Canis Lykaon

**Abilities** | * Produces blades on Jin's body
* Growing black blades from any shadow in user's field of vision

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**Canis Lykaon**, also known as **Inugami of the Black Blade**, is a Longinus wielded by Tobio Ikuse. It is an Independent Avatar-Type Sacred Gear.

## Summary

In the past, God of the Bible created Canis Lykaon by using two separate sources, which is an extremely rare case. First is, the King of Arcadia, Lycaon who accumulated evil deeds toward the Chief God of the Greek Faction Zeus, invoking his fury resulting in him being turned into a werewolf. Second, being the Ame-no-Ohabari, the strongest sword among the Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, in which attained divinity and was later used to kill Hinokagutsuchi. Once both were sealed in Canis Lykaon, the curse of Lycaon caused Ame-no-Ohabari to lose its divinity and transform into a cursed blade, which caused a distortion that turned it into a Longinus.

When Tobio was born with the Canis Lykaon, and it was one of the rare instances where it already had its Balance Breaker fully activated. Because of this, his grandmother; Ageha Ikuse used a Buddist sealing ritual to seal away the Canis Lykaon.  Years later, after discovering his Sacred Gear, Tobio decided to name the dog **Jin**.

In Volume 2, it was revealed that 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 referred to as the *Imitation God*.

## Appearance

The Canis Lykaon initially takes the form of a puppy with a sword on its forehead. After Tobio awakened his Balance Breaker, Jin turned into his real form, a large dog with a sword on its forehead.

## Abilities

Canis Lykaon summons a black dog that has its own instincts, moving around independently from its wielder, and Tobio named "Jin". Jin can produce blades from himself and can even attack using them, as well was turning into one himself. These blades born from Ame-no-Ohabari, which killed Hinokagutsuchi are capable of slicing apart Gods and Buddhas, in addition to cutting through concepts, like techniques and magic. According to Ageha, all these blades can slice apart souls as a blade that cuts everything indiscriminately, however, with enough control Tobio could kill Augusta who possessed Lavinia.

Jin is capable of learning at an incredible rate, having watched multiple periodical dramas, involving warriors like knights and samurai, causing the blades he produces to become far more stylized. Even as a pup, Jin wields physical abilities that allows him to move around at high-speeds like a bullet. After Tobio used Balance Breaker in Volume 1, Jin transformed into a full-grown dog becoming incapable of growing blades from himself and instead grows them from his shadows. He has also exhibited the ability to generate shadows from around himself, capable of tinging an entire area into darkness from his small body, that he can release blades from, spreading through the area.

He is capable of coordinating and fighting alongside Tobio, overwhelming their opponents using teamwork and swordsmanship.

In response to the user's emotions, Tobio could awaken Canis Lykaon's darkness-based powers, which lets Jin both move through shadows and grows black blades from within Tobio's field of vision during their battle against Kazuhisa Doumon. He can cover himself and his scythe in a dark aura, both damaging and numbing foes as powerful as Seiryuu Kushihashi, the host of the Azure Dragon.

In Volume 3, after Suzaku performed the ceremonial dance to awaken Tobio's hidden Himejima powers, he could summon Ame-no-Ohabari, which was imbued with the flames of Kagutsuchi, enabling him to generate black and red flames.

## 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)), also known as **Mad Black Dog of the Glowing Night Sky**, is the Balance Breaker of Canis Lykaon, which Tobio awakened at birth. In this state, he transforms into a humanoid black hound with six tails using darkness and Jin turns into a large black 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, engulfing mountainous regions and tinging even the skies and earth in darkness.

As it enters his Balance-Breaker forms, it also serves to heal his previous injuries.

The chant Tobio Ikuse recites to activate this form is as follows:

*<<——Behowlest the slaying of one thousand mortals>>*
*<<——Besingest the slaying of ten thousand goblins>>*
*<<——Mine name, immersed in deepest darkness, its the Imitation God traversing the Polar Night>>*
*<<——O ye, perishest by mine own black blade>>*
*<<——Fools ye art, oh deformed Creator Gods>>*
## Trivia

* **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.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 6
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 7
3. ↑ Light Novel Volume 1, Epilogue
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 7
5. ↑ Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 2
6. ↑ Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 4
7. ↑ Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 2
8. ↑ The Fallen Dog God -SLASHDØG- Volume 1, Chapter 7
9. ↑ Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 3
10. ↑ Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 3