Norito Goshi

Norito Goshi 「五士 典人, Goshi Norito」 is a colonel of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army and a member of Guren's squad in the Moon Demon Company.

He is a main character in the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen light novel series.

Appearance
Norito is a tall, young man with blond hair tied in a short ponytail and a small goatee. He has frivolous drooping eyes.

He wears the standard JIDA uniform which consists of a long-sleeved black coat with light green details including the shoulder epaulettes which has a brown Sam Browne belt passing diagonally over his right shoulder along with along with straps crossing under his waist to form an X, two rows of gold buttons on the front which are unbuttoned at the top, and has his sleeves rolled up. Along with that, he wears a pair of white gloves and a white web belt with a gold waist-plate. He also wears the uniform trousers and black boots which go over the trouser's leggings. He usually wears the black cape as well.

Personality
He has a rebellious personality, but is otherwise good-natured. He tends to be rather laid-back and likes to joke around.

History
The Goshis were one of the branch families serving the Hīragi's. Despite that, Norito was someone who was unmotivated to work hard. This stemmed from the fact that his younger brother was much more talented and hailed as the next head of the Goshis', which created an inferiority complex in Norito.

Alongside Mito, Norito was saved by Guren on multiple occasions and was also assigned to Guren's squad by Kureto in several missions. He too accepted the Kiju (Demon-Curse) to save Guren.

Book 3
Goshi teases Mito when she scolds Guren for hiding his true strength, so she hits him and he laughs. After school, Goshi invites himself, Mito, and Shina over to Guren’s apartment to play. He buys a cheap shogi board from the convenience store, and they play in an elimination-style tournament. Goshi loses to Guren on purpose during the first round. A disturbing TV broadcast of a fire distracts Mito from her game against Shinya until she surrenders. They all leave afterward.

The next day, Mito challenges Guren to shogi, but then Mito, Goshi, and Shinya bicker over who plays him. Shinya ends up playing.

That night, the Brotherhood of a Thousand Nights attacks the school. Goshi helps protect Mito.

Book 4
Goshi uses his illusions to help Sayuri, Shigure, and Mito escape, but he does not know what happened to them afterward. He uses an illusion to hide in the girls’ restroom and make the door invisible.

The enemy notices his illusion and breaks in, defeating Goshi easily. Goshi thinks even his brother would lose to them. He surrenders but then refuses to betray his comrades. The enemy reveals they have already captured his younger brother. One of the Thousand Nights members brings his knife down on Goshi.

He struggles, and the blade cuts his chest but does not cause a fatal wound. He notices there are subtle illusions placed all over the school that are filling those present with the desire to kill. He then hears screaming in the hall, and a blood-coated Guren steps into the restroom and kills all of the Thousand Nights members inside.

Goshi notices something is wrong with him, and Guren begins asking for blood. Guren fights the urge to kill Goshi or to tell Goshi to run. Guren eventually retreats and continues slaughtering everyone in the hallways.

Goshi chases after him. He finds about Guren kills Mito, so he detonates an explosion tag on his bag. Using an illusion spell, Goshi escapes with Mito. Mito struggles, but Goshi helps her understand the situation.

Guren tells him they cannot come back and rescue him because they will die here.

Goshi and Mito escape to a balcony and jump to the ground. Guren chases them, struggling with the desire to kill them and the despair of being unable to save anyone. Guren's sword nicks Goshi's face but stops short of any serious damage. Guren takes control again and tells Gosh to not come back. Noya takes control again.

Shinya fires missiles of powerful talismans at Guren and allows Goshi and Mito to flee.

Later on, in the classrom, Shinya arrives with Mito, Goshi, and nine other soldiers. They all have demonic blades equipped to them.

Noya wakes up, demanding murder.

Shinya, Goshi, Mito, and Guren struggle against Noya. Thanks to the cursed gear, their injuries heal unnaturally fast. Shinya tells Noya that the humans have already found a way to turn demons into their slaves. They fight, and Goshi uses an illusion to distract Guren while Shinya pastes a weakening talisman on Guren's neck and hugs him. The troops pierce Shinya and Guren with wooden stakes, and chains wrap Guren to Shinya from the feet on upward. Guren loses consciousness. m.

Over an hour later, Guren opens his eyes in the classroom but is too embarrassed to start talking right away. Mito and Goshi are so relieved that they have tears in their eyes.

Mito, Goshi, and Shinya overhear his conversation with Kureto and try to comfort him. When Guren denies having companions, Shinya disagrees and tells him to take responsibility and lead their squad. All three hold out hands to him. He takes their hands and calls them tiring. They laugh.

In the epilogue, Mito, Shinya, and Goshi play video games at Guren’s apartment until Mahiru shows up. Guren attacks her, and they fall from the twenty-fifth floor. Mahiru stops her fall by using her sword. Guren is badly injured but recovers.

Book 5
Guren and Shinya play Bomberman until 3 a.m., and Mito and Goshi are already asleep.

