Blue High Priest Coat

The **Blue High Priest’s Coat** is a stupendous robe woven from the fur of the Nine Tails, the golden pelt of the Great Rabbit Sage and a number of the world’s most luxurious materials. It is an impressively enduring armor that also possesses mystical properties and serves as an Ultimate Defense.

It was crafted by the legendary Obāchan but imagined and commissioned by Kechi.

## **Background**

Although beginning as nothing more than a pompous vanity project, the Blue High Priest's Coat eventually went on to become an intense research project for Kechi to produce an incredibly robust armor that was unique to him and appeared as nothing more than a standard haori. After searching the globe for a capable seamstress he came across Obāchan in the Land of Witches who rejected his request due to its lack of uniqueness or interesting materials. It was only after he agreed to produce it with the fur of the Nine Tails did she agree, only because she relished in the idea of him dying in an attempt to acquire the rare material.

The witch required that Kechi "sell his soul" for the coat, making it perhaps the most expensive article of clothing in all the world. What she meant by this is that the coat itself garners its strength and dependability on his soul itself, consuming it so long as he wears it.

Obāchan wove the coat in three weeks and had it soak in special fluids for four months before she gave it to Kechi. When he wore it for the first time it crushed him to the ground due to its incredible weight.

Unbeknownst to Kechi she would keep a reserve of the materials, naming it the **Blue Monk Fabric** (青い僧侶の生地, "*Aoisōryonokiji*", Viz: "*Blue Priest Cloth*") for later use. Obāchan did not inform Kechi that the coat possessed a measure of sentience, a fact he found out weeks after wearing it.

## **Overview**

#### **Appearance**

Sky blue in color with a dark-hued collar that reaches down to the end of the jacket, the coat is stylish. It has a 24-karat gold trim along through the collar and a lighter blue line adjacent. Hidden compartments in the coat allow for Kechi to store scrolls and other items out of the view of opponents. The Blue High Priest Coat has a 10,000 thread count and was woven by hand. Specially requested, on the back of the jacket is the kanji for money (銭, "*zeni*") in blue writing inside of a golden circle further encircled by blue.

#### **Abilities**

* Should the wearer remove the coat it will immediately drop to the ground in an uproar, sometimes pulverizing the earth below it. The robe is incredibly heavy and limits the wearers speed and mobility, though it should be noted that this would seem not to be the case when worn by Kechi.

* The robe itself acts as a shield and ward against A-Rank assaults. Before it begins to wear or tear the coat can take carious A-Rank assaults head on while protecting its wearer. It can also produce what is known as the Blue Priest Barrier Technique, extending its protective field for those around the wearer.

* It can also self-repair, feeding on the soul of the wearer in order to be restored itself from damage. Alternatively, the jacket can also be fed the souls of others by throwing the robe over them and allowing it to feed.

* Because it is produced from the fur of Kurama it can sense the intent to harm whether the intent comes from an animal, energy or person. It can only do this, however, within a twenty meter radius.

### **Materials**

* Fur of the Nine Tails
* Pelt of the Great Rabbit Sage
* Gold
* Silk from the Land of Silk
* Fur from the Land of Leopards
* Wool from the Land of Sleep

## **Trivia**

* During development influence from the yokai known as Eritategoromo (襟立衣, "*Standing-collar Clothes*") and Aobōzu (青坊主, "*Blue Mon*k") were taken into heavy consideration.
	+ "Eritategoromo is a a Buddhist high priest’s kimono that has transformed into a yokai. It was once the kimono which was worn by Sōjōbō, King of the Tengu. Either due to Sōjōbō’s extreme pride, or due to being worn by a magical tengu, some spirit became attached to his high-collared robes and they transformed into this yokai."
	+ "Aobōzu are generally depicted as large, one-eyed, blue-skinned priests with a strong connection to magic", alluding to Kechi's Third Eye as well as the color of the coat iself.
* The coat draws many similarities to the Robe of the Fire-Rat from InuYasha and the Weighted Clothing from Dragon Ball Z.
* Kanji in gaihi (外被) literally means "protective coat" and is generally used to describe military jackets worn by soldiers as opposed to a ceremonial jacket or formal haori.