Lin Cheng-Shin

Lin Cheng-Shin is a female member of Kuhoin Private Army, who belongs to the executive rank of the private army and she is ranked 8th in the army.

Novel and manga
Lin is a skillful swordswoman who treats two swords, and she owns Bizen Osafune. She has a long plait that is about to reach the ground. She behaves harshly, but she has encouragd depressed Shinkuro with her severe encouragement. Her birthday is 3 May, and she is 19-year-old, but she seems to be a little older. Her three sizes are 76, 51 and 80 from above. She is fond of watching jidaigeki and she loves Takeshi Sato, who is starring in Onmitsu Samurai Sennin Giri. In the novel "Guillotine", she convoys Ritsu Shiguhara with Shinkuro, but she dies in the battle of Kirihiko Kirishima.

But in manga, she survives. Her appearance is not so different from the novel, her personality seems to be rather flippant, as she voluntarily tries to marry Shinkuro with Mursaki without Kuhoin's concent, and then Shinkuro asks about her frippant decision, Lin gets confused by his enquiry.

Anime
In anime, she has long hair which doesn't seem to reach the ground, and she is not plaited. She uses martial arts techniques especially for foot and leg sweeps instead of swordsmanship. Akuu Company doesn't appear in the anime, and Lin takes back Murasaki instead of it. She rather calms down than the novel, and she has violent character as she yearns to fight. She knows the fighting techniques of Benika, therefore she could defeat Yayoi twice. But in the third fight, Yayoi adopts Houzuki School, and Lin is defeated by Yayoi's strange techniques. In OVA, she has the long plait, similar personality and holds the swords as in the original novel.