
Taking Tōsen aside to talk about their mutual friend's demise. Pretending to be a mere, random friend of Kakyō, Tokinada amicably confronted Tōsen and apologized for not being able to protect her. Īfter Kakyō's funeral, Tokinada found the blind Tōsen in front of the Central 46 Compound demanding an audience with Central 46 to have Kakyō's murderer be properly punished. However, Tokinada's status as a noble allowed him to go relatively unpunished, much to the fury of his late wife's best friend, Kaname Tōsen. ĭue to the interference of another noble, Shunsui Kyōraku, who brought the events to light, Tokinada was tried for murder regardless. While the Tsunayashiro elders branded Tokinada as incompetent, they tried to cover up the event as they also had their secrets. Afterwards, Tokinada returned to the heads of his family, where he lied about the circumstances of Kakyō's death by his account, Tokinada could not stand being married to a commoner and when he caught Kakyō commuting adultery with another Shinigami, he had killed them in self-defense. Taking advantage of the distraction, Tokinada slaughtered the Shinigami before turning his attention to Kakyō and fatally wounding her. Īs the two fought, with Tokinada having the advantage, Kakyō discovered them and attempted to stop the fight.
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When Tokinada unveiled the full truth to the Shinigami, they became enraged and attacked the noble. However, one night a random Shinigami who befriended Kakyō confronted Tokinada about his treatment of his wife. As Kakyō was a very promising and talented graduate from the Shin'ō Academy, Tokinada grew to resent her even more, yet was unable to get rid of her as his family was happy at such a successful "experiment". Driven by his own urges, Tokinada settled on marriage with a lowly Shinigami originating from the Rukongai, Kakyō, and planned on giving her great happiness only to brutally tear it away later on. Hundreds of years before the Wandenreich invasion of Soul Society, Tokinada became a Shinigami.Īt some point in his later life, Tokinada was forced into marriage by his family. Tokinada vowed that, until the inevitable end of Soul Society, he will act with completely justified malice and evil. Laughing, Tokinada now realized that the million-year history of Soul Society is based upon deception, and that there is no excuse for him or anyone to behave any differently. Many years later, Tokinada uncovered records about the true history of Soul Society and the greatest sin of the Tsunayashiro family. Tokinada pretended to be satisfied, but secretly bided his time. When Tokinada asked what the world was before the Soul King, his father got furious and says that there was no history prior to the Soul King's birth, and that the Shinigami should be happy a being so wise and powerful exists in the first place. The father replied that the Soul King is the lynchpin that holds the worlds together and that without it, they would collapse on each other. HistoryĪt some point in the past, a young Tokinada asked his father about the Soul King. His nihilistic outlook and sadism led him to be willing to use his family's ancestral Zanpakutō, Enrakyōten, despite knowing it will shorten his lifespan, solely to satisfy his personal amusement. As a result, Tokinada is quite a shrewd person. After learning about the "Original Sin" of Soul Society, Tokinada adopted a nihilistic worldview, believing that there is no excuse for anyone not to act with complete malice in their meaningless world. While generally polite in conversation, Tokinada is openly and very sadistic, and even admits that his greatest joy is watching people fall into soul-crushing despair.

He wears a loose fitting, black Shihakushō over which he wears a white haori. Tokinada is a slender man with green eyes and medium length, dark-green hair that is generally unkempt except for a tightly tied braid along his left side of his head.
