Sasaki Kojirou (Shimosa)

Nameless Saber (セイバー・無銘, Seibā Mumei^?), also known as Sasaki Kojirou^WP (佐々木 小次郎^WP, Sasaki Kojirō^?), is a Human appearing in the Shimosa Subcategory Singularity.

Identity

Profile

The Nameless Saber is a Human native to the Shimosa Subcategory Singularity. He lived as a hermit in the mountains of Hitachi^WP, subsisting on grass and plants while cultivating rice.^[1] It wasn't until he crossed paths with the Drifter Amakusa Shirou Tokisada that he agreed to work as his bodyguard and help him construct Onriedo Castle.^[1][2] According to Amakusa, the sole reason the swordsman exists is to eventually have a climactic battle against Miyamoto Musashi.^[3]

A man who pursued a single skill to utter perfection and could cut a flying swallow several times in a single stroke. A man later generations are not certain ever existed. Just one look at him is enough for Miyamoto Musashi to identify him as her fated rival, the true Sasaki Kojirou.^[3]

Appearance

Despite being a vegetarian, Sasaki Kojirou has strong bones and muscles.^[1]

Personality

The Nameless Saber claims to have never had any attachment to life.^[2]

Sasaki wishes that if there is someone in the Throne of Heroes who resembles him, he could share his experience of fighting Musashi with them.^[3]

Role

Fate/Grand Order

Shimosa Subcategory Singularity

Sasaki Kojirou works as Amakusa's bodyguard.^[1][2]

Sasaki Kojirou encounters Musashi after the latter's duel with Munenori, and the two warriors would enter their fated duel. Their blades clash, and their power and skill are equal. Both their swords transcended time and space, yet their existence and concept are the exact opposite. The clash of the existences and concepts between Kojirou's Infinity and Musashi's Zero creates an infinite place, or perhaps, an empty place, where there is no time, space, karma, good or evil. A situation only those two who put their very souls into their blades can reach. Simultaneously, both of them surpass Infinity. Both of them would continue to try to kill each other over and over again for all of eternity. It is not the real world, and this moment will never be recorded or stopped for anyone. This place lies between the real world and the world of dreams. An impossible place where Infinity and Zero can intersect. A miraculous sword fight that is supposed to go on forever, never reaching its conclusion. But due to Ritsuka Fujimaru's presence and deciding his/her winner, Musashi was able to win the duel against Kojirou, the sword of Zero having destroyed the sword of Infinity.^[3]

Abilities

Amakusa Shirou Tokisada claims that Sasaki has reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship. He believes that there is no demonic sword in the entire Human realm that surpasses his own.^[3] Furthermore, he states that if Sasaki were to fight the group that defeated Rider of Kālasūtra Hell and Berserker of Saṃghāta Hell during the Shimosa Subcategory Singularity, it would be over too quickly, implying that he is vastly stronger than the two Heroic Spirit Swordmasters combined.^[2] Just one look at Sasaki was enough for Miyamoto Musashi to recognize him as a Sword Saint several times stronger than herself.^[3]

Combat

Sasaki Kojirou's ultimate technique is Tsubame Gaeshi, a sword that becomes one with the endlessness. It describes a path that accepts countless possibilities. Ordinarily, given the limits of time and space, only a single slash can be made at any given moment. His sword accepts that, yet simultaneously creates many other outcomes: a sword of infinity. A strike that pushes its existence to the ultimate transparency, yet still retains a tangible essence. That is Kojirou's Swallow Reversal; a sword designed to create a future that not even gods nor the Buddha could evade.^[3]

As Tsubame Gaeshi clashed with Miyamoto Musashi's Sword of Zero, their power and technique seemed evenly matched. Not only that. Their skills had surpassed everything; time, space, existence, essence. Each being the other's perfect mirror image. Had Ritsuka Fujimaru not broken the tie in Musashi's favor, the two samurai might have been trapped in the Realm of Infinite forever.^[3]

Development

Unlike his servant counterpart who is illustrated by Mata in Fate/Grand Order, Nameless Samurai is illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi.

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