You guys are getting peaceful school life because Kaichou and us, the Devil servants of Sitri, are working at daytime. It won’t be bad for you to remember that, you know? By the way, my name is Saji Genshirou. I’m in second year, and I am Kaichou’s “Pawn”.
Genshirou Saji is a third-year high school student at Kuoh Academy in Class 3-C, being the Academy's Student Council Vice-President and is Sona Sitri's Pawn. He is also in love with her. He is a friend and a rival of Issei Hyoudou.
Saji is a young man with short blond hair and grey eyes. He wears the Kuoh Academy boys' school uniform, albeit without the blazer and his sleeves are rolled up. His height is [168 cm] and body weight is [61 kg].
Because of Grigori's modifications, he has a [G] on his back.
Personality[]
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...I see, it’s obsession. A human’s obsession can be described as the most frightening thing... It’s been a long time since I’ve been exposed to such obsession. Even after reincarnating as a Devil, his will has remained so strong because he still retains the spirituality of being human.
Saji's initial impression was someone who appeared arrogant and egotistic, as shown when he looked down on Issei and bragged about himself while unaware of Issei's capabilities. Saji has an overall personality similar to Issei's and is his parallel in the Student Council. He looks at Sona with the same lustful eyes which Issei looks at Rias with and he cares deeply for his comrades. Saji is also fiercely loyal to Sona, going as far as to say that Sona's dream is his dream and tries his best to help her fulfill her dream of building a Rating Game School that is open to everyone, regardless of status.
His love and loyalty for Sona stems from her helping him resolve his financial difficulties in raising his siblings after his parents and grandfather passed away. Saji is also an extremely caring older brother towards his younger siblings Kaho and Gengo, having become their guardian after his grandfather's death, developing a serious and hardworking personality from these various hardships.
Ddraig claims that the reason Saji can press forward despite being beaten into submission on multiple occasions is that he maintained "the spirituality of a human" despite being reincarnated as a devil (a strange claim given the non-human entities he has met, such as Sairaorg, who can do the same), although his partner Vritra states that it is an "Evil Dragon's obsession" that allows Saji to keep standing.
History[]
Saji's parents died in a vehicular accident, leaving him and his two younger siblings in an incomprehensible situation until their paternal grandfather took them in. A few years later, their grandfather died due to an illness leaving the siblings lonely and helpless. Having financial difficulty looking after his siblings but by sheer chance, Saji received a summoning leaflet near the local train station which would summon Sona.
After learning of Sona’s true identity, he explained his situation to her. Sona discovered that he possessed the Sacred Gear Absorption Line. He formed a Master-Servant contract with Sona to reincarnate as one of her servants and at the same time, he also joined the Student Council. With support from the House of Sitri, Saji was able to move into an apartment along with his younger siblings.
Powers & Abilities[]
Demonic Power: Saji has all the powers and abilities common to Devils, including the power to cast spells. Through the use of Promotion, Saji can increase his demonic power. Saji and the Student Council were able to create a barrier around Kuoh Academy during Kokabiel's attack.
Teleportation: Saji demonstrated the ability to teleport himself to any location.
Immense Strength: Similar to Issei, at the beginning, Saji's strength was considered to be below average when compared to others. Due to his intense training since then, he could get into a proper fist fight against Issei outside his Balance Breaker, and was capable of hauling large objects with his Absorption Line as improvised weapons by smashing them into Issei. After training and gaining Balance Breaker, his strength has grown to where his powers matched a Dragon King. In Volume DX.4, he was able to fight with Issei in his Crimson Armor, which caused tremendous shock waves in the surroundings of the Rating Game.
