Tazumi

Tazumi was a samurai in the town of Aru in Wa and a member of the Home Guard in the 1770s on the Wa Calendar.

History
In summer of, a group of samurai including Tazumi and Takako Shimizu went hunting in the forest. Takako became separated and was ambushed by a monster; hearing her scream, the alerted samurai rushed to her side, but the monster escaped them; through the undergrowth, Tazumi glimpsed the creature crouching over Takako and mistook it for a kala and informed Takako. But with no more than a scratch and a bump, Takako confidently dismissed this incident as just another monster attack.

But, several weeks later, Takako suffered a nightmare and a monster stalked the halls of the daimyo's donjon and murdered and partly ate a samurai. The daimyo, Benju Matsutomo, uncle to Takako, may have had his adventurers investigate and protect Takako during the night. During the day, they questioned Takako, Tazumi, and the samurai guards; Takako told his story but had doubts that it was a kala. Privately, he feared it might even be a shikki-gaki. He was wrong either way: Takako transformed into a tagamaling buso and attacked the adventurers. Seeking a cure or a cause, Tazumi and his fellow samurai guided the adventurers to the site of the first attack in the forest and likely helped hunt down the unusual cursed tigbanua buso and slew it, ending Takako's and others' afflictions.

Description
He was young and handsome.

Personality
And he was earnest.