Canis Lykaon

* Transforms the user and Sacred Gear into black Hounds as well as extending the range of the shadow blades (Night Celestial Slash Dogs)

### Wielder(s)

Tobio Ikuse

**Canis Lykaon**, also known as **Inugami of the Black Blade**, is a Longinus wielded by Tobio Ikuse.

## Summary

In the past, God of the Bible used two individual sources for the Canis Lykaon. One of them being the King of Arcadia, Lycaon who incurred the wrath of Zeus, causing the King to be turned into a wolf after being cursed; and Ame-no-Ohabari, the divine sword in Shintoism used to kill Kagutsuchi. As both of them proved to be incompatible with one another, both still tried merging, resulting in the blade lost its divinity and turning into an ominous blade.

After Tobio Ikuse was born with the Longinus, Canis Lykaon, it is one of the rare instances where it already had its balance breaker already activated. Because of this his grandmother, Ageha Ikuse used a Buddist sealing ritual to seal away the Canis Lykaon. After discovering his Sacred Gear, Tobio decided to name the dog **Jin**.

As in Slash/Dog Volume 2 revealed Lycaon's consciousness is active inside of the Canis Lykaon, which drove the blade to cut everything without discretions whether it was friend or foe, which Tobio refered as the imitation god.

## Appearance

Canis Lykaon takes the form of a large red-eyed black dog, but four-years prior it initially took the form of a puppy with a sword on its forehead that later transformed into a black Dog.

## Abilities

Canis Lykaon has the ability to summon a black dog with its own instincts capable of moving independently from its wielder, which Tobio named "Jin". As an embodiment of the Ame no Ohabari, Jin is able to produce blades from his body and can even attack using them, as well as turn into a blade himself. It also has immense darkness based powers, able to manipulate darkness and shadows in the form of blades. It also manifest its darkness through the wielder and the blades it produced in the form of an aura.

With further changes responding to Tobio's feelings during their fight against Kazuhisa Doumon, he awakened the ability to move through shadows and grow black blades from them in his field of vision. He has proven to be able to learn at an irregular rate, having watched multiple programs about warriors such as both knights and samurais, causing his blades to gain more of a stylized shape. Even as a puppy, Jin has enhanced physical abilities, able to move at high-speeds almost like a bullet.

Jin soon grew into a large black dog after their last fight against Hanezu Himejima, the Utsusemi Agency Section Head after his Balance Breaker for the first time. In Volume 02, Jin loses the ability to grow blades from his body and instead grows blades from shadows around him, as well as create a sword in his mouth to fight. Jin has also displayed incredible swordsmanship skills and strength in combat, able to also effectively coordinate with Tobio to overwhelm powerful enemies.

Due to having the Ame no Ohabari sealed inside it, the blades Canis Lykaon produced has absolute slicing power that could cut through anything such as the most powerful supernatural beings including Gods when fully mastered as shown in Volume 3 when Tobio managed to easily tear apart legions of powerful Youkais including the body of a Daiyoukai which was enhanced by the Wizards of Oz's powerful magic which the Five Principal Clans had trouble damaging. Azazel has later stated that the Canis Lykaon capable of cutting even concepts, like techniques or magic, and depending on the wielder's mastery can allow to wielder to cut only what they wished to cut instead of everything indiscriminately which Tobio later used to save Lavinia and kill Augusta.

During the events of Light Novel DX.2, Jin showed that he was even able to leave its wielder's side and act independently. From Tobio's personal preference, Jin is able to produce scythes for Tobio to wield in combat. In True Volume 3, Tobio described that his blade as being able to "cut through all things" and also alter their aura wavelengths based on their opponent thus countering Gressil's **Resistance**. Due to having Ame-no-Ohabari, it is able to produce black and red flames from their blades.

* **Night Haken** (夜陰鉤ナイト・ハーケン,  *Naito Hāken*): This is a technique which summons a black blade from the shadows around him and is able to generate one from even the shadows of opponents to catch them off guard.
* **Darkness Aura** (闇のオーラ, *Yami no Ōra*)**:** Tobio 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.

## Forms

### Night Celestial Slash Dogs

**Night Celestial Slash Dogs** (夜天光の乱刃狗神ナイト・セレスティアル・スラッシュ・ドッグズ, *Naito Seresutiaru Surasshu Dogguzu*), also known as **Mad Black Dog of the Glowing Night Sky**, is the original Balance Breaker of Canis Lykaon, which Tobio awakened the moment he was born. He becomes covered in darkness and transforms into a black humanoid with six tails, while Jin transforms into a large full-grown hound. In this form, Tobio attains enhanced strength and is able to also extend his shadows beyond the range of a huge building complex and create an innumerable amount of blades in them, tinging even the sky and earth in darkness.

### Perfectus Tenebrae Lykaon et Fortis Densus Laelaps

**Perfectus Tenebrae Lykaon et Fortis Densus Laelaps** (深淵なりし冥漠の獣魔、英傑であれ常夜刃の狗神ペルフェクトゥス・テネブラエ・リュカオン・エト・フォルティス・デンス・ライラプス, *Perufekutusu Tenebrae Ryukaon Eto Fortis Dens Rairapusu*), also known as the **Dark Demon Beast of the Abyss, Dog God of the Hero's Eternal Night Blade**, is the Abyss Side of his **Night Celestial Slash Dogs**, which evolved after Tobio had polished his Balance Breaker to its limit. After he recites a curse-like chant, his entire body becomes covered in darkness taking form as a humanoid black beast that resembles a dog wielding a long and immensely sharp scythe.

## Trivia

* The nickname Jin is derived from the kanji for blade (刃).
* **Canis Lykaon** is a reference to the scientific name of the Eastern Timber Wolf (*Canis Lycaon*), a wolf that lives in Eastern Canada. It may also be a reference to Lycaon, the man that was turned into a wolf by Zeus as punishment for feeding him Nyctimus, Lycaon's own son. The form and the backstory in Slash/Dog, however, is similar to the Chinese Tiangou.
	+ It is revealed in the spinoff Slashdog that Canis Lycaon contains a composite of two beings: Lycaon as mentioned above, together with the Ama no Ohabari, one of the Totsuka no Tsurugi in Japanese mythology. Ama no Ohabari was used by Izanagi to kill his own son Hinokagutsuchi, whose birth burned his mother Izanami to death.
* Perfectus Tenebrae Lykaon et Fortis Densus Laelaps means "Perfect Darkness Wolf and Strong Dense Hunter".
	+ Why Laelaps means "Hunter" in this case is because Laelaps is the name of a dog in Greek mythology that always caught what he hunted and so would refer to how Tobio's dogs always catch their 'prey'.