Ji-Lung

## ▴▴Description▴▴

Ji-Lung is a ghost and loan shark who loans tickets to other ghosts in exchange for getting double the amount of tickets after 5 days. When he first became a ghost, he eternally destroyed nine reapers. His guide reaper was Cha O-Cha of Asian Branch Team 4 Review Team.

## ▴▴Appearance▴▴

   Ji-Lung is a Chinese man of slightly-muscular build and is just a bit shorter than Jang Gwangnam. He has narrow eyes and dark hair fashioned into a box-shape that is flat at the top and parts in the middle. His hair changes sizes depending on how many tickets he has, similar to how Gwangnam's beard grew the more tickets he owned, becoming almost three heads tall when Ji-Lung had 72 tickets and shrinking down to only a few inches when he had 1 ticket. He has a red, crescent-like tattoo on his left upper arm and has four black eyes on his right forearm.

His ghost shape is that of butcher which comes from his cause of death: slaughter. He wears a light-colored short-sleeved shirt with a black apron over it, vertically-striped shorts, and tall, black boots with a white stripe going across them. He also wears a black scarf around his neck and round, red glasses often obscure his eye and have a crack on its left lens after his fight with Baekseo.

Taped to the front of his apron is a photograph with a red background that changes to the face of anyone he decides to kill. His right arm, as a result of his transformation, has the guard of a sword a few inches below his elbow and the entire forearm appears to be covered in a black material to simulate the handle of a sword. When he extends (unsheathes) his right arm, a blade appears from the opposite end of his hand where his arm bone would normally be. When he undergoes internal transformation to change the shape, power, and speed of the sword, his fingers indicate which sword is being used, otherwise it is usually formed into a fist. Ji-Lung wears a "safety ring" on his right middle finger that is seemingly attached via a string to his upper arm and prevents it from being completely unsheathed. With the ring on, he is able to remotely extend his arm to reveal the blade portion while still keeping his right arm in one piece.

## ▴▴Personality▴▴

Ji-Lung is a cold and efficient businessman, likely due to his previous work as a hitman on Earth, as well as prideful and justifiably confident in his skill in battle. When giving out loans, he handles deadlines and securities (such as collateral) with overwhelming firmness. He is not reluctant to eternally destroy whoever obstructs his business, whether it be a tardy customer or even a reaper which intends to take his client's security. Despite his vigilance to strict business, he even kills customers which abide by the loan's conditions and pay him back out of fear that they will one day grow strong.

He has no close relationships with anyone both on Earth, given by his black eyes, and in the underworld (with the exception of Sese), typically operating his loan operation alone except when a certain customer offered another Ghost as collateral.

His goals and worldview revolve solely around strength and dislikes those that he deems weak and gullible. To him, power is the only thing that matters and he has also expressed that dark power color, race, and gender have little difference in an individual's strength (for the most part). He doesn't intend to reincarnate or enter heaven by collecting 100 black tickets as the underworld, a place where "might makes right," is the most suited for him. Ji-Lung often challenges those he deems worthy of a fight, including reapers and other ghosts, but knows his limits and isn't afraid to back off when he knows there is nothing to be gained.

## ▴▴Biography▴▴

His weapon is a sword integrated into his arm. He performs internal transformation to change the property of his sword to varying speed and range. The way he uses it is very similar to an external transformation, since he wields his arm like a weapon.

He gave a loan of 20 tickets to Gwangnam, taking Sese as collateral.

He kills whoever is unable to repay the loan, and also whoever is able to pay the loan since he views them to have strong will thus needing to be removed while they are still weak.

In a fight with Baekseo and Im Ja, he lost all but a single ticket. He managed to survived thanks to the aid of Sese.

He eventually tags along with Fengxian in addition to Sese, as he is interested in the 99 tickets guild and getting stronger to prove that he is the best.

## ▴▴Powers and Abilities▴▴

Known as Loan Shark, Ji-Lung is an incredibly powerful ghost that at one point owned over 70 black tickets thanks to his prowess in ticket lending and earth experience as a hitman. Additionally, Baekseo takes note of his impressive focus and composure in battle that he found to be very admirable for a ghost that is supposedly 100 times weaker than himself.

**Dark Power:** He is capable (presumably) of the Great Transformation and advanced and creative forms of internal transformation, as he uses it to turn his forearm into different weapons, which is reminiscent of externally transformation object into suitable weapons. This allowed to inflict serious injuries upon those higher in rank than him like reapers.

**Speed:** He is fast enough to easily overpower a 20-ticket version of Jang Gwangnam and block an attack from the Black Reaper Im Ja. Another aspect in which Ji-Lung is fast is his great recovery speed that allowed him to stand his ground depsite Baekeo's devastating Inferno Explosion attack.

**Weapon:** Ji-Lung's weapon of choice comes from an internal transformation where, using his wrist as a hilt, he is able to create a blade where is arm bone would be and unsheathe it from his upper arm. Currently, he has five different sword transformations with the naming convention of Mandarin numerals: yī, èr, sān, unnamed fourth sword (most likely sān), and an unnamed fifth sword (wǔ) which requires the Great Transformation to wield.

Swords

## ▴▴Trivia▴▴

* Ji-Lung often says "Qie" or "Chie," depending on the translation, before attacking. In Mandarin, 切 (Qiè) means "to cut or slice."