Yuto Ijika

Yuto Ijika (in Japanse: 石鏡 悠斗, Ijika Yūto) is the main antagonist of an anime series Sousei no Onmyouji. He is Benio Adashino's older twin brother and Rokuro Enmado's old friend turned enemy. He is also the mastermind behind the tragedy that is called Hiinatsuki Tragedy

He is voiced by Murase Ayumu.

Appearance
Yuto is a young man with blue hair that is kept in a bowl cut hairstyle, he has gold colored eyes and wore an eye patch over his left eye and is seen wearing a white uniform with dark blue designs on the sides of the sleeves and on the zipper.

Before he had an eye patch, he had blue eyes matching the color of his hair.

2 years later, his appearance has not changed except he has gotten taller.

Personality
Yuto appears to be an antisocial kid in the surface when he was younger and has a friendly rivalry towards Rokuro. He used to care for Benio to the point that he gave her the hairpin and Benio said that he had a strong sense of justice. But it was all revealed to be a facade for him.

In reality, he remains very confident in his own power and he feels nothing for his little sister nor Rokuro and didn't hesitate to kill them if he had the occasion, he is cruel and fearless in front of his enemies. He is ruthless and shows no remorse in his actions and even belittled Benio by insulting their late parents who sacrifice themselves to save her while calling her pathetic. He also loves showing off his strength and whenever he has a moment of weakness, he makes it appear like it is a bluff in order to keep his strong image. He does not mind sacrificing countless people to become the strongest exorcist.

Despite all of this, Yuto has his polite demeanor to his enemies even if he's still ruthless to them. And he also had an twisted obsession towards Rokuro even if in reality he doesn't mind to torture him and break his spirit to transform Rokuro into a being called Cataclysm King that will bring the end for humanity itself.

Birth
Yuto was born as the elder twin brother of Benio Adashino by the two exorcist Saki Adashino and Hyouga Ijika (The name of the parents wasn't revealed in the anime). When Benio and Yuto are being brought, Abe-no-Seimei's Shikigami, Mikage, reveals that Abe-no-Seimei's plan was making Rokuro inherits the embodiment of Yin and Benio inherits the embodiment of Yang that was emitted from a tree called Ame-no-Mihashira so that they could bring the Miiko that could eradicate all of the Impurities and the world called Magano to create a better world. However, Seimei's plans went out of focus due to the existence of Yuto as Benio's twin brother ended up inheriting the Yin energy that could rival Rokuro's and as a result, Abe-no-Seimei felt that Yuto's existence felt unecessary to the world and ended up making Yuto compelled to be Rokuro's nemesis.

Hinatsukii Dorm History
Before he moved to Hiinatsuki Dormitory, Yuto and Benio's parents were killed by a Basara named Kamui when they went exorcising in a realm called Magano. After he got moved in into the Dorm. He appears to be antisocial to most of the kids in the dorm until one day, He met his future friend/rival called Rokuro. He used to found him to be the pinnacle of the person that he hates the most. But one day, a strange feeling began to stir Yuto like he almost met another version of himself when he and Rokuro got locked in a room by their teacher, Seigen for the punishment of what they done (It is unknown why). The room only has an incense that emits a special type of miasma which if exposed too much to it, The miasma will eat Rokuro and Yuto's body. However, they still manages to survive by controlling their spell power but it won't last long since they need to emit their spell powers for three days without rest and Yuto thought it was no penalty but an advanced training for spell power control.

Three days later, The spell power that Yuto and Rokuro emits are almost worn out and Yuto is getting disappointed that Rokuro is getting exhausted due to him finding Rokuro better than that. Yuto then almost began to fell asleep but Rokuro wakes him up since he doesn't want Yuto to die but Yuto just told Rokuro that if he let him die, Rokuro will have one less rival but Rokuro dismiss it and says that even if he hates Yuto, He's still considered him one of his comrades and a rival that will aim to the strongest with Rokuro and he won't let him die because of it. Yuto just said that Rokuro is stupid beyond redemption. After that, Seigen let the two escaped from the room. And this is where Yuto's obsession with Rokuro begins.

