Kageyama

Kageyama is a Dragon, who is one of Reine's subordinates and also her butler.

## Appearance

In his human form, Kageyama is a handsome bespectacled young man wearing a butler uniform. In his dragon form, he has the appearance of a large black Eastern Dragon.

## Personality

Kageyama has a very refined and sophiscated personality. Polite yet outspoken, although he does not always show emotions, he can be rather rude and does not hold back in criticizing others even towards his master. A noted Anglophile stemming from his exposure to western culture during the Meiji era, Kageyama has great passion in reading English literature particularly English mystery novels such as Agatha Piorot's Hercule Poirot series and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. He also has a keen interest in Japanese manga and tokusatsu. Kageyama has a huge fondness for baseball since the Meiji era when baseball was introduced to Japan and Kageyama himself was also one of the earliest members Shimbashi Athletic Club Japan's first baseball team.

He is a fanatic tea lover as he always give priority to his personal tea time regardless of time and place as his butler's right.

## History

Kageyama is a Japanese Dragon, born in Japan in 1843, ten years before the Bakumatsu, the final years of the Edo period. In his childhood and youth, Kageyama have witnessed Japan's transition from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government. Kageyama was later exposed to western culture during the Meiji era which had an immense influence on him. He also worked as a servant for the British scholar and Japanologist Ernest Mason Satow in 1865 where he excelled as a first rate butler. He also joined the Shimbashi Athletic Club, Japan's first organized baseball team as one of its earliest members in 1878. Eventually, he befriended the Vanishing Dragon Sisters whom were members of Asiatic Society of Japan which his master held the presidency. He became especially fascinated by Reine due to her superior charisma, thus Kageyama pledged his future allegiance to Reine, swearing to served Reine as her subordinate after he finished serving Satow. While serving his master, Kageyama had also accompanied Satow to Siam, Uruguay and Morocco, they returned to Japan in 1895 where they remained for five years before Kageyama followed Satow to China where Satow served as British High Commissioner and Minister in Peking. Kageyama continued to dutifully served Satow in his retirement up till his death in 1929. After Satow's death, Kageyama officially became Reine's subordinate and her personal butler. Spending a period of time living in America serving Reine, he also aided Reine in helping Jewish humans from Nazi Germany's persecution in German-occupied Europe during the Holocaust in the Second World War.

## Power & Abilities

**Genius Intellect:** Kageyama is noted as a multi-talented genius particularly in solving mysteries.

* Master Tactician: Kageyama is a talented strategist with amazing observation abilities. He also has a sharp eye for identitfying strength and weakness in people. His analytical attention to details allow him to form counter plans and strategies.

**Master Chef:** As part of his butler duties, Kageyama is extremely talented in cooking with more than a century worth of cooking experience since the late Bakumatsu period and the Meiji era serving his first master Satow. His specialties are British cuisine and Yoshoku cuisine. He always prepared and served the finest meals to Reine and her guests. His repertoire also includes Japanese cuisine of his native homeland, as well as Thai cuisine, Uruguayan cuisine, Moroccan cuisine and Chinese cuisine which he learned when he accompanied Satow to Siam, Uruguay, Morocco and China. He also mastered American cuisine from his time in the United States while serving Reine.

**Expert Musician:** Kageyama has great skill in playing the piano, able to expertly play some of his mistress Reine's compositions on the piano from memory. Even Reine acknowledged Kageyama to be quiet skilled for an amateur pianist

## Trivia

* Kageyama's favourite food are
	+ Sandwiches
	+ Scones
	+ All kinds of cakes
	+ All kinds of pastries

* Kageyama's favourite drink is black tea.
* Kageyama's hobbies are cooking, gardening, reading English literature and Japanese manga, playing the piano and watching tokusatsu films and television series.
* As a devoted reader of English literature, Kageyama is particularly fond of Victorian literature especially Alice Adventures in Wonderland and Canon of Sherlock Holmes. He is also fond of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series.