Masamune

Masamune(正宗,Masamune) is a master swordsmen, who had practiced the incredible fast styles of Battojutsu and Shiranui-Ryu, from his father. Through much training under these two styles he had developed a method of easily taking down most of the foes that had come across his way. From a dark past, where he had lost his mother in birth before he had grown a sense of his own. Also where he had lost his father in a much later age had caused him to grow into a dark person himself. He had grown to become a notorious man, considered one of the most deadliest in the world for the crimes he has committed against the world government even prior to that of creating his group such as killing marine officers without a moments hesitation.

He had soon created a criminal syndicate that goes under the name of Kokuban which means "Black Board". This group had involved him and two other ones who had originally joined the group, however died due to unknown ailments. Soon, more and more people had joined this group making it what is was to this day. The members of this group follow the pieces on the chess board, and go from the King, to the Queen and all the way down to the pawns.

The owner of the legendary blade, Yami (which translates to "Darkness"), proves his power by mastering the ancient strength of this forged blade, albeit he is hidden from the world waiting for the right time to complete his ultimate goal, only to go at it slowly at this point. Such a user of a legendary blade also holds the weapon befitting a king, which is known as.

Childhood
Masamune had lived in poverty ever since birth, raised in a poor household. He had lived in a town somewhere in the South Blue, it was a somewhat busy town, with many areas kept peaceful. His mother had passed away due to complications at Masamune's birth. His father had cared for him all on his own, he had tried his best to hold down a job to support Masamune and himself. At a very young age his father, a skilled swordsman, trained by his own father, had trained Masamune in the art of Battoujutsu and Shiranui-ryū style to be used in conjunction with Battoujutsu. Through out Masamune's childhood he had learned these sword styles, progressing his training with his father, and on his own time while his father had worked other jobs in order to support a living condition.

Through desperation, Masamune's father had resorted to robbery because his work had not been able to afford proper meals for him and Masamune. This was the only thing his father could think of to do in order to support Masamune, because of his inability to hold down a job. Day by day, the citizens of the town had started noticing, and had treated the family with disrespect and insults. Soon after that, Masamune had adopted that idea of life, knowing he must do this to help his father. Masamune had been chased after sometimes, almost beaten up due to this. He had tried his best to keep the fact that he too had been stealing from his father to prevent being scolded at.

Masamune had trained himself everyday using the styles his father had taught him. His father had put him under exercises to train him, focusing on mostly speed rather than power. Masamune had used this style to fight wild animals he had encountered on his free time, during the time he trained himself. He had gone into the forest everyday, sometimes returning with injuries. The days he did return with injuries, he was scolded by his father. His father had said every time he had noticed this," You are never to return to the forest, I don't know what I would do if you were to be hurt, or even worse, killed!" Masamune had always recklessly gone into the forest, but the one worst time was when Masamune had almost died. He had almost died from a pack of wild wolves, only to end up running with them chasing him down. Blood had run down his arm as he made a desperate attempt to escape the forest, only with the vicious beasts chasing him down. As he had fell from tripping on a root, the wolves were about to attack him and he had let out a loud scream. With in this scream he had unleashed a powerful force knocking out the ferocious wolves almost instantly. Masamune's father had reluctantly discovered Masamune after following the scream. Masamune had not gone back into the forest for years after that.

As the police force had caught notice of Masamune's father's crimes of robbery, they had come to get him. He had refused to take punishment for his crimes, he had told Masamune to run, but Masamune had only hid behind a wall, watching his father. His father had in defense killed some of the police officers, leaving only a pile of police bodies on the ground. His father had attempted to escape only to end up in the middle of the officers firing on him. He was able to deflect most of the shots, but had only ended up in being overwhelmed by the numerous amount of bullets. It was as if the sword had refused to move as fast as his father had wanted to, as if it had defied his desperation. This had left Masamune's father dead on the street, only for Masamune to stare without blinking, at the cold dead body. From then on, Masamune had the idea that the concept of justice in this world, was flawed and had to be dealt with. Masamune had walked slowly to his father's body and had taken the sheathed sword. Masamune had unsheathed the sword and raised it to the sky, glistening in the sunlight, swearing to change the world.

Masamune had trained himself everyday, even though hunger had been beating him down. He had kept with the idea of stealing food as it was his only way to survive. Masamune had left for sea at the age of 16, with two of the friends from the same town who had adopted the same mind set as he. They had sailed for two years, living as pirates while having to fight marines, and defeating other pirates to find resources to survive. During this time he had realized his ability of and had continued to train it. After the two years were gone, they had created this criminal group, with Masamune as their leader. Masamune had the intention of destroying the current world, and recreating it with his influence. The only two enemies that had to be destroyed would be the World government, and the Pirates. Masamune believes his version of justice is the only right one, and it must be created for this world, but for it to happen the current world must be defeated.

