Assassin (GO)

Японское имя:	酒呑童子
Прозвище:	Shuten-Douji

Assassin is an Assassin-class Servant able to be summoned by the Protagonist in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.

Assassin's True Name is Shuten-douji, one of Japan's Three Great Monsters. At the Heian period, the boss stationed at a castle in Mt. Ooe who governed over the oni. There are various theories about Shuten Douji's origins. Like the theory that deems her as the offspring of a human and the Great God Ibuki of Mount Ibuki, or the theory that deems her as a heaven-sent child from Mt. Togakushi. At any rate, she is the child of a dragon god, possessing a common background with Sakata Kintoki.

Her connection with Kintoki dates back from his time as young man. She, in the form of a beautiful girl, met Kintoki, who then fell in love with her. Since he was easy to tease, she often played with him as snacks* for alcohol. As far as Shuten was concerned, those were nothing but drinking bouts, but for Kintoki they were like devil's banquets that would kill him if he relaxed his attention.

Due a series of disappearances of young men and princesses taking place in the imperial capital, Abe no Seimei performed a divination and ascertained that it was the doing of Shuten Douji. Having received the order to subjugate her, Minamoto no Yorimitsu led his "Big Four" and dressed themselves as itinerant Buddhist monks and visited the oni's castle. During a drinking bout, Yorimitsu and the others had Shuten Douji and his lot drink poisoned alcohol and then attacked while they were sick in bed, delivering punishment. The story goes that Shuten Douji's severed head assaulted Yorimitsu, but was thwarted by a helmet provided by god. They used foul play in killing Shuten-douji, which Kintoki greatly regretted to the point of wanting to wish for Shuten-douji's revival to meet her once again.

Due to her anecdotes and vestiges, she is classified as a "anti-hero".

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