Ajimaph Raki

"Ajimaf's fighter tagline in the Toushin Digest."

- I'll do it all for my sister!

About
Ajimaf Raki is a hot-blooded competitor in the Toushin Tournament and a secondary character in Toushin Toshi III.

Born in the city of Rockearth, Ajimaf lived a relatively happy life with his parents, a pair of public officials, and older sister. Six months prior to the events of Toushin Toshi III, Ajimaf's parents were targeted by the criminal syndicate that controlled Rockearth from the shadows and killed in a massive conflict. While official statements reported their deaths to have been accidental, both Ajimaf and his sister knew the truth of the incident and fled the city to evade further attacks from the organization. The crime group followed the two wherever they went, forcing Ajimaf to fend off their attacks to protect his sister. Over time, Ajimaf grew frustrated with his transient life as a fugitive and declared that he would take part in the Toushin Tournament to become a Toushin, intending to use the authority bestowed by the title to live proudly without fear of being attacked. Ajimaf asked his sister to serve as his partner in the tournament, but only managed to gain her permission to do so after agreeing to sign a contract pledging to sell his organs to raise the funds needed to pay off the 30,000 GOLD penalty fee in the event that he lost.

During the events of Toushin Toshi III, Ajimaf and his sister traveled to Toushin City to register in the Toushin Tournament. Due to the large number of applicants, the tournament implemented a qualifying challenge that asked the potential competitors to collect 30 Sand Lances from defeated Monsters in the nearby Qualifying Labyrinth, with the first 30 that succeeded in doing so being granted the right to participate. Determined to win, Ajimaf hastily charged through the labyrinth attacking whatever monsters he encountered to quickly gain as many sand lances as possible. While doing this, he mistakenly attacked Nacht Ragnard, another young man taking part in the competition, who became angered by his carelessness. Rather than admit his mistake, Ajimaf instead accused Nacht of having been too quiet to clearly identify himself as a Human, which caused a squabble to erupt between the two that only ended after each remembered the time pressure they were under.

Following a frantic two days of work, Ajimaf was narrowly able to acquire the sand lances needed to become an official participant in the tournament. He was assigned his first match on the second day of the competition, against the veteran Adventurer Matsumoto Yamato. In preparation for the fight, he began exploring the Mabil Labyrinth to train and quickly succeeded in gaining the certification sticker needed to advance deeper into the dungeon. On his way out of the labyrinth after obtaining the sticker, Ajimaf crossed paths once more with Nacht, who had also succeeded in passing the qualifying round. Though the two maintained their animosity from their previous encounter, they also acknowledged the other's skill in having been declared formal competitors in the tournament, causing them to develop a small amount of mutual respect for each other.

On the day of his first match, Ajimaf entered the Mabil Labyrinth to perform last minute training before his fight. To his great irritation, the new floor he had unlocked was filled with large bags of garbage that obstructed his path and made it difficult to move around. Just as he began to fear that he would not be able to leave the labyrinth before his match was scheduled to start, he ran into Nacht once more, who reminded him that he could instantly teleport out of it using his tournament-issued Return Bonsai. Taking Nacht's advice, Ajimaf escaped from the dungeon in time to face Matsumoto in the coliseum. The fight proved to be an orthodox test of strength and endurance, with Ajimaf managing to strike Matsumoto unconscious before getting knocked out himself and emerging victorious. His performance received little fanfare when covered by the Toushin Digest, with its host Kuri dismissing it as "boring".

After his victory in the first round, Ajimaf was assigned to face Namil Hamsand, a talented female swordfighter, in the second. While Namil had shown herself to be a powerful foe during her first match, Ajimaf had little concern for the fight and chose to instead focus his attention toward his excitement at getting to sleep with her after winning. This ego proved to be his undoing when the day of the fight arrived, where he was taken by surprise when Namil revealed herself to also be a skilled practitioner of the Magic Arts and conjured a mass of vines to constrict around him. Unable to move while wrapped in the vines, Ajimaf was defeated with ease and eliminated from the tournament. As per his agreement with his sister, he had one of his organs harvested and sold on the black market to pay his penalty fee without requiring her to spend a year working as a servant inside of Toushin City. Rather than leave the city after getting eliminated, Ajimaf continued to delve deeper into Mabil Labyrinth to train in preparation for entering the tournament the next year. No longer able to root for himself, he decided to spend the remainder of the tournament cheering on Nacht, who had managed to pass the second round and was arranged to face Namil in the third. While Nacht succeeded in defeating Namil, he was ultimately unable to become its champion, forcing him too to begin looking toward the next year's tournament for a second chance.

One year later, Ajimaf once again applied to compete in the Toushin Tournament, gaining his sister's permission to use as his partner after signing an esoteric contract of her own design. While he passed the qualifying round without issue, he was defeated by an unknown opponent during his first formal match and eliminated even earlier than he had been the previous year. To his shock, his sister revealed that the contract she had made him sign stipulated that he would pay off his penalty fee without needing her to work as a servant, and attempted to have him sell another one of his organs to gain the necessary money. Unwilling to lose another organ, Ajimaf instead payed the fee by taking out a high-interest loan from a group of dubious moneylenders that could be worked off in installments. Ajimaf turned to petty theft to pay off his massive debt, and began wandering Mabil Labyrinth mugging any tournament competitors he encountered for their valuables.

While searching Mabil Labyrinth for targets, Ajimaf was reunited with Nacht, who had also entered the tournament and advanced to its third round. Though he initially attempted to rob Nacht of his possessions, Ajimaf stopped and explained his circumstances after recognizing him. Nacht was sympathetic to Ajimaf's situation but insisted that he find another means of gaining money other than stealing, eventually persuading him to only take money from monsters he encountered in the labyrinth. With a new goal set for himself, Ajimaf continued to explore the labyrinth in search of an effective means to acquire the money he needed from fighting monsters, encountering Nacht many more times along the way.

Ajimaf's travels eventually led him to Hanny Village 55, a settlement that could only be entered by haniwa and followers of the Haniwa Temple. For the sake of moving deeper into the labyrinth, Ajimaf willingly converted his faith to become a Haniwa Crusader, granting him access to the legendary Hanny Flash technique and much higher resistance to magical attacks in the process. Ajimaf encouraged Nacht to also become a Haniwa Crusader, but was turned down due to Nacht fearing that doing so could permanently damage his relationship with Remedia Kalar.

Ajimaf is not seen again after Nacht wins the Toushin Tournament and made a Toushin, leaving it a mystery as to whether he was able to pay off his outstanding loan. Despite this, he continues to talk about becoming a Toushin even during his later encounters with Nacht, suggesting that he intends to enter the tournament for a third time in the future.