Kakucho

Kakuchou (筆頭 鶴蝶,) is one of the 4 Heavenly Kings of Tenjiku.

Appearance
Kakucho is a young man of an average height. He has shaved hair and a large scar starting from the back of his skull going through his left eye, ending at the beginning of his ear. The same scar made him blind in his left eye. He wears Tenjiku's uniform without a shirt underneath, showing his muscular chest.

In the present, Kakucho let his haid grow, they ate shown in a 'Curtain Hairstyle'. He still hava the same earring as in the past. His outfit changes with each return to the present, but we often see him wearing a black suit with a jacket going down to his knees.

History
As a very young child, Kakucho happened to be close friends with Takemichi Hanagaki. Takemichi forgot about him as he grew up, but Kakucho did not. But due to an accident leaving his parents dead and face heavily scarred he ends up landing himself in an orphanage. He forms graves for his parents but Izana meets him and knocks them down, telling him to forget about the dead and become his servant. Together as king and servant they will make the kingdom they call 'Tenjiku'.

His loyality lies with Izana and Izana alone during the fight against Smiley he tells Takemichi he wishes for Izana to be saved from Kisaki. During the fight between Toman and Tenjiku Izana in a craze orders Kakucho to be killed. Kisaki then shoots him once but after the first shot Izana jumps infront of him and takes 3 fatal blows. Izana tells him that he is the only one who hasn't made him feel alone and his body moved on it's own to protect him. Izana tells Kakucho to create the new era the one they dreamed about when they were kids before dying, as they were hand and hand.

Kakucho proceeds to live.

Skills
Kakucho was the strongest member of Tenjiku according to Izana Kurokawa, this is shown by him taking down Souta Kawata or "Angry" while he was in the state of mind known as "The Crying Blue Ogre" which was strong enough to beat most of the other top executives of Tenjiku with little to no effort. After this takedown, he immediately rushed to Chifuyu Matsuno, Seishu Inui and Hakkai Shiba taking all 3 of these capable fighters down in one fell swoop.

Etymology

 * The name Kakuchou means "crane, stork" (鶴) (kaku) and "butterfly" (蝶) (chou).