Character History
Roji's story begins when he was a little boy. One day, his friend became possessed by a haunt. Unable to do anything, Roji could only watch as his friend began to be stolen away. However, a Magic Law executor appeared and saved his friend. The executor saw something in Roji that day: a well of tempering (power drawn to use Magic Law) within him that would always draw spirits. Some time later, Roji received a tempering-monitoring tie in the mail from the executor, with instructions to never take it off. Roji did just that, even though he has never found out what it does. These two events sparked an interest for Roji: a desire to help those troubled by spirits.
Thus, his quest to become a Magic Law practitioner began. Little did he know that spark was drawing him to someone, and would continue drawing him closer until they were connected.
Eight years later, Roji found himself at the Magic Law Association headquarters. Though he failed the entrance exam to attend the Magic Law School a few years before, a flyer advertising an assistant needed for an executor caught his attention, specifically because knowledge of Magic Law was not required. When he found the place where interviews were being held, he was quickly intimidated by the amount of people applying to become Toru Muhyo's assistant. He then met a little boy whom he casually spoke about manga with...only to find out shortly after that he was speaking with the genius Muhyo. Embarrassed for not realizing and being so informal with the executor, Roji was sure he wouldn't get the position as he checked into the hotel for the night.
Unexpectedly, a grudge, a powerful spirit, attacked the hotel that night, and Roji and another practitioner were ensnared by the grudge. Only an executor could bring the spirit down, and none were around. Desperate to survive and save the practitioner, Roji displayed his ability for the first time by using a tool that only experienced practitioners would know how to use, injuring the spirit and freeing them just in time for Muhyo to arrive and sentence it. Muhyo saw something in Roji that day. The next day, Roji was unofficially chosen to be Muhyo's assistant. Two years later, the story for the series begins.
The first few chapters of the series focused on Muhyo and Roji's bureau and their customers who reported events that they believe were caused by ghosts. A girl who died by falling in front of a train and couldn't move on, a ghost possessing an old lady, a man who passed away before finishing his biography and used an author to write the story for him, and so on. These cases were there to introduce Muhyo and Roji's personalities, but the first serious plot didn't begin until Muhyo and Roji traveled to the Magic Law Association headquarters.
There, they discovered that Muhyo's former classmate, going by the name Enchu, had descended into using forbidden Magic Law and was bent on destroying Muhyo. Enchu attacked while Muhyo and Roji were at the M.L.A., using a giant swarm of grudges. Muhyo managed to defeat all of them by summoning the Night Train, but before that, Roji once again showed his ability by sealing five grudges at once with his pen, a very difficult feat to accomplish. After his small defeat, Enchu retreated, but it would definitely not be the last they saw of him.
After the attack, Muhyo and Roji returned to their office and solved a few more cases until another of Muhyo's former classmates, Biko, abruptly arrived one night seeking Muhyo's help. An extremely powerful spirit had broken out of the Arcanum, a prison for certain spirits, and they were needed to help fix the problem. Muhyo agreed, so Roji went along as well. After meeting Biko's mentor Rio at the Arcanum they faced the horrible Face Ripper Sophie and managed to defeat her, but at the expense of most of Muhyo's tempering, leaving him extremely exhausted. This was bad timing, because it was then that Rio revealed that she too had turned into a forbidden Magic Law practitioner and that the entire Arcanum breakout was a setup to lure Muhyo in and drain his tempering. Roji and a fellow practitioner Yoichi were able to hold off Rio long enough for Muhyo to recharge his tempering, and he attempted to remove the brand of forbidden Magic Law on her. However, Enchu appeared and took her away before Muhyo could get to her.
It was clear what the plan was after that: rescue Rio and attempt to defeat Enchu, along with the new threat, the organization of forbidden law practitioners known as Ark, and their leader Teeki. But before that, Muhyo and Roji needed to rest and regain energy, so they returned to the office for a while. There, they ran into Muhyo's rival Goryo, another practitioner but of a different Magic Law firm called the Goryo Group. They had a contest of sorts, and if Muhyo lost, they would be forced to give up the office. Muhyo agreed, and they went to defeat a powerful ghost known for its ability to split up into multiple spirits. Muhyo managed to sentence the ghost, but Goryo was the first to trap it, making Goryo the winner. This was a major point in Roji's story, because his jealously managed to the get the better of him, and this forced Muhyo to make a decision of putting him on leave to the M.L.A. to clear his head, and realize why Muhyo chose him to be his assistant.
