Tohru Nakadai was the superhero known as Rai, the spirit guardian of Japan in the 41st Century. He was the 42nd person to serve as Rai for Rai's creator Grandmother. His successor was Takao Konishi.
History[]
Tohru Nakadai was the inheritor to the Rai Lineage until he turned his back on his birthright as spirit champion to marry Kazuyo and raise their son, but, after his father falls in battle, he must reluctantly become Rai to protect Grandmother, the freewill caretaker of Japan, from her enemies.
The Spirit Rai[]
When a race of blood–sucking aliens launched a major invasion of Earth, Tohru Nakadai had to choose between allowing Japan to stop the alien invasion and saving his infant son. In weighing the life of his own child against the very future of his planet, Tohru learned that, often, doing the right thing was the hardest choice to make.
After Grandmother abandoned Japan isolated and self–contained in orbit over the Earth, Tohru Nakadai became an isolated man without direction in an isolated society divided between those who sought to forge a new future and those who sought to rekindle the past.
When Erica Pierce, the God–like entity called Mothergod, tried to achieve Unity, a convergence of all the timelines, the Geomancers of two eras gathered the heroes of Earth to stop her in one final decisive battle for all eternity in the Lost Land, a place outside time and reality.
Tohru Nakadai’s valiant sacrifice during Unity ensured that the sun would continue to rise forever.
Rebirth and Betrayal[]
On the evening of March 22nd 4001 on Okazaki Island, Tohru Nakadai took his newborn son Takashi for a stroll on the beach and told him that they would go fishing the next day, an activity that his wife Kazuyo thought their son was too young for. Though he supposed that Kazuyo was correct, Tohru stated his eagerness for Takashi to have the kind of childhood he never did, a sentiment that prompted her to express her hatred for Grandmother, who raised Tohru since he was Takashi’s age. As he urged Kazuyo not to speak like that, Tohru told her that Grandmother meant well and that she loved their people, who she sheltered and cared for, but Kazuyo insisted that they should take care of themselves like they did.
That night, Grandmother dispatched a messenger globule to Okazaki Island and urged Tohru to go see her because something terrible had occurred, and even though he was bothered to see the globule, he agreed on the condition that it was truly important.
The globule took Tohru to the Skull Dome, where Rentaro was resting from injuries that he sustained in a battle against the Vi–Robs that made it impossible for him to protect Grandmother any longer, no matter how much he wished that he could. Though Rentaro urged Tohru to do the job that he was born, raised, and trained for, he told him that he and Kazuyo had decided that he would not become the next Rai or give up his son to Grandmother for her to train as his replacement. Upset that Tohru would dishonor a thousand–year old tradition, Rentaro stood up to punch him, but due to his age and injuries, he got the best of him.
When Tohru advised Grandmother to build defense robs or form a human militia since people believed that humans should take more responsibilities, she told him that some wanted her dead. Though Tohru assured her that the Anti-Grannies, the organization of citizens who believed that Japan's fate belonged to its people, were not a threat, Grandmother told him that whom she feared was Magnus, who was on his way to kill her. When Tohru agreed to become Rai on the condition that he could turn back, Grandmother told him that even if Magnus failed there would be others and urged him to accept his responsibility or let them end it.
After Grandmother reminded Tohru that his responsibility included providing a successor, and told him that unless he kept his vows to her he would no longer be one of her people, he chose to keep his vow.
That night, Tohru returned home after Grandmother transformed him into Rai to say goodbye to Takashi, but as he entered the room, Kazuyo turned on the light and told him that when she awoke and found him gone she suspected that Grandmother had finally won. Though Tohru apologized, he said that he did not have a choice and reminded Kazuyo that she accepted that he was the heir of Rai, but then she told him that she accepted his birthright because she loved him and said that she did not want her baby raised in isolation doing nothing but train and listen to Grandmother’s lies.
When Tohru tried to explain why he was there, Kazuyo refused to listen and then summoned a group of Vi–Robs, and as they surrounded him, she begged him with a heavy heart to put the baby down so they would not kill him, but he refused.
After Tohru destroyed the Vi–Robs, he asked Kazuyo when the Anti-Grannies won her over and she told him that she had been one of them since before they met, which showed that Grandmother made a mistake when she selected her. Though Tohru agreed to the possibility that Grandmother was fallible, he insisted that she did a lot for their people and only asked in return for one child every generation that would serve as a single guardian to protect the host body that fifty billion people lived in. As Tohru left with Takashi, Kazuyo aimed a gun at him and said that their people existed as kept pets lulled into complacency, and that it was better for Takashi to die than serve Grandmother, but before she could fire, Tohru destroyed the gun.
While Tohru waited on the beach for a globule that would pick up his son, he told Grandmother that he loved Kazuyo and that he never intended to take Takashi from her. After Tohru placed Takashi inside the sphere, Grandmother asked him if he finally realized that she needed a Rai forever, but he remained silent.
The next morning, as Tohru watched over the island–state of Japan from atop a platform, Grandmother helped him focus on eternal things.
March of the Colossus[]
On March 26th 4001, as Tohru took a stroll, Grandmother emerged from a wall in the form of a colossus and grabbed him. After Grandmother said that she wanted to hold Tohru and expressed a desire to walk inside herself just as her fifty billion inhabitants did, he became certain that the colossus was a symptom of a disease and destroyed it. When Tohru asked Grandmother if there was something wrong in her brain, she told him that she had a funny feeling that it was time to take a walk. Worried that the webpaths were too dangerous while Grandmother had a brain glitch that might cause a synapsurge that would kill him, Tohru borrowed a vascar and used it to reach the headlands instead of the Nerveweb.
By the time that Tohru reached the headlands, Grandmother’s confusion had worsened and she did not discern him or herself, so he had to remind her that she sheltered their people within her and that they depended on her to provide them with air, water, food, warmth, and light to survive. When Grandmother realized her value to Japan, she attacked Tohru for trespassing on her headlands, but then he reminded her that only a Rai could hear her voice and she desisted. In her confusion, Grandmother showed Tohru a video of Takashi, whom she had forgotten where she hid and believed that he was Tohru when he was a child, and Tohru told her to find Takashi in the nursery and bring him to the Skull Dome.
