Luke Johnston

Luke Johnston is Feudal Rider Drago in the 7th installment of the Neo-Rider Series, Feudal Riders.

Character History
Before the Feudal Games, he received a Feudal Driver as well and a Grape Lockseed, which allows him to transform into Feudal Rider Drago. After learning that the white Armored Rider, Melon, is his closest friend Allen, Luke resolves to uncover the truth behind the Yggdrasill Corporation's ties to the Feudal Forest.

However, learning of Yuya's fate prior with the intention of keeping Dylan in the dark about it, Luke renounces his earlier intent to expose his family's company upon being shown the ruins within the Feudal Forest. Supporting the Yggdrasill Corporation in secret, Luke maintains his appearance as a member of Team Orange, going his own way to protect Dylan and Maye. Though he answers to Victor Marshall, Luke learns that the scientist and his group are acting on their own agenda.

Like his friend, Allen, Luke is smart and revealed to be quite a manipulator with a desire to make sure Maye would live in blissful ignorance. While initially admiring Dylan for his earnestness, Luke gradually finds Dylan's ideals and methods disagreeable, eventually become disillusioned with his friend after he tells Maye everything of the Feudalites and Yggdrasill's conspiracy. Combined with being slapped by Maye after taking his frustrations on Dylan for making her sad, an unhinged Lukee plots to get rid of Dylan within the Feudal Forest, so much so that he is willing to attack Dylan when his friend lowers his guard and kill him.

His plot is foiled by the interference of Andrew who, despite not caring much about what is going on between Dylan and Luke, cannot stand such cowardly acts. Luke follows Allen and Vic's group into the forest intent on stopping the Feudal Overlords, however, Allen is ambushed by his own group and is thrown off a cliff. Luke ignores his friends's pleas to work with Kouta to save humanity and gives his friend's Energy Driver to Allen's brother Sid to instigate betrayal to Dylan. However he is intercepted by Andrew.

At Drupers, Luke is surprised to hear that Maye agrees to work there for free. Emma then enters and asks both him and Dylan to come to Yggdrasill. There together with Andrew they hear from Vic that Aaron betrayed Yggdrasill to seek the Forbidden Fruit from the Feudal Overlords. After planning to find Aaron in a separate way, Drago discovers where Aaron is hiding. Rather than being enemies, they ally together and plan to kill Dylan and Andrew as Luke sets a trap into calling Orange in Samurai Peach Mode for help as Drago in safe distance, then has Sid appear as Canta before Orange arrives to find him, attempting to attack Gaim. However, he is easily defeated by Gaim Jimber Lemon Arms until they were interrupted by Demushu, with four Riders in a battle royale for the Over Lord until Demushu's escape through a sudden appearance of a Crack, leading Gaim and Baron to follow while Sigurd and Zangetsu Shin-suited Mitsuzane are confronted by Redyue, who after a brief skirmish gives up and tells them to follow where the Forbidden Fruit is.

Already aware of Redyue's trap after she suddenly gave up herself, Mitsuzane knows that Redyue has been planning behind their back, as well as Rosyuo's, to obtain the Forbidden Fruit for her own, with Redyue taking an interest in his dark side after Sid left for the fruit in the possession of Rosyuo and got himself killed.

Redyue gives Mitsuzane Sid's hat, with Mitsuzane unaware that Redyue has seen his brother alive. He leads an Inves army with Redyue and other Over Lord class Inves as they enter the real world.

He tries to kill Gaim until Bravo arrives, as his fighting style behind Zangetsu Shin's suit cannot be fooled by Oren, leaving Mitsuzane speechless when Gaim demands him to reveal his identity. However, he manages to escape from Gaim as he uses Dyudyuonshu as a shield to block his attack, so his identity is not revealed. With all of his plans to manipulate events and eliminate Kouta ending up in failure and Kouta getting stronger, Mitsuzane becomes much more insane than ever before. He believes he can still win against Kouta as his former friend is "stupid and simple" and the power of Kiwami Arms he now possesses is only a fluke. Once the time comes, he can find a way to kill him and have him out of the way for good.

