duilo can also Combined with the power of light to further increase the power of his physical attacks to cause damage towards Devils.

**Light-Based Weapons**: As an Angel, Dulio is capable of creating light base weapons with ease. he is shown able to fire colossal spears of light with ease.

**Flight**: Being an Angel, Dulio can use his 10 wings to fly.

## Equipment

**Zenith Tempest** (, *Zenisu Tenpesuto*): Dulio possesses the second strongest Longinus, which has the ability to control all weather as well as its elemental attributes. His Sacred Gear can control weather to take control of fire, wind, lightning, water, and earth that exist in nature. As such, it's even possible to create artificial clouds in places where there is no sky. According to Azazel, Dulio's skills with **Zenith Tempest** are abnormal, to the point that he can even control the weather inside buildings as demonstrated when he took down the majority of the Grim Reapers within the Hades Shrine, in the Realm of the Dead by freezing them. His immense mastery of his Longinus is further shown when he wiped out an army of Mass produced Evil Dragons with an immense tornado and powerful flashes of lightning, he could even freeze the holy flames of the Longinus Incinerate Anthem.

* **Speranza Bolla di Sapone** (, *Superantsa Borra di Sapone*): is a technique created by Dulio where he creates a giant bubble by blowing through a circle formed by his hands which then explodes creating little bubbles from it. Whoever touches the bubble remembers the things that are most important to them, resulting in them either losing the will to fight or clearing their mind. It also has the ability to project video footage of whoever Dulio chooses, wherever they are of what they are currently doing. Dulio used this ability on Issei, to distract him by showing Gabriel changing into a bikini.
* **Flagello di Colori del Arcobaleno, Speranza di Briscola**: Dulio’s subspecies Balance Breaker of Zenith Tempest. In this form, Dulio possesses 12 golden wings and four halos above his head. Dulio creates countless bubbles, trapping his opponents within them. Dulio then controls the climate within these bubbles to attack those trapped within, creating intensely swirling flames, violent hurricanes, freezing cold air which freezes everything, and vicious torrents of lightning.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Dulio can create weather to help the team out during certain missions.

## Trivia

* Dulio excels in wide-scope attacks but is no good in hand-to-hand combat.[1]
* Dulio is listed at the top of Vali's *"wants to fight against"* list.[2]
* In Volume 18, it is revealed that Dulio's main reason for becoming the Joker of Heaven was to reach the souls of the children in Heaven.
* Speranza Bolla di Sapone means "Hope Soap Bubble".
* Flagello di Colori del Arcobaleno, Speranza di Briscola means "Scourge of Colours of the Rainbow, Hope of Trump".
	+ Briscola is the name of a popular Italian card game so the meaning of "Trump" in this case is a reference to trump suit in the game which would refer to Dulio's nickname "The Trump Card of Heaven".
* His team name for the Azazel Cup is Heaven's Joker in reference to him being the team leader.