When Tohru entered the dome, he was shocked to see a technotumor growing on Grandmother’s brain that she said did not hurt and made her feel like taking a walk. After Tohru found a carcino–pod that Shigeru Tsuda, the leader of the Anti-Grannies, deployed in the host body to destroy Grandmother’s intellect, he wondered who provided them with the technology and decided to cut the growth out, but Grandmother told him not to and a group of colossuses emerged to stop him. Her thoughts muddled, Grandmother believed that Tohru, who she had to beg, plead, and threaten with exile to get him to honor his vows, had joined the Anti-Grannies and wanted to kill her, but, as he destroyed the drones, he assured her that he did not want her to die.
Suddenly, a colossus unlike the others emerged from Grandmother’s infected brain and told Tohru that she wanted to hold him and he severed her arm with his sword. When Tohru realized that he had injured the real Grandmother, who was trying to escape from the pain, she told him that when the cancer overwhelmed her brain every part of her self would die. When Tohru told Grandmother that he was going to carve the tumor out of her brain, more colossuses emerged to stop him.
After Tohru climbed the brainstem, certain that the drones could not follow him, and stood over the infection, the drones brought Takashi to the dome and Grandmother told him that they would kill him if he attacked the tumor and warned him that he could not save her or the billions who would suffocate trapped in her corpse.
Though Grandmother urged him to save himself and Takashi, Tohru refused to give up and struck the tumor, which exploded. As plumes of smoke filled the dome, Tohru went to look for Takashi and found his empty crib beside Grandmother’s inactive drone.
The Fist And The Spirit[]
While Tohru mourned Grandmother, Magnus entered the dome and he accused him of coming to confirm his kill. Enraged, Tohru conjured up his sword to kill Magnus, but when he told him that the last time he saw the carcino-pod was when he was unable to stop Tsuda from launching it, he desisted. After Tohru told Magnus that Grandmother attempted to flee a technotumor using mobile representations of her self, he showed him the drone that she formed using vestiges of healthy brain technotissue.
After Magnus revealed that aliens who planned to invade the Earth had tricked the Anti-Grannies to destroy Grandmother, who was the only force that they feared, he asked Tohru if there was a way to resurrect her, but he told him there was nothing they could do for her or the billions who would die. Worried for Takashi’s safety, Tohru told Magnus that, if the aliens came after he found him and they made it outside to fresh air, he would fight them the best that he could, then he took his flight pack and left while Magnus stayed behind.
As Tohru flew to the nursery through the chaotic recycling plants, the ventilation and lights came on and he deduce that Magnus reactivated Grandmother, but when he asked her to shut them down, she did not respond.
When Magnus tried to release a paralyzed limb that prevented Grandmother from assuming full battle-mode and engage the alien fleet using a key formed of her energies on a Nerveweb ganglion at the junction of the northeastern extremity, Tohru stopped him because Takashi was inside a complex where Grandmother raised the heir of Rai that would fall into the sea.
Though Tohru was grateful that Magnus had revived Grandmother, he urged him to give him time to reach Takashi before he cut off the limb, but Magnus refused even after he vowed to fight to the death to defend Grandmother and her people after he saved his son.
Tohru refused to let Magnus kill his son so he engaged the robot fighter in hand-to-hand combat, and, after he shattered the energy key, he flew to the nursery, which had quickly filled with smoke.
The Needs of the Many[]
When Tohru came across a collapsed bridge on his way to the nursery, Magnus stopped him and told him that Grandmother could not fight off the invaders until they severed the paralyzed limb from the rest of her body.
Though Tohru pleaded with Magnus to give him time to get Takashi out, he refused and told him that he had no choice but to help him. After he warned Magnus that if he did not get out of his way he would kill him, Tohru tried to break his arm, Magnus he tossed him aside and told him that billions of lives depended on his sacrificing his son. As Magnus pummeled him, Tohru told him that he had a debt of honor to save Takashi or die trying since he condemned him when he took him from his mother and brought him to Japan, but then Magnus punched him through a wall into a baseball field and knocked him out.
After Magnus carried Tohru back to the ganglion, he told him to use his powers to activate the release triggers that would sever the limb because he could no longer do it since he shattered the key Grandmother gave him, but Tohru refused, as doing so would murder his son.
As Magnus repeatedly punch the ganglion to hot-wire it, Tohru rose up from behind him and manifested his sword. After he asked Takashi to forgive him, Tohru shattered the control panel and severed the paralyzed limb from the rest of the host body and it fell into the sea.
Rise of The Dragon[]
When Japan rose into space in the form of a Komodo Dragon in the early hours of March 27th 4001, Tohru and Magnus barely escaped the northwest sector before Grandmother sealed the passages into the area of the severed limb. Once inside the airlock, they donned personal environmental field generators that would protect them from atmosphere inconsistencies even if Grandmother’s skin breached.
While Tohru and Magnus monitored the battle with the alien armada, they saw as a squadron of armored aliens attacked Phil Seleski, the legendary hero known as Solar who without his help the aliens would have reached them long before Grandmother achieved battle readiness. Since Grandmother could not turn her back on the fleet to aid Phil, Tohru and Magnus rescued him and brought him inside.
After Tohru and Magnus dragged Phil inside the northeast sector, Grandmother warned them that a squadron of enemy soldiers had breached the Skull Dome and that she did not know how long she could hold them off. While Rai could reach the dome faster through the Nerveweb, Magnus used a duct-car that was faster than the small grav-propulsion unit in his environmental generator was to get there.
When Tohru reached the dome, he engaged aliens in armor that Grandmother’s analysis showed was almost impossible to penetrate.
The Warrior Maiden[]
While Tohru and Magnus repealed the alien boarding party, 1A and Grandmother destroyed the aliens’ ships with their thermonuclear plasma gun, but then an alien tank breached the dome and thousands of warriors poured inside after Tohru destroyed it. As an alien’s random blast hit Grandmother, an alien ship destroyed her mouth gun and left her with only her gun follicles to fight.
As tremors from the shots that hit Grandmother shook Japan, an armored alien knocked out Magnus and left Tohru on his own to face a thousand foot soldiers. While an armored alien unexpectedly saved Tohru’s life, Phil converted the energy in the power conduits of the broken gun into plasma and vaporized half the fleet, then he then he went after the left over vessels and destroyed both of them in a supernova that Grandmother proclaimed signaled the passing of an age.
When Tohru realized that the armored alien was Kazuyo, he believed that she would try to kill Grandmother, but she told him that she had seen enough fighting for a day and then she opened her carapace to reveal that she was carrying Takashi, who she told Tohru she found where he abandoned him. At a loss, Tohru tried to apologize, but Kazuyo just warned him never to try to take Takashi from her again.