The Tragedy
2 years prior to the main storyline, Yuto learned a very forbidden dark art that few exorcist knew about it and that is turning people into a Corrupted Impurities. Yuto manages to trick most of the exorcist trainees by claiming that he would give them more power so that they could be on same tier as him and Rokuro but in reality, They were experimented by Yuto himself which corrupts the Exorcist trainees into a mindless monster that wreak havoc in the dormitory that ended up making the dormitory set ablaze and killed some of the student. As a result, Rokuro was forced to kill the trainees except Yuto and escaped the dormitory. Not only that, This also results in Rokuro's arm being corrupted and since then, the tragedy inflicts so much trauma to Rokuro himself that he abandoned his dream becoming an exorcist since he doesn't want to hurt innocent people (But it was temporary until he met Benio two years later). Around 18 Exorcist were died during the tragedy and it was called the "Hiinatsuki Tragedy".

2 Years later after the Hiinatsuki Tragedy
Much to Rokuro and Benio's surprise, Yuto survived the Hiinatsuki incident and then proceeds to greet the main cast when they are in the world called Magano. Enraged by the fact that Yuto is still alive, Rokuro confronts him and asked what did he done two years ago in the Hiinatsuki dormitory. Yuto then subdues Rokuro without use of tailsmans and just happily answered by saying that he just give the exorcist trainees more power but in reality he's just performing the dark ritual that corrupts the trainees into an impurity as a result. Back in the present, Benio is severely confused that why Yuto committed that atrocity since he used to be the figure that Benio looked up to and he used to be a kind and caring brother towards her. However, Yuto says that he has been deceiving everybody and never actually cared for his family at all. Rokuro then runs amok and punches Yuto, while Yuto continually repels Rokuro with a similar arm. After the battle that ends up getting nowhere, Benio intervenes and stops both of them. Yuto then asks Rokuro to join his side but Rokuro refuses, saying that he would rather die than serving him. Yuto then taunts Rokuro by saying that his biggest crime wasn't the fact that he failed to protect the Hiinatsuki Dormitory children but the biggest crime that Rokuro has done is the lack of commitment of being powerful and then he retreats. This resulted Rokuro and Benio to train harder and made a promise to defeat Yuto together.

He then appears again after the last battle that seemed going nowhere. Benio still asked why Yuto started the Hiinatsuki tragedy and she assumes that he would recreate another tragedy again. Yuto then asked her to shut up and the tragedy doesn't concerned her in the slightest. It was revealed that Yuto was the one behind the corruption of Rokuro's childhood friend into an impurity, Mayura Otomi, when she and Rokuro are going home by asking Rokuro about how does he like "his presents" by figuring out about a powerful Impurity to wreak havoc would be a test to see how strong Rokuro is. He ends up corrupting her but was disappointed to see that Rokuro panicked like an idiot. This angers Rokuro and Seigen since Mayura is Seigen's daughter and Seigen proceeds to attack Yuto which proves to be useless and ended up fatally wounded by Yuto. But, Seigen casts a barrier around Rokuro,Benio and the fainted Mayura since he won't let the Twin Star Exorcists die even if it costs his own life and asked to saved Mayura from harm. After this, Seigen resolves to blow himself up with Yuto but fails since Yuto still survives from harm. Rokuro and Benio managed to escape from the barrier which Yuto congratulates and managed to save Seigen who is still unconscious and missing a one arm. Rokuro then manages a punch of a shocked Yuto but he's still survives and waiting for Rokuro's answer to join his side or not by meeting him at the place that holds their memories together: Hiinatsuki Dormitory and then threatens to corrupt Rokuro's loved ones into Impurities and gives him one day to decide to join. He then proceeds to leave the scene and the second battle between him resulted in Seigen and Mayura received rehabilitation, where the former is undergoing surgery and the latter is still unconscious.

In his third appearance, Yuto was surprised that Rokuro kept his promise. While trying to catch Yuto, Rokuro and Benio discovered about the flowers that Yuto put on the table. Yuto said that it was the collection of worthless idiots and taunting Rokuro that he has a flower for him unless if Rokuro joined his side. After Yuto seeing that Benio is the one who will help Rokuro to defeat him, he sadistically remarks that he doesn't need Rokuro and will make him into a food to the impurities. Rokuro and Benio then proceeds to attack Yuto but it proved to be futile and as a result, Yuto reveals his Impurity form. He thought that their attack won't work until he almost vomits his own blood. Rokuro thought that the attack is working but Yuto lied and then proceeds to break Rokuro's arm. However, Benio attacks him until she got beaten up by his brother and then he manages to damage Benio's legs and sadistically stepping on of it, He then took her hairpin that he gave to her and then smashed it and he then left Benio to die by the Impurities. Yuto then proceeds to sadistically taunts Rokuro by saying that it's easier to achieve his goal with Rokuro on his side. Rokuro asked if he ever to join Yuto's side, Yuto promised to spare Rokuro's loved ones but it was in fact to be a lie by Yuto to move some things since he already had the body and a power of an Impurity. He then plans to steal the spell powers of all humans and plans to get stronger by killing them since he had a power more powerful than the exorcist himself but he's still needs more so as a result, He plans to drain the spell powers from everyone in the country.

