Saito Okakura

**Saito Okakura** (*岡倉斉藤, Okakura Saitō*) is the deuteragonist of **Jujutsu Kaisen Legends** anime and manga series. He is the heir of the Okakura Clan, and only legitimate son of Arima Okakura; thus bearer of the legendary cursed technique **Downfall**. He was mentored and adopted by Shinji Kawabata, who enrolled him in Jujutsu High and betrothed him to Hana Kitawaga, the actual and last living member of the Kitagawa Clan. He is a world-wide feared Special Grade sorcerer, known for his ruthlessness against his enemies (sorcerers and curses alike), being often called as **the Curse** (くそー,Kuso ̄).

However, his family and the higher-ups in the Japanese jujutsu society call him **the Hope** (*望み, Nozomi*), as he is the only individual capable of using both **Downfall** and **Ascension** in the last 200 years.

## Appearance

Saito is a teenager with blonde and smooth hair. He has bright yellow eyes and bags underneath. His smile is noticeably charming, as most of his classmates say, although others declare it turns twisted and macabre when he fights curses or sorcerers. He has a lean build and tall stature, outstanding his relatively shorter friends and classmates, and toned muscles, with a defined abdomen and chest. He’s seen as someone more mature than he seems to be, considered fairly attractive for his personality and facial features.

He wears all kind of old-fashioned suits or casual clothes while he's not wearing his student Jujutsu High uniform. Apparently he declared that suits makes him feel more comfortable than wearing normal clothes.

## Personality

Saito is a dogmatic individual, and a mysterious man in the eyes of many sorcerers and curse users. He believes that the world has resorted to jujutsu for political and military interests, and since the antiquity many have used this power for evil and selfish purposes, causing many wars, conflicts and massacres around the world. Unlike Akira, he doesn't considers jujutsu as a "blessing" given by a superior force. Instead, he believes that jujutsu are nothing else but metaphysical abilities, that grant power to a relatively small sector of the world population through genetics and bloodlines.

Saito is ruthless, and fearless, fighting his enemies with cold-blood, and instigating dread on them with a sadistic behavior. The rest of the time, he is seen studying, practicing with his weapons, and improving his jujutsu via experimentation.

However, while many see him as an individual to dread, his closed ones don't think that way. Saito is a much more playful and sarcastic person around his friends and family, often doing bad puns and jokes with his ironic, dark humor. Despite Saito is not a really good student, he is a very intelligent person, capable of reading the state and the body language of the individuals which he talks to, deciphering their intentions and actual mood. While sadistic and cruel with his enemies, he is a very compassive and emphatic person. He trusts in his abilities as a sorcerer, but he isn't arrogant. When things go badly in missions, or his friends die, he adopts a self-deprecating nature, charging himself with the blame, even if it wasn't his fault.

He is willing to take physical damage from attacks or sacrifice himself for the sake of his companions and the mission. When Hana was going to be mortally wounded by Nayuta, he took all the damage and told her to retreat with the rest of the team, fighting the vengative spirit alone until fainting mid-fight. Hana, his betrothed considers him as "sweet, actually funny, and easy to talk", Shinji, his uncle and most trusted confident, considers him as his "big baby".

## Abilities and Powers

   **Overall Skill Level**: Saito is one of only ten Special Grade sorcerers catalogued around the whole world. While not the strongest, he is the fourth most powerful human individual at a global scale, just behind his uncle and mentor Shinji Kawabata. Despite he trained his cursed energy since the age of three, Saito wouldn't kill his first curse until he was twelve years old. After his first battle was registered by the JIA, he was immediately promoted to Special Grade. He was praised by the Cursed King, and is thought that together with Hana Kitagawa and Akira Kawabata, he would one day surpass his father and uncle.