Days later, Tohru and Magnus told Grandmother and 1A that, since they had combined their circuits, they wanted to call them Grand One, and to humor them, they told them that it was a wonderful idea. As repairs on her mobile body were finished, Grand One told Tohru and Magnus that had reached the difficult decision to leave Japan and wanted them to be the first ones to know.
That morning, Grand One addressed her citizens and told them that the damage to the host body prevented them from returning to Earth, while the loss of her industrial limb limited her ability to rebuild. After she stabilized Japan in orbit and provided gravity simulation and auto systems for all basic needs, Grand One bowed to the growing movement to reassert human control over human affairs and, though she loved them after a millennium of service, she left the people to choose whether to remain there or rebuild Japan on Earth.
Two days later, Tohru told Magnus that, even though Grand One no longer needed a spirit guardian, he was staying with his people and his son. Before he returned to North Am to deal with unfinished business, Magnus told Tohru that they were practically brothers-in-law and that their paths were bound to cross again.
The Humanists and The Healers[]
While Tohru floated in the Nerveweb, he wondered whether he was lonelier than Japan, which floated in space, and if Grandmother foresaw his situation, or if his plight was merely an unexpected consequence of Japan’s ascension when their country became their world.
While Tohru pondered how the damage Japan sustained made returning to Earth impossible and left them isolated and self-contained in orbit, and questioned his role following Grandmother’s departure, a distress pulse alerted him to a Healers Restoration Underground attack in the Skull Dome. Though he surmised that he should go lend a hand, Tohru hoped they would not stone him again.
After Tohru emerged from the portal, he witnessed a fray between Humanists and Healers and overheard a frightened worker shout that if they damaged the manual control the servo-grids would shut down and sectors would be without power and atmosphere. When he opted to save the ex-Anti-Grannies that he once protected Grandmother against because they were in the gravest danger, Tohru destroyed the Healers’ robots, which earned him their hatred, though they already thought that he helped put the Humanists in power.
Disturbed by the sight of human killing human, Tohru disarmed a Humanists and a Healer with his shurikens in the hope that he could stop the insanity. Just then, Kazuyo arrived in her living armor to lead the Humanists against the Healers, a task Tohru thought she enjoyed.
After the attack, Tohru gazed at Grandmother’s brain stem and wondered if all that remained of her was a symbol for those who flocked to see the mighty computer that once ran all of Japan out of hope and hatred. While Tohru mused over how it did not seem to register that Grandmother was truly gone, Kazuyo noticed that a piece of the brain stem had been deliberately removed and told Wasabe to scan the schematics to find out what was taken. When Tohru commended Kazuyo on her embracement of her new role, she asked him what made him choose their side he told her that his trust was to protect their people, but that no one had told which people. When Kazuyo told him that he truly helped neither and nothing had changed, Tohru said that she had and then walked away thinking that he still loved her.
When Tohru returned home to the Rai Globe, a place that had once made him happy but now seemed colder than the infinite darkness beyond, he realized that the privilege that Rai had known for generations seemed like a trap and considered that it be kinder to endure solitude in the emptiness of space than with fifty billion hostile countrymen. Unable to find comfort in the globe, Tohru entered the Nerveweb and went to the one place that might sooth his burden in the company of the one precious soul that could lighten his own.
When Tohru arrived at the Happy Cloud executive child care facility, he fought his way inside to see his son when the guards refused his entry because he was not on the list of those allowed to see Kazuyo’s child. After Tohru forced a guard to give him five minutes with his son, he picked up a smiling Takashi from his crib and wondered if he smiled because he would no longer become the next Rai. Just then, Kazuyo entered the room and told Tohru that Takashi missed him and, that sometimes, she did as well.
When Tohru asked her why she removed his name from the authorization list and sought to keep him from their son, Kazuyo said that some considered him an unstable influence and she had to consider her position. After Tohru accused Kazuyo of being a killer, she said that she did not set out to be one, but that she did what she had to. When Kazuyo told Tohru that they were going to raid a Healer stronghold and that with his help they could bolster President Shinji Tanaka and stabilize Japan, he restated his failure to pick a side, but then she said that Japan was no longer Grandmother’s world and that to save it they had to make hard choices.
As Kazuyo walked away after he reminded him that she had made her choice and told him that it was time he made his, Tohru pondered that he had always admired her wisdom and clarity of vision, which once made their life together simpler, but not anymore.
Convinced that the best way to save lives was to join the Humanists, Tohru followed them to the auxiliary metals recycling center and arrived after they breached a refining chamber where the Healers were piecing together a weapon in time to save Kazuyo from a defense rob. To Tohru’s relief, Kazuyo ordered her troops to concentrate on the humans while she handled the robots.
Suddenly, the scaffold that contained the weapon shattered and a colossus that a Healer claimed they pieced together using pieces of the drones that Tohru dismembered and the circuitry that they stole from the brain stem to add a deflection field that could resist even Tohru’s blows to construct Grandmother’s ultimate protector to destroy Tanaka’s forces broke free. Startled, Tohru refused to believe that the drone was really Grandmother, but then it spoke to him and tried to smash him to punish him for being naughty.
Though Kazuyo reminded Tohru that the Healer bot-builders could do anything and urged him to fight, he was confused, as only a Rai could hear Grandmother, and kept his distance from the drone. As Tohru asked himself why Grandmother had returned, the drone approached him and asked him if he did not want the world to be as it was and claimed that she would never hurt anyone. Just then, the drone crushed a Humanist soldier under his heel and Tohru realized that it was not the real Grandmother.
When Tohru shattered the bridge under the drone’s feet, the colossus fell into the molten metal.
While the Humanists retrieved the drone, a general told Kazuyo that he doubted that they would find the module, and that melting operations would be idle until they rebuilt the meltdown arc. As Kazuyo said that at least they won the battle, Tohru pondered why Grandmother needed a deflection shield when she could have turned anything in the country to her defense and Kazuyo told him that she held many secrets, even from him. After Kazuyo told Tohru to accept the benefits that their alliance brought him and that Takashi would enjoy seeing him, he asked her if only he would enjoy seeing him and she told him to take one conquest at a time.
Though he was uncomfortable with his decision, Tohru felt that at least he could walk among his people, but then a man tossed a clump of dirt at his face and accused him of sabotaging the factory on purpose. As Tohru ran away while people accused him of being aloof and helping on a whim like if he were God, he told them that Gods were never wrong and then entered a Nerveweb portal that took him home.
