SAINT SEIYA :

Életkor: 23 év
Magasság: 184 cm
Súly: 82 kg
Születési idő: jún. 24.
Horoszkóp: Rák
Vércsoport: A
Születésihely: Olaszország
Technika: Sekishiki Meikaiha
Debütálás: 39. rész

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DeathMask is the guardian of the 4th Temple of the Zodiac. He is portrayed as cruel and evil, even though he himself doesn't consider himself to be evil - his foremost belief is that power is justice, and it is the winner in any war who determines ultimately what is just and therefore good.

His first appearance is in Episode 39, when he is sent to Rozan by the Pope to execute Libra Dohko. In his discussion with Dohko it is revealed that DeathMask knows that the Kyokou is evil, but he supports him anyway as he expects the Kyoukou to be victorious in the end.

At Rozan, Shiryu intervenes and tries to foil DeathMask's attempt to kill Dohko. Actually, DeathMask doesn't really want to fight Shiryu in the beginning as he considers him to be far too weak and below his rank, but when Shiryu insists, DeathMask retaliates and easily puts Shiryu on his place. DeathMask would have killed Shiryu with his attack Sekishiki Meikaiha, had not Aries Mu appeared and intervened.

DeathMask then takes his leave telling them that even he wouldn't think of challenging two Gold Saints together, and he tells Shiryu that if he would like to continue this battle and die, he'd just have to come to Sanctuary and meet him there.

In episode 48, Shiryu finally meets DeathMask again at Sanctuary and learns why the Cancer Gold Saint is called DeathMask: his temple is adorned by the faces of all the people he killed in his job as Sanctuary's Nr.1 assassin. Shiryu is taken aback, especially when it becomes clear that DeathMask is totally callous about causing collateral damage in his assassination jobs - he simply doesn't mind if innocents get into the way and get killed while he takes out his actual targets.

Shiryu decides to fight DeathMask right on the spot, giving Seiya the opportunity to continue to Leo Temple. DeathMask doesn't waste any time in this encounter and sends Shiryu into the forecourt of the land of the dead with the Sekishiki Meikaiha right away. Shiryu is only saved by Athena then who sends his soul back into his body.

DeathMask isn't amused when Shiryu refuses to become another deathmask for his Temple and wakes up, so he decides to use the Sekishiki Meikaiha on him again, but to make sure that he won't return a second time, he also crosses into the other world by will and beats up Shiryu thoroughly (and he seems to have quite some fun hurting him).

When Shunrei starts to pray for Shiryu in front of the waterfall at Rozan, DeathMask feels annoyed by her energies and as he suspects she might be able to help Shiryu to get out of the sekishiki again, he uses his far reaching telekinetic powers to throw her into the waterfall, hopefully killing her in the process. Unfortunately this enrages Shiryu so much that he actually fights back again, this time actually managing to affect DeathMask with his blows.

When the battle continues, Shiryu finds that he can hurt DeathMask, but doesn't manage to get any counting coups through as the Cancer Saint is protected by his Gold Cloth, a fact Shiryu doesn't really understand as he thinks DeathMask isn't worthy to wear a Gold Cloth of Athena's. Unfortunately, the Gold Cloth finally agrees with Shiryu's opinion and leaves DeathMask of its own will, leaving the Cancer Saint unprotected against Shiryu's attacks, and in the end Shiryu manages to throw DeathMask down into the pit of Mount Yomotsu, from which even DeathMask can't return on his own.

In the Hades Chapter, DeathMask belongs to the Gold Saints who allegedly pledged loyalty to Hades to be revived again in exchange for bringing Hades Athena's head. Together with Pisces Aphrodite, he faces Aries Mu, but is defeated by him. Back in the underworld, they are punished for their failure by Wyvern Rhadamanthys, who throws them into the pit of Yomotsu. Later it is revealed that their actions were in fact an act to support Shion to get to Athena to tell her about Athena's Cloth, without which she wouldn't be able to defeat Hades.

Only at the end their souls return to join with the other Gold Saints to break the Wailing Wall, sacrificing themselves and thus proving that ultimately they were Saints loyal to Athena, too.

Special Move:

Sekishiki Meikaiha - this is the power to open a doorway to the forecourt of Hades that sends the soul of his opponent right through the gate to underworld, where s/he is drawn towards the Mount Yomotsu, the real entrance to the land of the dead from which there is no return back to the world of the living.

Additionally, he is able to teleport and has powerful telekinetic abilities that reach as far as from Greece to China.