Gajou Akatsuki (
Appearance[]
He was a tall, middle-aged man in a casual-looking, worn-out shirt. His posture was rather good for his age, and his physique was honed with no hint of excess fat. However, his chin was covered with thin stubble, and an air of listlessness hovered all around him. The man was carefree, with no coercive presence whatsoever.[1]
Personality[]
In volume 7 of the light novel, he is portrayed as a jolly, fun-loving middle-aged man that can easily socialize with people from his surrounding, as shown with his attitude to the Fairy Coffin Historical Sites' head guardian, Caluso and the archaeologist dispatched from Warlord's Dominion, Liana Caruana. He loves challenges and has the tendency to do 'risky' things, such as fighting a magic-fueled giant golem using guns by his own (although they have special bullets tailored to kill magical creatures) and making his children tag along in some of his dangerous expeditions, something that clearly doesn't sit well with Mimori, his ex-wife.
Gajou is a rather careless and sometimes abrasive person, particularly with his son. In fact, Gajou jokingly, but harshly made fun of Kojou about how he thought Kojou would never get a girlfriend when he assumed he and Yukina Himeragi were in a romantic relationship.
As shady as he looked, Gajou had the silver tongue of a host club top pick.[2]
History[]
He, was an archeologist, but not the studious type who sat in an office, calmly poring over ancient documents. He worked in the field, slipping into every war-torn country on Earth to plunder antiquities unguarded amid the confusion, little better than a looter after a blaze. The theme of Gajou’s research was an event known as The Cleansing. It was recorded in the bibles of the Western Church and was apparently a large incident over the course of history.[3] Given the nature of his work, Gajou was overseas nearly year round, returning to Japan only once in a blue moon. Kojou Akatsuki could count on his fingers the number of proper conversations that he and Nagisa had held with their father since moving to Itogami Island.[4]
He had an infamous name, granted because he had faced danger at numerous ruins, only to be the sole survivor —thus, the Death Returnee. He didn’t like being known by that epithet, but it couldn’t be helped; facts were facts.[3]
Plot[]
Night Lord of the Blazing Lights[]
Abilities[]
He was the man who had returned from the Land of the Dead, a being who should not exist in their world—and ever since, his body straddled the boundary between this world and the next.[2]
- Gajou
Gajou has been noted as the Returnee from the Netherworld which is because he lost half of his body in a Necropolis of the Deva's incident. But because of this, he gained a few abilities like passing through solid object like a ghost, sensing magical power from mystical objects or mystical creatures, and conjuring various firearms with anti-magic properties from his coat. He is an expert marksman which is shown in his preference of using firearms as his weapon of choice and great skills at using all kinds of firearms. As an archeologist specialized in mystical ruins and artifacts, he is very knowledgeable about magic and he is also very knowledgeable about any secret organization or group that specialize in handling major magical phenomenon like the Lion King Organization and their technologies that utilizes magic.
He is very skilled in close combat and can easily take down any newcomers in close combat.
- Magical power sense.
- Unlock locks.
- magical guns incarnation: or like other weapons.
- intangible.
- Grenade: Its a stick-shaped hand grenade intended to neutralize an enemy through the explosives concussive blast compared to a frag grenade the lethal radius was rather small but its power its power at point-black range was high.
- Submachine gun: it was loaded with rubber bullets but it was a vicious weapon certain to knock over anyone taking a square hit.
- Stun grenade.
- Machine gun: automatic fire from the large-caliber army machine gun. It didn’t have the same power as the spell gun, but the density of the barrage—over six hundred rounds a minute—was overwhelming. The powerful bullets, specialized for taking down demon beasts, were highly effective, riddling the approaching creatures with holes.[2]
Trivia[]
- Gajou Akatsuki had lost large portions of his memories of his own children. As he was now, he did not even comprehend the reason why. The fact that Kojou and Nagisa hadn’t noticed was due to Gajou’s meticulous preparations beforehand…and desperately keeping up the act.[2]