Rover

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Rover repeatedly projected his frequency into other worlds while seeking a way to save his own. The process cost him his memories, including those of his hometown. A recovered fragment reminded him of his time in the world of Soul Reapers 1 24.

A childhood memory revealed that Rover once dreamed of traveling the universe and saving people. A woman close to him instead wished for him to live a carefree, happy life 33.

Appearance

• Hair: Black 2.
• Eyes: Golden; they turned deep blue when he used Imperator’s Separation Authority to help Triss 2 4.

Personality

Rover believes both that everyone is worth saving and that evil should be punished. He helped Phrolova seek redemption, but first demanded that she acknowledge her crimes 1 5 6.

He is playful and provocative with friends and enemies alike, frequently teasing Phrolova and mocking opponents. Beneath that manner, he is protective and persistent: he repeatedly attacked the door holding Imperator until his body turned to stone 6 15 21.

Rover can also be ruthless toward those who harm others. In Ashihara, he sealed Chisa’s classroom and punished her bullies, then confronted the mayor who sent Resonators against him 59 60 62 64.

Abilities & Skills

Reiatsu and Kidō

Rover’s first-grade Reiatsu is equivalent to the Captain-Commander level. He can sense others’ Reiatsu and use a broad range of Kidō 1.

• Restraint: Six-Rod Light Prison immobilized Scar; he also used chains to restrain Cartethyia 2 11.
• Offense: His spells include Hadō #31, Shakkahō; Hadō #88, Flying Dragon-Striking Heaven-Shaking Thunder Cannon; and Hadō #90, Kurohitsugi 2 15 51.
• Tracking: Summoning of the Tracking Sparrows located Christopher, and Rover later used Kidō to find Chisa 48 56.
• Other uses: He used Hadō number six, Execution, to inflict intense pain and Kaidō, Dreamless Sleep, to soothe Aemeath to sleep 56 62.

Separation Authority

Rover can use Imperator’s power of separation; his eyes turned deep blue when he used it to help Triss 4.

• Protected himself from spatial currents by breaking their force into gentle ripples 48.
• Escaped after Phrolova confined him inside a doll with Fairy-Tale House 36.
• Made attacking Snow Velvet Hakimi docile 54.

Time and Resonance

• Time control: Rover used diffraction to survive Pride’s attack and later stopped time while investigating Xiutake’s safe 16 23.
• Havoc form: He wielded a scythe to cut through space and used his Resonance Liberation, Featherfall, annihilate all laws, against Christopher 48.
• Barriers: He sealed Chisa’s classroom with Resonance Force, preventing entry and blocking outside sight and sound 60.

Swordsmanship and Hand-to-Hand Combat

Rover fights with the Blood Oath Covenant and Ryūjin Jakka. He also uses Hakuda, applying throws, grapples and a piledriver against Phrolova 2 4 25.

With Ryūjin Jakka’s Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, he defeated Crownless’s body, although its core began to recover afterward 30.

• East, Kyokujitsujin: Burned away Crownless’s arm.
• West, Zanjitsu Gokui: Melted its incoming war spear.
• South, Kaka Jūmanokushi Daisōjin: Summoned skeletal Tacet Discords against Crownless’s fallen warriors.
• North, Tenchi Kaijin: Reduced Crownless to a core.

Alchemy

After passing through the Gate of Truth, Rover gained exceptional alchemical aptitude and knowledge. He used a Philosopher’s Stone and Human Transmutation to create a body for Imperator 22 23 31.

Equipment & Items

• Blood Oath Covenant — Rover’s longsword, used against Scar, Pride and Xiutake 2 15 23.
• Ryūjin Jakka — A fire-based Zanpakuto with the Shikai command “Reduce all creation to ash” and the Bankai Zanka no Tachi 25.
• Book of the End — A Fullbring whose uses became tied to Phrolova’s atonement; she sought it to help save her villagers 5 6 7.
• Portable Gigai — A decoy indistinguishable from Rover even to the Truth Stone 14.
• Triss’s button — Contains things Phrolova told Triss and carried an expression of Phrolova’s will during Rover’s ordeal with Truth 5 21 22.
• Other Shore Flower petal — Given by Phrolova to locate and enter the Fractsidus base 7 11.

Relationships

• Abu — Rover’s partner. Rover insists that their strength belongs to them together, and Abu accompanies him on missions 3 11.
• Phrolova — Once inseparable from Rover, she became his opponent before he helped her pursue atonement and save her villagers. Their relationship later grew affectionate, and she calls him Xiaochen 1 4 7 8 33 35.
• Imperator — Calls Rover “Charioteer.” He risked his body to recover her soul and later created a body for her 21 23 31.
• Cartethyia — An ally who recognizes Rover as the Righteous One. They infiltrated the Fractsidus base together and later traveled toward Septimont 11 18 39.
• Kuchiba Chisa — Rover follows her through a disrupted spacetime and defends her from harassment at school 51 56 59.
• Aemeath — Rover protected and befriended her while inhabiting another person’s body. Before leaving, he promised to see her again 54 56.
• Christopher and Scar — Fractsidus opponents whom Rover fought repeatedly. He pursued Christopher for answers about the Ashihara calamity 2 48 49.

Story Role

Phrolova and the Lost Shore

Rover’s confrontation with Phrolova ended with the system declaring its kill mission complete. After fighting Scar and Christopher, he learned that Phrolova had survived by fusing with the Lost Shore and followed her there with Abu 1 2 3.

Rover helped restore Triss using Separation Authority, then pressed Phrolova to account for her crimes. He accepted a long-term quest to help her atone, and she gave him a lead on a Fractsidus base 4 6 7.

The Fractsidus Base

Disguised as Phrolova’s envoy, Rover infiltrated the base and reunited with Cartethyia. In the Twin Space, he fought Pride and later confronted Xiutake 11 14 15 18.

Seeking Imperator, Rover entered the realm of Truth and was petrified while trying to reach her. The wills of people he had helped, including Phrolova’s will in Triss’s button, lent him strength; he recovered and obtained Imperator’s soul blueprint 21 22 23.

Xiutake passed on a message from someone connected to Rover’s forgotten hometown, then detonated a Philosopher’s Stone. Rover escaped with Jinhsi and Cartethyia and subsequently unlocked Ryūjin Jakka 24 25.

Defense of Jinzhou

Rover returned to defend Jinzhou from the Faceless Inferno Lord. After it became Crownless, he used Zanka no Tachi to reduce it to a core. He then used alchemy to give Imperator a body so she could address the recovering Threnodian 25 30 31.

Septimont and Ashihara

Rover and Cartethyia set out for Septimont and encountered Gaia, a servant of Edward III. Rover later tracked Christopher into a spatial script, stripped away his scripted immortality and questioned him about the Ashihara calamity before Christopher trapped him in another space 39 48 49.

A spacetime current separated Rover from Chisa and left him in another person’s body, where he met Aemeath. After parting from her, he reached Ashihara in his own body and defended Chisa against her classmates and Zhao Sheng’s enforcers 51 54 56 59 64.

Notable Quotes

“It’s not that I’m strong—it’s that we’re strong together, okay? Don’t forget, we’re partners forever!” 3

“Imperator, wait for me. Not in the future, not next time, but this time. I’ll take you away today!” 21

“Aemeath, I only want you to live an easy, happy life.” 56