Mafuyu

Every morning, Mafuyu puts on the Tiger Disguise and lets out a theatrical roar, just to make their student Chiyohiko laugh. It wasn't always this way. They once cut a path through The Underworld as one of the Cult of Kaze's most feared enforcers, their grin a terrifying mask for the emptiness within. The Sakura Katana was an instrument of sorrow then. Left broken in the ash by former allies, Mafuyu expected only oblivion. Instead, they found Chiyohiko, who refused to see a monster. By teaching the young chimper to fight with purpose instead of malice, Mafuyu began to heal themself. The gleam in their eyes is real now, a hard-won light against the crimson gloom, and their power ascends with every lesson they impart.