Narukami Raiden

Raiden with armor

## General

Raiden is an Knight and along with Daichi, Fuyuhiro and Ishi they will complete their mission, which is to protect Ruka from various dangers and find a way to stay somewhere hidden and safe.

## Bio

Raiden was an orphan. Everyone was beating him, cursing him and stealing from him. All this until his teacher, Keizo found him. Keizo kept him as his student. Raiden's senior, Tadashi had welcomed him. They were learning to use the sword which mimics the Thunder. Tadashi was amazing but Raiden was even better. Tadashi was extremely jealous of Raiden. One rainy day, Raiden was returning from the forest and suddenly a lightning hit him. He got some superpowers which made him even stronger but he went blind from the left eye. Keizo found him and said that he is grateful for being alive. When Keizo found Ruka, he told Raiden and Tadashi to find more Knights and protect her. Raiden and Tadashi saw Ruka they were dazzled. Later Raiden found Daichi and Fuyuhiro, Tadashi found Ishi and they made a team.

## Personality

Raiden is humble. Unlike Tadashi, Raiden has no vision of himself and respects other dogs. As a child, it was shown that Raiden adored and idolized his senior, Tadashi, even declaring that he would support Tadashi's dream of becoming the strongest Knight in the land, and Raiden himself would become the second Knight. Raiden is shown to love his family greatly: he was there for Ruka even though sometimes Ruka was angry and didn't talking to him. He was particularly fond of his senior, evident when he kept the flute Tadashi gave him. Raiden was deeply devastated and saddened by what his senior had become, expressing how heart-wrenching the sight of his senior was and even teared up. Raiden was a calm and respectful individual who wore a solemn and reserved expression at all times, rarely showing outbreaks of emotion. Generally, Raiden had a matching low and serene disposition, evident when he killed villians without changing expression or when Yasha was caught off guard by his immense skill because he appeared unassuming. Because of his gentle disposition and unchanging facial expression, most could not tell what he was feeling: the only person who could read his feelings without difficulty was his wife Ruka. He was also extremely humble, seeing himself as just another dog and no one special despite his godly attributes? an example being the time he performed more Thunder mimics's forms for Fuyuhiro at his request and almost seemed embarrassed afterwards. Raiden was also noted by his senior to always have had faith in the future and was confident that despite the immense power of the Knights after they started using elemental mimic, a generation would emerge that would surpass their own. He also smiled warmly and expressed gratitude to Daichi after his friend told him his life was not worthless and promised to preserve his Thunder mimic forms through his descendants.

## Appearance

Raiden is a medium-sized Labrador Retriever. He has black fur and amber eyes, his one eye, the left, is blind. His armor is orange with blue coverings over his paws. His collar is black with spikes with a green tag which had a thunder symbol. His legs and belly are covered with Grey armor and his backpack is orange with a cyan thunder symbol. His helmet is orange with blue-green spikes on the top and on his thigh he has a gold paw symbol.

## Abilities

### Overall Abilities

Raiden is the strongest Swordman in history, being born with the Selfless State, as well as possessing a physique polished to the highest caliber and innate swordsmanship talent. As a 5-year-old child who has never picked up a sword before, he was able to defeat a trained sword instructor effortlessly and he was referred to as a miraculous prodigy beyond compare. After training as a Swordsman, Raiden could defeat multiple villains to where his senior stated that he as a child couldn't even compare to him as an adult. He alone was able to corner Yasha and overpowered him in an instant, having him on the verge of death until he barely managed to escape.

### Sensory

Outside of the sixth sense granted by the Transparent World which allowed him to see the inner workings of a dog, Raiden also has extremely honed sensory abilities able to detect things outside the normal range of perception.

### Transparent World

Raiden had access to the Transparent World since started to learn swordsmanship, and could use it with incredible proficiency, evident when he could watch for lung expansions and muscle contractions within a person and surmise when to strike them, even as a child. This ability also granted him an advantage against Yasha, allowing him to find his weaknesses instantly and overwhelm him.

### Speed of light

Raiden possessed unparalleled levels of speed that surpass all other characters in the series, including that of Yasha, shown when he was able to dodge every attack that Yasha launched at him and near-fatally injure Yasha with one move, despite the demon's own immeasurable speed and strength.

### Immense Strength

Raiden possesses tremendous levels of physical strength possibly beyond that of nearly all other Swordsmen in existence. As a child, he could knock out a grown dogs with inclined physical abilities with a wooden blade, even causing extremely severe bruises the size of fists. When he was an teenager, he was able to effortlessly slice off the neck of Yasha, the most fortified body part of the strongest demon in existence.

