Cross Val Vol Yelvori

Cross stands at a roughly average height with a lean build. Orange-red eyes sit beneath the third eye every Simurian carries on the forehead, and his very pale green hair is gathered behind his head. Swirling red marks curl across his cheeks and below his eyes, echoing the patterns his older brother Maru wears. For clothing he favors robes in green and white cinched at the waist by a purple sash.

On the surface Cross comes across as distant and coldly calculating. He treats Earthlings with open contempt, brushing off Tsurugi when the boy mistakes him for Maru, and he reads Maru's collapse and attack on Masaki Takeda as a convenient spark for conflict. Where his brother dreams of coexistence, Cross argues that going to war with Japan serves the Simurians better. Deeper down sits a frightened, bitter young man haunted by the oppression his people endured, certain that any peace Japan offers would reduce the Simurians to second-class citizens just as the Deskunte once degraded the Rumelians. His loathing mixes trauma with envy, since he resents those he believes were handed comfortable lives that his impoverished people were denied; when he hears about Yuka's terminal tumor he assumes she must be miserable, and she calls it projection.

His mentor Dura sought goodwill with the Deskunte only to be betrayed and killed, which hardened Cross against trusting Japan and left him sneering at Tsurugi's talk of becoming neighbors. Even so, he is far from heartless. He genuinely loves Maru and personally steps in after Tsurugi's plea, sacrificing his own aims to do it. He respects religious conviction, voices disgust at feudal Japan's fumi-e ordeal, does a backflip to console a child he accidentally made cry, and quietly feels kinship with Yuka after learning of her illness. Part of him still wants Dura's vision of coexistence to be true, and when the Simurians finally vote, Cross casts his ballot for living in peace.

Cross ranks among the most powerful warriors the Rumelian refugees brought to Earth, on the same level as his brother Maru; the warrior Osuki admitted he had no confidence facing the twins in a fight. He wields two innate techniques. The first, Chaos, warps the very laws of order. The second, Harmony, draws its targets into balance with the world and with one another, working on individuals or whole groups. Aimed at one person it can pinpoint that person's true counterpart, including a biological sibling, while aimed at a group it locates a matching group and opens communication between them, which is how the Simurians came to understand and speak Japanese. Paired with high-grade mul, Harmony even let Cross and Maru build the spaceship that carried the Rumelians to Japan.

Like all his kind, Cross has a third eye on his forehead that serves as the wellspring of his rolloluca. Simurians weep from this eye at birth and at death, though only Rumelians shed tears from it when a Kalyan dies, and the strain of crying from it can prove fatal. As a Rumelian warrior he also fights with a sword bearing a forked golden blade set with a red orb inside its ring-shaped hilt.