Kyōka Izumi

### Likes

Tofu, rabbits, hydrangeas, ghosts, Yukio, horror, the color pink, sweets, dogs, her rabbit plush

### Dislikes

Thunder, gnats, being alone, loved ones in danger, letting loved ones down, her past crimes, embarrassing herself, dogs (Formerly)

## Professional Status

### Occupation

Detective
Assassin (Formerly)

### Affiliation

Armed Detective Agency
Port Mafia (Formerly)

## Relationships

### Parents

Unnamed Father †
Unnamed Mother †
Yor Briar (Adoptive Mother)
Mine Kuramae (Adoptive Mother)

### Other relatives

Yuri Briar (Adoptive Uncle)
Doppo Kunikida (Adoptive Uncle)
Wave (Adoptive Uncle)
Satan (Father-in-law)
Yuri Egin (Mother-in-law)
Shiro Fujimoto (Adoptive Father-in-law)
Haru Okumura (Sister-in-law)
Rin Okumura (Brother-in-law)
Amaimon (Half-Brother-in-law)
Astaroth (Half-Brother-in-law)
Mephisto Pheles (Half-Brother-in-law)
Ernst Frederik Egin (Grandfather-in-law) †
Yoko Egin (Grandmother-in-law) †
Yuyuko Kunikida (Adoptive Cousin)
Shijin Kunikida (Adoptive Cousin)
Haruko Kunikida (Adoptive Cousin)
Yōko Kunikida (Adoptive Cousin)
Katai Kunikida (Adoptive Cousin)
Karma Akabane (Adoptive Brother-in-law)
Sayaka Akabane (Adoptive Niece)
Kanda Akabane (Adoptive Niece)
Unnamed adoptive grandmother †
Unnamed Grandfather †

### Children

Ray (Adoptive Son)
Hana Okumura (Daughter)
Kagami Okumura (Daughter)
Haruma Okumura (Son)

## Voice Actors

### English

Cherami Leigh

**Kyōka Izumi** (泉 鏡花, *Izumi Kyōka*) is the main female protagonist of the series. She is the newest member of the Armed Detective Agency after defecting from the Port Mafia who has the ability **Demon Snow**.

## Description

### Appearance

Kyōka is an immensely beautiful young woman with black hair that is tied into two low twin-tails with flower pins and blue eyes, in which a notable trait of hers, much like almost every member of the Port Mafia, is that her eyes used to be very dull. However, after meeting Atsushi Nakajima and being together with the Agency, her eyes have been shown to become clearer.

Her attractive appearance gains the attention of many people, specifically Yukio, Yurika and Satan.

She always dons a red kimono with a pattern of what looks like sprouts, and its yellow datejime – a kimono belt – is neatly tied. She wears long white socks and sandals; while on her arms, she appears to wear yellow and red wrist pads. In addition, Kyōka carries with herself a tiny rabbit doll, together with her cellphone attached to a necklace.

She shortly wears a maid uniform after being dressed up by the agency members.

During Kyōka's first job at the agency to deliver documents to the judge at the district court, she disguises herself as a worker in order to infiltrate the building when they weren't permitted to enter the premises.

After being arrested by the military police, Kyōka wears a white gown and is chained in an airdrone craft. After the cannibalism, Kyōka wears a long blouse and a skirt during the Agency's celebration.

After the Agency is framed as terrorists, she suddenly wears a white hood suit and changes into a riot gear with black boots and black gloves, originally belonging to the military police.

### Personality

While with the Port Mafia, Kyōka's personality is similar to that of a doll. She lacks all emotions and is ruthless when she is ordered to perform a duty. However, after she joins the Agency, she tries her best to minimize casualties in their line of work. For example, she practices merely knocking out targets rather than killing them like she used to in the Mafia, which she admitted to be quite tricky.

Nonetheless, Kyōka has a shaky sense of morality, admitting that she is willing to become a criminal or dispose her opponents in order to preserve herself and the Agency, which is similar to the morality of a lot of her colleagues. She can also be quite vengeful as she was not above killing Ryūnosuke Akutagawa to prove to herself that he was wrong about her, indicating her dark nature can easily take over if the situation calls for it.

Kōyō Ozaki specifically noted how Kyōka, then notoriously dubbed as the **Thirty-Five Count Murderess** (３５し, *Sanjūgo Ningoroshi*), has a talent for carnage that is quite difficult to overcome. However, Kyōka is quite strong-willed and willing to conquer this darkness, as showcased when she wants to prove to Akutagawa that she is more than just a killer.