Adulthood
After years of the organization being created, more and more people had joined the group, inspired by the words of Masamune. The members of the organization had started to call Masamune by the title of King, out of respect of him. This had given him the idea to create the group as if a chess board. Masamune would have the piece of King, while his two second-in commands are both knights. The queen would be in-between the power of Masamune and the second-in-commands. The next rank down from Knights are the bishops. After that are the rooks and the rest are pawns. Masamune had based this group off of swordsmen only, but soon he had accepted any weapon-user.

The group at first had only done some crimes, such as kidnapping people and robbery. Their ambitions had grown with the group and even further crimes at been done at that point. They had done many assassinations, such as many well known marines or people in high places. The Marines had taken notice to this group, but could never locate them because they did not know the identification or location of anyone from the group. They had given the leader of the group the nickname of "King" because of the theme of the group while as they did not know for sure what the identity of the leader was. They had considered "King" extremely dangerous, and a problem that had to be dealt with especially with the many deaths of Marine officers.

Using his intelligence and his skill he had been able to progress with his Haoshoku Haki skill further than others who use this by normal means. He had used this form of Haki repetitively on wild animals and even members of his group to train it. He had grown its strength as the days went by and he had far exceeded the average use of this Haki.

Masamune's location was still unknown to the world other than the group themselves. The ground was far too mysterious for any spies to get in for no one had knowledge of where they had been recruiting people at what time or if they have their own recruiting methods. He had never given up his swordsman training, only to keep up at it every day. With his obsession of changing the world, he had desperately needed more power, his obsession grew deeper and deeper which had sparked his first accidental use of Haki other than Haoshoku. Once he had realized his Haki he had no way of training it, so he had sought out to members of the group to spar with him. He had every intention of training his newly found Haki without a teacher. He had spent years upon years training his Haki, developing it further and making it much stronger. He had mastered both his Kenbunshoku Haki, and his Busoshoku Haki. Masamune had spent almost a decade slowly training his Haki to the point of it being incredibly more dangerous than when he had first used it. Since he could use his Busoshoku Haki to infuse with his blades, and if focused enough it could turn them solid black he was much stronger, but the Marines nor the Pirates had any idea how much stronger he was.

Recognized for his fighting style by the marines on the few encounters he had actually shown himself, he had earned the title Shunsatsu-ō(瞬殺王, Instant Kill King), because of his ability to quickly take down enemies no matter how fiercely strong they had been. Although they did not know his true identity, they had called him by what he is called by in the group, by King. His style of extreme-speed movement allowed him to gain this epithet and was to be considered one of the most feared people in all of the world because of his control over his group and his own skill. On other missions sent by the Kokuban group, it was always recognized for the symbol of their group they had left on when ever they had successfully done a mission had only led Masamune to be recognized as even more dangerous every day.

He had gained access into the "underworld" by becoming an underworld purchaser that goes by the name of "King". He uses this alias to go into the underworld, as well as hide his name from the entire world. He purchases many weapons and rare items from the underworld that he supplies his army with, such as guns, explosives, ships and more. These weapons are usually assigned to the "Pawns" of the group due to the rest of the group being too strong to need weapons like that. Even ships and information are easily bought through the underworld, and has made his own precautions to avoid agents who follow this market to find him to keep his group's information a secret.

Personality
Masamune during his childhood he was kind hearted and a nice person. He had also been generous, he had went into a life of stealing food only to assist his father, even knowing the risks of breaking the law. He treated everyone nicely and had felt like he could easily be trust-able. His favorite thing was to practice his sword fighting, especially with his father since he never had time to spend with his father, since his father had to always work to support the family. Masamune was renowned for his smile, he had given out a shine of light metaphorically to people that had seen him smile at them. Although, this personality was short lived when his father had died to the police force's gun shots.

Ever since that fateful day, Masamune's bright smile had turned into a dark sinister smile with his head being overwhelmed with his obsession to recreate the world in his image. He had become a very untrustworthy person, who lies to keep his identity safe. Masamune no longer cares of the law, and he only does what he must do to fulfill his goal. He had treated everyone with hatred, that wasn't in his group. He hated the most was to see other people in power, he had seen them as undeserving of the power that they had and only wanted them dead. Although he had seemed untrustworthy, he had led the group into believing he was trustworthy. His favorite hobby was unchanged, but he had wanted to practice his style not for the sake of learning, but for the sake of him wanting to get stronger so he could challenge the world. He had also practiced his Haki as much as he wanted to practice his sword style, his determination and ambition were incredibly great.