While reminiscing about his past at M.L.A., Roji realized that he was only thinking of himself and not as a team with Muhyo. He then became determined to grow stronger for when he returned to Muhyo. With that, a training arc began. He met two researchers named Lili and Meril, and he teamed up with them when ghosts attacked the resort where they were staying during their training. While most of the ghosts were purposely planted by the executors in charge of training, one super powerful ghost known as Bellocent managed to sneak in inside another ghost. Things were looking grim, but with the guidance of Lili and Meril, and additional tempering from a formal rival Ebisu, Roji managed to seal the ghost against all odds. While this was happening, Muhyo was forming a pact with a powerful envoy, Pluto. Muhyo did hear about Roji's success, and when they met up again, he took Roji back.
Of course, the pleasant moment didn't last for long. Soon after, Ark was on the move. They decided to strike at Goryo first, sending a member that had a connection to him. It was his former teacher, Tomas, a man whose obsession with collecting overcame him. After setting fire to the Goryo headquarters, he kidnapped Goryo himself and began to turn him into a ghast. Muhyo and company were quick to help, hurrying to Tomas's hideout. By the time they got there, they feared they were too late, as Goryo had already become a half-ghast. However, with persuading from Goryo's faithful assistant Ebisu, and a bit of help from the envoy Kiriko, Goryo was returned to normal. All that was left was Tomas. This was where Roji truly saved the day. The only way to defeat Tomas was by destroying his book, which was buried within Styxsand, where no normal person would be able to enter without their tempering being sucked dry within seconds. Roji was able to last an entire minute down there, and was able to destroy the book before the group was engulfed in the sand. This allowed Muhyo to send Tomas down below where he belonged. Soon after, Muhyo and Roji were given their office back for saving Goryo.
Not even a few days after settling back into the office, Page arrived to announce that they had pinpointed Ark and Enchu's location (the Wailing Vale), and they were headed straight for it to end Ark once and for all, and to rescue Rio and Enchu. They would split up, Muhyo and Roji meeting up with Imai along the way. In the meantime, Page and Yoichi would seek help from a legend named Isabi, who was rumored to be the only person who knew of a way to defeat Teeki. Of course, Ark was fully aware of their plan, and sent two members of Ark toward Muhyo and Roji's destination. One of them had an unknown connection with Roji. Once the duo reached the hotel, they were met by Imai and a new ally, Umekichi. Not soon after, they ran into the first Ark member known as Panza, who ended up luring Roji away from the group and attempted to capture him. She was able to control people with puppet strings, and sent the hotel residents after the rest of the group. While they were fighting her, the second of the two Ark members, Mick, appeared to crash the party and finish off the group. However, before he could kill Roji, Panza jumped in the way and received a fatal wound. As she was dying, the group found out that she was a very shy and awkward girl that Roji had met many years ago when he was applying to be Muhyo's assistant. She considered him her "knight in shining armor" and just wanted to meet him again. Unfortunately, Teeki manipulated her into joining Ark as a way of growing stronger for Roji. Soon afterword, she went to heaven. Shaken by this, Roji vowed to keep living and defeat Ark in memory of Panza.
