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*[[You Are Too Late]]:Arrives too late to stop Dr. Genome from turning Makoto into an Another victim.
===Kengo Bojun/Blood Shepherd===
A ruthless bounty hunter acquainted with Akira and Emma, hired by SOL Technologies.to capture Playmaker's Ignis. In LINK VRAINS, he is known as Blood Shepherd. Uses a Drone deck, which relies on burn damage and direct attacks and locking down his opponent's Link Monsters.
Voiced by:Takanori Okuda (Japanese)
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*[[An Arm and a Leg]]: In the accident that crippled his mother, his arm was crippled, requiring him to get a mechanical one.
*[[Artificial Limbs]]: In real life and on his avatar
*[[Badass Cape]]: He wears a desperado style cape to go with his cowboy theme.
*[[Combat Pragmatist]]: Will do whatever he needs to get the job done, such as using his allies as decoys or rigging a duel disk AI to lie to his opponent.
*[[Cool Plane]]: ED3 showcases several 'Battle Drones' alongside him (which also appear in OP2).
*[[Dark and Troubled Past]]: He almost lost his mother and arm due to a malfunctioning AI in their taxi cab, and before that his Dad is absent or dead for unknown reasons, forcing his mother to work.
*[[Decomposite Character]]: Wherein Shoichi embodies Shun Kurosaki's Big Brother Instinct and Dark and Troubled Past, Blood Shepherd embodies every negative and/or violent aspect of Kurosaki, except reckless vengeance. Their main choice of monsters are pretty similar (the mechanical 'Raidraptors' vs the 'Battle Drones' which are literal hunter drones). He has demonstrated great dedication to hunting down Playmaker very much like how Kurosaki initially hunted down any Fusion user he came across. To drive it further home, his civilian identity wears clothes that are almost identical to Kurosaki's and hides his face with shades and a scarf, with the colors being the main difference between their outfits. In addition, Drone monsters function a lot like Raidraptors, implementing burn damage, direct attacks, etc.
*[[Disappeared Dad]]: His father is nowhere to be seen.
*[[The Dreaded]]:According to Akira, Blood Shepherd has a reputation for being a ruthless bounty hunter who mercilessly hunts his prey.
*[[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]:
**Kengo loved his mother greatly, and her near-death on her birthday after their AI-Taxi crashed drives his anger towards AI.
**Implied for Emma. He and Ghost Girl appear to have a hidden connection and when he saved her from the hacker's bomb, he called her by her real name before leaving.
*[[The Faceless]]: In the real world, Blood Shepherd covers his face with a pair of sunglasses and a scarf. His face is fully revealed in a flashback, and he's fairly normal looking.
*[[Foil]]: A surprising one for Revolver, of all people.
**Both of their parents they've loved very much were rendered comatose as a result of an incident involving AI; Revolver's father after trying to create the Ignis in order to make the world a better place, unlike Kengo's mother who ended up hospitalized due to an AI malfunctioning.
**Both of them detest AI, but wherein Ryoken is a Knight Templar who despises any and all AI and tried to destroy the world's network just to ensure the 6 Ignis would never be a threat (never mind the fact that he uses the Cyberse type Topologic series of Link Monsters), Kengo is a Bounty Hunter who despises AI, but tacitly accepts that an AI that is under direct human control is still useful.
**For all his talk about his comrades being sacrificed for the Tower of Hanoi, it is Revolver himself who rendered them in such a state. Blood Shepherd blatantly used Akira and Ghost Girl as bait during a mission, but ultimately protected Ghost Girl when their target tried to retaliate.
**Even their parents, for that matter. Dr. Kogami is a scientist whose project to create AI that could solve any and every human problem ultimately resulted in the company that he worked for turning against him and using them to gain massive wealth. Kengo's mother is heavily implied to be a simple middle-class single parent near retirement.
**Both of them caused their parents' downfall unwittingly. When he was just eight, Ryoken secretly reported the Lost Incident/Hanoi Project to the police, which resulted in the six children that were kidnapped to be released, but ultimately got the attention of SOL's higher-ups who infected Dr. Kogami with a virus that resulted in him getting bed-ridden; Kengo's mother was rendered hospitalized after Kengo convinced her to use an AI-driven taxi.
**Both of them devoted their lives to their parents' well-being. Revolver spent his entire later childhood and most of his teenage years for the sake of making amends for his father's condition. Kengo was willing to give up on a chance for college just so he can take care of his mother.
**Revolver had roughly a thousand subordinated, Kengo on the other hand either operates solo or in very small groups.
*[[Freudian Excuse]]: He believes that AI should be controlled and overseen by humans, because on his mother's birthday, the taxi they were in was AI controlled but malfunctioned and caused them to drive into an otherwise avoidable accident, rendering her paraplegic and his arm nerve dead.
*[[Hand Blast]]: His mods allow him to fire energy blasts out of his hand to take out opponents.
*[[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Ruthlessly deals with the two delinquent penguins, who were hackers that modded themselves to hurt others, and has also picked a fight with him.
*[[Mage Killer]]: His Drone deck has a lot of means to counter Link Monsters, which spells trouble for him when Playmaker Fusion Summons.
*[[Momma's Boy]]: He just wanted to work to support his mother so she wouldn't have to work anymore...and then she nearly died.
*[[Nice Hat]]: Dons a light purple hat with numerous pointy edges and green trimmings.
*[[Online Alias]]: Blood Shepherd.
*[[Only in It For the Money]]: Lampshaded by Ghost Girl; Blood Shepherd affirms that monetary rewards are what mark his status as a professional bounty hunter.
*[[Otaku]]: Called a military/weapons otaku by Ai, and treats his Drone monsters as if he were a commanding officer from afar.
*[[Pet the Dog]]: In a flashback, despite previously using Akira and Emma as decoys against a hacker, he steps in to protect Emma from the hacker's bomb, pushing her out of the way and shooting it down.
*[[Purple Is Powerful]]: His civilian persona has purple hair, his avatar is rife with purple, and is repeatedly noted to be a formidable bounty hunter.
*[[Rule of Three]]: He often counts to three but never acts on the third count.
*[[Space Cowboy]]: Blood Shepherd's avatar is that of a futuristic armored cowboy.
*[[Start of Darkness]]: The near loss of his mother turned him into a brutal laconic Bounty Hunter that ruthlessly destroys hackers.
*[[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: Prior to the incident which crippled himself and his mother, Kengo was an upbeat guy who cared very much for his mother's wellbeing.
*[[Villain Respect]]: He commends Playmaker when he gets past his two turn count.
===Kenmochi and Yoroizaka===
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*[[Hoist by His Own Petard]]:Both Playmaker and Soulburner circumvent the trap activated by SOL Technologies like it's no one's business. The same cannot be said for Kenmochi and Yoroizaka, however, as the trap blows up on them, sending them flying off into the distance.
==Den City==
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