To people he walks around, he brings fear to their heart even to his loyal group. He gives off the feeling of dread, and depression while he tries to hide it with his ambitions. He is a smart man, he is able to plan out assassinations for the group to pull off and make deals in the underworld while proceeding with caution. He is also able to keep his real identity a secret from the entire world that is searching for him. He does not plan to show his identity until he is ready to plan his final move on the chess board to once and for all take down the Marines and the Pirates. He only thinks it is a matter of a time before an incredibly large war that far surpasses any other marine vs pirate war will take place, then when they take out each other Kokuban will take its plan to finish them.

Masamune is considered intelligent by much of the world, and it is true, that he had to use his intelligence to keep his identity from being revealed to the world. In the underworld, he has two fake underworld broker aliases that are used to make deals in between Kokuban and deals in the underworld. This is effective for hiding his identity because Masamune had realized that when people try searching for his identity in the underworld, they often go through one of these two brokers that supposedly work for him. Once people attempt to go through one of those two brokers, Masamune can use the fake aliases to direct people away from finding out his identity, and as well as other information people want to find out about the organization. Unlike his student, Eraldo Coil he does not let emotions cloud his thinking process, which in turn shows he cannot be distracted easily. However, allowing for his emotions to not get in the way of his thought he will not think twice before killing his own comrades to further his goal.

Despite his obsession over his intentions, Masamune has proved to be an effective leader. His leadership has drove him to be able to inspire his group to the point where they will show him relentless loyalty. His words allow for people to take his side, and make a practical ally out of everyone he intends to convince, which can prove to be a deadly strength of one. His ability to do this can also be considered one of the most deadliest in the sea, as he can make allies to join his group making him that more deadly. He is seen as trust able, albeit his reputation often says other wise until one gets to know him. Though he is known to be trust-able to his group, he is quite manipulative with these intentions to use his group as if really pieces on a chess board.

His direct actions to the world government has made his reality known to them, making not only rumors of this group's existence, but making them known. Upon the death of a marine officer that the group had been sent to assassinate and even well known pirate captains, they would always end up with their heads cut off. These heads would be taken to Masamune so that he could write the symbol of a chess piece onto them, more specifically the symbol of the king chess piece. With this symbol had been left off occasional messages that had basically taunted the World Government for their corruptness and stupidity. These heads would be secretly dropped off within, one of the most secure areas of the Marines. The system of these heads being sent in would be very discreet and carried out by spies the group Kokuban has made within the Marines. Masamune wishes these to be carried out no matter who may die carrying it out, only showing his complete devotion to his belief.

Appearance
Masamune appears with long red-orange hair, tied by a ponytail band. The hair flows out of the ponytail band as if it scattered out, the bangs also hang out. He always has a determined, keen look, as if he was aiming at something all the time. He wears a kimono usually during the day, the kimono is dark blue on the top and white on the bottom. He had gotten the color scheme from his father's old clothing that he had used to always wear. The cloth seems as if it was a very cheap material, it breaks easily, but never usually resorts to being badly damaged. He wears sandals as he walks, sometimes while wearing socks.

Masamune's dual scars had been a result of a past battle of his. He had challenged a high ranking marine officer. This high ranking officer had no idea of Masamune's position as a criminal leader, as this happened about a few months after the group was created, and Masamune had still been training himself. He had caught Masamune stealing food, then had challenged him after he had taunted the officer. Masamune had taken down this officer with quite ease, but only to realize he had ended up with these two scars in an X shape. Masamune had no idea when the person had landed the blow, it was quite mysterious as his sword had never even touched him to cause such an injury to him. The scar refuses to heal, or fade away with time even after years of the battle. The scar shines a bright red color that stands out when ever he his looked at. Surprisingly, Masamune had been able to hide his identity of his scar by rarely showing his face to the world, and making it so the world could never make the connection that he is the leader of Kokuban

When he is dealing in the underworld, he wears an odd mask to cover his identity while he goes under the alias of "King". This mask is covered with odd mixes of colors such as purple and orange with yellow splats and black outlining, there had been red dots under the eye holes of the mask as well, possibly to resemble jewelry to suggest he is "King".

Equipment
Masamune carries a sword that he had taken from his father when he had died. He had promised to use this sword to carry out his father's legacy as a swordsman and shape the world in his image. This sword is pure black, as if forged with a special mysterious metal stronger than steel itself. This sword gives off a strong aura, one that gives off a terrifying presence to those who are not fit to wield this blade. It radiates with such a force that one would hesitate to approach such a blade, let alone even use it. At first attempt, Masamune was not able to use this blade, neither was his father which had led to his downfall. Throughout time, the blade had accepted Masamune's ambition, the only force driving him to become stronger. It had given in to his strength, and a power that not even his father could maintain. Masamune had remembered the name of this blade, his father had called it Yami (which translates to "Darkness") which currently is one of the twelve, a class of a forged blade recognizing it's great power.

