No, he's not Mr. Blanche.

[ Ivan is a little relieved that the ninja spirit isn't connected to Blanche, but that doesn't exactly help with everything else he's been haunted by. ]

He looks to be about my age, maybe older, with long reddish-brown hair pulled into a ponytail, and he looked like he was wearing a uniform of some kind. But... my music academy didn't have uniforms, so I don't know why we were all wearing the same thing.