Akashi Kazemaru

About
Kazemaru is the youngest lord in the history of the Akashi House, being only 12 years old. A huge burden is placed on him when his house went to war with the Mouri House. The Akashi House was powerful, it had a great army and many experienced and talente generals, but they were defeated by Motonari Mouri and his daughters and all of them died in a fierce battle.

The Akashi House was left with little soldiers and Akashi's parents, brothers and sisters died in the battle as well, leaving him as the only one in charge of the remnants of the House. Many old and already retired soldiers re-joined the ranks in order to support Kazemaru, who's just a boy. Most of them know that the fate of the Akashi House is inevitable but they choose to remain at their young lord's side.

When they go to war with the Oda House, they are easily being over-powered by the opponent, but Kazemaru found a last letter left by his father revealing the location of a secret weapon they'd stored for generations in a secret dungeon of the Akashi House, a living biological super weapon called Nuhe, 4 of them to be precise. These are manufactured living beings that serve for combat and are extraordinary powerful. With these on their side, they can turn the tables on the Oda House and push them back several times. However, Kazemaru gets emotionally attached to these Nuhe, and seeing them fight and die in crude and horrific ways in the battlefield.

During the fighting events of capturing Akashi House, Kazemaru refuses to let the last artificial life body, Hibachi die fighting for him and set her free in the wilderness giving her the order to "live". With the last Nuhe they had in possession released, the Akashi House is easily defeated by the Oda House. Upon the fall of the house, the young Kazemaru is about to perform Seppuku (a JAPANese form of suicide) but is stopped by Rance, who takes him back as a captured commander.

In the later events after Kazemaru was recruited, Rance returned Hibachi back to Kazemaru. Kazemaru confirmed his feelings for her and requested Hibachi to be his sub-captain which was allowed.

Trivia

 * See Akashi Takenori for the historical character reference.
 * When capturing Kazemaru, there is an option of making fun of him by making him wear a white moustache but this will remove him from the game, as if you killed him.