Talk:WN/Rimuru's Twelve Guardian Lords/@comment-38931992-20190326115342/@comment-38872498-20190408155830

Hakurou mainly serves as a teacher in sword arts/techniques for Rimuru's subordinates and I strongly believe he is still doing this up until now. In terms of events, strength wise, even though it wasnt stated or hinted in the WN nor LN, logically speaking, hakurou would technically have powered up in terms of EP levels from Rimuru's ascensions. He was around 65K EP which A- Rank during the Tournament Arc so I am guessing that he is probably A rank now (100K+) or probably even A+ rank (200K+). This probably also applies to Shuna, given that she was able to pretty much shit on an Imperial Prince.

However despite all that, they are not really worthy(no insult intended) to be part of the 12 Patrons. All of the patrons have ATLEAST 1,000,000EP, which is literally 5 times what Hakurou can achieve based on our assumptions. Even Souei is not a Patron despite having 1M EP himself, the patrons are just too competitive strength wise for any of the other strong subordinates to even be included. Benimaru for example has 2M EP under normal circumstances but he can temporarily strengthen to around 5M ish by borrowing Rimuru's energy. Zegion is also 2M EP under normal circumstances but he can overwhelm Dino (who has 5M EP) when he gets serious. Then we have this monstrous butler named Diablo who has 5M EP under NORMAL circumstances but can go serious and reach 10,000,000 EP in battle mode.

TLDR: Hakurou is still performing his typical duty in teaching swordmanship and would have very likely strengthened a lot, However he isnt part of the Patrons because he is weak in comparison to the 12 members. His power level is dwarfed even by the weakest Patrons like Gabiru and Geld (both have 1M EP)