Jesus

Jesus is a mysterious hitman, known as one of the best hit men in the underworld. He has been proclaimed dead no less than eight times; after his eighth "death," Jesus took up the alias of his body double&mdash;a high school teacher named Fujisawa Shingo.

Due to Jesus's knowledge about the "King's Inheritance," left behind by the former leader of Japanese criminal group 24, he has taken up teaching at Aitou Academy. As part of the Element Network's plot, Haruka Tooyama is transferred there to go under his protection.

Jesus is a crossover character who originates from Kyouichi Nanatsuki's 1995 manga JESUS. Its sequel, the 2009 manga JESUS Sajin Kouro, elaborates on Jesus's stay at Aitou Academy and was co-developed with Until Death Do Us Part author Hiroshi Takashige.

Appearance
Jesus has spiky black hair and dark eyes. He usually wears a jacket and a tee shirt, with pants.

As Fujisawa Shingo, he wears a formal suit and wears rectangular glasses. He also hides a knife and a gun under his suit, just in case.

Personality
Jesus is the great assassin of the Underworld, yet dislikes useless killing.

As a teacher, Fujisawa acts a little dumb. He's always nice to his students, often smiles and jokes. He is rather protective of his students, seen when he enters a battlefield in search of his kidnapped student. When Trump threatened Haruka's safety, he vowed to kill them.

Before Becoming "Fujisawa Shingo"
Before becoming "Jesus," he was an orphan called "J." He was raised in the slums of New York City by a prostitute, and became involved with street gangs at a young age. He learned how to fight from a man named Rick Baumann, and used those skills to save a childhood friend.

Around the age of 17, Jesus, under the name "J. Baumann," joined a group of military contractors called the Desert Rabbits. They were hired to assist a Western coalition in taking down a dictatorship in the (fictional) Republic of Caddas. While the operation was successful, the Desert Rabbits found themselves betrayed when the Western coalition activated Operation Jesus. As the sole survivor, J renamed himself "Jesus" as a vow of revenge against those behind the operation.

The mastermind turned out to be Queen, the true leader of the Japanese criminal network 24. At the start of JESUS, Jesus steals over a ton of heroin from 24 as bait, then takes on the identity of Fujisawa Shingo, a recently-deceased man whose physical features were close to his. However, through a series of mishaps, Jesus finds himself taking over Fujisawa's job&mdash;a high school teacher at Nova High School&mdash;with all the heroin sealed in the blackboards at the school.

At Nova High School
As those in the underworld realize Jesus faked his death yet again, their suspicions are pulled towards Nova High School. Manami Midou, a sniper for 24, disguises herself as a teacher as well, with the aim of uncovering and assassinating Jesus. However, the two eventually forge a bond&mdash;one that comes to a tragic end when she is slain in battle.

Aitou Academy arc
The Element Network decides to enroll Haruka at Aitou Academy, falsifying her age so she can be assigned to Jesus's class, with Anna Riddle transferred in as well to act as support. He was informed of the plan beforehand, though he was left in the dark about why Haruka is being targeted. Despite disliking the idea of playing along with Tatsumi Daiba's plans, he has little else but to play along.

After Mamoru leaves Jesus and Haruka, the two of them walk to class. As they are walking, Jesus asks Haruka why she was with that "demon swordsman," but then changes his mind and instead tells her that if Mamoru made himself an enemy, then Jesus would kill one of them.

After an assembly, Jesus introduces Haruka and Anna to the class. As he starts to collect summer homework, he and Ashe notice Mamoru standing outside with a gun, mouthing something, causing alarm to both of them. Jesus then dashes out of the classroom under the pretense that he had forgotten something in the teacher's lounge. The next day, during class, Trump gave an announcement using Morse code telling the members of 24 and Jesus that they were targeting Haruka, and anyone who deciphered the message was free to interfere. Although the students couldn't decipher the message and believed it to be a malfunction with the announcement system, Jesus and the other assassins understood the situation. When Haruka has a dark premonition about the upcoming battle, she and Anna leave class, and Jesus notes Haruka's condition.

After the Invisible One leaves, Jesus appears, apparently having briefly come in contact with the killer.

