Ritsu Amakusa

**Ritsu Amakusa** (天草律, *Amakusa Ritsu*) is an Japanese female who got sent the fantasy by unknown means, also having been born an Divine Protection despite not being an native. She is also an avid technology enthusiast who became an mechanical engineer and an inventor just prior to being sent to the fantasy world. She's also became an Fang of Iron and decided to revert back to her armoured maid outfit, including re-equipping her firearms and becoming affiliated to the Anastasia Camp. As the most intelligent member in the Fang of Iron, her intellect is greatly valued by Anastasia Hoshin and had assisted Subaru against the Witch's cult against him.

## Biography

### Background

Ritsu explained her origins to an few group she trusts the most, informing them of another world to which she came from where magic and fantastical creatures do not exist. She grew up and born on the continent country called Australia in a town called Alice Springs. Born between an Australian woman Alice Springs and an Japanese father of the Amakusa clan, an clan descending from Amakusa Shirō where she became interested in mechanical engineering and firearms during her childhood.

During her early school years, Ritsu was present when a new student was introduced to her class being Tokisada Tachibana who moved all the way from Japan due to unforeseen conditions involving her family. Tokisada was then seated next to her for the remainer of her school life before her brief time at the University of Sydney. However she found out Tokisada was getting harrased due to being Japanese and more often had trouble with speaking proper English. Havin enough, Ritsu quickly defended Tokisada from the harassment before scaring them off after swiftly striking one across the chest. She turned to Tokisada and wish to be friends, finding her shyness and willings to learn an admirable trait, holding her hand out. Tokisada took her hand and wish to also be friends, accepting the friendship and the two would grow close. She'd then helped Tokisada in her studies and helped her with English in grammar and nouns, eventually the two grew as the best friends and eventually both got romantically involved just before joining a gun club./]

Ritsu by the age of seventeen, she acquired a gun licence by joining a gun club with her mother's permission. Within the five months of joining, she rose in the Pistol Australia, a tournament of competitive pistol shooting as one of their top 10 in the nationals as the most accurate shooter. During this period, she explained that her father owns a dojo in Alice Springs and had her trained in various martial arts, eventually earning an black belt and becoming an assistant instructor for a month as to help father until he gets more members on his team.

At some point Ritsu attended the University of Sydney where she rose to become one of the to students in the country before moving to the United States and attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology to further her interests in technologies from firearm technology and much more. She'd then befriended two students there and got along very well as they showcased love for fantasy games.

At some point after spending a year at MIT after acquiring materials to create her armoured maid outfit by legitimate protective materials and creating two custom-craft firearms, the Striker Rifle and Striker Pistol she sat in the science lab contemplating while dressed in her armoured maid outfit with her weapons on her person, as she had made an Ranger Outfit to which are stored in her duffle bag on her back. However an odd shimmering surrounded her as she suddenly found herself in a forest sitting on a rock, alone.

### New World

Ritsu suddenly found herself in an unknown location in an middle of an grassy fields encased by an large forest of trees, she inspected the area as elevated her assault rifle to her chest, on high guard and alert to her surroundings. As to leave and not sit in the open, she decided to wander in a random direction and began to jog through the forest with her rifle at her chest, alert to anything that she may or may not encounter. Due to having no phone reception she and the oddity surrounding her arrival, she believes she was summoned to another world, perhaps an summoner needing an valiant hero of some kind. However she has yet to see her summoner, as such another theory is she stumbled upon an crack in spacetime and she so-happens was in the middle of one, and arrived to the new world.

As she walked through the forest, Ritsu found herself being confronted by an group of bandits who armed with swords and battle axes, which she believed this was a joke as she raised her rifle. However before she can act, an group of demni-humans appeared and engaged against the bandits and they ran off. They rode on giant wolves as one of them walked up to her, introduced as a adventurer party that accepted a job in dealing with bandits. Her contact allowed her to secure passage to the nearby city-state and introduced to the Adventurer's Guild which allows people to become Adventurers and earn coin. Agreeing, she'd join but was informed that she'll need to be tested to make sure she can hold herself.

Facing against an mid-ranked Adventurer named Omega, Ritsu was informed to utilize unarmed combat, utilizing their hands and not whatever weapon she has. Agreeing to the proposal, she sat the rifle to the side as she prepared herself to engage against Omega.

