Yayoi Hozuki

Yayoi Hozuki is the deuteragonist of the supernatural horror manga and anime series Dark Gathering. She is the cousin of Eiko Hozuki. Prior to two years, after surviving a tragic car accident, she lost both of her parents. However before being taken to the hospital, she sees her mother's soul being taken away by evil spirits. Since then, she is aiming to save the spirit of her mother from the malevolent spirit, Kuubo, whom she saw during the accident. Two years later, she meets Keitaro, a close friend of her cousin, Eiko and is assigned as her tutor. She soon learns that Keitaro, just like her, has the ability to see ghost, but has also the ability to attract them. As a result, Yayoi intends to use him on her journey to collect spirits across different locations to save her mother. 
She was voiced by in Japanese and in English.
==Appearance==
Yayoi is a stern petit girl with pale skin, deep violet-colored short hair with a large lock in a spiral shape at the top of her head, and pink cheeks. Her most noticeable feature is the irises in her large eyes which are brown in color with each wih a skull in the middle. For attire, she wears a dark blue and light pink jacket over other thick attire with a black necktie. A white belt surrounds her torso and she also wears a pair of strange-looking black high knees shoes with mouth designs at the front. Her eyes also sometime glows into a red color whenever she gets serious.
==Personality==
Always holding a straight face, Yayoi talks in a cold tone, thus fitting her expression. She is heavely drawn into supernatural things and is completely fearless unlike her tutor, Keitaro, who is terrified of the topic, despite both possessing the ability to see ghosts. Seeing that Keitaro is frightened of the aura that the plushie she always holds, she cold bloodily strangles the possessed object as a way to calm him down. Instead of studying, she tells Keitaro to go to a haunted place seeing that spirits are attracted to him. After hearing her cousin's short story about the ghost of someone haunting a phone booth that will result in the death of someone of anyone who enters, she did not hesitate to do so before being pulled concernedly out of it, showing her bravery and her very interested nature to be drawn into supernatural places. She shows more of her interest in spirits when her eyes sparkle upon being told by Keitaro that spirits are drawn into him one hundred percent of the time.
She is also cruel, lethal and cold-blooded to spirits that she captures and stores them in her room. As a result, spirits try their best to avoid her, thus leading her to use Keitaro's presence to draw spirits into him to help in Yayoi's hunt.
==Abilities== 
*Spiritual Sight and Sensing: About two years earlier in the story, Yayoi was taken to the doctor to be examined after mentioning that she has the ability to see two world: The real word and the spirit world. In other words, in her vision, she can see the regular things that everyone can and for the spirit world, her surrounding are dark and she sees numerous frightening shadows and spirits all over the place. Sometime spirits also appears in the form of blood. This ability was only somehow enhanced after the accident, now being able to see both worlds at the same time.
*Enhanced-Intelligence: Somehow, Yayoi's intelligence increased to a very high level after receiving a grave head injury in a car accident with the loss of both of her parents.
 
*Vast Knowledge over Supernatural Elements: Along with the immense increase of her intelligence, she has displayed an extremely high intellect in supernatural topics that helps her and her friends in many spirit-involved situations in the story. she often instructs Keitaro in assisting to help her to capture spirits by coming up with a variety of methods to capture them and escape . Her knowledge in ghosts includes her understanding of their behaviours, types, and even their origins.
Always maintaing her calm, she some times uses her speech to communicate with the spirits outloud just like they were peoples, often threaten them by giving them an option; to be captured or to be devoured by other spirits that she has already captured, giving her targeted-spirit no other choices but to obey her. She also use fear and the weaknesses of the spirits as a way to force spirits to come out of their hide spots. Another example of her method of using spirit to find the one she is looking for can be demonstrated when she forced a group of spirits into fightin among each other until the a traitor is being exposed among the spirits. Rarely to ever run out of solutions to deal with supernatural incidents undoubtly makes her the greatest enemy and threat for spirits, thus Yayoi is largely avoided by them. 
*Strength, Crowbar and Plow Effifiency: Despite being a very young child Yayoi is capable of using a crowbar and a plow to open the door of the phone booth and had enough strength to break the cabin with a figurine in order to save Keitaro from the spirit inside. All these, are possibly the result of the high intelligence she gained after the accident.
==Equipments==
*Immense Collection of Plushie: When Yayoi first appeared, she can be seen holding an ordinary white bunny plushie. But it later turned out that it was possessed by a spirit, as Keitaro sensed a malevolent feeling from the object. Further on, it was then revealed that Yayoi has numerous other animal plushies stored in the book shelves of her room all possessed ready to be used to bring her mother back.
*Salt: Yayoi has regularly a container of salt in case if they are confronted by spirits, which are one of their major weaknesses.
* Bat:
*Crowbar and Plow:
*The Finger of God:
*Salt:
*Special Rope
==Trivia==
*Yayoi's eyes have condition, thus explaining why her eyes can glow.
*Yayoi mean "evening" in Japanese.
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