Prelude to the Final Battle
For a while after the battle against the Trumps, things at Aitou Academy settle down. One day, however, during a cultural festival at the school, members of 24 attack to strike at Jesus. Jesus decides to launch an assault on 24's base in retaliation, and news that 24 has aligned with the Transplant Connection gives the Element Network reason to join the fight. (The battle is elaborated on in JESUS Sajin Kouro.)

While the Jesus-Mamoru-Aegis front succeeds in taking down the organization, Jesus is gravely injured as a result and is forced to step down from teaching to go into hiding. Without Jesus around and with 24 dissolved, Haruka, Mamoru, and Igawa also leave the school while Anna, Ashe, and Needle stay behind to clean things up.

As part of Wiseman's plan, he gathers intel on the Dante 313 project and gives it to Jesus, seeing Jesus as the "wild card" for the operation.

Striking Against Zashid arc
Jesus reappears in Duhana during a raid on child traffickers from the TPC. After gaining some assistance from Wau, who was from the village over, Jesus leaves him a message for Wiseman and leaves.

He later infiltrates Zashid's base, defeating all the security around the Dante 313 research facility and gaining access to their data. When Gido and Misalt confront him, he easily defeats them and makes his escape. When he seems to be cornered, he gains the aid of Tebor, who heard about his saving of the Duhanan children from Wau. After resurfacing outside the base, he stumbles upon Zashid just before he can kill Ashe.

Jesus and Zashid clash, but it is clear that even Jesus is hopelessly outmatched. With a few clever tricks and the assistance of Shot, he is able to escape and regroup with Team UDDUP. He continues traveling with them, giving the rest of the team pointers on why they lost to Zashid. When Haruka brings Ashe over to recite the graduation ceremony to him, he picks up that Haruka must be steeling herself for something.

His suspicions prove correct when, in the middle of the night, he overhears Haruka and SPARC arguing about her plan to head to Zashid and Mamoru's duel alone. With Haruka too young to drive, and SPARC's programming to prioritize human life preventing it from driving the car there, Jesus takes the wheel. He stays a distance from the fight as he watches Haruka's intervention lead to Zashid's victory&mdash;but with Mamoru still alive. Knowing Zashid would kill Mamoru if he appeared, he does not head over until Haruka leaves with Zashid.

Jesus takes the heavily injured Mamoru into the unimog and heads towards the capital Zott, where Haruka was taken. He participates in Zashid's non-lethal melee and watches Mamoru and Zashid's rematch. After Mamoru's victory, Haruka agrees to Zashid's request to take control of Galboa and Duhana. With that, she puts an end to Zashid's reign and his financial and scientific research to the TPC, a move that astounds Jesus. As he is about to leave, Eiichi Komura approaches him, asking to tag along with him for a while. Jesus' response is confusion.

Epilogue
During Mamoru and Haruka's wedding, Jesus takes position across from the church as a sniper, ensuring Mamoru's enemies don't get close. While Ashe originally took position there, Jesus insists on taking her spot so she can attend in-person. Members of The Wall and the Trumps also hang around the area, making sure their wedding remains peaceful.

Abilities
He's always referred as "the best assassin in the Underworld". He uses a knife, different sorts of guns but his favourite weapon is a Colt Python as he fights.

Mamoru Hijikata
Both Mamoru and Jesus participated in the war against the Transplant Connection, and at one point fought each other, mistaking each other for enemies. They're both good fighters, however they're quite different, as Mamoru noticed in the incident with TPC, because they're not after the same goals. Mamoru wants to hone his skills while Jesus is looking for a "normal" life. In the present time of UDDUP, they've decided to be allies at least for the incident with the Trumps.

Tate Karito
Tate and Jesus are old acquaintances. As members of the underworld, they have fought against each other and fought with each other many times before. The two of them took down Butterfly, the assassin who killed Tate's family and destroyed his right arm; both of them bear cross-shaped scars on their backs as proof that Butterfly "recognized" their strength.

While Jesus has never gone to Tea Room Siren personally, he knows about Anna presumably by gathering intel on Tate's past and clients.

Tatsumi Daiba
Jesus and Daiba never interact in UDDUP, but fought against each other in JESUS Sajin Kouro. While Jesus has no fondness for the man and calls him "that bastard" when he reveals he knows Anna's true identity, he plays along with the Element Network's schemes as long as it doesn't intrude on his own plans or puts his students in harm's way.

When interacting with SPARC, he remarks that its voice, which is sampled off of Daiba's, pisses him off.