Shiro Hikari

**Shiro Hikari** (白ひかり lit. meaning "White Light") is a mysterious young boy who fell from the stars and landed on the summit of Mount Fuji. He was found by the female heiress of the Hikari Clan whose parents took him in and gave him a place to stay at. Currently, he is an attending student at Kyoto Academy.

He is also the main protagonist of the in-universe spin-off *Spirit of the North Star*.

## Appearance

Shiro Hikari is a very dashing young man. While not as charming as a k-pop star, he is still an attractive man with a tall lean build, broad shoulders that speak of cool but assuring security and a gaze that pierces the heart of a maiden with incalculable engrossment.

He is the No 2 most picked boy of Kyoto Academy for an ideal date for the female students. There is also a sort of unwelcoming hardness to his appearance that demotivates others from trying to approach him due to being too scared. He usually has teal-colored eyes which glow golden when he starts using some of his divine power.

While Delialah finds most men repulsive, she found Shiro to be good-looking enough to be her 'School Partner'. Takanashi Hikari has also said that if she didn't already see him as her brother, she may have fallen for him.

## Personality

Shiro was a lone wolf with no apparent interest in what was going on around him. At first glance, he gave an impression of someone dark and dangerous, to the point where Delialah says that he probably killed someone in the past. However, as the story goes by, we see Shiro's true personality: he is a somewhat socially awkward individual, who earnestly wants to make friends but has no idea how to. He is very straightforward with his desire to make friends, as he explicitly asks Delialah and Ai Hikari how to make friends, and to be friends with him.

The most remarkable thing about him is his intelligence and deduction. Shiro is a logical, rational, and observant person, as shown from the beginning when he discovers that two of his classmates are in a relationship (this is based on the fact that one of them had the left side wet and the other the right side, which meant they had been sharing an umbrella). Not only that, he anticipates some of Delialah's plans on several occasions, demonstrating a great capacity for analysis on his part. Due to his intelligence and ability to deduce things, he has a suspicion of whether Delialah can really read minds or not.

He doesn't know much about more commonly used slang (asking Takanashi Hikari what "swag" and "F-boy" means) and seems to be more of an old-school type of person. He usually speaks in a peculiar way (using the outdated "omae-san", which is translated as "dear" or "kid") and has a taste for retro video games, such as the old Drag-So Ball Z: Legends of Valiants.

It has also been shown that he has various hobbies. In his room, he has a lot of books on various matters, which makes it clear that he is a well-rounded individual with a wide variety of knowledge. He's probably an otaku, which is backed up by his fondness for manga, idol music, and when he called his two classmates "gyarus" because he simply wanted to use that word.

While he initially had no understanding of the divine and the supernatural world, he began understanding how the world really works very quickly as his memories started resurfacing after the Nagahama School Trip Incident, where he came in conctact with a tablet of​ Amenominakanushi​ representing his own power.

Shiro holds an exceptional fondness for both his adoptive sister Takanashi and the maid of the Hikari household - Ai. He can just barely restrain himself when someone is hurting them and will often give murderous glances to people who are simply looking at them with lusty eyes. Because almost every boy in Kyoto wants to get on with the mystical beauty Ai Hikari, Shiro often has to intimidate them while quietly following Ai. Shiro later openly admits to Delialah and her devil subordinates that he loves Takanashi and Ai with all his heart, with his love for Takanashi being purely platonic and for Ai - romantic/sexual.

Shiro Hikari has a weird habit of raising his hands in a manner similar to a well-trained samurai drawing his sword on instinct.

## History

One day, on a faithful trip to Mount Ibuki, near Nagahama Town, the Hikari Family stumbled across a lone boy and girl, in an unconscious state, both naked and insanitary. The Hikari parents were afraid they might die if they leave them like this, so they quickly called an ambulance. The doctors in the Nagahama hospital ran an analysis of both that concluded several things about the boy and the girl: they were both in a deep coma and no known human method has induced any change in their state; they have hypothetically been in the woods for three days and yet they are both perfectly healthy; they exhibit something like a natural radiation from their bodies that disturbs some of the equipment's functions.