He is considered as an undisputable prodigy in the use of cursed energy and cursed tools, albeit his clearly superior classmate Akira had him named as the "second-in-the-class" out of pure spite and jealousy. He has been recognized by most of the jujutsu society in Japan as one of the strongest individuals in the country, while in other countries his name is also highly known for being the heir to the strongest clan in the jujutsu world. As he grew, he eclipsed many sorcerers around the world, with many admitting that they had no chance of facing him on individual combat. Although Saito isn't a threat threat to the world, he could certainly cause chaos and anarchy in the jujutsu society, and the whole Asian continent, as stated by Arima.
Actually, Saito's cursed technique and unmatchable fighting prowess terrorized the underworld of the jujutsu society, to the point that half of the evil curse users or sorcerers have either ceased their activities, or faced execution by his own hands. His most infamous encounter was against Hateno, a feared sorcerer assassin who surrendered to Saito after he saw the battle against him lost, yet he was executed by Saito in the spot nonetheless. While he is naïve in his day-to-day, the battles he fights are coldly calculated by himself, and doesn't fears to sacrifice his own physical integrity to take down his enemies in battle.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes**: Saito is an incredibly fast sorcerer, whose movements can be barely perceived. His velocity outmaneuvers those of Akira and Aki, easily overwhelming them with extremely fast attacks and movements. Saito was able to outmatch the Cursed King in velocity, although it was purely thanks to Kaido's domain expansion.

**Enhanced Endurance**: Thanks to his cursed techniques, Saito is virtually immortal and terribly resilient during fights. Even after being mutilated during his encounter with Nagisa, he utilized Ascension to reintegrate his lost limbs during his fight. However, during his fight with Nayuta he was obliged to use Reverse Cursed Technique, exhausting him to the point of fainting during mid-fight.

   **Master Weapons Specialist**: Saito utilizes a wide variety of weapons and cursed tools in battle. His entire fighting style is based around using weapons to substitute his lack of hand-to-hand combat experience. He's deadly precise in his attacks with cursed tools, giving single and mortal blows that can kill curses or sorcerers in the spot. He has a special favoritism with axes; due to this, once he became fifteen, his uncle gifted him the special grade cursed tool Angelical Axe, that he stole from Taiwan. Saito would use this weapon from now on with unequal mastery, thanks to his compatibility with the object.

Saito essentially utilizes his vast reserves of cursed energy to envelop his cursed tools, making them unbreakable and adding even more potence to his blows and attacks while fighting.

### Jujutsu

**Immense Cursed Energy**: Saito is well-known among the jujutsu society for being one of the strongest living sorcerers. His genetic relation to the Okakuras and Kawabatas is what grants him the gargantuan volume and amount cursed energy in his body. He can use his cursed techniques with no restrictions at all, and thanks to the condensation of his cursed energy thanks to Ascension, he can withstand fights for entire hours. While sorcerers like Hana or Akira certainly surpass him in levels of cursed energy, he can optimize his control of the latter at maximum output thanks to his cursed techniques. However, while fighting with individuals that can disable his cursed techniques, he can see himself overwhelmed and can be defeated at some point.

**Downfall**: A technique inherited by Saito that allows him to destroy and manipulate his surroundings by entering in contact with an object or surface. The user can manipulate any type of organic or inorganic matter alike. The matter itself is reformed at a molecular level. Since Saito holds Ascension too, he can manipulate not only his enviroment but also his own body.

**Ascension**: A technique passed exclusively within the female line of the Okakura family, but inherited by Saito as he is the offspring of an user of Downfall and another user of Ascension, allows him to regenerate and transform his own genetical code. Unlike Downfall, this technique is exclusive for the body, albeit more complex as this reforms the organic matter of the body in a sub-atomic scale.

## Equipment

**Angelical Axe**: A mystery of jujutsu at some extent, Angelical Axe is imbued with positive energy, originally forged in China during the times of the Qing Dynasty. It was stolen by Shinji Kawabata years ago, and then given to Saito. The tool is almost unbreakable, and Saito utilizes this in his favor to trick his opponents and enemies during fights.