Yamahito (山人) is a character from Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying manga series.
Description[]
Yamahito was a man who was apparently raised by monkeys in the mountains of Ashina. When he was discovered as a child, he was taken by a village family, but after their death, he went back in to forest and lived alone, feeding on monkeys. At some point he was capture and given rejuvenating waters by Doujun, gaining red eyes, but managed to escape the research facility. He killed several villagers in he mountains until he met Hanbei the Undying, and was eaten by a Guardian Ape during his fight with Hanbei.
Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying[]
Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying Chapter 2[]
Yamahito stalks the villagers from the bushes.
Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying Chapter 3[]
In a flashback, Shoukichi explains how he visited Yamahito, who offered him some meat from monkeys and wanted him to introduce him to his widowed sister.
While Hanbei and Shoukichi search for the villagers, Yamahito attacks them. He explains that due his past, he couldn't fit in a human village and went back in the mountains to become a monkey, but couldn't do that either, and now is neither a human, nor monkey.
Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying Chapter 4[]
As Yamahito had gained red eyes, Hanbei realizes that he is immortal as well. Yamahito and Hanbei then fight, but as Hanbei gains the upperhand, Yamahito retreats into the forest and lures Hanbei into tall grass, where he easily ambushes him. Yamahito then returns to Shoukichi, but as red eyes fear fire, Yamahito asks Shoukichi to put away his torch and explains that he is lonely. Shoukichi wonders then why he killed people if he was lonely and Yamahito explains that when people die, they are no longer human or monkey, just like him. Hanbei then returns and grabs Yahamito from behind and places his sword at his throat. Yamahito pushes his sword through his chest to stab both himself and Hanbei behind him, and Hanbei slits his throat. As both bleed but don't let go and fall, Yamahito yells at Hanbei to die. A group of monkeys then appear, followed by a Guardian Ape. The ape then grabs Hanbei and eats him, and then leaves.