Shojiro Ito/History

Episode 20
After Kiichi caused an uproar, Ito appears from the crowd to tell him that he is always going with his crazy things to save Saga. Later in a food place they talk about Kiichi's plan to restore the old Saga to which Ito tells him that it seems that he is hinting at a new revolt in Saga although Kiichi says that that is not his objective is what the rest of the people perceive. Later they both go to the cherry blossom park of the citadel where Kiichi falls in love with Yugiri and Ito tells him that she was so legendary that she ended up creating a price bubble around her that turned out that no one could pay, Kiichi only mentions that she finds it extraordinary for someone like her to come to Saga first.

Later during the episode he realizes that Yugiri's help to Kiichi could bring the attention that the revolt was looking for and he is going to personally give Yugiri a freshly caught fish from the river, all this in order to talk to her. At night the 3 talk and Ito says that Kiichi could be a doctor to someone very important because he is very intelligent, in addition to being able to start a family with Yugiri, before this Kiichi gets so nervous that he ends up fainting when he is weak because of being sick lately. Ito talks with Yugiri that Kiichi will end badly because the country is still very wild and corrupt and that it is better to leave that crazy plan to save Saga, in the final scene he is seen delivering a secret note to a homeless man, presumably someone from the government that is there to avoid new revolts.

Episode 21
Ito is with Yugiri and Kiichi to take a picture but he is a little nervous about it, in the end the 3 take the picture but when he leaves he realizes that Kiichi is getting new people to which Ito warns Yugiri about being attentive to the situation. Later he meets Kiichi and tells him to wake up from the reality where he is and realizes that his dreams are childish and will be trampled if he continues like this, angrily goes down an alley and meets the homeless man who worked as his spy and it says something to Ito. At Yugiri's house he invites her to talk about the situation and tells Yugiri that she must take care of Ito because of what she is about to go through, that same afternoon she starts to snow in Saga and Ito prepares. A mysterious man appears to stop the rebels and he himself murders them revealing himself as Shojiro Ito before a shocked Kiichi, who is confused by the whole situation, Ito tries to attack him but is stopped by Yugiri and had to flee through the Saga police presence. When he meets Yugiri again, he asks him who bought it to which the answer leaves him surprised because he realizes that it was Hibiya's demon, both prepare to fight to the death and Yugiri manages to wound him to death, but it turns out. That Ito let himself be killed so that Kiichi could escape and fulfill his dream of creating a new Saga, thus dying in Yugiri's arms. Shojiro Itou/Sipnosis