Mr. and Mrs. Hikari were two expert onmyojis and thus knew these two were of some supernatural origin, though they could not figure out what they were exactly and none of their inscriptions had any effect on them. Mrs. Hikari's older brother, Hanshou Hikari, grew interested in preforming experiments with them. However, his sister and brother-in-law denied him that option fiercely as they knew Hanshou's experiments were borderline inhumane. Their daughter, Takanashi Hikari, just turned 15, had also become extremely attracted to the mysterious children and so they didn't want to break her heart. Eventually, Hanshou, Mr. and Mrs. Hikari came to the agreement that they would be adopted into the Hikari Clan with the intention of both guarding and studying them.

First, they needed to be woken up from their own slumber. The Hikari adults struggled to come up with a solution for that little issue and they ultimately decided to postpone their awakening until further research has been collected. It was the mischief of Takanashi Hikari that evidently awoke the kids. Using the chance when most doctors in the hospital were on vacation, Takanashi 'stole' both the boy and the girl, dropping them off at the sacred waters below one of Mount Ibuki's caves. Takanashi simply wanted to wash their bodies in the water and play with them for a while. When she placed the children in the waters, the waters began glowing bright. The glow seemed to be going directly into the children, who awoke with loud gasps after it was all over.

It wasn't very long before the search party sent after the trio found them just outside town the very next morning. Surprised, worried and also pleased by this turn of events, Mr. and Mrs. Hikari threw a little party at the hospital in celebration of the children's awakening and their adoption into the Hikari Family. The boy was named **Shiro Hikari** and the girl - **Ai Hikari**.

Since the Hikari Family still operated with some traditional Japanese principals, they needed to figure what roles Shiro and Ai would take in the family. Takanashi was obviously going to be the successor as their real child and the oldest of the three, but Shiro and Ai proved just as capable if not more to control the house on their own. They were approached by Shiro himself who suggested to become the 'Main Guard' of the Hikari and Ai the 'Main Maid'. Finding this solution satisfactory, the Hikari parents agreed.

Around two-three years had passed since their adoption and life was pretty bright for the Hikari Family. Takanashi, Shiro and Ai were an inseperable trio and got along perfectly fine. Unfortunately, the days of purity ended when nearly every other member of the Hikari Family had been killed. While Ai and Takanashi were too filled with grief at the time to do anything, Shiro instinctively knew he had to take control of the situation somehow. He followed any clues he could, gathering information, either by wit or intimidation. Ai also began helping out with his detective work and somehow unearthed a few major mysteries on complete accident by herself. The two learned that the murders may have been instigated by Hanshou Hikari who had made a deal with a third party, a week prior to the event itself. Shiro and Ai accurately predicted that Hanshou would start frequently offering them a place stay at where he could keep them close to himself. While Shirou wanted something to be done about it immediately, a voice requested that he be patient. The voice told him that they should walk right into his trap so they can discover the whole truth and destroy Hanshou and the third party from within.

Shiro, Takanashi and Ai were given the old household of Takanashi's grandparents in Kyoto. Takanashi now runs the place, with Shiro becoming 'Guard' and Ai 'Maid' again. Besides managing the house, hanging out with Takanashi and Ai and nursing the cousin, Shiro also looked for more clues on the murders of his adoptive family. The trails led him to Kyoto Academy after he cornered a local crime baron into spilling information. Something told Shiro that the bridge to his answers was that school, so he applied for it. Takanashi and Ai also applied there and all three soon became renowned students at Kyoto Academy.

## Powers and Abilities

While being mostly human and seemingly having no special powers and abilities, Shiro's capabilities are always at peak human preformance, borderline superhuman and in some instances he can conjure up some of his original power in fragmented bursts of aura. He trains almost daily for physical activaties, allowing him to be at peak form almost all the time. He is capable of defeating lower-class supernaturals without the use of any supernatural powers and abilities, proving that his mortal strength is the highest amongst the humans.

