Kazuha Kaedehara

**Kazuha Kaedehara** is a major supporting character of *Meiyo no Yaiba : Blade of Honor* He is a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slayer Corps and the current **Storm Hashira** (嵐柱 *Arashi Bashira*).

Kazuha is also the older brother of Shinya Kaedehara, a Demon Slayer who fought alongside Tatsuma Akeboshi . Before becoming a Hashira, Sanemi, along with his partner Tomo Arata, defeated the former Lower Rank One, Kawasemi, with Tomo dying as a result.

## Appearance

Kazuha is a tall and muscular man with spiky white long hair with scarlet tips and large scarlet eyes. His face and body are covered with scars, accrued over his many years of fighting demons. He cuts his hair short somewhere in between the Rehabilitation Training Arc and the Mugen Train Arc. He is usually seen wearing a crazed expression on his face.

Kazuha wears a dark cyan-tinted version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform with buttoned white leg-wrapped kyahan and a pair of white zōri with dark blue straps and tabi socks underneath being the same cyan color as his uniform. he wear leaf patterns haori in left side and a black haori in right side.

During his battle with Hitobashira, he loses his right index finger and his right middle finger.

## Personality

Kazuha is abrasive, hot-blooded, extroverted, and stubborn, often times impulsive and quick to lash out. He is often indifferent towards others and can get mad extremely easily. The only person Kazuha displayed reverence towards was Hayato Fukamiya, and only after realizing the man was much more than his outward appearance suggested. Kazuha has also displayed a hunger for battle, wishing that he could encounter Upper Rank demons and proclaiming his joy for fighting Upper Rank One, Hitobashira.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kazuha is a very powerful and skilled combatant. He has displayed his extraordinary abilities and proficiency in combat on multiple occasions. When sparring with Touma Kamiyama, Kazuha was able to fight on equal grounds with the Water Hashira. In the Infinity Castle Arc, Kazuha was shown to be capable of annihilating dozens of demons comparable to Lower Rank demons in strength and later could hold his own against Upper Rank One, Hitobashira.

**Demon Slayer Mark**: Later during the battle against Hitobashira, Kazuha awakened his own Demon Slayer Mark that resembled a single paper origami windmill that is green in color with two dots on both sides on his right cheek. The mark dramatically increases his physical capabilities, as seen when Kazuha was still able to fight and contend with Hitobashira, despite being grievously injured and slashed across his abdomen.

* **Bright Red Nichirin Sword:** During the battle against Hitobashira, Kazuha strikes Itto's spiked flail with his sword, turning both of them briefly red which allowed them to decapitate the Upper Rank. Later in the fight against Horobi, Kazuha, learning from his previous encounter, forcefully clashes his sword together with Touma's turning both of their blades temporarily red. Turning his blade red granted him the ability to hamper the instantaneous regeneration of Horobi which proved effective in the battle.

### Storm Breathing

A Breathing Style that Kazuha learned Wind Breathing and mastered with Tomo Arata after tutelage from an unknown cultivator. after his finish tutelage Wind Breathing he adapted Wind Breathing to Storm Breathing. His level of skill with Storm Breathing reminded Hitobashira of the first Wind Hashira during the Sengoku Era, the golden age of Demon Slayers.

#### Techniques

* **First Form: Cyclone hail** (壱ノ型**・**サイクロン雹 *Ichi no kata: Saikuron hyō*) - The user gathers momentum by launching forward toward’s target before unleashing one swift and concentrated slash with incredible speed.

* **Second Form: Severe storm** (弐ノ型**・**激しい嵐 *Ni no kata: Hageshī arashi*) - The user leaps forward and generate five straight forward attacks to slash down any anything that may find itself in the blade’s path.

* **Third Form: Typhoon** (参ノ型**・**台風 *San no kata: Taifū*) - The user unleashes attacks in practically all directions to cut down and shred anything around them as well as serving as defense and counter to incoming attacks.

* **Fourth Form: Raging storm** (肆ノ型**・**荒れ狂う嵐 *Shi no kata: Arekuruu arashi*) - The user releases multiple ranged slashes at a distance away from their target before launching at their enemy before starting to twist and turn their body to strike like flowing water, soon to put an end to their opponent.

* **Ninth Form: Scarlet Leaves, Pursue Wild Waves** (玖ノ型**・**緋色の葉、野生の波を追いかける, *Hiiro no ha, yasei no nami o oikakeru*) - The user launches forward and similar to the last form they will constantly push off their feet with immense force to gain momentum as they make further until the eventually launch into the air while slashing up against their enemy’s body, soon to dive bomb back down.

## Equipment

**Standard Nichirin Katana:** As a Demon Slayer, Kazuha carries around a standard sized and shaped Nichirin katana with a jagged pattern resembling the jaw of a beast in a shade of green. His hilt is in an abstract shape with 8 points with an overlapping pattern; each plate has a forest green core with a silver border. As a Hashira, Kazuha's blade has the words **Destroy Demons** (惡鬼滅殺 *Akki Messatsu***?**) engraved on the side. With his katana, Kazuha has a standard sword sheath that is a shade of deep gray with silver marks resembling scars strewn on it.