Toya Senji

Name: Toya Senji

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Occupation: High school student at First Affiliated High School

Voice Actor: Shoya Chiba

Toya Senji was born into the prestigious Senji family, whose residence is so extravagant that even passing children imagine it as a palace for royalty.

Despite that privileged background, he now lives alone in a run-down apartment after being driven out by his family following his older brother's death.

He is introduced as an ordinary male high school student, but his life is defined by a crushing inferiority complex.

Raised in the shadow of an older brother regarded as a flawless genius, Toya grew up constantly compared to someone he believed he could never match.

That upbringing left him with an extreme fixation on talent.

He sees himself as fundamentally untalented and clings to study as his last line of defense.

Toya thinks of himself as a useless first-year student with nothing special to offer.

In reality, he is diligent, adaptable, and capable of handling almost anything he puts effort into.

He is intensely hardworking.

After school, he attends two cram schools, studies deep into the night, and trains until dark circles settle permanently under his eyes.

Even though he ranks within the top 100 in nationwide mock examinations, he is never satisfied.

To him, achievement means little if it still falls short of the impossible standard set by his brother.

His defining trait is jealousy.

He envies the gifted so fiercely that the story repeatedly frames him as a kind of monster of envy.

That jealousy is not limited to respectable forms of talent.

When he witnesses a murder committed by a reincarnated killer, he does not freeze only in fear; he is so starved for ability that he even envies the killer's talent for murder.

Haito Luo Buffett openly calls out how indiscriminate that envy has become.

Yet beneath all that bitterness, Toya is genuinely kind.

He often insists that his actions are selfish, but his behavior says otherwise.

He risks himself to protect others, including Hiroshi Funasaka, even when doing so exposes his own abilities.

This contradiction becomes an important part of his character.

Funasaka himself points out the gap between Toya's ruthless ambitions and his deeply human instincts.

Toya's family consists of his father, mother, and older brother.

His brother was considered a prodigy, and Toya spent his childhood being belittled in comparison.

After his brother died, Toya was cast out of the family home.

That trauma sharpened his insecurity and made talent itself into an obsession.

At first, he lived a life of frustrated effort without reward.

Then he became caught up in a battle between reincarnated individuals and was captivated by the overwhelming gifts they possessed.

That encounter changed everything.

Once he realized that the Branch of Reincarnation could grant access to talent, he willingly stepped deeper into that dangerous world.

Toya joins the conflict surrounding the Branch of Reincarnation in hopes of finally obtaining talent for himself.

Through it, he enters the organization known as the Grove of Great Men.

In the early part of the story, he is willing to steal abilities from anyone, enemy or ally alike.

His dream is simple and desperate: to take talent and make it his own.

Even so, he repeatedly reveals a more compassionate side.

One notable example is when he protects Hiroshi Funasaka from an enemy attack, even at the cost of exposing his own power.

Later, Xiang Yu tells him the truth about what his older brother was really like.

That revelation forces Toya to reevaluate both his brother's image and the path he himself wants to walk.

After the battle with Xiang Yu, Toya works together with the Black Sharp Unit, Haito, and others to stop the Grove of Great Men after it spirals out of control.

Over the course of the story, his encounters, losses, and new understanding lead to major emotional growth.

Toya is a slim teenage boy usually seen wearing under-rim glasses.

Because of that, he is often simply called "glasses" by others.

After becoming one of the reincarnated, his eyesight appears to improve.

He is able to function in combat even without his glasses.

Reincarnated Past Life

Toya's previous life is Ishikawa Goemon, the legendary outlaw often celebrated as a noble thief.

As a result, his powers are all centered on stealing.

Thief's Right Arm

Thief's Right Arm allows Toya to steal the contents of anything by passing through matter.

Its range is limited to roughly the length of his right arm, about 70 centimeters.

The ability has no direct offensive force, which makes it awkward and potentially fatal to use carelessly.

However, if Toya can get within range, he can steal almost anything.

He can take physical objects such as the ship inside a bottle ship.

He can also steal things hidden inside bodies, including a heart.

Liquids such as blood are also valid targets.

Most importantly, he can even steal the supernatural talents granted by the Branch of Reincarnation.

When activated, the power manifests in his right arm.

The arm turns black from around the shoulder blade down, vine-like patterns appear, and a strap-like mark wraps around his shoulder.

Thief's Left Arm: Use of Stolen Goods

Thief's Left Arm: Use of Stolen Goods allows Toya to use what he has stolen with his right arm.

It functions as the means by which he releases or exercises stolen items and abilities.

He can wield talents taken from other people, but they are weaker than the originals.

At present, these stolen abilities operate as degraded copies rather than perfect replications.

It is still unclear whether they will always remain inferior or whether training could one day let him surpass the original owners.

There is also a limitation: only things he has prepared in advance can be applied through this ability.

This power manifests in his left arm.

The arm darkens, a mark appears on the palm, and a strap-like pattern forms around the elbow.

Stolen Talents in His Possession

Toya is currently known to possess the following stolen talents:

Vlad Tepes's Impaler

Hiroshi Funasaka's Undying Soldier

Jubei Mitsuyoshi Yagyu's Ultimate of an Inch

Even before obtaining supernatural abilities, Toya was far from helpless.

He has above-average physical ability and broad practical competence.

He is the sort of person who can do almost anything reasonably well.

With instructions and support, he was even able to hold off an enemy with superhuman powers for several minutes on his own.

John V. Neumann recognized him as highly capable.

That evaluation reinforces one of the story's ironies: Toya believes he has no talent, while others can clearly see how exceptional he already is.

Toya's worldview can be summed up by his desperate desire for ability.

He wants talent of any kind, even just one.

If obtaining it requires crossing moral lines, he is prepared to do so.

That hunger is one of the driving engines of his character and the story around him.

Toya's immediate family includes his father, mother, and older brother.

His brother's brilliance shaped nearly every major insecurity in Toya's life.

The Senji family home is a huge mansion.

Its scale is so extravagant that a little girl once imagined kings and princesses must live there.