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Tetsuzou Nihei (二瓶 鉄造, Nihei Tetsuzō) was a hunter and one of the Abashiri Convicts. He saved Genjirou Tanigaki after the soldier was injured by Retar.

Nihei was a confident, boisterous and tenacious man. He was direct, loud and straightforward, with a crude and sometimes vulgar sense of humor. He would often compare his excitement or the thrill of the hunt to an erection, loudly exclaiming "BONER!". Shiraishi would describe Nihei as "more like a wild animal, than a man".

He was born in Ishikari, Hokkaido. In the past, Nihei used to be a prolific Hokkaido hunter who had killed over 200 bears. His fame even reached Akita, where travelling salesmen would tell people of the "Legendary Bear-Killer": every time he went up into the mountains, the bears that lived there vanished.

Nihei was married and had 15 children with his wife: a son and 14 daughters. When one of his daughters was little, he took her to the veranda for a nap. Nihei noticed a giant hornet landing on his daughter's face and sensed the change in his body odor, discovering his ability to determine a person's emotional state by smell. He confessed to Tanigaki that he hadn't seen his family in a long time.