Lu Shaotang

**Lu Shaotang** (陸ルー 少糖シャオタン *Rū Shaotan*, **Lu Xiaotang** by Viz) is a character in the Sakamoto Days (manga) series. She is the daughter of a Triad Family. She currently works alongside Shin as a store clerk at Sakamoto's and can be considered a part of the Sakamoto Family.

## Appearance

Lu Shaotang is a fairly youthful woman with black eyes and long red hair. She has fair skin and an athletic build. In her work in Sakamoto´s Store she wears a green apron, with a black short, and white shoe. Normally, she ties her hair up, when staying under the effect of pure alcohol, she let her hair down and had a fury and intimidating look on her face.

## Personality

Lu Shaotang shows to be quite cheerful, often maintaining a happy and relaxed expression. When she first came to Sakamoto’s store as an employee, she was a little too “relaxed”, showing when she was late for two hours and wearing casual clothes under her apron. Despite showing some carelessness, she really holds her keepsakes from her parents deep, showing her love for her family. Also, Lu considers Sakamoto’s store as her family, thus she holds them dear, as shown when she expressed furiousness (though under the influence of pure alcohol) upon smashing Saw when he was about to attack Shin. In addition, Lu is quite dominant and ruthless in the Triad Drunk mode, when she violently attacked Saw without mercy, then planning to cut his fingers off to pay for his victim’s souls.

## History

Lu’s past is largely unknown, but she is the daughter of a Triad Family.

## Relationships

### Shin Asakura

Shin is a coworker of Lu. Both of them are quite close, often bickering on miscellaneous things. Despite that, they have formed a genuine camaraderie. They both work under Taro Sakamoto in his shop as an employee.

### Taro Sakamoto

Taro Sakamoto is a legendary ex-hitman who is currently the owner of a grocery store called Sakamoto's. He is currently Lu's boss and employer as she works as a store clerk at his store. She showed great astonishment for Sakamoto’s tremendous power.

### Lu Wutang

Lu admires Wutang for his intelligence but finds him creepy due his stalking her.

## Skills & Abilities

**Overall Skill Level**: Lu is a proficient martial artist and possesses surprisingly great strength and speed.

**High Alcohol Tolerance**: Lu is capable of drinking pure ethanol without ill effects, nor does excessive drinking appear to impair her ability to fight in any way. This ability extends to the rest of her family, as she recalls her grandfather drinking alcohol lamp fuel (such fuels tend to be methanol or denatured alcohol, both of which are lethal to drink).

**Drunken Fist Style**: While drinking or drunk, Lu becomes significantly more dangerous, though it depends on the amount and the kind of alcohol she consumes. After draining a bottle of 200-proof ethanol she became capable of throwing Saw around like a ragdoll and moving faster than his eyes could track, and easily caught or deflected any projectiles he threw at her (including his signature rope and axe, which she destroyed). Shin dubbed this mode "Triad Drunk," as opposed to the "Crying Drunk," "Angry Drunk," and "Happy Drunk" modes they'd discovered earlier.

## Trivia

* Shaotang/Xiaotang: Lu was introduced with the wrong kanji which made her name Romanize as *Xiaotang*. In the first volume the mistake was noted and corrected, revealing her name should have been *Shaotang*. However, in the English release, Viz decided to keep using Xiaotang and have not corrected her name.