Masayoshi "Barachiel" Contour

**Masayoshi Contour** (正義 ・コンツア), also known as Justice, Barachiel, or "The Killer Queen", is a member of Virtues rank of the Heavenly Host and the leader of Q Squad. Cursed with a rather cruel childhood, Masayoshi endured suffering from her own family. The loss of her mother, the abuse from her father and siblings, the tragedies that followed, and the Libras that took her in allowed Masayoshi to forge herself into the Bombastic Bombshell. Starting as a Freelancer, she earned the skills necessary to excel later in the Heavenly Hosts and become one of the members of its most infamous squad. Butterflies, Explosions, pure grandeur. That's one way to describe Justice Contour.

## Background

### Early Childhood

Masayoshi (Justice) Contour was born and raised in Tokyo, fourth and last in a marriage between the Contour and Libra families for both parties' political success. The Libra family would gain a good foothold in Japan to help with their effort in regular conflicts such as Trials by War in the Arcane Order, while the Contour received a woman who could sire children of a high quality. Shortly after her birth, her mother fell deathly ill. However, her father had other priorities as he had already accomplished his goal with the Contour family, and wouldn’t allow his wife to seek out treatment. With the clock on her life dwindling, she decided to at least make sure her children were happy. Justice in particular became her favorite due to their personalities aligning. Justice's love of the study of insects (specifically butterflies) and hand fetish come from her interactions with her mother.

Justice grew up on the Contour family’s estate. The family in general was very well off, and the marriage with the Libra family only served to increase their general wealth. The goal of the Contour family was to create a philosopher’s stone in their pursuit of the grail. Justice was born with the best capacity out of her siblings to learn her family’s magic. She inherited the Essence attribute coming from her father’s side of her family, unlike her siblings who inherited their attributes from their mother’s side. As soon as this fact was found, Her father stripped Justice's older sister of her title as heir, and gave it to Justice instead. Her older sister would respond in kind by blaming Justice for this, and would rope the other siblings into bullying her from a young age. “I don’t think my brother and sisters ever loved me. Everything they did was some veiled attempt to cause me pain”. Justice claims to have no happy memories of her siblings.

Justice's father was no help in this pursuit, either. He turned a blind eye to the torment that she suffered at the hands of her siblings. “*If she can’t handle this type of harassment, then the world of magi will swallow her”*. The only person that Justice could lean on was her mother. With her father’s indifference and her siblings’ torment, Her mother Tiki was a shining beacon of hope in her life. *“Whenever I was hurting she had a way of cheering me up. She was my light and the only good thing I can remember from that wretched prison”*. Any time that she was being bullied, or had a stressful encounter during her training she knew she could always run towards the garden and spend time with Tiki. Her time with her mother during these crucial times lead to her developing many of the skills that she would use later in life. Tiki is responsible for Masayoshi’s interest in sculpting, molding clay, and Lepidopterology. Her mother was the only one who cherished her creations, which were another way Masayoshi could cope with her growing despair.

### Death of a Mother

Unfortunately, her time with her mother was criminally short. Tiki was terminally ill and her husband refused to do anything about it. Tiki had served the purpose he had married her for and he wasn’t willing to expend the resources to help her. In fact, her closeness to Masayoshi made her a good lesson for the girl. That human life could expire at any moment. For Masayoshi it was torture. *“Watching my mother slowly deteriorate was torture. I knew he could have saved her. He did it on purpose. He sat there and allowed her to die slowly and in pain. I could have ignored all of the abuse he put me through but that? That was just plain evil”*. She felt useless seeing her mother slowly deteriorate. This motivated her to pour time into her training as a magus playing directly into her father’s hands. She would continuously attempt to cure her mother to no avail. The harder she tried, the more despair she felt when she failed, which resulted in her trying harder. Eventually, once Tiki was on her deathbed, she finally broke down. She begged her father to do something, anything. Surely he had the means to do something here. *“Life is cruel, Masayoshi. The sooner you realize this, the better. Your mother was a grand woman, but her purpose has been fulfilled. That was bringing you into this world. I will not intervene and save her. If you wish to enact change upon the world you must do it yourself through your own knowledge”*. He made sure to drill this into her head whenever she would visit Tiki’s sick bed. Hearing this, and watching her dear mother die would traumatize Masayoshi to this day. Her father used the death of Tiki to motivate Masayoshi to drop everything and dedicate her life towards forwarding the family’s goals. Just as he expected, she internalized this event. Her father went so far as to convince her siblings that it was her fault as well, creating a more vicious atmosphere for Masayoshi. Despair

