Yuto Ijika

Yuto Ijika (石鏡 悠斗) is the older twin brother of Benio Adashino. He is also an old friend turned enemy of Rokuro Enmado, and the mastermind behind the Hiinatsuki Tragedy.

Appearance
Yuto is a young man with blue hair that is kept in a bowl cut hairstyle, he has gold colored eyes and wears an eye patch over his left eye. He is seen wearing a white uniform with dark blue designs on the sides of the sleeves and on the zipper.

Before he had an eye patch, he had blue eyes matching the color of his hair.

Two years later, his appearance has not changed except he has gotten taller with a stronger build.

Personality
When he was younger, Yuto appeared as an antisocial kid who was confident in his own power, who saw anyone else in the Hiinatsuki dorm as low level exorcists. To Benio, he was an example as older brother and had a strong sense of justice. This was later revealed to be a cover for him in order to reach his goal.

In reality, he remains very confident in his own power and he feels nothing for Benio nor Rokuro and didn't hesitate to kill them if he had the occasion, he is cruel and fearless in front of his enemies. He is ruthless and shows no remorse in his actions and even belittled Benio by insulting their late parents who sacrifice themselves to save her while calling her pathetic. He also loves showing off his strength and whenever he has a moment of weakness, he makes it appear like it is a bluff in order to keep his strong image. Yuto enjoys being an exorcist, and seeks to be the best as he has show he will do anything to achieve it, not even minding sacrificing countless people to become the strongest exorcist. He dislike weak opponents which was shown when he casually slaughtered several exorcists.

While may not feel much attachment to his family, Yuto has shown to have many similarities to them such as his love for Ohagi and his desire to get stronger as an exorcist.

Background
Born Yuto Adashino, with his twin sister following him, he was raised and trained in Adashino House, one of the 64 distinguished houses of Tsuchimikado Island. His family was a loving one, but Yuto was in fact psychopathic and despised them, and pretended to be a good family member.

After his parents was killed by Kamui at age 8, he was adopted to his father's birth family, as the Adashino House's head can only be female, while his younger twin sister Benio went to live with their Adashino relatives in Mainland.

During the time before he came to Hiinatsuki Dormitory, he began to wear a eye patch for unknown reasons. He later volunteered to be sent to the Hiinatsuki Dormitory. At Hiinatsuki, he seemed to not care about everyone, only focused on his own development. However, Rokuro did arise his interest and the two became rival and friends.

In order to advance with his goals, he used all the students in Hiinatsuki Dormitory as lab mice, all other died, but Rokuro turned to one satisfying object.

Plot
In both the manga and anime, Rokuro and Yuto were friends living at Hiinatsuki Dorm. They were considered to be the exorcists who ends the war with the Impurities. On the day of the Hiinatsuki Tragedy, he and Rokuro fought it out resulting in Rokuro's corruption and Yuto's disappearance. Rokuro meets Yuto again after he is forced to confess to Benio about the truth behind the tragedy.

In the anime, Rokuro is shown to have lost his temper and attacked Yuto relentlessly, while in the manga, Mayura was corrupted before Yuto met up with Rokuro. Considering that the Furu no Koto drains their spell power, Rokuro couldn't put up much of a fight in the manga. In the anime, Mayura was corrupted before Yuto's second meeting with Rokuro. In both the anime and manga, Yuto duels with his former teacher Seigen Amawaka, he states their battle will be his declaration of war on the other Exorcist. When Seigen uses his full enchanted gear, Yuto stands ready for the battle but after Seigen attacks he is unfazed by the strike. He cries at how sad it is that he became stronger than his teacher after two years before retaliating against Seigen seriously wounding him and destroying part of his arm in the process.

Yuto then asks Rokuro to side with him in order to complete his ambition and to meet him at their old dormitory. Rokuro and Benio have been training to fight Yuto (they still have to give each other a signal to activate Resonance).

In both the manga and anime, Kamui turned Benio into a Fallen Impurity and she also proved that she could utilize her power enough to land multiple hits on Yuto leaving him bloodied and battered. Later, Rokuro healed himself somehow. In the manga, Rokuro's future child, the Miko, has a chat with him and gives him his spell power so Rokuro gained a new form. In the anime, this was cut out and the transformation only lasted long enough to heal Rokuro's wounds. Yuto was forced to use his entire Kegare form but was defeated, however it was a hollow victory as he escaped before telling Rokuro that "I'm going to the island".

Two years later, he stands among the bodies of fallen exorcists before he believes that he faintly felt Rokuro's presence and wonders how he long he has to wait for him.

When Tenma Unomiya telepathically contacts Rokuro, Yuto manages to detect it before the latter cuts off the connection after realizing this. Now aware of Rokuro's presence on the island, Yuto screams out in joy as he manically laughs at the thought of fighting against Rokuro again.

Later, at the First Yuto Ijika Crusade, he and the Basara united to reach near the entrance of Magano, aiming to eliminate all the exorcists. He happened to meet Rokuro and his Senka.

Powers and Abilities
Yuto is very skilled in exorcism having been a skilled prodigy at a young age. He studied forbidden exorcism in order to increase his power and was successful as his new abilities allowed him to greatly wound and soon defeat Seigen Amawaka, who at the time was still a Twelve Guardians and third strongest. Yuto even said he couldn't believe he was able to become stronger than his old teacher in a short time. Yuto's threat level increased to that of a Basara and its said Rokuro would have to join the house of one of the Twelve Guardians to fight Yuto again. Single-handedly, Yuto was able to take down several trained exorcists on Tsuchimikado Island and emerge without a scratch.

Kegare Form: Being an Exorcist that has Kegare powers, Yuto is able to use Enchanted Gears to help him combat Impurities when fighting in Magano. He was able to master his power to the extent that his enchanted Gear takes the form of a rocky Blue arm similar to that of an impurity. Yuto is also able to perform a full-body enchantment akin to the Twelve Commanders Celestial Gear Equip.


 * Regeneration: As a result of his new abilities and great mastery of it, Yuto has gained this ability as after losing an arm in his fight with Rokuro he was able to regain it after two years.

Trivia

 * His eye color changed into yellow when he has an eye patch, and eventually gone rogue after the Hinatsuki Tragedy. A same case happened on Braig in Kingdom Hearts game franchise, where he also completely becoming a villain after getting an eye patch and had his eye color changed into yellow.
 * Yuto's blue hair and eye colors do not resemble any of his known family members. However, his blood type, height and love for ohagi show that he is biologically related to them.