Rio Hyoudou

**Rio Hyoudou** is a Magician from Grauzauberer, a Master Ninja of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan of the Hajinmon Faction. He is the son of Zenshin and Marino Hyoudou of AxA, the nephew of Issei Hyoudou of AxA universe. The cousin of Yuuma, Komachi and Nozomi Hyoudou. Known as the Absolute Blade Yaksha He is also one of the co founders and a leader of Sephiroth Nightfall under the code name Omega Lykaon. He is also a member of the Worst Generation.

## Appearance

Rio is a tall and very handsome young man in his early twenties with short black hair and hazel gold eyes inherited from his father. Rio has a slim yet extremely muscular body as a result of his intense training. His height is [183cm]

## Personality

Rio is extremely perceptive, intelligent and quick-witted while keeping a perpetually cool, slightly neutral or disinterested attitude.

Taciturn, stoic and quiet by nature, Rio is mostly aloof, often satisfied with expressing himself in few words and short phrases.

Having incredible maturity since childhood, Rio also has an extremely calm and collected demanor around himself, being capable of hiding his own emotion and expression when necessary making it very difficult for others to perceive his thoughts, demonstrating a high level of emotional self control.

Despite his stoic nature, Rio has immense kindness and compassion.

## Power and Abilities

**Master Swordsman**: Rio is a tremendously skilled and powerful master swordsman with immense talent and potential, having relentlessly trained his skill and dexterity in swordsmanship. He could fight and defeat the most powerful enemies with sheer skill on his Canis Lykaon blades. Rio is a far more formidable swordsman than both his own uncle and cousin Yuuma, fellow Master Ninjas, with Rio's swordsmanship being perfectly balanced in both power and speed matching Issei in terms of power while on pair with Yuuma in terms of speed.

* **Ono-ha Ittō-ryū:** Rio's original sword style which he learnt from both his late father and Saito Hajime, due to his immense talent and diligent training since the tender age of six, Rio have tremendous mastery of Ono-ha Itto-ryu, having become a full-fledged master by the age of 13. Even after developing and using Tenchi Sojin-ryu as his main sword style. Rio still continued to intensively practised Ono-ha Itto-ryu technique as part of his physical and martial art training.
* Hokushin Itto-ryu: Rio can replicate his mother's Hokushin Itto-ryu techniques along with his mastery of the Canis Lykaon
* **Tenchi Sōjin-ryu** (天地双刃流, *Heaven and Earth Dual Blade Style)* **:** Rio's personal style of dual swordsmanship he had developed, an improved version of Miyamoto Musashi's Niten Ichi-ryu samurai swordsmanship which is more effective and flexible, better suited for fighting supernatural beings, dual wielding katana swords created by his Longinus Canis Lykaon with immense ambidexterity and precision.
	+ **Paradise White Blossom**: With his Touki infused swords, Rio performs a diagonal slash with immense power and range, able to cleanly bisect a giant monster in half.
	+ **Lunar Fang Cross-Shaped Piercer**: An X shaped slash powerful enough to cut through the hardest defense.

**Master Hand to Hand Combatant**: Noted as a supreme martial art genius, Rio is a tremendously skilled and talented master hand to hand combatant, having fully mastered Hajinmon style Mugen Tenshin Ninjutsu as well as Tenjinmon Ninjutsu. Like his uncle, Rio also self-taught and incorporates many other martial arts such as Judo, Karate, Boxing and Kickboxing into his skills. Issei even believed Rio has far greater innate talent for martial arts than himself and his father Zenshin who is also a noted martial art genius.

* **Hajinmon Style Mugen Tenshin Ninjutsu:** Rio has tremendous mastery of Hajinmon style Ninjutsu, having became a Greater Ninja of the Hajinmon Faction at 13 years old the youngest within the faction to do so and later became a Master Ninja at age 17 similar to his mother.
* **Tenjinmon Style Mugen Tenshin Ninjutsu:** Although a Hajinmon Ninja, Rio is also a master of Tenjinmon Ninjutsu, being completely self-taught by observing his father since childhood, easily copied and mastered all his father's Tenjinmon Ninjutsu techniques solely from observation.

**Master Magician:** Like his mother, Rio is a genius magician with immense skill and knowledge in magic. Becoming one of Grauzerberer's best magicians. His magic abilities is greatly enhanced by Tsukiyomi's blessings.

**Senjutsu Master:** Rio is an extremely skilled and powerful master of Senjutsu which he had learnt and mastered as part of his Hajinmon Ninjutsu training.

* **Touki**

**Immense Strength**

**Immense Speed**

**Genius Intellect:** Like his mother, Rio is a peerless multi-talented genius of the highest caliber. His photographic memory and perfect recall along with his great maturity allow him to process and memorized immense amount of knowledge and skills far greater than most of his peers since childhood, making him an amazing child prodigy like his mother.

