Kashimoto

Sporting a goatee and hair of middling length, Kashimoto rounds out his look with rectangular spectacles and a black bucket hat. He dresses in a tracksuit top over dark trousers, and loop earrings hang from his ears. Stitched across the back of his shirt sits an Eye-of-Providence-style emblem, its pupil ringed several times over.

Set against his more excitable partner, Kashimoto comes across as composed and earnest. Within the pair he plays the resident expert, with myth and the undoing of curses ranking as his specialties. That gravity never stops him, though, from trading playful jabs with Payase whenever the mood strikes.

Seeking help, Seiko Ayase tracks the two collectors to Nikujiru Gyoza. While Payase is left guarding a cursed trunk, she turns to Kashimoto for a way to restore a pygmy to full size, since her granddaughter shrank after slipping out of that container. He points to the Uchide-no-Kozuchi tied to the deity Daikokuten and tells her to journey to Izumo Taisha. As Seiko thanks him and offers more aid, a jiangshi suddenly shoves him aside. When the Kettetsu Power User flattens Seiko, Kashimoto and Payase strike back. Following Seiko's orders to hold the foe off, Kashimoto wields his Aphoom-Zhah ice flames, eventually chilling the iron body toward absolute zero so Payase can shatter the enemy's arms and free her. After the police show up, the trio slips away across the rooftops before officer Vega can question them.