Gabriela Yakuza

"*All smiles are nothing but an act.* "
—Gabriela Yakuza

**Gabriela Yakuza** (ガブリエラヤクザ *Yakuza Gaburiera*) is a student in Korosensei's Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School who had been suspended from school along with Karma Akabane due to her violent behavior and one of Nagisa's closest friends.

## Appearance

Gabriela is renowned as a beautiful girl with pale skin, thick eyebrows, piercing green eyes adorned by thick long lashes, and long champagne-colored hair that reaches up to her waist with sweeping bangs on the right side. Behind her usual innocent look, she is rather violent and sadistic at times, especially towards people she doesn't like, usually it is those who like picking on Class 3-E. She also sports tiny flower-shaped accessories behind the ribbon-shaped lace on the right side of her hair

She wears the standard Kunugigaoka student uniform paired up with black socks and black school shoes. She also wears a dark mint butterfly brooch on the right side of her uniform. In the Anime, it is considered that both Gabriela and Yukiko are the prettiest girls in Class 3-E. But it is pointed out by Hiroto Maehara that Gabriela is much more attractive in terms of her cool manner of handling situations and incredible skills, which is approved by the other boys.

Seven years after graduation, Gabriela has grown considerably taller and wears her hair into a high ponytail. Her eyes also appear much gentler.

## Personality

Gabriela is depicted as a cool-headed and highly intellectual character in the series and often called out as a schemer in the group. She is also rather smug when her plans work and was able to amaze Karasuma with her hand-to-hand combat skills during his first PE advisory, and has been described as "a dangerous being" or "cool beauty".

She conducts herself in a composed manner though when truly angered, Gabriela can appear harsh and unforgiving. Though she is rather friendly most of the time, she also has sadistic tendencies as seen when she had threatened to hang Nagisa's bullies with a rope above a boiling cauldron and cut off their genitals.

Gabriela also has love for knowledge, evident from the overflowing book collection she has in her own room and considered to be one of the top candidates of Class 3-E to make it to the top 50. Unexpectedly, Gabriela is a fan of rom-com novels and is also known as a hopeless romantic.

Although she can be relentless when needed, Gabriela is a very sensitive person, especially when the subject is about her deceased parents. She always shows care and precaution and is often shown to be cynical, who is never clear of doubt.

According to Karma, she is also known as the "Jewel of the Heavens" because of her ability to take something away without anyone noticing it, most of which are jewelry. Gabriela has stated that she gave up that talent a long time ago, though she still has the knack for it as seen when she had stolen Korosensei's Italian pasta even when he was looking.

Early on in life, she struck a friendship with Gakusho Asano and was drawn to him by his kindness when she was injured. When Asano had grew cold and distant all of a sudden, his father had confronted her saying that she had only been a tool to him, this led her to believe that people are only motivated by self-interest and is distrustful of human sincerity and integrity.

Even though she hides it, she treats her classmates and friends as precious jewels. She also appears to be very close to Karma at first that they were mistaken to have a secret relationship though it was revealed that they were also classmates along with Nagisa in the past. It is also hinted that Gabriela still has feelings for Asano despite him being distant towards her.

## History

As a child, Gabriela had experienced being bullied during her elementary days, especially by a teacher who would often call her as "a piece of trash". After the death of her parents due to a car accident, Gabriela had to live with her wealthy aunt who was part of the Mafia. Gabriela's aunt had trained her to someday take her place in the organization, this resulting to Gabriela's incredible skills in hand-to-hand combat and weaponry. But her aunt's training was so harsh that it pushed her to the brink of sickness.

Somewhere in the past when she was little, she was approached by Asano who tended her injuries and would visit her once in a while in their secret spot. After a few weeks with no visitations from Asano, she tried looking for him, only to be ignored and confronted by his father that she was nothing but only a tool to him. This triggered her rebellious side and cynical nature when it comes to making friends.

For a long time, Gabriela had always been a care-free student with a problematic attitude. However, she had met a teacher who treated her as her own daughter and had grown attached to her. Yet after learning that she had been using her because of her grades and for the betterment of her reputation this fueled her hatred towards all teachers saying that all of them are nothing but scumbags, thirsty for power.

