Nachi

### Relatives

Saiga Riki-Oh (twin brother and distant ancestor), Mukai (Father), Hanna (Mother), Adolf Hitler (possible grandfather)

### Occupation

Shepherd healer

**Nachi** is the twin brother of Riki-Oh and the younger of the two. He was born to Hanna in the Kokubu Prison, where she was awaiting execution for a series a child murders of which she had been framed. While still a baby, he and Riki were smuggled out of prison during Hanna's execution. They grew up together until the age of three when Riki-Oh abandoned Nachi in order to be adopted by Saiga Michiomi. The incident psychologically scarred Nachi and led him to become a villain. He is the final antagonist of the manga's second arc, in which he seeks to use the distinctive birth marks that he and his brother have on their right arms (Nazchi's birthmark is in the shape of a swastika, Riki's in the shape of a star of David) in order to exterminate the human race. At the end of the second Arc Nachi is defeated by Riki and reconciles with him on his deathbed. Later on, Nacih's corpse (or at least his head and right arm, which were severed from the rest of his body) are taken to the Palace of Eternal Youth. In the manga's fourth arc (of which a significant part and its ending take place the in the Palace) Nachi lends his brother a hand in defeating a secondary villain and later on thwarts Aneyama's attempt to bring about the extinction of all mankind.

## Manga

### Early life

Comments and flashbacks by both Nachi and other characters have helped reveal information regarding his early life. Nachi and Riki were born to Hanna in the Kokubu Prison as she was awaiting execution. The period of time in which Nachi was born and his age are implicitly revealed in the first arc, in which it is stated that his twin brother Riki was born the in the 1970s and is currently 21 years old. However, in the fourth arc it is stated that Hanna's execution (and thereby the birth of her sons) occurred sometime between 1955-1964. Nothing is known about his whereabouts and activities in between his abandonment by Riki and his stay in Kokubu Prison, which happened two years before the events of the first arc.

### First arc

Nachi makes his debut in the first arc during a flashback Sugiyama Tokuzou has. As Sugiyama is attacked as part of a prison revolt, he recalls an earlier riot which happened in the prison two years ago. During the previous rebellion, Sugiyama was attacked and injured by a group of prisoners. He was about to be killed by one of them, but Sugiyama's would-be-killer was stopped by Nachi. Nachi then commanded the prisoners to return to their cell, an order with which they complied. Back in the present, Sugiyama appears to realize that Nachi may be Riki's brother.

In the continuation of the riot, Riki confronts the Warden in his office. The Warden tells of having learned that Riki was born in Kokubu State Prison to one of its former female inmates and that Riki was later adopted at age three. The Warden also reveals that he has realized that Riki is staying in the prison for purpose of finding out information which would lead him to Nachi's whereabouts. Peculiarly, the Warden does not mention that Nachi's is Riki twin who was born in the same prison, nor does he speak of Riki's separation from Nachi when they were three years old, even though he should have supposedly learned of these details (of which the readers themselves are not yet aware in this point of the sotry) from the same sources by which he learned of the circumstances of Riki's birth and adoption. A battle between Riki and the Warden ensues, leading to the Warden's defeat. As the Warden is dying, Riki asks him where he can find Nachi. The Warden says that Nachi should be "in the cape by the coast" and that Chou Zenki should know where that place is.

It should be noted that Nachi is never mentioned by his name in the first arc; Sugiyama calls him "that guy", the Warden refers to him as "that other scarred man"/"that scarred man" while Riki speaks of him as "that man with the swastika on his hand". It appears as if both the Warden and Sugiyama do not know of Nachi's name, even though he appears to have been a former inmate in their prison for whom records should still exist.

### Second arc

#### Perlude to meeting Nachi

Following The Warden's lead, Riki searches for Nachi in The Cape, a mysterious area in Japan that is not marked on any map. The police are incapable of entering the Cape, making it a state-within-a-state. The group heading The Cape is called "Center" and their leader is Washizaki, who is himself a subordinate of an ominous shadowy figure (revealed to be Mukai in later arcs). Entrance to the cape is given only to those deemed by Center to be amongst "the chosen ones"; intruders are killed on sight by Center's forces. The circumstances in which Nachi became a resident of The Cape are never revealed.

Prior to Riki's reunion with Nachi, the readers are treated to flashbacks depicting young Riki playing hide-and-seek with a another, identical looking boy who has a swastika birthmark on his right arm; the significance of these flashbacks is not initially explained. In the course of his search for Nachi in The Cape, Riki encounters an old Itako (a type of medium in Japanese culture who is supposed to communicate with kamis and the spirits of the deceased). The Itako, wishing to help Riki in his quest, attempts to summon the spirit of the man Riki is looking for. She reasons that if she does succeed in summoning that man's spirit, it would show that he has already died. While the Itako does succeed in summoning a spirit, she explains that this is not due to Nachi having died; rather, the spirit that she summoned is a powerful, evil spirit to which Nachi gave birth due to the immense hatred he carries within him. The Itako believes that said spirit is likely to bring destruction to the world and tells Riki that he will be able to find the man that he is looking for in the bazaar tomorrow, but urges him not to go.

