Itō Hidetaka

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Itō was celebrated as a Great He dungeon-design genius, with four works created in one month. Lin Ye suspected that an organization backed his unusually prolific output; the Emperor later described Itō as a genius created through the accumulation of Great He’s top technology 11 13 25.

Lin Ye’s first clear of Itō’s Battle of the Imperial Sea cost Itō expected rewards and provoked his hostility. Repeated clears forced Itō to shut the dungeon down, and Great He leaders blamed him for its failure 3 8.

Dungeon Works

Personality

Itō is proud of his reputation and reacts bitterly to public defeat. During his first Raging Waves assault, he cared more about the damage failure would do to his standing than about his teammates’ survival. He nevertheless showed composure under pressure, organizing radar reconnaissance after the main dungeon began 18 19.

Repeated defeats made him increasingly obsessed with defeating Lin Ye. In the economic mission, he treated Eastern Ocean Island’s inhabitants as expendable and insisted on harsher exploitation despite warnings. He later feared that the Emperor might replace him with Lin Ye 26 33 36.

Abilities & Skills

Dungeon Design

Itō’s strengths lie in devising mission structures and tricks rather than developing military technology himself 26.

• He recognized that Raging Waves’ surrender option could earn points for its designer while weakening the remaining challengers 13.
• He proposed bypassing Pearl Harbor to attack Eagle Sauce Country directly, though the Emperor rejected the plan as too risky 26.
• His assessment of Raging Waves underestimated both its mission structure and its military power 14 17 21.

Command and Persuasion

Itō rallied challengers by invoking their chances of victory and loyalty to the Emperor 13 29 34.

• Prince Singh entrusted his warships to Itō after hearing his plan to attack Pearl Harbor 15.
• After the Pearl Harbor attack, Itō ordered radar searches and patrols, then directed surviving ships to advance and spread out under fire 18.
• During the economic mission, his speeches persuaded frightened challengers to continue after the failure penalty increased 33 34.

Equipment

• Dungeon weapons and warships — As an LV2 challenger, Itō could bring weapons from his own dungeons into other instances. He brought ten warships and other naval weapons into his first Raging Waves attempt 11 14.
• Matsushima — Itō’s warship during the first assault. An aerial torpedo split it in two, forcing him and Singh into the water 16 19.

Relationships

• Lin Ye — Rival dungeon designer. Lin Ye cleared Battle of the Imperial Sea and selected Itō for Raging Waves; Itō repeatedly sought to conquer Lin Ye’s dungeon and erase him 3 11 25.
• Great He Emperor — Itō’s superior and patron. The Emperor rebuked his failures but later appointed him an adviser for a million-person assault 25 46 47.
• Prince Singh — Initially placed his warships under Itō’s command. Their alliance collapsed after the fleet’s destruction, and Singh later criticized Itō publicly 15 20 29.
• Shancheng Kojirō — Led students assigned to Itō’s second attempt and carried out his economic policies. After the mission failed, Shancheng struck Itō and abandoned the command room 29 37 39.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu — Great He shogun who dragged Itō before the Emperor after the second failure 46.

Story Role

First Assault on *Raging Waves*

After Lin Ye selected him for the Purgatory-level dungeon, Itō urged challengers not to surrender and took command of an attack on Pearl Harbor. Destroying the base completed only the preliminary dungeon; the main mission then began, and surrender was no longer available 11 13 15 17.

Long-range fire and a massive air attack devastated the challenger fleet. Itō recognized the approaching capital ships as aircraft carriers, but a torpedo from the Nation-Destroying Fleet killed him and Singh inside the dungeon. Itō later returned outside it 19 21 22 25.

Economic Overtaking Mission

The Emperor rejected Itō’s request for an elite military force and instead steered him toward the economic mission. Itō entered with Great He students and selected a nonwar mode that prohibited weapons 26 27 29 30.

His team boosted production through measures including reduced environmental protections. After Itō rejected Eagle Sauce Country’s compensation demand, the mission deadline shortened and its failure penalty increased. He responded to sanctions and protests with exploitation and suppression, temporarily raising economic output but driving down public loyalty 32 33 35 37.

The challengers eventually lost control of Eastern Ocean Island. A special setting delayed their exit, and the failure penalty rose to 5,000 points. During the ensuing uprising, a crowd bound Itō and threw him into the sea. He returned to his villa after the instance ended, but the penalty demoted him to LV1 39 40 41.

The Emperor’s Assault

After nearly twenty thousand eliminations, Dahe residents demanded Itō’s punishment. He begged the Emperor for mercy and initially refused to lead another attempt 46 47.

The Emperor instead decided to lead one million Great He challengers personally, with Itō serving as an adviser. When the assault began, Itō appeared beside the Emperor in the imperial palace of Eastern Ocean Island 47 50.