Ban Yozakura

Hikaru Asano (Grandson-in-law, †)

**Ban Yozakura** (夜桜 万, *Yozakura Ban*) is the husband of Keiko Yozakura and the grandfather of the Yozakura Family.

## Appearance

Ban has a gray hair slicked back into a ponytail, with two small strands on his forhead. He also has a short moustache and beard combo.

He wears a white shirt with the top unbuttoned alongside a black jacket. In his youth, Ban was a clean-shaven, muscular youth, who wore a vest.

## Personality

Ban is a very energetic and playful person, being quite loud and chaotic. He often enjoys to have fun and enjoy himself rather than take things seriously. This is probably due to his arrogance, due to his skills in escaping Ban is very confidence in his ability to get out of danger. Ban is also a blabbermouth, who often gives away secret information to impress women, as a result he's often sent on missions to avoid this. Despite flirting with women, Ban is very much infatuated with Keiko. He often tells stories about her as if she's dead though. When he is around her he is lovestruck, wanting to spend all the time he has with her and on dates. His devotion to her makes it easy for her to order him around. In his youth, he appeared to be a silent and aggressive man until he met Keiko. Ban takes a liking to his grandson-in-law, Taiyo, and explains his wish to see great-grandchildren.

## History

Ban is a legendary mole, who was able to escape and infiltrate anywhere, this allowed him to collect tonnes of information over the years which also led to him making many enemies.

Before meeting Keiko, Ban never opened up to anybody and only lived for himself. Keiko was able to help him escape his reckless way of living.

## Plot

Ban was assigned a mission to gather information about the underworld by being undercover as a prisoner, he later escaped the prison in order to congratulate Mutsumi and Taiyo on their marriage. Taiyo went to return Ban to his mission, but he was unable to capture him. Only after his wife, Keiko cancelled her meeting in England to capture him that he returned to prison, later going on a date a few days later.

Ban would later return during the preparations for the Mission: Yozakura Frontlines. After slipping out of prison, he began training Taiyo and taught him about the Blooming. Since his body has already bloomed, Ban could awaken Taiyo's blooming by resonance, so he started leading Taiyo in a dance. When Taiyo partially awakened his blooming, Ban tried to test his limits by suddenly firing at Mutsumi, which Taiyo was able to stop. During the mission, Ban attempted to apprehend his rogue son-in-law, Momo, but failed. Many months later, Ban and Keiko inform their grandchildren that it will be difficult to maintain contact, since their ancestor, Asa, is hunting them. The couple go into hiding to evade Asa.

## Abilities

**Flexible Skeletal Frame**: Ban is able to bend and contort his body due to his flexible skeletal frame that can get him out of sticky situations.

**Passage**: Ban's Blooming ability increases the fluidity of his bones and cells able to pass through solid objects.

**Da Capo** - Ban shoots out a bullet from a pistol creating enough force to penetrate a wall and part the sea.

## Quotes

* (To Taiyo Asano) *"Even if love is infinite, life is not. Treasure the moment so you don't have any regrets."*
* (To Taiyo Asano) *"My cute grandchild, now I'm going to show you just how cool your grandpa is."*

## Trivia

* The name **Ban** means "ten thousand, myriads, all" (万).