In her first year at Kunigigaoka, Karma became her first friend after approaching him one day to talk about Sonic Ninja. Since then, they are dubbed as the "Duo of Mischief", because of the similarities in their personality. On her second year, Karma then introduces her to Nagisa and they hang out together at times.

Gabriela never liked the fact of the relationship between Karma and his homeroom teacher because of her own personal experience but, she decided to just keep quiet and be happy for him. But, after overhearing Karma's suspension, she went to the teacher to ask him to remove Karma's suspension as he had done nothing wrong. The teacher then laughs at her and explains that Karma had injured a fellow student with a bright future and dubbed the student from Class E as "worthless piece of trash". This led her on rampage and injuring the teacher, resulting to her suspension. Because of this, she was moved to Class E despite her high grades.

## Plot

### **The Arrival of the Jewel of the Heavens**

Gabriela was still in suspension when Korosensei first arrived. However, she was briefed by a Ministry of Defense spokeswoman of the situation currently going on in her class. Her aunt had found out about this but, agreed to keep it a secret. Her aunt had also said that she'd reward her as well if she managed to kill Korosensei. After hearing that he was a teacher, she accepted without any second thoughts and vowed that she would annihilate him within the school year.

She makes her debut in Chapter 4 where she finds Karma resorting to suicide and jumping off the mountain, relieved that he was eventually saved by Korosensei. She then makes her way towards them and extends her hand to Korosensei who flipped her hand before attempting to shake it. She then replies that she wouldn't want to reveal her tricks and kill him instantly on her first day of class. Korosensei then comments that despite her smile, her eyes is capable of murder in a single glare.

The next day, she shoots Korosensei during class and eats his sandwich, she then offers another sandwich in exchange which she mixed the sauce with anti-sensei bullets. As the sauce is touched by Korosensei's tentacles, it then exploded, making her the second student to injure their unkillable teacher. She is then shown to continually agitate Korosensei by stealing his things without him looking though she is shown to replace it afterwards since unlike Karma, she says that she knows the feeling of being picked on and being powerless against it.

### **First Semester**

Gabriela saw the arrival of their new English teacher Irina Jelavić. However, her arrogance and self-pride would cause the class to initially call her "Bitch-neesan", of which Karma first came up with. They later settled for "Bitch-sensei" ("Professor Bitch" in the English dub). When the midterm exams were held, most of Class E failed to get into the top 50 due largely to the principal changing of the exam scope. However, Gabriela effortlessly ranked 6th making her two points away from Karma despite the changed questions and both declared that they would not transfer to the main building as assassinations are much more enjoyable. During the Kyoto school trip, Karma had told Nagisa that Gabriela would be joining their group without her consent but Gabriela explained that Taiga Okajima had already asked her to join their group along with Hiroto Maehara,Yuma Isogai, Rio Nakamura, and Hinata Okano.

On the train, Gabriela had sensed a dark aura among the male students from the other school who were constantly looking at Kaede Kayano and Yukiko Kanzaki. On the next day, she decided to follow around Nagisa's group, though she couldn't leave her group immediately without anyone suspecting as Taiga was constantly talking to her so she lied about going to the comfort room. She then finds the group being ambushed by highschool delinquents and pulls Manami to the side and covering her mouth. As she was about to attack, the men had went inside the van, leaving two highschool students to watch over Karma, Nagisa, and Tomohito. She then calls out for the students and incapacitates them with a barehanded blow to the neck. Her phone then rings and as she picks it up it was a call from Yuma, asking if she was alright. She then replies that she is alright and tells them that she'd catch up with them later on. Gabriela then asks as to how Yuma had her number as Karma answered that he had given it to him after he had asked. As a hopeless romantic she is, this has led to her overthinking and asking why he'd want her number which Karma mocked her for.

With help from Korosensei's extensive guidebook, and the octopus himself, Gabriela, Karma, Nagisa, Sugino and Okuda defeated the delinquents and saved the girls.

That night, Rio proposed to the girls to talk about the ones they like in the class, Toka Yada later said that Karma Akabane would be on top with good looks alone then replied by the girls that if only he was a little behaved. Sumire Harathen asks of Gabriela's relationship with Karma and if they had a secret relationship. In shock, she begins stuttering (which is unlike her) and says that she only thinks of Karma as a close friend, which hinted that Gabriela might have had feelings for Karma in the past. When asked about which boy she liked, she answered Yuma, as he is kind, caring, and very talented who she thinks could keep up with her. Also that night, when the boys ranked their female classmates, Yuma answered that she liked Gabriela out of all the girls making both Gabriela and Yukiko at the top of the list. The boys had also pointed out that her cool personality and incredible skills made her much more attractive.