Immense Durability: Saji has the most extraordinary level of relative (as in comparison to his level) durability and endurance thus far in the series, repeatedly taking blows from beings who, by all rights, should have outright annihilated him with one. Through promoting into either a Rook or Queen, he is able to strengthen his innate defenses. During the Gremory vs. Sitri Rating Game, Saji engaged in a protracted battle with Issei, being able to take his attacks even with Scale Mail and continuing despite the pain, even disturbing the Red Dragon Emperor with his sheer sturdiness and tenacity. Despite not having Vritra, he endured attacks from Grendel, an Evil Dragon stated to be as strong or stronger than the Dragon Kings, as well as attacks from Walburga's Incinerate Anthem, a Holy Relic and effective weapon against Devils, though in that case he blunted the flames with Blaze Black Flares, then continued fighting against the witch in his newly attained Balance Breaker. He was able to continue standing up while being repeatedly knocked around and having his armor broken by attacks from Bedeze for a little while, though he was swiftly overwhelmed and driven to his knees from injury and exhaustion without much effort on his opponent's part. In Volume DX.4, Saji was able to take many direct hits from Issei in his Crimson Armor, and endured two hits from partial Dragon Deification, and he continued attempting to stand despite being knocked out by the second blow.
Enhanced Speed: Through the use of Promotion, Saji can increase his speed. In Volume 21, Saji is shown to be noticeably fast, as he can shrink the distance between Bedeze and himself. In Volume DX.4, Saji was capable of keeping up with Issei who was wearing his Crimson Armor.
Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Saji is shown to have skill in brawling, able to hold his own against Issei in head-on combat. Saji fights in a similar manner to Issei, favoring head-on brute force with some attempt at improvisation with his Sacred Gears to enhance his fighting capacity, such as knee kicking Issei while swinging himself with the Absorption Line for increased momentum. He has something of a berserker aspect to his style, often attempting to power through attacks instead of blocking or dodging them.
Technician: Saji could use his Vritra's Sacred Gears in different ways to neutralize and bind opponents attacks, though in practice most of his creativity seems to stem from Sona's direction. He himself often wields them in simpler ways, such as combining the cursed flames with his physical blows or entwining his arm with lines to act as a shield.
Flight: Being a Devil, Saji can fly using his wings.
Equipment[]
Vritra's Sacred Gears: Unique to Saji, he has a total of four Sacred Gears, each holding a piece of Vritra, one of the Five Dragon Kings, the Prison Dragon. His original one is Absorption Line, while the other three were acquired from Grigori. After undergoing modification surgery by Grigori, Vritra was awakened, in addition to attaining three additional abilities.
Saji launching a line with Absorption Line
Absorption Line (黒い龍脈, Absōrpushon Rain): Saji's original Sacred Gear, taking form as a deformed lizard on his right hand. It has the ability to stretch out its tongue, attaching to and absorbing the power of whoever it is wrapped to, and was later stated as also being able to redistribute that power to others. These lines seem to have something of an intangible quality, seemingly protected from physical attacks alone, as even an Excalibur was unable to cut them, harmlessly passing through one, before it's user activated it's holy aspect. After training, it took the form of a black snake around his arm, and became able to create multiple lines instead of one, absorb blood from a target, transfer power into items and convert his life-force into demonic power. Saji can also use these lines to perform three-dimensional movements.
Saji releasing flames with Blaze Black Flare
Blaze Black Flare (邪龍の黒炎, Bureizu Burakku Furea): His acquired Sacred Gear, which allows him to create and control black cursed flames that Loki couldn't extinguish, even to the event of his death, and Georg had to create an entire sub-dimension just to remove them from himself. Saji can also further increase the power of his physical attacks with the cursed flames. In his fight with Bedeze, he demonstrated the ability to reabsorb these flames if an enemy attempts to redirect them back at him.
Delete Field negates Loki's Magic
Delete Field (漆黒の領域, Derīto Fīrudo): His acquired Sacred Gear, which allows him to create an area where his opponent's powers is reduced until it vanishes.
Shadow Prison (龍の牢獄, Shadō Purizun): His acquired Sacred Gear, which allows him to control black flames different from those of Blaze Black Flare, these being able to restrain his opponents or act like barriers.