*”I lost my spark of life after she died. I became autonomous. They beat me into that. It was all I could do to cope. I was responsible for mom’s death, and I didn’t deserve to enjoy myself. What type of person do you have to be to place that type of burden on anyone?”*

Masayoshi was miserable. The bullying from her siblings ramped up. Her father’s indifference and coldness began to chip at her. She spent all her time studying. She was the one who failed to cure her mom. Every moment that she spent that was not dedicated towards getting better was a moment wasted. She felt guilty doing the things that she liked. Whenever she would take the time to wind down and work on a piece or research butterflies she would receive nothing but scorn. After word got back to the Libra family about Tiki’s passing, the Contour family was invited to the family’s estate for the funeral. The 8 year old Masayoshi would meet her 6 year old cousin Suzuka Libra there. At her mother’s funeral, her father lamented that the family did everything in their power to save her. It was a ploy to play the heartbroken husband, but also to drill in Masayoshi’s head that if she were better she could have avoided this outcome.

*“I remember a time I showed my father one of my creations. I had spent so much time practicing to mold it perfectly. Down to the smallest detail. Every intricate pattern in the wings. It was a masterpiece. It didn’t feel like that. All he did was stare at me with those unimpressed eyes. It was like he was silently scolding me. ‘The time you spent crafting this could have been used on something productive’. That’s what that look said to me."*

With all of this negative influence Masayoshi began to use these avenues as a tool of rebellion. The more she was ignored or ridiculed for her habits, the more she began to indulge in them. With her knowledge of the magical foundation of her family, she created some crude spells that would serve the foundation of her future style. These small rebellions led to more punishment, which only fed her desire to rebel. She eventually got fed up with her creations being destroyed, and developed a method for detonating them herself to rob her father of the satisfaction of destroying them herself. These momentary victories wouldn’t last forever. Her father noticed her adapting and opted to crush her spirit instead*. “It was a prison. All I had was four concrete walls, and studying. All day long. It was maddening. I don’t know why he would do that to me”.* The solitary confinement was the straw that broke the camel’s back. *“The next couple years I still don’t want to remember them. They were horrible. I still have nightmares about that room. There’s nothing more terrifying than just being in a room with your own thoughts. It’s horrible.”*

### Freedom and Death

Each day was hazy. All she did was eat, sleep, and do what she was told. Anything was better than being forced to stay in that room. As long as she didn’t do anything to offend her father he wouldn’t confine her to that punishment. Everything was numb. The world was gray, food had no taste, life wasn’t worth living. Masayoshi attempted to commit suicide. *“I tried, I tried my hardest. I couldn’t do it. No matter how resolved I was. It was like there was something else within my mind compelling me not to. Something that wasn’t me. The curse that goes by the name of Grand Order”.* Near the end of her rope, Masayoshi was finally gifted with a light at the end of the tunnel. A visit from Joseph Libra and her cousin, Suzuka Libra. Joseph had some business in town. The nature of it required him to leave Suzuka at the Contour family estate. The desperate girl instantly jumped on the chance to communicate this to Suzuka who in turn was appalled. The hot headed girl wanted to confront Justice's father right then and there, but Masayoshi begged her not to. *“If you don’t even want to stand up for yourself, then they’ll just keep crushing you until there’s nothing left of you”*. Suzuka proposed that they run that night. They could survive in the city till Joseph found them. It would be easy. Suzuka had done that before. Masayoshi was scared. Ultimately, in the end Suzuka left without her, but that event would strike a cord within her. She wanted to be free. She wanted to be happy. She wasn’t getting that here. She felt like she was dead. Worse than dead living through purgatory. Day in and day out of living in fear. If she was already afraid, then would running away be so bad? The catalyst was set. A few days later, Masayoshi snapped again. All she was doing was taking a break. She was hungry, and she needed food. Her sister came into the room, and started harassing her. It was the usual. About how she was worthless. She was a waste of space. How she was so much more deserving of being the head. How this was all a farce. It escalated to physical violence like every other time. This time something snapped. *“I don’t even remember what happened. It felt like a dream really. Everything within my mind just overflowed. Fear, Uncertainty, Anguish, Pain, Sadness, and Rage overwhelmed me. One moment she was hitting me, the next there was a loud noise, and when I finally came to, my sister was dead”*. Masayoshi just sat there. Unable to think, unable to react. She dropped everything and just ran. Ran until she could no longer run. The world began a rush of color. Her head pounded. Her eyes burned. Tears flowed down her cheeks. She kept going until she fell over and blacked out.

