Hashihime

* Human
* Yokai

**Hashihime** (橋姫, *Hashihime*?), also known as **Himeko Hashiguchi** (橋口姫子, *Hashiguchi Himeko*?), is a kijin Ayashimon and a secret, senior member of the Enma Syndicate. During Kio's rule, Hashihime previously served as an associate member who was secretly put in charge of attending to the chairman's illegitimate daughter, Urara.

While still of service to the Enma Syndicate after Doppo Akari was made second chairman, Hashihime found work as Shinjuku Gyo-en's border guard during the night, while also acting as the park's garden attendant during the day. During the Vs. Doppo Arc, Hashihime betrayed the syndicate after lying about having any connections to Urara and Maruo and for helping Urara escape from Doppo with her allies.

## Appearance

### Human

As a human, Hashihime outward appearance is that of a slim woman with long dark hair, but with two light colored locks, and bangs covering her left eye. She wears a fishnet eye mask, gloves, choker, a striped dark suit that opens to reveal a portion of her chest, and a pair of dark dress shoes.

Back when she served as Urara's attendant, Hashihime was absent of her fishnet mask, gloves, and choker, and wore a different suit.

#### Gallery

Hashihime's full human appearance.Hashihime's appearance from when she attended to Urara.Hashihime as she appeared 2 years ago.
### Yokai

As a yokai, Hashihime possesses a large, muscular body made entirely out of hard wax, with her hands and feet being blunt stumps. Her head is an angry, oni mask with flames emitting from the horns and the mouth. Overall, her appearance can be summed up as being a large walking candle.

In folklore, Hashihime is described as a yokai who took the form of a woman with metal bands and candles.

## Personality

Hashihime deeply cares for Urara and treats her with respect as Kio's daughter, though she doesn't hold back in voicing her opinions if it's for her own good. She is extremely devoted to keeping Urara's identity a secret no matter what, even from her new superiors in the Enma Syndicate who are unhesitant in brutalizing uncooperative subordinates.

When engaged in a one-on-one fight, Hashihime gets nothing out of fighting weak opponents who can be defeated easily and finds it disrespectful to hear her opponents perceive fights against her as being fun.

## History

Hashihime was once the guardian of Kyoto's Uji Bridge until she chose to affiliate with the Enma Syndicate, where she acted as Urara's attendant. After Kio's death, Hashihime made the decision to drive Kioh's secret daughter out of Shinjuku to prevent her from being targeted and attended to her for the remainder of the child's life.

Eventually, Hashihime and Urara went their separate ways, with Hashihime returning to the Enma Syndicate and taking on the task of guarding Shinjuku's borders from illegal entrants and working at the gardens.

## Synopsis

### Introduction Arc

*Main article: Introduction Arc*

While on guard duty, Hashihime encounters Urara and her recruited kobun, Maruo Kaido, who she orders to take down Hashihime in order to allow them to enter Shinjuku. However, Hashihime easily defeats Maruo with a single hit and transforms into her human form commenting on how weak he was. Hashihime then pays her respects to Urara but asks that she not try to enter Shinjuku since she would be at risk of being targetted as the illegitimate child of Kio. After standing back up, Hashihime is berated by a furious Urara for discontinuing her kneeling position without her permission. She then hears Urara's resolve to see her plans through on regaining her father's family crest and getting revenge on the Enma Syndicate and her father's killer.

Their conversation comes to an end after Maruo emerges from the pond seeking to fight Hashihime once again. Taking note at how stubborn he is, Hashihime enters back into her Ayashimon form and faces Maruo once again in a one-on-one duel with the intention of defeating him in order to convince Urara into giving up on her ambitions. Hashihime gains the upper hand against Maruo but suddenly becomes shocked that Maruo manages to deal damage to her steel armored wax body.

Hashihime ends up lying down on the ground after Maruo endured long enough to defeat her with his strength and is thanked by Urara for her devotion. Before having her leave, Hashihime tells Urara that she recognizes Maruo as her expendable pawn the same way she was treated, which leads to Urara asking if she was upset with this. Hashihime tells her no and that she was proud with the way she turned out. Hashihime then gets up to warn Maruo of the four dangerous groups he should look out for when in Shinjuku, which are the newly reformed Enma Syndicate, the Todoroki Alliance, the Ayakashi ☆ B-Stars, and the Kori Hotel Group, and that he should learn to adapt to the rules of the ritual duel to preserve his boss's honor as a subordinate.

### Vs. Doppo Arc

*Main article: Vs. Doppo Arc*
After Doppo learns from the Onmyo Bureau of two undocumenteds entering Shinjuku, Hashihime is forcibly taken in by two members of the Enma Syndicate to see Doppo for questioning after the chairman becomes suspicious of her having connections with the two. Hashihime lies denying that she knows the two undocumenteds but fails to convince him after the chairman senses the fear hiding behind her words, which leads to him showing her his artworks of functioning Ayashimon parts that he plans to include her in. Hashihime begs Doppo to spare her by justifying her years of loyalty to the syndicate but is cut short after Doppo silences her for speaking Kio's name.

Hashihime then wonders as to what happened afterwards as she becomes unaware that Number 11 of the Onmyo Bureau erected a barrier to deliver the photos of the two undocumenteds to Doppo. After receiving the photos, Doppo shows them to Hashihime to once again ask her if she knew them. While shocked seeing Urara's image, Hashihime tells Doppo that she does not recognize them and that he is mistaken for suspecting her. With this said, Doppo decides to hold off killing Hashihime, since she may know secrets about the Enma Syndicate, and have her leave her post as Shinjuku's border guard. Hashihime is then taken outside where the Enma Syndicate members are gathered and reacts in shock after Doppo commands them to find and eliminate Urara and Maruo.

