Escalus Genki

General Description
Escalus (Ess - Cah - Lus) Genki (Gen - Key) is the leader of the Shinroyku, also known as the Anti-Devil Society, and is the main villian of Book 5 in the Black Crown series, The Necromance of Black. After learning of the truth of the devil race, Escalus betrayed the devil who taught him to use magic, and gathered other Devil-Slayers, pushing them to follow him.

Appearance
Escalus is noted as looking to be around his mid-twenties, with black hair and even-blacker, obsidian eyes. The upper-left half of his face, his right arm, and his left leg are all made of Shishei (She - Shay) metal.

With his Weapon Summon, Escalus carries helicopter axe — an long staff with two axe blades sticking out the base, facing opposite directions. After absorbing Itsuki, Escalus's hair spikes up more, with the right-half of his hair becoming even darker, and the right-half of his hair becoming bright red.

Abilities
As a trained Devil-Slayer, and after absorbing Itsuki, Escalus has access to numerous abilities


 * Black Magic: Allows Escalus to conjure things from solidified unholiness, shooting it from his body or manipulating it into different shapes
 * Shadow Devil-Slaying Magic: Allows Escalus to absorb Black Magic and slowly feed off anything that is remotely unholy in his presence
 * Blood Devil-Slaying Magic(Post-Absorption): Allows Escalus to use Blood Magic, and power up if in the presence of blood
 * Creating Magic: Allows Escalus to create things, so long as he has a proper grasp on how it works, and if he has the proper amount of magic to do so
 * Shadow-Blood Devil-Slayer Mode
 * Weapon Summoning
 * Eyes of Dolos: Allows Escalus to put any unconscious or dead entity into an infinite loop dream sequence

Background
After learning about how agressive and how violent devils are, being such as a threat to the balance of the world, Escalus betrayed the devil that taught him to use magic, brutally slaughtering him before seeking out other Devil-Slayers, convincing them to do the same. After gathering nearly a dozen of these Devil-Slayers, they formed the Shinriyoku and began their plot to elimiante the devil race.

Trivia

 * Escalus was originally going to be one-time-appearance character in Book 1
 * As noted by Itsuki, Escalus's favorite acting is beheading and crucifying devils, which is why his Weapon Summon is a helicopter axe
 * Escalus's last name, Genki, is derived from the Genki Dama, one of the famous techniques from the popular anime franchise, Dragon Ball Z
 * Dimension-219, the parallel dimension created by Escalus, is shown to have a star that burns with green fire, and a violet-colored space, and is shown to be about the size of a galaxy
 * When he was just a child, Escalus murdered several children his age and put them into an infinite loop of their death, which only ever stopped when he was defeated for the first time