Vritra Promotion
Vritra Promotion(龍王変化, Vuritora Promōshon): A unique form, where he transforms into an enormous Eastern Dragon made of black flames, letting him use all four Vritra Sacred Gears at the same time. He is able to exert the power of a Dragon King, making him capable of holding down Loki, Sköll, Hati, and the mass-produced Midgardsormr by combining the powers of his Sacred Gears. However, without Issei's support, he runs the risk of running berserk unable to properly control himself, although he seems to retain enough consciousness to communicate and discern friend from foe. Saji could later transform his eyes alone into red draconic eyes similar to Vritra, letting him sense danger.
Malebolge Vritra Promotion
Malebolge Vritra Promotion(罪科の獄炎龍王, Māreboruje Vuritora Puromōshon): Saji's X Side Balance Breaker, caused from fusing with Vritra and Issei's influence, where he creates a black dragon armor that resembles the Scale Mail, treated as all the Vritra Sacred Gears' Balance Breaker. He can grow multiple tentacle-like lines from his armor, absorb and/or negate the powers of multiple targets, drain their aura until they turn to ash, counter Incinerate Anthem's flames, curse souls, and transfer absorbed power to his allies. In this state, he is comparable to the Dragon Kings and could later put up a fight against Issei using Cardinal Crimson Promotion.
Pawn Piece (兵士の駒, Pōn no koma): Due being the possessor of Absorption Line, Saji needed to be reincarnated using four Pawn Pieces, granting him more power than a normal pawn. As a Pawn, he doesn't initially possess any special abilities like the other Evil Pieces but he can use Promotion to gain the abilities of other Evil Pieces.
Promotion: Being a Pawn, Saji can use Promotion to temporarily gain the traits of a Queen, Rook, Knight or Bishop.
Quotes[]
Light Novel[]
(To Issei Hyoudou): "I want to win against Hyoudou, against the Sekiryuutei one-on-one. Didn’t I tell you? Our dream is serious. We will build a school. We will construct a school without discrimination in the Underworld. And I will become a teacher…That is my dream…This battle is being broadcasted across the entire Underworld. That’s why this has meaning. I, a [Pawn] will win against the same [Pawn], Sekiryuutei Hyoudou Issei!! I will defeat the Sekiryuutei! I’ll win and say it boldly! That I will become a teacher!" (Volume 5, Life 4)[2]
"……I wanted to become like Hyoudou.……Hyoudou and I are "Pawns" that became one around the same time…… He's so perverted, indecent, and insanely lecherous……but he's a guy who always give his all and always go ahead for his comrade or someone……I wanted to become a man like Hyoudou who is strong and on whom people would depend. But, even if I get a step closer to him, Hyoudou goes five or ten steps ahead of me. No matter how much I train myself, he continues to surpass me by miles. The moment when I realise it and go "Ah, I won't ever be able to surpass him"……I……become so frustrated in myself."—I can't become Hyoudou. But there's something I can do. I found something that I want to do! I……! I will become a "teacher"! Those children! I'm going to teach the students who would attend that school! I will teach them that there's something only they are capable of doing!" (Volume 17 Life 4)[3]
Saji is the only person to have ever retired Issei from the Rating Game.
In Rating Game fighting-types, Saji is considered a Technique-type. After unlocking Malebolge Vritra Promotion, he is considered Technique/Power-type.
In the "DxD" popularity election, he came in 8th in the male character category. In the best bout category, his second confrontation with Issei (Volume DX.4) was selected for 5th place.[5]
After Saji was subjected to modification surgery by Grigori, aside from gaining a [G] symbol on his back, he became a Vritra Kaijin.
Genshirou was originally supposed to be a delinquent that caused trouble for his parents, only to change his ways after dying to save a child and being reincarnated by Sona.[6]
References[]
↑Light Novel DX.4, Line.Maximum vs Life.Maximum Dragon King (Idiot) and Dragon Emperor (Idiot)
