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.

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.

Beast Tamer Volume 1
Rein Shroud gets called out by his party members. Arios tells Rein he is fired from the party which made Rein very shocked. Rein asks for the reason and Leanne harshly said it was done because he is useless. At this, other members start mocking him and when he tries to talk Arios tells him he shouldn't since it'll be pathetic at this point. So, Rein leaves the party along with returning the gear.

In the city on the horizon, Rein starts thinking about what he should do now. While he was still thinking, some children came to him and asked whether he completed the job or not. Then they asked him to do the usual thing and Rein happily accepts to do so. Rein sees an eagle flying and makes a temporary contract with it. He orders the eagle to say hello to the children which made the children very happy and decided to let the eagle go. The children tell Rein they'll become beast tamer just like him rather than being a hero. When Rein inquires about this, they say the other party members always look annoying but Rein is different and always plays with them. At this, he remembers the people's annoying behavior whenever he talks about the hero party. Thinking for a while, he decides to become an adventurer.

At the Adventurers Guild, Rein gives his name for registration as an adventurer. He asks the guild receptionist, Natalie Brough to tell him about the adventurers' system. She gives him the essential knowledge and asks his class. Upon hearing beast tamer as his class, she becomes anxious which made Rein remember what Leanne had told him before but Rein says he'll be fine. He was then told to kill ten goblins as a registration test. Using a squirrel, he tracked the goblins and starts to attack them. He killed them off and collects the magic stones. He then hears someone's scream only to find out a girl is being cornered by a Killer Tiger. He decides to act on his knife to attack it, but its skin is so hard that the knife brokes up. As the killer tiger cornered him, he witnessed the girl jumps at a very high speed and slams the tiger. Rein sees that the girl is from the Cat Tribe were said to endangered species. The girl fell down and Rein asks whether she is okay or not. She says she is hungry. After Rein gives him some food, she gives him thanks and introduces herself Kanade. While they start talking about themselves, Rein told her about his banishment which made Kanade angry with the hero. This made Rein happy as she was angry with him and give her a pat on her head and she happily enjoyed it. She then asks Rein to tame her. At first, Rein wonders if it is possible to do so but feels that he wants to know Kanade better and give it a try which turned out to be a success.

After Rein successfully clears the trial, he now becomes an F-Rank Adventurer. As Rein was about to take a quest along with Kanade, an adventurer notices Kanade and invites only to get rejected. When he belittles Rein, Kanade got angry and tells him he is her master. So, the adventurer gives a declaration of war by arm wrestling. Rein accepts and ultimately defeats him instantly which surprised everyone including Rein himself. Then Kanade explains he had acquired the same power as Cat Tribe. Rein and Kanade go to collect medicinal herbs. Kanade complains they should do something more heroic but since he is just an F-Rank they can't do it for a while. Then Kanade hear some screams and they rushed over the scene only to find a group of bandits threatening a merchant. Rein helps them and finds out there's a hideout of the gang and further decided to knock them to avoid casualties. Rein asks Kanade to bring adventurers from the city to help them out and uses Arhbees to sabotage the bandits. As the cleanup was being done, a loud roar shook the cave. Kanade sensed danger and tells Rein it is a monster. It was a group of King Lizards who went berserk and killed the bandits. Rein and Kanade act on and starts fighting the monsters. With Kanade, Rein defeats the king lizards and safely came out of the cave.

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.
 * Multi-Boost (マルチブースト): With this, Rein can use boost on multiple targets.

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.
 * Ultra-Fine Wires: Another gimmick equipped in Narukami by which Rein can shoot wires to ambush his opponents.

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.

Sora
Rein met her in the lost forest but their first meeting was rocky as Sora hates humans. Though she was hostile to him, she politely asks him to leave the forest. But due to Rein's kind nature, he requests her to listen to them and still gets rejected but this doesn't stop him to convince her to talk. Sora shoots her magic at him but Rein remained unfazed and gives her a smile, much to her surprise. When she questions why Rein is behaving like that, Tania and Kanade said he is like that. This made Sora trust Rein a little and eventually gave them the Shield Of Truth. As soon as Rein and the others were about to leave the forest, Rein notices Sora is sad. Rein asks her if she needs some help and put her faith in him, Sora asks Rein to save her twin sister, Luna. After saving her sister, she sees Rein in a different light. Though she loathes humans, she finds Rein an exception.

As a contractual, Sora was worried since Rein hasn't shown the signs of her powers and the contract was just one-sided. This tension was gone when Rein was able to consecutive chant. Like other contractual, Sora loves to get head pats from Rein and wants Rein to rely on her more.

Luna
Rein saved her from the Shadow Knight at the request of Sora. She deeply owes him and asked him to tame her along with her sister. Rein finds her amusing but also dangerous because of her adult jokes which tend to lead to many When it seemed that their contract was one-sided, she panicked and worried that she and her sister became useless to Rein. But Rein assured them and tells them not to worry about it which convinced Luna for a while as she was still feeling She fully began to trust Rein when he saved them from Edgar without revealing their race. She was relieved when Rein gained consecutive chanting from Sora and hoped for something more which turns out true after Rein had gained the ability of immune to death magic.

Niina
Rein saved her while on the mission of capturing Edgar. At first, she was scared because of her trauma but she was touched by Rein's kindness. As Rein was breaking her collar to terminate her contract with Edgar which made Rein feel severe pain, Niina says he should just stop it as no one going to be sad if she dies.But Rein refuses this, replying he'll be sad.This causes her to trust Rein.She even helped Rein and others on defeating the demons with her special abilities. After the matter was settled, Niina asks Rein to tame her as he was the one who helped and freed her even knowing there was no merit. She states she wants to be with him forever and Rein says the same and tamed her, making her his fifth contractual. Due to her trauma, she is scared of being lonely for a second, and whenever she closed her eyes she remembers Rein as she feels a great sense of security from him.

Arios
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 he and his party are unable to proceed into the Lost Forest without Rein, Arios and his party decide to ask Rein to lend a hand, believing that Rein would never refuse their request. Arrogantly, Arios asked him to accept the job as if he were favoring them. Arios notices that Rein is with the strongest species which surprised him. Tania asks Arios and his party to apologize to Rein and Arios did but took it for granted which made Tania say that they should prostrate themselves and sincerely apologize to Rein. This made the hero party very angry. In anger, Arios called Rein's companions just his pets and playthings which made Rein very angry and hastily beat Arios on the face. At this refute, Arios challenged Rein into a duel. Rein easily defeated Arios due to his newfound powers. Rein felt surprised to feel refreshed after beating them. Though he apologizes as Tania said, for being humiliated by Rein, Arios was driven into insanity when he wants to kill Rein using any means. When he started looking for a recruit as a beast tamer, he came to know that Rein is an unusual tamer which filled him with deep hatred. He manipulated Edgar Fromware as a pawn for killing Rein by giving him a ring to summon Death Scythe but in the end, it failed. Since then, he singlemindedly makes attempts to kill him, but only to be defeated by Rein again. After breaking out of prison after his second defeat where he lost his status as a Hero and is 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.

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.