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| Introduction |
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| Kanji | ツルバ・べルガット |
| Romaji | Tsuruba Berugatto |
| Characteristics | |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 20 |
| Hair Color | Light |
| Eye Color | Light |
| Professional Status | |
| Affiliation | House Bergatt |
| Occupation | Viscount Head of House Bergatt |
| Title | Lord Bergatt |
| Personal Status | |
| Status | Alive |
| Birthplace | Wilant |
| Relatives | Earl Bergatt (Father) Countess Bergatt (Mother) |
| Relationships | Hisame Lugis (former vice captain) |
| Friendships | Zen Wistaria |
| Equipment | |
| Weapon | Sword |
| Debuts | |
| Manga | Chapter 74 |
Lord Viscount Tsuruba Bergatt (ツルバ・べルガット; Tsuruba Berugatto) is the current head of the Bergatt house. He is often seen alongside his younger twin brother, Tariga Bergatt.
Appearance[]
For most of his life, Tsuruba wore his hair in a ponytail, distinguishing him from his identical twin Tariga who wears his in a braid. However, they sometimes switch hairstyles as mentioned by Tariga in chapter 82. During his elder brother's assault on Sereg his ponytail was cut by an assailant aiming for his neck.
As his time as a Sereg Knight, he wears the typical knight uniform and cloak with his sword.
Personality[]
As the older twin who feels responsible for his younger sibling, Tsuruba is more confident than Tariga and more likely to approach and seem to open up to outsiders at first, though it's eventually revealed that he's trained himself to fake smiles and a cheerful demeanor when he needs to talk to someone in order to get them to let their guard down. He is rather introverted and likes keeping to himself, but is close to his twin and at times opens up to Tariga. After becoming the new head of Bergatt House he tries to dispense with the fake smiles, especially around those loyal to Zen and the Wistarias, in his efforts to distance himself from his time as his elder brother's pawn.
History[]
Tsuruba was born into the Bergatt house, alongside his twin Tariga. When they were young the Bergatt house was in charge of the northern part of Clarines but that changed when it was learned that the Bergatt house were misusing their power. The former queen Haruto Wistaria learned of this information and stripped the Bergatt house of their power and moved to Wistal Palace to rule the north. After his father's death, his older brother, Touka Bergatt, became the head of the family and decided one day he would take back their land and power from the crown. Soon, Tsuruba and his twin Tariga were needed to help their older brother with various jobs which trained them to have good combat and speed skills.
Tsuruba and Tariga arrive at the Wistal Palace in search to become Sereg knights. They meet Zen, Mitsuhide, and Kiki and become Sereg knights soon after. With the event of Kiki's suitor, Hisame Lugis, suddenly getting injured, Mitsuhide is accused of being the cause of the injury and is temporary stripped of his title as Zen's aide and is put under house arrest. Tsuruba and Tariga are then seen as a good option for Zen's new aide replacement. Eventually Zen and Kiki find out Tariga has been a suitor for Kiki all along. In the search for the mysterious event surrounding Kiki's suitor, Tsuruba and Tariga are found out to be part of the events. However they realize that they regret being part of the event because Zen has become their light that they have been looking for and want to help clean up the Bergatt mess and destroy the creator of the events, Touka Bergatt. Tsuruba goes out of the palace to kill Touka, but while traveling he meets mercenaries sent by Touka to capture Tsuruba and keep him hostage. He fends off for himself but is almost overcome before Obi and Kiki come around to save him. Tsuruba reveals their brother's plan to replace Kiki and Mitsuhide for the twins as Zen's aide by marrying Kiki to Tariga and fowling Mitsuhide's name making him unable to become Zen's aide. By becoming Zen's aides they would regain the Bergatt's power over Clarines. The group hurry back to the palace and help defend the palace from Touka's raid. When Touka is defeated, Touka almost commits suicide by poisoning himself but Tsuruba swipes the poison from his hands, saying that he doesn't want his brother to die. Once Touka is captured and arrested, Tsuruba and Tariga are pardoned of their crimes but are put under house arrest. Tsuruba was given the title as the new head of the Bergatt house and was tasked to rebuild the Bergatt family from the inside.
Relationships[]
Tariga Bergatt[]
Tsuruba is Tariga's older twin brother. They are almost always seen together. Because they were the youngest members of House Bergatt and chose to try not to draw attention to themselves to avoid being harmed by the family infighting and squabbles for power they have become pretty closed off and rarely associate themselves with others. This, however, changed when they met Zen.
Zen Wistaria[]
Tsuruba's first real friend outside of his twin as they met far from Touka's seat of power where Tsuruba did not feel the threatening pressure of his elder brother's control. He was impressed with the closeness of Zen with his retainers and the true trust and loyalty borne of love he observed between them, in contrast to the fragile loyalty his brother ensured through fear. His admiration of Zen's truthfulness and steadfastness resulted in a real friendship between them and led to Tsuruba betraying Touka to protect Zen from Touka's plan to assassinate the prince.
Shirayuki[]
Tsuruba shows Shirayuki respect and tries to be his true self around her rather than show her the cultivated fake emotions he became used to while working for Touka. He sees her as one of the kind people related to Zen and forms his own friendship with her through trust and truthfulness.
Eisetsu Rugilia[]
The young Lord Rugilia seems upset, though quickly hides it, when he realizes he's to be working with Tsuruba. Tsuruba assumes this is because he used to work as an assassin for his brother, which gives people cause to be hesitant to trust him. Tsuruba is patient with the other young noble lord and is able to work well with and around him as they investigate one of Touka's spies.
Trivia[]
- Zen noted in chapter 82 that when Tsuruba is responding to someone calling out to him he immediately turns to face that person, unlike his twin brother Tariga who only turns half of his body to look at them first. He also noted that the way they blink their eyes is different.
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