Meanwhile, A Basara named Kamui offered his help to defeat Yuto by corrupting her body given that he doesn't like Yuto flaunting his powers. Benio was reluctant at first given that he is the Basara that killed her parents. But her determination to fight in Rokuro's side once more makes her accept it and after this, She prepared herself to defeat Yuto with her brand new corrupted legs. She prepared to attack Yuto and succeeded to make him injured although he still manages to fight back. But even if Benio succeeded to hurt him, Her new powers soon ran out since she is not yet strong enough to handle them and as a result, He delivered a beat down for Benio and then threatens to tear Benio's leg and arm slowly so that he could show them how stupid and powerless they are. Rokuro takes over again and, despite still receiving a beating from Yuto, begins to overpower Yūto, with the spirits of the Hiinatsuki Tragedy victims holding him up. Yuto is then sent to the dark abyss and defeated for the time being.

Prior the Timeskip
When Yuto was defeated, It was revealed that he was working with a Powerful Basara named Kuranashi and gives some informations on how to trap and drain the 12 Guardian powers so that Kuranashi himself could become powerful and merge the real world with Magano and Yuto himself is recovering in Ame-no-Mihashira tree.

Timeskip
2 years later, The Twin Star Exorcist were battling Kuranashi who overpowers them since he absorbs the powers of most of the Twelve Guardians. However, One of the Twelve Guardians Tatara manages to gravely injure Kuranashi. After he got gravely injured, He absorbs Yuto's body but backfires as he has been used all along by Yuto given that Kuranashi was trying to use him and he just waiting the opportunity to absorb the Basara and obtained the power he had accumulated.

After he drained the powers from the strongest Basara, He greets Rokuro and Benio and he's glad to see Rokuro even if the days had passed. However, He was disappointed to see that Rokuro is still hanging Benio. After the two exorcist seemingly defeated him with the Special Move, Yuto survives and says that people like Exorcist,Basara,Impurity or 12 Guardians and all of his surroundings are prey for him especially Rokuro. After he deflects the Twin Star Exorcist's attacks. He flees and is followed by them and arrived in a mysterious location that he claims to be the bottom of Ame-no-Mihashira tree (Other names are Chamber of Darkness/Beneath the fifth layer of existence) where the original exorcist, Abe no Seimei, lies dormant. He also claims that he absorbing all of Seimei's powers, killing him, and he also learned all of his knowledge and discovered the secret behind Rokuro's origins, trying to provoke him, but Benio helps him to calm down. Yūto then traps Benio into a barrier and attacks her until she is seemingly killed. Guilt-ridden and devastated over her apparent death, an enraged Rokuro suffers a strange transformation, when Yūto reveals that Rokuro is actually a Kegare. Just as Rokuro's transformation is about to reach it's peak, and the two boys are about to fight, Arima, who was supposed to be dead, appears and rescue the Twin Stars before retreating with them.

After Rokuro got recovered from the battle and was shopping at night, He met Yuto in the streets and Yuto threatens to destroy the entire world if Rokuro doesn't want to fight with him. This resulted Rokuro forcing to terminate his partnership with Benio and comes alone to the bottom of Ame-no-Mihashira tree to fight Yuto.

As Rokuro and Yuto began to fight, Yuto then tries to attack Rokuro emotionally by summoning the spirits of Hiinatsuki Dormitory and taunts him. However, Rokuro said that it's no use to pointing that out to him since he already thought about it nonstop and agonizing over it everyday. Yuto then claims that he has an hateful life due to surrounding by his parents who valued their ideals that Yuto hates,The annoying sister that he has and a mean teacher until he met Rokuro and said that it was the fate that met them together and he wants to stick with Rokuro forever. Yuto then proceeds to attack Rokuro afterwards but Rokuro still tries to beat him. However, when Rokuro was trying to use the special resonance move, Yuto then mocks Rokuro by saying that Benio isn't here and then proceeds to beat him so that he could try to make Rokuro forgot about Benio and saying that it was fun to beat Rokuro up and wished to do this forever.

