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Yoshiki Saitou (
After returning to Earth, he and Shinji would eventually start a private security company, and became bodyguards of Liliana S. B. Heiligh.
Appearance
Yoshiki is a young man with a thin build, light brown hair and slit eyes.
His outfit while in Tortus consisted of a light-gray short sleeve turtleneck, a dull-green short-sleeve jacket that ended just above his midriff with lapels and three large horizontal metal plates over the chest, a black headband with a large metal plate that covered his forehead, a pair of dark-brown wristbands that were indented around the middle, a thin dark-brown belt around his waist that holstered a brown sheath for his stiletto, stone-gray pants with white leg wraps around the shins, and brown laceless shoes that were white around the opening.
Personality
At first, Yoshiki acts like a typical bully. He enjoys picking on other weaker than him (particularly Hajime), but will meekly back down when confronted by those he considers stronger than him. After being transported to Tortus with his class and being granted magic, his bullying rose to a greater extent where he started using violence and justified it as a way to train. He had also grown more arrogant in his abilities, and believes that he and his friends are practically unbeatable.
Following the deaths of Reichi and Daisuke during the demons' invasion of the kingdom, as well as having witnessed Hajime's immense strength and ruthlessness, Yoshiki's courage has completely left him, and has become much more cowardly and reclusive.
After returning to Earth, he and Shinji have greatly reformed and completely ceased acting like bullies.
Yoshiki is desperate in finding a girlfriend, but all of his efforts in obtaining one have failed.
Chronology
One Monday morning during his second year of high school, Yoshiki and his three friends Daisuke, Reichi and Shinji were verbally harassing Hajime Nagumo after he barely arrived in time before class began.
When it became lunchtime, Yoshiiki and his class were suddenly engulfed in a large glowing circle that teleported them away. Once it was over, everyone saw that they were suddenly inside a large cathedral. Soon after, they were approach by Pope Ishtar Langbard of the Holy Church, and explained to them that they had been summoned the alternate world of Tortus by humanity's god Ehit, in order to aid in their war against the demons. When Ishtar revealed that Ehit was the only one with the power to send them home, the students agreed to fight alongside the Humans of Tortus, against the protests of their teacher Aiko Hatayama. The next morning, Daisuke and the rest of his classmates gathered at the palace courtyard to begin their training. They were greeted by the kingdom's Knight Commander Meld Loggins, and were each given a Status Plate artifact before he explained how it worked to everyone. As the students began to activate their plates, Yoshiki and his friends were making fun of Hajime after it was revealed that he had the common job of "Synergist", as well as possessing average stats. Over the next two weeks, the students trained in the kingdom in order to prepare for the war against the demons. During that time, Yoshiki and his friends continuously harassed Hajime by attacking him with their magic, but would stop whenever they were confronted by their classmates Kaori, Shizuku, Kouki and Ryutarou.
Once the students' initial training complete, they traveled to the town of Horaud in order to explore Great Orcus Labyrinth, and battle the monsters that resided there as a way to gain combat experience. During the their exploration into the labyrinth, Daisuke accidentally set off a trap that transported everyone transported to the 65th floor. They soon found themselves at a stone bridge and was trapped between a behemoth and an army of skeletal traum soldiers. Hajime managed to hold the behemoth back his transmutation magic while the others managed to create an escape path through the skeletons. Most of them were able to escape, but Hajime had been presumed dead after being hit by a fireball while making his was back to his classmates, and fell over the bridge with the behemoth.
Yoshiki was among the students that resumed their training in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, in spite of the dangers they knew it contained. As they managed to become stronger and advance deep into the labyrinth, Yoshiki and his friends grew more arrogant and expressed their belief that they were invincible (though they remained humble while in the presence of Kouki and his friends). As they reached the 65th floor once more, they once again encountered the behemoth and traum soldiers. Despite the lingering trauma from their previous encounter, as well as the fact that there were less people of fight it than before, the students managed to defeat the behemoth and continued their journey down the labyrinth.