In a twist of events, Mick kidnapped Imai under Teeki's orders and headed back for Ark's HQ. Now Muhyo and Roji had one more person to rescue. They met up with Umekichi's boss, Busujima, a master of Remote Magic Law. Using it, they were able to send the Umekichi (now in a rodent envoy form) and Muhyo's envoy Seven Faced Dog to the Wailing Vale while the rest of the group traveled by car. They did this in hopes of rescuing Imai and Rio before they actually got there. There were some complications of course, and the two envoys wound up facing Mick. This was another important plot point for Roji, as he was able to come up with a plan to defeat Mick before the two envoys got killed. With the defeat of Mick, they were able to secure Imai and Rio's safety, and brought them back to their location. However, Teeki would not let this slide. He used Rio's forbidden mark to send a shadow version of himself to attack the group. This was where the first signs of Muhyo and Roji's aroropathy (which will be explained further in the app) showed. When Muhyo's tempering alone would not be enough to banish the shadow, Roji stepped in to stop Teeki's ranting, giving Muhyo the final push to get rid of it. While no one (Roji included) actually thought Roji helped in the process, Imai knew of the aroropathy and had a feeling it was involved.
Everyone returned to M.L.A. shortly after they received a text from Page signaling them to abort the mission. It turned out that the way to defeat Teeki (a stone known as the Writ of Passage) was actually hidden within the Association all along, and Ark would certainly be looking for it themselves to stop them. A ghost named Bobby ended up finding the Writ after another ghost known as the Gingko Hag dropped it, and conned Roji into believing that he would hand it over if Roji got him a certain artifact and freed him from the armor he was bound to. In reality, he intended to possess Roji to gain power. His plan was stopped by Muhyo, and in a change of heart due to Roji's kindness toward him, he sacrificed himself to stop the Gingko Hag from taking the Writ back. Shortly after, they were able to defeat the Gingko Hag herself, and all that was left was the remaining members of Ark who had entered the M.L.S.. Goryo and Ebisu took on Ivy the Ghost Master, the trio of judges Ginji, Yoichi and Imai fought Kid and Buhpu, while Muhyo, Roji and the others went after Teeki himself.
While Muhyo worked on fusing the Writ of Passage into his book of Magic Law, Roji and the others had to hold off Teeki for as long as possible. After defeating Kid and Buphu, the trio of judges along with Page had to fend off Enchu. The former task proved to be a bit harder, as Teeki was joined by the final Ark members Julio, who successfully planted a curse on the entire group that froze them in their tracks and made it impossible to hold Teeki off. The artifact that Roji kept from the Bobby arc came in handy here, as he was able to completely destroy the curse, allowing Muhyo to finish the Writ fusion and summon Hades himself to destroy Teeki. However, getting rid of Teeki would not be as easy as they originally thought. Teeki had fused a piece of himself into Enchu, so if the group wanted to destroy Teeki, they would have to somehow split him and Enchu apart or Enchu too would be killed. Muhyo and Roji managed to get Enchu to realize that his mother's death was actually caused by Teeki, so his hate for Muhyo was all for naught. Conflicted with confusion and shock, Enchu began to split from Teeki. However, Teeki refused to let go. But Roji was not going to let him take back control. Using the dagger he received from Bobby, he sliced through Teeki, effectively breaking him away from Enchu's body. This allowed for Hades to take him below, once and for all. Finally, Enchu would not have to live through hate. He had been saved.
After Enchu received his sentence for his crimes, Muhyo, Roji, and company were there to say goodbye before he was locked away within the Arcanum. It was a tearful goodbye, but it would certainly not be the last they would see of him. Now that Teeki had been defeated and Enchu was was saved at long last, Muhyo and Roji returned to their bureau to continue their work that they sorely missed.
Significant Plot Points for Roji:
Volume 2: receives his pen of wards.
Volume 2: displays his ability by using wards on several ghosts at once.
Volume 6: is put on leave by Muhyo and sent back to the Magic Law School.
Volume 6: (flashback) displays his ability by using an artifact designed for high ranking practitioners and becomes Muhyo's assistant.
Volume 6: discovers his significant amount of tempering.
Volume 7: defeats powerful ghost Bellocent.
Volume 7: is tested by Page and is taken under Muhyo's wing once again.
Volume 9: helps bring about the defeat of Tomas by diving into Styxsand and destroying his book of Magic Law.
Volume 9: swears to keep fighting after the death of Panza.
Volume 11: comes up with a "super fab tech" that allows for the defeat of Mick.
Volume 12: displays the power of aroropathy by helping Muhyo banish Teeki's shadow.
Volume 13: meets Bobby and eventually receives a dagger artifact.
