Akakoshibai Reikoku

**Akakoshibai Reikoku** (アカク芝居冷酷, *Reikoku Akakoshibai*) also known as **The Control Devil** (支 (し) 配 (はい) の悪 (あく) 魔 (ま) , *Shihai no Akuma*?) by Jujutsu society, is a character in *Jujutsu Kaisen: The Star, The Blight, and The Rose*. She is an alumni and now a teacher at Kyoto Jujutsu High and a former classmate of Chikurin Gojo and Utahime Iori.

## Appearance

Akakoshibai is a woman in her twenties of average build, and marginally above average height (168 cm/5'6" to 173 cm/5'8"). She has long light red/pale auburn hair, normally kept in a loose braid with bangs reaching just past her eyebrows and two longer side bangs that frame her face. Her eyes are yellow with multiple red rings within them, making them the only visible sign of her inhuman nature.

Her typical attire consists of a white long-sleeved shirt, a black tie, black pants and brown shoes. She also wears a black trench coat when not indoors.

When confronting Chiharu Mugenno during his destruction of the Japanese coast, she wore a plain black dress.

## Personality

To most, Akakoshibai seems to be a kind, gentle, social and friendly woman who is usually seen wearing a smile on her face the entire time and acts relaxed and confident even during a crisis, speaking in a professional tone to her workers, though most also find her demeanor to be off-putting, as she is always appearing to be "hiding something". To her students, she is highly respected, most of which consider her superior to Satoru Gojo, both as a sorcerer and as a teacher.

She is friendly to almost everyone she meets, and always has on a smile when meeting with the Higher-ups of jujutsu society. She loves to go drinking with Shoko and Utahime, and occasionally smokes with the former. Both she and Satoru Gojo share a very friendly relationship. both being considered the pillars of jujutsu society. She cares deeply for her students and strives to be a good example for them.

Behind this facade, however, is a woman who believes herself to be a "devil", hating her own abilities and crowned herself "a necessary evil" for the good of the jujutsu world. In actuality, Akakoshibai is an extremely short-tempered and intimidating person who believes firmly in her own idea of right and wrong. Her lack of sympathy to those she doesn't care about led Satoru to resonate with her, though she believes him to be greater than her in this regard. Due to the nature of her technique, she is constantly "weighed down" by others, and would rather have her opponents suffer for as long as possible. She claims that if it weren't for her usefulness to Jujutsu society, she would've been executed years ago.

## Powers and Abilities

**Overall Skill**: Akakoshibai is a special grade jujutsu sorcerer, and is regarded as one of the strongest sorcerers in the modern era, her power rivaling Satoru's for the title of "**The Strongest**". Ever since her discovery by jujutsu society, the Higher-ups have feared her abilities far more than any special grade sorcerers of the modern age, and had planned on executing her upon seeing her reserves of cursed energy. As a student, she easily overshadowed her classmates at Kyoto jujutsu High, with even the teachers feeling as though they were unfit to harness her potential.

In the jujutsu world, her mere presence terrifies most who are in her area, a biproduct of her own cursed energy. She commands respect without even saying a word, and is far more respected in the jujutsu world when compared to her rival, Satoru Gojo. As a combatant, Akakoshibai is considered a prodigy in all areas, and has excelled in close quarters combat, cursed energy control, and cursed technique improvement, being able to exorcise special grade curses in before even enrolling in Kyoto Jujutsu High.

As a professional jujutsu sorcerer, Akakoshibai had stuck fear into curse users, even more so than that of Satoru Gojo's birth, with several hundred within the Jujutsu Underground referring to her by her title, **The Control Devil** out of fear. In her battle against Chiharu Mugenno, she was able to overpower and force her fellow specil grade to retreat, heavily injuring him and forcing him to use an oxygen mask for life after defeating him.

During the Goodwill Exchange Event, she was seen as such a threat, that when creating the Veil to trap the students within, Kenjaku’s Group added her and Satoru Gojo as the people to deny access to. They also cautioned Mahito's group to "never engage that devil", with Kenjaku fearing she could wipe out the cursed spirits on her own.

### Jujutsu

This technique also enables Akakoshibai to "extract" certain cursed techniques from her servants, though only for a certain amount of time. An example of this being her use of an unknown curse users **King of Beggers**, allowing her to take control of rats and use them as a means of teleportation.