Tenken Priest

The Tenken Priest runs the Tenken Shrine in the mountainous town Tobichi. He organizes the sacrifice of princesses to the snake demon Yamata-no-Orochi. However, this is a cover and he's actually responsible for safeguarding nuclear weapons hidden in an underground bunker during a war that ended generations ago.

Appearance
The Tenken Priest is an older man with glasses and white, swept-back hair. He wears traditional priest robes.

Personality
While he is an antagonist in the TENKEN story, the Priest is rather reserved and mild-mannered. While he does not enjoy sending women to their demise to ensure the safety of hidden nuclear weapons, he reasons that the danger posed by the nuclear arms outweighs the cost of one life every fifty years.

Plot
The Priest plots Saki's sacrifice to Yamata-no-Orochi and prevents Manaka from trying to save her. However, when the two emerge from the hidden bunker and explain the vision they saw, he interprets it as the shrine no longer needing to examine the hidden nuclear arms every fifty years.