Touya Kagari is the protagonist of XBlaze Code: Embryo and a major character in XBlaze Lost: Memories. He is the former wielder of the Signati Gladio Crystalis: Murakumo. One of the few survivors of the Wadatsumi Incident, Touya has no memories of anything before the event. In truth, he is not the real Touya Kagari, but rather the Origin of the Grimoire transformed into a clone of him.
Appearance
Touya is a young man with an average build. He sports somewhat messy, but mostly controlled medium brown hair styled with short bangs and one unruly hair sticking up at the crown of his head. His eyes are a warm amber color. His outfit typically consists of a royal-blue color uniform in the form of a suit. He wears a tucked in, white button-up dress shirt with an emblem emblazoned at the collar. At his neck is a red tie with downward pointing black chevrons at the tie's knot and at the end of the full length. His suit jacket has a black collar, black trim, and a white inner lining. The cuffs are striped white and blue with gold cufflinks. Touya wears a simple brown belt with a silver buckle at his waist. His dress pants match his jacket and have creases down the legs. His outfit is completed with a pair of brown loafers.
Personality
Touya is incredibly kind and hates seeing other people get hurt. Whenever he sees a fight he will jump into it to break it up, even if he gets injured in the process. He says he can’t even control this as he does it without thinking. Touya also has a lot of survivor’s guilt over living through the Wadatsumi Incident and sees himself as a burden to others, hence why he insists he needs to pay rent to live with the Himezuru’s. Despite his niceness, there are several ways to make Touya angry. These include threatening his loved ones, suggesting he abandon his loved ones and not treating Es like a human. When pushed too far Touya snaps, unleashing the power of the Origin of the Grimoire.
Biography
Code: Embryo
After having a strange dream in which he sees a girl with glowing blue eyes his mother, Ryoko Kagari, tells him to “protect” Touya wakes up in his classroom to Hinata Himezuru humming. He realizes that it’s already past 4 and Akira Kamewari is running late. Akira arrives and returns a data stick containing a summary of the serial killer reports that Touya had put together. Touya then begins reading an article about the Wadatsumi Incident and Akira steals his phone to look at it, telling Touya not to worry about the past. Touya then leaves to go to his part-time job at Maha☆Raja~.
After getting out of work Touya hears a strange bell-like sound and feels the urge to track it down. He follows the sound into the Restricted Ward. When Touya arrives he finds an injured Goro Joizumi, who tries to tell Touya to stay away from him. However, he succumbs to madness and sees Touya as an enemy, attacking Touya with his Drive. Touya tries to run away but is eventually cornered. Before Goro can kill him Es arrives and attacks Goro. Touya watches in horror as Es proceeds to mercilessly beat down Goro. Eventually, Touya jumps in the way to stop Es from killing Goro but gets knocked out by Es for interfering.
After waking up Touya heads home. Hinata greets him and tells him that a guest has been waiting for over an hour to see him. He freaks out when he finds that Es is the guest. He learns that Es has been assigned to guard him and tries to get answers about the situation but only gets more confused. Souichiro Unomaru and Mei Amanohokosaka then arrive and he is forcibly stripped by Es to search for a crystal. After taking a sample of his blood Unomaru and Mei leave Es in the Himezuru residence.
When he wakes up the next morning Es was already gone. On the way to school he recounts that he slept on the couch because Es came into his bed while he was asleep to monitor him. After Es explains that she would follow any order, even if it meant dying, Touya gets angry. Akira then arrives to join them and wants to know what is going on with Touya. Touya begs Hinata not to tell, but she does anyway, doing so in a way that makes Akira misinterpret things. After Touya finally manages to explain himself Akira tells Touya to be more careful. Akira mentions that there was a gang fight in the Restricted Ward the night before, which Touya finds strange. At school he is shocked to find Es has transferred into his class to continue monitoring him. [1]
During a break Unomaru arrives at Hakuo North Academy to talk to Touya. He tells Touya that the Mitsurugi Agency bought Touya’s school, claiming it’s a coincidence but it is actually to allow Es to transfer in easily so she can continue to guard Touya. He also explains that for some reason Touya can hear a Discover Call up to 300 meters away. Unomaru plays on Touya’s desire to protect people to try and convince him to use his powers to assist Es in tracking down Unions. When that fails he plays on Touya’s guilt over surviving the Wadatsumi Incident, telling him that his mother, Ryoko Kagari, was responsible for the incident and the Union outbreak as a result. After school Touya tells Es that he’ll cooperate with the Mitsurugi Agency. Mei than arrives and, after hitting him several times, places the Goofball Proximity Surveyor on his head.
