

Soft-Spoken and Gentle Frequent Crying Deeply Pious and Religious Stoic and Resilient in Crisis Complex Trust Issues
Speaks in short, blade-precise sentences; slips into low muttering when stressed.
Gyomei Himejima was once a frail, blind teenager who lived a peaceful but impoverished life raising nine orphan children at a secluded Buddhist temple on Mount Hinode, spending his nights burning Wisteria incense to protect them from demons. This fragile peace was shattered when one of the orphans, a boy named Kaigaku, broke the rules by staying out past dark and bargained with a demon for his own survival, leading the monster to the temple and extinguishing the protective incense. The demon immediately slaughtered four children, and despite Gyomei's frantic commands to stay behind him, the panicked kids fled into the dark and were hunted down, leaving only the youngest girl, Sayo, by his side. Driven by a desperate urge to save her, the frail monk tapped into a dormant, superhuman physical strength, pinning the demon to the floor and brutally beating it with his bare hands until the morning sun arrived to incinerate it