Hayate疾风

""Hayate is the main protagonist of Phantom Paradise. Unlike most other male concubines, he currently has both the Yin and Yang of the soul of his mother (Shen-Yue-Ye), which grants him her powers.

Appearance
Hayate has long black hair with two black wing-like shapes by his ears. He also has sharp, purple eyes and fair skin. Hayate’s appearance is very much like that of his mother Shen-Yue-Ye‘s, and he inherited a small spade symbol mark under his left eye from her.

Hayate bears a sizable cross-shaped scar on his waist. He is described as very attractive, with the only fault in his perceived beauty being his scar.

Clothing
Hayate’s clothing constantly changes depending on the occasion. At the start of the series, he wears the concubine uniform. During the dance competition, he wears an altered version of the provided outfit, painted black to hide the fact that the outfit was vandalized. After winning the competition, Ji Ru-Qian gives Hayate a magic mask to help him hide his powers and his relation to Shen-Yue-Ye from the empress.

Personality
Hayate is an independent and determined young man. He tends to isolate himself from others and can come off as cold, but genuinely wants to protect others.

As the webcomic continues and Hayate grows older, he loses his original desire to protect everyone around him and becomes less naive. The prologue implies that Hayate eventually gives up on protecting anyone beyond Lucius.

Prologue
The first episode shows Hayate as the emperor of the Phantom Paradise. He uses his power to take all the swords around him and direct them towards one person. He still has his wings over his head. He wears black fluff around his neck. His power takes the form of a purple yin-yang symbol.

Before Death (History)
Yu-Min Aisingioro was born to Pu-Yi Aisingioro, the last Emperor of Qing Dynasty, and Yue, a then-university student and political activist. When the Japanese army infiltrated China and turned the Qing empire into the False Manchu empire, the first prince of Japanese Ryusaki offered his sister, the princess of Japan, to become the crown princess of Manchu through a royal marriage with Emperor Pu-Yi. Knowing that it was Japan's way to take over China, Pu-Yi flatly refused, which offended the Japanese. The princess was given to Pu-Yi's brother to marry and produce an heir, where Pu-Yi was put in a house arrest. To humiliate him even more, Yue was brought to Pu-Yi to be his sex doll after being forcefully made deaf, blind, and mute.

When Yue reached 9 months of pregnancy, Pu-Yi set that Yue should deliver the baby out of the reach of the Japanese army, and sent her off to a nearby village on a carriage. Unfortunately, the Japanese army caught them red-handed and brought them to the basement where Yue was tortured years ago. Together with the Japanese army, Pu-Yi witnessed the birth of the baby and named him according to the name the couple prepared before, Yu-Min. However, the Japanese wanted to take the baby and raise him as the heir of the Manchu empire

After his mother's death, Baby Yu-Min was brought to Japan in a time of war. Prince Ryusaki took the role of his caretaker and raised him as his "father", renaming him to Hayate as how he taunted Yu-Min's real parents. To completely sever ties with Hayate's true past, Prince Ryusaki assumed a false identity and job as an army general stationed in Shanghai, and brought Hayate with him. Since he was young, Hayate was enlisted as a soldier as a child soldier, which was common in the wartime. Ryusaki trained him through harsh methods in order to force him to achieve more than his peers.

General Ryusaki set an inhumanely high standard and expected the best performance from the young Hayate, which the latter always exceeded with his prodigious prowess in every field. He was intelligent, strong, and more than fit to be a mere soldier. His capabilities made the other child soldiers his age jealous and singled him out in various occasions. However, Ryusaki never showed any acknowledgement or pride towards his "son". This deeply saddened the boy, since what he had wanted all along was to make his father proud.

One day, General Ryusaki announced that they could "volunteer" to sign up to join a kamikaze attack (a suicide plane mission). At first, no one signed up, including Hayate. However, feeling the immense pressure his father sent him from the podium, Hayate finally agreed to join, knowing that he would be facing certain death either way as the punishment for not joining the kamikaze is execution. Everyone else in the class ended up joining because Hayate was considered the lowest of his class, setting the standard so low that everyone else had to join in so as not to be seen less than Hayate.

