Luo Shu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Luo Shu’s Japanese-life memories identify him as a Fujian-born Chinese student who moved to Japan at fifteen because of his parents’ work. He enrolled at Private Toyogasaki Academy, lost both parents in a plane crash at sixteen, and worked part-time at a bookstore for 850 yen per hour 1.

When classmates ostracized him for being an exchange student, he fought back and enlisted acquaintances from Chinatown to confront them outside school. Those connections came through his parents’ professional ties to people from their hometown. The incident made him the academy’s most feared student, but also deterred further bullying 3 48.

At eighteen, he awakens in the bookstore remembering another life, in which he had been watching videos in bed immediately beforehand. Although he initially understands this as transmigration into a younger namesake, later narration describes the change as the awakening of past-life memories. The system considers his reincarnation a repetition of his previous life, down to identical DNA 1 24.

He remains attached to the apartment his parents rented after moving to Japan. Rather than abandon their first family home there, he initially plans to keep renting and eventually buy it as a place to remember them 24.

Appearance

• Youthful face: His appearance surprises Juzo Megure when they hold the same police rank despite Luo Shu’s age 27.
• Sharp gaze: Tachibana Kirika remarks that his gaze is unusually sharp 17.
• Height and presentation: Chisato judges that he could pass for a young office worker when wearing his work suit 20.
• Clothing: Uses a school uniform for everyday school life and a specially made protective suit for SDS work 25 26.

Personality

Luo Shu dislikes being pushed into decisions. After discovering that Utaha and the system are already pursuing the pantheon project, he stops trying to withdraw and instead takes charge of discussing its goals, restrictions, and rewards. He is skeptical of grand divine titles and repeatedly regards himself as an ordinary person with supernatural abilities rather than an established deity 4 37.

His planning prioritizes survival and practical resources. He identifies funding, intelligence, weapons, training facilities, and monster investigations as immediate organizational needs. Before confronting the Hound, he changes into protective clothing, creates an escape route, and reserves points for emergency teleportation 6 26.

He values honest dealings and keeping agreements because they sustain loyalty, even though his contracts give him overwhelming leverage. Nevertheless, he uses concealment, calculated misunderstandings, and threats of memory alteration when protecting the organization’s secrets 13 14 36 45.

His generosity coexists with financial caution: he funds member benefits and invests in Mira’s abilities, but initially postpones his own upgrades to preserve a medical safety reserve. His loyalty to SDS is similarly conditional—he distinguishes doing his job from risking his life for powerful people’s private interests 13 16 37 38.

Abilities & Skills

Wind Element Manipulation

His strongest initial supernatural ability, produced by converting his unusually powerful mental strength 2 14.

• Creates a translucent cutting blade capable of splitting a calf-sized rat monster in two 2.
• Displaces air to prevent sound from traveling through a stairwell while helping Mira evade pursuit 26.
• Is identified by Chisato as the ability of a Wind Mage, a type of spellcaster valued for reconnaissance; the supplied chapters do not show Luo Shu performing the citywide surveillance she describes 20.
• Its elite-tier advancement, Wind Element Control, requires a Heart of the Storm costing 50,000 points, siren tears costing 2,000 points, and 200 milliliters of water. He has not completed this upgrade 16 34.

Intuition / Super Intuition

A perception-oriented support ability that supplies warnings and impressions before Luo Shu consciously understands a threat 2 26.

• Initially presents the rat monster’s prospective attack as illusory lines leading toward his neck 2.
• Guides his shooting and warns him of the Hound’s concealed claw attack 22 26.
• After advancement, lets him perceive Mira waiting beyond his apartment door 34.
• Helps him notice Natsuki Minamiya immediately upon her rooftop appearance, impressing her 44.

Combat Potential / Subconscious Control

Combat Potential is one of his first awakened support abilities. Luo Shu credits its cooperation with Intuition for his survival against the Hound 2 34.

• Advances into the excellent-tier Subconscious Control through the Mind Dragon spinal cord 34.
• The supplied passages do not separately demonstrate or explain Subconscious Control’s mechanics 34.

Firearms and Physical Enhancement

Although he begins with no shooting experience, Luo Shu rapidly demonstrates exceptional accuracy under Chisato’s instruction 20 22.

• Hits targets accurately at distances from one to fifty meters using a SIG P226 22.
• Disables the fleeing Hound with a foot shot, then kills him with chest shots after narrowly avoiding his claw attack 26.
• His strengthened body allows him to carry Mira upstairs with ease 26.
• His five senses continue becoming sharper, allowing him to clearly hear nearby students’ comments 48.

Pantheon Reconstruction System

The system’s objective is to build a mythology centered on Luo Shu. Its intelligence is derived from his subconscious, although its methods frequently irritate him 2 3.

• Candidate detection: Its free short-range scan covers a fifty-meter radius; wide-range scanning costs 100 energy points 1.
• Familia formation: Consenting candidates can receive Energy Collectors, sign contracts, and awaken abilities through the system’s Bestowal Ritual 1 14 37.
• Contracts: Agreements strongly favor Luo Shu. His own breach would cause, at most, temporary dizziness, while another violator faces system-enforced punishment 14.
• Support services: Provides access to ability materials, special items, alternate-space facilities, and healing at the organization’s base; teleportation and treatment require points 13 16 26 41.
• Protection: Can alter surveillance footage and provides reincarnation as a fallback, but does not subsidize powerful ability advancement as a safety service 3 4 16.
• Artifact interaction: Under certain conditions, living Abyssal Artifacts instinctively seek him out for further evolution. Their side effects cannot affect him unless they exceed the system’s upper limits 31 33.