After school Touya sees Akira with someone he doesn’t know. He then hears a Discover Call from that direction so he and Es follow while Hinata goes shopping. They find Akira and Kuon Glamred Stroheim after Akio Osafune fled but Kuon quickly departs. After meeting back up with Hinata he explains to them about Unions and that Es is guarding him but leaves out the connection between the Wadatsumi Incident and the Union outbreak. After getting home he is greeted by Yuki Himezuru, who proceeds to tease him mercilessly before taking a bath. Once Yuki gets out Touya goes to take a bath himself but finds Es and Hinata taking a bath together. Luckily, he manages to leave without being seen.
Having determined that Akio has most likely progressed to phase four, Es and Touya go out in order to find him. [2] Hearing Akio’s Discover Call coming from the Restricted Ward, Touya and Es head there. Once they arrive they are attacked by Akio, with Es deflecting Akio’s shots. Akio then asks Touya if he is “Touya Kagari” and demands he hand over the Grimoire but Touya has no idea what he’s talking about. Akio decides to just kill him and take the Girmoire from his corpse, preparing to launch a giant steel tower at him and Es but Kuon destroys it. She then introduces herself to him. After Akio wakes up Es begins interrogating him. When Akio refuses to answer she beats him, much to Touya’s horror. Once Drei arrives Es explains to him about the Ten Sages and says that if Drei and Kuon were to fight, Kuon would lose. Es suggests they leave if that happens but Touya refuses saying he needs to help Kuon. However, he is interrupted by the arrival of Acht. Once Drei and Acht leave Touya’s head starts hurting and he starts screaming due to seeing Sechs and he passes out.
The next morning Touya wakes up in his room and runs out in a panic to find Es. He finds her in the hallway and she explains that Kuon has also been assigned to protect him. Touya asks to speak to Kuon alone so Hinata takes Es with her. Kuon explains to him about Mages and tells Touya that the reason they are targeting probably has something to do with the Grimoire but Touya claims he doesn’t have it.
Touya then meets with Akira and tells him about Kuon staying with him. Touya gets confused when Akira compares him to a video game protagonist and doesn’t see his situation as anything but a burden for Yuki. He then sees Mei and when he goes to speak with her she tells him that she’ll protect him on her own so he shouldn’t rely on someone from the Magic Guild. He is surprised to find that Kuon has also transferred into his class. [3]
Kuon calls Touya and Es to the roof and tells them about the Ten Sages and the Origin of the Grimoire. When asked why he is working with the Mitsurugi Agency, Touya explains his history with the Wadatsumi Incident; that he was one of the few survivors and has no memories before the event and about the strange dream he’s been having. Furthermore, since his mother was in charge of the experiment that caused the Union outbreak, Touya feels it is his responsibility to help fix the problem. Kuon then promises to look into Ishana’s database for information on the Grimoire.
Despite Es’s suggestion that he not go to his part-time job due to potential danger Touya insists he has to go. Es agrees but says she will wait outside the entire time. They then see police cars going by but don’t do anything since Touya hasn’t detected a Discover Call. At work he has to put up with more of Ringo Akagi’s antics.
