Asuka Kiryu
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Character information
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Asuka Kiryu is a fortune teller and the protagonist of the Three Phase: The Forbidden Divination manga.
Skills
- Divination: Asuka is the current heir of the Three Phase Divination, a powerful divination technique developed in China during the Han dynasty. By reading a person's face and their two hands, Three Phase Divination is able to reveal all information about their life, both past and future. The technique also assigns a "fate number" from one to one hundred to every reading, which represents how hard it is for that individual to change their destiny.
Modus operandi
For years Asuka abused his divination abilities to acquire fame, power and wealth by openly advertising his powers and drawing rich and powerful individuals to him for advice. This came to an end when he one day read his own fortune and discovered he had one year left to live, and that this destiny had a fate number of one hundred. After that, he repented and started searching for a way to change his destiny, while posing as an incompetent street fortune teller and helping the people he came across. He uses his powers to gain information on the people he meets and then uses that information to discreetly manipulate events towards a peaceful conclusion, all the while playing the part of a bumbling idiot who happens to be in the right place at the right time by sheer coincidence, until it comes the time to reveal his plans.
According to the hidden scrolls of the Three Phase Divination, a fate number of one hundred can only be avoided by finding another individual with the same fate number, at which point the two destinies might be able to cancel each other out. Towards this objective, Asuka's goal is to be able to read the destiny of as many people as possible in the time he has left, to find one with the same fate number.