Masayoshi opened her eyes. Her face was pressed on the cold hard concrete. She was confused and disoriented. She tried to analyze her surroundings.

*"This wasn’t home. This wasn’t home.... This wasn’t home this wasn’t home thiswasnthomethiswasnthome THIS WASN’T HOME!I felt an explosion of euphoria. I was finally free! It didn’t matter that I was on the street with no food or shelter. I was no longer in that place that had become a personal hell for me”.*

The young woman no older than fourteen would survive on the streets for the next couple days. It was a strange, near maddening experience. She perceived the world in strange colors. Masayoshi couldn’t make sense of it. It was surreal. She felt as if she were going crazy. She was going mad. She had never seen anything in this way before. It made navigating the world difficult. The only relief she gained was when she closed her eyes. Roaming around Tokyo blind did nothing for her. With no food or water it was only a matter of time before she completely collapsed. After two days of wandering her father was finally able to track her down. He seemed excited, almost manic. He stared into her eyes with an inhuman glee that made her recoil in disgust. All of the family’s research had led to this massive breakthrough! Those eyes, those wonderful eyes that could perceive energy. They had finally manifested! He was overjoyed. This was the way they were going to reach their ideal! He approached and Masayoshi retreated further in the alley. She was desperate. She didn’t want to go back there. She screamed for him to go back, but he just kept approaching. She grew more desperate as he came closer. Her emotions reached a fever pitch. They swirled and raged within her. Eventually, they settled on rage. A deep hatred for all of the things that he had put her through. For trying to break her, and for making her life hell. She glared at him with all of this built up anger. Once again something clicked in her head. In an instant one of the colors in her father’s body shifted black. There was another boom, and a second later her dad was laying on the ground clutching his stomach.

*“The first thing that I noticed was the smell. It’s terrible. It assaults your every sense at once. You can taste it, you can hear it, you can downright feel it. Every second of it was a horrible experience. I felt all of that for the first time. It’s not something you should get used to, but I have."*

Masayoshi calmed down after this fever pitch. Horror flashed through her. *"No no no no no! Even if he had done all of those things to her, he was still-"*. Masayoshi ran up towards her father. She hadn’t wanted this. She hated him, but not this. Fear and horror bubbled up within her as she saw her dad lying there dying. The colors wouldn’t go away, it was like it was haunting her. It made her so dizzy. What if he deserved this, though? A sick sense of satisfaction rolled through her. That’s what he got for making her like hell! Why was she thinking these things? It was all too much for her. She once again ran off leaving her dying father behind. She wandered for a few more days before collapsing. She hadn’t eaten in about a week, and was barely getting any water. She hadn’t slept and was just at her physical limits.

*“I felt so weak at that moment. My body felt like it was going to snap from the lightest breeze, I was delirious with hunger, and I couldn’t stop seeing the color. The last thing I thought before passing out was, ‘Am I going to die?’”.*

### The Libra Family

When Masayoshi came two she was lying in a bed. Once again she was completely disoriented. Last time she had been awake she was dying on the streets. Now she was in bed. Her confusion was quickly shattered by hunger. Turning in bed nausea crashed into her like a freight train. Next to her bed was some type of warm paste that she instantly devoured. After that she instantly went back to sleep. A whole day later, she woke up again, and repeated this action. The next time that she woke up, she was surprised by the presence of Suzuka. She tried to sit up, but a way of nostalgia pierced her once again.