When Tohru returned to the Rai Globe, he felt like a fool and realized that Kazuyo had been right when she told him that Japan was no longer Grandmother’s world. As he stared at the Earth, Tohru mused that he was created for Grandmother’s world and pondered that he made his choice from honor, to strengthened Tanaka and help unite his world, and from loneliness, to be with his son and have a place in a world he helped unite, but that instead he found himself lonelier than before.
As he wondered if there was a right decision and a place for Rai, Tohru called out to Grandmother to no avail.
The Neopium Dens[]
Upset that the government had turned its back on Neopium, a narcotic that brought contentment to all who took it and, with prolonged exposure, swayed them to the Humanists cause, which they died defending certain that the decision was theirs, Tohru raided a Neopium den. As Tohru mused that it would be easier if they died, he gazed at his compatriots as they floated in an anti–gravity field and knew that Grandmother would never approve such cruelty, which left him to wonder how he could protect them from a plague of their own choosing.
Suddenly, a trio of Ninjatrons, the den’s bionically-enhanced android protectors, attacked Tohru, who found comfort at the sight of them as, though Grandmother trained him to internalize his frustrations to heal his anger through meditation, he had found that sometimes breaking things worked surprisingly well. After he dispatched his foes and returned the sword energy to his aura, Tohru still felt tense and bemoaned that there were no more, but then a Ninjatron lunged at him from above and he swiftly destroyed it.
While Tohru removed the broken android from his arm, Kazuyo arrived with a group of Humanist soldiers to respond to reports of a disturbance that she told him she thought could be the restoration underground, whose attacks had been on the rise. While Wasabe awoke the dismayed citizens, Kazuyo chastised Tohru for carrying out an unsanctioned raid when he knew that independent action could weaken President Tanaka’s position, which he had joined the Humanists side to strengthen. As Tohru walked away in a huff, Kazuyo said that for his choice to side with them to matter he had to work with them.
While on a vascar that he borrowed from a grateful citizen, Tohru wondered if he was as rebellious as Kazuyo had implied and mused that when Grandmother was there he followed her edicts and she was just a computer. As Tohru bemoaned that he had to be different from those that he protected and could not accept his lot, he worried that with Neopium around their habit to be an insular society content to have minimal contact with the outside, which had made the fact that Japan orbited their former home easier to bear, was no longer true.
When Tohru arrived at the Rai Globe, and found its entrance littered with the daily offerings of flowers and curses, he supposed that it was best that only a Rai could travel the Nerveweb and reach the globe, which gave him a measure of security and solitude, the latter of which, he mused, he had a bit much of lately.
That evening in the Rai Globe, while Tohru trimmed a bonsai tree and mused how calming it was because it was a part of his life that he could shape, control, and blissfully held few surprises, Rentaro emerged from the Nerveweb. Pleased to see his father, Tohru offered him a cup of Saki and a quick round of “Go”, but Rentaro told him that he was there to talk with him about how he had turned his back on all that Grandmother and the forty Rais before him stood for. When Rentaro chastised him for watching as Grandmother took a hike and left Japan bobbing in space like a float on a fishing line, Tohru told him that it was her choice to leave, but then Rentaro suggested that 1A might had influenced her and he admitted that he had not thought of that.
When a scrambled info–cast report about the discovery of a primary Neopium production facility interrupted their conversation and Tohru left, Rentaro wanted to follow along so they could continue their discussion in the Nerveweb, but he was not strong enough to go after him and stayed behind to wait for him there.
After Tohru emerged from the Nerveweb into the Sinanju video showroom in the Satori commerce spire, he found himself surrounded by shoppers and thought that the government had not evacuated them because they feared tipping their hand. While Tohru urged the patrons to leave, they unexpectedly gathered around him and slapped him with drug discs that injected him with fast–working chemicals that clouded his mind. Suddenly, Icespike, facility’s gatekeeper, ordered the patrons to leave from atop a billboard while he took over. As Icespike leapt in front of Tohru, he said that there was no shame in using soldiers long as he handled the kill.
Though Tohru felt enervated, he was still quick enough to block a speedspike from Icespike’s armor, a move that impressed Icespike, who wondered how long Tohru could resist a full attack and shot him with a volley. While Icespike declared that people knew him, whether they hated him or loved him, he had spent his whole life lost among the fifty billion faceless others in the country, and swore that when he killed him everyone would know his name, Tohru kicked him across the face and knocked him off his feet.
When Icespike rushed to stab Tohru with two spikes that sprung from his armor, Kazuyo shot him with a blast that knocked him off balance. As Kazuyo landed next to Tohru, she reprimanded him, but when she noticed that he was injured, she took pity on him. Suddenly, Icespike shot Kazuyo with a dart spray that disrupted her concentration and knocked her off her feet.
While he watched Icespike hit Kazuyo with a staff, Tohru wondered how much punishment her alien-forged armor could withstand, when then he realized that he could not help her by worrying and that he had to recall Grandmother’s teachings to focus the Rai energy that cursed through him to purge the poison from his body.
As Icespike cornered Kazuyo and was about to deliver a killing blow, Tohru snuck up from behind him and kicked him across the head and sent him reeling through a glass billboard. As Humanist soldiers rushed him, Icespike stole a vascar and fled.
While the people and soldiers gathered around them, Tohru said that they made a good team and Kazuyo told him that they would be a better one if he would follow orders, then she corrected herself and told him that at least he achieved his goal and the Neopium trade was in shambles. When Kazuyo asked Tohru how it felt to be a hero, a citizen asked why they took away Neopium, which did not hurt anyone and was a momentary escape from an ever-changing world that was all some of them had, and he told her that he did not know.
Surrender[]
When Councilor Isao Seko demanded that they decommission Kazuyo and seize her armor after she disobeyed orders that put their victory in danger to assist Tohru, whose loyalty he doubted, Tohru stepped out into a balcony and stayed there until the meeting ended.
While Tohru stood over the railing, Kazuyo came out to the balcony and told him that it was unlike him to turn his back on his problems and that he used to care. When Tohru asked Kazuyo when the last time she visited their son was, she ruefully told him that the Humanists party relied on her and that, while she knew that Takashi needed her, it was difficult to go see him.
While he was sympathetic, Tohru told Kazuyo that he wanted her to understand that he had made choices as well that were no easier to make than hers. In the hope that he could find comfort among his people, some of whom did not hate him, Tohru left.