### Selfless State

During their confrontation, Yasha noted that Raiden emanated absolutely no sense of drive, hatred, anger, fighting spirit, animosity or even bloodlust despite being in mid-battle against himrendering it practically impossible for Yasha to detect him, predict his movements or gauge how powerful he was with his senses. This gave Raidena an edge in battle against Yasha as he underestimated his strength, a mistake that shook Yasha to this day.

## Weaknesses

Raiden has the fear of abandonment, a fear that you are afraid of losing your loved ones. If Raiden sees his friends in friends in danger he might lose control of his swordsmanship techniques.

## Equipment

### Standard Nichirin Katana

Raiden carries around a standard sized and shaped Nichirin katana that is very deep blue in color, but changes bright yellow during combat. His katana's hilt is circular shaped with 4 slight indentations, with a blue center and a golden border. Raiden's katana also has the words Slay (滅, Metsu) engraved on the side.

### Standard Sword

Along with his katana, Raiden also carries a standard sword sheath that is orange in color.

## Quotes

> Tadashi... we are not that great. We are merely a fragment of dogskind's long, long history. At this moment, those whose talent will surpass ours are uttering their first cries. They may come to reach the same place. There is no need to worry. We can draw the curtain of life closed without unease at any time. Does that not exhilarate you? Tadashi? Someday... the children now being born will surpass us and ascend... to even greater heights."
>
> Raiden talking to Tadashi

> Tadashi, is your dream to become the strongest knight in the land? I want to be like you. I... want to become the second strongest knight.
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> Raiden to Tadashi

> My dream was to live a quiet life with my family in a small house where we would sleep side by side. I would be close enough to see the beloved faces of Ruka and my children and close enough to reach out and take their hands. That would have been enough. But even that... did not come true. (Because) villains exist in this beautiful world.
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> Raiden talks about his dream

> I think I was born with special strength for the purpose of defeating villains. But I was lacking. In the end, I failed. Because of that, many more dogs will die. And that pains me.
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> Raiden feels that he is not important

> Daichi... those who master their trade all arrive at the same place. Even if the times change or the way to that place changes they are certain to reach the same place. You seem to think I'm someone that's special but I'm not. I cannot protect anything that's important to me and I was unable to accomplish even one thing that I should have in this life. I am a dog without any value.
>
> Raiden to his best friend, Daichi

## Relationships

### Ruka

Raiden was Ruka's first friend. Ruka enjoys Raiden's company because she finds him humble. Ruka had a crush on Raiden, and so did Raiden on Ruka, the only difference being that Raiden's was a little more obvious while Ruka hid it. Raiden was often quite jealous when the other boys approached her as was Ruka when Mizuki spent a lot of time at the lake with Raiden. Ruka adored that Raiden was always worried about her and she was always blushing when he was. Even when they had some arguments Raiden was saying "I'm sorry" to Ruka and Ruka was always replying "No I'm sorry" and they were ending up laughing. After months of their mission it was time to say goodbye to each other Raiden couldn't stand that he will leave Ruka and he asked her if she would ever marry him and Ruka said "I would marry you again and again" and they ended up with three children. After Raiden's death, Ruka was left alone until the post-timeskip.

## Trivia

• Raiden contains the On'yomi reading kanji for "thunder" (雷, Rai) and the kanji for electricity (電, den)

• It's unknown who are his biological parents

• Raiden lost his sight of his left eye because he got strucked by lightning

• Raiden was born with a special talent at swordsmanship

• Raiden's favorite food is sushi

• Raiden has low-self esteem

• Raiden loves Ruka and Daichi more than his other friends

• Raiden has the fear of abandonment

• Raiden loves lapis lazuli because of Ruka's name (the "Ru" in Ruka means also "lapis Lazuli")

• Raiden likes Ruka's Tessenjutsu

• Raiden might be the successor of a legendary dog swordsman

• Raiden and Fuyuhiro love water

• Raiden gave Ruka's first gift which was her Japanese War Fans

## References

1. ↑ Tadashi noted that Raiden had never seen a sword but even Tadashi had any mentor, he could never defeat Raiden solo.
2. ↑ Raiden: quote No.2
3. ↑ Ruka he had a special quality, to bond emotionally with anyone. It is noted by Mizuki that Ruka lost some of her emotions because of Yasha's spell.
4. ↑ Raiden is told by Daichi that he might be faster than the flash, making him surpassing with no difficulty PAW Patrol's Chase's speed. Raiden prefers to run by creating turns to increase his stamina and perception.