Sawako Iwai

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## Magnificent Baddie

### Alias

Sawako Iwai
Kudan

### Powers/Skills

Intelligence
Planning
Manipulation
Strength

### Goals

Kill Souko to take her hand (succeeded, not the way expected).
Kill Touko to take her hand and have the inheritance money.
Kill Sakuya Kudan.
(both failed)

### Crimes

Attempted muder
Indirect murder
Animal cruelty
Incrimination
Kidnapping
Corpse desecration

### Type of MB

Faux Affable Murderer

**Niina Yamagishi**, also known as **Sawako Iwai** is the main antagonist of the yuri visual novel *The Curse of Kudan*. She is Touko Shima's personnal assistant. In reality she is a murderer planning to kill Touko to take her hand.

## What Makes Her Magnificent ?

* While it is all fake, she is impeccably affable towards the people who she interacts with. Because of that she easily gained the trust of people.
* She helped Koto Akinashi to find a toy that bullies hid and served a sister figure to her. While she was faking it to hide her true nature, it nonetheless made Koto feel better and happy.
* She managed to kill animals and to take part of them without being discovered. She also did the same with human parts while making it look like accidents.
* She had a good relationship with Shizuko Shima (the matriarch of the Shima family) and had cared for her for a good time until Shizuko's death. As a result Shizuko would leave her a part of inheritance money.
* She befriended Souko and convinced her to come with her while secretly planning to kill her. She methodically choose the edge of a cliff knowing she could make look Souko's death as an accident. And while she failed to kill Souko as she expected and lost a hand as a result, she managed to incriminate Souko as the attempted killer and to get away with it.
* She convinced Shizuko Shima to help her fake her death knowing that her parents (who previously discovered her true nature) would punish her, so that she could live under a new name.
* She sometimes helped Sakuya's group in some investigations, all while not revealing anything about her.
* She managed to get away with her crimes in both Normal Endings without being discovered.
	+ In Touko's ending, she managed to convince Sakuya to not tell the autorities about Souko's corpse due to not wanting to destroy Shizuko's reputation. (Though it was in reality to prevent any investigation with the risk of being discovered.)
* While she changed her polite personnality for a more psychotic one upon being discovered, she doesn't change too much to the point of being too repulsive or unnecessary cruel and still talks with some politness.
* Upon being discovered, she managed to escape from Sakuya's group, despite said group being composed of four people.
* During the final battle, she managed to predict Sakuya's attack plan with her friends and to counter three of them, requiring Touko (who was taken as hostage) to find courage to free herself from Sawako.

## What Makes Her a Baddie ?

* At a young age, she killed a lot of animals to collect parts of them. She also mentionned to have recovered human parts as well (presumably from corpse).
	+ Futhermore, because of superstitions about evil twins in the Shima family, Souko would be blammed for most of Sawako's crimes.
* She tried to kill Souko to take her hand. When she failed to do so, she incriminated her, causing her to be locked up by her grandmother and later dying from starvation.
	+ Not only that, but as a result, Koto, thinking that Sawako was the one killed, was devastated by that and would try to get justice against the wrong person.
* She tried to kill Touko to take her hand and to have inheritance money.
* She tried to kill Sakuya (and succeeds if the player makes the wrong choice).