Hiruko Shimura

Hiruko Shimura (詩村 蛭子, Shimura Hiruko) is an apprentice of the and a personal student of Saku Hashira. He was a member of the semi-noble Shimura Clan with latent spiritual potential as a child. However, his inability to engage in violence due to his childhood riddled with domestic violence lead him to be adversely against engaging the. Eventually, he was taken to the Dōjō where he became a personal student of its Headmaster. As he grew with his Master, Hiruko consistently strove to become stronger for the sake of acknowledgement, but his Master's experiences would leave his efforts to fall short. Despite this, he never gives up in these attempts, and has consistently been touted as an excellent martial artist by others as a result.