Zangetsu Izumi

**Zangetsu Izumi** is the son of Jellal Nightwalker and Wakoto Izumi.

## Appearance

Zangetsu is a young man with a very graceful face with black hair and brown eyes, he has a strong resemblance to his mother.

## Power & Abilities

**Immense Holy Power**

* **Holy Fist**:Like Vasco Strada, Zangetsu had learnt to use the Holy Fist from his training and praying as an Exorcist, which is further enhanced by his innate holy powers as an Angel hybrid and his ownership of the Holy Spear. His Holy Fist is powerful enough to clashed with his father's Destruction Fist in his Dragon shaped Aura of Destruction which are further enhanced by the Shadow Boosted Gear and the Qlippoth Fruits.
* **Light Manipulation**

**Immense Strength**

**Immense Speed**

**Master Spearman**: Zangetsu has immense skills and talent in spearmanship. His spearmanship with the True Longinus is honed to uttermost perfection, on pair with Cao Cao in terms of basic technique but much more formidable in terms of raw power due to having a significantly more powerful body as a Angel/Dragon Hybrid. While using his Balance Breaker True Longinus Götterdämmerung, Zangetsu could fight on pair with Jellal's Dragon half after he was enhanced by the Qlippoth Fruit of Life and Wisdom alongside Dante, Rio and Lute.

* **Hōzōin-ryū**: Zangetsu has immense mastery of Hōzōin-ryū, a koryu style of traditional Sōjutsu with various offensive and defensive techniques. While most of the original techniques were lost, Zangetsu rediscovered the lost techniques via Chokma Rasiel which he self-taught and mastered Due to his natural talent and diligent training in Hōzōin-ryū, Zangetsu can use the True Longinus with to thrust, cleave and slash with impeccable precision.

**Master Swordsman:** Zangetsu is supreme master swordsman due to his mastery of Kendo. He could wield Malkuth Sandalphon's form of a tachi to its full potential to fight on pair with his father's Power of Destruction enhanced swordsmanship, being familiar enough with Jellal's Ingetsu-ryu techniques to effectively counter his father's swordsmanship with the Satanic Arm Namaah Ferrum, being extremely well-balanced in both talent and flexibility of his swordsmanship.

**Master Hand to Hand Combatant**

**Master Magician**: Zangetsu has immense proficiency in casting magic spells, having learnt various types of magic from his stepmothers Yuniffel, Dorrosel and Ashleigh from the future.

**Master Marksman**: An excellent marksman, Zangetsu is highly skilled in dual wielding his technomagical guns Crimson Joker and Dark Ace. When using his X Side Balance Breaker Sephiroth Caelum Lapis Lazuli, he can maximize the full versaility of Keter Metatron's long range offensive capabilities to combat his father's Qlipphoth Fruit enhanced Power of Destruction. Like his mother, he is also a master of Kyudo.

**Genius Intellect:** Zangetsu is a superb genius, with immense intelligence, peerless memory and comprehension faculties from a young age. He also inherited his father's unique talent of adaptive learning to instantly understand any form of knowledge and skills and adapt the knowledge and skills to suit his own purposes and needs.

* **Master Tactician:** Zangetsu is an extremely talented tactician, using deception and tactics to defeat his enemies in the most effective ways possible.

**Master Chef:** Like his parents, Zangetsu has astonishing talent in cooking which he learnt from his maternal grandmother, and greatly improved through practise. Jellal noted his flavour is strongly reminiscent of Wakoto.

**Master Musician:** Zangetsu is a virtuoso musician, having inherited his father's talent for the piano and his mother's talent for the koto. Zangetsu had learnt to play the piano from his stepmother Flore and studied the music of Romantic composer Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann under the tulage of the future Mitternacht. He is also an adept organist, able to improvised his piano technique to play Johann Sebastian Bach's organ compositions on Yesod Gabriel to maximized its holy music based powers to its full potential.

## Equipment

**True Longinus:**Due to his human heritage, Zangetsu possess a Sacred Gear, being the possesor of the True Longinus of AxA universe.

* **True Longinus Götterdämmerung**
* **Sephiroth Caelum Lapis Lazuli**

**Crimson Joker & Dark Ace MK II:** A pair of alchemy customized technomagical handguns crafted by Lute from the future. An improved versions of both Crimson Joker and Dark Ace. It is Zangetsu secondary weapon which he can channel his light based powers or magic to shoot down enemies. When using Keter Metatron, Zangetsu can fused Crimson Joker and Dark Ace with two of Keter Metatron wing shaped pillars to shoot powerful laser beams.

## Trivia

* Zangetsu's name 残月 means moon visible in the morning in Japanese.
* Wherever Zangetsu travel, he would bring a grand piano and a koto with him, which were normally stored away in another dimension using magic and summoned it back whenever he wanted to play music.
* Like his father and future piano teacher Mitternacht, Zangetsu is a huge fan of Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, and focused on studying Brahms and Schumann's music as the basis for his music education.