Kurai Nara

**Kurai Nara** is the head of the Nara Clan also known as **Abyssal Black Dog**. He is the possessor of the Longinus; **Canis Lykaon**. He a member of Blessed Spear Team being the second strongest and hunter the team.

## **Personality**

Kurai is a nobleman with a kind heart put his clan's future and wellbeing first which is shown when he first joined Megumi.

## **History**

Kurai is a member of the Nara Clan and chosen to become its head after awakening his Longinus, Canis Lykaon

After joining the Blessed Spear Team he became the teams hunter and tracker.

By Volume 16, Kurai had become the head of the clan.

## **Powers & Abilities**

**Enhanced Strength:** After joining the Blessed Spear Team, Kurai has begun an extremely intense training regimen to train his body to perfection, making him significantly stronger than before, enough to overpower supernatural beings such as Youkai and Shinto Gods with refined brute force.

**Expert Swordmans:** Kurai has proven to be naturally adept in using swords as shown in his sparring match against Megumi. After continuous training, his skills have later become great enough to wound Takemikazuchi, a God of Thunder, using Canis Lykaon. Kurai could slay legions of Youkais by dual-wielding swords with superior ambidexterity.

**Master Combatant:** Kurai has shown to be an adept fighter. Having a natural talent for combat, with continuous training, his fighting skills developed at an accelerated rate, eventually becoming strong enough to fight on more of an equal level against extremely powerful enemies such as Seiryu and Ouryuu.

**Great Tracking Skills:** Kuria is a great tracker and hunter being able to hunt and find anything without trouble. His skills are great enough to hunt dangerous supernatural beings and where they're going with little tracks.

## **Equipment**

**Canis Lykaon** (, *Keinesu Ryukaon*): Kurai's Sacred Gear and main weapon of choice. Canis Lykaon is among the thirteen Longinus and Independent Avatars, taking form as a small black dog named "Kuro". It is able to produce blades from itself and even transform into a sword. Kurai unlocked the ability to let Kuro move and attack through shadows in his field of vision and grow blades from shadows. Though Kuro became a full-grown black dog, he is unable to produce blades from himself and Kurai became able to grow blades from shadows.

* **Darkness Aura** (闇のオーラ, *Yami no Ōra*)**:** Kurai is capable of using the Canis Lykaon's darkness-based powers to enshroud himself in an aura of darkness which significantly enhances his physical prowess, having first manifested it to break free of Kazuhisa's Clay Golems. He could enhance his strength enough to wound Seiryuu and release dark waves that rendered him numb.

* Shadow Wolves ( , ):

* ***Dismantle** ( , Kai*): Default slashing attack that is normally used for inanimate objects, however it can also be used against Youkai's, Gods and humans to great effectiveness.

* **Cleave** ( , *Hachi*): A slashing attack that adjusts itself depending on the target's toughness and magical power level to cut them down in one fell swoop.

* **Night Celestial Slash Dogs** (, *Naito Seresutiaru Surasshu Dogguzu*): The Balance Breaker of Canis Lykaon, which covers Kurai with darkness turning him into a humanoid black hound with a total of six tails; while Kuro turns into a big black hound. In this form, Kurai is granted enhanced strength and is able to create innumerable black blades including being capable of tinging the skies and earth in darkness. He is also capable of cutting concepts, such as magic and other techniques, allowing him to neutralize such abilities.