Kyōsai Kawanabe

Kyōsai Kawanabe (河鍋 暁斎) is a member of the criminal organization named House of Wolves, he is a mafioso and a member of the organization's hitman team. He appears in Gutai & the House of Wolves.

Kyōsai himself is also a Talent user, owning the Talent named Dance of a Pair of Lions.

Appearance
Kyōsai has unkempt white hair that reaches down to his shoulders and red eyes.

His attire consists of a red turtleneck underneath his kimono and wears a brown jacket as his outer. He wears a black stripped pants that is tucked into black leather boots.

Personality
Kyōsai is a brash person who enjoys torturing his victims. Kyōsai doesn't care about subtlety when committing murders but takes great care in cleaning up the crime scenes if they were found out. Kyōsai doesn't take any excuses when confronting those who owe debt to the House of Wolves, but due to his sadistic nature Kyōsai is more often used to look for the debtors than actually committing the murders.

He is also extremely loyal to Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, considered by Yoshitoshi to be his right hand man thanks to his connections all around the city.

Talent

 * Main Article: Dance of a Pair of Lions

Dance of a Pair of Lions lets Kyōsai summon two Lions that follows his orders.

Background
Rembrandt van Rijn describes the wanted criminal Kyosai as fearless and violent, having met him in a previous case.

According to him, Kyosai is charged with 347 counts of larceny, 236 counts of extortion, and 143 counts of murder, which he notes was on the low end for a member of the House of Wolves

Beginning
Kyōsai was confronted by Rembrandt and Saburo at an abandoned building where the two of them fought with Kyōsai eventually surrendering to his enemies. Thanks to the help of an unknown figure, Rembrandt was knocked out which left the Gutai group and Ōi to interrogate him. After a while Rembrandt returned to his senses and interrogated him. Unfortunately, the interrogation did not end well, as Kyōsai using one of his lions to bite his torso off but not before revealing the identity of the person who ordered him in the first place, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka.

Appearances
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 * Chapter 3 - Dance of a Pair of Lions, Part 1
 * Chapter 4 - Dance of a Pair of Lions, Part 2 (Death)
 * Chapter 9 - Counterstroke (Mentioned)

Trivia

 * His alias, Kanameishi Natsuyama, is taken from two main sources.
 * Kanameishi (要石) is the stone used to pin the giant catfish who lives under the islands of Japan in Japanese mythology.
 * Natsuyama (夏山) consists of the words Natsu (夏) which means 'summer' and Yama (山) which means 'mountain'.