### Natural Abilities

**Immense Strength**: Shiro Hikari is a guy who stands on top of all classes and club activities that have anything to do with physical preformance. Kyoto High's teachers describe his strength as 'five world class wrestlers stacked into one' and the students all collectively have call him 'The King' after he defeated two major gangs of bullies all by himself with utter ease and later also overpowering the famous Ice Queen of Kyoto Delialah. His strength was only rivaled by the latter and Ai Hikari. He was able to easily punch through a wall and grab a hold of Hanshou Hikari's neck. He was also able to hold his own quite well against a half-ogre half-human whose strength was near-godly.

**Immense Speed**: Shiro Hikari is also very agile, capable of keeping up with the likes of Delialah and capturing Ai Hikari and can also completely blitz the senses of any normal human. In his fights with regular humans, Shiro has easily dodged, predicted and counter-approached his assaliants without any issues whatsoever. Only beings with some supernatural origin/power have been able to catch him off guard or completely surpass his bullet-fast perception.

**Invulnerability** and **Immortality**: Shiro Hikari is completely invulnerable and immortal and could not be killed by conventional means. Out of the ten attempts of the Dhadri Corps to kill him, only the last one succeeded and that was only thanks to Hanshou Hikari's analysis on the ancient sword shards locked in his being and Plotinus Satan ripping them out of him, rendering Shiro's form vulnerable now.

**Immense Durability**: Even without his immortality and invulnerability taken into account, Shiro is a tank of a guy, capable of surviving a rocket launcher blast point blank, as well as a rain of fire from ten Dhadri hitmen. He can also take on attacks from lower-class demons and Ayakashi and even a man whose strength is near-godly.

**Divine Magic**: Shiro Hikari is capable of unconsciously conjuring up divine magic, the essence of the heavenly realms that is extremely lethal to beings of demonic or dark origin.

**Divine Perception**: Shiro Hikari has a perception of reality that is one idea higher than a human's. His senses are at least ten times greater than those of a normal human's and he has the particular ability to tell what is divine and what is just a fake. He can also follow ley lines of divine essences, large residues of a passing deity or demon nearby. If he concentrates he can even percieve Japan from a satellite-like perspective, though then he has trouble pin pointing the exact location of a specific individual at the given point in time. Still, the ability does help him out a lot in dealing with supernatural phenomenons.

**Divine Authority**: Shiro Hikari's voice and presence exhibit a 'God'-like aura. His voice is not booming or all-directional, but everyone who talks to him is instantly convinced, even if they themselves cannot register these thoughts and emotions, that Shiro is some otherworldly being, above the limits of the materialistic world. People are compelled to follow his orders and if they refuse they get struck with anxiety. This attribute also gives him away quite easily too, as the Dhadri Corps and the Ayakashi he encountered quickly realized he was actually Amenominakanushi.

**Master Combat Specialist**: Shiro Hikari possesses a mastery over any form of combat, be it armed, hand-to-hand, brute or technique-oriented combat. He has borderline superhuman skills in all areas of combat known to man, able to defeat world-class martial artists with relative ease. With his skills, he can even kill some supernatural beings without using any supernatural abilities himself. Aside from his strength, his peerless aptitude was the second reason the Kyoto Academy students referred to him as 'The King' and Delialah and Ai Hikari were both called 'The Queens', as they were the only ones who could rival him at school. Delialah even said to her demonic representatives that fighting him without magic or dirty tricks was nigh-impossible. Shiro constantly improved his skills against opponents with high levels of divine/demonic power which later improved Amenominakanushi's own skills by a significant margin.

