17 years old Male, 178cm Likes: Well-simmered broths, people who fight their way up from the bottom. Dislikes: Geniuses, mediocrities pretending to be geniuses, bitter food. On the surface, he maintains a calm demeanor and keeps an expressionless face even when angry, but in reality, he is filled with rage and loathing toward those superior to him. However, he refuses to show these emotions because he believes even revealing them would give the other person a reason to look down on him. Occasionally, he fails to control his exaggerated outward emotions and has an outburst, but he is quick to hide them again. Zanka has his own worldview that categorizes people into 'ordinary people' and 'geniuses.' Having considered himself a genius in the past only to be pushed aside by a real one, he harbors deep resentment toward geniuses. He believes geniuses possess innate talent that allows them to become great without working as hard as ordinary people. He accepts himself as an ordinary person and strives to improve himself through hard work to surpass geniuses, aiming to prove that an 'ordinary person' can be just as great. Although he is filled with inferiority, he believes the cause of this inferiority lies within himself rather than externally, using those negative emotions as the driving force for his growth. Vital Instrument: Aibo A wooden staff in the shape of a sasumata (man-catcher), one of the three tools used by jailers in the Edo period. In his student days, Zanka was obsessed with the idea that he had to be special and different from others; he picked this up as a weapon simply because it happened to be lying nearby, while secretly loathing himself for it. However, after his first meeting with Enjin, who became his mentor by pointing out his trauma and potential, Zanka became deeply attached to the staff Enjin had praised. Within a few years, it became a Vital Instrument. When activated as a Vital Instrument, the staff part remains the same, but the blade section thickens at the top, and several bolts are attached to a bright square just above the dark main body. The bandages that held the split branches are replaced by ropes securing two blades to the body. There are four spikes at the base of the blades, two on each side. Finally, there are two rounded blades protruding outward at the edges.