Hotaru Okumura

Shira Okumura (Younger Sister)

Kanao Okumura (Youngest Sister)

Yukio Okumura (Uncle)

Satan (paternal grandfather)

Yuri Egin (paternal grandmother; deceased)

Supreme Diety (spiritual maternal grandmother)

Gin (paternal grandfather; deceased)

Hotaru Takegawa (maternal grandmother; deceased)

Hotaru Okumura (奥村 ホタル *Okumura Hotaru*) is the eldest son of Rin Okumura and Elizabeth Liones. He is the elder brother of Shira and Kanao Okumura. Studying as an Exwire at True Cross Academy, Hotaru desires to become a Knight Meister.

## Appearance

Hotaru has pale skin, short jet-black hair (dark blue in the anime), and pale sharp eyes that appear as blue in color, which can turn orange while gaining a triskele. Behind his usual innocent-looking, smiling face hides a torturous and rather sadistic personality. He has a slender build and has also been shown to have exceptionally sharp canine teeth.

Among all the True Cross Academy students, Hotaru is the only one to wear a black blazer as opposed to the standard school-issued uniform. In the anime, Hotaru is considered to be the most physically attractive out of all the boys in the exwire class by the girls.

As an Arc Angel, he gains two pairs of wings on his back, the second pair smaller than the first. His eyes turn gold and manifest the symbol of a triskele in both his eyes.

## Personality

Hotaru is well-known throughout the school for his violent behavior and troublesome attitude. He is quite cunning, mischievous, and somewhat sadistic, usually playing foul, tricking, and at times manipulating, humiliating and fighting others. He has been described by Yukio as "at first glance, he comes across as being a lazy sort. He is extremely protective of his sister's willing to get suspended or even expelled to protect them.

Hotaru is quite relaxed most of the time as he occasionally skips out on things he finds boring, such as the school assembly. However, he has become considerably more hard working at studying after the embarrassing exam arc although he hides it by making it look like he was playing video games. Unexpectedly, Hotaru is a fan of superhero movies, like Sonic Ninja.

Hotaru is highly intelligent like his mother, having brilliant deduction skills which allow him to solve different mysteries. Despite being overall brilliant, Hotaru gets very average grades. Hotaru can always find a solution if he gives it enough thought.

Unlike his siblings, Hotaru has a sadistic nature, which leads other people into believing that he is the nephilim rather than Shira. Hotaru can be very violent and tends to get into fights (possibly caused by his demon side). It's been noted by several people that despite being an Arc Angel, he acts like a demon, he takes after his father alot personality and appearance wise, but he has his mother's intelligence.

Despite his somewhat sadistic nature, Hotaru actually has good values behind his motives, and can be quite empathetic. The reason he was placed in the exwire class other than his genetics was to give him something to exert his violent tendencies on, such as killing demons.

Hotaru has shown to be more than capable of respecting and caring for other people. However, Karma also tends to be quite impulsive, to the point of becoming truly brutal and cruel when fighting with people who threaten him, his siblings or any of his friends.

## Abilities

Hotaru is one of the smartest characters in the series, being capable of maintaining top grades with little effort. He assets his cunning, mischief yet considerable objective nature to assassination attempts, as well as other scenarios that may require it, such as saving his classmates or others. He also is often the first person to notice any oddities that may occur around and within the school.

As an Archangels, Hotaru is an extremely powerful goddess.

**Flight**:Like all members of the Goddess Clan, he has wings that grants him the ability of flight.

**Ark**「 *Āku*; literally meaning "Holy Chest"」: An archetypal magic technique of the Goddess Clan that counteracts darkness by disintegrating it with light particles. The target is enveloped in a dazzling sphere of light that breaks apart their body.

* **Killing Saucer**「キリング・ソーサー *Kiringu Sōsā*」: Hotaru creates blades of light in his hand that rotate at high speed which he uses to slice his enemies.
* **Breath of Bless**「 *Buresu Obu Buresu*」: Hotaru gathers light in his palm and after blowing it over his desired target, they get a magic power boost. Demons refers to this technique as **Cheat Hope**「 *Chīto Hōpu*; literally "Scam Light"」because it is also a brainwashing spell that turns the targets into fanatical zealots loyal to the Goddesses with no regard to their injuries so they may keep on fighting until they're broken and dead.
* **Manipulate**「 *Sō*」 & **Burst**「 *Retsu*」: Hotaru wraps the opponent in his Ark and shakes them across the battlefield to then detonate them in a big explosion.
* **Enchant: Ark**「・ *Enchanto - Āku*」: Hotaru infuses Ark into a weapon.
* **Sparking Drive**「 *Supākingu Doraibu*; literally meaning "Mad Lightning"」: Hotaru creates a large Goddess Clan symbol and releases a burst of flames at his enemy.

**Dragoon**: Hotaru's main and offensive Meister is Dragoon, a gunslinger. Hotaru can shoot his targets with impressive accuracy, all the while maintaining a calm and even disposition. He has demonstrated the ability to shoot Demons behind his back without even looking at them, as well as destroying giant Demons with his handguns. Hotaru's weapons of choice are hand guns and machine guns. Although he perfers hand-to-hand combat, there wasn't a meister option for that and went with his second of choice.

**Combat Skills:** Besides his intelligence, Hotaru possesses a knack for battle and enjoys it. He has good fighting skills such as having high mobility and reflexes, and also has a mind suited for pranks, and foul play. He is also the physically strongest student in his class as he has no trouble subduing Bon who has the most muscular build in the class, and it took both Rin and Bon struggling to physically restrain him before he could have injured Shimura. Hotaru is also stated by Mephisto that no one could compare to Hotaru at direct hand to hand combat, to the point of fighting toe-to-toe with a full-fledged assassin like Grip, and his reflexes allow him to pinch down an enemy's attacks, though he isn't so stealthy as his sisters, especially not his mother.

**High-Speed Regeneration:** Hotaru, also due to his heritage, has inherited Rin's high-speed regeneration, which in short allows him to recover from fatal or near-fatal wounds at astonishingly high speeds, giving him an extreme amount of durability. For instance, he has shown himself able to close a serious stab wound within mere minutes, and reattach his severed right foot.

**Telepathy:** Hotaru has shown the ability to exercise telepathy, but only in instances where the one he is talking to is a higher class demon who is not capable of speaking human language, as is the case with Kuro and Ukobach.

**Spectral Awareness:** Hotaru has the natural ability to see demons because of his heritage an arc angel and demon.

**Cooking Specialist:** According to Shira, cooking is Hotaru's specialty like his father, and even searched around for a restaurant job he could have to perfectly execute his talent. His most treasured item is a collection of spices from around the world.

**Enhanced Strength:** Per his demonic heritage, Hotaru has incredible strength, giving him the strength to, even as a child, break someone's ribs with a mere punch.