Ryosuke

Overview

A monster that lives in the Lord's shadow — a cannibal swordsman quicker than sound, released only when Shun wants someone to suffer a fate worse than death.

History

As tall as the Lord who commands him, with narrow glowing red slits for eyes like a viper's and a wide maw of razor teeth. He wears a broad straw kasa over dark hair tied in a low ponytail, a blue yukata, and wooden geta, and carries a katana in a plain wooden scabbard. When he escalates, leathered bat wings tear from his back.

He speaks in a heavy rural drawl and advises his master with more honesty than anyone else in the Tower dares. It was Ryosuke who told Shun, plainly, that hesitation would get the woman he loved killed.

At the Battle of a Thousand Shadows he was ordered to dance. He took Arata Hikari's legs, then his arm, then began eating him alive. Reports of a brutal swordsman faster than sound eventually reached Magnus himself.