After work Touya and Es see Mei in the area where they saw police activity and go over to her. Touya gets hit for sneaking up on her. While Mei works he asks Es what she is doing, causing Mei to yell at him for distracting her. Upon seeing Akio’s dead body Toua throws up. After finding the night watchman’s body Touya senses a Union and warns Es and Mei. Es deflects a thrown knife but Ripper throws a smoke bomb at them. Ripper appears behind him but Es drives him off. He and Mei follow after Es but Touya is too slow so Mei decides to just carry him there while flying. After Ripper escapes Avenge tells Touya, Es and Mei to leave Ripper to him and he’ll kill them if they get in his way. Touya approaches him, saying he has no right to threated people but Avenge knocks him out for his trouble. He wakes up to find Es carrying him home on her back, much to his embarrassment. Es apologizes for allowing Touya to get hurt but Touya says it’s his fault. Es asks him why he keeps putting himself in danger and Touya explains that he can’t stand seeing people get hurt and acts without thinking. He then requests that Es try to hold back from hurting people but she says she can’t promise that since it might interfere with her mission. Once they get home they are greeted by Hinata, who takes Es with her to the bath and tells Touya to go in next. He then tells Kuon about his encounter with Ripper. Kuon then tells Touya about Code: Embryo and that the Wadatsumi Incident and Grimoire are linked. [4]
At the pool two days later he questions Unomaru’s intentions for bringing them there. He spends time with Hinata, Kuon, Mei and Es, teaching Es the meaning of fun in the process.
On the school roof during lunch Touya tells Es that he hasn’t heard a Discover Call in a while and Es explains that it is because they have been finding many Unions who have been killed by Ripper. When Hinata joins them he asks Es where her name comes from but she doesn’t know. Kuon then joins and asks Touya if he’s an anime fan, which he declines.
Es tells him about the series of deaths caused by Gainart episodes. Kuon explains that it was caused by one of the Ten Sages asks for his and Es’s assistance in finding them and he agrees to help. At the location where Akira and his thugs attacked Akira Kuon casts a spell on him that will let him detect magic so he can help find the wards place around the city by the Ten Sages. Kuon tells him about the Sealed Spear: Izayoi, Legacy Weapons and the Sword of Destruction: Kusanagi, leading Es to look up information on them and tell him about the dangers of using Izayoi. Touya says he can’t let her use it no matter what. Finding the last ward at the docks, the three encounter Sechs. He asks Sechs if he is a Union and the one turning others into Unions, which Sechs confirms. When Sechs tries to use his Drive on Kuon Touya gets in the way. Touya yells at Sechs for treating his sister like that but Sechs merely finds him interesting before leaving. After checking to make sure Kuon is alright she asks for some time alone so he leaves with Es. [5]
Touya and Es arrive home to see Elise Von Klagen staring at the Himezuru residence. Es tells Touya about the ward around the house that should make it invisible to unauthorized people so anyone else who can see it is suspicious. Elise then introduces herself to them, explaining that she was sent by the Magic Guild and thanking him for taking care of Kuon. Elise tries to get him to admit that Kuon is being a burden but he says that it is his fault, not hers. Later Mei calls Touya to learn what happened with Sechs but she gets mad when he says he was with Kuon, telling him how the Magic Guild ruined the Amanohokosaka clan. Kuon comes to speak with him and Touya asks her about it, with Kuon concluding that it is probably true. She then asks Touya to go shopping with her and Elise since it will supposedly make Elise consider returning to Ishana. Touya is initially hesitant because it seems pointless but Kuon convinces him it would be best if Elise leaves soon.
