Kebiishi

For a list of common enemies, see Enemies.

The Kebiishi (検非違使) (Justicar in the English version) is an enemy group that opposes both the Historical Revisionists and the player's forces. Their duty is to eliminate any foreign presence from the flow of time, no matter if they are trying to change history or preserve it.

The Kebiishi take their name from the historical police body that was in power during the Heian period. Thought to have been established around AD 816, the Kebiishi spread from the Imperial capital to the surrounding provinces, and acted as the Imperial police and judiciary. Their power waned with the rise of the Kamakura shogunate.

Game Mechanics

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The Kebiishi are powerful enemies that may appear when you have cleared the boss node of a battlefield ten times, with some exceptions: they won't appear in campaign maps, and they'll never appear in 1-1: Hakodate (函館).

After clearing a map's boss node for the tenth time, a cutscene with lightning plays, indicating that the Kebiishi have spawned. Battlefields infested with the Kebiishi will be marked with a purple icon when selecting it from the Front Lines menu.

While traveling on an infested battlefield, every enemy node encounter, with the exception of the boss node, has a chance of spawning the Kebiishi instead of the normal enemy pattern. The encounters are random, so it is possible for the Kebiishi to spawn more than once per run, or not at all.

As long as at least one sword in the party is above lv10, encountering Kebiishi will trigger battle with it. On the other hand, a team with all swords below level 10 can still trigger the appearance of the Kebiishi, but will not engage in any battle with the Kebiishi.

Higekiri and Hizamaru are swords that can be obtained rarely from defeating the Kebiishi. The drop rate for these two swords will depend on the battle ranking achieved. Other swords can drop from the Kebiishi as well (see below).

Once a map becomes infested with Kebiishi, there is no way to remove them from the map. If a player wants to avoid spawning Kebiishi on a map, they should always choose to return to the citadel before reaching the boss node.

Kebiishi Scaling and Spawn Patterns

The strength and level of the Kebiishi that you encounter each time on an enemy node will be based only on the Lv. of the highest-leveled sword in your current party on the map. You will encounter either the 4-star rarity or 5-star rarity pattern for your level range.

Examples:

  Team A contains swords that are Lv10, Lv15, Lv14, Lv19, Lv13, and Lv13.
  →One of the two 10~29 Kebiishi patterns will spawn.

  Team B contains swords that are Lv10, Lv10, Lv11, Lv29, Lv11, and Lv12.
  →The 10~29 Kebiishi pattern will still spawn.

  Team C contains swords that are Lv23, Lv83, Lv12, Lv10, Lv18, and Lv14. 
  →One of the two 70~89 Kebiishi patterns will spawn.

Therefore, teams with a small level range or with swords close to the upper level limit for an enemy spawn pattern will have an easier time battling the Kebiishi. 

Enemy Pattern 1 (All 5-Rarity Swords)

Sword level	Nagae Yari_放免				Oodachi_放免				Tachi_放免				Yari_放免				Yari_放免				Naginata_放免				Total Survival	Total Troops
	Survival				Survival	※	※	※	Survival	※	※	※	Survival				Survival				Survival
90～99	272	8	6	6	152	15	15	13	154	15	15	13	175	8	8	8	175	8	6	6	200	8	8	8	1128	174
70～89	252	8	6	6	148	13	13	13	144	13	13	13	150	8	8	8	150	8	6	6	192	8	8	8	1040	166
60～69	189	8	6	6	134	13	13	13	108	13	13	13	126	8	8	8	126	8	6	6	144	8	8	8	827	166
50～59	189	8	6	-	134	13	13	-	108	13	13	-	126	8	8	-	126	8	6	-	144	8	8	-	827	112
30～49	158	8		-	120	12	-	-	90	12	-	-	105	7	-	-	105	7	-	-	120	7	-	-	698	53
10～29	72	-	-	-	55	-	-	-	32	-	-	-	56	-	-	-	56	-	-	-	48	-	-	-	319	-

※Changes based on the highest level of your team
All enemy troops are Gold (特上) except for some of the 30~49 pattern, as indicated by font color (Silver (上)).

Enemy Pattern 2 (All 4-Rarity Swords)

Sword level	Nagae Yari_放免				Oodachi_放免				Tachi_放免				Tachi_放免				Yari_放免				Naginata_放免				Total Survival	Total Troops
	Survival				Survival	※	※	※	Survival	※	※	※	Survival	※	※	※	Survival				Survival
90～99	230	8	6	6	140	15	15	13	130	15	15	13	130	15	15	13	160	8	6	6	192	8	8	8	982	193
70～89	210	8	6	6	130	13	13	13	120	13	13	13	120	13	13	13	140	8	6	6	160	8	8	8	880	181
60～69	158	8	6	6	120	13	13	13	90	13	13	13	90	13	13	13	105	8	6	6	120	8	8	8	683	181
50～59	158	8	6	-	120	13	13	-	90	13	13	-	90	13	13	-	105	8	6	-	120	8	8	-	683	122
30～49	131	8	-	-	100	12	-	-	75	12	-	-	75	12	-	-	87	7	-	-	100	7	-	-	568	58
10～29	66	-	-	-	53	-	-	-	28	-	-	-	28	-	-	-	51	-	-	-	43	-	-	-	269	-

※Changes based on the highest level of your team
All enemy troops are Gold (特上) except for some of the 30~49 pattern, as indicated by font color (Silver (上)).

Experience Gain

For experience gain charts of Kebiishi, see Kebiishi/Experience Gain.

Drop Trends

Kebiishi have a static drop rate that does not differ from map to map. Swords that usually do not drop from a particular map may drop from Kebiishi (e.g. Kebiishi may drop Tantous on World 5-4). Drops are more likely to occur at higher Victory Ranks. Moreover, there have been reports of Higekiri and Hizamaru dropping even from a B Rank Victory.

The approximate drop rates below are taken from data on Worlds 5-3, 5-4, and 6-2 (which have the largest aggregate data). Keep in mind this is an approximation, so their actual percentages may differ slightly.

Swords drop from about 98% of Kebiishi fights. The sword type ratio is approximately: Tantou (63.2%), Wakizashi (12.2%), Uchigatana (21.6%), Tachi (3.0%).
Rarity-4 or -5 Tachis, Oodachis, Yaris, and Naginatas do not drop from Kebiishi. The drop list is as follows:

Drop List☘

Node	Sword Type	Swords
Kebiishi	Tantou
	Wakizashi
	Uchigatana
	Tachi

Map Captions

For map captions of Kebiishi, see Kebiishi/Map Captions.