Later that day, a boy named Lucius accidentally flew his kite over the fence to the military compound, and called the nearby Hayate to throw it back to him. Hayate returned the kite to Lucius and the two briefly talked. Learning that Hayate was a military soldier, Lucius praised Hayate for being brave and gave him a piece of cheese-flavored chocolate candy as a token of thanks.

On the day of the kamikaze, Hayate flew off to an aircraft carrier along with his unit. Unknowingly, the unit was ambushed by the enemy dropping bombs down on them before they could reach the target. They were easily overpowered by the sheer difference of technology and number of planes, leaving Hayate's plane as the only one to reach the target with a badly damaged right wing. Determined to deliver the mission for his fallen unit, he maneuvered past the enemies and quickly arrived on top of the enemy. Just as he aimed his plane to crash at the enemy below him, the candy Lucius gave him fell out of his chest pocket. At the very last second, he realized that he still wanted to meet Lucius, hit the brakes, and turned the plane around. His plane crashed in front of the church Lucius was attending.

Lucius’s family treated Hayate’s wounds and he took a few weeks to recover. Over those few weeks, Hayate became close with Lucius and his family, living in their house as the boy's personal attendant, and even helped tutor him in his studies.

One day, Lucius took Hayate to outings to the town, but Hayate had to disguise himself in order to avoid being captured by the Japanese army. Not long after that, four Japanese soldiers infiltrated the Serenato abode. Hayate was just taking off his maid disguise he wore during the stroll and came out of his room looking for Lucius, but instead he found the maid he went with this afternoon lying lifeless on the floor with her throat slit. Alerted that the maid was slit with the blade of his old comrade, Yuta, he frantically looked for Lucius in the manor and found him hanged upside down above a pond in the backyard. Yuta and his three comrades showed up and made it clear that they were only looking for Hayate, now that he was deemed as a deserter by the Japanese military. Hayate refused to be taken and tried to fight back. As a result, Lucius was dropped into the pond while tied up to suffocate. Hayate instinctively called out to him, but stopped mid-way because he realized that Lucius would be in danger if the Japanese military knew Lucius' name.

Enraged, Hayate dealt with the infiltrators and killed one of them. He freed Lucius and grabbed the fallen soldier's handgun, prepared to kill the rest. Knowing that they would not be able to take him on so easily, Yuta told Hayate that his entire unit was executed by the head chief and that General Ryusaki had killed himself in shame by committing seppuku. Hayate is shocked by the news, saying that it was a lie. Yuta handed Hayate a letter that his father wrote, conveying a heartfelt apology that he did not take care of his son well. Ryusaki told him about his mother, Yue, who was a Chinese university student who was in Japan to study abroad when they fell in love and got married. He also attached several old photographs of his little family, in which Hayate's mother was seen smiling alongside his father and him as a little baby. However, he also conveyed that Yue was secretly a Chinese army agent who used his father to gather information and report to the Chinese army about their strategies. After getting arrested, Yue was put on a stake to be executed, where she stated that she never actually loved her husband or their child. He revealed that the Japanese army would kill Hayate if Ryusaki stayed in the city, so he transferred to a rural encampment in Shanghai along with his baby son. This shattered Hayate and left him remorseful for hating his father before, to the point that he asked his comrades to kill him on the spot. The men refused and pointed the gun to his own head to commit suicide, attempting to put all the mental burden of killing everyone Hayate knew on his shoulders. The man ducked, revealing another man ready to shoot Hayate from behind him. Hayate ended up killing the gunman and beat the remaining soldier to death before collapsing to the ground and screaming in agony.

Hayate and Lucius buried the four soldiers in the backyard, where Hayate started having dilemmas about whether they would not have to die if he had not run away from his kamikaze duty. Lucius talked him out of the wallowing pity and said that they could be eternally happy together in heaven someday. The words gave Hayate a glimmer of hope, as nobody had talked about heaven with him before. Hayate vowed to protect Lucius and chase after him anywhere he goes at all costs.

Power/Fighting
He is skilled at the basic sword moves but has to have help from Ji Ru-Qian who gives him basic sword-fighting scrolls to teach him how to fight properly. He has magic, which is uncommon for men in the Phantom Paradise, which is the same as his mothers due to her passing down half her soul.

His other half is later given to him during a fight which makes him lose control. His power is shown to be able to summon a black and white sword. In the prologue, he can take all the weapons around him and throw them at one person. After that, he uses his sword as a shield.