Kazuo Tengan

**Kazuo Tengan** (天願 和夫) is a character featured in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School. He is the Former Director of Hope's Peak, being succeeded by Jin Kirigiri.

He is the founder and chairman of the Future Foundation and is the Branch Office 1 Director. His responsibility as the director is leadership and deciding the consensus of opinion in the Future Foundation. He, along with the other Future Foundation Directors, is forced to participate in the Final Killing Game.

## Appearance

Kazuo is an elderly man with silver, up-swept hair and amber eyes. He has a mustache and beard, and very sullen face. He also wears glasses, a jacket, with the Future Foundation ID pinned to its lapel, a white dress shirt along with a red tie and a black vest. He wears black pants and brown oxford shoes.

## Personality

Kazuo is a very peaceful, good-natured man who doesn't want any conflict. He is a pacifist, as he believes that violence is wrong. He laments over exterminating despair and his goal is a peaceful world without strife.

Despite his peaceful demeanor, he can become a skilled and terrifying fighter when needed. According to Kyosuke, he used to be different in the past, as he used to work much more actively against despair.

It is revealed that Kazuo is far more sadistic and extreme than originally thought, even eclipsing Kyosuke at his worst. His ultimate goal was to brainwash the entire world to feel hope, and he was willing to kill all his comrades except Ryota (including himself) to achieve this goal.

In Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer, it's revealed that he was completely brainwashed and turned into an Ultimate Despair-like state after watching the Despair Video given to him by Chisa, explaining why he had changed in the past. Like the Super High School Level Housekeeper, he put a good act to hide the despair side within him. After being brainwashed, he stated that he would do something far as killing in order to grasp hope and the future.

## Talent & Abilities

### Leadership

Kazuo possesses great leadership skills. He is the leader of the Future Foundation and uses his leadership in the organization to create peace. His leadership grows as he became older and his experience making him wise and just, as he only sees Kyosuke's way to eliminate despairs is naive.

### Combat

Despite his age and role in the organization, Kazuo was a highly efficient combatant. His weapon of choice was a "chuusen"—a small, sub-machine gun like weapon hidden inside his arm that he fired from his sleeve. The weapon seemingly held an infinite number of tiny metal darts that he could fire at will. He is able to put someone as strong as Kyosuke on the defensive using this weapon.

Kazuo is skilled at fighting and has great strength in the face of adversity. He knocked Juzo out with just one elbow, was able to effortlessly slap a chair he threw back with just his hand, and also sent a member of Ultimate Despair flying through a building. Not only being a combat technician, he would also help the Future Foundation branch leaders in fighting the Ultimate Despair and this would have required the considerable strength of which he was clearly capable.

It is possible that by looking at the techniques he used in the flashbacks and during the last killing game that he mastered bajiquan, a Chinese martial art that relies a lot on internal power.

### Endurance

Despite Kazuo's age, he is able to fight both Kyosuke and Juzo for a considerable amount of time and endure the onslaught of their attacks while fighting back with his own. A notable sign of his great endurance is his fight with Kyosuke which ends in Kazuo being impaled with a long, metal rod. He was able to endure the pain and have a long conversation with Kyosuke before Kyosuke lunged for a final attack. Kazuo removed the metal rod from his chest at a moment's notice and stabbed Kyosuke in the eye before he was killed. Even when being given his final blow, he was able to speak a few last words, showing his large amount of tolerance.

## Quotes

* MTU
* TMH

*Monokuma Theater Universe*

**TBD Timeline:**

*Trigger Meme Havoc Universe*

## Trivia

1. ↑ Official Artbook Profile translated by @jinjojess on Tumblr.