Guren plans his next move with his group and reveals some documents Mahiru left to him about the Seraph of the End.

Kureto visits Guren and orders him to kill Mahiru within forty-eight hours or else he will kill Guren’s father and the rest of the Order of the Imperial Moon. He calls Aoi, stating that Guren betrayed them and cut him down. He orders Sakae’s death, but this is all a ruse.

Guren and his group escape to the roof and steal Kureto’s helicopter before heading to Kyoto. They crash in the mountains and head down to a farmland to steal a tractor. Guren sleeps for seven hours while chatting with Noya. They return to a love hotel and change clothes.

While there, a vampire appears, but they kill her. Asuramaru’s sword materializes in the room.

Book 6
Sakae’s body is returned to Aichi, and his head is reattached prior to his burial. Guren dresses in his father’s ceremonial kimono and greets the other family heads. Shinya, Goshi, and Mito sneak in to visit him.

At Guren’s apartment, he finds Mito and Goshi eating curry. They play Bomberman.

On December 10th, Kureto sends in Guren and his gang to take care of students that have become possessed by demons at the school. Guren arrives first and knocks out one demon-possessed boy. Mahiru, now a vampire, appears. Goshi and the rest of the group arrive and attack Mahiru, but she escapes.

Goshi calls Guren and says his apartment was set on fire by traitors. The call is dropped. Guren steals a bike and escapes, but a van chases him until Shinya uses Byakkomaru to destroy it. None of Guren’s group die at the apartment. Goshi picks them up in a stolen minivan.

Second Shibuya High School Arc
Colonel Norito Goshi first appeared at the end of chapter 2 when Guren rescues Yūichirō Hyakuya from a vampire.

Shinjuku Arc
When the vampires attack Shinjuku in chapter 11, Colonel Norito Goshi joins the rest of Lieutenant Colonel Guren Ichinose's squad. When Guren fights against Mikaela Hyakuya, Goshi and Shigure work together against him to allow Guren to attempt a strike for Mikaela from behind. At the end of the battle, Goshi can be seen talking with Colonel Mito Jujo.

Nagoya Arc
In chapter 24, Goshi hangs out with his squad in the Ebina Rest Stop. He finds a dirty magazine and tries to talk the three girls in squad into trying on a bikini. When Mito arrives, he tells her that Guren wanted to see her in a bikini, causing her to get flustered. When Guren makes a short speech afterward, Goshi and Shinya make fun of him for doing it on a sports car. Guren beats him.

When Yūichirō Hyakuya arrives for a punishment later, Shinya and Goshi team up to tease Guren about his feelings for them. Once again, only Goshi gets beat up--although he requests a headlock from Sayuri, she sends him flying across the room instead. Shortly after, Goshi uses his Cursed Gear to make a smoke illusion of a naked, crying Yūichirō with four slaps on his lab. He makes the illusion beg for his mama and causes the rest of Sergeant Shinoa Hiragi's squad to come running.

Once they commence their operation in Nagoya, she heads underground with the rest of Guren's squad to hunt Nineteenth Progenitor Mel Stefano. Although they succeed in killing him, the battle was dangerous, and Guren nearly dies several times. He assigned three squads per noble, with the exception of two groups: Shinoa and Narumi's squads only had those two squads, and Guren's squad took on one vampire on their own.

Afterward, a soldier named Kusunoki makes it to Guren, informing him that ten soldiers were killed and twenty held hostage. He expires and Guren orders them to reinforce Shinoa and Narumi's squads before heading off to kill Thirteenth Progenitor Crowley Eusford in Nagoya City Hall.

The Moon Demon Company regroups, and Sergeant Aiko Aihara arrives with only seven survivors from her squads. Guren Squad, Shinoa Squad, and Narumi Squad leave to hunt Thirteenth Progenitor Crowley Eusford, Seventeenth Progenitor Chess Belle, and Seventeenth Progenitor Horn Skuld while Aiko waits for other survivors to pass them the order to reconvene at Nagoya Airport.

They reach Nagoya City Hall, and after Crowley catches Gekkōin, Guren and his squad discuss what to do. After careful planning, Guren decides that his squad will take his squad to attack Crowley while Shinoa and Narumi Squads free the hostages. He gives them five minutes to rescue as many hostages as they can and act as a proper diversion for the main force in Shinjuku. As soon as the five minutes are up everyone has orders to retreat to the Nagoya Airport immediately.

Guren and Shinya attack Crowley at the same time but he easily negates their attacks at close range. He then swings Guren into Shinya, throwing them into the wall behind them. Crowley, Chess, and Horn then step toward them. Mito notices this and moves to assist them but Goshi holds her back and tells her, she would only get in the way.

In chapter 33, Guren orders Goshi to take action. Guren's squad breaks in through the windows, and he orders them to save everyone and escape. Goshi makes an illusion of flames and magma, which startles Chess.

