Yijie Zhu

## Zhu Yijie

**Zhu Yijie**, or **Yijie Zhu** in Western name order, is the demigod son of Zhu Bajie, the "Cleanser of the Altars" recorded in the "Journey to the West". He is a close friend of Sun Luzhen and Sha Zhihe, and is one of the reserved members of Team D×D.

He participated in the Azazel Cup as a [Rook] of Team White Dragon Emperor of the Morning Star.

## Appearance

Zhu Yijie is a good-looking man in a roguish way, with tanned skin, a muscular frame, and large teeth protruding from his mouth, resembling boar tusks. He has spiky sandy-blond hair with sideburns, giving him a wild and unkempt look, and golden eyes outlined with yellow makeup.

## Personality

Zhu Yijie has a rather lazy, frivolous personality. He regularly slacks off work and condones that others do the same, setting a bad example for his juniors. He is the type of person to go with the flow, preferring not to plan ahead only to readjust his plan multiple times when things happen outside of his control.

He takes pride in his strength as a fighter, both as a professional boxer in the mundane world and a warrior in the supernatural world, and hates it when people refuse to fight with all efforts, seeing it as an insult both to themselves and to their opponent.

Much like his father, he is rather perverted as he tends to read R-18 magazines while slacking off and has no problem hiding his lustful nature from others.

Because of his good looks and popularity, he's an infamous player, having slept with hundreds of beauties - Both men and women - of various backgrounds, even ones older than him or supposedly already taken.

Despite his track records, however, he is a surprisingly romantic person and can be quite possessive of the people he truly loves. In addition, in contrast to his appearance, he is a natural masochist, as not only he enjoyed being in a submissive position and completely dominated by his partner, he also enjoys the pain inflicted on him during sex.

Furthermore, while at first, it appeared that he inherited his father's infamous stupidity, in reality, he is a genius and boasts an IQ over 200, in addition to having graduated from one of the best colleges in the world with several degrees under his name. However, due to his own laziness, he tends not to put his intelligence to good use and rely on pure instincts most of the time, much to his father's frustration.

## History

Zhu Yijie was born the demigod son of Zhu Bajie, the famous pig-monster known as one of Tang Sanzang's escorts in the "Journey to the West", with Gao Cuilan, a human woman in late 19XX in Beijing. Throughout his early years, he was raised by his single mother before she died of cancer and he was taken in by his cousins in the United States when he was 5 years old.

Soon, at the age of 6, he was recognized as a genius and was able to skip several grades and won numerous achievements for his school, and by the age of 9, he graduated high school as valedictorian, already being accepted into one of the greatest colleges in the world through scholarship. When he was 14 years old, he graduated from college with several degrees under his name and suddenly disappeared from the public eyes for "family reasons", according to his guardians.

In reality, it was around this time that he officially met his father and was introduced to the supernatural world after he was nearly killed by his father's old adversaries, the Immortals of Tiger, Elk, and Antelope Power. Afterward, he was taken to Mount Huaguo and was trained in the magical and martial arts alongside Sun Luzhen, Sun Wukong's adopted grandson, and Sha Zhihe, Sha Wujing's personal disciple.

One year later, at age 15, he reappeared in the mundane world as a professional boxer before, once again, made himself international headlines when he won the featherweight world title only a year later at age 16. At age 18, he won the welterweight world title from its previous holder, and two year later, at age 20, he won the light-heavyweight world title in a grueling match, making him the world's youngest triple boxing champion. It was also around this time that his full history was revealed to the world, leading many to speculate if this was the result of his genius-level education.

## Equipment

**Nine-Tooth Rake** (九歯熊手, *Kyū-ha Kumade*): Zhu Yijie's only weapon and a replica of his father's own spike-rake. It is a staff at least a head taller than him and made from gleaming silver imbued with spiritual energy, with one head being a fearsome rake with nine protruding tooth while the other is a pewter staff, topped with golden rings whose sound made when it is shaken can scare away lesser daemon.

## Trivia

* He is named after "Zhu Yijie", the son of Zhu Bajie in the "Later Journey to the West" (後西遊記), written in the 17th-century.
* He's 220 cm (7 ft 2) and weighs 120 kg (264 lbs).
* While he's most interested in feet, he'd choose breasts over buttocks.
* He had his bisexual awakening during college when he began to crush over a lecturer.
* Through his mother, he's descended from the Gao family who once promised to marry their daughter, who also named Gao Cuilan, to his father but was unable to due to his father's joining Sanzang's pilgrimage. As such, it's believed that his parents' union was set up by fate to repay this promise centuries ago.
* He likes gambling, fighting and spicy things, and his hobbies include *mahjong*, watching horse races, entering the lottery, and *pachinko*.
	+ He dislikes meetings, studying, tomatoes, and getting out of bed early.
* Despite being the son of a Buddhist god, he is a Catholic Christian like his mother.
* Due to his father's being a humanoid pig, himself having hidden *suid* traits, he's never sure if eating pork can be considered cannibalism.
	+ According to him, this - Along with health benefits - is the reason he became a vegetarian.