#### Meeting Nachi again

Riki goes to the bazaar on the next day, where he sees a veiled man with swastika on his right arm. Riki correctly identifies him as Nachi (this is the first instance in the manga in which Nachi is referred to by his name). At the same time various people in the bazaar enthusiastically approach Nachi, whom they call "The Living God". An apparently blind man approaches Nachi with the request that Nachi will restore his sight. Nachi touches the man's forehead and the supposedly blind person says that he can see again, much to the rejoice of the crowd. Another flashback to the hide-and-seek game commences; while Nachi covers his eyes, waiting for Riki to tell him when he's ready to start the game, an older man approaches Riki and takes him as his adopted son. As he's driven away by his new father, Riki looks back at Nachi and is filled with remorse. Back in the present, Riki tries to talk to Nachi, only to have his brother walk away from him. All of a sudden, Umibouzu shows up to kill two escaped prisoners who are the scene. He throws a sword at one of the them, which successfully kills its target and is also about to hit a child who has nothing to do with the prisoners. The child is saved by Riki, and then they both watch Umibouzu killing the second escapee. With Riki distracted, Nachi continues to gain distance on him. Riki tries to catch up, but to no avail; Nachi enters a walled compound through its gate, which closes behind him shorty afterwards. Riki tries to enter the compound, but the kid that he has saved tells him that only select individuals chosen by Center are allowed to go into that place.

#### Second encounter with Nachi

As the plot continues, Riki gets taken to Lageri, a prison camp in the Cape. Riki finds the situation to his advantage, as he plans to stay in Lageri in order to get close to Center and thereby get close to Nachi as well. During a conversation with Oniyama, a prisoner who enjoys a position of power within Lageri, Riki tells him of having came to the Cape so as to ask Nachi for his forgiveness. Oniyama suggests that Riki should become a participant in the battles taking place within The Temple, an underground fighting arena beneath the Cape in which prisoners duel each other to the death. Oniyama reasons that Nachi visits the Tempe every day on 1:00 am, so Riki would have a chance to meet and talk with him should he become a participant in the fights. Riki agrees and goes to the Temple with Oniyama and Joe, another prisoner he met earlier, for sake of asking for permission to participate in the fights.

In the Temple, Riki is immediately sent to the ring for his first fight even though he has not yet been formally registered as regular fighter. The fight commences not long before 1:00 and Nachi arrives at his regular hour while the battle is in progress. As Riki's sees his brother at the top of the arena's staircase, he exists the ring and addresses Nachi. Riki asks Nachi if he still hates him. As Riki is talking he is attacked by his match opponent, Yonabaru. Riki counterattacks Yonabaru and gravely injures him. Yonabaru is resentful that Riki did not hit him strongly enough so as to kill immediately, thereby inflicting upon him a slower and more painful death. Nachi approaches Yonabaru and touches the sides of his head. Two spectators in the crowd note that Nachi has used his powers in the past to revive fighters who died while fighting in the Temple and wonder if he will likewise heal Yonabaru's wounds. Rather than doing so, Nachi kills him. Riki angrily asks Nachi where is the compassion in killing others and Nachi walks away. Riki urges Nachi to stay. Immediately afterwards, Riki begins to collapse. Earlier in the fight he was stabbed with a poisoned dagger and now the effect the poison has started to kick in, causing Riki to faint.

#### Third encounter with Nachi

Three days afterwards Riki recovers and wakes up within a living quarters designated to those fighters who come out victorious in Temple fights. He is told that he will be fighting the Temple again during the coming night. Meanwhile, Washizaki and his comrade Otto Steiner talk about Riki and Nachi. Washizaki explains that the Swastika, which is imprinted on Nachi's arm, symbolizes a universal explosion through the corona of the sun and thereby represents theism. The Star of David, which is imprinted on Riki's arm, symbolizes nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, thereby representing atheism. Washizaki notes that the destruction of humanity will come out of full scale collision between the atheist communists and the theist liberals. Ergo, Washizaki deduces, Riki and Nachi were chosen by God and given special abilities (Riki's strength and determination and Nachi's spiritual powers) in order to fulfill a divine plan. Washizaki then says that in order to use the twins for his (Washizaki's) purposes (i.e the destruction of mankind) he has set up "something special" for tonight's fight.

After Riki comes to the Temple, it is revealed that the fighter whom Washizaki has chosen to fight him is Robotomi 560SEL-Mk.\_II, a giant cyborg who holds immense physical strength. Washizaki has deliberately set Riki up against an opponent he cannot defeat in order to see how will Nachi react when Riki loses. The fight begins at 1:00 am and as usual, Nachi arrives at the temple. Robotomi proves himself to be a formidable opponent by blowing Riki out of the ring with a single punch. Riki, who is suffering from broken wings, begs Nachi to kill him and end his misery. Nachi chooses to remain silent and does nothing. Washizaki, who is watching the events from his special booth, explains that Nachi chooses to spare Riki's life not out of brotherly love but rather due to wanting to see Riki's suffering continue. As Nachi watches from the sidelines, Robotomi steps out of the rings and attacks Riki. After an exchange of blows Robotomi grabs Riki's neck and is about to kill him, but then Nachi intervenes. Using his telekinetic power he lifts the fighting ring from the ground and drops it on Robotomi in such as way so as to have him impaled by by one of the supporting pillars at the corners of the ring.

