Isami Kondou

Kondou is introduced along with the other Shinsengumi captains when Chizuru is brought in for questioning. He is an amiable, slightly older-looking man who often laughs and treats everyone with warmth and care. He is close friends with Hijikata, as they spent most of their youth together and shared the same hopes and dreams of becoming warriors despite not being born into samurai families. Kondou also deeply loves Souji, whom he raised from an abandoned child into a fearless warrior.