Power of Destruction
The (破壊力 Hakairyoku) is an ability honed and are able to control such an immense power. Only learned by swordsmen, in which they are able to control a fierce power that only a few swordsmen were ever able to use. This technique held by masterful swordsmen allow one to channel power throughout their body all the way to the blade itself. Mastery of this ability brings fear and envy down the ones who are incapable of such. With this mastery of channeling energy, one can do numerous things that normal swordsmen would not normally be able to compete with. Mastery over this suggests mastery over the elemental uses of the sword, as well as the ability to channel Haki and cutting down material stronger than the sword itself. Using the energy of the body allows one to do these things, giving them fearful skill, such skill that Masamune was able to master and utilize.

Masamune's physical strength can reflect his mastery over this skill, as he is incredibly fast and strong he is able to react quickly to situations that happen to take place. If he was to be ambushed or attacked, with the off chance that he was not able to sense one's energy using his he would be able to react in time to defending himself. Ones who have mastered the legendary skill of the Power of Destruction often show their immense strength and their reactions at legendary speeds.

Masamune had mastered his elemental mastery over his blade, from being one of the few people containing the Power of Destruction. As he strikes the blade out of his sheath, and even when he holds it in a normal Kendo stance, electricity radiates from the blade's intensity and will increase the more Masamune focuses onto the blade. The electricity of this blade honed by Masamune allows for his reach of the blade in close combat to reach even farther, allowing it to cut and electrocute people it pierces or even in its range. This elemental ability of Masamune's is quite useful for his style because once he has the enemy paralyzed for even the slightest second he can end the match using his high speed attacks from his Shiranui-ryu and his Battoujutsu style. The electricity that surrounds his blade takes a blue color. Upon impact with a blade will cause the electricity to spread and even possibly electrocute the enemy clashing with this blade, and with Masamune's mastery he can control it to not injure him.

Another aspect of the Power of Destruction that Masamune had mastered is the control of his blade to make long ranged attacks such as air slashes using his energy to create a slash of pressurized air. This allows for him to create immensely long slashes that can travel very far away capable of taking out several ships in one slash. Masamune is able to preform these kinds of slashes with quite ease due to his experience with his practice of his swordsmanship. When he does preform these slashes, they take a purple color every time he uses it. When the air slashes are imbued with Haki they give off a very thick black outline to these slashes, that the color fades into a dark purple in the very center of the slash. These air slashes are usually preformed from his Battojutsu Stance rather than in a Kendo Stance since Masamune uses Battojutsu for long range rather than his Shiranui-ryu. He has also honed the ability to cut down entire ships and materials stronger than iron itself using this ability, channeling his energy allows him to do this without the aid of preforming an air slash. One strike is all it takes for Masamune to cut a block of iron or even a whole ship in half, with the right amount of energy channeled into his blade.

Masamune is able to imbue his sword with Busoshoku Haki as well, this would allow him to fight with much more fiercer and stronger attacks. With every attack that he imbued his sword with Haki it will naturally be able to inflict far more damage than a normal sword swing, even from Masamune. Capable of going from merely slicing one ship in half to being able to cut down entire fleets in a much shorter time, only defines how far he has mastered this ability, and can push himself even farther from concentrating far more of his Haki and energy into his sword strikes. Imbuing his sword with Haki will make his sword supposedly take a black color, but since it was forged as a black sword it will really not have any noticeable difference except to those who are users of Kenbunshoku Haki. When this sword is entirely coated in concentrated Haki it will become nearly unbreakable compared to how it were before allowing it for to never chip away or snap in half.

