Konomi Tatara

**Konomi Tatara** (多々良 木乃実, *Tatara Konomi*) is the Anti-Demon Corps' 1st Unit current Chief after the previous Chief, Riu Myouga stepped down from her position.

## Appearance

Konomi is a young girl with brown hair tied up into a ponytail in the back using a black band and reddish-brown eyes.

She wears an Anti-Demon Corps uniform modified to look more like a martial artist's uniform, with a sleeveless vest, a black undershirt, a blue obi, and red martial arts gloves.

## Personality

Konomi has a rather energetic, passionate and kind personality as noted in a number of her interactions with all the other Chiefs. She is respectful, which is shown when she talked to Kyouka, who is also a fellow senior disciple.

She is also someone who doesn't look down on men, as seen with how Konomi was willing to accept Yuuki's request and offered the young man a water bottle. In addition to that, Konomi is also diligent, taking training seriously.

In addition to that, Konomi is also inquisitive, willing to kiss a fellow classmate to understand why her senior seems to enjoy kissing Yuuki Wakura

## Plot

### Background

Konomi was scouted at a very young age and quickly rose through the ranks to become the youngest chief of the Anti-Demon Corps. Before that, she had trained under the previous 1st Unit Chief Riu Myouga as the Vice Chief, becoming one of her prized disciples and inheriting her position. She is also the only chief who is still attending high school.

### The Chiefs' Assembly

When Ren Yamashiro calls for a Chiefs' Assembly after the Anti-Demon Corps has repeated encounters with the Eight Thunder Gods, Konomi attends the meeting, along with the other Chiefs and Riu Myouga. Once Konomi and the rest of the Chiefs have assembled in the conference room, Ren makes her arrival and the meeting begins. The meeting starts with Riu announcing that she will be stepping down as Chief of the 1st Unit with Konomi taking her place. Konomi enthusiastically introduces herself with Riu telling the others that Konomi is her prized disciple. As the meeting continues, Ren brings up the topic of the Thunder Gods and the damage they have caused to the Anti-Demon Corps. She instructs that if any of the Units are attacked by the Gods, the Chiefs must team up to defeat them and Konomi eagerly declares that she will defeat the Thunder Gods. Afterwards, Ren brings attention to Yuuki Wakura, Kyouka Uzen's "slave", and informs the other Chiefs that he is necessary for Kyouka's Slave ability.

Suddenly, Ginna Bizen interrupts the meeting, informing the Chiefs that an army of Shuuki has appeared. Ren orders Konomi, Mira Kamiunten, Yakumo Ezo, and Fubuki Azuma to deal with them and the four rush off. Konomi and the others quickly defeat the Shuuki, and Konomi reports that they were just ordinary Shuuki. Ren then flies off to locate a group of terrorists who were controlling the Shuuki and she quickly defeats them. After Ren returns, she quickly concludes the assembly.

Konomi and Riu get a ride back to the 1st Unit dorm with Kyouka and Yuuki. The four discuss how, although the meeting was short, they will be meeting with their fellow Chiefs more often. They then discuss Kyouka's abilities as a fighter and Konomi expresses her admiration for her, asking her if she can train with her sometime, which Kyouka happily agrees to. Soon after, Kyouka drops Konomi and Riu off at the 1st Unit dorm and Kyouka and Yuuki return to the 7th Unit.

### The Azuma Banquet

Ren calls another Chiefs' Assembly and Konomi attends alongside the other Chiefs. Ren reports that she is pleased by the results of the joint training sessions and orders that they continue them. Ren also asks Kyouka why Yuuki (whom Ren had previously "borrowed" from her) is not present, and Kyouka replies that he is still recovering from their training session.

### Battle in Yokohama

After Ren calls an emergency meeting, Konomi attends along with the other Chiefs. Attending remotely from Washington. Ren informs the Chiefs that one of the Thunder Gods has infiltrated the city of Yokohama and has been abducting young women. She presents surveillance footage of the Thunder God who is able to "dive" into walls. After the other Chiefs add their insight into the situation, Ren assigns Mira to rescue the abducted women and subjugate the Thunder God, and Mira selects Kyouka to assist her.

