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"Huh? H..hey? Hold on... I'm still transforming... okay?!" |
| “ | The title of "hero" will be fitting, if one’s goal for coming into being is to rescue a princess. | ” |
—Abel, on Hiro | ||
Hiro is the manifestation of Sakura Yui’s fantasy.
Appearance[]
Hiro looks like a tall and handsome young man with a lean stature as well as eyes and hair covering one eye the colour of the sky, looking very much like the protagonist heroes seen in fantasy manga and novels. He is dressed in an orange parker and brown trousers while wearing an aquarmarine beanie.
Personality[]
Hiro was created by Yui to be a man without the organ between the legs that other men had hurt her with, so that he will treat her tenderly and caringly like those heroes in fantasy stories. Without any awareness of what he is, Hiro simply considered himself somehow different from society, and only appeared by Yui’s side when she wanted him seen, becoming her isle of relief from her sexual enslavement by her father.
His attitude changed after Yui implored him to put her out of misery during her rampage caused by Yamato’s experimentation on her, preferring to shy away from her and simply follow her commands passively while trying the ignore those that involve killing her. Hiro tried to convince himself that by aiding Yamato with finding a cure for Yui’s curse he will be able to help her, going as far as to fighting those he had no wish to hurt or kill, until Gang Daehyeop enlightened him to the fact that he actually holds the power to stop Yui from going berserk, which made him face his duty as well as his feelings as Yui’s lover.
History[]
Hiro was generated by a juvenile Yui on one snowy night, and agreeing to become her friend got taken into her care without the knowledge of the men sexually enslaving her. He continued to accompany Yui after she sealed her contract with Yamato and became a pornography actress, receiving a superbike from her as a gift, while also acting as a punching bag for Yui to vent her frustration of existence.
On the day Yamato went to experiment on Yui’s Charyeok, Yui and Hiro were visited by Abel, who identified Yui’s powers as Prayer Awakening which had manifested her fantasy of the perfect man into the ghost that is Hiro. After the experiment made Yui lose control of her Charyeok and transform into a titanic spider, Hiro hid from her rampage despite given heroic powers to kill her with. Refusing the kill Yui even with Abel trying to reason with him, Hiro afterwards continued to serve her and by extension Nine Dragons, hoping that Yamato will actually succeed in removing Yui’s Charyeok that had cursed her so.
Plot[]
Eclipse[]
Heroes of Street[]
Hiro also tagged along when Yui followed Yamato to South Korea alongside other members of Nine Dragons including Hajime Ryo and V, but he stayed out of sight during the attack on the secret Shadow headquarters. He later made himself shown as Yui went to the J.G. Group headquarters to seek Jegal Taek, and with the subsequent appearance of Yun Taesu, Hiro and Yui found themselves impaled by megalodon teeth, although both of them were able to regenerate from the attacks. And on the eve of ‘D-Day’, he again served as Yui’s punching bag in yet another of her fits.
While resting with Yui in a room at BEXCO on ‘D-Day’, Hiro was called into action when Yui agreed to help Yamato escape back to Japan from Shadow which had just thwarted his plan to release Dream Skulls, so that Yui will be able to hear from the mad scientist the way to gain freedom from her curse. While Yui led dozens of Marionettes against Sin Yunseong within BEXCO, Hiro escorted Yamato and Justin towards their hotel atop which a helicopter awaited, only to be beaten up by the pursuing Daehyeop. Making use of his amazing regenerative ability, Hiro rose again and again from defeat to deter Daehyeop with increasing levels of magical powers. After Daehyeop caught up with Yamato at the hotel rooftop thanks to the intervention of Violet Ella Wong Perez and Sin Taepung, Hiro knocked out Violet to take her and an unconscious Taepung as hostages for forcing Daehyeop to free Yamato. However Violet who had read all their minds and memories subsequently revealed that Yamato was actually unable to remove Yui’s curse, and when Hiro stubbornly continued to fight despite his powers waning due to distancing himself too far from Yui as she rampaged in spider form at BEXCO, Daehyeop upon discovering Hiro’s immortality utilised his real power to utterly defeat the ghost.