Visiting Team Gaim's garage, his friends were relieve that Mitsuzane was alright, however Kaito and Yoko suspect that he's still hiding something. He then talked to Yoko as he reveals to her that he's working with one of the Over Lords to obtain the Forbidden Fruit. However, Yoko refuses the offer as she has no interest of obtaining the fruit for herself, but instead of a perfect leader to guide. She even told Mitsuzane that he has no home, due to his actions. Returning to Yggdrasill Tower, Mitsuzane was furious about Redyue making her announcement as he started to lose faith in the Over Lord. Sometime later, in his brother's office, watching the scene from the tower, and seeing that humanity has no chance of defeating the Over Lords, a hopeless Mitsuzane reaffirms his belief that aligning himself with the Over Lords was his best choice.

Later, Mitsuzane wants his teammates to join him with the Over Lord as they started to suspect that he's acting strange. He went to Mai as Mitsuzane was furious that she would take Kouta's side, however she told him that she wants hope as she doesn't want Kouta to bear the situation alone, which leaves Mitsuzane unsatisfied. Mitsuzane decides to get Kouta from Drupers as he reveals to him that Kouta and his "hope" was something he once looked up to and believed that his unwavering will was why he thought Mai was best for Kouta. However, Mitsuzane tells him that it's nothing more than sweet optimism and that his naiveté has been taking their friends away from him. In a fit of rage, he transforms and reveals that he is the imposter Zangetsu Shin, attacking Kouta.

Personality
"If you'd had the guts to make the though decisions, you could have been the hero humanity needed. That's why I admired you. That's why I thought you deserved Mai! But you've been twisted by the lies you called "hope". Your sweet optimism blinds you to reality, and forces you to make stupid mistakes over and over. Hope is a dangerous disease, and contagious ones. And you Kouta, had been spreading it like a plague."

- Mitsuzane revealing his darkside to Kouta for the first time.

He is a member of Team Gaim and Kouta sees him as his younger brother. He is the son of a director of the Yggdrasill Corporation and attends an elite high school, a side of him which he keeps hidden from everyone. Living under his brother's shadow, he wants to live freely and break free from the path established for him, as such he sees Team Gaim as family due him being able to be himself while there.

He also respected Kouta once as a role model in the early stages of the show, basing his own beliefs around Kouta's and always want to do more to help others. He also harbors a secret crush on Mai, which drives him to ask for a Sengoku Driver from Sid and become a rider himself, when Mai is at wit's end due to Kouta being shaken to the core after the encounter with Zangetsu. After knowing that Yuya Sumii turned into Byakko Inves and for Kouta as Gaim unknowingly killed him, Mitsuzane tried to hide this from Kouta and even Team Gaim, trying not to disappoint his friends.

Despite having a cheerful and optimistic personality, in reality, Mitsuzane also has a dark personality. He will use his own status or a current situation for his own benefit and sake. As shown, he convinced Sid to give him the Sengoku Driver, which Mitsuzane tells Sid that one day he will surpass his brother. Mitsuzane also forced Sid to give him a Lockvehicle or else Mitsuzane would tell Takatora that Sid is the one who gave Kouta the Suika Lockseed. Mitsuzane also stole the Suika Lockseed from his brother without any guilt and swears to betray anyone or everything as long he can retain his friends' happiness. He also tries to destroy Kouta after he learned that Mai likes Kouta more than himself. A majority of Yggdrasill know about Mitsuzane's inner darker personality. Alongside this, Kaito and Redyue are also aware of this sinister personality. As a result of failing to kill Kouta and attempting to manipulate other people's lives, Mitsuzane has been driven into insanity blaming Kouta for ruining his perfect image of the world.

Upon witnessing Rosyuo's power when he destroyed the missiles that were launched by the government, he becomes even more insane, believing that he has made the right choice in siding with the Over Lords. His mindset is that when the human race is destroyed, he would finally be able to do whatever he wants without anyone getting in his way. His dark nature was then finally exposed to the Beat Riders resistance and later Takatora and Kouta.