Rinko Akiyama/Future Era

## Rinko Akiyama

> *“Do you want to help me…? I don't know where this killing intent that I can't control will go.”*
> —Rinko
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**Rinko Akiyama** (秋山 凜子, *Akiyama Rinko*?) in the Future Era is a Taimanin living in solitude due to her "killing intent" that is bound in her and having been materialized fully after being in a deep slumber and captivity by the Brain Flayers after a thousand years.

## Appearance

Rinko's general appearance differed from her past self. Her hair is slightly longer, tied down and has a purple-to-reddish-magenta gradient coloring. Her Taimanin suit is the same as her old one, this time with a more bluish color and glowing light-blue linings. Her suit adds heavy silver armoring on her shoulders, legs and feet, gauntlets, each with three curved red arm blades and a dark-gray tattered cape. Her left arm is covered in dark-red flames.

Rinko's other uniform is a white and dark-blue dress, with bandages wrapped around her left arm.

## Personality

Having been imprisoned and in hibernation under the Brain Flayers deeply changed Rinko, with the trauma affecting her mental state to the point where she forgot her own family, including her own brother Tatsurou, her husband Zark and their children. So, when she reunited with Yukikaze, she was almost immediately confrontational against her. Another factor to affecting her mental psyche was the awakening of her "killing intent" that she constantly has to suppress to keep herself from rampaging and causing irreparable damage.

## Background

### Capture

During the battle between the forces of the Holy Kingdom of Earth and the Brain Flayers, Zark was murdered in combat, Niko and Rupert went missing and Rinko was captured by the Brain Flayers. She was held in captivity for many years to come, and the entire Akiyama was thought to be dead.

### Wandering

A thousand years later, after being held in captivity, a few years before the Resistance of Steel first brought Kotaro Fuuma to the future era, Rinko was released by a mysterious assailant and began wandering the devastated Japan on her own. She retreated to a temple continued to live in solitude, fighting her own "killing intent".

## Abilities

As a result of her artificial remodeling and hibernation at the hands of the Brain Flayers for a thousand years and her self-training during her time of isolation after her release, her powers have increased tenfold.

* **Magi Physiology/Chi Sensitivity** – Born from the Magi human species, her body is reactive to mana and is able to cast supernatural powers because of this.
* **Artificial Longevity** –
* **Master Swordsmanship** – In her years of solitude, she continued to hone her own skills and be most familiar with the abilities she inherited through her **Lost Sword Style**. (逸刀流, *Ittōryū*?)
* **Wind Elemental Powers** - During her remodeling, she was planted with Zark's wind elemental abilities that the Brain Flayers extracted after his death.
* **Supernatural Speed** – As a Taimanin, she is capable of swiftly cutting down multiple demons without them noticing it.
* **Killing Intent** (殺意, *Satsui*?) –
* **Kaiju Transformation** – With her demonic powers magnified, the massive amounts of chi she accumulated as a result of her remodeling created a kaiju form for her and gave her the power to transform into Zekkijin, a kaiju that is a physical manifestation of Rinko and Zark's powers.

### Weapons

* **Ishikiri Kanemitsu** – A 74-centimeter long katana. The sword is the ancestral blade of the Akiyama family. The previous owner of the blade was Rinko's father, before he passed it down to his daughter. The blade is very sharp and can cut through the flesh of demons whose skin can withstand bullets.

### Attacks

* **Severance of the Killing Intent** (殺意の斬撃, *Satsui no Zangeki*?) –
* **Meteor Blade** (流星刃, *Ryūseijin*?) –
* **Demon God Lost Sword Style: Misery** (鬼神逸刀流・無惨, *Kijin Ittōryū: Muzan*?) –

## Quotes

* “Do you want to help me…? I don't know where this killing intent that I can't control will go.” (力を貸せと言うのか……？　私自身制御出来ないこの殺意の向ける先がどこになるか、わからないというのに, *Chikara wo kase to iu no ka…? Watashi jishin seigyo dekinai kono satsui no mukeru saki ga doko ni naru ka, wakaranai to iu no ni*?)

## Etymology

* The name **Rinko** means "cold, strict, severe" (凜) (**rin**) and "child" (子) (**ko**).
* Rinko's surname **Akiyama** means "autumn" (秋) (**aki**) and "mountain, hill" (山) (**yama**).