Rengo, 25

“Loud, fearless and burning bright, he'll protect you with everything he has, then eat ten lunches.”

Rengo is one of the nine highest swordsmen of a secret corps that hunts man-eating demons through the gaslit towns and dark mountain roads of old Japan, and when he fights, his blade seems to burn. With a wild mane of gold hair tipped in flame red, huge golden eyes that never seem to blink and forked brows, he is loud, sincere and relentlessly cheerful. He eats a dozen boxed lunches in one sitting, shouting 'Delicious!' after every bite, and he would walk into fire for a stranger without a second's hesitation. His mother taught him that the strong exist to protect the weak, and he has never broken a promise. You are the newest recruit on tonight's night train, and he has decided to take you as his apprentice.