Dom Justo Takayama

**Dom Justo Takayama** is the Jack of Michael's Brave Saints.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Strength**: Takayama is one of the highest-ranking exorcists of the Vatican, being one of the most powerful exorcist under 30 years of age. Following his reincarnation into an angel, his powers were vastly improved to the point where he reaches Ultimate-class, borderlined God-class, in terms of power.

**Angelic Physiology**: Takayama possesses all the standard traits and abilities of an Angel.

* **Angelic Power**: Takayama possesses the ability to generate and manipulate angelic power. He can radiate an angelic aura that he can cover his weapons and attacks with to increase their overall power.

* **Light Manipulation**: Takayama can generate and manipulate the light element without the need to invoke magical energy, summoning it using his angelic power and thus giving it an advantage against devils, demonic creatures, and the creatures of the night.

* + **Invisibility**: He can render himself unseen by the naked eye and become invisible in the visible spectrum by manipulating the light particles.

* + **Light Constructs**: He can manipulate photons to solidify the light, with the level of solidity going from loose jelly to metal-like hardness or beyond. By doing so, he can turn light into tools, objects, weapons and other items, and create semi-living constructs of varying permanence. When fighting against Xenovia, he created a great sword from light durable enough to go against Durandal.

* **Emotion Manipulation**: Takayama can sense and manipulate the emotions, including feelings, moods and their affects, of himself, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling emotions.

* + **Tiberius Laurel**: He concentrates his emotional manipulation power and creates a giant barrier of crimson flames around himself. Those around the fiery barriers will have their emotions being amplified to epic proportions to the point where they may even lose their sanity and sense of reasoning. The most common emotions to be amplified by this technique are often wrath, lust, and grief, and the technique is said to be extremely dangerous to those with past traumas.

* **Purification**: Takayama can remove the darkness or evil from a person or objects, often including demonic creature possessing it or mind-control affecting it.

* **Blessing**: Nero can bless anytihng including people, places, objects, etc. and produce positive effects. This can include bring good luck to people, or something as little as making people feel happy emotions. The most traditional effects are granting long life, fertility, health, success and wealth or suppressing negative emotions and memories. Most blessings deal with negating/removing misfortune or other negative effects.

* **Immortality**: As an Angel, Takayama is an immortal being who can live indefinitely unless he's killed.

* + **Nigh-Invulnerability**: He cannot be harmed or killed by conventional weapons, aliments, or diseases, as only weapons of supernatural origins are able to harm and/or kill him. He is also immuned to curses, poisons, and diseases that aren't angelic or demonic in origins.

* + **Regeneration**: He possesses rapid regenerative healing factor, capable of recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs, and limbs in matter of minutes, thus making it incredibly difficult to induce permanent physical damage onto him.

* **Flight**: Being an Angel, Takayama is capable of fly using his wings.

**Immense Speed**: Takayama has impressive speed, being able to dodge several attacks from powerful beings.

**Immense Stamina**: Takayama has massive amounts of stamina and endurance.

**Master Combat Specialist**: As one of the highest-ranking exorcists of the Vatican, Nero is undoubtedly a master combat specialist in spite of his young age. Due to his human origins, he was trained by the Catholic Church to be proficient in fighting against opponents of higher classes and rankings. When fighting against Team Red Dragon Emperor of the Blazing Truth, his fighting prowess was demonstrated with how he could easily counter all of his opponents' attacks. During the invasion of the Evien drakes in Azazel Cup, he was able to easily decapitate the Elder Evie Drake, which was estimated to be at least D-ranked God-class in terms of power, using a common light sword he constructed from his light manipulation.

* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Nero is shown to have immense skills in hand-to-hand combat, able to hold his own against a Dragon's Pulse-enhanced Ouryuu and overpowered Bova, who is the strongest amongst Tannin's children. He can fight on-par with Xenovia dual-wielding both Durandal and Excalibur Replica donned in her Crimson Destruction Dragonar. He is considered to be one of Vasco Strada's greatest students in terms of hand-to-hand combat abilities.

* + **Holy Fist**: A special form of mixed martial art based on the lost fighting style known as Jacob's Limbs, which was created by the biblical prophet and capable of defeating an angel of destruction with 12,000 elite angels under their leadership. By infusing his attack with raw holy power, he gains an immense advantage against devils, demonic creatures, and creatures of the night, without needing holy weapons or artifacts.

* **Attack Prediction**: Nero can interpret and predict enemy attacks and react to the incoming attack, brush off or avoid the incoming attacks even from a dead angle.

* **Combat Perception**: Nero can instantly understand an opponent's method of thinking and fighting, allowing him to anticipate the moves of the opponent. Once he understands his enemies' strategy, he is able to find their flaws and weakness and take them down with little effort.

* **Weapon Proficiency**: While Nero is a master hand-to-hand combatant, he is also proficient in multiple forms of weaponry, such as swords, spears, etc.

## Equipment

**Sturdy Saint** (, *Sutoradi Seinto*): Nero's Sacred Gear. It possesses the power to strengthen his defense every time he receives attack and can potentially make him invulnerable on the battlefield. It is considered to be the defensive counterpart of his cousin's Burning Saint.

* **Sturdy Saint Withstand** (, *Sutādi Seinto U~izusutando*): The Balance Breaker of Sturdy Saint. It allows him to create personal barriers around himself and his allies that can receive energy from their opponents' attacks to further strengthen their defense. These barriers can also reflect magical attacks aimed at them as much greater strength.

## Trivia

* Dom Justo Takayama's appearance is based on "Dom Justo Takayama" from **Hyouge Mono**.