Volume 15: banishes Julio's curse, effectively protecting Muhyo from failing at fusing the Writ of Passage with his book of Magic Law.
Volume 15: uses his dagger to separate Teeki from Enchu, allowing for Teeki to be sent to the Underworld.
Thus, his quest to become a Magic Law practitioner began. Little did he know that spark was drawing him to someone, and would continue drawing him closer until they were connected.
Eight years later, Roji found himself at the Magic Law Association headquarters. Though he failed the entrance exam to attend the Magic Law School a few years before, a flyer advertising an assistant needed for an executor caught his attention, specifically because knowledge of Magic Law was not required. When he found the place where interviews were being held, he was quickly intimidated by the amount of people applying to become Toru Muhyo's assistant. He then met a little boy whom he casually spoke about manga with...only to find out shortly after that he was speaking with the genius Muhyo. Embarrassed for not realizing and being so informal with the executor, Roji was sure he wouldn't get the position as he checked into the hotel for the night.
Unexpectedly, a grudge, a powerful spirit, attacked the hotel that night, and Roji and another practitioner were ensnared by the grudge. Only an executor could bring the spirit down, and none were around. Desperate to survive and save the practitioner, Roji displayed his ability for the first time by using a tool that only experienced practitioners would know how to use, injuring the spirit and freeing them just in time for Muhyo to arrive and sentence it. Muhyo saw something in Roji that day. The next day, Roji was unofficially chosen to be Muhyo's assistant. Two years later, the story for the series begins.
The first few chapters of the series focused on Muhyo and Roji's bureau and their customers who reported events that they believe were caused by ghosts. A girl who died by falling in front of a train and couldn't move on, a ghost possessing an old lady, a man who passed away before finishing his biography and used an author to write the story for him, and so on. These cases were there to introduce Muhyo and Roji's personalities, but the first serious plot didn't begin until Muhyo and Roji traveled to the Magic Law Association headquarters.
There, they discovered that Muhyo's former classmate, going by the name Enchu, had descended into using forbidden Magic Law and was bent on destroying Muhyo. Enchu attacked while Muhyo and Roji were at the M.L.A., using a giant swarm of grudges. Muhyo managed to defeat all of them by summoning the Night Train, but before that, Roji once again showed his ability by sealing five grudges at once with his pen, a very difficult feat to accomplish. After his small defeat, Enchu retreated, but it would definitely not be the last they saw of him.
After the attack, Muhyo and Roji returned to their office and solved a few more cases until another of Muhyo's former classmates, Biko, abruptly arrived one night seeking Muhyo's help. An extremely powerful spirit had broken out of the Arcanum, a prison for certain spirits, and they were needed to help fix the problem. Muhyo agreed, so Roji went along as well. After meeting Biko's mentor Rio at the Arcanum they faced the horrible Face Ripper Sophie and managed to defeat her, but at the expense of most of Muhyo's tempering, leaving him extremely exhausted. This was bad timing, because it was then that Rio revealed that she too had turned into a forbidden Magic Law practitioner and that the entire Arcanum breakout was a setup to lure Muhyo in and drain his tempering. Roji and a fellow practitioner Yoichi were able to hold off Rio long enough for Muhyo to recharge his tempering, and he attempted to remove the brand of forbidden Magic Law on her. However, Enchu appeared and took her away before Muhyo could get to her.
It was clear what the plan was after that: rescue Rio and attempt to defeat Enchu, along with the new threat, the organization of forbidden law practitioners known as Ark, and their leader Teeki. But before that, Muhyo and Roji needed to rest and regain energy, so they returned to the office for a while. There, they ran into Muhyo's rival Goryo, another practitioner but of a different Magic Law firm called the Goryo Group. They had a contest of sorts, and if Muhyo lost, they would be forced to give up the office. Muhyo agreed, and they went to defeat a powerful ghost known for its ability to split up into multiple spirits. Muhyo managed to sentence the ghost, but Goryo was the first to trap it, making Goryo the winner. This was a major point in Roji's story, because his jealously managed to the get the better of him, and this forced Muhyo to make a decision of putting him on leave to the M.L.A. to clear his head, and realize why Muhyo chose him to be his assistant.