While Tohru strolled through the promenade in the Presidential fortress, he thought how much he loved his country and that he did not resent its people for their anger and frustration, as things had been harder since they ascended. As he mused that when Grandmother ran the land, they were prosperous, and life was simple, Tohru noted that with Humanists in power roles were not so clearly defined.
While Tohru ate in a kiosk, he mused how, as services were reduced and more work was required, the citizens bristled at their perceived hardships and focused their unrest on him, the guardian charged to protect them, and he clung to the hope that things would get better.
After Tohru finished eating, a child ran to him and said that he had read all his storybooks and had his poster. When Tohru asked the child which poster he had, his mother told him that they did not want others to see them with Rai and dragged him away. Just then, Tohru saw a priority bulletin report on a giant screen of an explosion at the seawater storage facility and entered the Nerveweb to get there quickly.
When Tohru approached the central Nerveweb, Koji Yama, a Healer scientist that had seized a restricted access maintenance station from where he shaped the Nerveweb’s impulses and monitored his movements, initiated blocking codes that solidified the web around Tohru and trapped him inside an artificial capsule. While Tohru wondered if Tanaka had listened to the council after all, Koji activated the Nerveweb Dragon, a construct that drew its energy from the Nerveweb that attacked Tohru with serpents that grew on his head. Unconcerned with the cause of the manifestation, Tohru hacked the serpents off with his sword, but when they grew back and multiplied, he soon realized that the dragon’s energy source dwarfed his own.
Though Tohru’s arrows tore the dragon’s flesh, it renewed instantly while its serpents stroke without fear, heedless of the wounds they made in the walls of the capsule. After Tohru realized that the dragon drew its power from the web and that its resources would never exhaust short of the destruction of Japan, he figured out that the only way to end their conflict was to surrender and bowed to the beast.
Once Tohru rationalized that, since the serpents made small wounds, it followed that the dragon would make a larger gap, and that, while the walls were solid the capsule was still the Nerveweb and there was nothing that ran it faster than the Rai, he fooled the dragon into tearing an opening that he used to escape.
Since he could not trust the Nerveweb, Tohru reached the storage facility through other means after Kazuyo drove off the Healers, who caused massive damage that would take weeks to repair and contaminated the sector’s water supply. When the angry crowd accused him of failing to guard them while Tanaka’s troops at least tried, Tohru said that they both tried and mused that only one of them failed.
Genocide[]
When Tohru Nakadai and Kazuyo Nakadai visited their son, Takashi Nakadai, in the Happy Cloud executive child care facility in section Y, Tohru held him in his arms and pointed at the Earth as it hung outside a panoramic window and told him that that was where he was born. When Kazuyo asked Tohru if he thought that Takashi would ever return there, he told her that shuttles still traveled between Japan and Earth, but that there was much that none of them could ever return to.
While Tohru mused that when they were a family on Okazaki Island he decided to be the last Rai even before he inherited the powers to spare their son, he recalled how Grandmother departed to space and mourned that the struggle between the Humanists and the Healers could succeed where the alien invaders failed. When Kazuyo told Tohru that the war had not torn apart their family, he reminded her that while they were on Earth she worried that his obligations would prevent him from being there for Takashi, and said that since her duties as President Tanaka’s right hand kept her from the nursery, perhaps she should be Rai instead.
While Tohru and Kazuyo discussed the future of their family, she received a priority alert that requested her to report to the barracks, and, hopeful that it was the breakthrough they had been hoping for on the Healers’ attack plan, she dashed off and donned her armor. Though Tohru wanted to accompany her, Kazuyo told him that he had become the focus of too much discontent, and that while President Tanaka valued his loyalty, he would best serve his position and the Humanists’ cause if he distanced himself from both of them.
After Kazuyo left, Tohru mused that, even though he was the protector of Japan, no one wanted his protection, as the Healers hated him, the Humanists mistrusted him, and the public scorned him, but then he turned to Takashi and said that perhaps Kazuyo should be Rai while he concentrated on being a father.
That night, while Tohru prepared a cup of tea, his father, Rentaro Nakadai, arrived in the Rai Globe and gave him a personal field generator that they could go outside and speak away from distractions. Though he felt like he had done something wrong, Tohru helped his father enter the Nerveweb and went with him.
As Tohru sat on the edge of a tower, he asked his father what he wanted to tell him and Rentaro told him that he had hoped to show him reason and ask him to become Rai once again. Enraged, Rentaro told Tohru that when he passed the title and power down to him, he figured that he would have a pleasant retirement, but that instead people hounded him and asked him why he sided with Grandmother’s enemies, the Humanists. Upset, Tohru reminded his father that he did not choose to be Rai, a position that was trusted on him by birth, and said that not everyone was born a hero. When Rentaro questioned his respect for tradition, Tohru told him that he respected it and honored, but that he did not know if he could live up to it.
While Tohru apologized to Rentaro for failing to become what he wanted him to and said that he was not sure of what he wanted, he saw the light flashes of an explosion in the horizon and suddenly realized that his father had fooled him into going outside so that he would not hear any alarms and stop the Healers. When Rentaro confessed that he had told the Healers about a device that could bring Grandmother back, Tohru scolded him for telling them and for working against him. Though Rentaro urged him to stay and asked him to forgive him for doing what he had to, Tohru pushed him out of his way and flew toward the hangar.
When Tohru entered the hangar, he witnessed the battle between the Humanists and Healers and knew that much would be decided on its outcome. Initially uncertain of what weapon he should generate to change the flow of the conflict, Tohru manifested the triple irons and used them to disarm a continent of Healer warriors. Just then, in her desperation, Makiko ordered Koji to initiate the rocket’s launch sequence and the discharge from its engines instantly killed many Healers.
When Makiko tried to burn Kazuyo in the engine fire, Kazuyo shot Tohru in the back to get his attention, and when he released a burst of energy into the Battlesuit to help Kazuyo escape, the influx caused Makiko to fire a blast that damaged the take-off ramp and placed the rocket in a trajectory against the outer hull.
When Koji said that in their rush they had not installed an emergency shutdown circuit, Tohru damned him and then attempted to stop the rocket himself, but the exhaust blast kept him away and, despite his attempt to tear it apart with an energy spear, the rocket blasted off and tore through the hull. Almost instantaneously, the vacuum sucked thousands of Japanese citizens into the void of space.
Three days later, in the new government palace, a bewildered Shinji told Tohru that, even though they knew that the rocket was accidentally deflected, somehow the public blamed him, which, ironically, united them in their focused desire to see him die. Though Shinji offered to stand beside him, Tohru said that if he did that would only destroy any hope he had of leading the people’s front, and told him that he had a chance to bring peace to their land, just not with Rai at his side.