Points and Influence

Points represent access to social influence and serve as the organization’s currency for supernatural purchases. Reserved points also confer a permanent luck blessing; increasing his influence through affiliations or artifact ownership raises his income 13 16 24 33.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• SIG P226 pistol — Issued through Chisato, together with ammunition and a holster; used against the Hound 22 25 26.
• Protective suit — Special Onmyoryo-produced clothing that protects against bullets and some supernatural damage. Luo Shu wears it before confronting Mira’s pursuer 20 26.
• Modified communications phone — Supplied by Mika for work communications; used to contact him after the shooting 22 26.
• Demon Heart — Elite-tier living Abyssal Artifact resembling a ruby-set ring with an eye. It hypnotizes women who see its ruby and influenced Mira’s memory before directing her toward Luo Shu. He establishes use by wearing it on his ring finger 27 30 31 33 34.
• Lucky Wallet — Hero-tier living Abyssal Artifact that seeks owners with greater luck. Normally requires identification and at least 150,000 yen, but accepts Luo Shu’s student ID and a hundred-yen coin 33 34.
  • Supplies a single Demigod-level luck blessing used to help Natsuki accept his cover story. Forcing activation outside its normal conditions incurs a higher later payment and requires benefits for the artifact 45.
• Concealment bracelets — Upgraded for 5,000 points to prevent even a Hero-rank observer from immediately seeing through the Familia’s concealment. They keep Utaha and Eriri’s powers hidden from Natsuki 45.
• Alternate-space headquarters — The Astronomy Club’s real operating base. Luo Shu connects it to his apartment study for 100 points; turning the door handle three times opens the entrance 26 37 42.
• Artifact-restraint talismans — Given by Chisato to restrain the Demon Heart while he carries the ring to school 40.

Relationships

• Utaha Kasumigaoka — First Familia member, school junior, and founding collaborator. Helps plan the club and offers Mind Reading for intelligence gathering; she cannot read Luo Shu’s mind 2 6 8 42.
• Eriri Spencer Sawamura — Second Familia member and founding club member. Initially mistakes his knowledge of her identity as Kashiwagi Eiri for blackmail, but later signs his contract and awakens Transformation 10 13 14.
• Mira Tsubakihara — Neighbor, landlord, and later Familia member. Gives him the Demon Heart and offers a house in exchange for remaining nearby as her protector; he invests in her potential for Alchemy 26 31 36 37.
• Tachibana Kirika — SDS recruiter and superior. Recognizes his exposed mental power, secures his release from police custody, and later relies on his luck to select investigative leads 17 27 49.
• Chisato Nishikigi — SDS colleague and firearms instructor. Helps equip him and is sufficiently trusted that he is reassured when she handles Mira’s questioning 20 22 28.
• Takina Inoue — SDS colleague introduced during the Demon Heart mission; provides information about Natsuki and demonic inscriptions 40 48 49.
• Mika — Supervises his café employment, issues his communications phone, and arranges a salary advance. Also asks him to look after Chisato at school 22 24.
• Natsuki Minamiya — Occult instructor and Astronomy Club faculty advisor. Luo Shu conceals the Familia’s abilities while securing her instruction and potential assistance 44 45.

Story Role / Major Arcs

First Awakening and Familia Formation

His two-life mental strength initially overwhelms his brain while the system lacks energy to activate his abilities. Searching for a consenting protagonist leads him to Utaha, whom he helps flee a giant rat. Once cornered, he awakens his abilities, kills the monster, and gains Utaha as his first Familia member 1 2.

Establishing the Astronomy Club

Luo Shu and Utaha choose a school club as their organization’s cover and recruit Eriri to meet the three-member requirement. After obtaining Takagi’s approval and a classroom, Luo Shu offers monthly allowances of fifty points, ability awakening, medical care, and mission support. Eriri’s contract establishes the second Familia bond 6 10 11 13 14.

Joining SDS

Tachibana notices his newly awakened mental power and recruits him into SDS, a department overseen jointly by the Metropolitan Police Department and US forces in Japan. The position supplies equipment, firearms training, official intelligence, and increased point income, but also brings government personnel into proximity with his secret school organization 17 19 22 24.

The Hound and Living Artifacts

While protecting Mira, Luo Shu kills Nakamura Yuuichi, a Hound of the Demon Hunters. His SDS affiliation secures his release after police detention. Mira subsequently gives him the Demon Heart, and he establishes ownership of both it and the Lucky Wallet; the resulting points finance his advancement to Excellent rank 26 27 31 33 34.

He then recruits Mira and supplements her missing Analysis talent with observer dust. This investment allows her abilities to form a stable framework and produce the excellent-tier Item Creation skill 36 37 38.

Concealment, Instruction, and Demonic Documents

Luo Shu upgrades the Familia’s concealment and uses the Lucky Wallet to help secure Natsuki as the club’s occult teacher without exposing Utaha and Eriri. His earlier killing of the Hound also enables Kirika to trace a hypnotized jewelry-store clerk and locate ten batches of potentially dangerous documents. Kirika asks Luo Shu to draw their addresses randomly, trusting his luck 44 45 49.