Talk:Onigashima Event Re-Run/@comment-29027964-20170614224653/@comment-28209103-20170615064632

He's already young man when he meet and recruited by Raikou.. but he's closer to  wild beast who grows up in the wild and Raikou is the one that teaches him to be a "warrior"

In the end Raikou is the one who made him human and Raikou took take care of Kintoki like his own son. Problem is that the real ver. of the myth Raikou-Kintoki relationship might be closer to master and retainer or maybe a brother-in-arms. at best maybe best friend. But Raikou being a woman in fate complicate the matters... not to mention the way the played around with her origin and the quest to kill Ushi Gozen which apparently is an episode of suicide attempt rather than actual demon slaying (as shown in the interlude)

Basically Kintoki being brought up in the wild are true in Nasuverse, as a side note he meet Shuten douji when he's still a boy. Then later Raikou picked him up and raise him in human society, trained him as a warrior and giving him his position as Shiten-ou. Raikou interlude kinda touched the part where his relation with other shiten-ou other than Kintoki are not that close to the point that only Kintoki alone realized that Raikou are acting weird when Ushi-Gozen about to take her over. At the very least while Kintoki probably doesn't see her as a mother figure, he saw her as his savior, someone he's indebted to and someone he respect.