**Genius-level Intellect**: Shiro Hikari is a genius and a prodigy student who stands above any student in Kyoto Academy in terms of grades. At first, he and Ai Hikari had below average intelligence and could not hope to survive on their own, so they had to be lectured by the Hikari Family members. After learning how to read and write, after two years, Shiro and Ai's intelligence exploded seemingly over night and they are now capable of making achievements on a high scientific-level. Shiro himself is absolutely peerless when it comes to History, PE, mathematics, science, astrology, martial arts and philosophy. His only weak points are Arts, Music, Literature, Social sciences, Cooking and Creative Acts. Aside from being the top-student, he is also very knowledgable in politics, crime networks, detective work and others. He and Delialah consistently clash in a battle of wit, trick and intellect while analyzing any situation.

### Central Master Abilities

After coming in contact with Amenominakanushi​'s tablet that represented his own power, as well as supernatural beings more frequently confronting him, Shiro slowly begins to regain some of his former strength back, gaining more and more power with each day.

**Amenominakanushi Mode**: Shiro can ascend into 'Amenominakanushi Mode', where most of his memories and abilities are now once again available to him. However, even in this form he is not quite as powerful as he used to be and can only make up for that with even more refined techniques than before. At first he was only able to access it for a split second while fighting Delialah, but later against Plotinus Satan he was able to keep using the Amenominakanushi Mode for more than two minutes. Shiro says that with each regained memory and bit of strength, he feels more and more complete. During the first parts of the Second Sino-Japanese Divine War, he displayed the ability to stay in this form for far longer than when he fought against the Dhadri Corps, though Tian still said his power was slightly weaker than when they first fought.

* **Amenominakanushi's Abilities (90%)**: By the first part of the Second Sino-Japanese Divine War, Shiro had obtained access to at least 90% of his original powers and abilities. His strength, speed and durability were also at 90% according himself. He was capable of easily defeating Sun Wukong during his training and could also corner Xinwang to the point where the Second Jade Emperor believed he was going to be defeated before Shiro reverted back to his mortal form.

## Equipment

**Totsuka-no-Tsurugi:** It is a weapon with an enchanted blade capable of sealing the target it pierces. Those who are stabbed by the sword are drawn into the jar from which the Totsuka is sheathed and trapped in a genjutsu-like "world of drunken dreams" for all eternity. Shiro was able to use the sword to completely remove the Cursed Seal of Heaven from his surrogate sister Takanashi Hikari when he extracted Akashita from Takanashi's body and sealed him in the sword, and Susanoo was also able to remove the Yamata-no-Orochi's soul remnant from his body after Emperor Sutoko used the Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation to control him.

**True Omamori**: As a Hikari, Shiro is in the possession of several real omamori - amulets that provide various luck and protection.

**True Ofuda**: As a Hikari, Shiro is in the possession of several ofuda - paper talismans that transition the power of Amatsukami into the mortal realms to fend off some of the weaker negative aspects of creation such as common local diseases, low-level demons, bad materialistic state and bad smell. They can also cause demons great pain, making them excellent in holding off a powerful demon for extended period of time.

**Polaris**: Shiro Hikari is able to summon Polaris, the North Star, into battle. Polaris manifests in its true size in the form of a white-blue non-corporeal dragon that resembles the typical eastern dragons, but has only one eye. Polaris' strength alone rivals Celestial-Class Beings and its roars can cause three star systems to rumble. It can obliterate moon-sized constructs in two blasts and it crashing into the Sun completely obliterated the Solar System and all the star systems nearest to it. Polaris is described as being a part of Shiro's very being, as Amenominakanushi (his true self) is called **Spirit of the North Star**. The Polaris Dragon also makes its appearance after Amenominakanushi re-emerges, but this time it only appears as a visage in some of his special moves.

**Broken Shards of Yamato**: Shiro holds the broken shards of Yamato within his very body. It seems Amenominakanushi sealed the broken sword in himself before falling down. Because of this, Shiro is essentially immortal and invulnerable to conventional means of dying or being destroyed as seen when he survived a point blank explosion set up by Delialah. However, if the shards are carefully coated in powerful enough anti-divine power and extracted from his body, then Shiro will become vulnerable and killable. The shards themselves are indestructible by any means in the multiverse as they are comprised of the essence of many Primordial Entities which Amenominakanushi has fought and overcome.

