"SIDE GOLD"
PROFILE: OTONO BENJI
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Translation: Naru-kun
Real name: Otono Benji
Terms of address: The first person is "ore", Otono Benji (Kokujoji), Older brother Otono (Unno), Ben-san.
Origin: Otonochi-no-kami (God of the Gate) / Otonobe-no-kami (God of the Gate)
[PROFILE]
Birthday: May 8, 1916 (Taisho 5), Taurus
Blood type: A
Age: 32 years old
[APPEARANCE]
Physique: Height 1.85 cm, robust but slim build.
Face, hair: Face covered in bandages; hair disheveled and unkempt.
Attire: Worn national uniform and hat; his entire body is covered in bandages due to war wounds.
Personal effects: Accordion.
[HABITS, SKILLS]
· He speaks in a measured voice to conceal the pain of his battle wounds.
· For the same reason, his movements are slow and his steps short.
· He facilitates conversation and keeps it flowing smoothly.
[IMPRESSION, OTHER NOTES]
· The image color is "gray".
· Someone who hides their cheerful nature and observes from the depths of the fog.
[POSITION, OBJECTIVES]
The Sixth King (The Gray King). The organizer of "Kiri no Ichi", known as an urban legend. A wounded soldier. Before being drafted into the army, he was a banquet entertainer, a "hokan", who enlivened the atmosphere in geisha houses. He suffered severe burns all over his body during the war, with injuries so severe that he could barely move. The war ended while he was recovering in a sanatorium, but he lacked the energy to adapt to the turbulent postwar society. Soon after, he settled in a black market on the outskirts of the city, living with other people who had been left behind.
In late autumn of 1946, when the black market was demolished to make way for redevelopment, he and the city's inhabitants lost their homes. It was then that he awoke as the "Gray King", leading them into the fog. Unaware of his immense power as a supernatural being, he remained oblivious to the fact that he was the chosen king of the "Dresden Slate" until his encounter with the "Red King" and the "Blue King" two years later, before the "War of the Six Kings".
[PERSONALITY, CONDUCT]
His true nature is cheerful and carefree. He loves lively environments. He doesn't dwell on things deeply and goes through each day without a care, like a flatterer. This lifestyle is disrupted by the war wounds that cover his entire body, but he doesn't lean toward either pessimism or optimism; he simply accepts it and chooses to live on the fringes of society. He suffers a pain that never goes away and is saddened by having been abandoned by the world, but he doesn't hold a grudge. He is a kind person who considers the feelings of others and doesn't impose his own.
Aside from that, he is like anyone else: shy, clinging to the past, and generally without any particularly striking traits that deserve special mention. He doesn't become too attached to the inhabitants of "Kiri no Ichi", adopting a relaxed attitude of welcoming those who arrive and not pursuing those who leave. He simply tries to protect a place where lost souls can temporarily stop and find some rest.
[ABILITIES, TACTICS]
The essence of his abilities lies in protection and illusion. He can freely manipulate the fog, creating and maintaining an isolated space within it. He can also generate fog at will in distant locations to influence perception, communication, and cause disturbances.
He possesses extremely precise control over the range of these forces and their sustained deployment (and since Otono is almost unaware of his contact with the "Dresden Slate", his mastery is based entirely on experience). However, he himself is aware that he is not suited for violence, so he keeps his distance and observes from within the fog.
[POWER]
A (Class "King".)
[LIKES]
A group of people. A lively place.
Music. He enjoys both listening to it and playing it. His current hobby is playing popular songs on the accordion.
[DISLIKE]
Strange things.
[CLAN]
"Kiri no ichi" (Mist Town). In an isolated, fog-shrouded space, its inhabitants run a traditional street black market. While they can come and go freely, this space is confined to a certain distance from Otono, so when he travels away, the inhabitants pack up their stalls and move with him.
All the inhabitants are ordinary people who have settled there unnoticed. In other words, Otono has no servants, and "Kiri no ichi" doesn't strictly fit the definition of a clan. Their specialty, as they themselves claim, is "Nanyara Nabe" (a shortened version of "I wonder what's in that").