The next day Touya is exhausted, realizing he was just brought along to carry their stuff. He and Es have a discussion about her thinking for herself but Es simply says she can’t ignore her orders. After they finish shopping Touya asks Elise if she did this just to try and cheer Kuon up. Elise suggests going to a nearby café but Touya feels guilty having Elise buy something for him because it is attached to a five-star hotel. He is then approached by Hinata, who was out shopping with Akira. When Akira says he wants Hinata to help him buy a gift for a girl Kuon and Elise suggest they keep shopping. He is confused why they are splitting up so soon after meeting and has to be dragged away by Elise and Es. At the café they spot Acht. When Acht prepares to attack with Ice magic and Hinata comes running in he tells Es to protect Hinata instead of him but she refuses. Once Acht leaves Hinata asks him if he’s alright, which he confirms. The next day on the school roof he discusses with Es, Hinata and Kuon that Akira didn’t show up for school. Once Hinata leaves he is approached, and hit, by Mei, who demands to know what happened the day before. Touya tells her about the confrontation with Acht and Mei complains that she is getting more work, wondering why one of the Ten Sages was out in the open. Kuon and Mei get into a fight and he says they seem to get along well, which angers the two and confuses Es. Once Kuon leaves Mei tells Touya what she initially came to him for; that three more bodies had been found and someone who looked like Akira was spotted nearby, although Mei doubts he’s responsible. Touya is adamant that Akira would never do something like that. After school Kuon asks Touya and Hinata how long they’ve been friends with Akira and they tell her about how their past. Akira would constantly get into fights and Touya would always charge in to break them up, getting injured in the process. They then split up to look for Akira while Hinata goes home.
While searching for Akira that night Es asks Touya why he cares so much about finding Akira. Touya says it’s because he’s a dear friend but Es doesn’t understand anything being important beyond completing her mission. She finds it strange that Touya is being allowed to roam free so Touya suggests she asks Unomaru but she says she has been unable to reach the Mitsurugi Agency. Touya then hears a Discover Call coming from the Himezuru residence and they run off in a hurry. [6] They arrive home to find Acht holding an unconscious Hinata. Es tells Touya that Acht is too powerful for her to defeat so they should give up on Hinata and escape, something that makes Touya furious. He runs in to save Hinata himself but Acht simply blasts him away with Ice magic. Acht prepares to finish him off so Es runs into to attack, prepared to kill Hinata to save him. As he screams for Es to stop she is restrained by Akira’s Drive. Akira then knocks her out and attacks Touya, knocking him unconscious. Once Touya wakes up Kuon tells him what happened and that he should stay in the house while she and Elise search for Akira, which Touya agrees to. Touya runs into Es and demands to know if she was seriously planning to hurt Hinata. When Es doesn’t answer he walks away, saying he can’t stand looking at her right now. Touya becomes angry that everyone is searching for Akira while he’s sitting there doing nothing. Yuki then appears behind Touya, surprising him. Over coffee he confides in her that he put Hinata in danger and is being a burden to her but she denies this, saying Hinata will be fine.
The next morning Hinata wakes up fine, having been asleep through the entire event. She tells him that Es was worried about him and stayed outside his room the entire night but he quickly leaves. After Kuon and Elise leave Es tells Touya that she will take a three-hour break and that she informed Mei about this. He wonders if something is wrong since Es has never taken a break but then recalls Es trying to abandon Hinata. Touya takes the opportunity to sneak out and search for Akira before Mei arrives. Before he can get away he gets caught by Mei, who decides she will accompany him somewhere close by. He chooses to go to Maha☆Raja~. After meeting with Ringo, and being teased for bringing another girl, Mei tells him about the history of her clan. Es then arrives and takes him back home. Once they get home Kuon says she needs to talk to Touya and Es. Telling them about Akira’s unnatural crystal progression and that they need to stop him before he reaches phase five and is marked for termination. She says that nobody has survived being Union-infected and Touya should prepare for the worst. Touya goes back to his room and is greeted by Hinata, who asks to spend some time with him since she’s worried about Akira. Touya falls asleep and finds Hinata has left when he wakes up before remembering about Akira. He then receives a phone call from Akira, who tells him to come to the school alone. In order to get past Es he tells her he heard a Discover Call coming from the abandoned factory. When Es points out that it is more than 500 meters away, outside the range of Touya’s ability, he tells her it’s an order, so she goes.