A few days later, Konomi attends another Chiefs' Assembly where the Chiefs discuss the resulting battle in Yokohama, which has caused a public uproar, and Konomi observes that Ren has a lot on her plate at the moment. Ren declares that they will make a Mato Emergency Announcement to better prepare themselves for the Thunder Gods.

## Relationships

### 7th Unit

#### Yuuki Wakura

Originally Konomi didn't think much about Yuuki other than viewing as a good comrade as Wakura-kun when training with the 7th Unit. Later on she ended up using his slave form to defeat Yumeji Shimomura, once the reward started Konomi later fell in love with Yuuki and during the reward she started to refer to him as Yuuki-kun.

When Ren Yamashiro assembled all the chiefs sans Kyouka she showed concern for Yuuki being used to fight the gods in his Killer Fang form.

## Abilities

### Overview

Like all other women, Konomi attained a unique power having devoured one of the peaches from Mato. As one of the Anti-Demon Corps' Chiefs, she is much more powerful than normal Demon Hunters and as such is one of the strongest women in the organization. Befitting the 1st Unit Chief, Konomi has the highest authority in the 1st Unit. A testament to her potential, the former Chief, Rui stated she has the potential to become Commander in the future, she was capable of defeating a Shuuki horde in the amount of time that it took Yuuki to transform into his Slave Form.

### Peach Blessing

**Beast Power** (金色形意拳(ケモノチカラ), *Kemono Chikara*, lit. "Golden Xing Yi Quan"): Konomi's unique ability, which grants her the same characteristics as an actual animal, ranging from modern, prehistoric, and unusual ones, such as that of Yuuki's Shuuki-like slave form. Once either are activated, she is granted a particular enhancement towards her strength and speed, focused on the particular animal, to the point of being able to handle 5 far bigger and bulkier Shuuki in a matter of seconds.

* **Output Boost** (出力(しゅつりょく)上昇(じょう昇しょう), *Shutsuryoku Jōshō*): A particular move that allows her to amplify her power output.

* **Tiger** (虎(とら), *Toru*): Konomi's most preferred mode, and favorite animal, initiating a stance mimicking that of an actual Tiger, she attains enhanced strength and speed, in addition to being able to release slashes.
	+ **Tiger Claw Slash** (虎爪(こそう)烈斬(れつざん), *Kosō Retsuzan*): Bending all five fingers on her hands to mimic that of a tiger's claw, Konomi lunges forward, attacking the enemies in front of her as if they were actual claws, tearing apart Shuuki with relative ease similar to an attacking tiger, using her hands and feet. Under the amplified strength, Konomi is strong enough to unleash aura attacks that can cut through large trees.
	+ **Tiger Crushing Strike** (虎撲(こぼく)砕破(さいは), *Koboku Saiha*): Leaping upward, towards her intended target, Konomi unleases an open double palmed strike into her enemy's lower jaw, smashing apart a massive Shuuki's jaw and teeth, releasing a shockwave that lifted it into the air.
* **Scorpion** (蠍(さそり), *Sasori*): Another mode, something that's initiated from, standing on all fours, with one knee on the ground and her other leg raised into the air resembling a scorpion's tail. In this, she can release far faster attacks resembling the striking tail of an actual Scorpion, releasing curved slashes from her legs.
	+ **Red Needle Legs** (朱針腿(しゅしんたい), *Shushintai*): After initiating the same stance, standing on both hands, she releases an X-shaped slash using both legs, unleashing a powerful blast of aura that broke the "weapon of the god", belonging to Yumeji.
* **Snake** (蛇(へび), *Hebi*): A mode, where she holds her hands in a manner resembling a snake, then unleashing an unusual, almost random barrage of strikes.
	+ **Snake Heavy Whip** (蛇彊叭(じゃごうは), *Jagōha*): Entering this stance, Konomi releases a torrent of rapid strikes, each one being able to strike an opponent from a wide distance from all angles, making blocking them impossible.
* **Slave** (奴隷(どれー), *Dorei*): A mode, where she mimics Yuuki's base Slave form, where she attains the strength and speed he exhibits in that mode.
* **Pterosaur** (翼竜(よくりゅう), *Yokuryū*): A mode, where she mimics the same prehistoric animal, something granting her the same flight capabilities.
* **Monkey** (猿(さる), *Saru*): A mode, where she mimics the features of a Monkey, thus granting her flexibility and agility.