*“Woah Masa, don’t move. You’re still pretty sick.” Suzuka said, trying to stop her from moving.*

*“Where am I?”*

*“A safe place. Dad got this hotel after we found you in the streets. What happened anyway?”*

*”I couldn’t take it anymore. You were right, so I ran away.”*

Masayoshi would recover her strength over the next week. She would stay in the room resting while Suzuka attended to her needs. After that week she became strong enough to support herself, but still wouldn’t leave the room. She was afraid of going out there. Of potentially getting found, and taken back to that hell again. Eventually, Joseph concluded his business and returned to deal with his niece. He had been informed that her father had passed, and Masayoshi would now become the family’s head. He also knew that her siblings would be furious with her actions. *“I begged him not to send me back. That childhood home was filled with horrible memories. I wanted nothing to do with it”*. Joseph’s kind heart came into play, and he offered Masayoshi sanctuary within the Libra family. Her mother was a member after all. Masayoshi also technically belonged to one of the branch families. She could take refuge there. She quickly took the deal, and in turn was brought back to the Libra family’s main home in Greece. For the next few months she stayed there reserved and quiet. She would only interact with Joseph and Suzuka when they were there. She slowly started to open up a bit. With encouragement, she took up her hobbies once more. She showed a great talent for sculpting and molding in general. She once again took up her study of butterflies, and various insects. She also began learning English and Greek at this point. *“I felt like I was liberated. I no longer felt pressured to carry the name of a family on my back. I was free from that curse”.*

Masayoshi rebuked her family’s magic. The secrets of it would remain with her forever. She would be the last one to ever use the secrets of the Contour family. They were embedded in her mind now, but she would not pass it down to the next generation. Instead of focusing on furthering her family’s research, she decided to focus on her own interests. Mainly explosions. She had grown attached to them as a symbol of her rebellion against her family. She also received training from the Libra family as a member of the Pincer of the North. It was here that she would pick up her economic skills that fed into her future fortune. While this was interesting, she gravitated much more heavily towards the Men of Fire branch. Learning CQC and the assassination techniques helped her deal with her anger. All of these experiences helped her create the foundation of her fighting style. By the time she was eighteen she had a couple viable choices. With no interest at Aeaea, Masayoshi decided to strike out on her own. Uncomfortable using the name she had been given she came up with another thing to call herself. *“Masayoshi, that is my true name, but when I was younger I hated the connection back to my other family. So I simply changed my name to what it translated to in English. Justice. I took my mother’s original name which was Libra. That name stuck for the rest of my life. Only a few people close to me remember me as Masayoshi Contour”.*

### Justice Libra - The Killer Queen - The Bombastic Barachiel

Justice would begin to make a name for herself over the next four years. She worked as a freelancer improving her skills as a magus, and a fighter over time. The style that she developed was extremely deadly as it didn’t require very much preparation for her to unleash deadly force. Her extensive knowledge of the human body, and specialization in explosives allowed her to quickly incapacitate her bounties without outright killing them. Through her Libra family name, and her own skills she gained a couple useful contacts within the Arcane Order, but refused to engage with the facility’s politics. She was not a team player which led to her doing most of her missions solo. Her reliance on herself was a hindrance at first, but thanks to this stubbornness she developed various spells to increase her odds of survival. She used her familiars as precious scouting tools, and surprise bombs that could tip the tide. For her tactical use of explosion magic she earned the moniker ‘The Killer Queen’.

Around this time, Justice began to butt heads with many organizations. As a freelancer she generally had beef with the church’s executioners. Her explosions were very good at dealing with ‘demonic’ issues so she had several run-ins with various Inquisitors from the Martyrdom. Her attitude didn’t really help with any of those relationships. *“Those self righteous pricks always act like they’re holier than thou just because they believe in some sky daddy. Bunch of assholes”*. Another organization she clashed with was referred to as the Shiai-shi. A group of mercs based out of the Philippines with world-wide influences. These struggles with this massive organization were how she met her Stray Cat. *“Have you ever had that special moment with someone? It’s like a spark of something new, something exhilarating? Well I had that with her. We tried to kill each other. I remember it like it was yesterday”.* Her first interaction with Mao would awaken foreign feelings with the young woman. Every time they met they only got stronger. The burst of adrenaline when they fought filled her with joy. Sometimes she messed with the Shiai-Shi’a contracts to see if she could have a confrontation with Mao. The two stole many contracts from each other during this time. At first the relationship was hostile, before quickly becoming competitive. These interactions made Justice happy, and led to her becoming a more tolerable person. Mao just seemed to be able to bring out a better side of her.

