Nichrom

Nichrom of the Ten Patch Officiants(ニクロム) is a fictional character in the manga and anime series of Shaman King. He is one of the Ten Patch Officiants and one of Hao's followers along with Magna. After his brother, Chrom of the Ten Patch Officiants was killed by Tao Ren, Nichrom took Chrom's place as a Patch Officiant.

Appearance
Nichrom has messy brown hair that is braided together into a waist long poytail in the back. He has orange lines under his eyes and wears a simple blue headband with two feathers. He wears a native american robes with black patterns, with a silver plate on his chest, which shape gretly ressembles that of scorpion stinger.

On his right wrist he wears a thic bracelet, with some sort of scorpion tail attached to it, and on each arm he wears a pair of fingerless glows, with knucklebraces.

Spirit

 * See More: Yellow Whip

His guardian ghost Yellow Whip(イェローウイップ) is a scorpion spirit, using the medium of a bracelet seen on his wrist, that has an appendage shaped like an scorpion's tail. While fighting can the scorpion tail be extended to long lenghts to attack the opponent with poisonous stinger from any range.

Protecting the Plants
When Team "Funbari Onsen", Team "The Ren" and Team "X-I" forfeited the third round of the Shaman Fights, Asakura Hao was atomaticly declared the new Shaman King, and together with other nine Patch Officiants, Nichrom went to guard his plant of the cave.

When Tao Ren and the remaining three teams reached the 7th Plant of the Cave, Nichrom quickly revealed his medium and spirit and Over Souled Yellow Whip. He the proceeded to attack Ren with the scorpion tail whip, only to have the tail wrap itself the arm of Bason in his Full Body O.S. Ren then uses the Over Soul to slam Nichrom to the ground and punch him with the massive Over Soul.

Ren then used 100 %Hyoi Gattai, to the surprise and shock of Nichrom, to rapidly attack Nichrom with the Vorpal Dance(Zhong Hua Zhan Wu) leaving him a bloody mess and his patch cloak tattered Walking over to him, Ren pulled the angered Nichrom by his long ponytail. Ren then kicked Nichrom in the chin and away from him. Nichrom still wanting to fight slowly rose up and thinkin that Ren was now open for an attack, he, in a state of insanety, tried to attack Ren yet again, to which Ren easily grabbed the scorpion tail by the brod himself.

Anime/Manga Difference
In the manga, Nichrom supervised over Hao's followers, Peyote Diaz, Hang Zang-Ching, and Turbine as they fought with Horohoro, Tao Ren, and Chocolove Mcdonell, where as in the anime he does not.