As the syndicate searches for Urara and Maruo, Doppo takes Hashihime along with him while having her restrained in his car. After finding the two, Doppo has Urara take a look inside his car and sees her reaction to seeing Hashihime inside his car, which gave him proof that Hashihime is connected to her.

After Urara enters her yokai form, Hashihime senses her coming to her rescue and releases herself from her captivity to see her. The two are then showered by Doppo's freezing flames as he refuses to allow Urara to escape from him after learning that she is Kio's daughter. Hashihime falls to the ground after her body is slightly frozen but gets up shortly to attack Doppo and give Urara a chance to flee with Ten and an unconscious Maruo. After the chairman fights back, Doppo questions Hashihime if the side she is on is the right one since Urara had inherited nothing from Kio after his death and believes that she was abandoned. Hashihime replies denying his second claim and begs Urara to leave without her, stating that she must hold her head up high as Kio's daughter. After Urara flees with her allies, Hashihime looks towards Maruo, entrusts him with her former responsibility of looking after Urara and is pierced by several spikes of ice created by Doppo.

### Todoroki Alliance Arc

*Main article: Todoroki Alliance Arc*
After two weeks had passed since the Enma Syndicate's gang violence, Hashihime's fate is left unknown to Urara, Maruo, and Ten but is presumed by the three that the worst had happened after Ten learned over the phone that Hashihime was no longer employed in one of her current jobs.

## Abilities and Powers

Hashihime is a fearsome yokai who was a challenge for the superhumanly strong Maruo, whom she thought so little of at first after easily defeating him in their first match.

### Physical Abilities

**Immense Strength**: As an Ayashimon, Hashihime has incredible physical power that complements her size, as she could knock back and injure a normal-sized superhuman with a single blow.

**Immense Durability**: On top of her strength, Hashihime also possesses incredible durability, stating that her harden wax body is stronger than steel, which helped her to last long in a fight against Maruo.

## Equipment

**Mask**: As an Ayashimon, Hashihime carries around a mask that contains her yokai form and powers, and once put on, will be granted back to her.

## Relationships

### Gang

During Kio's reign, Hashihime acted as his closest and trusted associate within the Enma Syndicate, as the chairman only told her about Urara being his illegitimate daughter and assigned her to be her attendant.

After the Enma Syndicate selected Doppo Akari to be its second chairman, Hashihime found the syndicate to be even more dangerous than what it was during the olden days, as well as viewing the second chairman as being more dangerous than Kio. Because of her devotion to both Kio and Urara, Hashihime is not as loyal to the syndicate than what she was before, having lied to Doppo about having zero connections to Urara and Maruo after he suspected her. Because of this, Doppo would show her no mercy by including her as part of his artwork for acts of traitory and taking her hostage. Ultimately, Hashihime would choose to betray the Enma Syndicate in order to assist in Urara's escape from the gang.

### Urara

Urara is Hashihime's former boss's daughter who she was put in charge of watching over while he was away. Hashihime finds Urara to be very precious to her; making sure that she does not feel discourage about Kio's love for her, personally driving her out of Shinjuku so that she would not be targeted, and had hoped that she would live a normal life. Upon reuniting with her at Shinjuku Gyoen after two years, Hashihime begged for Urara to turn away from Shinjuku in fear of her identity being leaked out. However, after hearing her resolution, Hashihime saw her as being strong and was proud of her. Her devotion to her is greater than her allegiance to the new Enma Syndicate, as she betrayed her gang by lying to them about having connections to her and helping Urara escape from Doppo.

While appreciative of her devotion towards her since her birth, Urara only sees Hashihime as an expendable pawn and does not share the same level of care as her. However, after realizing that Hashihime had been taken hostage by Doppo, Urara could not bring herself to leave her behind and went to rescue her.

### Others

#### Maruo Kaido

Hashihime met and fought Maruo after the human kobun of Urara was ordered to defeat her so that they could have a clear path to Shinjuku. Her first impression of Maruo was that he was a weakling no stronger than a fly after she had easily defeated him in their first match and believed that he would serve no purpose to Urara in Shinjuku. To prove this, she faced Maruo a second time in a ritual duel. However, after losing to him, Hashihime had no other choice but to allow him to stay by her side and made sure that he was well informed about the other gangs in Shinjuku. Hashihime may also sympathize with Maruo, as she found that she and him are nothing more than expendable pawns to Urara. After helping Urara escape from Doppo, Hashihime placed her faith in Maruo to look after Urara as she had done in the past.

Maruo found Hashihime to be a challenging opponent to face and gotten a thrill fighting her. Maruo also refers to Hashihime as "Chopstick Princess" (はし姫, *Hashihime*?) as a play on her name.

## Trivia

* *Hashi* (橋, ****Hashi****?) translates to "bridge", while *hime* (姫, ****hime****?) translates to "princess". Literally translated, "Hashihime" (橋姫, ***"Hashihime"***?) means "Bridge Princess" or "Princess of the Bridge".
	+ "Hashi" can also translate to "chopsticks" (はし, ***"chopsticks"***?), which Maruo translated Hashihime's name as being "Chopstick Princess" or "Princess of the Chopsticks".

## References

*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (pp. 6).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (pp. 9).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (pp. 20).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (pp. 11).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (pp. 6-14).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (pp. 15-21).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (pp. 22-25).
*Ayashimon* Manga: Chapter 2 (pp. 17).

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