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Rimudo is a prince, and was the only son of the emperor of Hokkan. At the time of his birth, a priest prophesized for his father:

When the Priestess opens the Book of the Four Gods of Heaven and Earth and appears, your son will definitely kill you.

At this time, the emperor, fearing for his own life, tried to have his son killed. Rimudo's mother, however, saved him by sending him to live with a man named Tauru and his son, Soruen, who had served the royal family for generations.

Things were peaceful enough for a little while. Rimudo was taught to live with pride befitting a prince of the Royal Family, and he lived a nice life in a small village with Soruen and his father. Seven years after Rimudo had been taken from the palace, however, the village was attacked and Tauru was killed. Confused and afraid, Rimudo used his powers for the first time and killed many people. Rimudo was still very confused, and asked Soruen "Why do I have such a power!? Why did Tauru have to die?!" It was then that Soruen told him about the prophecy, and that it was his own father that was trying to kill him.

From that day onward, Rimudo became a totally different person. He hated his powers and hated himself, blaming himself for the death of Tauru, but continued to use the powers of Uruki to kill. It was because of that that he gained the nickname "Fuzanki Rimudo", or basically Wind Demon, from killing 1,000 people. He was eventually caught, though it seems as if this was a purposeful tactic on his and Soruen's part, and pretended to give in to the death penalty so that he could escape to Kutou and start a new life, but he ran into Takiko instead. The rest, as they say, is history, and is covered in Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden.

The impact of Rimudo's past on his present is severe. Because it was the whole prophecy of the priestess that doomed him in the first place, he is, at first, very bitter towards Takiko. He wants nothing to do with her or the other seishi, believing that his only purpose in life is to kill his father. Rimudo has a hard time opening up and trusting in others, because anybody could be an assassin after him. In short, the painful lessons he learned in the past are hard to unlearn.

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