## Appearance

Ritsu is a young woman in her mid to late twenties as between a Australian (mother) and Japanese (father) but inherited most of her traits from her father. Standing at 190.5 cm (6'3ft/1.90m), she is born with long soft orange wavy hair with green eyes for which her Divine Protection of Sight giving her an plus-sign yellow coloured pupil, while she wears an eyepatch due to a prior injury in the fantasy world. She has an fit body almost hour-glass figure with average physique despite being a physically active Adventurer.

Due to being both an inventor that designed weapons and fascination with the maid culture, Ritsu decided to an maid outfit and have it be armoured with military facets, which consisted of an maid-like outfit with the skit covered by armour plating that hides for mobility, her corset is equipped with hard leather and a upper-arm long pauldron her her right side. Wearing a black shirt under her corset, both her hands has camouflaged gloves and wears an scarf around her neck with with an small bonnet on her head. Her lower legs is also armoured to which an protrusion extended above to protect her knee joints while exposing upper legs, fortified by hard leather, to which she is wearing dark long pants.

Because of Ritsu's fascination in various RPG fantasy games such as *The Elder Scrolls* series and to keep a low profile, she decided to go to become an ranger-type Adventurer. Her ranger attire as she calls it consists of something akin to the proper fantasy RPG ranger with an green cape and an cameoflodged bonnet on her head that she kept with her into her new costume, She worn an red button that exposes her lower abdomen with short brown pants with black gym shorts underneath along with knee-high brown boots that were armoured by steel plating. Both of her arms had brown leather bracers with black gloves exposing her three of her fingers. Her left arm had an custom crossbow where she worn a belt containing pouches carrying her darts and small arrows for various of purposes. In this uniform she also had her hair kept in two ponytails which got thinner as it goes down. However she later returned back to her armoured outfit equipped with her firearms.

## Abilities

**Divine Protection of Sight** (視力の加護, *Shiryoku no Kago*): Ritsu's Divine Protection is an ocular enhancement that gives her the distinctive plus-sign pupils. The Divine Protection grants her unparalleled vision enabling her to see with the highest clarity and clearance no matter the environmental conditions such as dust or smoke. During her early years as an adventurer, she can effectively see through anything involving the manipulations of perception such as illusions, bypassing them and seeing the target. It also increases the processing of visual information with specialized photoreceptors that goes into her brain instantly, and with only physical limitations can react accordingly. Not only that, thanks to acute focusing grants her perfect acute perception and able to fire her Striker Wristbow with near-perfect accuracy, to which no matter the distance will hit 95% of the intended target. Divine Protections and spells such as Invisibility or something similar is proven to also be useless as she'll able to perfectly see the user, making them appear as if they're not using anything.

**Divine Protection of the Hero** (英雄の加護, *Eiyū no Kago*): Ritsu is the current and only only one to obtain the Divine Protection of the Hero which granted her otherwise powered capabilities to achieve hero status such as enhanced physical abilities and intuition in the field of battle and the compassion to put others above her own. An Divine Protection similar to the Divine Protection of the Sword Saint, the holder of the Hero allows them to tackle almost everything in the world and became an enemy to anything that goes against justice and the innocents of the world. While in the present of what Ritsu believes to be someone going against the good morality such as targeting innocents and inciting criminal behaviour, her physical abilities gets an increase from her overall strength to speed. However even with this Divine Protection, she has explained the power can only grant her so much and is limited to an degree by her own experiences and overall physical fortitude. In order to bring out most of this Divine Protection requires her to stay an healthy diet and exercise to keep a healthy, fit physique. It also does not grant her any invulnerabilities, as such an good will hit will still cause pain and depending on the damage, tire her or even ultimately kill her. It was due to this Divine Protection that she has survived near-death experiences.

* **Enhanced Strength**: The Divine Protection enhances her natural strength to peak human levels and going beyond that of an bodybuilder in her original world. She's able to use her physical strength to deliver powerful impacts that can often lead visible marks on those she strikes. If she's truly serious and precise, it's been witnessed that an single kick was able to launch a head of a Wolgarm from its body and embedded into an stone rock. She can physically overpower most humans some demi-humans with relative ease, showcasing why she's the second-in-command of the Fang of Iron and the leader of the top ranked party of the Adventurer's Guild.

