Rein Shroud

Rein Shroud (ラインシュラウド) is the main protagonist of Beast Tamer series. He is a beast tamer who was kicked out of the Hero's Party because of his incapability of battling by himself. Not having remorse for leaving the party, Rein decided to become an adventurer and explore the world without any restrictions. On his registration test, he met Kanade, a member of Cat Tribe, which is one of the strongest races.

After defeating the lord of horizon, his son Edgar Fromware and Arios (the second time), Rein is now widely known by humanity as the Hero of Horizon (ホライゾンの英雄 Horaizon no eiyū) and has been chosen as the Next Hero (after the traitorous and delusional Arios).

Appearance
Rein is a tall, well-built, and cool-looking man. He has messy, ash grey hair along a black mesh with bangs in front of his forehead and green eyes, wearing a full white shirt with folded sleeves, a brown belt around his waist, which has a pouch for his ammunition or certain items, light green pants with the blazer tied around her waist. He wears Narukami on his right hand which allows him to set ambushes that make it a standard weapon for Rein as a beast tamer.

He's been described as being a cute and handsome man by his contractuals.

Personality
As the sole survivor of his village, he is careful not to get carried away and become arrogant. As a result, he is extremely self-aware and humble, but that leads him to become too good of a person, as he was unable to seek through motives of his former party members. He is kind, helping his friends and protecting his contractuals whenever needed. Even being kicked out of the party, he never stops aspiring to dream of becoming an adventurer, which shows his positive nature.

He is extremely tolerant even if someone has bad-mouthed him. However, he displays aggression and ruthlessness toward anyone threatening his friends. He is also prepared to risk his life for the sake of other people, such as when he saves a stranger from a group of thugs. According to Tania, his easily trusting nature can lead to trouble, but it's a good trait since it makes many people help out. When he sets his mind to a goal, he puts his all towards completing it. He will put himself on the line to protect others, even knowing it won't be in his own interest to do so and even if he doesn't actually want to do it. This is demonstrated when Arios tries to recruit him for help with the Lost Forest despite having kicked him out of their party. Rein clearly doesn't want anything to do with them, but Arios's party is trying to stop a threat to the entire world, so Rein agrees. Rein offers to help Sora within the Lost Forest itself even though she's already given them what they came for, and they have no other reason to remain. Tania tends to chide him as being "too good of a person" because of this, while Kanade realizes it's due to Rein's village being destroyed in his childhood. He doesn't want to see someone else suffer that same kind of tragedy. This also caused him to earn the affection of his contractuals and several others.

As a beast tamer, he has already shown to defy the logic of the class. Rein himself seems oblivious to his own increased aptitude until Kanade points it out, and what's known of his past suggests his now-destroyed hometown was home to Beast Tamers of similar ability to his own.

Background
Rein was born in a village where special Beast Tamers gather. His parents were beast tamers. Ever since childhood, he has loved playing with animals and birds, so he decided to become a beast tamer like his parents.

When he was twelve years old, his parents said they were busy and couldn't watch him practice. Nevertheless, Rein practiced thoroughly, only comes to find out that monsters attacked his village and Rein's parents died in the action, leaving Rein as the sole survivor. Luckily, adventurers noticed him and started working in an adventurer's acquaintance's inn. And many years later, he met the Hero Party and decided to join the party to prevent a massacre happened like in his village.

As time passed, the hero and his members started being cruder and ultimately kicked him out of the party, beginning to accuse him of being worthless. Rein then decided to become an adventurer. He took the registration test on killing 10 goblins. He then finds someone's scream, running worriedly and only to find that a Killer Tiger cornering "someone". He decides to act on his knife to attack it, but its skin is so hard that the knife brokes up. Then, he was saved by Kanade, who came from Cat Tribe. Upon befriending him, Kanade asks Rein to tame her, and Rein does so, much to his astonishment and surprise.

Abilities
Rein has shown extraordinary abilities that defy the logic of being a Beast Tamer.

Taming

 * Beast Taming: His signature's ability to control or taming animals. It is said that a tamer can tame only one animal at a time, and if that person tries tame more than one, his head will explode. But for some reason, Rein broke these boundaries and is capable of taming many animals he wants to. As the sole survivor of his village where "special" beast tamers lived, Rein has shown the capabilities of taming the strongest and superior races with ease. Theoretically, very few people can tame superior races, especially if it's a human, and additionally, Rein had already tamed almost every superior race.
 * Insect Taming: Asiding his main class, Rein is even capable of taming insects. Rein said it is a sub-class of taming, so it was easy to use. But according to Kanade, this ability of Rein itself is beyond unbelievable.
 * Provisional Contract: By this, Rein can control animals for a brief time.
 * Assimilation: Rein is capable of transferring his soul to a tamed animal and can fix his consciousness into it for acting on. To deliver his thoughts, he uses magic.
 * Overwrite Taming: Rein can overwrite the contract of other tamers. Rein himself made this skill.
 * Boost: A magic that can temporarily increase the power of someone.

Acquired Abilities
Whenever Rein tames a superior race, he gets their affinities and abilities much to the extent where he exceeds them.

Kanade

 * Immense Physical Strength: Rein's physical powers drastically increased after taming Kanade. He easily won an arm wrestle with a fit-looking man. His current strength is completely beyond normal humans, including those who were blessed with physical and magical power when he easily defeated the "Hero" Arios twice, which makes him on par with high-level monsters. Single-handedly, Rein managed to damage a King Lizard severely.

