#mamou

Epithet(s):

The Crow Warden; Mamō (守烏, lt. guardian crow)  Morikawa no Kiori (森川の木折, lt. the fractured tree of the river forest)

Main Territory: Fūrin High School; unbound

Champion(s): Unknown Third Year Fūrin Student; unofficially* claimed Umemiya Hajime and Takiishi Chika

—incarnate

Humans referred to him as Rin (臨, lt. to meet).

Occupation: None. Before his untimely disappearance, Rin had been known by the students and faculty as the reclusive homeless man frequently sleeping on the school’s rooftop for years. Some suggested he’d been there since the beginnings of the institution itself. He wasn’t known to initiate contact with anyone from the school while there, so they all unanimously agreed to leave the guy alone except for a particularly persistent first year and his friends.

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Makochi Rumors:

> Outside of school premises, passersby had frequently seen him roaming the streets at night looking for gang fights involving Fūrin students. Not to participate, but rather to observe from afar. Outsiders often made the mistake of attacking him but were then swiftly incapacitated. When they eventually got their bearings together, the man had disappeared. It was enough of a common occurrence for regular fighters to know he was off limits.

> Days following a group of students dropping out of Fūrin, the remaining student body began to notice the lack of the man on the rooftop. It hadn’t been alarming the first week, but a month rolled past with no sightings anywhere. Those concerned reported his absence to the police but were later dismissed, as he’d been homeless so it’s likely he moved elsewhere. His presence and eventual disappearance remains to be one of the school’s many mysteries.

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