Tsugiko Jabami

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**Tsugiko Jabami** (蛇喰 次子) is a maternal aunt of Souko Jabami and Yumeko Jabami who took care of them after their parents' demise. She is also the head of the Jabami household.

## Appearance

Tsugiko is an adult woman with dark eyes and wavy black hair that she mostly pulls up into an elegant bun. Her most distinct features are two moles under her left eye. She is mostly seen wearing a kimono.

When she was younger, she had her hair loosen and was wearing a light sweater with black skirt.

## Personality

Tsugiko is a woman who deeply cares about her family members, specifically including her elder sister (Yumeko and Souko’s mother). However, she also had a bloodthirsty and aggressive side to her; especially when gambling against her own niece for the title of clan head.

Tsugiko aimed to try and stop her elder sister from taking part in such risky gambles. Even going so far as to setting up her sister with marked cards so that she may end up getting banned from gambling altogether. However, this backfired when her sister ended up being killed. It is unknown if her sister was killed by the leaders of the gambling den or if she died by other unknown causes, but it is implied that Tsugiko is the main culprit that led to her death.

Later it would be revealed that Tsugiko in fact, deeply cared for her elder sister and disapproved of her gambling addiction. As shown in brief flashbacks where Tsugiko worried for her deeply due to her participation in dangerous gambles and shady gambling dens, so much so that Tsugiko eventually attempted to put a stop to it by traumatizing her sister enough to stop gambling all together. As shown where she purposefully snuck in rigged cards into her sister’s purse as she was going out to gamble, hoping that her sister would be caught using them and be punished enough to be banned from the den or traumatize her to stop gambling. This however had the unintended outcome of instead leading to her sister’s disappearance and the orphaning of her two nieces. As seen, Tsugiko is wracked by guilt due to the outcome of her actions and attempted to make amends by raising her nieces properly and discouraging them from gambling and leading down the same path as her sister.

As for her nieces, Tsugiko also cares deeply for Souko and Yumeko, seeing them as the last members of their family, despite doubting and underestimating their gambling abilities. Ever since their mother died, Tsugiko had been acting as their mother and as head of the Jabami clan. Despite pressuring and essentially traumatizing Souko to the point where she vomited and passed out from the stress, Tsugiko did it out of good intentions as to “strike down the Jabami curse”. Tsugiko was shown to deeply love both Yumeko and Souko and it was clearly shown that all her actions was to protect them. However, when it became apparent that Yumeko was addicted to gambling from birth, Tsugiko fell into despair and began bleeding from her eyes and nose like her elder niece from the mental anguish and stress.

## List of Gambles

* Tsugiko vs Souko
* Tsugiko vs Yumeko

* Dice Gamble of Jabami Family Dispute
* Dice Gamble of Jabami Family Dispute

## Etymology

* The name **Tsugiko** means "next" (次) (**tsugi**) and "child" (子) (**ko**).
* Tsugiko's surname **Jabami** means "snake devouring" (蛇喰)
* After her disastrous gamble against her elder niece, Tsugiko was shown to have continued living as Souko’s guardian.
	+ After Souko’s hospitalization, Yumeko admitted to have visited her for the first time in years during her latest visit to her unresponsive sister. Although the exact details are unknown, Yumeko has stated that their aunt has gotten thinner, hinting to her physical and mental state.