Tania

 * Immense Magic Power: After taming Tania, Rein's magical powers drastically increased. Beforehand, he had learned basic magic like beginner healing and fireball. So as of now, his magic stats booms up just like a dragon's. Tania's magic is more powerful than magical blessed humans such as Mina and Lin.
 * Magic Power Boost: Rein has displayed a major boost in magic as he trains under Tania.
 * Fireball: Rein can use massive firepower with a long range.
 * Healing: Rein can use beginner heal, and Tania's acquired magical power improved his healing skill greatly.

Sora & Luna

 * Extreme Control Techinques: Taming Sora and Luna, Rein has shown magnificent control in his magic and spells.
 * Consecutive Chanting: Rein gained this ability from Sora, and with this, he can multiply his spells with enormous magic power.
 * Fireball Multi Shot (ファイアーボール・マルチショット): With the help of consecutive chanting, Rein can unleash multiple fireballs.
 * Abnormal State Nullification (状態異常無効化): Rein gained this ability from Luna, and with this, he is absolutely immune to death magic. Rein also gained a high level of resistance when Luna used "Poison Drop" on him to test his ability.

Others

 * Expert Strategist: Rein has displayed some unique and clever tactics, which made his foes difficult to comprehend to do so. With his sole command, he sabotaged the garrison of experienced soldiers. His plan also defeated the whole Jet Black Fang.

Equipment

 * Narukami (鳴神): A personalised weapon made by Gantz Storf. It is in the shape of a hand glove so Rein wears it on his right hand. It has been equipped with many gimmicks, like shooting needles by performing a specific movement.

Kanade
Rein's first contractual. He met her on his first adventurer quest and tries to help her to fend off the Killer Tiger attacking her, which is later killed in one flow by Kanade. After hearing his explanation, Kanade gets angry at Rein's previous party members. She then asks him to tame her, which makes Rein deeply think about whether it's possible to do so. Kanade assures him that she knows he can do it as if they were fated. Rein successfully tamed her. As his first companion, Rein feels a deep bond between him and her and wants to know more about her. Kanade is quite intolerable to those who belittle Rein, often stating him a great master and a great person. She is always cheerful around him and helps him on quests. Though for others, it would seem they're just besties, Kanade begins to fall in love with Rein when she says she greatly admires his kindness and feels her heart is racing very fast. She has yet to realize her very emotions and feelings for Rein.

As if felt refreshed whenever she battled along with Rein, she is also a source of Rein's sanity. Kanade loves to receive head pats from him and often gets jealous whenever other contractual get so, or some girl tries to get close to him.

Tania
Rein met Tania when he took a quest to investigate Stride Bridge, who happens to engage in mock battles which branded her as a rogue. Tania challenges them to a battle by feeling a strong presence in Rein and Kanade. She estimated Rein as a top-notch adventurer who makes her more fired up. Even though it was a 2v1 battle, Tania easily overpowers them. As the offensive was not a good choice, Rein decided to fight like a beast tamer. While he got sent flying, he sensed the presence of Pito and used it to paralyze her. She was left with no choice but to give up, only to get asked to come to the city by Rein. She thought he would sell her somewhere, but he refused and says he just wanted to talk and to promise not to pick up fights. She accepts this and later decides to join their party, thinking it would help her in her training, and also reveals her interest in Rein. Tania asks him to make a contract with her since, according to her, it is natural to do so. Rein tames her making her his second contractual.

After their contract was a success, Tania feels they'll be connected forever. As a party member, Tania teaches him how to control magic power efficiently, and with just basic spells, he can do a lot of damage to his opponents. However, he feels her training is very spartan. Tania often refers to him as a "too good a person" as he always sacrifices himself or sometimes goes overboard but also feels it is not a bad thing. She feels proud of having a master like Rein, which shows how much she respects him as a person. On their orc subjugation quest, Rein asks Tania to be careful, but her overconfidence becomes a little shallow, leading Rein to get stabbed by an orc as he saves Tania from hurting. She then feels tremendous guilt and does not find herself how to face him. When Rein talks with her and asks what happened, she apologizes very much for her carelessness. He replies that she should not have to worry about it as he was not mad but was happy when Tania realized her mistakes. Tania starts reminiscing about him. At first, she only followed him out of mere interest. Rein made her feel very secure and comfortable, realizing her chest was feeling warm. At this very point, she falls in love with him, but because of her pride, she refuses to accept that. Just like the other Rein's contractuals, she loves to get patted on the head by Rein.

Arios (Archenemy)
Ex-Hero Arios is Rein's former teammate and now his archenemy. Arios banished Rein from the Hero's Party believing he was useless to him. When unable to do things without Rein, Arios tries to talk to Rein only to punched Arios in the face. Arios challenged Rein into a duel. Rein easily defeated Arios due to his newfound powers. After being humiliated by Rein, Arios was drove into his insanity when he wants to kill Rein for defeating him. He attempt to kill him, but only to be defeated by Rein again. After broke out of prison from his second defeat where he lost his status as a Hero and always remembered as a traitor, the completely deranged Arios wants to kill Rein, his friends, the former heroes and humanity itself as Arios joined the Demon Lord. Arios attempted to sabotage Rein's A-Rank promotion exam but failed.

Edgar Fromware
Former Mayor Edgar is the sworn enemy, self-proclaimed love rival and killed victim of Rein when he attempted to steal both Sora and Luna. When Edgar tries to escape, Fromware used the cursed ring (given by Arios) to turn himself into a demon. Despite this however, Edgar is too weak and was easily killed by Rein.

Gallery

 * See Rein Shroud/Gallery

Trivia

 * After Rein successfully tames the strongest race, Kanade, he broke his limit break, which was only applicable to the hero without any exception.
 * Rein gives head pats to his contractuals out of habit as being a beast tamer.
 * After taming Sora and Luna, Rein unknowingly became an Elemental Tamer, he had learned this taming in his village but never mastered it.