He has a face carved with grief and an unusually robust body for a magus, characteristics that exert immense pressure on his opponents to the point of seeming almost nauseating.
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Souren appears to be a man of around forty-five years old, but he has lived for hundreds of years. To do so, Araya plans to transplant his brain into Shiki's body. He plans to retrace the path of the Swirl of the Root by using Shiki's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Before Tomoe left, Araya supposedly implanted an unconscious imprinting in this puppet to have an interest in Shiki. Tomoe Enjou was able to escape from the repetitive spiral, something that Araya didn't expect. Araya created the Apartment Complex to create a cyclical loop in which the puppet residents repeat their last day before death as a means to discover an access to the Swirl of the Root. He collaborated with Cornelius who was responsible for the system at the Ogawa apartment and in return he'll help kill Touko. The apartment walls had been inscribed with strange patterns which caused people to go into depression leading them to become insane thus driving them to their deaths. He used Touko's architecture blueprint to create the Ogawa Apartment. In his attempt to reach the Akasha, he performed an experiment on an apartment complex in Kayamihama, Mifune City. He planned Fujino and Kirie to fight against Shiki in hopes that they would be able to surpass Shiki's inner potential, but also in part so that the Counter Force would overlook his own operations by being distracted towards the conflict created between the three. It is at this point that Araya deemed Lio to be a failure, resorting to using other powered individuals to divert Shiki's attention while keeping Lio at bay.Īraya later approached Fujino Asagami and Kirie Fujou, pressing them to awaken their innate abilities. Having nearly driven Shiki to her death during the 1995-1996 murders, Araya stopped Lio from conducting his murders in order to prevent him from causing further problems for his plan. Lio was the first chess piece Souren Araya prepared, and also the one he saved for last. Personally interested in the Demon Hunter Organization families, he especially set his sights on Shiki Ryougi, with the intention of using his knowledge of her Origin of "Nothingness" as his last resort as a means of reaching the Origin.ĭuring 1995, he encounters Lio Shirazumi with the initial intention of using whatever knowledge he could attain from his Origin, after prompting Lio to awaken his Origin of "Consumption". Souren Araya attempted to reach Akasha by tracing the roots of the soul, something that is there but not there, in order to reach a group consciousness. Though their paths differed, their relationship was that of rivals aiming toward the same goal. At first, Touko and Araya took interest in each other as fellow countrymen and it started off with them exchanging views as two people with similar ideals.
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He later entered the Mage's Association Clock Tower in London with Touko Aozaki and Cornelius Alba. He was excommunicated by his master because he saw the origin of people. He witnessed endless death, and this gave him the twisted purpose of finding a reason for human death. Souren was a former Buddhist monk hailing from Tamil Buddhism who has lived for around 300 years.