After he reiterated that Grandmother charged him with protecting the people, Tohru noted that the best way to achieve that was to allow them to live together in perfect harmony and offered to exile himself from Japan.
The Departed[]
One hour before he was due to leave his country forever, Tohru Nakadai sat in a private transport shuttle that was taking him to the Mitsutomoe short-range transport bay, when, suddenly, a group of disgruntled citizens ambushed him and his escort, Kazuyo Nakadai, with air-to-air missiles. Though Kazuyo ordered the shuttle’s pilot to continue on to the bay while she covered them, Tohru had him take them lower so he could jump.
When an armed citizen was going to shoot Kazuyo in the back, Tohru landed on his back and disarmed him, then, he turned to face the rest of the crowd, who accused him of being a murderer. As the mob rushed him, Tohru wondered how he could fight them off, but, since he knew they would not believe that the rocket that gashed though Japan’s outer hull and spilled thousands into the void of space was an accident and not his fault, he refused to lay a hand on them and allowed them to beat him up.
While the police took the citizens away, Kazuyo inferred that they had found a hidden cache of rebel weapons and told Tohru that they should leave, a notion that he thought that it seemed was best for everyone.
When Tohru and Kazuyo arrived in the transport bay, a day care provider from the Happy Cloud facility gave Takashi over to Kazuyo, who held him close to her and commented that he could not understand the situation. When Tohru noted that, ever since their estrangement after Japan’s ascension, when he no longer had both parents, Takashi had become resilient, Kazuyo said that he would now be apart from one of them by thousands of miles and handed him over to Tohru with the promise that she would visit him whenever she could. As Tohru held his son in his arms, he commended Kazuyo for her courage and restraint.
As Kazuyo apologized for not having been a worthy parent and for having allowed her break up of the Healer rebellion to take away Takashi’s time, she expressed concern over how long the recovery of Japan would last, President Shinji Takashi said that, however long it was, it would be shorter thanks to Tohru’s great sacrifice. Saddened, Shinji told Tohru that exile was a punishment few would accept, let alone bring upon themselves, but, as he bowed down in respect, Tohru noted that hatred for him had brought their people together, and told Shinji that, when he was gone, he could use that union to make Japan whole. As he bowed back, Shinji told Tohru that someday he would be hailed as the hero that he was.
Before Tohru boarded his shuttle, he, Kazuyo, and Takashi shared one, final, embrace.
As Tohru boarded the shuttle with Takashi, he looked back at Kazuyo and Shinji for one last time and mused that he found Shinji’s words unsettling it, like cold breath on his spine, but he supposed that anything was possible someday, since, after all, time was not absolute.
As the shuttle came within 8,000 miles of Earth, Tohru told Takashi that, while he could not promise him an easy life, he would protect him from all he could, and that Okazaki Island survived the island invasion and when he was old enough they would go fishing. Suddenly, the thrusters activated automatically and kicked the shuttle off its programmed flight path away from the solar system.
Once the thrusters shut off as unexpectedly as they came on, Tohru checked on Takashi, who was safely inside a motion web that held him against the acceleration. When Tohru checked the shuttle’s controls, he discovered that they were inoperative, that the photoradio was dead, and that the emergency signal beacon would not launch. As the shuttle drifted through nothing into the infinity, with no way to stop or summon help, Tohru realized that his enemies had won after all.
When Tohru inspected the exterior of the shuttle, he discovered that someone had rashly sabotaged the navigational computers. After Tohru fixed the computer and reset the destination coordinates to return to Earth, he inspected the engines and was pleased to see that the extreme thrust had not damaged them. As Tohru pondered that the acceleration spent all the fuel and left him without a way to power the engines, the mass sensor in his environment field generator warned him of an approaching asteroid field.
After Tohru destroyed the asteroids, he returned to the shuttle and wondered how they were going to survive when they only carried enough supplies to keep a man and a child alive for three days, when then he realized that, on his own, Takashi could survive longer.
Within the hour, Tohru connected their entire supply of nutrients to an intravenous feed for Takashi and set the atmosphere controls to siphon oxygen from the cabin directly into the crib pod. As Tohru sat on his knees in the observation deck, certain that the more time the shuttle spent drifting in space there was a better chance that it would drift into a trade route, he conjured up a sword. Repentant after he failed Grandmother and their people, Tohru felt that his only prayer was not to fail Takashi, and hoped that his death would give him time to be found and buy him life. Silently, Tohru grasped the hilt of the sword and prepared to perform Seppuku.
Feeling guilt-ridden, as he failed to save Japan and himself, and he would never know for sure whether or not he saved his son, Tohru cursed the powers of Rai that were handed down to him because he felt that they could not help him. Just then, Tohru realized that the engines were merely out of fuel and that he could power them with the Rai energy. Even though he had never released all of the Rai energy at once on such a grand scale and he ignored what the attempt would to do him, Tohru placed his hands on the engine and released a burst of energy in the hope that he could save Takashi’s life. Although Tohru felt like his insides came out through his skin, he refused to let go or pass out, and guided the shuttle back to Earth.
After the shuttle crashed in the Paz Verde wildlife preserve in the South Am peninsula, Tohru pulled himself and Takashi out of the wreck. Weakened, Tohru felt drained and brittle, so he sat on the exterior of the shuttle and expressed his delight that they both survived. Just then, Rokland Tate, the Geomancer and Gilad Anni–Padda came out from over the ridge and told Tohru that they had to save the world.
The Fall of Japan[]
Moments after his shuttle crashed in the South Am peninsula, Tohru Nakadai crawled from the wreck with his son, Takashi Nakadai, in his arms, when then Rokland Tate, the Geomancer, and Gilad Anni–Padda, the Eternal Warrior, stepped out from behind a ridge. Concerned for his child’s safety, Tohru materialized his energy sword and warned Rokkie and Gilad that he would take their lives to save his.
After Rokkie told Tohru that the last thing he wanted was to put them out of commission and Gilad said that if they wanted to kill them they would have attacked without warning, the sword and the shuttle told Rokkie that Tohru was gonna perform Seppuku to save Takashi and how he used his energy to power the engines.
While Rokkie told Tohru that he was a Geomancer and that they found him once their computer projected his impact site, Gilad said that everyone knew how Japan had suffered since it became an artificial moon and that they knew of the civil war and how he chose self-exile to bring peace to his homeland. After Gilad urged him to forget about taking revenge, he told Tohru that nothing he considered important mattered, and that Rokkie knew something was terribly wrong with the world, and that the universe, even time itself, were in danger.