Yoshiki and the other students continued their training in the labyrinth until they eventually reached the 90th floor. However, they soon realized that they were not being attacked by any monsters. It was soon discovered that they had all been wiped out by other monsters that were under the command of a demon named Cattleya. She approached the students and offered them to join the demons in the war against the humans, but Kouki immediately refused on their behalf and a battle ensued. Jugo Nagayama was knocked back by one of Cattleya's monsters, but was caught by Yoshiki. Soon afterwards, Yoshiki, Reichi and Kentarou Nomura were turned to stone while trying to protect Suzu Taniguchi from Cattleya's petrification magic. When it became clear that they were at an overwhelming disadvantage, the students retreated to the 89th floor, with Jugo carrying Yoshiki and Reichi away.
Once everyone managed to take shelter in a hidden area, Yoshiki and Reichi were healed back up by Kaori. After everyone was healed, Yoshiki and his classmates began to turn on each other due to the stress they were feeling g from their defeat, but they soon ceased their hostilities in order to avoid detection from the monsters. However Cattleya discovered their location and blasted away the entrance to their hideout. As Cattleya's monsters once more battle the students, Yoshiki and his friends were attacked by multiple tentacles. Though they managed to avoid any fatal wounds, they still took a considerable amount of damage, with one of the tentacles slammed through Yoshiki's thigh and pinned him to the ground. Daisuke and Reichi managed to free Yoshiki before leading him and Shinji to Suzu in order to keep them safe with her barrier magic.
Despite the students' efforts, Cattleya managed to defeat them after having incapacitated Kouki. She offered the students another chance to join the demons, but Kouki once more rejected her offer and managed to free himself, but was rendered incapacitated once more by the monsters. As Cattleya's forces resumed attacking the students and were on the verge of victory, they were stopped by the sudden arrival of a mysterious boy that had accompanied Kousuke Endou (who managed to escape the labyrinth after Cattleya's first attack in order to find help for his classmates). In the end, Hajime easily managed to eliminate all the monsters and kill Cattleya and escorted his classmates out of the labyrinth. When Kaori decided to accompany Hajime on his journey after everyone returned to Horaud, Yoshiki and his friends protested at Hajime, but Daisuke told his friends to back down. At first, they were surprised by Daisuke’s uncharacteristic obedience, but his serious tone brooked no argument, so they too gave up on persuading Hajime. As Kaori was getting her things from Horaud's inn before setting off, Yoshiki and his friends offered to help her, but Hajime prevented them from going. Yoshiki and the rest of the Hero party returned to the kingdom's capital soon after.
Several weeks after returning from the labyrinth, Yoshiki and the other students heard a strange noise one night and quickly geared up for battle. When they all gathered together to access the situation, they learned from one of the palace maids, Nia, that they demons were invading the capital, and the noise the heard before was the capital's outer magic barrier being destroyed. After some debate, the students decided to meet up with the kingdom's knights in the courtyard in order to coordinate a counterattack with them. Soon after they reached to courtyard, all of the students were suddenly ambushed by the knights. They had been repeatedly stabbed and restrained with mana-sealing shackles. They soon learned that the knights were under the control of their classmate Eri, and the she had used her necromancy magic to control them after she killed. She then expressed her desire to do the same with the rest of her classmates (except Kouki, with whom she wished to be with romantically), and began making her way towards Reichi, due to him being the closest one to her. Eri mercilessly rammed a sword though his heart, thus killing him. Yoshiki and Shinji yelled at Eri over killing their friend, but the knights pinning them dug their swords in deeper, cutting off their remarks. Soon after, Eri succeeded in turning Reichi into another of her undead minions. The rest students managed to free themselves soon after thanks to the timely intervention of Kaori, but she had been mortally wounded by Daisuke, who was revealed to be Eri's accomplice. Hajime arrived soon after and killed Daisuke before single-handedly repelling the approaching demon army, but Eri managed to escape with demon General Freid Bagwa.
