Hassan XIII

"For one plunged into the reality beyond the rationalism of humanity — he was far too human."

- Ashy

Hassan XIII (ハッサン. ＸＩＩＩ, Hassan XIII) is the current "Hassan" (伏烏 (ハッサン), Hassan; Japanese for "Bowing Crow"), a line of assassins operating from the hidden country Alamut. He is additionally cursed with the title of, leading the professional Assassin's Guild known as Crow Talon. Further ensnared in the darkness, Hassan also bears the weight professional assassination on his back, operating across the entirety of as a phenomenon akin to the.

Despite walking on the path of bloodshed paved by his ancestors, Hassan has not lost the trait that others of his occupation dismiss: his humanity. He grew up simultaneously bombarded with optimistic idealism and a nihilistic reality and became a paradox that only exists due to the sheer scope of his talent far surpassing his clan's history. However hard he may try, he will be ensnared by the wires the crows of his fate stand upon, never to escape his fate. It is this dichotomy in his identity that eventually lead the phenomenon of Hassan XIII to alternatively be regarded as the "The Crow Accompanying the Rain" (雨に連れ立つ烏, Ame ni Tsuretatsu Karasu), for wherever this crow strikes, it always leaves its tears behind.