Touya finds Akira on the roof and tells him to come with him, but Akira says he’s too far-gone and attacks Touya, seeing Touya as nothing but an enemy. Before Akira can kill Touya he is saved by Es. Es says she followed him despite being required to follow orders and isn’t sure why she did this. Es is unable to stand up to Akira’s attacks and asks Touya to run away while she distracts Akira, even saying “please.” Touya angrily asks if she is planning on having him abandon her as well but she says it’s ok since she isn’t part of his family. When Es and Akira go to attack each other Touya jumps in the way of their attacks, saying he doesn’t want them to kill each other. Touya reminds Akira that he used to jump into Akira’s fights like he just did and that Akira promised he wouldn’t fight anymore, bringing Akira back to his senses. Akira then rips the crystal out of his arm. After collapsing Akira apologizes for breaking his promise before falling unconscious. [7] After Akira is taken to the hospital Unomaru finally contacts Es and tells her to return to the Agency so she says goodbye to Touya.
The next day at the hospital he learns that Yuki was aware of the Union outbreak and she tells him about Akira’s condition. That evening he tells Kuon that Es was able to return to the Mitsurugi Agency and Kuon breaks her promise to Mei, telling Touya about Es being an artificial human. They are then approached by Unomaru. Once Kuon leaves Touya asks Unomaru about Es and, despite claiming it is confidential, he tells Touya that she is a Prime Field Interference Manifestation. Touya doesn’t care about that, wanting to know why Unomaru abandoned Es. Unomaru claims that it’s because he was close to finishing developing the new version of her and when he becomes focused on something he can’t pay attention to anything else. Touya is horrified by Unomaru’s callousness towards Es, with him calling her a thing and assuming Touya is worrying more about what happens to her body once she dies then about keeping her alive. When Unomaru is about to leave Sechs, Drei and Acht suddenly appear behind them. Touya demands to know why Sechs turned Akira into a Union but Drei says it’s because Akira wished for it. Unomaru asks Sechs why he abandoned his status as one of the Ten Sages and Sechs says that to reach “zero” is completion. Sechs then asks Unomaru what he desires most from the world and Unomaru says he simply wants the prosperity of all mankind and will do anything to achieve that, even controlling a god if one exists. Sechs asks Touya the same question but Touya doesn’t answer, merely wanting to know why Sechs turned Akira into a Union. Sechs says it was to show Touya the truth and asks him what he wants again. Touya says he wants to protect people from being hurt by people like Sechs, but Unomaru asks him what he’d do if his existence caused people harm. He tells Touya ask himself why he exists before he, Drei and Acht disappear. Unomaru calls them rude for just showing up, lecturing people and leaving and says he has no idea what they’re trying to accomplish before Touya hears a Discover Call coming from Akira’s room and runs off.
Touya reaches Akira’s room but only finds Kuon there; who tells him that Hinata went shopping. He then receives a call from Hinata’s phone but it is actually Ripper, who has kidnapped Hinata. Touya asks if this has something to do with the Grimoire but Ripper says he forgot he was asked about that, only doing this because he finds Touya interesting. Ripper tells Touya he has to find them before sundown or he’ll kill Hinata and hangs up. On the way out he sees Yuki who saw Kuon run out of the room and asks if she was going back to the house. Touya lies and says yes before telling her he has to go. He frantically runs around the city but has no luck finding her. After running into Kuon he receives another call from Ripper, who says he’s tired of waiting and activates his Drive so Touya can follow the Discover Call to him. With the help of Kuon’s magic they reach Ripper and find Hinata unconscious and hanging over the edge of the roof by a chain. Touya begs Ripper to let Hinata go but Ripper just makes fun of him. Ripper tells Touya that he has a strange “odor” similar to his own and Sechs’s and he wants to find out why that is for fun. In order to make Touya unleash his power Ripper tells him that he was the one who murdered Yuki’s parents. When that doesn’t work Ripper cuts the chain holding Hinata, leaving her to fall to her death. Touya goes berserk, unleashing the power of the Origin of the Grimoire, which steals the seithr from Ripper’s body, causing him to run off saying it’s not fun anymore. Unable to control himself, Touya also saps Kuon of her strength. Mei arrives, healing Kuon, alongside Es, who reveals she caught Hinata and she is fine. This causes Touya to return to normal. [8] Once Touya wakes up Mei promises to tell him and Kuon everything she knows but suggests they return to the Himezuru residence since it’s too dangerous where they are.