**Honjo Masamune**: The greatest of the blades made by the Greatest Blacksmith of Japan - **Gorō Nyūdō Masamune.** An ancient sword with a design more divine and magnificent than the Totsuka. The sword is considered even greater and more sacred than even the Imperial Regalia, as it was used as a symbol of the shogun's divine power and worthiness to stand amongst the gods of Takamagahara. The sword itself prevents light or existence around it to be broken, dispelling any attempts to corrupt or decimate. After combining Honjo Masamune, Totsuka-no-Tsurugi and the broken pieces of the Yamato Blade, Amenominakanushi manages to reconstruct his sword and even make it stronger than before.

* **Shard of Cosmos**: The reason for the Honjo Masamune's extreme power is its origin. The main materials used for its creation were steel-refining materials and raw chips, tiny shards of Xadldir's essence. Even as a tiny fragment of Xadldir, the sword can carry substantial cosmic energy, enough to make it so no one but a Primordial God or a being directly associated with Xadldir can wield it properly.

## Quotes

* *"There's really nothing difficult about these formulas. If you know about the ideas of the Pythagoreanists, you would see where most of their thought-process leads to. While Pythagoras left no writings, the central focus of Pythagorean teachings remains clear. Number is a universal archetype, "the principle, source, and root of all things." More specifically, everything is composed of "the elements of number," which the Pythagoreans identified as the Limited and the Unlimited."* - Shiro displaying his intelligence.
* *"What does Momusoke's ascension to the ladder symbolize? I...uh...I don't know. That he is ascending to the next level?"* - Shiro displays his lack of understanding of literature.
* *"Since you and I are an item, I thought I was to bring you to a movie night, but it seems someone else has already decided to replace me as the love partner."* - Shiro teasing Delialah after eveasedropping on her and Yuzu Aihara.
* *“Your shortcoming is that you assume others will hold you back, and put them at a distance from the start.”* - Shiro to Delialah.
* *"Go on. If you think I fear being destroyed, you will be pretty disappointed."* - Shiro to Destruction.
* *"You and I are the same, Delialah. No rather - we are lika an inverse mirror. The image is the same, yet so different from the reflection. That is how we've walked our paths." -* Shiro to Delialah.
* *"I don't know. Does it really matter? Who I was. You think I care that much about being some sort of 'Supreme God'? No...I just wanna protect the people and things I hold dear. Excluding that, I also wish to fix things, broken things. I don't know if I can fix myself and I don't know if others can fix themselves, so I will try my best in fixing THEM while I am Shiro Hikari."* - Shiro to Delialah.
* *"IF MY ORIGINAL SELF CAN EASILY DEFEAT YOU, SO CAN I!"* - Shiro to Xinwang.
* *"I will always stop you...you and all the others who want to ruin what I have created...Doesn't matter if I am Amenominakanushi or Shiro Hikari or a goddamn speck of light...I will smash your face in humiliation every time you try messing with my family!"* - Shiro to Tian.
* *"None of this changes the fact that you are a deadbat dad..." -* Shiro to Xadldir.

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## Trivia

* Shiro Hikari's appearance is based on Kyouya Onodera from Munou na Nana.
* Shiro's scores are ranked 1st in Kyoto Academy.
* Shiro is a fan of Akira Kurosawa's movies, as well as any good samurai-related series and fictional works. He frequently reads Musashi's **Book of Five Rings**, Sun Tzu's **Art of War**, Wu Cheng'en's **Journey to the West** and several ancient greek philosophers' books.
* Shiro's favourite games to play are **Ghost of Tsushima** and **Nioh 2**, he plays **Minecraft** with Ai Hikari, Camellia Haruka, and Takanashi Hikari the most. He also talked to C'thalpa for the first time through Minecraft in a voice chat channel.