Akane Yakou

is a character appearing in The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II.
==Profile==
===Background===
Akane is the head of the Yakou family, a yakuza family distantly related to the Ryougi.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Chapter 2
===Personality===
Akane is a playful and sarcastic old woman despite being the head of a crime family.
===Appearance===
Akane is a woman who looks to be in her late fifties. Despite her prominent wrinkles and half of her hair being gray, the indomitable will in her eyes seem to have remained unchanged since her younger days. She is dressed in a garment that resembles mourning clothes, made of a lustrous fabric similar to silk. Apart from a silver obi, it is so black it seems to absorb light.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Chapter 2 Part 2
==Role==
===The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II===
====The Devil of the Wandering Sea====
Several months ago Ziz made a bet with Akane: His student Bai Ruolong would kidnap her granddaughter Akira Yakou. If the Yakous got Akira back they could do whatever they wanted with Bai Ruolong; conversely, if Ruo succeeded then Ziz could do whatever he wanted with Akira. He proposed this bet instead of simply kidnapping Akira because consent is important in magecraft. Stealing the Divine Body wouldn't do anything to the Yakous' contract with their god, so mutual consent was a key factor. But more importantly, Ziz just loves gambling.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Prologue
Months later when Lord El-Melloi II takes the case to find the kidnapped Akira, he briefly meets with Akane.
Eventually Akira's grandmother Akane Yakou decides that Lord El-Melloi II is untrustworthy and takes the last fragment of the Yakou's Divine Body, the piece that was still inside Yukinobu and yet to be transferred to Akira. As Akane places the Divine Body in a noh mask and then puts the mask on her face, at the same time in a different part of the city Akira begins to scream. A noh mask appears on her own face as a dark ocean begins to form around her that manifests black ropes which bind Bai Ruolong.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Interlude The darkness condenses into a black box with Ruo and Akira inside it, which is taken by Yukinobu back to the Yakou house.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 1 With them captive, Akane initiates a ritual to transfer the last 20% of the Divine Body into Akira. Afterward Akira and the god inside her, Ōkuninushi, begin to devour Bai Ruolong and Typhon. Akane burns the last of her Magic Circuits to begin this and is therefore no longer a mage, but is satisfied with her end.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 4
The point of the ritual was to sacrifice Bai Ruolong so they can heal Yukinobu because his talent is too valuable for the Yakous to lose, but Mikiya Ryougi confronts Akane and asks her if Yukinobu even wants to be healed. When Yukinobu sacrifices himself and gives everything to Akira, Akane realizes that she and her son still have a future together if he chooses normalcy. She states that if Yukinobu annuls the ritual, then Akane annuls her bet with the Wandering Sea.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 5
==Abilities==
By placing the last fragment of the Yakou's Divine Body in a noh mask and then putting it on her face, Akane is able to seal the Black Chest into a black box from a different part of the city, along with other individuals around them. The process involves a noh mask appearing on the Black Chest's own face as a dark ocean begins to form around them, which manifests black ropes that can bind a nearby target. The darkness then condenses into the black box with the Black Chest at its center. She was also able to chant the furube furube yurayura to furube to communicate with her god.
Akane ends up burning the last of her Magic Circuits to begin Akira and Ōkuninushi inside Akira devouring Bai Ruolong and Typhon, and is therefore no longer a mage.
==References==
Category:Characters in The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II
Category:Humans
Category:Magi
Category:Heads of household
Category:Members of criminal organizations
Category:Introduced in 2021
Category:Yakous
Category:Japanese