While reminiscing about his past at M.L.A., Roji realized that he was only thinking of himself and not as a team with Muhyo. He then became determined to grow stronger for when he returned to Muhyo. With that, a training arc began. He met two researchers named Lili and Meril, and he teamed up with them when ghosts attacked the resort where they were staying during their training. While most of the ghosts were purposely planted by the executors in charge of training, one super powerful ghost known as Bellocent managed to sneak in inside another ghost. Things were looking grim, but with the guidance of Lili and Meril, and additional tempering from a formal rival Ebisu, Roji managed to seal the ghost against all odds. While this was happening, Muhyo was forming a pact with a powerful envoy, Pluto. Muhyo did hear about Roji's success, and when they met up again, he took Roji back.
Of course, the pleasant moment didn't last for long. Soon after, Ark was on the move. They decided to strike at Goryo first, sending a member that had a connection to him. It was his former teacher, Tomas, a man whose obsession with collecting overcame him. After setting fire to the Goryo headquarters, he kidnapped Goryo himself and began to turn him into a ghast. Muhyo and company were quick to help, hurrying to Tomas's hideout. By the time they got there, they feared they were too late, as Goryo had already become a half-ghast. However, with persuading from Goryo's faithful assistant Ebisu, and a bit of help from the envoy Kiriko, Goryo was returned to normal. All that was left was Tomas. This was where Roji truly saved the day. The only way to defeat Tomas was by destroying his book, which was buried within Styxsand, where no normal person would be able to enter without their tempering being sucked dry within seconds. Roji was able to last an entire minute down there, and was able to destroy the book before the group was engulfed in the sand. This allowed Muhyo to send Tomas down below where he belonged. Soon after, Muhyo and Roji were given their office back for saving Goryo.
Not even a few days after settling back into the office, Page arrived to announce that they had pinpointed Ark and Enchu's location (the Wailing Vale), and they were headed straight for it to end Ark once and for all, and to rescue Rio and Enchu. They would split up, Muhyo and Roji meeting up with Imai along the way. In the meantime, Page and Yoichi would seek help from a legend named Isabi, who was rumored to be the only person who knew of a way to defeat Teeki. Of course, Ark was fully aware of their plan, and sent two members of Ark toward Muhyo and Roji's destination. One of them had an unknown connection with Roji. Once the duo reached the hotel, they were met by Imai and a new ally, Umekichi. Not soon after, they ran into the first Ark member known as Panza, who ended up luring Roji away from the group and attempted to capture him. She was able to control people with puppet strings, and sent the hotel residents after the rest of the group. While they were fighting her, the second of the two Ark members, Mick, appeared to crash the party and finish off the group. However, before he could kill Roji, Panza jumped in the way and received a fatal wound. As she was dying, the group found out that she was a very shy and awkward girl that Roji had met many years ago when he was applying to be Muhyo's assistant. She considered him her "knight in shining armor" and just wanted to meet him again. Unfortunately, Teeki manipulated her into joining Ark as a way of growing stronger for Roji. Soon afterword, she went to heaven. Shaken by this, Roji vowed to keep living and defeat Ark in memory of Panza.
In a twist of events, Mick kidnapped Imai under Teeki's orders and headed back for Ark's HQ. Now Muhyo and Roji had one more person to rescue. They met up with Umekichi's boss, Busujima, a master of Remote Magic Law. Using it, they were able to send the Umekichi (now in a rodent envoy form) and Muhyo's envoy Seven Faced Dog to the Wailing Vale while the rest of the group traveled by car. They did this in hopes of rescuing Imai and Rio before they actually got there. There were some complications of course, and the two envoys wound up facing Mick. This was another important plot point for Roji, as he was able to come up with a plan to defeat Mick before the two envoys got killed. With the defeat of Mick, they were able to secure Imai and Rio's safety, and brought them back to their location. However, Teeki would not let this slide. He used Rio's forbidden mark to send a shadow version of himself to attack the group. This was where the first signs of Muhyo and Roji's aroropathy (which will be explained further in the app) showed. When Muhyo's tempering alone would not be enough to banish the shadow, Roji stepped in to stop Teeki's ranting, giving Muhyo the final push to get rid of it. While no one (Roji included) actually thought Roji helped in the process, Imai knew of the aroropathy and had a feeling it was involved.
