Shishiba

A lean, tall man in his mid-twenties, Shishiba wears his long blond hair down and looks out through dark green eyes. His usual dress is a sharp one: a pale blue polo beneath a brown suit, set off by a purple tie fixed with a hammerhead-shark pin, though the colors of the outfit change from scene to scene. A pointed scar marks the left side of his chin, a souvenir of his rematch with Yotsumura. He also lost the ring and little fingers of his left hand, and after reattaching them he keeps that hand covered with a glove.

Detached by nature, Shishiba shows little warmth toward anyone or anything beyond his job and his student Osaragi. He does insist, though, that killing be done with a certain courtesy toward bystanders, holding that ordinary people are entitled to their ordinary lives, and he scolds Osaragi for being too reckless in public. He regards grief as a strange thing for a killer to indulge, reasoning that people who make a living ending lives have no business going soft when a colleague or loved one falls. For all his skill he treats the act of killing as unremarkable, likening it to a household chore, and he lives by a single guiding word: simplicity. That principle even dictated his choice of weapon.

Ranked among the Order's strongest, Shishiba fights with a pair of claw hammers that he prizes for their bluntness: they can bludgeon or tear, never empty like a gun, and never need sharpening. He uses the claws to rip, gouge, snap necks, and decapitate, and has turned a polished hammer face into a mirror to find enemies in cover or improvised a dango skewer into a lethal tool when disarmed. His speed is enough to break a man's neck before the victim registers it, his reflexes sharp enough to swat aside rifle fire one-handed while driving, and his strength lets him punch through walls and shatter weapons. Durable and seemingly tireless, he has walked away from being slammed through rooftops and struck by heavy machinery. He also reads Morse code, once catching a message Nagumo blinked at him through a car's signal lights. Yotsumura judged that with a different mindset his student could have climbed even higher in the ranks.