Zettai Yami(絶対闇, Absolute Darkness): Mastering the Power of Destruction ability, as well as technically "becoming one" with his blade allows him to achieve this form. This technique, was only acquired by Masamune when he had channeled his energy to his blade to the point where the sword had become fully attuned to Masamune's energy. Having fully channel energy through the sword, Masamune is able to access the hidden strength of this blade, the imbued energy with in this blade that is amplified by Masamune's very own power. When the energy is unlocked, it is released into Masamune's body and circulates back from the blade and back to him, mixing with his own strength to the point where such immense energy is see-able by the human eye. The black aura cover's Masamune's body and clothes, and displays a terrifying strength, to the point where even the hair of Masamune is covered in black. The ground shakes as he utilizes this form, tree's fall and fires disperse. Accessing this form opens Masamune into an incredible enhancement to all of his abilities. His speed, although it is extremely fast as it is improves dramatically, capable of lapping his old speed quite easily. His strength will as well increase immensely allowing for him to do things he couldn't pull off in his normal form. This form's strength can be strengthened by his Haki as well, but will not strengthen his Haki as that is utilizing his own will power. This move falls under one's Power of Destruction because Masamune had to master how to channel his energy to his blade to the point where he could unlock it, only achievable by one who had mastered the Power of Destruction. The downfall to this technique is that this form stresses out Masamune's energy because it is being mixed in with another energy, this would allow for Masamune's energy taking risks of being even further corrupted, but since he has a strong will power the likeliness is less than it would to any normal person. This move expends energy as well, once Masamune is out of this form he will feel a dramatic decrease of energy for some time, allowing him to be incapable of combat after use of this form, which is why this is only usually a last resort technique for Masamune to use.

Sword Style
Masamune had learned his sword style from his father at a very young age he had begun his training. His father had called this sword style Battoujutsu. This sword style consists of drawing the blade from the sheath to strike. Since the sword style has the user draw the blade from the sheath, this causes the sword to move at blindingly fast speeds. His father had also taught Masamune in the arts of Shiranui-ryū style to be used in conjunction with his Battojutsu. Shiranui-ryū style also involves high-speed attacks, ones that any normal sword style would not usually be able to keep up with. These swords style have Masamune moving faster than any normal line of vision can keep up with. With his sword style Masamune is able to move through a crowd of enemies in a flash while taking them down with incredibly fast slashes.

Masamune had also trained using weights in the arm and on the legs, which had trained his body to move incredibly faster than the average human. The weights had gradually became heavier and heavier as he became older, mostly due to Masamune's determination to exceed his own limits every training session. Masamune had also trained his normal sword strikes while under water to train his proceeding strikes after using his initial sheathed strike. Masamune had eventually learned how to fight as he used to underwater, but compared to as he was after he had trained underwater he had improved dramatically. With Masamune's superior speed he has an incredibly speed boost using his Battoujutsu style from the sheath allowing for strikes that opponents would not be able to react in time to. This allows Masamune to exercise a higher level of reflexes and speed while still being able to keep distance from an enemy.

The initial strike from the sheath involves Battoujutsu which begins the attack. The style is then switched off into Shiranui-ryū style in which it is used most of the time outside of the sheath while still maintaining these incredibly high speed attacks. Many of the moves from Shiranui-ryū is also based on the initial strikes of Battoujutsu as well.

Most of Masamune's sword style training had come from his own training sessions because of his father being far too busy to train him. Although his father had been always busy, he had taught the fundamentals to Masamune, allowing for training on his own to be more practical and easier. Masamune's training had continued much more even after his father's death, in fact his training had increased as well as trying to survive by stealing.

As Masamune uses his incredibly fast sword play, the odds of an enemy dodging these attacks are not very likely unless they are able to keep up with the actual movement of the sword. In the chance that the enemy is able to dodge these attacks, Masamune had learned to use his sheath as a next attack. Using the sheath allows Masamune to offset the enemy to get back into his Battojutsu Stance before allowing the opponent to continue their attack.

Despite his incredible speed and power that he had mastered along with his style, his precision is incredibly impressive. Even with one of the fastest sword style usages he is able to cut so precisely to the point of cutting cannonballs and even bullets in half. He is able to cut the top part of a candle, with only cutting the flame and not any part of the candle at all. A true example of his mastery over the control of his blade is when he had used one fast speed attack from his sheath only to be able to stop it an instant before striking the neck, or even making any injury at all, demonstrating this one time when showing off his skill to the fellow members of Kokuban.

Techniques
The Shiranui-Ryu is often used as a close range fighting style, other than when Masamune uses the charging moves that come with it. These moves are not meant to fight someone from a far distance, but Masamune utilizes his Battojutsu skills to fight enemies at long range, and even using it to further the distance from him and his enemy. His Battojutsu skills are also meant to destroy large objects such as ships, and buildings as well as attacking enemies his Shiranui-Ryu would not be able to reach. However, at close range this style is effective for taking down the opponent quickly rather than attempting to go back into the Battojutsu Stance.