Everyone returned to M.L.A. shortly after they received a text from Page signaling them to abort the mission. It turned out that the way to defeat Teeki (a stone known as the Writ of Passage) was actually hidden within the Association all along, and Ark would certainly be looking for it themselves to stop them. A ghost named Bobby ended up finding the Writ after another ghost known as the Gingko Hag dropped it, and conned Roji into believing that he would hand it over if Roji got him a certain artifact and freed him from the armor he was bound to. In reality, he intended to possess Roji to gain power. His plan was stopped by Muhyo, and in a change of heart due to Roji's kindness toward him, he sacrificed himself to stop the Gingko Hag from taking the Writ back. Shortly after, they were able to defeat the Gingko Hag herself, and all that was left was the remaining members of Ark who had entered the M.L.S.. Goryo and Ebisu took on Ivy the Ghost Master, the trio of judges Ginji, Yoichi and Imai fought Kid and Buhpu, while Muhyo, Roji and the others went after Teeki himself.
While Muhyo worked on fusing the Writ of Passage into his book of Magic Law, Roji and the others had to hold off Teeki for as long as possible. After defeating Kid and Buphu, the trio of judges along with Page had to fend off Enchu. The former task proved to be a bit harder, as Teeki was joined by the final Ark members Julio, who successfully planted a curse on the entire group that froze them in their tracks and made it impossible to hold Teeki off. The artifact that Roji kept from the Bobby arc came in handy here, as he was able to completely destroy the curse, allowing Muhyo to finish the Writ fusion and summon Hades himself to destroy Teeki. However, getting rid of Teeki would not be as easy as they originally thought. Teeki had fused a piece of himself into Enchu, so if the group wanted to destroy Teeki, they would have to somehow split him and Enchu apart or Enchu too would be killed. Muhyo and Roji managed to get Enchu to realize that his mother's death was actually caused by Teeki, so his hate for Muhyo was all for naught. Conflicted with confusion and shock, Enchu began to split from Teeki. However, Teeki refused to let go. But Roji was not going to let him take back control. Using the dagger he received from Bobby, he sliced through Teeki, effectively breaking him away from Enchu's body. This allowed for Hades to take him below, once and for all. Finally, Enchu would not have to live through hate. He had been saved.
After Enchu received his sentence for his crimes, Muhyo, Roji, and company were there to say goodbye before he was locked away within the Arcanum. It was a tearful goodbye, but it would certainly not be the last they would see of him. Now that Teeki had been defeated and Enchu was was saved at long last, Muhyo and Roji returned to their bureau to continue their work that they sorely missed.
Significant Plot Points for Roji:
Volume 2: receives his pen of wards.
Volume 2: displays his ability by using wards on several ghosts at once.
Volume 6: is put on leave by Muhyo and sent back to the Magic Law School.
Volume 6: (flashback) displays his ability by using an artifact designed for high ranking practitioners and becomes Muhyo's assistant.
Volume 6: discovers his significant amount of tempering.
Volume 7: defeats powerful ghost Bellocent.
Volume 7: is tested by Page and is taken under Muhyo's wing once again.
Volume 9: helps bring about the defeat of Tomas by diving into Styxsand and destroying his book of Magic Law.
Volume 9: swears to keep fighting after the death of Panza.
Volume 11: comes up with a "super fab tech" that allows for the defeat of Mick.
Volume 12: displays the power of aroropathy by helping Muhyo banish Teeki's shadow.
Volume 13: meets Bobby and eventually receives a dagger artifact.
Volume 15: banishes Julio's curse, effectively protecting Muhyo from failing at fusing the Writ of Passage with his book of Magic Law.
Volume 15: uses his dagger to separate Teeki from Enchu, allowing for Teeki to be sent to the Underworld.