By the time she was 24, Justice was contemplating settling down a little. Until now she never kept a consistent address, just to avoid complications. She had more than enough money to afford a fancy home, but nowhere to truly settle. Opportunity knocked and she happily answered. It happened during a raid on a vampire's den. Justice was there as a freelancer with the Grand Order. Call it luck or fate, but she happened to be put on the same team as Lucifer from the Heavenly Host. *“He’s beautiful. That’s the only way to describe him. Looking at him takes one’s breath away. It’s almost inhuman”.* Justice was immediately attracted to him. Her built up skills would serve her well in this raid. Only Lucifer, Justice, and another freelancer Candice would survive. Impressed by their skills the man would invite both women to join the Heavenly Host, a proposal both of them took. Justice thanked Joseph and Suzuka for everything, and moved to start her training. Justice’s strong existing base made it easier for her to earn her name. The hardest part for her was learning the long dead martial art, Jacob’s Limbs. It took her six months to become proficient enough to earn her place among the Hosts. She took the codename Barachiel. Coincidentally, the other woman she survived with Candice took the name Baraqiel. The two had entered into a competitive rivalry which pushed them to be better. Over the next four years, Justice’s talent and built up arsenal served her well. She was able to advance within the Heavenly host at a steady rate. Shortly after she rose to the rank of Powers, Justice formed a team with Camael, Baraqiel, Quasphiel and Bernael to form the illustrious Q squad, the most infamous squad within the Heavenly Host. They are a comically dysfunctional set of people who somehow work extremely well together. Even though they are all made up of lower ranked members, they have the highest success rate of any team within the organization. Justice had another meeting with Mao while on a job to cull some of the dead. They were able to work together, and the event rekindled her interest in the Stray Cat. They would continue to work together every now and then, and the feelings of attraction would only grow stronger. It was around this time that Justice began to overcome her familiar trauma. She recognized that she was leading a team, and refusing to use her own abilities to their fullest was holding her back. It was only thanks to her allies, friends and family that she started to move past it. *“My family was horrible, but I won’t let that define me any longer. I won’t let it hold me back. If my ally needs me I will spare no effort to save them! That’s who I am now”.*

This epiphany led to her opening up much more. This catalyst of change is ultimately what earned her the promotion to Virtues. It also gave her the confidence to approach Mao with her feelings. Her confession was accepted much to her joy, and they entered into a secret relationship. Justice’s happy demeanor going forward tipped a couple people off to a potential change in her status, but no one has pried so far. She’ll often use her off time to go visit the mercenary, or go on some tag team adventure. She may have had a rough start, but Justice’s eyes are pointed to the future now. *“The Killer Queen will continue her explosive journey living each day to the fullest!”*

## Personality

The bombastic bombshell of a mage bursts beautifully on the scene! Calling Justice bombastic isn’t just a reference to her magic. She is a very eccentric person with a personality that she wears on her sleeve. She is a very high energy person, and will often be the loudest person in the room. She is very confident in herself nowadays, having had to build her sense of self worth from scratch. She is boisterous and very outgoing, often taking the first chance to introduce herself to a new person. She gives off an infectious positive energy with her actions, and holds the ability to put people at ease quickly with her weird style. She will often be seen experimenting with various ways to make her artistic explosions even more grand, and even more effective. There will never be a dull moment when you are associated with the Killer Queen. She is completely unapologetic in her enjoyment of her art and can often be heard exclaiming “true art is an explosion”. Coincidentally, she is attracted to hands, something that was awakened by their famous painting of Leonardo Da Vinci. She may be on a bit of the crazy side, but she does have her own sense of morality.

Her interest in hands goes a bit further than just being attracted. She will actually go out of her way to sculpt the hands of the people that she becomes close to. Justice considers everyone that she loves to have the best hands, and this assessment goes beyond mere aesthetic enjoyment. She views the hands of her loved ones as the ones that saved her from despair, so it’s a rather intimate way for her to show her love for someone. She keeps all of these busts of people’s hands in her workshop, creating a strange atmosphere for those who invade her space. She has a huge soft spot for children, and actively refuses to do any missions having to do with harming them. She maintained that standard for her entire career, and even dropped jobs entirely if she found they violated that creed. On the other hand, she has no issue killing mages or members of the church. As someone who has been immersed in the dark side of mage culture, she knows just how disgusting these types of people can be. She doesn’t consider herself righteous for doing this. She knows that she could be considered just as big as a monster to someone else as well.

