Augusta

**Ranking** | Witch of the East

**Augusta** was a magician from the Wizards of Oz and the former second generation Witch of the East. She is nicknamed as **Augusta of the Purple Flame**, and is the current possessor of the Longinus, Incinerate Anthem.

## Appearance

Augusta is an elderly foreign woman in her latter sixties dressed in violet robes and a witch hat with a sharp glint in her eyes and an upright posture that appears almost youthful. She wore a pair of earrings and multiple rings on her fingers.

## Personality

Augusta has a rather cold and serious personality. Augusta also takes deep interest in the Sacred Gears, taking great joy and admiration in meeting fellow Longinus possessors such as Tobio, Lavinia and Vali and using Glenda's Sacred Gear research to produced Utsusemi for the Utsusemi Agency. Augusta has shown to be fearless, not being intimidated by Lavinia and Vali's anger. She is also sadistic as Augusta mocked Lavinia for beliving that her mentor was a good person, stating that morality was never a concern among the Wizards of Oz whose main goal was developing their magic skills and knowledge. She even mockingly contacted Glenda to prove her point when the latter coldly severed her bond with Lavinia, Augusta exploited Lavinia's emotional breakdown as an opening to use a spell to possess Lavinia. While using Lavinia's body to fight Tobio and the others, Augusta mockingly used Lavinia's voice to tease Vali.

## History

At some point, Augusta became the Witch of the East and possessor of the Longinus; **Incinerate Anthem**. She also took on Walburga as her disciple.

## Plot

### Volume 1

Augusta first appears in Volume 1. She is shown entering the building that serves as the headquarters of the Utsusemi Agency along with her disciple, Walburga. After addressing Hanezu Himejima, she indicates the reason for her presence, that being to see the "Dog". Noticing the presence of Lavinia Reni, she becomes amused and immediately correctly deduces that she belongs to the magician association of Grauzauberer and was sent to assassinate her by the leader, the legendary Mephisto Pheles.

After a brief period of squaring up to each other, they are interrupted by Walburga who is fascinated by Lavinia's beauty and asks about her identity. Expressing amazement at Walburga's obliviousness of the heavy atmosphere, Augusta reveals Lavinia's identity and introduces Walburga as her disciple to the occupants of the area. Following this, Lavinia begins to reveal her power, indicating her intent to fight. Augusta then inquires Hanezu of the number of binding equations he used to restrain Lavinia and tells him only ten times that amount would have been effective after receiving an answer from him.

Watching as Lavinia completely releases her Longinus called **Absolute Demise** in the form of a large ice princess, Augusta expresses her admiration at Lavinia possessing one of the thirteen Longinus and releases the power of her own Longinus **Incinerate Anthem**, forming a giant composed of purple flames to combat the ice princess. She tells Hanezu to leave the area since Lavinia seems to be focused on her as she does not want to involve the Utsusemi Agency in the affairs of the Wizards of Oz, and proceeds to engage Lavinia in a battle of magic while Walburga observes them.

It is subsequently revealed that both she and Walburga successfully escape the building.

### Volume 2

Augusta is shown in Volume 2, where she and several other magicians including Walburga surround the Slash Dog team, along with Lavinia and Vali. Augusta expresses her delight at meeting Lavinia and Tobio again, which causes Lavinia to raise her fighting spirit. After instructing Walburga to cooperate with the other magicians and the other Abyss Team members, Augusta tells Lavinia to follow her and promises to give her information on Glenda if Lavinia ends up victorious in their battle.

As they battle against each other, they are joined by Tobio, Natsume, Sae and Shigune. Augusta warns them not to interfere in the battle for their own good, and comments on the power dwelling within Sae. Lavinia warns Augusta not to say anything that would cause Tobio and Sae anxiety, to which Augusta replies that it was as a result of Glenda's research. Lavinia comments that they forcefully extracted information from Glenda, which Augusta denies and clarifies that Glenda did so willingly. As Augusta explains further, Lavinia expresses her disbelief, causing Augusta to contact Glenda. Glenda refuses to say anything meaningful to Lavinia and acknowledge their relation, which results in Lavinia suffering a mental breakdown. Augusta then takes advantage of Lavinia's mental breakdown to possess her body, causing Tobio and the others to temporarily retreat.

After the team converge again to fight Augusta, Vali manages to defeat her ice puppet, which causes her to activate **Incinerate Anthem** and manifest her fire giant. However, Tobio defeats the fire giant and forces Augusta into a corner, causing Augusta to manifest flames and threaten to burn Lavinia's body to ashes. Shigune then uses her Sacred Gear to consume Augusta's flames, allowing Tobio to land a vertical slash on Augusta, mutilating her spirit and forcefully removing her from Lavinia's body. As Augusta notices the vertical cut on her body and expresses disbelief at the fact that Tobio damaged her without harming Lavinia, her body is then reduced to ashes by her own flames.

## Powers & Abilities

**Master Magician:** Being the second generation Witch of the East among the Wizards of Oz, she is a veteran master magician with immense experience in magic, having been the person who taught magic to Walburga, the future leader of **Hexennacht**. Augusta fought on par with Lavinia, a genius magician, in a magical battle. Augusta's magic skill is great enough to activate a seemingly endless number of magic circles formed on a scale that completely filled an entire area, unleashing powerful magic attacks that could devastate a mountain along with a village.

* **Elemental Magic:** Augusta can also easily utilize elemental magic of various attributes, such as fire, ice, water, wind, and lightning. She can fired a full burst of elemental attacks powerful enough to rival Lavinia's elemental magic.
* **Communication Magic:** Augusta is capable of using communication magic, as shown when she contacted Glenda, informing her about her student Lavinia.
* **Possession Spell:** She used a powerful spell, which let her possess Lavinia, seizing control over her mind and body. Augusta is even able to use Lavinia's Longinus Absolute Demise while still retaining control over her own Longinus Incinerate Anthem, albeit she cannot make use of both simultaneously. Tobio was able to use his Canis Lykaon to separate her from Lavinia while killing Augusta in the process.

**Expert Tactician:** Augusta has shown to be a very cunning strategist, having exploited Lavinia's attachment to Glenda, by contacting Glenda who abandoned Lavinia with cruel words, making the latter vulnerable enough for her to use a possession spell to take control of Lavinia.

## Equipment

**Incinerate Anthem** (紫炎祭主による磔台インシネレート・アンセム, *Inshinerēto Ansemu*) (Formerly): Augusta's Longinus, which lets her create and control large amount of purple Holy Flames which are powerful to burn even gods.

* **Flame Giant:** Augusta is able to shape the Incinerate Anthem's Holy Flames into a giant that has a crucifix on its back which it wields in battle. The Fire Giant can unleash massive amount of Holy Flames to counter the ice based powers of the Longinus Absolute Demise.

**Absolute Demise** (永遠の氷姫アブソリュート・デイマイズ, *Absoryūto Deimaizu*) (Formerly): After possessing Lavinia's body, Augusta was able to control the Ice Princess for her own purposes, even raising its power enough to control the weather by creating blizzards and snowstorms.

## Trivia

* Augusta being the second Witch of the East is a nod to the children's novel The Wonderful Wizards of Oz, with the first one having died when Dorothy's farm house landed on her upon the young girl's arrival in Munchkin country of the realm of Oz.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Volume 2, Chapter 7
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Volume 1, Chapter 6
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Volume 2, Chapter 6