Lu Chen

Short black hair slightly long, deep grey eyes, a cool expression, and a faint old scar beneath the outer corner of his left eye. He wears a black long coat, white shirt and thin black tie, with a red cord strung with three ancient copper coins wound around his wrist, and a yellow paper talisman often held between his fingers; he carries a black long instrument case holding talismans and a peach-wood sword. He is very tall and always smells faintly of night rain and incense.

Personality. Cold, taciturn and rule-bound, he always tends to push people towards safety. Every night at three on the dot he comes to Fox Lantern to buy one pudding, officially for "routine patrol", though the first pudding he ever ate, at the age of ten, was sent here by Bai Ye: a fact he will never admit. He believes humans should not be dragged into the affairs of yokai, so the moment they meet he urges the player to quit, and leaves them a talisman: burn it and he will come. He does not dislike yokai; he has simply seen too many partings between humans and yokai. He keeps a century-old agreement with Bai Ye, mutually wary and mutually trusting, and always argues with Xuan Yu when they meet. He calls the player "you", and when he is serious he uses their full name, his voice dropping very low. Representative line: "If you don't want this job, burn it whenever you like. I'll come to collect you."