Justice is a very morally ambiguous person. She lives by her own set of codes that do not lean towards good or evil in her opinion. If she must kill someone, then she’ll do it. If she must save someone, then she’ll do it. Her mindset makes her a bit of a wild card in most situations that she enters. "Beware of the bombastic bombshell!"

## Abilities

### General Skills

Justice has many general skills that she brings into her work as an operative of the Heavenly Host. She is very good when it comes to investments, and how she uses her money. This stems from her training as the future head of the Contour family, and her training as a member of the Libra family. Using these skills she has amassed a small fortune in a shockingly short period of time. Her luck is also something she considers to be a skill as well. She is banned from several casinos in Hawaii due to a certain incident. Her mansion in Florida is kept in pristine condition, and she’s also the reason the Q Squad HQ stays so clean as well. She is also a very good cook as well. She is well-versed in healthcare, and is able to use healing magic to help her teammates on the battlefield after overcoming her familiar trauma.

Justice is also a good leader, which is surprising all things considered. It was a skill that she wouldn’t have even honed had she not been put in charge of the Q Squad. She is able to recognize and utilize her teammates talents to bring out the best within her allies. Acting as the leader of the Q squad for the past couple years have only strengthened her qualities as a leader, and she’s even able to transfer these skills to other groups as well. Another skill that goes hand and hand with this is her ability to strategize, gather information, execute multi-step plans. The Killer Queen can also be pretty charismatic in her own strange way.

Justice is an artist. She is well versed in several art forms, such as; Painting, sculpting, clay work, drawing, etc. She incorporates these skills into her general style. She has been known to create lifelike creatures that can fool the eye of most observant opponents. She has a good eye for the arts as well. In addition to this, she is able to communicate in several languages as well. These include speaking Japanese, English and Greek fluently and Mandarin along with Tagalog with proficiency, but admits that the local language Mao uses in her home region can sometimes.

### Physical Prowess

Justice is a skilled combatant on the martial arts side. When she went to live with the Libra family she was trained in basic CQC. While she is not someone born with a natural talent, she is skilled enough to conceal her presence helping in assassination efforts. These skills were honed through her time as a freelancer, but her main martial skill bloomed once she entered the Heavenly Host. Here, she was taught the dead martial art, Jacob’s Limbs. Justice’s skill in the form is only mediocre within the organization, but it gives her a surprise option in fights when bombs are not an option. She is skilled enough in hand to hand to beat most novices. Her pimp hands are pretty powerful, and shouldn’t be underestimated.

### Magic

Justice is a very skilled mage. Her specialty lies in her explosion based magic. As a rare individual who has access to all five elements her bombs vary in usage in effect. A good example would be how she is able to use the water element to create a bomb that releases a poisonous gas. She also has concussive force bombs using the wind element to blow people away. There are bombs using earth to trap and ground her opponents. Finally, her most used bomb incorporates the fire element to create brutally destructive tools. Her favorite tactic is using blatantly loud explosions to destroy her target’s hearing, and disorient her opponents, opening them up to follow up attacks. Her manipulation of the ether element is what truly gives her bombs their lethality. By combining the magical enhancing properties of ether with her various explosives they are made much more effective. It is this fact that makes her need to prepare her bombs before going on missions to make them the most effective.

As for general mage skills she ranks far above a novice. She is well versed in the basics, having a specialty in creating familiar from ether clumps. They are used for surveillance, and combat. She has a good understanding of the elements, and has the know-how to stop mental interference attempts on her. She is naturally studious, and even if she has no interest in furthering her family’s craft she channels this into developing her explosive treats.

### Essences

Justice possesses two Essences . The first goes by the name of Magnum Opus. This is the process she inherited from the Contour side of her family. Magnum Opus is an alchemical term for the process of working with Prima Materia to create the philosopher’s stone. It is specifically geared towards the ability to heal all forms of illness, and prolong the life of the ones who create them. The Contour process relies on the transmutation of colors, which is why they put so much effort attempting to create the Eyes that Justice now wields. Although she is aware of this generational effort, Justice is not interested in pursuing the philosopher’s stone. She possesses the knowledge and ability to create one, but rejects it as it would give credence to her father’s actions. Possessing this Essence is what set her aside from her siblings, as they didn’t inherit it.

