Misao Yamada

Misao Yamada

**Misao Yamada** (山田操) is the current **Shugo** of the Kansai Region for the Battotai. Having served since her early teens, she served as a Zasshu in the ranks of Kyoto Prefecture underneath the previous Kansai Shugo, Akuma-sensei. As a combatant, she served actively on the frontlines against the Oni of the Kansai Region, reaching an unprecedented 320 completed missions by her first year as a swordswoman. She would eventually be promoted to become the Jito of Kyoto Prefecture at the age of 16, leading and training operations within the esteemed prefecture for the next three years.

Despite these years of service, the severity of the Oni crisis decimated many of her students and peers. By the age of 19, she was the first known Battotai member to successfully survive and hold off against a Shinigami in a duel, demonstrating her martial prowess — however, not without sustaining incapacitating injuries. After this ordeal, she was later selected by the retiring Kansai Shugo to succeed him in his role, and later elected unanimously by the other Kansai Jito at a summit in Kyoto. In the first year of her service as Shugo, she was given the title of ***Kensei*** or "*Sword Saint*", the highest honor possible for a swordsman of legendary skill. As of now, she has now served for three years in the position of Kansai Shugo and is broadly recognized as one of the most formidable swordsmen in all of the Battotai by pure skill.

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> "*It will always be our duty to lay our lives on the line for the people. What better reason do we need?*"
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### Physical Description

Misao possesses a petite figure with relatively pale skin. Despite her lightweight appearance, she possesses immense strength when handling her nodachi, ***Sekinin*** (責任), wielding the large blade with great speed and agility. With braided gray hair and storm-grey eyes, her braid is tied off with a small ribbon knot. A particularly ornate jade earring on her left ear is the sole piece of jewelry that she wears. For clothing, she wears a flowery-design haori and robe that is slightly oversized, allowing for her clothing to disguise her movements easily.

### Personality

Misao has a gentle and very reserved personality — an easier description would be aloof. Initially perceivable as rude and dismissive, it is her fatigue that largely dictates her interactions with other people, a consequence of her strainful *Shugo* duties. Generally, she is compassionate and friendly with other members of the Battotai, always offering her support wherever possible. It is inferred that much of her docile yet protective nature is linked to an unmentioned incident in her first year as a Battotai member, where her squadmates were killed in a brutal battle against an Oni. However, this protective nature transitions into refined ferocity against Oni and Shinigami where her skills are displayed prominently. Despite her immense skill with any and all bladed weapons, her humble nature would hardly give away her extensive swordsmanship skills.

### Abilities

**Tengoku of Takemikazuchi** | As a Tengoku of Takemikazuchi, her greatest ability would be her extraordinary swordsmanship skills which have been described as godlike. Despite her relatively young age, she demonstrates a capacity for swordsmanship that has exceeded the level of her former mentors and many other master swordsmen in Japan, especially with a nodachi. Her peak speeds have been compared to teleportation, and her strength in combination with her swordsmanship has laid waste to any opponent in front of her. Her extensive history of frontline duty against Oni further supplements her experience.