* **Hagoromo** (無窮の鎖(スレイブ)・覇衣(はころも), *Hagoromo*, lit. "Eternal Slave: Champion's Garment"): The Slave Form, which Yuuki entered after Konomi acted as his Master, where he takes form as an armored garment bearing some resemblance to a samurai with features similar to Yuuki's base Slave Form and a black unitard underneath it. In this form, both of their powers becomes combined into this state, making it possible for her to defeat Yumeji Shimomura in her Shuuki state, while bolstering her Beast Power.

### Physical Abilities

**Enhanced Strength:** Even without using her peach blessing, Konomi has shown impressive strength, with just a palm thrust she was able to throw off Yumeji away from a distance considering that the former Chief was enhanced by the Thunder Gods.

**Enhanced Durability:** Konomi is very tough, being able to withstand getting hit by electric discharge and just getting minor wounds, later on she still managed tanking powerful hits from Yumeji.

**Enhanced Endurance:** Konomi has shown incredible resiliency, shrugging her severe injuries such as getting electrocuted and her neck twisted to finish her off and yet she still managed to fight back, gain the upper hand and pressure Yumeji into transforming into a half-Shuuki form which made the latter more powerful. After getting punched by a transformed Yumeji, Konomi was still conscious and ready to fight.

**Enhanced Speed:** It is shown Konomi is very agile in blocking and evading sneak attacks even from a former Chief Yumeji Shimomura in which the latter was surprised after Konomi, after experiencing Yumeji's power twice seems to have a grasp of it's weakness.

**Enhanced Flexibility:** Yumeji noted that Konomi is very nimble, the latter twisting her body in a way that her neck won't break and saving her life in the process.

**Enhanced Stamina:** As the 1st Unit Chief, Konomi has undergone strict training for the position, affording her above-average, stamina and endurance. She could perform a patrol around their base on foot with Yuuki, while talking, then switched to fighting multiple Shuuki without showing discomfort afterwards.

**Enhanced Senses:** Konomi has honed senses, through her battle with Yumeji, she learned to predict her telekinetic power's trajectory.

**Master Martial Artist:** Having trained under Riu, Kyouka's former master, Konomi became extremely adept at martial arts. As her Peach Blessing is based around the concept of Xing Yi Quan, it could be assumed she trained in it too. Because Riu conceded her status as Chief, it can attest that her skills are at the point of being more than qualified for the position, as well as the Commander in the future. Konomi focuses on using a mixture of strength, speed, and flexiblity to combat multiple Shuuki at the same time. During her battle with Yumeji, a former Chief with enhanced powers granted by the Thunder Gods, Konomi has shown tremendous skill and even her mentor noted her prowess in this art. Using her skills in harmony with her peach blessing, she is capable of inflicting serious injuries against the former Chief which forced the latter to morph into a half-Shuuki as a last resort.

## Trivia

* Konomi is the youngest Chief.
* Her first name **Ko** (木) means "tree, wood", **no** (乃) means "no" and **mi** (実) means "truth, reality, fruit".
	+ Her surname **Ta** (多) means "many, much", the (々) is a repetition of previous kanji, and **ra** (良) means "good".
* As revealed in the "Chief Intel" Section:
	+ How she refers to Yuuki: She started calling him Yuuki-kun after the reward.
	+ Family Background: Extremely good. A single child of parents in good health.
	+ Battle Style: Although she mainly uses an original form of Xing Yi Quan, she can also use bladed weapons and staves.
	+ The reason she was scouted at an early age: Because she is too courageous, they predicted that she'd suffer heavy injuries for the sake of others, so she was scouted early to receive training.
* The author, Takahiro's reward focuses on the innocence of a high school girl, combined with the vigor brought fourth by the energy of her youth.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 46
2. ↑ Chapter 47
3. ↑ Chapter 48
4. ↑ Chapter 49
5. ↑ Chapter 58
6. ↑ Chapter 70
7. ↑ Chapter 83
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 89.
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 96.
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 92.5.
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 100.
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 47, page 4,
Konomi's potential.
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 48, page 3,
Konomi defeats an entire horde of Shuuki.
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 94, page 31,
Konomi and Yuuki works together.
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 95, page 31,
Slave: Hagoromo.
 Mato Seihei no Slave! Manga: Chapter 98.6, page 6,
Konomi's Chief Intel.