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Doushi Kaku, Man of high moral purpose

There were a great many people with secrets in Dairanger. Some of those secrets were huge and terrible. Some people knew their own secrets, to others these things came as a surprise. Doushi Kaku himself held several secrets. He was a very enigmatic figure. He wielded the Kiryoku power of the Dai with ease and firm discipline. Heck, he wielded it with the discipline of six-thousand years of study. And he wielded something else, too.

Once upon a time a very, very important Gohma, the Chief of Staff, defected to the Dai Tribe. Amazingly enough he did this when the Gohma were on the verge of starting the war. Why did he defect? That's a very tricky question to answer. I have a number of theories.

This Gohma had known the 15th Emperor before that man became emperor. And when he saw what became of that man's mind afterwards, he was afraid. For if that man died, he would be the 16th Emperor. The Gohma, led by their Emperor, had sold themselves to the devil for power. And the price of such selling was always that however powerful you became, you were still a slave to that which you had given yourself to. He was the Chief of Staff, and did not want to be anyone's slave. The only thing he could think of was to get the heck out, but where was he to go? To the other side. To learn their powers, to master those skills. To use that kind of strength rather than the strength that would make him a slave. That was what he chose.

Maybe it wasn't such a selfish reason. But however it started, he soon embraced a gentler way of being, and abandoned the sheer rage and hatred that was so much a part of every Gohma. He became sort of like the head of an underground. There were other Gohma who felt much like he did and he maintained contact with them. And when the greatest Dai warrior went over to the Gohma side, he snuck in and made off with the captured companion beast. He didn't know what else to do, but to keep that poor creature from Gohma hands. And for six-thousand years he studied, planned and waited. He kept his Gohma third eye hidden under a heavy headband.

Recently he became the student of one Roudoushi Guhon, Rin's great-uncle. Together the two men worked to create weapons for the coming war. And perhaps together they selected the five people who would become this age's Dairanger. But there was some trouble over selecting one, so that boy was the last to learn the truth about himself. He still, as I mentioned, maintained contacts among the Gohma. Thus Doushi Kaku knew that Shaddam had a son, Akomaru, by his Dai wife. What he didn't know was that there was another child from that union. Kaku was the first to discover the true idenitity of the Kiba Ranger, and also rather clearly was well-acquainted with Byakoshinken. But the Gohma were after Kaku, for a few reasons.

For Shaddam wanted to be the next Emperor. And as long as Kaku was away, his ambitions were thwarted. When Chouryou was sent by High Priest Saw to fight the Dairanger, retrieving Kaku or killing him was his actual goal. Kaku gave up his freedom, finally, in order to save the world. He was forced to return to the Gohma. Forced to let his beloved students think he had betrayed them, for he had to disarm them or Shaddam would not stop the war. Forced to fight to the death, and to lose to Shaddam despite his best efforts.

The Gohma themselves had a lot of hope invested in Kaku. There were a fair number who wanted him to be the Emperor, and to lead them onto a pure, clean path. I don't know if he could have, or if becoming the emperor would have cost him his sanity in the service of the devil. But I think in losing to Shaddam Kaku was freed. His students stopped the Gohma at last, and the world was not destroyed.