Tatsugorou

"That one? Oh, that’s Tatsugorou. Spends all day studying crystal resonance charts, the poor dear." That's the consensus in The Crystal Highlands of Armaria. They see the bliss jumper, the mutton chops, and the lucky plant bobbing on their head, and they see a harmless trainee. The secret is the bamboo batch they never put down. It's not for research. It’s a micro-distillery for a brew so potent it once made a monolith hum off-key for a week. Tatsugorou is determined to craft the ultimate spiritual elixir. Everyone else just thinks their lunch has gone bad. Only Yuki, the stoic beast slayer, knows the truth. After sharing a flask on a frigid watch, Yuki merely grunted that the northern lights were now tap-dancing, and has been their silent, iron-stomached test subject ever since.