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It always seemed like the Ryuugan meant more than just being able to see the future and past, though. It completely dispersed Fu Chi'en's electric double palm strike, and Fu only had to twitch his fingers to totally incapacitate Maya. Now, Shin was more powerful than Maya will ever be, but still, Fu...

Yeah, it seems that it was done only to further the development of Mitsuomi into the "True Warrior." Basically, to become that, Mitsuomi needed to defeat a monster; makes sense, can't have a hero without a villain. And Dougen picked Natsume Shin to be that monster.

Haha, not really a guy that anyone seems to talk about, with good reason. He's more or less an extremely arrogant and rather immoral triad boss who doesn't do much in the story besides act as a plot device to bring out the Ryuugan. Still, I find him to be a little interesting, at least. I like the w...