Rokuro then questions Yuto about his motivations. Yuto then responds by saying he doesn't care about the future and the only thing that matters to him is to fight Rokuro since Yuto himself said that it was pointless for the exorcists to protect something precious to them since he saw the humanity is going to end soon due to the fact that Impurities themselves exists because of humans. As a result, Yuto then taunts Rokuro by asking him to kill all the humans together from the orders of Abe-no-Seimei and he also said that everyone had been dancing in the palm of Abe-no-Seimei's hand. Rokuro founds this to be bullshit and says that he doesn't take orders from anyone. Yuto then laughs about it and saying that Rokuro is the Cataclysm King all along who will bring the end to humanity and he won't run away from that fact. Rokuro then responds to Yuto by saying that he will fight against fate to the very end and then saying that Yuto doesn't seem like himself since Rokuro thought that Yuto threw away his original goal being the strongest exorcist. However, Yuto responded that his goal hasn't changed at all since after he defeats Rokuro, He will consume the spell power of him to make himself even more stronger. Rokuro just says that it's wrong since Yuto wanted to devour the spell power of everyone in the country to become the strongest exorcist and his selfish ambition ticks Rokuro off due to he found Yuto doesn't care about the future at all. Yuto then laughs and telling Rokuro it's stupid to give up that he had to laugh.

Rokuro then angrily punches Yuto and still asking about his motivations and goals since Yuto himself connected his knowledge to Abe-no-Seimei but he doesn't get to back down. Yuto then points out how self-righteous and judgmental Rokuro is by criticizing him and yet Rokuro didn't even criticize himself since when Rokuro was told that he and Benio became the Twin Star Exorcist, Yuto would knew that Rokuro himself would have been rebelled but Rokuro ended up acting like a sweet husband and wife and then points out again that Rokuro made a promise to defeat him with Benio but Rokuro ended up abandoned Benio in tears and came to see Yuto himself after he knew that he was the Cataclysm King. Yuto then proceeds to taunt Rokuro by saying that Rokuro was the one who let the fate beating him and also says that Rokuro still doesn't fully understand Yuto at all.

Yuto then manages to unlock his impurity powers and saying that the results of winning and losing doesn't matter to him since he wants to fight with Rokuro with everything that he had. He then threatens Rokuro that he will destroy the world if Rokuro doesn't want to fight with Yuto as best as he could. As a result, Rokuro then unlocks his Yin powers transform into the Cataclysm King and the delighted Yuto and Rokuro prepared their final battle until their death.

When they started to battling again, A flashback shown that Yuto and the Hiinatsuki children were playing Kagome-Kagome. Yuto is sitting there at the center feeling alone. After the flashbacks, Rokuro then gains the upper hand against Yūto who is in joy that he was punched by Rokuro himself and he found the pain of his body make him more alive than before. However, Yuto also said that it won't be enough to break him and felt that the prelude of the destruction has just begun. Rokuro then just stops after he had enough with Yuto since he has enough of his trick and doesn't want to fall for it again and also knew that Yuto wanted to make Rokuro losing his control, He also said that he doesn't want to fully transform into the Cataclysm King due to all the people who had support him through are with his side now and he’s fighting to protect them and he’s not going to kill Yuto and just want to stopping him and prevent him from going further in the wrong direction. However, Yuto founds this very disappointing and insulting to him and as a result, He releases all the energy of the Twelve Guardians and Basara stored inside his body to exceed his own limitations and then punches Rokuro. Rokuro kepts asking why Yuto went too far. Yuto still responded that he just wants to fight with Rokuro like back in the old days when they were purely competing with each other. Rokuro thought that him and Yuto could ended up as friends who would motivate each other and also used to be in the same direction. Yuto then responds that it was all Rokuro's fault and saying they were different altogether even if he used to think they are on the same direction. Yuto was also certain that with Rokuro’s help.....He could reach heights as an exorcist beyond what anyone else could reach but Rokuro betrayed his expectations.

