Izutsumi

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**Izutsumi** (イヅツミ, *Izutsumi*?), also known as **Asebi**  (アセビ, *Asebi*?), is a character in the manga *Delicious in Dungeon*. She is a former member of Shuro's retainers and currently a part of Laios' party.

## Appearance

Izutsumi first appears wearing a black outfit with a veil that covered all of her face except her eyes. She later loses the veil, and is seen wearing a ninja-like outfit with a covering for her hair and ears.

Izutsumi is then revealed to possess feline features due to a curse placed on her, including black cat-like ears on the top of her head, with a white tip on her right ear, and a white-tipped tail. In addition, she has black fur over most of her body, covering her chest and back, right arm down to her hand, left upper arm and shoulder, right upper thigh, and entire left leg. Her nails are closer to claws, having pointed tips, and she has fangs in her mouth.

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Young Izutsumi.Izutsumi's appearance while in Shuro's party.Izutsumi in clothing more suited for the cold.Izutsumi's mother.
## Personality

Izutsumi is not actively aggressive towards those around her but she is prone to becoming annoyed and hostile, especially when showered with physical affection (e.g. head pats).

She is rather stand-offish but is not a distant person.[*citation needed*] She tends to be fairly self-centered, but is in the process of learning the value of working with others. She is capable of finding rapport with others and is even able to find her place among her peers.[*citation needed*]

Izutsumi is primarily fueled by a determination to find someone to lift the curse on her body. She can be impatient to achieve this goal, which manifests in frustration due to what she perceives to be the slow progress of Laios' group through the dungeon.

She has terrible table manners and is a picky eater. She has a tendency to offload unwanted duties onto others.

## Abilities

Izutsumi, like Shuro's other retainers, is a very capable fighter. She primarily uses the agility and claws from the cat side of her to launch attacks, but has been seen to use tools and weapons from time to time. She has a keen sense of smell.

## Relationships

### Maizuru

Maizuru was Izutsumi's primary disciplinarian in the Nakamoto household, drilling into her the most basic of table manners.

### Shuro

Izutsumi seems to have a fairly distant relationship with Shuro, even for a retainer. This is demonstrated by Maizuru's lack of trust in Izutsumi to not put strange things in his food. In addition, she is not grateful in the slightest to his family for having taken her in, though this is likely because they bought her and do not pay her for her work.

### Tade

Izutsumi views Tade as stupid for taking on unwanted duties. Izutsumi also tends to foist food she dislikes on to Tade.

### Marcille

When transported to the Golden Castle, Izutsumi is much more docile and finds enjoyment in Marcille's company, typically hovering around Marcille so that Izutsumi can be petted. One may come to believe that Izutsumi's preference for Marcille can be traced back to the fact that Marcille is responsible for lifting Izutsumi's second curse. After leaving the Golden Castle, Izutsumi resumes her normal state of mind, heavily regretting and agonizing over her recent behavior.[*citation needed*]

### Chilchuck

Izutsumi's initial relationship with Chilchuck is frosty at best - he calls her a misbehaving beast hybrid, and she disparages his Half-foot heritage. However, he soon apologizes for his words and tries to explain to her the value of working with others.

In addition, much like a cat would, Izutsumi enjoys sleeping in Chilchuck's bedroll as his is the warmest.

## Trivia

* Her favorite foods are fish, meats and crab while her least favorite foods are vegetables and mushrooms.
	+ She hates mushrooms, although she briefly did find them delicious when eaten in the sauce for her hamburg steak. Later, while the others ate Crispy Mushroom and Egg Sandwiches, hers contained no mushrooms, implying that she hated them again.
* All of Shuro's retainers have names related to plants. *Asebi* is known as the Japanese andromeda (*Pieris japonica*).
* On first encountering Izutsumi (as the veiled Asebi), Kuro shows a degree of aggression towards her, cluing the reader in before it is revealed that she is part cat-like beast.
* Her mother appears wearing a deel, implying that her family may be from a region modeled after Central Asia.

## References

1. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 41, p. 6
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 41
3. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 36
4. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 32
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 43
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 44
7. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 41, p. 23
8. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 41, p. 11
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 58, p. 11
10. ↑ *Daydream Hour 3* by Ryoko Kui
11. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 36, p. 8
12. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 44, p. 15
13. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 50, p. 11
14. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 41, p. 12
15. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 55, p. 29
16. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 56, p. 10
17. ↑ *Pieris japonica* on Wikipedia
18. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 32, p. 28