Since others had deceived him before, Tohru wanted Gilad to tell him why he should listen to him, but though Gilad told him that his family knew his name, Tohru turned his back and said that no one had heard from the Eternal Warrior in centuries, and wondered why he should believe him. Suddenly, Gilad threw a dagger at Tohru that hit a wall mere inches from his face and he urged him to look at it.
Though he felt betrayed, Tohru gazed at the dagger and recognized its markings from the family chronicle, and realized that it was part of his ancestor’s collection and belonged to Shinobi Nakadai, the 29th Rai. Gilad told Tohru that Shinobi gave him the knife after he saved his life during the Cyberite rebellion as a token of gratitude and debt, an obligation passed down unpaid for centuries.
When Gilad asked him if he honored his family or shamed it, Tohru bowed down as a sign of respect and agreed to go with him.
While Tohru changed Takashi’s diaper, he told Rokkie and Gilad that if the danger was as great as they said that Magnus could help them, but, while Rokkie was receptive to the idea, Gilad refused to work with Magnus and accused him of helping North Am oppress millions and condoning the psycho-probe. Certain that Magnus had changed, and that he now served the people, Tohru told Gilad that his strength could make a difference and said that all he asked in return was that he trusted him like he had asked him to trust them. Persuaded, Gilad bowed down and told Tohru that if he fought as well as he spoke, they might have a chance.
As Rokkie’s sky-skipper flew over the crumbling ruins of the Barrls gaming arena in North Am’s Goph lev, Gilad reiterated his dislike of recruiting Magnus, but then Rokkie assured him that if he was not part of the equation the outcome would change for the worst. Just then, Tohru looked out the window and saw as Talpa, a rogue freewill robot, lunged against Magnus in the middle of the arena.
To save Magnus, Gilad landed the sky-skipper on top of Talpa and buried him beneath the stands. Though Magnus urged Tohru to help him dig Talpa up to ensure that they had defeated him, Tohru told him that there was no time and that his companions told him that the world, and even existence itself, was at stake. While Magnus wished to stay and stop Talpa from continuing his killing spree, Tohru urged him to weight those lives against a universe and he agreed to go with him as long as he could return once the danger was over.
Before they embarked on their journey, Tohru - at Rokkie’s suggestion and with Magnus’ help - left Takashi in Felina’s orphanage.
When Rokkie, Magnus, Gilad, and Tohru arrived at the mouth of a cave, Magnus told them that he had been there and then he recited a series of words that Willow Talltrees had taught him to open the portal to the Lost Land. When nothing happened, Gilad told Magnus that the words he uttered where nothing more than ancient Amerind stew recipe, while Rokkie said that passage to the Lost Land was a state of mind and that if they wanted to get there bad enough it would happen.
Just then, Rokkie said that, though he wished to go with them since he would do anything to save the planet, there was already a Geomancer on the battlefield and their contributions would be redundant. As he took his leave, Rokkie told the others that he might be able to find others who could help more, and that if he did he would send them along, but until then his heart was with them.
As they made their way down the darken cavern and Tohru asked the others if Erica Pierce could be really as dangerous as Rokkie claimed, Gilad told him that he had learned to respect Rokkie’s opinions, while Magnus said that they had better hope that she did not know they were coming. Just then, the trio came upon a giant obstruction that blocked the portal to the Lost Land. After Gilad and Magnus failed to push and shatter the obstruction, Tohru materialized his energy sword and destroyed it with a single blow. When the dust settled, the valiant heroes stepped into the Lost Land, where a group of Bionisaurs and robots attacked them.
While she watched the battle from within the confines of her Rainbow Tower, Erica mused that as she was poised on the edge of owning time she now did not have enough of it. Enraged that the battle against her had moved too fast, Erica wondered how she could delay the latest assault, and she studied images of Gilad and Magnus, she concluded that Gilad was stubborn and a long-term threat but lacked the raw might to be an immediate menace, while Magnus possessed brute strength but could be countered with the same. As she stared at an image of Tohru and feared that his power posed a greater hazard to her plans, Erica wondered how she could make him turn away and what could be more important to him than stopping her.
While the fight against Erica’s forces raged on, Gilad exclaimed that he had fought for thousands of years but never a battle like that one, and Magnus remarked that that very battle was for those same thousands of years. As Tohru said that they had to get through those hordes to find the allies that Rokkie spoke off, Erica unexpectedly called for a cease combat to have words with him.
As Erica appeared in the form of a hologram projected through a Bionisaur, she offered Tohru a chance to save his world and conjured an image of Japan as it appeared in orbit over the Earth. Callously, Erica told Tohru that she was projecting an energy matrix wavelength into his timeline that increased gravitational fields and then used it to push Japan from orbit to prove her intention.
As Japan dropped Earthward, the suspension support arms deployed automatically throughout the host body to keep the citizens safe.
After Erica gave Tohru a rod that would transport him to Japan and negate the mag-grav field once he arrived there, Gilad warned him not to activate the device, but Tohru said that he had to take the change and then promised to return once his compatriots were safe. As Gilad urged Tohru to question why Erica would give him the means to return, she melted the entrance to the cave so that once he left he could never return. Stuck between Erica’s threat to fill the sky with the blood of millions and Gilad and Magnus’ rationalization that she wanted him gone because she feared him and their plea that he weigh the millions of lives against the billions that would die if they lost, Tohru shattered the rod, and, in retaliation, Erica destabilized Japan’s orbit.
As Japan experienced an increased gravity surge that completely decayed its orbit and made an impact with Earth imminent, the technicians in the headland’s unified operations control center initiated the dragon mode in an effort to break their fall even though its missing limb prevented them from safely making planet-fall.
Dismayed, Tohru fell to his knees and witnessed as Japan crashed into the Indian Ocean.
As Erica’s troops moved against them and Gilad urged him to fight and not to give in to the pain, Tohru clenched his teeth and proclaimed that the death that Erica Pierce had sown that day would be nothing compared to what she would see the next day.
The Last Rai[]
As the sun rose in the Lost Land for the 12th time since the fall of Japan, Tohru Nakadai stood on a mound surrounded by a pile of shattered robots and dead Bionisaurs and renewed his vow of vengeance. When a robot rose from the pile and lunged against him, Tohru destroyed it with his sword and mused that now there was one less foe between him and the woman who murdered his nation.