Unable to fully regenerate, Hiro was told by Daehyeop that he had been holding the power to save Yui from her curse all along, but then he got taken prisoner by Baek Yeonwoo and other government forces. As Hiro pleaded to be taken to Yui while Daehyeop had a conflict with Yeonwoo over the government forces' intervention, Yamato hijacked a police helicopter to escape. Daehyeop promptly threw Hiro all the way towards BEXCO before going after Yamato, and Hiro recharging his powers upon reaching proximity of Yui, broke into the alternate dimension of Ban Sihyeon to shatter the meteor summoned by Yunseong. He then used his powers to break the curse of the spider, allowing Yui to revert to human form. Under a seaside cliff they had washed up on, Hiro declared his love to Yui, freeing her from the mental suffering accumulating in her for the past decade. They later let Taesu who spectated this scene trail them to the motel Yamato was sent to after his banishment from Nox, where Yui recovered the money promised to her and heard that the Key may be the key to removing her curse. Following Yamato’s death at the hands of Taesu, Hiro accompanied Yui back to Japan.
The both of them returned to Nine Dragons Hall in an attempt to unearth clues about the Key in Yamato’s laboratory, where they found out that Ryo had become the new boss of Nine Dragons after his coup against Ogawa Shinji. They were then shown the laboratory in which the Yggdrasil gifted to Ryo by Abel had taken root, before witnessing Ryo utilise it in tandem with the Ouroboros to drain the Charyeok energies of hundreds of Charyeok Users donning an alternate version of Dreams Skulls into himself. Hiro at the command of a horrified Yui tried to kill Ryo, only to have the boss easily smash him down so hard he got buried in a crater. With Yui subsequently getting her Charyeok energy drained, Hiro was unable to regenerate until the defeat of Ryo and the wilting of the Yggdrasil, after which he and Yui went into hiding.
The Key[]
Abilities[]
In his basic form, Hiro’s physical abilities are similar to that of an average atheletic human, though he can use some magic similar to fantasy heroes. And like the bilingual Sakura Yui, he can also communicate in Korean.
Immortality: Being a figment of imagination given form, Hiro after receiving dehabilitating or fatal wounds can regenerate himself anew in a fiery explosion. The further the distance he is away from Sakura Yui, however, the less effective his regeneration is. He also cannot regenerate if Sakura Yui loses her Charyeok energy or dies.
Pyrokinesis: Hiro can generate fire to throw at opponents.
Electrokinesis: Hiro can channel lightning down from the sky through his sword to strike opponents with.
Hydrokinesis: Hiro can shoot out bursts of water or manipulate existing bodies of liquid to move as he wills.
Cryokinesis: Hiro can make things freeze into ice, allowing him to walk on water or lock opponents in place.
Aerokinesis: Hiro can manipulate air currents to grant himself flight, or levitate objects and other people.
Hero Mode[]
Having been bestowed with the power Sakura Yui imagines a hero from fantasy stories should possess, Hiro can turn into a form which displays himself as a heroic knight clad in silver armour and wielding a bastard sword. Prolonged distancing from Sakura Yui though will cause his energies to dry up rapidly, rendering him weaker and weaker until he cannot maintain this mode.
- Enhanced Strength: Hiro gets his strength boosted to the level where he can throw his sword through a dozen storeys.
- Enhanced Endurance: Being clad in armour, Hiro becomes able to withstand attacks much better without needing to regenerate.
- Enhanced Speed: Hiro can speed himself up to cover the distance of dozens of storeys in seconds.
- Enhanced Magic: The magical powers that Hiro wields get powered up.
Weapons[]
Hiro wields a bastard sword that can materialise when needed, through which he can launch fire and channel lightning.
And while it is not a tool for fighting, Hiro has also used his Lotus C-01 prototype superbike constructed using aeronautical technology that has a 1,195cc V-twin/200 Hp engine and weighing 181kg for ramming people.
Notes & Trivia[]
- His name may have been inspired by Heero Yuy, the protagonist of the Japanese animation Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
- The author originally intended to have Hiro be the novel’s protagonist, but realised that with the extremely mature nature of his backstory, doing so would only invite heavy censorship, so he made Hiro an antagonist while setting up a wannabe superhero with a no-kill policy as the protagonist instead.
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