Shiranui-Ryu

 * Go-shi Rei(五肢レイ,Five Limb Ray): 181.jpg This move begins in a regular Kendo stance and transitions into the user charging at the opponent with incredible speed. Using the speed of his arm movements the user can spread out five simultaneous arms that are aimed at the five limbs of the body. This move is meant to cut off these limbs and probably kill the opponent if landing a direct blow. The move aims at the arms, the legs and the neck hence "Five Limb Flash". This move gets its same as well from the incredibly instantaneous-like speed created by the dash and using two arms simultaneously moving to replicate a practical five arms. This move if landing a blow directly can cut off arms and/or legs and even decapitate the enemy upon direct blow. The movement of this style allows for it to move faster than the average human eye is able to keep up with, let alone the person them self. This move was made to not allow any escape for the enemy by dodging it as it moves too fast, and is nearly impossible to block due to the multiple strikes attacking different spots of the body, allowing for this move to be almost inescapable. This move had been the last move his father had taught him himself before his untimely death by the hands of the law enforcement, Masamune had mastered this move on his own after learning the fundamentals of how the move works under his father.


 * Shinpan-sen(審判線, Judgement ray): This move starts with the user jumping into the air above the enemy with the sword ready to strike. Using the gravity of falling allows for the user to strike the upper area of the opponent with a noticeably greater amount of strength added. This move is meant to cut right through one's blade that is attempting to block and then proceed to cutting right through the enemy themselves, thus ending their life. The move gets its name from when as if someone is judging you, they look down on you is added as a basic idea to the move going up and striking down while using the force to increase its power. This move had been first used masterfully by Masamune when fighting against wild animals, which had ended in him cutting one wolf in half.


 * Uzumaku Raito(渦巻くライト, Swirling Light): As the enemy moves in with a thrusting or charging motion, the user steps to the side of the incoming attack, then proceeds to moving forward past them. While moving past the incoming attack, the user spins in a circle to increase the amount of force for the next counter attack. By spinning, this allows for the user to add a momentum force to the proceeding sword slash to counter the enemy charging at them. As the enemy is charging, the sword is swung with this extra force added with the user's already physical strength which adds even more speed to this attack and strikes the back of the neck. This move is meant to decapitate someone after they are charging in, this is a useful counterattack to enemies who charge in at you and provide for an even faster defeat for them. This move can also be aimed at the back itself, allowing for one to cut the spine of the enemy which would paralyze them or even cut their body in half. This move can be often done from the sheath, as to strike once from the blade, and if somehow failed will have a following attack from the sheath.


 * Hanbetsu Raito(判別ライト, Discriminated Light): This move starts with the user being in a position below the enemy's head. The user swings the blade upwards to aim under the enemy's chin or even their neck. This move is also strengthened by the arm pushing the blade part of the sword increasing the likeliness of the blade piercing the enemy and it's speed as well. This move is designed to decapitate or cut one's jaw severely. While this move strikes upwards, the user moves up in the air if the opponent dodges this attack, the user spins backwards with the empty sheath. He uses the momentum force of his spin to carry out a deadly blow with his sheath creating a shock-wave of blunt force directed at the enemy.
 * Azen Rei(唖然レイ, Stunned Ray): This move is a seemingly simple one, and begins with the user moving forward with a leading attack of the back of the hilt of the blade. This first move is used to either cause the user to move backwards or stun them for a few seconds due to the fierce strike from the back of the hilt. The next move is used whether if they move backwards to dodge it or if they get it by it, the user moves back their blade and slashes the enemy as they are moving back, or are incapacitated. This move is especially dangerous with the user's incredible speed style they are forced to have to even be able to practice this style of swordsmanship.

Battōjutsu

 * De~yuaru kirameki(デュアル煌き, Dual Gleam): This move begins in the user's regular Battojutsu stance, as with most other moves using this style. This move starts from this stance and swings the sword from the blade, thus slashing the enemy at a very fast speed from the sheath. This is the first step, and will move onto the second step even if one dodges or gets hit by this move. The second step involves using the sheath after the first strike, on the second step the sheath attacks the enemy once the slash is done. If the slash hits, the sheath will continue to strike the enemy landing a crushing blow capable of breaking even bones. The sheath will still be used even if the first slash does not land on the opponent. This technique of Masamune's takes a simple turn on his style, although deadly, this move is unintended for long range.


 * Kurosugurīmu(クロスグリーム, Cross Gleam): As with the style, this move starts in the initial Battojutsu stance, and starts with one slash from the sheath. As the sword swings from the slash it creates a powerful air slash with immense strength carried in it. The move then proceeds to a second slash straight from the initial slash, to form a cross like shape. From the second slash, it creates another air slash and presses against the first air slash to provide an increase of power, speed and range. This move, seemingly simple is a deadly move as this move is capable of cutting entire ships without being infused with Haki into four individual pieces. The air slashes take a purple color to resemble Masamune's mastery over the Power of Destruction. When imbued with Haki this technique's range becomes far more longer as well as it becoming incredibly stronger and faster than it without being imbued with his Haki.