Outside, Shinya thanks Goshi creating the illusion that saved them.

As Mika engages in the Moon Demon Company in chapter 35, Goshi says Mika is underestimating them, but Sayuri wonders if he has an objective other than attacking them. Shigure says they have to kill it regardless. Goshi summons an illusion, but Mika dives through it anyway, surprising him.

Shortly after Mika flees with Yu, vampires rain down around the Moon Demon Company. After seemingly escaping the vampires, Shinya arrives with Guren Squad at Nagoya Airport, sans Guren.

When prompted by Goshi, Shinya says Guren told him a transport chopper was supposed to be waiting there for them to escape with. He says they were supposed to then use the chopper to fly to Shinjuku, where a trap is supposed to be lying in wait for the vampires. Shinya reveals that the plan was devised by Kureto, instantly alarming Guren Squad.

Powers and Abilities
He excels more in illusionary techniques rather than physical attacks, and covers Guren who mainly fights in close range combat.

It was shown that his illusions are strong enough to even affect a Thirteenth Progenitor's brain like that of Crowley Eusford's. This was however depicted only in the anime with him, casting an illusionary field of volcanic lava that is seen erupting from within the ground. Further more, he is able to summon forth numerous soldiers of the JIDA as an illusion to help fight alongside him against the vampires on the battlefield.

Cursed Gear
Norito's demon weapon is an an illusion-type Cursed Gear, which takes on the form of a Japanese smoking pipe. Norito will usually begin his illusionary technique when he starts blowing smokes from out of the pipe.

Book 1

 * "Dude, seriously? It hardly counts as practice when I’m fighting a pushover like you."—To Guren, Chapter 4, Page 68
 * "Come on, Guren, tell us the truth. You’re banging one of them, aren’t you?"—To Guren about Sayuri and Shigure, Chapter 5, Page 81
 * "Seriously! Forget about the odds, you can’t just forfeit!  She fought hard, for your sake.  She didn’t care about the consequences!  You can’t just tuck tail and run!  I don’t care how strong Seishiro is.  You need to get in there and fight!"—To Guren about Sayuri’s sacrifice, Chapter 7, Page 132
 * "If staying alive is all it takes to get a hug from a pretty girl, then come to papa!"—Chapter 7, Page 163
 * "Well, that’s not fair. How come you get all the girls, Guren?"—Chapter 7, Page 163
 * "They picked the wrong school to attack. We’re not gonna just let them get away with murdering our friends like that.  We’ll get revenge."—Chapter 7, Page 164
 * "Haha! But seriously, don’t tell me you’re getting bullied again.  Tell me who did it.  You saved me the other day, it’s my turn to do you a favor."—To Guren, Epilogue, Page 172
 * "Hey, it’s Sayuri, isn’t it? Say, you don’t have a boyfriend, do you?”—Epilogue, Page 173

Book 2

 * "In the end, Guren, the more you run the harder things get. You know what I mean?"—Chapter 1, Page 194
 * "I’ve been where you are, Guren. I never wanted to be part of a big clan, or be forced to grow stronger.  The truth is I was sick of the whole thing.  Either way, there’s no harm in being friends.  We are classmates, after all."—Chapter 1, Pages 194-195
 * "Hey, can you blame him? I nearly shit my pants when I heard I had to fight she-hulk, here."—Referring to his fight against Mito Jujo, Chapter 3, Page 225
 * "The bull-shitter, himself! So all this time you’ve really been some kind of boy-wonder.  I bet everything comes easy to you, right?  Not like us ‘normal people’?  I bet your mummy and daddy and all your followers think you’re such hot shit."—To Guren, Chapter 4, Page 347
 * "The real reason you saved us is you’re secretly a nice guy! Or maybe you’re just lonely.  Either way, you saved my life and I won’t forget it.  From now on we’re friends, you hear me?  Friends!"—To Guren, Chapter 4, Page 248
 * "Heh. Nah, I don’t get along with my family all that well.  I’ve got a little brother.  He’s a grade lower than me, but he’s good at everything…"—Chapter 6, Page 281
 * "You mean you saw through my spell?"—Chapter 6, Page 284

Quotes: Vampire Reign

 * "You fool! This chick is wearing a bikini on the cover of the Christmas issue! The ocean isn't the only place for hot bikinis!"--Goshi to Guren, Chapter 24, "The Moon Demon's Orders"
 * "Oh, hey Sayuri! Could you make it a headlock, please? Y'know, with my head right at your--"--Goshi to Sayuri, Chapter 25, "Narumi & The 20-Year-Old Yū"

Trivia

 * Norito 「典人」 means "scripture person."
 * Goshi 「五士」 means "five samurai."
 * According to the fanbook:
 * Interests/Likes: [Interests] cute girls [Likes] philosophy books
 * Favorite food: chips/chocolate cream puffs
 * What he looks for in the opposite sex: every cute girl