| ID | 303 |
| Rarity | ★★★★★ |
| Class | Avenger |
| True Name | Taira-no-Kagekiyo |
| Gender | - |
| Source | “The Tale of the Heike” · “Gikeiki” · Legend of Kagekiyo |
| Region | Japan |
| Alignment | Chaotic Evil |
| Height | 172cm |
| Weight | 57kg |
| Strength | D |
| Endurance | A |
| Agility | A+ |
| Magic | B |
| Luck | B |
| Noble Phantasm | B+ |
| Character Setting | Sakurai Hikaru |
| Illustrator | Sakamoto Mineji |
| Character Voice | Hayami Saori |
| Major Appearances | Fate/Grand Order |
Their disposition as an avenger who act as focal point for people’s hatred and grudge, sublimated into a skill.
As the one hailed as the embodiment of grudge, the rank possessed by Taira no Kagekiyo is one off the charts.
Taira no Kagekiyo will never forget.
Even if time becomes immemorial, if they are not but a shadow of the Human Order, Kagekiyo will not forget their hatred towards the Genji.
Energy will continue to be produced until their revenge is carried out.
Recover a minimum amount of magic per turn.
Taira no Kagekiyo. Kills. The Genji.
Taira no Kagekiyo never dies. Ceaselessly emerging, they will continue their advance in their thirty-seven attempts and beyond.
They’re portrayed in the Kabuki play “Kamihage” as an immortal being.
Of EX rank, this skill grants Kagekiyo Guts along with Instant-Kill resistance.
They shroud themselves in fog to bewilder the enemy’s blade.
A sorcery that raises mist through Kagekiyo’s sword, the Azamaru (currently housed at the Atsuta Shrine).
Taira no Kagekiyo cannot be captured.
Even if they become a prisoner, they shall certainly escape.
(fundamentally unused in Fate/GO).
| Rank | B+ |
| Type | Anti-Unit Hidden Technique |
| Range | 1~20 |
| Maximum Number of Targets | 1 person |
All Things Are Impermanent, Those Who Flourish Must Be Lay Waste.
A cursed-fierce blow slammed by the blade packed into the Heike’s grudge.
Such things as universality and immutability are not of this world; an everlasting warrior nor a perpetual nation exist──By making of this providence their blade, Kagekiyo strips their foe of its existence.
Be it a crystallization of their legends as a longsword wielder, or perhaps by the True Name release, but their weapon is remolded from the Double Azamaru into a single great sword.
It’s still effective against the non-Genji, but it truly shines only against the Genji after all.
| First-person pronoun | washi / kagekiyo / watashi (sporadically in the Third Ascension) |
| Second-person pronoun | kisama / kiden / aruji, anata (towards the Master only in the Third Ascension) |
| Third-person pronoun | yatsu / ayatsu / 〇〇-dono |
The one who kills Genji.
The Genji Slaying Device.
With a mentality that could be called that of a vengeful spirit on itself, they’re no different from a self-powered machine. They don’t show any signs of feeling things like joy or sadness; but had they really cast off such emotions, or are they merely closed to them? Who knows…
When in their Third Stage, they display symptoms of having returned a part of their ego as Minamoto no Yoshitsune. They also behave as if they were Yoshitsune herself when near their former-self or her related.
They bear but a single wish for the Holy Grail, that is to say: Perish, O Genji.
“──Perish, O Genji.”
“Grudge. All but this sole word.”
“The Genji must be eradicated. There are too many of them in this world.”
“Understood. Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo shall lay waste to everything.”
“Slaughter shall be offered.”
A mysterious character featured in the Tale of Heike. While of unclear background, this individual became widely known to the Genji and Heike forces as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo of Kazusa. Although the Tale of Heike dub him as “The One from Kazusa” his specific origins have divergent answers among literature.
Eventually Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo would be hailed as Taira no Kagekiyo, the Avenger of the Heike…known worldwide as a vengeful spirit that constantly plots revenge against the Genji.
Somehow, the military exploits achieved by the Heike warriors and the hatred of those who fell for the Genji were all personified in the figure of Taira no Kagekiyo.
Kagekiyo made a total of twenty-seven attempts on Yorimoto’s life, but he survived each one of them.
Those who fosters vendetta for the Genji, whoever they may be, will eventually be Taira no Kagekiyo to bare their fangs against them.
Be they Kagekiyo or not, it matters little.
Be they Heike or not, it matters little.
It no longer matters who they are.
Those who grudge the Genji shall be subsumed into Taira no Kagekiyo.
The historical Kagekiyo may have actually escaped to the Chugoku region and lived out his last days peacefully there, but this is completely unrelated to the fact that the thing known as Taira no Kagekiyo will continue to harbor hatred towards the Genji for eternity.
Legends related to Kagekiyo are many, and historical landmarks (claimed to be) connected to him exist nationwide. In this summoning, though, Kagekiyo has become one with Minamoto no Yoshitsune. What does that mean? Basically: “the warrior who goes by Minamoto no Yoshitsune is but Taira no Kageikyo itself.”
Had Yoshitsune been incorporated into Kagekiyo because she harbored a grudge against Genji, or was it her deep grudge that acted as the core for Kagekiyo as an Avenger?
Yoshitsune was also Taira no Kiyomori’s son-in-law for a short period of time. So it could be said that such fact highlights that her path to attach into the Heike’s vengeful spirit had already been laid out during such early period of her lifetime.
They were the Saikyou; manifested as one of the eight servants summoned to emulate the Hasshoujin of Taoism, as the trump card of the Alterego Limbo, Ashiya Douman. They carried out a fierce battle against Chaldea’s Master and Kintoki at Kamogawa.
The uchigatana, Azamaru. The source of her mist sorcery.
“Perish, O Genji.”
“Perish, O Genji’s retainers.”
“Those under the Genji shall too fall.”
(they always silently stares at her from a distance with narrowed eyes).
“A elder from a strange land. We feel strangely close to him, so familiar that’s unpleasant. Perhaps, could it be because that individual’s very way of life is our source of being?…”
“Avenger… I see. Ones such as me that blaze from the grudge’s sole word. May your inferno never extinguish…!”
“Among the avengers… I do believe you and I may be able to see eye to eye.”
Comment from Illustrator #
The first two ascensions show less skin to match Ushiwakamaru’s. (Mineji Sakamoto).