Rein Shroud

Rein Shroud (ラインシュラウド) is a beast tamer who was kicked out of the Hero's Party because the party members think he is dead weight as it was considered that tamers don't have offensive or defensive power to protect themselves. Not having remorse for leaving the party, Rein decided to make an adventurer to explore the world without any restrictions. On his first quest, he met one of the strongest races, Kanade, who comes from cat race. He is the main protagonist of Beast Tamer series.

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'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 much good person as he was unable to seek through motives of his former party members. He is a kind person, helping his friends and protecting his contractuals whenever needed. Even being kicked out of the party, he never stops aspiring dreams of becoming an adventurer, which shows his positive nature.

He is extremely tolerable even if he had been bad-mouthed by someone. 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 made 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. Within the Lost Forest itself, Rein offers to help Sora 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, as well as several others.

As a beast tamer, he already shown to defies 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 loves playing with animals and birds, and therefore, he decided to become a beast tamer like his parents.

When he was twelve years old, his parents said that they were busy so they couldn't watch him practice. Nevertheless, Rein did practice thoroughly only then finding that his village was attacked by monsters and Rein's parents died in the action, leaving Rein as the sole survivor. Luckily, he was noticed by adventurers 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 in order to prevent a massacre happened like in his village.

As time went on, 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 with his knife to attack it but its skin was so hard that the knife brokes up. Then, he was saved by Kanade who happened to come from Cat Tribe. Upon befriending him, Kanade asks Rein to tame her and Rein did so, much to his astonishment and surprise.

Abilities
Rein has shown very extraordinary abilities which 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 would explode with severe But for some reason, Rein broke these boundaries. He 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, there are very few people who 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 that it is a sub-class of taming, so it was easy to use it. But according to Kanade, this ability of Rein itself is beyond unbelievable.
 * Provisional Contract: By this, Rein is able to 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. For delivering his thoughts his, he uses magic.
 * Overwrite Taming: Rein is capable of overwriting the contract of other tamers. This skill is made by Rein himself.
 * Boost: A magic that can temporarily increases 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: After taming Kanade, Rein's physical powers drastically increased. 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 had managed to do severe damage to a King Lizard

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 boosting in magic as he trains under Tania.
 * Fireball: Rein is capable of using massive firepower with a long range.
 * Healing: Rein can use beginner heal, and with Tania's acquired magical power, his healing skill his improves a lot.

Sora & Luna

 * Extreme Control Techinques: Taming Sora and Luna, Rein has shown magnificent control in his magic and spells.
 * Consecutive Chanting: Rein is able to multiply his spells with enormous magic power.

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 managed to sabotage the garrison of experienced soldiers. He also defeated the whole Jet Black Fang by his plan.

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 exilation, Kanade gets angry at Rein's previous party members. She then asks him to tame her which made Rein in deep thought, questioning whether it's possible to do so. Kanade assures him saying she knows he can do it as if they were fated to be. Rein successfully tamed her. As his first companion, Rein feels a deep bond between him and her, wanting to know more about her. Kanade is quite intolerable to those who belittle Rein, often stating him a great master as well as 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 herself began to fall in love with Rein when she tells that she greatly admires his kindness and feels her heart is racing very fast. She is yet to realize the very emotions and feelings she has for Rein.

As if felt refreshed whenever she battled along with Rein, she is also a very 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. Feeling a strong presence in Rein and Kanade, Tania challenges them to a battle. 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 decides 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 refuses and says he just wants 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 like 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, though 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 became a little shallow which leads Rein to get stabbed by an orc as he saved 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 apologized very much for her carelessness. He replies she should not have to worry about it as he was not mad or something 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 is 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.

Gallery

 * See Rein Shroud/Gallery

Trivia

 * After Rein successfully tames the strongest race which was Kanade, he broke his limit break which was considered only applicable to the hero without any exception.
 * Rein gives headpats 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.