Edelweiss

**Edelweiss** (エーデルワイス) is renown as the **Twin-Wings** and the World's Strongest Swordswoman. She is considered to be one of the most wanted criminals in the world, the most wanted at that, but, like the other four, whose capture was abandoned due to her monstrous strength.

## Appearance

Edelweiss is a beautiful young woman with a voluptuous figure, long pure white hair that extends to her back with bangs that cover her forehead; the left side of her bangs slants to the right, while the right side of her bangs slants slightly to the left, she also has beautiful clear crystal-blue eyes.

Whenever in battle, she is usually dressed similarly to a Valkyrie of Norse mythology: dressed in a white combat dress akin to a bikini with a breastplate, a garter belt on her waist with features on its side, a crown-like bonnet, which has white feathers on both sides, armored shoulder pads that have a short white cape, and a silver necklace around her neck that is sort of shaped like a ribbon in the middle.

Outside of combat, Edelweiss' first casual clothes has shown to be dressed in a white top that slants on her right shoulder revealing her black bra strap, a pair of jeans, and two bracelets on her left wrist.

## Personality

Edelweiss has shown to be a calm, cool and collected woman as well as a swordsman. Despite being known as the worst criminal, she is honorable, respectful as well as gentle, as shown when she attempted to give Ieyasu, Yoko, Shinobu, Kazama and Soujirou a chance to leave if the five chose not to fight, partly because the lot were children. Though it is shown that she held no interest in the plot of Iketsu Team, but owed a debt to their leader. In spite of Ieyasu still choosing to fight against her, she still tried to give him a chance to leave if he was to turn around and walked away but also knows that a person must take responsibility for the choices they've made, as she wouldn't let the five save Nagi Arisuin stating that it was his choice to enter the *underworld's society* as a criminal.

Though she had taken an interest in Ieyasu out of respect and admiration for his strong, noble will to protect others and fought him as a swordsman and knight, instead of as a child, this increased even more after he was able to replicate her swordsmanship and technique via pure observation as well as being able to wound her. Before Edelweiss' departure, she told Kryme Takizawa who she respectfully called *Khronos* to inform Ieyasu that she hopes that he'll become a worthy opponent for her the next time they meet.

Edelweiss suffers for not having a reason to fight, despite all of her power. After she protected her country during the Baltic Crisis, she became isolated, not knowing what she should do. She thus is still searching for a reason to wield her sword, in other words, her chivalry, she even admitted made her jealous of Ieyasu, Fuyumi and Soujirou who already have their reasons for holding a sword. Edelweiss also enjoys making sweets.

## History

Edelweiss lived a normal life as a child with her parents and loved to make sweets becoming rather overweight in the process. Her parents soon left her under the care of Iemon Tokugawa who had lived nearby where she could get some exercise but had proven to have a remarkable talent in swordsmanship.

Fifteen years ago, when Estonia was about to become the stage of a war between both the Avalon Council and the G.O.C, a teenage Edelweiss defeated all 300,000 soldiers of both sides becoming known as the Baltic Crisis as well as being what made her the world's most wanted criminal as well as the world's strongest swordswoman. She later moved to the top of Edelberg mountain, located over 9,000 meters above sea level.

She was mentioned to have been a part of an event in the Middle East, during which she likely fought the fifth and fourth ranked criminals Lancelot Du Lac and Ripper Roo. At some point Edelweiss introduced Amane Shinomiya to Insurrection, seeing that he didn't want to live on the light side of the world. She also stopped the leader of Insurrection, "Tyrannos" from killing Jaryuu and Kamehime, in their battle. It is possible that these actions or others are the reason she was left in Insurrection's debt and by extension Iketsu Team. She was also informed of the dark future seen by Bakuga Tsukikage with his Technique.

## Powers & Abilities

**Aka Manah:** Edelweiss is a Aka Manah, a being that has broken the chains of fate. As such, she has far greater magic power and ki than other normal person being able to increase it through training. As a Aka Manah, she possesses the "attraction force" that enables her to force upon others the fate of what she desires to happen. Just by releasing bloodlust alone, she is able to wound or kill others.

**Master Swordswoman:** Edelweiss has both tremendous power and skill as a master swordsman, renown for being able to defeat three hundred thousand soldiers from the Avalon Council and G.O.C. as a teenager, earning the moniker as the **World's Strongest Swordswoman**. In fact, her swordsmanship surpasses even Ieyasu, a master swordsman stated to surpass that of Iemon despite using his Onimaru armor and all five swords as well as being able to negate two of them, which could injure normal opponents. Edelweiss still remained superior even after he learned her swordsmanship.

* **Edelweiss' Swordsmanship:**
* **Vibration Strike:**
* **Vacuum Slashes:**

**Immense Speed:** Edelweiss possesses amazing levels of speed. She could easily keep up with and surpass Ieyasu who was using **Onimaru Armor** during her first fight with him.

### Flying Valkyries

**Flying Valkyries** (戦乙女の飛行剣フライング・ワルキューレス,, *lit. Flying Swords of the Valkyries*?) is Edelweiss' SS rank Technique takes form as a pure white, wing-like sword, which she can seemingly summon an indefinite amount of, similar to Tenka-Goken. It has the ability to form binding contracts with other people, in various ways.

* **Rule of Grace** (完全契るルール・オブ・グレイス,, *Rūru obu Gureisu*?, lit. "Flawless Pledge"): Edelweiss' usual technique, where a person makes a promise in front of her Flying Valkyrie and if the person were to break it, then their hearts will be torn apart. Though it doesn't have combat effectiveness, its binding power is unrivaled.
* **Scarred Order** (討伐の暴力スカーレッド・オーダー,, *Sukāreddo Ōdā*?, lit. "Subjugation by Violence"): This is a technique which lets Edelweiss issue strong commands to those opponents she injures.

## Trivia

* Edelweiss is likely named after a European flower, mainly found in the Alps. The word is derived from the words "edel" and "weiss" which means "noble" and "white" in German.
* There is a theory that states that the Japanese swordsman who taught her was Iemon Tokugawa, which is possible since she saved his oldest grandson from the Leader of the Insurrection, Alarane Malphas, and training his youngest grandchild. As well as giving his youngest grandson, Ieyasu a chance to leave despite being in the dept of the Insurrection and as such Iketsu Team. Furthermore, she once quoted the same words that he gave Ieyasu when he was younger, which the latter recognize. It is officially proven in Volume 26.