Wrongly confused with "chesto", "cheerio!" is an expression that Togame, the self-titled Strategian from Nisio Isin's Katanagatari, uses when she hits someone. "Cheerio" later became a word to be known across the land as what the most powerful man in the country, Yasuri Shichika, yelled as he took down the Eighth Shogun of the Owari Shogunate. Thus fulfilling Togame's dying wish for the expression to be spread across the country as a shout of encouragement.
Shogun: "Please spare me! Oh, I know! I'll give you the country! Don't you want power over the country?"
Shichika: "LIKE I'D GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THAT! CHEERIO!!"
*Kills the Shogun with a strike that runs through and destroys the entire side of the building and into the ground*
Shichika: "LIKE I'D GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THAT! CHEERIO!!"
*Kills the Shogun with a strike that runs through and destroys the entire side of the building and into the ground*
by reacquaintance January 09, 2011