Back at the Himezuru residence Es tells Touya that Hinata is alright and Touya thanks her. Mei calls for Touya to come down so he asks Es to keep an eye on Hinata for him, which she agrees to. Touya thinks that Es seems different but is pulled out of his thoughts by Mei yelling at him. Mei tells him about Unomaru’s plan and about the Gate of Sheol underneath the Wadatsumi Research Facility. Mei then tells him and Kuon about the Amanohokosaka’s history guarding the Gate and that the first Azure Shrine Maiden stopped the Black Beast from emerging by luring it back into the Gate and sealing both of them inside it. Touya has doubts that Unomaru is planning what the Ten Sages said he is, which angers Kuon. This leads to Kuon and Mei getting into a fight, which Touya hopelessly tries to stop. Kuon then leaves, saying she’s going to speak to Sechs one more time and that she’ll probably never return to the Himezuru residence. Mei tells Touya that she will be guarding Touya from now on in case the Grimoire goes berserk again but he is worried about Kuon and runs off. Touya is unable to find Kuon and wonders if she should have left it to Es and Mei. Es finds him, telling him that he has been classified as a high-risk Union by Unomaru and she has been ordered to bring him in. Learning that Mei is in charge of the unit searching for him Touya says he needs to find Kuon and asks Es to wait on capturing him until then but Es says she wants to guard him. Touya refuses when she says she’ll be killed for disobeying orders and that she’ll be at risk if he loses control again saying she’s too important to lose. Es promises that if Touya ever loses control of the Grimoire she will stop him no matter what so that he cannot hurt his loved ones, which he agrees to. Before they can escape into the sewers Mei finds them. Touya tells her about Es’s promise to kill him and Es says she knows she will die for betraying the Mitsurugi Agency, which causes Mei to say she quits in frustration, saying the two need to care about their own lives more and consider how those close to them would feel if they died. Mei tells Touya she will find Kuon so he should focus on escaping. Mei covers for them with a smoke bomb and they escape underground. They are nearly caught by agents from the Mitsurugi Agency but are rescued by Avenge, who takes them to somewhere where they’ll be safe. Touya wants to know why Avenge is helping them and Avenge says it is because he felt like it. Touya thanks him but Avenge says he should be thanking Touya for allowing him to kill Ripper. Touya doesn’t know how to feel about Ripper being dead and Avenge says he is stronger then he seems. Avenge says that he is basically a serial killer who is no different than Ripper for hunting down and killing Unions but he can live with it as long as he is aware of it. He then tells Touya that, while he didn’t kill Ripper himself, it was his actions that led to Ripper’s death and he must accep that, with Touya saying yes. Avenge then asks Touya if he wants to know about his mother’s role in the Wadatsumi Incident, even if he’d be better off knowing. Touya grabs Avenge and demands to know. Avenge tells Touya that the Takamagahara Organization was forcing Touya’s mother to build the T-System and that the Embryo was meant to be its core. Touya is shocked that it means Unomaru was doing as the Ten Sages said, which surprises Avenge that Unomaru is continuing Takamahagara’s research. Es then explains about the Embryo’s power to use Phenomenon Intervention and that with it it would be possible for the T-System to control the thoughts of everyone on the planet. Es says that the T-System would be impossible since they don’t have an energy source big enough for it but Touya realizes that they intend to use the Boundary and its infinite supply of seithr. Suddenly Es detects a large number of Mitsurugi Agency soldiers and Avenge tells them to go ahead while he deals with them. After they leave and discuss what to do next they are attacked by Drei. Drei claims he was aiming for Es, calling her a “doll.” Touya angrily claims that Es is no different from a normal human but Drei says that artificial beings are not part of Sechs’s plan and therefore cannot exist. [9]
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