**Expert Marksmanship**: Ritsu is an adventurer that primarily utilizes ranged weapons and such thanks to her Divine Protection is an lethally accurate sharpshooter, being more accurate then the most skilled archers. With her Striker Wristbow, she is capable of pinpointing long distance targets easily with her Divine Protection, to which she subconsciously take into account the wind speed and pressure of the atmosphere on various terrain. Due to the fact it also the Divine Protection ignores time dilation with, she can truly see in "real time" on the target, making it much more easier to fire upon. At the firing range, she has proven her accuracy by nonstop shooting at the dummy targets in the single spot multiple times to the point the bullets themselves burnt through them, showing her deadly accuracy to be on-point.

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Ritsu while primarily an firearm specialist, has demonstrated elevated skills in close-quarters combat as an expert martial artist earning, utilizing multiple forms of unarmed combat forms against opponents she encounters. Endowed with acrobatic feats, she can utilizing the full range of her body even in her armoured maid outfit, performing backflips while simultaneously striking against anyone with her feet and fists to deliver powerful blows. Thanks to her dojo training by her father, she can perform precise strikes at the opponent's vulnerable positions on their body and exploit them.

**Heightened Athleticism**: Ritsu trained her body to be as flexible as she possible can obtain, being able to various acrobatic feats even while wearing the Armoured Armoured. Integrated into her unarmed combat style, she's an agile Adventurer when forced will engage in close-quarters combat and deliver devastating strikes to her opponent. With her flexible body, she can re-position herself mid-air as well perform acrobatic flips such as leaping over an target with her head facing towards the ground to deliver an blow to the head or fire her weapon. She can perform multiple back flips while simultaneously utilizing her lower body to deliver blows by spreading them out to deliver the strike. While her armoured maid limits her in terms of speed, removing them grants her unhindered flexibility where only few individuals can match her, often being in higher leagues in strength in the world such as Reinhard, Garfiel or Elsa Granhiert.

**Gifted Intelligence**: Ritsu is a highly gifted individual capable of fast quick judgements and calculating strategies. She's ranked in the top 5 at school back in her original world and among the most intelligent adventurers. She has an keen observational and analytic skill thanks to keeping close eye on her surroundings and able to quickly adapt to shifting conditions on what she knows and understand. She is able to quickly understand advanced complicated mathematical equations and perform mental notes to solve puzzles and diagrams to move on.

**Defective Gate**

* **Mana Absorption**

## Paraphernalia

### Weapons

**Striker Rifle** (ストライカーライフル, *Sutoraikā Raifuru*): Ritsu's primary weapon called the Striker Rifle is the go-two multiple function firearm modelled after the Steyr AUG to possess multiple capacity functions of taking on various of roles. It's one of her defining trait in the Fantasy World that made her greatly fired as the one-woman army who can kill entire groups of breasts single-handily at an distance. This is also the weapon that tipped off Subaru Natsuki that she came from the same world as he did, eventually learning there could be others like him.

**Striker Pistol** (ストライカーピストル, *Sutoraikā Pisutoru*): The Striker Pistol is Ritsu's quick sidearm alongside her main weapon to quickly act and attack encase the need arise. It's an powerful pistol that fires rocket-propelled anti-personnel bullets.

**Wrist Mounted Crossbow**: Ritsu utilized an custom-made wrist mounted crossbow situated on her left forearm designed to fire small darts and bolts with various of effects from sedation and explosive bolts to and AP bolts (armour-piercing bolts). The crossbow is proven to be in the standards of bows, 5x to 10x more powerful and capable of piercing through solid plate armour with the AP bolts and much faster then arrows fired from bows.

### Bodily Gear

**Armoured Mask**: If the need arises, Ritsu can equip an specialized armoured mask that aims to protect her face during combat and to hide her identity.

## Trivia & Notes

* Physically represented by CZ2128 Delta.
* Ritsu shares the name birthday as Ritsu Tainaka from *K-ON!*.
* In one of the alternate pasts before Subaru Natsuki's take over by Petelgeuse, Ritsu was killed unaware of Petelgeuse's Unseen Hand to which in front of everyone, her head was twisted off before being crushed completly, only her body remaining.