Hantengu

## Introduction

Hantengu's primary form has a persona of cowardice. He was easily frightened by what occurred in his surroundings, showing traits of paranoia, fear and delusion. He was always shown to cry out in fear at even the most insignificant things. This is especially evident in the fact that he always chooses to crawl instead of walking up straight. Even in combat, Hantengu was shown to be extremely cowardly and afraid, crying when he was slashed by Muichiro Tokito and when he was hiding from the Demon Slayers.

Hantengu also seems to believe he is completely innocent despite the obvious evidence pointing towards his numerous crimes as a human. Even as a demon, killing and eating scores of innocent people, he still stubbornly and delusionally believed that he was innocent.

### Character Details

As the holder of the fourth highest title in the Twelve Kizuki, Hantengu is an extremely powerful demon. Through his Blood Demon Art, he is able to create four clones of himself, all of them possessing the same caliber of strength as an Upper Rank demon. These clones were able to hold off and overwhelm the combined efforts of Tanjiro, Nezuko and Genya, all of whom are seasoned and trained combatants. Genya stated that Hantengu was particularly difficult to defeat as the Demon Slayers would have to play cat and mouse, looking for the main body while being chased down by four Upper Rank-level demons.

As another testament to their strength, when the four clones fused into one form, Zohakuten, he was able to once again capable of fending off all three Demon Slayers as well as the Love Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji, one of the strongest Demon Slayers in the Demon Slayer Corps singlehandedly. Even after the Love Hashira awakened her Demon Slayer Mark, she could only evade and dodge Zohakuten's attacks and stall until the Demon Slayers defeated the main body, Hantengu. As Zohakuten and Tanjiro stated, Mitsuri would've run out of stamina and died if not for the sun rising and Hantengu being killed.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier**: **8-C** possibly **Higher**

**Name**: Hantengu

**Series**: Kimetsu no Yaiba

**Age**: 200

**Classification**: Demon, Upper Moon, Upper Moon Four

**Powers and Abilities**: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics, Enhanced Senses (Demons can easily smell blood and poison being able to differentiate more or less nutritious blood types. Has excellent perception and awareness.) Extrasensory Perception (Demons are capable of sensing when someone of proper kill value is near and differentiate them.) Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, and 6) Regeneration (Mid-High; Demons can regenerate from their heads and other body parts being crushed.) Self-Sustenance ( Type 3; Demons do not sleep) Body-Control (A low-Level demon could grow hands from parts of its body after being detached.) Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant (Even low level demons can fight on par with Demon corpse members causing disparity.) Information Analysis (Demons can quickly analyze and perceive details from blood such as sickness and gene combination.) Overwhelming Aura, Fear Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement (Demons can induce massive fear into people causing them to feel heavy and potentially harm them.) Air Manipulation (Karaku), Electricity Manipulation (Sekido), limited Telekinesis, Fusionism and Absorption (Sekido was able to telekinetically pull the other clones and phase them into his body to create the stronger Zohakuten) Weapon Creation (Staff by Sekido, fan by Karaku, and spear by Aizetsu) Sound Manipulation (Urami's scream hurt Tanjiro) Pain Manipulation (The emotions are unbothered by injuries and some even enjoy the sensation of getting injured, though Hantengu himself is afraid of getting hurt)

**Attack Potency**: **High Rise Level** (Capable of fighting on par with Mitsuri even pushing her further into her slayer mark.) **Higher** (With further transformations.)

**Speed**: **Hypersonic** (Capable of fighting on par with Mitsuri even showing physical dominance at times.)

**Durability**: **High Rise Level** (Capable of fighting on par with Mitsuri even pushing her further into her slayer mark.) **Higher** (With further transformations.)

**Stamina**: **Infinite** (Demons do not tire.)

**Intelligence**: **Average**

**Weakness**: Sunlight reduces Demons to ashes. Wisteria flowers are poisonous to all Demons.

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Weeping Spears** ( *Gekirui Shitotsu*?): Aizetsu violently thrusts his Yari, creating multiple long-ranged projections of the spear attack.

* **Crazed Cry of Thunder Death** ( *Kyōmei Rai Satsu*?): Zohakuten commands his wooden dragons to unleash bolts of lightning and powerful sound waves from their mouths.

* **Countless Striking Trees** ( *Muken Gōju*?): Zohakuten commands his wooden dragons to attack his target, making them rapidly grow bigger and multiply as they rush towards his opponent.

* **Compressed Sound Waves** ( *Kyōatsu Meiha*?): Similar to Urogi, Zohakuten opens his mouth and releases close ranged sound waves powerful enough to disorientate and knock a Hashira unconscious.