 * Jinsokuna Kirameki(迅速な煌き, Rapid Gleam): A blunt force produced by this style for once, instead of killing the enemy quickly, it involves weakening the enemy with concussive force capable of breaking bones. As the sword is being drawn from the sheath, it is not fully drawn, rather only enough for the hilt to completely be pushed out to a pace where it can be done rapidly. Doing this in a quick motion utilizing one's control over their Power of Destruction can create blunt forces of air resulting from the quick pushes of the hilt. This can be continuously done by the user, this requires one to be able to maintain speed and strength to do for a while, which Masamune is able to do. This move is meant to knock down the enemy from afar, this move strikes incredibly fast and can be done rapidly. This move is also meant to stun the opponent for a little bit, as it can be combined with his elemental mastery over electricity in his blade utilizing the Power of Destruction. This would provide to be extremely useful for taking out enemies quickly as Masamune can stun the enemy with this and practically finish the match with that moment of being stunned.


 * Kanakirigoe Kirameki(金切り声煌き, Screeching Gleam): Using this style's incredible speed allows for one to utilize incredible amounts of force and create a high pitched noise from friction. This sonic boom-like attack allows one to direct this to heavily effect the opponent's sense and practically stun them. Having practiced this move many times it has left Masamune to resist such side effects that could result in injuring even his senses, and had developed a practical immunity to this move and moves similar to it that could effect the auditory nerves. This move allows for Masamune to stun large crowds of people without having to kill them, or can be used to set up to kill one as it would be incredibly hard to dodge a sound to anyone.

Physical Skill
Masamune's primary aspect to his physical skill is the speed aspect of his ability. Masamune primarily focuses on his speed training by using weights primarily on his legs and his arms. Training and moving underwater had also allowed for Masamune to increase his speed as well as his strength. Masamune uses his speed to quickly move through targets and crowds while slashing his sword to take them out precisely and quickly without effort. Masamune had always left his weights on, even during his sleep which had caused him to always drag them along and eventually become used to that kind of weight on his legs. Masamune had lived his everyday life using weights primarily in his legs, in order to not stunt his growth he had increased them moderately in accordance to his age and height. His speed was far superior to his father's at the period of time right before he had died at the time. In accordance with his sword style to using blindingly fast strikes with swords, Masamune had been able to move through enemies in almost an instance. His speed had allowed him to move faster than the human eye can barely even keep up with, and strike even faster. Masamune had displayed his speed by easily taking on his two Knight-classed members of Kokuban without taking a direct blow from either of them. After all of their training with Masamune however, they currently stand a chance working together to bring him down, but his speed is quite fearful to deal with for even them. Along with his speed, Masamune has extraordinary reaction times, being able to easily evade bullets at close range while still moving forward.

Masamune is known for his far above average physical strength, although it wasn't as high as his speed, they were commendable. The same method as the leg weights, Masamune had as well used arm weights, allowing for an increase of physical strength, but this is not noticeable to his body. His physical strength is not as large as his speed because he did take off the weights on the arms due to the large annoyance to using them for daily activities. Striking underwater had allowed for Masamune's advance in physical strength as well.

Masamune's endurance is great as it is greater than his strength, but inferior to his great amount of speed. During his training in the forest as a child, and later as a late teenager had caused him to gain a sense of endurance to be able to fight off animals. Fending off from wolves, bears and bees had allowed Masamune to strengthen himself every time he was damaged and attacked. His endurance as a teenager is already great, and all of his physical abilities still rise at a large rate during his training while as an adult and leader of the Kokuban.

Intelligence
Masamune's deductive abilities are quite impressive, and is quite feared by members of his organization that see his intelligence at first hand. He is able to tell about one's personality by looking at their actions, and how they talk to him. He is also able to deduce how the situation will be going down before it actually happens. This is not being able to tell the future rather than looking at the facts, studying the details and realizing what the odds are. His predictions are quite accurate most of the time, that is if, the fight doesn't take in any unpredictable situations which in a lot of cases could be true. Since he can use his intelligence into combat, he can often think of counters to situations, and often adjust his plans in accordance to the plan.

Busoshoku Haki
Masamune having awakened his Haki through his obsession, he had decided to train it further. This training process had been slowed down due to the lack of having a teacher to teach him how to control his Haki. To solve this issue Masamune had decided to dedicate each day with his sword style training to training his Haki as well. He had begun training his Busoshoku Haki first, starting with hand to hand combat with other members of the group. After fighting with small instances of being able to control it. As he kept sparring, day after day he had started to get the hang of controlling it to be used at will.

