Hans Reiheit

Hans Reiheit(ハンス・ライハイト, Hans Reiheit) is a fictional character in the manga series of Shaman King. He is a former member of the X-Laws and the owner of the strongest Archangel out of all of them. He is from Austria.

Appearance
Reiheit is a tall man. His face is firmly built, with a wide forehead, waist long smooth dark green hair and goatee. He appears a lean build, but with a somewhat, muscular body.

He is commonly seen wearing a casual X-Laws uniform, with dark gray military pants and knee long black boots. He wears the holster for his Steyr-AUG on the left side of his belt, although it appears to be to small for the large weapon.

Personality
He is very caring man that enjoys others company. He is proud to have been a X-Laws, and claims to still follow the ideals of Iron Maiden Jeanne, however he also believes that "the sacred girl has lost her splendor, by joining the enemy she no longer has the right to live", to which he has joined up with the enemy.

Although of this, he is also quite violent and agressive something that would eventually led to him beeing kicked out of the X-Laws.

Spirit

 * See More: Azazel

His spirit is that of the Fallen Angel Azazel(堕天使・アザゼル) who, with its Reiryoku(霊力, Spiritual Power) level of 470,000; is the strongest of all the Archangels, and is even stronger than the Spirit of Fire. Unfortunately Reiheit only has enough furyoku to oversoul it for three seconds, and if the Over Soul is broken, it would result in his death.

Past
Being born on March 13, 1970, Reiheit comes from Vienna, Austria and would eventually grow up to become part of the X-Laws. How he became part of the X-Laws is unknown, however what is known is that he also became their weapons guard and keeper, and would eventually be exiled for his violent behavior making him a fallen one.

The Incident At The Beach
When John Denbat tried to kill Hao with a satellite laser, it was picked up by the military forces of many of the larger countries. This gave Manta's father a good reason to finally attack the Shamans that he had been spying on for such a long time, and with him he brought not only an entire fleet of battle ships but also Hans Reiheit and Teruko Amano, a voodoo shaman.

When Hao attacked the human fleet of battle ships, only one ship was left intact. On that ship was Reiheit. Announcing the Furyoku level of his archangel he called it a monster stronger than the spirit of fire. Protecting the ship for a sum of several millions of dollars, he is asked by Amanko Teruko why he wasn't interested in becoming Shaman King. Claiming he was still following the ideals of Iron Maiden Jeanne, he also stated that because of Azezal's high level, he can only control it for about 3 seconds and that it would take less than a second to destroy the island. He believed Jeanne had joined up with the enemy and for that reason did not deserve to live. Announcing his believes he aimed at Hao and fired from his modified sniper oversouling Azazel. Revealing his gigantic angel to Hao, Hao called him small and attacked the angel. The oversoul collapsed and in turn Hao made Reiheit die due to the time limit that the oversoul and his furyoku had.

Aftermath
When Teruko wakes up on the beach, where it is revealed that all the victims of Hao`s assault on the fleet were revived and are now withdrawing and he enjoys the feast Mikihisa provides. Reiheit, sitting on a stone next to her, tells her that her clothes were soaked and that he had undressed her and had then given her his jacket to wear. He speculates that everything will be fine, because such a paranormal phenomenon will be questioned but otherwise kept a secret forever, and surely will be forgotten. He unexpectedly proposes to Teruko, much to her surprise.

Anime/Manga Difference
Hans Reiheit is a manga only character.

Trivia

 * His favorite food is Riz Yoruse