Shinomori

Out of all of the Shade Fragment Eliminators, none is more solemn about his duty than Shinomori. He spends much of the time that he is not hunting down the Shade either in meditation or in his own mechanic shop, ensuring that he and his compatriots in the SFE are running at peak efficiency. He is a mechanical and computer expert, and serves as the medic for the SFE much of the time.

His combat role is that of magical support; he is, to put it simply, a powerful walking storage device for magical energy, or mana. As such, he usually refers to himself as a "mana battery," and he tends to stick by the few spellcasters in the SFE in large battles.

His partner, Athena, is not a spellcaster, but they still work very well together. With her magical scales and his sheer magical storage capacity, they can use their talents to create a magical storm that destroys any Shade or Beastclan caught within it. Often, Athena will embed several scales in tough targets, setting up for a massive blast of raw Lightning magic from Shinomori.

They have fought together for centuries, and have become closer than friends. They are some of the few Shade Fragment Eliminators that present themselves as husband and wife, having even gone through a traditional marriage ceremony. They have also been responsible for the creation of many new Eliminators, using mind templates obtained from Pyrite. They do not know why Pyrite has the mind templates when no other Shade Fragment Eliminator does, but the Designers' will was mysterious much of the time.

They take to their work as priests to a holy mission. The Shade is an abomination, and should be destroyed at all costs. Shinomori was at one point completely destroyed by Beastclan, rendered into detached limbs and a crushed head, all circuitry traumatized to the point of nonfunctionality. The Beastclan made the mistake, however, of leaving his body in a magical forest. This forest came to life to save Shinomori, repairing him over the course of a decade, and when he finally awoke he was able to fix himself the rest of the way. He still wears the branches, leaves, and feathers that bound him together in that forest, and considers the place a holy site that he makes pilgrimage to once every 5 years to give thanks to the Gods for granting him another chance.