Much like Atsushi, she used to believe that she was worth very little and that she deserved to die for her crimes. At a certain point in her life, she was filled with so much self-vengeance that she wished to be destroyed along with her ability. Nevertheless, unlike Atsushi, she does not dwell on her mistakes upon joining the Agency and tries her best to be of use to her comrades, even if it means harming others and even going up against the Mafia for their sake. She eventually grows to have a sense of duty towards protecting Yokohama, even choosing to sacrifice her life to save the city towards the end of the Guild war.

Amidst these traits, after being exposed to Atsushi and the real world, Kyōka reverts back to a young teenager. She is easily infatuated with small things and has a need to see everything. For instance, she treats the rabbit plush toy Atsushi got her once with endearment, albeit only momentarily, and has a lot of energy to go all around Yokohama for recreation.

Kyōka also has quite an appetite. She is able to down various bowls of tofu from Tachibana Temple upon being treated by Atsushi and Doppo Kunikida and other desserts afterwards, claiming that she has "another stomach" for such. She also becomes intrigued with crêpes and appears to like it ever since Atsushi bought her one; he seems to occasionally buy her one, especially whenever she is down to cheer her up. Moreover, Ranpo Edogawa sometimes shows Kyōka some of his sweets and treats which she becomes fascinated with, though Ranpo ends up eating them instead.

## Powers and Abilities

*Main article: Demon Snow*

Kyōka's ability, **Demon Snow** (夜 (や) 叉 (しゃ) 白 (しら) 雪 (ゆき) ,, *Yasha Shirayuki*), allows her to materialize a female sword-wielding phantom, known as *Demon Snow*, which only follows orders coming from a mobile phone she always carries on her person. It appears that it only listens to orders from another person on the other line and it does not comply to Kyōka's own wishes.

After joining the Agency, this problem was fixed by Yukichi Fukuzawa, which enables her to control her own ability and use it normally. In reality, Kyōka is not the original wielder of Demon Snow but her mother. In order to protect Kyōka, in her last moments, Kyōka's mother transferred her ability Demon Snow to Kyōka, but because of the suddenness at the time, control of the demon was transferred to Kyōka's cell phone instead of Kyōka herself.

* **Acrobatics**: Kyōka has shown immense physical capabilities, making superhuman leaps and slicing people with immense force, even without her ability.
* **Sword Play**: Kyōka is skilled with a sword.
* **Infiltration Skills**: As an ex-assassin, Kyōka has excellent infiltration skills. This includes lockpicking doors, disabling security systems, and putting on a disguise.
* **Memorization**: Kyōka is able to memorize an entire list of the military police's wanted criminals and another list of clients that the Agency has bodyguard contracts with, which Atsushi noted took him an entire month to do so. She also has all of Yokohama's roads committed to memory. It also expounds that she has memorized maps and building structures, demonstrated when she names several buildings throughout Yokohama accurately when she went out with Atsushi.
* **Driving Skills**: Kyōka has shown some exceptional driving skills.
* **Anatomy Knowledge**: Kyōka appears to have knowledge on human anatomy and physiology, specifically when she threatened to sever Demon Snow's third cervical plexus to subdue it for life if it were a human.
	+ **Acupuncture**: Though she mostly used the concept for threatening Mushitarō Oguri to cooperate with her and Atsushi, Kyōka might have some knowledge about the methods of acupuncture.

## Etymology

* The name **Kyōka** means "mirror, looking glass" (鏡) (**kyō**) and "flower, blossom" (花) (**ka**).
* Kyōka's surname **Izumi** means "spring, fountain" (泉).

## Trivia

* The real-life Kyōka Izumi was a man, whose birthname was **Kyōtarō Izumi** (泉 鏡太郎, *****Kyōtarō Izumi*****).
* Coincidentally, Kyōka and her boyfriend's actors both voice Minako Aino and her cat Artemis. However, Minako views Artemis as her partner, while Kyōka has a crush on Yukio.
* In reality, Kyōka was the protege of Kōyō Ozaki who admired the latter throughout his entire life, pursuing a career in literature due to Kōyō's *Amorous Confessions of Two Nuns*. In 1891, Kyōka was taken in as a houseboy in the Ozaki household, where he cleaned the house and performed errands in return for Kōyō's expertise opinions on his manuscripts.