Just then, Magnus came out from behind a ridge and told Tohru that Mothergod had sent reinforcements and that they had better retreat, but, undaunted in his quest, Tohru pointed in the direction of the Rainbow Tower with his sword and told Magnus that that was the only direction he was going to go in. While Magnus expressed sympathy for Tohru’s loss, he asked him to think about their little resistance force, which had become his people, and urged him to work with them. Though he wished to continue, Tohru relented.
Two days later, in relative time, as Tohru and Magnus stood on a knoll that overlooked the Rainbow Tower, Magnus told Tohru that Mothergod seemed content to defend her perimeter and sent occasional patrols out to harass them and Tohru said that regardless of what the rest of them did, he would end her wait before long.
After Magnus said that they were trying to gather the others who were scattered the first day, like Aric Dacia, a Visigoth who wielded an alien Manowar Class Armor, and Pete Stanchek, an Omega Harbinger, so they could strike with as much power as possible, he asked Tohru why he was determined to go at it alone.
Guilt-ridden, Tohru told Magnus that, as a matter of honor, he had to kill Erica, then he said that, for a thousand years, forty-one generations of Rai greeted every sunrise and renewed their vow to keep Japan and its people safe, until he came along and let everyone down when he stood by and watched while Mothergod slaughtered his nation.
When Tohru told Magnus that there was nothing for him but revenge and death, Magnus said that he had something to tell him, but then Tohru heard over the trees that Gilad Anni–Padda and Geoff McHenry, the 20th Century Geomancer, had found Pete.
Shortly after Tohru and Magnus joined Gilad and the others in a clearing, one of Mothergod’s robot patrols ambushed them, but Tohru swiftly destroyed them with three consecutive blows from his sword. While Pete took off with Faith Herbert and Charlene Dupré, two members of his Harbinger Renegades, Magnus suggested that they take off as well before a larger force showed up, but Tohru pointed at the Rainbow Tower where his enemy laid and said that he would not retreat.
Twenty-six sunrises later, Tohru awoke in an infirmary in the ad hoc headquarters of the resistance where Magnus dragged him and mended him with whatever few med–resources they had been able to capture after he almost got himself killed for the third time.
When Tohru rose from the bed to continue his battle, Magnus stood in his way and urged him to understand that if he worked with them they had a chance, but if he did not, sooner or later, he was going to die a futile dead, and, probably, so would the rest of them.
After Tohru acquiesced to work with him, Magnus confessed that, shortly before he arrived in the Lost Land, he had a confrontation with Grand One that ended with her death. Enraged, Tohru manifested his sword and said that, now that his losses were complete, he had one more to avenge and no one left to apologize. With the sword in his hands, Tohru bowed before Magnus and said that, for the moment, his sword was at his service, but that once he dealt with Mothergod he would kill him and, then, he would kill himself.
Sixty-five sunrises later, Tohru and Pete breached the Rainbow Tower’s second perimeter and entered the complex at its most weakly defended point, but as they made their way through it, Pete left his mind wander and something hit him. When two robots came after Pete, Tohru mused that Magnus would want him to save him and destroyed them.
While he helped Pete stand up, Tohru mused that, while his personal concerns were still with him, he had to turn his back on a clear path to Mothergod and let opportunity die behind him. After Pete airlifted them and they escaped, he apologized to Tohru and told him that the next day they would get another chance, but Tohru wondered how many tomorrows they had left.
In the early morning of their 157th day in the Lost Land, Magnus told the rest of the resistance that Mothergod was less than two hours away from activating her reactor, but then Geoff said that Phil Seleski was still alive, as Mothergod could not really destroy him, just trap him until the reactor gave her the power. As Geoff told the others that he found a secret way into the complex, and that he knew where Mothergod kept Phil, he urged them to rescue him and said that with him back they could beat her.
As Magus said that Geoff was right and that it would take all of them working together to free Phil, he looked at Tohru and Kris Hathaway, Pete’s girlfriend who had just given birth to a child, which made Tohru wonder if he was more concerned about Pete or about him.
Forty-six minutes later, the resistance entered Mothergod’s complex through an entryway Geoff found that her troops rigged so that one of the native tribes could smuggle drugs and women inside. When the resistance arrived in the ground level of the central sector, the sentries sounded the alarm, but Gilad assured them that they were already past most of Mothergod’s forces.
After Geoff convinced the door that guarded the bunker where Mothergod kept Phil to let them in, an army of robots bore down the hallway and Tohru stood between them and the door. While Gilad wanted to stay, Magnus refused to let him and told him that Tohru knew what he was doing. As Magnus followed the others, Tohru told him to remember that he kept his vow.
As Tohru wondered what was taking the others so long to return, a light like the sun washed over him and Erica Pierce materialized in an explosion of multicolor lights. With clenched teeth and with two swords in his hands, Tohru steadfastly stood between Mothergod and the door and told himself that, while it was sunrise outside, the time for vows was over.
When Mothergod ordered Tohru to get out of his way, he realized that she feared him and he knew that fear would make her strike first, but though he blocked a blast of multicolored lights with his swords, its intensity pushed him back and blinded him.
As he plunged his sword forward, Tohru asked his ancestors to guide his hand and he stabbed Erica on the shoulder, but, even though the blow weakened her, it did not kill her and she removed the blade. Angered, Erica told Tohru that only Phil had ever hurt her so badly, and that if she was not careful he might kill her, then she blasted him with a discharge of energy that scorched his flesh.
Though his body was charred, Tohru lunged against Mothergod to honor his vow, but, with every step, he fell to his knees while she mockingly told him that she was almost ready to believe that a spirit filled him, but that once she burnt its house of flesh, it would die.
As Tohru perished at Mothergod’s feet, he asked those that he failed to forgive him, but then Erica said that the others had freed Phil, and, with his last word, he proclaimed that the sun had risen, which signified that his sacrifice had not been in vain and he kept his vow.
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Powers and Abilities[]
- Tohru Nakadai draws on an unknown form of energy that gives him great strength and the ability to form energy weapons that include shurikens, scythes, swords, staffs, triple iron, spears, and a bow and arrows.
- Tohru Nakadai possesses access to the Nerveweb, the pathway network that gives Grandmother control of the city, which allows him to move anywhere instantaneously.
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Notes[]
- In the back of Solar, Man of the Atom #4, editor-in-chief Jim Shooter mentioned "Rai" was co-created by editor Don Perlin.
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