Riki uses his strength to lift the ring and remove its pillar from Robotomi's body, who goes to to fight Washizaki at his booth and is killed by him. Washizaki then brings into the booth three characters who have been allied with Riki in this arc: the kid that Riki saved from Umibouzu, the Itako and Fukao Shinkichi. Washizaki is about to kill the Itako with his sword, but she mangages to break it with the telekinetic power Nachi had lent her. As Nachi walks away the Itako warns him him that he will harm himself should he continue to use his powers recklessly.

#### Washizaki attacks Nachi

Later on, Washizaki talks with Mukai through a television screen. Mukai asks Washizaki to arrange a meeting between him and Nachi. Washizaki interprets this request to mean that Mukai will not let him be amongst the select few who will be spared from being destroyed with the rest of mankind. Meanwhile, Riki meets with Fukao. Fukao explains that the Cape is controlled by a shadowy group called The Twelve Families who are working to destroy mankind. Fukao is revealed to be a member of Longinus, a resistance group seeking to thwart the The Twelve Families in their aims. Fukao tells Riki that he can help Longinus by killing Nachi. Riki adamantly refuses to kill his brother. All of a sudden, Riki and Fukao are approached by by Sonja, a servant of Washizaki and his family. She collapses on the spot, her back bearing a wound that stretches from top to bottom. Immediately afterwards she is followed by Mai, Washizaki's daughter. It is learned that Washizaki attacked Sonja with his sword and tried to attack Mai as well. Mai speaks of her father as having lost his mind and says that he is about to try and kill Nachi.

Washizaki is shown leading a group of soldiers to an abandoned mine where Nachi and his followers are staying. Washizaki explains that he intends to kill Nachi as revenge against Mukai, whose plans rely on Nachi's survival in order to succeed. Washizaki seals the mine and then pours gasoline into it which he then lights, causing fire to to spread. Very soon Riki arrives at the scene to fights Washizaki. In the the course of the battle Riki amputates Washizaki's right arm, but the later continues to fight. Suddenly, lumps begin to form on Washizaki's face and arms and maggots come out of them, which is apparently the result of Nachi using his powers. In order to save Nachi Riki grabs two of the horizontal bars in doors of the mine's locked gate and bends them sideways. To prevent Ricki from saving Nachi, Washizaki throws a sickle at him, the blade of which gets lodged in Riki's upper left back. Riki and Washizaki resume fighting, with the later punching the former through his chest, creating a large hole in Washizaki's torso through which his guts begin to spill. Washizaki falls down but quickly gets up, telling Riki that his attempts to save his brother are foolish as Riki does not know Nachi's true character. A loud noise is heard all of a sudden; it turns out that the nuclear reactor in the cape's power plant has broken down and will soon explode. Nachi then comes out of the mine's gate, his clothes having been completely burned off by the fire Washizaki had earlier set.

Once Nachi arrives in the scene, his true character which Washizaki has spoke of becomes apparent. He shoots an energy beam at Ricki, causing him to hit a large rock which is he then sucked into. Afterwards, he proceeds to kill Washizaki's soldiers using energy beams and karate-like chops by which he decapitates some of them. Riki implores Nachi to stop, saying that the soldiers set the fire only because they followed Washizaki's orders. This is to no avail, as Nachi continues with his rampage. The soldiers try to flee him but Nachi uses his psychic powers to split the ground below them into two, leading the soldiers to fall to their death. At the same time, Riki manages to free himself from the rock. A young girl whom Nachi earlier in the mine had healed from being a paraplegic is about to swallowed by the ground as well. Riki grabs her with his left arm, but is unable to lift her unto the ground due to the wound Washizaki had earlier inflicted on him. As the girl is hanging in the air, Nachi causes the two plates of earth to reattach, crushing the girl to death and severing her arm (the only part of her body Riki managed to raise above the canyon Nachi had formed) from the rest of her body. Rick is enraged and tells Nachi that he will kill him.

#### Battle between the twins

Riki says that as Nachi's brother he feels responsible for the latter's acts and will kill him so as to stop him from hurting more people. Nachi denies that he is Riki's brother, saying that as the son of God and has no family in this world. He then shoots an energy beam at Riki, causing him again to hit a a large stone with his back. Washizaki protests Nachi's claim to being the son of God. In response, Nachi shoots a strong energy beam at Washizaki which tears his skin from his body and finally kills him. Nachi then explains to Riki that the nuclear power plant is about to explode, which will release a massive amount of radioactivity which will cause a calamity throughout the earth. Nachi taunts Riki, saying that if the two are indeed brothers Ricki should have the same psychic abilities as Nachi and thereby be able to stop to upcoming disaster. Nachi shoots another energy beam at Riki, this time with the intent of killing him. However, Riki holds his hands in front of him with his Star of David mark facing the beam, thereby blocking it.

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