Yuto then tells Rokuro to shut up and demands that Rokuro should have done what Yuto had told him to do Rokuro so that they would become the strongest and destroy the world. But Rokuro refuses to do so and then punches Yuto. Yuto then said that Rokuro was wrong and whether he wants it or not, he is the incarnation of Cataclysm King and said that they are the only two with the same kind of power. Yuto also said that no matter how strong he tried to get, He will never be at the same level as Rokuro and it's also the reason for Yuto why he decided to fight with each other to death and with that way, Yuto and Rokuro will be together forever and said that Rokuro is the prove of his existence. He claims that he loves Rokuro and if Rokuro doesn't give him the serious answer/killing him, Yuto's "love" will swallow Rokuro as a whole. But Rokuro's still refused to do that and fortunately, Yuto's spell power deteriorates. Rokuro declares himself the victor of the match and said it's all over. But Yuto claims that he still had some powers left to fight and still wants to play with Rokuro. Rokuro still refused to fight and says that he still had some friends and his loved ones who are waiting for him to go home.

However, Yuto then manages to pull one last trick by saying that he will make Rokuro forget about his friends and loved ones by threatening Rokuro to launch an attack in the human world by opening a Dragon Spot. As a result, Rokuro lost his sanity and then punches Yuto. Even with all the punches, Yuto is still flattered by the things inside Rokuro and still threatens Rokuro if he didn't punch him harder and as a result, Rokuro delivers a No-Holds-Barred beatdown to Yuto and delivers a final blow to him. Yuto is happy to get his last wish granted and then congratulates Rokuro that he lost his memories. Yuto then dies happily since his goal to bring the end of the world is complete and then he sangs the Kagome-Kagome song before he dies.

Powers and Abilities
Yuto has some several abilites like:


 * Tricking People:Yuto has an ability to trick everyone that surrounds him like for example that he tricks his friends in the Hiinatsuki Dormitory by claiming that he would give more power so that they would be on same tier as Rokuro and him but in reality, Yuto experiments on them and caused them to become a mindless impurity. He also has an ability to kept his facade to his sister for a long time
 * Dark Arts:Yuto studied Forbidden Exorcism in order to increase his power and was proven to be successful since he could beat one of the Twelve Guardians, Seigen and sometimes Rokuro and Benio with ease. His dark powers grants him:
 * Superhuman Durability,Endurance and Stamina:Yuto is being able to survive some of the ultimate attacks that Rokuro and Benio delivered and even after taking so many numerous blows that they delivered, Yuto still survives and didn't feel wounded at all.
 * Corrupting Humans into Impurities:Yuto is being able to corrupt some people into a mindless impurities that wreak havoc like when he did it in the Hiinatsuki incident or when he did it to Mayura Otomi, Rokuro's childhood friend.
 * Power Absorption:Yuto is being able to drain some powers from the people like what he did on Kuranashi who absorbed the power of Twelve Guardians. He also claimed that he absorbed the powers of Abe-no-Seimei himself.
 * Enchanted Gear: Being an Exorcist, Yuto is able to use Enchanted Gears to help him combat Impurities when fighting in Magano. His Enchanted Gear takes the form of a rocky Blue arm similar to that of an impurity. Yuto is also able to perform a full-body enchantment akin to the Twelve Commanders Celestial Gear Equip.
 * Corrupted Body:Thanks to the dark arts he studied, His body himself had become corrupted and become a strong impurity of his own.
 * Exceptional Fighting Strength:Yuto has a pretty great considerable hand-to-hand combat, especially when he was able to wound and punch Rokuro and Benio with his physical body
 * Taunting: He loves to sadistically taunts and play jokes to his enemies so that he could break them emotionally. Especially on what he did to Rokuro so that he could achieve his goal to make Rokuro a Cataclysm King and Benio due to the fact she founds her to be an annoyance.

Trivia

 * Impurities in Japanese version or sometimes English version's other name is Kegare
 * His eye color changed into yellow when he has an eye patch, and eventually gone rogue after the Hinatsuki Tragedy. A same case happened on Braig in Kingdom Hearts game franchise, where he also completely becoming a villain after getting an eye patch and had his eye color changed into yellow.
 * Yuto has some similarities with Nix from Lord of Illusions:
 * They have mastered black magic
 * They have some twisted and unhealthy obsession with the protagonist. (Nix's obsession is with Swan while Yuto's obsession is with Rokuro
 * They are both Omnicidal Maniacs who will bring the end of humanity
 * They have some hatred with the female protagonists
 * Yuto also have some similarities with Narukami Sakaki from Absolute Duo:
 * Both are sadists
 * Both set some orphanages/dormitory on fire. While Narukami himself murders most of the people in the orphanage, Yuto puts the kids into an And I must Scream situation by corrupting them into an Impurity and Rokuro ends up forcing himself to kill them
 * Both like to provoke/enraging the main protagonists
 * Both having a calm demeanor when trying to commit atrocities