Yoshiki had been utterly traumatized by the deaths of Daisuke and Reichi, and secluded himself within his room in the royal palace. Sometime later, he and the rest of his classmates were abducted by one of Ehit's apostles and imprisoned in Garland's demon Lord castle. When Hajime and his companions arrived at the castle, a fight soon broke out between him and his classmates against Ehit's apostles and his retainer Alva. Yoshiki was too traumatized from the deaths of his friends to fight back, and let his classmates fend for themselves. In the end, Hajime managed to kill Alva and the apostles, but had nearly been killed from the battle, as well has having his lover Yue being possessed by Ehit. Once Hajime recovered, he and the other classmates began planning their next attack after learning from Ehit that he planned to wipe out all life on Tortus, before traveling to Earth to rule over it. During the meeting, Yoshiki ad the others students learned that Hajime created an artifact that could take them back to Earth and had hoped that he would use it, but Hajime revealed that it had been destroyed by Ehit and that he couldn't make it again with Yue's help. The other students thought Hajime was only focused on saving Yue (which was true), but soon realized that they had to fight Ehit in order to save Earth. Eventually, they all devised a plan to fight the mad god.
The night before the battle against Ehit, Yoshiki and Shinji watched with the other students as Hajime's allies that had agreed to fight Ehit, approached him to express their gratitude (many of them were pretty girls). The two boys were discussing how being associated with Hajime could help each of them get a girlfriend.
During the battle against Ehit, Yoshiki was among the students that fought along the church's Templar knights atop the command center for Tortus' allied forces, to protect the priests that were casting debuff magic against Ehit's army of apostles. Yoshiki managed to repel several apostles with his wind magic. After a hard fought battle, Ehit's army was defeated due to Hajime having killed the mad god.
In the month following the battle against Ehit, which would come to be known as "Ragnarok," Yoshiki and his classmates were recuperating in the beastman nation Verbergen. They also aided in the reconstruction of the kingdom, which had been destroyed during the battle, as well as supply Hajime with a portion of their mana each day, in order to help him create a Divinity Stone that he would then forge into the artifacts needed to send them all back to Japan. When the Divinity Stone was complete, Yoshiki and his classmates witnessed Hajime and Yue successfully create the artifacts that could take them home. Afterwards, he and his classmates celebrated, with him and Shinji clasping each other's arms and dancing wildly.
Sometime after returning to Earth, Yoshiki, Shinji, Aiko and Hajime visited Daisuke and Reichi's families to tell them about their deaths. Reichi's parents were outraged and refused to believe it to be true and kicked them out of their home, but Yoshiki and Shinji continued to visit them until they eventually accepted that Reichi was dead. Daisuke's parents, however, would not accept the news due to the nature of his death and were about to hit Aiko, but Hajime scared them into submission by using his Intimidation skill.[1]
Relationships
Daisuke Hiyama, Reichi Kondou & Shinji Nakano
Yoshiki's three closest friends and formerly partners in crime. Alongside them, he bullied Hajime Nagumo as much as possible mostly because they liked Kaori as well in the past. But now, they are terrified of the monstrous Hajime after he murdered Cattleya. After Daisuke betrayed them by allying himself with Eri and causing Reichi's death, he and Shinji were mentally cornered and shut themselves in their rooms due to their friend's betrayal. Yoshiki is the the only person capable of stopping Shinji from going overboard in his attempts to get a girlfriend. After returning to Japan, he's been busy stopping his friend's antics.
Hajime Nagumo
Yoshiki, along with his friends, were jealous the fact that Kaori was interested in Hajime, so they constantly bullied him at school and in Tortus. When he and his classmates were saved by Hajime from Cattleya, he was shocked and terrified by Hajime's inhuman strength and ruthless attitude. After failed to feign an apology for Hajime to return to the Hero Party purely to get close to Kaori, Saitou and the Four (except for Daisuke due to his persistence) easily gave up his pursuit for Hajime and his chance to be with Kaori. After Eri and Daisuke's betrayal, followed by Hajime killing Reichi and Daisuke without hesitation, both Yoshiki and Shinji were terrified to cross Hajime. The two of them would often suck up to Hajime after returning to Earth, in the hopes of each of them getting a girlfriend through him, but Hajime still finds him annoying.
Liliana S. B. Heiligh
Liliana considers Yoshikiher friend. He and Shinji act as her bodyguards whenever she appears in public as a pop idol.
Anju Amai
Yoshiki is infatuated with Anju. He and Shinji would try to find any excuse to spend time with her, but would be unsuccessful.
Powers & Abilities
Physical Abilities
- Enhanced Physical Abilities - Like most of his classmates, Yoshiki possesses physical abilities stronger than ordinary humans.
