The InrouWP (印籠, Inrou?), also called Pillboxes, are items created by Kama/Mara appearing in the Edo Singularity.
Characteristics
The inrou are historical pillboxes used as identification. The three hollyhock leaves represent the Tokugawa Clan's crest.[1] However, while the Inrou in the Edo Singularity look identical to the original ones, they are actually the transfigured Souls of great shogun.[2][3]
When Kama/Mara first arrived to the Edo Singularity, she infiltrated the Ooku, the most guarded place in Edo Castle. There, she created a single room, a part of her in a way, that she could manipulate at will. After that, she invited the current Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, into her chambers, tricking him into falling under her control. Once Iemitsu was fully charmed, Kama gained control of his Soul and transformed him into the first Pillbox. Kama would go on to use it as an Anchor for her false Ooku and gather more materials. She started by following his bonds across Edo, turning everyone inside Edo Castle and the surrounding buildings into construction materials. Then, she continued by followings his connections vertically, across time and space, to gather people who shared links to the Tokugawa Clan and the Shogunate as well. The most significant souls, those of the the Shogun in the past and the future, were also transformed into pillboxes. However, Kama decided to only use them as guidelines to make the new floors, so she didn't really need them as anchors.[2] In the end, she just repurposed all the pillboxes, excluding Iemitsu's, into Catalysts to create and power Ghost attendants.[1][2]
In reality, the pillboxes' final functionality was to lure Ritsuka Fujimaru deeper into depravity. Only a Tokugawa could use other fellow Tokugawa as their personal assistance, so when Fujimaru collected all the pillboxes and used them to get through the Ooku, he inadvertently linked his existence to that of the Tokugawa on a conceptual level. This caused Kama/Mara's Tokugawafication to intesify, bringing her closer to her ultimate goal of maturing as a complete Beast.[4] Unaware of this, Sion Eltnam Sokaris devised Anti-Tokugawa countermeasures by using the Tokugawa Inrou.[5] These pillboxes were made out of Souls from deceased Shogun, which granted each one the same properties as the shogun's reign they represent. After becoming aware of this, Sion pointed out that the inrou associated to Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the man who abolished the Tokugawa shogunate, should contain the power to bring Kama's false Ooku to an end as well.[3] After collicting every single pillbox, Sion added them to Ritsuka Fujimaru's Mystic Code, granting its wavelength an opposite Magecraft phase to the Tokugawafication. She also condensed it into a projectile attack, like Gandr. While Sion's barrier didn't get rid of Fujimaru's Tokugawafication, it was able to temporarily stop Kama's influence on him from getting stronger.[5] However, using the Inrou proved to be a double-edged sword. The pillboxes became nothing but blackboxes with both positives and negative forces meddling with Fujimaru's mind. Only the one with the higher output would have prevailed, and Sion's barrier wasn't up for the task. Had Matsudaira Nobutsuna not completely netutralized Fujimaru's Tokugawafication through the Hanafuda Cards backdoor program created by Nankoubou Tenkai, Kama would have become a fully-matured Beast in a matter of minutes.[4]
Every single Inrou corresponds to a different Shogun of the Tokugawa Clan:
- First Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu[6]
- Second Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada[7]
- Third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu[2]
- Fourth Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna[8]
- Fifth Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi[1]
- Sixth Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu[6]
- Seventh Shogun Tokugawa Ietsugu[9]
- Eighth Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune[10]
- Ninth Shogun Tokugawa Ieshige[6]
- Tenth Shogun Tokugawa Ieharu[11]
- Eleventh Shogun Tokugawa Ienari[12]
- Twelfth Shogun Tokugawa Ieyoshi[13]
- Thirteenth Shogun Tokugawa Iesada[14]
- Fourteenth Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi[6]
- Fifteenth and Final Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu[3][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Two: The Audience, Part Four
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Seven: God of Love
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Eight: The End of Tokugawa
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Ten: Ooku, Part One
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Nine: The Final Tokugawa
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Ten: Ooku, Part Two
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Giant Wandering Maidservant, and a Trifling Illusion (A)
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Three: Path of Insincerity, Part Four
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Interlude: The Truth of Materials, Part Two
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Four: Remedy for Intoxication, Part Four
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Five: Key To Steal, Part Three
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Act Six: Myriad of Women, Part Three
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Giant Wandering Maidservant, and a Trifling Illusion (B)
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Interlude: The Truth of Materials, Part Three