Darkness Blade

Darkness Blade (ダークネスブレイド, Dākunesu Bureido) is a B-Class Superhero, rank 56. He tried to stand up against the 170,000-Year Magicicada Larva, but was quickly defeated and retreated to Shelter Nr. 7.

Appearance
Darkness Blade is a young, tall man. He has fairly long, unkept hair and a large, X-shaped scar on his right cheek. He had narrow eyes with dark circles under them. Darkness Blade dressed in a black, decorated armor with many spikes and scales. Around his waist, he carried a black buckle with the scabbard of his sword attached.

Personality
Darkness Blade has an intimidating aura and is confident of his own power. He speaks in a very sophisticated way, almost poetic and very heroic, but as commented on by Red Muffler, sounds pretty stupid. He has also shown during the Hero Costume Contest to be quite verbose in describing himself.

Magicicada Larva Attack
When the 170,000-Year Magicicada Larva attacks Z-City, some Superheroes are sent to the scene, under which Darkness Blade. Red Muffler and Grad School Graduate are struggling against the creature, so Darkness Blade orders them to fall back and spouts some heroic, though stupid-sounding words. His words were in vain, since the three heroes were quickly defeated by the creature and had to retreat to Shelter 7, all beat up, where they are booed at by the bystanders.

Hero Costume Contest
More than one and a half years after becoming a hero, Darkness Blade participates in the first Hero Costume Contest, but was given a score of 16 out of 30. Later Game-Berus attacked the contest area and Darkness Blade tried to fight it, but is pushed away and defeated in one attack, his armor broken.

Abilities & Powers
Darkness Blade has an ability he calls "Ryuseimaretsukyoushinken", in which he slices his foes in half. Red Muffler states that he is a promising rookie more than one and a half years before present events.

Equipment
Longsword: Darkness Blade, as his title suggest, wields a black longsword. The black longsword has a somewhat fantasy look.

Armor: Darkness Blade's armor is a dark black and is said to weigh 26 kilograms.

Quotes

 * "Let this merciless evil-slaying blade of mine tear through everything in its way."