Kick-Ass King: The Blade of Judgment

The Kick-Ass King Award goes to the character who most players agree did the most devastation in the coolest way through the entire season. This prestigious award is accompanied not only by the trophy emblem (right), but by 5, count them 5, of the coveted red Never Gems. The honored recipient of the second ever Kick-Ass King Award is Daitokuji Kiyoshi, the human cuisinart.

Kiyoshi is a no-nonsense flayer of flesh and destroyer of all who are foolish enough to engage him in melee combat. Wielder of the incomparable First Mind artifact, Keibatsu, he has honed his mind and body to the point that cleaving heads from shoulders is less effort for him than trimming toenails (which is tricky to do with a katana).

Party members will doubtless be haunted in their nightmares by memories of him opening opponents up from shoulder to hip with his blade - or the terrifying revelation that he can in fact shoot silvery phoenixes from his sword attacking foes at range as easily as up close.

"That was a real lifesaver, that technique" Una pointed out. "I used to have to fly him around the battlefield so he could get close enough to do his thing. Now he is much more deadly at any distance."

Rei agreed, "But you really haven't seen Kiyoshi at his full potential unless you've seen him go to work against the Enemy."

Everyone nodded when she said that, though Moses looked vaguely nauseous.

It's true that Kiyoshi is exceptionally gifted at laying the smack down on the eyeless demons that haunt the Cheldrun from across the blackness of space. When putting the dead back to rest, or turning an Oni into sludge, Kiyoshi not only deals catastrophic damage, but perversely he also regains strength he has lost.

"Thank the First Minds for that," Moses said. "In that last Oni fight, it was just me and him left, and I didn't have the firepower to take that demon out. Even though Kiyoshi was naked he seemed invincible, which is really useful, when you think about it."

High-Dive grinned, "Yeah he gave that demon a rough time, though nobody should forget that I dropped a tree on it." Across the room, Mokuzai said nothing, but his glower suggested that he hadn't forgotten.

If you ask Kiyoshi about his sword he gets uncharacteristically shy, "It's my heritage, really. I'm just doing my best to use it as well as my ancestors did."

No doubt. He "inherited" one helluva sword and all the Gogajin ladies hope to see how well he uses it.

He is Daitokuji Kiyoshi, the Blade of Judgment.

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