Satoru Yotsumura

Satoru Yotsumura
Biographical Information
Japanese Name	四ヨツ村ムラ暁サトル
Aliases	Yotsumura Old man/guy
Personal Description
Gender	Male
Eye Color	Yellow
Hair Color	Black
Professional Status
Status	Alive
Relatives	Byodo (Father-in-Law) Shino Yotsumura (Wife) Amane Yotsumura (Son)
Occupation	Assassin
Affiliation	Yoichi Nagumo Order (Formerly) JAA (Formerly) JCC (Formerly)
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 78

Satoru Yotsumura (四ヨツ村ムラ暁サトル, Yotsumura Satoru^?) is the former No.2 of the JAA and a founding member of the Order. He was also a professor emeritus of the JCC. He now works against the JAA after he was banished by Sei Asaki in his take over.

Appearance

Yotsumura is a tall and muscular middle-aged man with tanned skin, unshaven beard, sharp eyebrows and unkempt black hair. He has tired, emotionless yellow eyes that are hidden by a light-colored bucket hat, his outfit consists in a plaid polo shirt under a black coat, pants and shoes. He also used to wear the JCC uniform.

During his fight with Shishiba, Yotsumura's cheek close to his left jaw was severely damaged, exposing his teeth covered in blood. It has since healed with it forming a noticeable scar on his face in a similar fashion to his old partner's.

Yotsumura when he used to work at JCC.

Yotsumura's color scheme as seen in Volume 11 cover.

Personality

Yotsumura is a laconic man that is calm in the midst of battle, casually commenting that three active Order members was too many to fight but was highly indifferent, even in combat and hardly caring that his son Amane saw his mother's death.

However, he cares deeply about his son like any normal father, to the point that he was willing to kill his wife to save him. As seen in a flashback, he smiled serenely while cradling his son as an infant and spent time with him, teaching him how to use his signature weapon. Furthermore, Amane's grandfather, Byodo, holds no resentment towards Yotsumura for his daughter's death.

Yotsumura desires to walk freely again, hence his reason for trying to destroy the JAA. However, he doesn't fully agree with Slur's ideals and criticizes the idea that Slur's followers are revolutionaries.

History

In the past, Yotsumura was a founding member of the Order alongside his old friend Kindaka, along with being the occasional teacher and lecturer at the JCC. At some point in time, he retired from the JCC and married fellow assassin Shino Yotsumura and had a son, Amane with her.

Yotsumura was the mentor of Shishiba. Around this time, he was assigned a mission to eliminate conspirators seeking to kill the chief of the JAA. Upon getting home, he found out that Shino was one such conspirator, marrying him and having Amane only to use him as leverage for the plan. With his son in danger, Yotsumura killed Shino just as Amane woke up.

Eight years prior to the events of the series, he was banished from the Order and sentenced to death for attempting to kill some JAA executives.

Relationships

Shishiba

Yotsumura is a former Order member and a senpai to Shishiba. Yotsumura was indifferent to Shishiba, relentlessly dragging him along on missions.

Shino Yotsumura

Yotsumura loved her deeply, admitting he worked hard to wow her. However, he still ruthlessly dispatched her after her betrayal.

Amane Yotsumura

Yotsumura deeply cared for his son, spending time with him as a child and gifting him his signature staff. However, Amane did not share the same sentiment. Despite this, he acknowledges his father's love for him.

Skills & Abilities

Overall Skill Level: As the former No. 2 of the JAA and a former founding member of the Order, Yotsumura is one of the strongest known assassins in Japan.

Master Combatant: Yotsumura is an extremely skilled combatant, able to fight against Shishiba and Nagumo, both extremely strong members of the Order and momentarily held his own when Osaragi, another member of the Order, joined the fight.

Enhanced Strength: Yotsumura has physical strength higher enough to casually parry blows from Shishiba even when he not near him, flip off the SUV he was driving with a single swing of his weapon. As well able to kick a car hard enough to send it off to the end of the car carrier and slice the walls of a bunch of traditional Japanese houses with his staff.

Enhanced Durability: Yotsumura can be capable of surviving a small building fall during his quarrel against Shishiba. He also manages to fake his death even though he was thrown off to a lake by Shishiba with a bleeding wound in the shoulder caused by his hammer.

Enhanced Reflexes: Despite his slow movements, Yotsumura has reactions far faster than an average human, as he is able to bisect 5 assassins in a gunpoint even when he is not looking at them. Yotsumura's wife, who was fast enough to get behind Shishiba without him noticing, was instantly killed by him despite using Amane as a hostage.

Equipment

Three Section Staff: Yotsumura wields a three-section staff with a small, thin blade on one end. The blade is extremely sharp enough to even cut the support beams of a car carrier trailer.

Yotsumura with his staff.

Etymology

• The name Satoru means "dawn, daybreak" (暁).
  • Satoru (暁) can can also be written/read as Akatsuki (暁).
• Satoru's surname Yotsumura means "four" (四ツ) (yotsu) and "town, village" (村) (mura).