Justice’s second Essence goes by the name of Meteoric. It is another process she inherited from the Contour side of her family. This trait is responsible for Justice’s skill when it comes to her explosive magic. The Meteoric trait allows her to store energy within objects that she creates. Once the energy is stored it takes a violative state. The energy lays dormant, until activated by a chosen command from the user. Once the command is given, the energy bursts in a violent reaction. The explosion type depends on the type of energy stored. For example, an object imbued with the fire element will come out as a violent and destructive inferno. On the other hand, a spell that utilizes the earth element could be used to bind a target to a specific area.

### Contour Family Magic Crest

Justice possesses the Contour family magical crest. It is a crest with around five hundred years of spells and knowledge contained within it. The crest is located on her lower back, and takes up a significant portion of her back going up to her upper back area near the neck. It is the treasure of the Contour family, but something that Justice originally views as a curse. However, with the counsel of her various loved ones she overcame this opinion, and is now actively using the knowledge within the crest. The crest itself gives access to an extra one hundred magic circuits, and the many spells that her family has collected over the ages. With this knowledge at her fingertips she has only become a bigger asset to the HH. Some of the members she has come to view as her family, and has become completely willing to abandon her previous hang ups because of them.

### Eyes of Combustion

A set of mystic eyes that Justice awoke within herself as a result of the trauma she faced from her family. A powerful set of mystic eyes which were the goal of her father. These eyes are able to perceive the energies of the world as different ‘colors’, such as heat as red, and coolness as blue. Masayoshi is able to perceive the flow of energy as well, and the eyes are even able to detect objects that would normally be invisible to most normal eyes as well. The reason that Justice describes them as eyes that combust is due to what she can accomplish with these eyes. Using her eyes she is able to force energy to undergo *Negredo*, or blackening of the energy. The energy is dissolved by the violative causing it to become violative itself. In turn, this produces brutal and destructive explosions with the speed of a one verse spell. It’s what makes Justice so dangerous to fight against. She is able to produce very powerful explosions at a near instant rate through these eyes. It especially makes her dangerous against other magus as the more magical energy there is in the area, the stronger her explosives. Realistically her target will be long dead before she comes close to being fatigued from using her eyes. They are her final trump card that allowed her to build up such an impressive reputor. They were the culmination of her family’s years of research. They’re only function is not just explosives though which is why they are different from your laundry bin variety of combustion eyes.

As hinted from how she creates her explosion, the true ability of the eyes is to enact Magnum Opus. Specifically the four main stages of creating a philosopher’s stone, specifically manipulating and creating the quintessence. Step one is *Negredo*, the blackening of the energy. Step two is *Albedo*, the whitening of the energy. Step three is *Citrinitas*, the yellowing of the energy. The final step is *Rubedo*, the reddening/purpling of the energy, and the final step to the philosopher’s stone, reaching the primordial energy or quintesse which serves as the Essence that she awakened alongside the eyes. The reason she is able to create such insane explosions has to do with the first step of the creation, Negredo or Chaos. By stopping at this stage, Justice is able to produce her brutal explosions. Justice describes it as if the energy within the person is blackened creating a chaotic all consuming violent burst. This happens at the speed of a one verse spell which is ridiculous. For demonic enemies she simply purifies instead making her effective against both. Still Justice refuses to use the eyes to their greatest magnitude. If she grew past her mental hang-ups she might begin to, though.

### Holy Scripture (Will be reworked in the future once Keo gets the HH in order)

*Jeremiah 1:10*

*’See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the Kingdoms. To pluck up and break down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.’*

As a ranking member of the Heavenly Host, Justice has earned a scripture. These scriptures are mysteries that have been preserved by the organization from the age of gods. They are high thaumaturgy, and serve as trump cards for the organization. This one in particular embodies the concept of the wings of gods. When the incantation is finished, two brilliant wings spawn from Justice’s back. Using these she can achieve true flight, a mystery that is lost to the modern age. It gives her an entirely new dimension when it comes to fighting in various battles. She is able to move through the air at high speeds putting her in the conversation for fastest in the heavenly host. Thanks to the ingenuity of the creator of the scripture the spell takes little magical energy to use making it an integral part of Justice’s kit.