Kinzo Ushiromiya

**Kinzo Ushiromiya** is a support character in Fate/Great Capital War. As well as one of the overseers in the ??? Holy Grail war.

## Profile

Kinzo Ushiromiya is the aged head of the Ushiromiya family and a major character in Umineko no Naku Koro ni. His vast fortune is a source of conflict for his children, who often fight over the inheritance.

### Background

Kinzo was born into a branch of the then-weakening Ushiromiya family in Odawara. He spend most of his childhood in his hometown of Taihoku, Taiwan with his longtime friend Genji Ronoue. After the Great Kantō Earthquake, family elders of the main branch appointed Kinzo as family head as a puppet in order to further their own agendas. Kinzo was forced to marry the daughter of an aristocratic family and fathered Krauss, Eva, Rudolf, and Rosa.

Kinzo enlisted himself in the military at the start of World War II and was tasked with setting up facilities for the Navy construction team. As a result, he was stationed at a remote military base on Rokkenjima in order to help construct a hidden armory of Kaiten torpedoes. A group of Italians arrived on the island in 1944 due to a gas leak on their submarine which killed a majority of their crew. Kinzo was chosen by Lieutenant Yamamoto to be an interpreter as Kinzo was the only one of the Japanese that could speak the common language of English. Kinzo bonded with the Italian interpreter, Beatrice Castiglioni, and the two became close friends. After learning about the ten tons of gold the Italians were storing on the island, Lieutenant Yamamoto decided to attack the Italians and steal the gold. The Japanese sneak attack failed and a fight broke out between both sides which ultimately ended with every soldier of both sides dying, save both Kinzo and Beatrice. The two escaped to the nearby island of Niijima with a few of the gold bars which Kinzo used to revive the glory of the Ushiromiya family. It was on Niijima that Kinzo met Terumasa Nanjo, the doctor who would treat Beatrice's wounds from the fight and later become one of Kinzo's closest friends.

During Kinzo's glory days as the wealthy Ushiromiya head, Kinzo had an affair with Beatrice and fathered a child. Beatrice died during childbirth, causing Kinzo to fall into madness and invest himself almost exclusively in the dark arts in an attempt to revive her. His illegitimate child grew to heavily resemble his dead lover and Kinzo, in his madness, believed her to be the reincarnation of Beatrice herself. He forced himself on her and eventually fathered another child. In order to cover this up, Genji Ronoue asked Krauss's wife Natsuhi to take in the child and raise it as her own.

In most timelines, Natsuhi rejects the child and watches both the child and a servant fall off a cliff, dying instantly. Upon hearing of his child's death, Kinzo immersed himself further in the occult, this time to revive his dead daughter and to apologize for his actions. Unbeknownst to Kinzo, the child miraculously survived the fall and went on to become a servant at the Ushiromiya household named Sayo Yasuda.

Years later, Kinzo noticed a scar on Shannon's foot where a sixth toe would have been. Kinzo begins to suspect Shannon to be his long lost child. in April 1984, Kinzo hung a large portrait of Beatrice in the main hall. As he fell further ill, Kinzo created the witch's epitaph in hopes that his child would reveal themselves to him. Sayo manages to solve the riddle on the epitaph and Kinzo finally learns the truth about his child. After his death, Genji, Sayo, Doctor Nanjo, and Chiyo Kumasawa maintained the illusion that Kinzo was alive per the request of Krauss and Natsuhi.

In the miracle fragment, Natsuhi embraces the child as her own. The child instead grows into Lion Ushiromiya, successor to the Ushiromiya family head.

### Personality

As a young man, Kinzo was a rather jaded and lethargic individual, due to being used as a puppet by the elders of the Ushiromiya family to play the role of head most of his life. After meeting Beatrice, he was driven mad with love and sought to obtain her for himself.

As an old man, Kinzo appears to be rather insane, saying that "jumping out into the rainy sky on a mad night is nothing more than a bit of fun to go with a drink". His insanity and obsession with the occult, however, stems from losing Beatrice, who had died so long ago. He immersed himself in the occult in an effort to discover a way to revive her.

He dislikes his children because he knows that they will feast on the inheritance once he's died. However, in Twilight of the Golden Witch, Kinzo is shown to love his children, even going as far as to settle the inheritance issue. He also seems to care about his grandchildren, however he was furious when Battler left the Ushiromiya family six years prior.

## Abilities

Kinzo displays proficiency in firearms, especially with Winchester Rifles which form much of his gun collection.

Kinzo is also a magician and an extremely powerful summoner, taking on the name of Goldsmith. His summoning skills are shown in Alliance of the Golden Witch where he summons Chiester 00, 410 and 45 simultaneously; after a few minutes he summons Ronove, Virgilia and Gaap. The TIPS in Turn of the Golden Witch say he can create barriers, which were likely used in the scorpion charms that protect his study.

Despite his powerful summoning skills, he doesn't have any magical defenses or attacks. Beatrice still proves more powerful than Goldsmith as she burns him down with a thought.

# References

https://07th-expansion.fandom/wiki/Kinzo\_Ushiromiya

https://wiki.whentheycry.org/wiki/Kinzo\_Ushiromiya