Izuko Gaen

## Family

Suruga Kanbaru (niece)
Tooe Gaen† (older sister)
Nayaku (ancestors; extinct)

**Izuko Gaen** (臥煙 伊豆湖, *Gaen Izuko*) is the leader of an oddity specialist network, especially consisting of former members of the Occult Research Club in which she also lead in college.

She is known for her claim to "know everything."

In the World Protection Security Agency stories, she is revealed to be a translator of the Special Grade Artifact's contents known as the Inscribed Book of Impending Destruction, after it was revealed by Meme Oshino that she and the rest of the Gaen family were connected to the extinct race known as the Nayuku in the 6th Layer. Thus, she and the rest of Gaen family are the only people to have knowledge of the ancient, extinct Nayakuan language known as the Pharku language, which is the written language of the Book.

## Appearance

Izuko is a middle-aged woman with wavy long brown hair and orange eyes. Her outfit is reminiscent of hip hop fashion with a bright color scheme, consisting of a loose light green shirt over a black sweatshirt, loose maroon pants and running shoes. She wears a white baseball cap with a light green rim, and among her accessories include a smiley necklace and a pair of orange headphones hanging on her neck.

For some reason, where ever Gaen appears, a swirl of rainbow clouds can be seen in the background.

In the WPSA stories, it is revealed that she is a White Whistle, where she has a White Whistle in the form of Book of Destruction.

## Personality

Despite her looks, Izuko is actually a very knowledgeable person when it comes to the supernatural. She also apparently knows some facts about Koyomi Araragi and Tsubasa Hanekawa and is updated in current events. In fact, she boasts about her wealth of knowledge frequently, to the point of adapting the catchphrase, "There is nothing that I don't know. I know everything," which is a stark contrast to Tsubasa's catchphrase.

Although the credibility of her claims over "knowing everything" may be debatable, it can be argued that she is good in taking advantage of what she knows and what other people do not know, allowing her to break down a person's confidence, like Tsubasa's confidence in her knowledge, for example.

In the WPSA stories, however, she shows immediate reaction of anger and hostility, when the Inscribed Book of Impending Destruction is involved into the conversation, which exemplified when she grabbed Haruhi in fury that the WPSA cannot even describe. This is because of a horribly painful past she was unable to forget: she accidentally destroyed another world through the Book of Destruction.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Oddity Specialist** - Much like Meme, Izuko is proficient in the knowledge of Oddities, as well as means on giving advices to Koyomi on how to deal with any Oddity-inflicted humans.
* **Archaic Knowledge** - Being the descendant of the long-forgotten ancient race known as Nayaku, Izuko is extremely well-versed in the race's language, known as Pharku, as well as the culture of them. This comes after Meme reveals that she is the only person to be able to translate the Inscribed Book of Impending Destruction, which has an incredibly painful past that still haunts her to this day, after accidentally starting an apocalypse from another world that led to its destruction.