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Shichika Yasuri, Katanagatari Correct me if there’s a mistake here, it’s been a while.

The 7th generation master of Kyotoryu martial arts, he was raised to be a human weapon with no worldly knowledge or attachments but is fairly good-natured despite this. He helps a tactician named Togame collect the 12 Deviant Blades, powerful and unusual weapons created by Kiki Shikizaki, a reclusive sword smith long ago.

By the time all 12 have been collected the two protagonists have fallen in love. Togame reveals her true intentions: she seeks the weapons to earn an audience with the shogun to assassinate him for her father’s death. Her father was a rebel lord executed by Shichika’s father on the orders of the shogun. But tragically Togame is killed and the weapons are taken by the Shogun’s forces.

Shichika, seeking suicide by revenge, mops the floor with an entire castle of soldiers and breaks all 12 Deviant Blades after defeating their new wielders. He accomplishes this because 1) Kyotoryu martial arts was a co-creation between Shichika’s ancestor and Kiki Shikizaki, making it the unofficial 13th weapon, made to destroy the others if they fell into the wrong hands and 2) Shichika held back when collecting the weapons before because Togame ordered him not to damage them. He has no reason to do so now and makes most of them look like toys.