Throughout a few months Masamune had begun switching off to his swords to practice imbuing Haki into them. He had attempted sparring with many of the members of the organization, many of them fearing an accidental death. Masamune had always ended the match with disarming his sparring mate's blade. Masamune's control of his blade had been very impressive, knowing the incredible speed of his sword style he is able to keep the blade to his enemy's neck without injuring them. Soon after a few years, Masamune had full control of Haki, although his blade had already been black the presence of Haki had been noticable. Utilizing his Busoshoku Haki Masamune can make long range sword slashes in the air turn a black color.

With the ability to entirely coat his blade with his own condensed Haki, he is able to keep away from chance of his blade chipping away. As with the durability influence, the power of the blade drastically increases and becomes far more fierce than it was previously. With the ability of using Busoshoku Haki Masamune is able to strike ones who are Logia users and be able to inflict pain to those fruit involve being able to nullify pain due to the material, such as rubber.

Kenbunshoku Haki
The ability to sense one's aura, a dangerous ability when used correctly allowing for unseen movement be it from fast opponents or from a range Masamune had mastered this technique to a level where he could use this as well as he can as he does using Busoshoku Haki. Able to pinpoint one's location from across islands provides to be a strong point of Masamune, albeit he mostly uses it to keep up with one's speed and even his own.

Since his speed exceeds that of even the human eye should be able to keep up with, even Masamune has had trouble keeping up with his own techniques. He uses Kenbunshoku Haki to completely be able to keep up with his own speeds and potential opponents whom have similar or superior speeds. Since he can do this, he can pinpoint one's exact location and strike them from a far using air slashes of his blade to have the upper hand in a fight.

His ability to sense one's aura from incredibly far reaches allows for him to decide when it is a good idea whether they should have to find another base in the off chance the Marines have somehow caught on to his group's actions. As well as being able to tell the strength of his foes and the amount of people in an area allows him to practically unable to be caught off guard or be unprepared. His level within Kenbunshoku Haki allows him to foresee unpredictable movements that normal users of this Haki would not normally be able to keep up with, only because Masamune is keen enough to usually never be able to be caught off guard even without his Haki.

He is able to sense one's emotions as well as strength, and change his tone depending on one's emotion. This matters when he dips into his manipulative personality, to be able to get on one's good side without having to worry about making mistakes with words, albeit he can make an ally out of almost anyone who is willing to have an open mind to his cause.

Haoshoku Haki
Masamune had been famous for his Haoshoku Haki's immense power within it. Given his position and his drive to be the new leader of the world he wants to create it was only natural that he was able to achieve such a rare ability. He had believed at first that this ability was a gift to him from gods that would allow for him to be able to achieve his goal. He had later realized that this was an ability that few in the world were born with, however it did not change his idea of this ability befitting him as a king.

He had developed it through intense focus through out years and had made it incredibly powerful. His Haoshoku Haki's reach had also been amazing as it could reach through entire armies with ease and even go high up into the sky where the clouds are with enough focus. His Haoshoki Haki has reached a level where it is able to intimidate even ones whom have a strong will power. Also able to influence emotions such as turning happiness to anger and to befriend those who are against him. This influences the way people see him as he is able to sway their emotions toward his favor as well as assisting ones to pledge loyalty to him. He is also able to easily befriend wild creatures and treat them almost as if a trained pet if the need had arisen.

Much like few other users of Haoshoku Haki, Masamune's has taken a level where it can even cause destruction to the environment itself. Destruction such as the ground cracking on an incredibly large scale, or even taking out an entire ship with only the need of a burst of this Haki. So powerful that he will unintentionally destroy the area around him if he gains the smallest bit of intensity and even knock out lower ranks within his group, Kokuban.

A worthy accomplishment done by Masamune proving his mastery over this form of Haki would be his control over the area around him with it. He is able to focus his Haoshoku Haki to be able to practically force the weather. As long as there is humidity in the air he is able to force a natural disaster brought by the sky by forcing his willpower to conquer it. However, this technique is not able to be formed if there is not enough humidity within the air to induce weather. He is able to induce rainstorms as well as thunderstorms which he is able to direct the thunderbolts created by the weather using his Haoshoku Haki. Such weather is capable of engulfing an entire island in a dense thunder storm from only Masamune's Haki alone. This only proves how far his Haki is able to reach as well as maintain its immense power.

Trivia
This character is based off of Himura Kenshin from the anime series "Rurouni Kenshin". His style is as well based off of the Fictional "Hiten Mitsurugi" style, while the idea was altered as well.

The idea of controlling the weather with Haoshoku Haki was inspired by a theory of how was able to control the weather.