* **Master Tactician:** One of the smartest of the Worst Generation alongside Jellal, Lawliet and Nagumo, Rio is a cunning, shrewd and observant master strategist.
* Master Scholar

**Master Musician:** Being a music lover and genius musician like his mother, Rio is an extraordinary master pianist, having learnt the piano at the age of seven, Rio had progressed extremely quickly, learning and mastering piano music at a marvelous rate during his childhood and was considered a child music prodigy. Rio then continued to study the piano with his magic teacher Celia Claire who herself is also a genius virtuoso pianist, eventually becoming one of the greatest pianist of all times. Rio is also a talented composer, having wrote various compositions which displayed a high level of musical talent and skill in composing.

**Master Chef:** Having learnt from his mother and further honed through years of extensive practise since childhood in cooking meals for himself, his friends, comrades and wives. Rio is an exceptional chef, able to cook extremely delicious food. His uncle Issei stated Rio is a much more talented cook than himself as despite his young age, Rio have already surpassed his uncle's cooking skills who is a much more experienced chef. Rio's culinary specialties are Japanese cuisine, Yoshoku cuisine, Italian cuisine, French cuisine and fusion cuisine.

* Shio Ramen:
* Tuna Sashimi
* Chocolate Parfait
* Oden: Rio's homemade oden consist of eleven ingredients, daikon, konjac, shirataki, boiled eggs, chicken wings, hanpen, fishballs, ganmodoki, beef tendons, kinchaku mochi and gobomaki.
* Ebi Fry

Master Hunter:

## Equipment

**Canis Lykaon**

* **Katana**: Rio can produced one or more katanas with the Canis Lykaon which he uses as his main weapons for melee combat. Rio's immense mastery of his Sacred Gear allows his katanas to damage even the souls of his opponents. Due to possessing the power of the "Ame no Ohabari"; which was used to kill the God of Fire; Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, his katana can also produce cursed flames colored black and crimson.

* **Eclipse Vánagandr Ulveskare Tyrfing**: Also known as the Legion of the Night Divine Beasts and the Dark Moon Slayer, is Rio's Sub-Species Balance Breaker which Rouyasha combined with Rio to create a black wolf armour which not only further enhanced his strength, speed and durability but also enhanced the power and range of his darkness based powers to create an innumerable amount of blades, tinging even the sky and earth in darkness. Rio can also form numerous packs of wolves with jet-black fur from surrounding darkness that attack opponents with blades carried in their mouths. These wolves can also move through shadows much like Rio and Rouyasha to attack the blind spots of their foes.

**Kamui Magetsu** (神威魔月,*Divine Prestige Demonic Moon*): Rio's personalized Spirit Sword. It takes the form of a Kissaki Moroha-Zukuri Style double-edged Tachi.

Magic Wolf Necklace: A magic necklace with a wolf shaped pendant created by Alma and Celia, imbued with versatile and powerful magic, greatly enhancing physical and magical prowess when worn. It also grants superior magic enhanced protection as well as imbued with healing spells for healing injuries and recovering stamina. It is normally stored in another dimension which Rio only wears it in preparation for battle.

Magic Ninja Gauntlets: A pair of ninja gauntlets crafted by Alma from mithril and hiirokane, enchanted with powerful magic, which vastly enhanced arm strength and provide superior magic enhanced protection while remaining extremely light.

The Swallow's Cowrie Shell: One of the five legendary treasures of the Tale of Princess Kaguya. A necklace made with a swallow's cowrie shell: a special shell that is said to be a charm used by a swallow when giving birth. Given to Rio by his mother who have enchanted it with powerful protection magic for his safety.

## Trivia

* Rio's favourite food are;
	+ His mother's home made cooking
	+ Tonkatsu served with rice, tsukemono and miso soup
	+ Omurice
	+ Nigirizushi particularly tuna and yellowtail
	+ Hamburg steak
	+ Tofu
	+ Salad with sesame sauce or balsamic vinegar
	+ Chicken Karaage with tartar sauce
	+ Teriyaki chicken served with rice, tsukemono and miso soup
	+ Doner kebab
	+ Wagashi particularly Sakuramochi

* Rio also like spicy food such as extra spicy Japanese curry rice, Arrabbiata pasta**,** Chicken karahi, Chongqing hotpot, Yukgaejang, Tom yum soup and Madras curry.

* Rio's favourite drinks are;
	+ Mineral water
	+ Milk
	+ Mixed fruit and vegetable juice
	+ Matcha
	+ Sake
	+ Wine
* Rio's hobbies are physical training, magic training, Senjutsu meditation, reading, practising martial arts and kenjutsu, swimming, playing the piano, cooking, and spending time with his wives.
* Like his mother, he is an avid practitioner of yoga to improve his health and mind.
* He also like reading light novels and manga as he is also an otaku.
* Rio is four years older than his younger cousins, Yuma and Komachi and six years older than Nozomi his youngest cousin.
* Rio lost his father at age 14, when his father died during a very dangerous mission as a Tenjinmon Ninja, since then he has become especially protective of his mother. This also extends to his uncle Issei and aunt in law Kuroka and his cousins whom he cared very deeply like his own younger siblings
* Rio also started developing Tenchi-Sojin-ryu after his father's death in order to become a stronger and more efficient fighter to protect the people he care about.
* Rio received the blessings of Tsukuyomi, the Shinto Moon God, granting him enhanced physical and magical abilities along with a spiritual affinity for the moon.