Magical Abilities
- Immense Mana - As one of Ehit's summoned heroes, Yoshiki's mana pool is larger than most people in Tortus.
- Magic Master - As a Aerothurge, he has the highest proficiency and mastery with wind magic than the rest of his class.
Skills
- Wind Magic Affinity (風属性適性, Kaze Zokusei Tekisei?) - It allows the user to use wind magic at a capable rate.
- Wind Perception (風読, Fūdoku?) - A skill to sense the flow of wind.
- Improved Proficiency (回復効果上昇, Kaifuku Kōka Jōshō?) - It can use wind magic more effectively.
- Reduced Mana Consumption (消費魔力減少, Shōhi Maryoku Genshō?) - It decreases the rate of mana being run out.
- Speed Casting (発動速度上昇, Hatsudō Sokudo Jōshō?) - It increases the casting speed of wind magic.
- Improved Mana Efficiency (魔力効率上昇, Maryoku Kōritsu Jōshō?) - It can use wind magic efficiently.
- Language Comprehension (言語理解, Gengo Rikai?) - A base skill granted to all those who got summoned. It gives the user the ability to understand any language and be proficient in it.
Spells
- Wind Sphere (風球, Fūkyū?) - A beginner-rank offensive spell that creates a clod of hardened wind. "Rend my foes O wind."
- Wind Blade (風刃, Fūjin?) - A beginner-rank wind spell that summons a very sharp wind blade to cut the enemy. The caster can also summon a barrage of wind blades.
- Wind Wall (風壁, Fūheki?) - A barrier comprised of wind the flows in all directions.
- Tempest Flash (嵐帝, Rantei?) - An intermediate-rank wind spell that creates tornadoes.
- Raging Storm (極大・嵐帝, Kyokudai Rantei?) - It unleashed a powerful tornado. "Scatter them to the four winds."
Weapons & Equipment
- Stiletto (スティレット, Sutiretto?) - An artifact made by Hajime for the final battle against Ehit that boosted Yoshiki's affinity for wind magic.
- CheatMate (チートメイト, Chītomeito?) - A food-type artifact comprised of nutritional minerals, such as calcium and iron, that are enchanted with metamorphosis and evolution magic. They are then turned into powder and transmuted to became a solid food block. Once consumed, it raises a person's base stats and increases their body's sturdiness.
- Last Seele (ラスト・ゼーレ, Rasuto Zēre?) - A necklace artifact with a small crimson red gem orb that Hajime made for everyone who participated in Ragnarok. It bestows its wearer the skill "Limit Break," as well as its derivative skill "Overload."
Quotes
Etymology
- The name "Yoshiki" means "good, virtuous, respectable" (良) (yoshi) and "tree" (樹) (ki).
- Yoshiki's surname "Saitou" means "purification, worship" (斎) (sai) and "wisteria" (藤) (dou/tou).
Trivia
- In the Anime, Yoshiki is not among the students that trains in the Great Orcus Labyrinth. Instead, he and a few other students stay behind in the Heiligh Kingdom's capital as a support team.
- In Chapter 2 of the Manga, two of Daisuke's friends are seen bulling Hajime upon learning of his job as a Synergist. However, it is unknown if either of them is Yoshiki.
- Yoshiki's Japanese voice actor, Shunichi Maki, also voiced Grid Half. Furthermore, his English voice actor, Spencer Liles, also voiced Jugo.
References
| Returners |
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| Aiko Hatayama • Hajime Nagumo • Kaori Shirasaki • Shizuku Yaegashi • Kouki Amanogawa • Ryutarou Sakagami • Suzu Taniguchi • Kousuke Endou • Yuka Sonobe • Mao Yoshino • Nana Miyazaki • Taeko Sugawara • Ayako Tsuji • Atsushi Tamai • Akito Nimura • Noboru Aikawa • Jugo Nagayama • Kentarou Nomura • Shinji Nakano • Yoshiki Saitou • Yuya Suzuki • Nao Arakawa • Shouta Mori • Mei Fujimoto • Sakura Aizawa • Rika Miura • Kana Yokoyama • Shiori Mizushima • Kotone Hoshino |
| Others |
| Yue • Shea Haulia • Tio Klarus • Remia • Myu • Liliana S. B. Heiligh |