## Abilities

**Intelligence:** Gabriela is one of the smartest characters in the series that she is able to maintain her high grades with only little effort. She is also shown to be very good at language and a mastermind in sorts of tricks. She is also able to see through other people's strategy and foresee their next attacks.

**Enhanced Sense of Awareness:** Gabriela has a keen sense of awareness of the things around her and has mastered ki-sensing. Giving her the ability to sense the location of a life force, predict attacks and other movements, and is also used to detect whether someone is lying. With proper training, she could already know the person that is moving even if she couldn’t see them, since each individual's ki is unique and different individuals having the same ki is rare. This technique was seen when she had felt a strange aura on one of the students from the other school and secretly left her own group to follow Nagisa's group and beat up two male highschool students who stayed back to torment the male members of the group during their trip to Kyoto.

**Combat Skills:** Gabriela has been shown to possess an athletic physique and incredible combat skills as she is able to beat up people that are twice her size regardless the gender. Her strength is often pointed out as inhuman but she explained that it was just the result of her aunt's intense training. She is also on par with Karma when it comes to strength making them the physically strongest duo in Class E. She is also shown to be much advantageous against Karma in terms of stealth and is much more talented in weaponry.

**Marksmanship**: Gabriela is ranked first for marksmanship among the girls, and the third among the whole class.

**Musical Talent:** Unexpectedly, Gabriela has shown to possess musical talent, especially in singing. This was pointed out by Hiroto and Yuma after hearing her sing when they passed by the girl's bathroom.

**Weapon Mastery:** Gabriela is experienced in almost all types of weapons. Currently, it is shown that she is good at handling guns, swords, knives, and whips, making her one of the top candidates to someday successfully assassinate Koro-sensei.

## Quotes

* (To Asano Gakushu) *"I know you're in there somewhere, I want the old Shuu back."*
* (To Karma Akabane) *"I don't regret the fact that I beat up your homeroom teacher, he was already dead inside anyways."*
* (To Korosensei) *"I guess, you'll be the only teacher I'd forever respect, find your peace, koro...sensei..."*
* (To Tomohito Sugino) *"If you're only able to do one thing, hone it into perfection."*
* (To Nagisa Shota) *"You certainly are weak, but that's what makes you amazing. Despite leaving your life on the line, you still managed to go through with it. I could never do that."*
* ( To Class 3-E ) *"No more fake smiles, I see all of you as family!"*

## Etymology

* **Gabriela'**s first name translates to "God is my strength" (神は私の力だ).
	+ Gabriela is the only student whose name is from Spanish, Italian origin.
* Gabriela's surname **Yakuza** translates to "Gangster" (ギャング), meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization.

## Trivia

* Gabriela is one of the few people in the entire manga who is referred to by her first name. Other examples would be Nagisa and Karma.
* Gabriela depicts herself as purgatory, or a person in between heaven and hell.
* Her favorite subject is language as she can speak a variety of different languages while her least favorite is Physics.
* Her hobbies/skills are combats and picking on Karma.
* Her most treasured item is her collection of rom-com novels.
* Her favorite food is Fettucini Alfredo (フェットチーネアルフレド).
* Gabriela is the second student that managed to inflict damage on Korosensei.
* In the tankobon extras, her statistics were listed as:
	+ **Stamina:** 4.5
	+ **Mobility:** 3
	+ **Close Combat:** 5
	+ **Marksman:** 5
	+ **Academics:** 5
	+ **Personal Skill (Fighting):** 5
* In the Shooting Scores, she's ranked 2nd.
* According to Irina:
	+ In the Kissing Techniques Scores, she's ranked 6th.
* According to Mr. Karasuma:
	+ In the Close-Range Assassination Scores, he's ranked:
		- **Knife Skills (Combination):** 2nd with Rio Nakamura
		- **Knife Skills (Single):** 1st
	+ In the Miscellaneous Scores, she's ranked:
		- **Information Analysis:** 4th
		- **Leadership:** 3rd
		- **Language Arts:** 1st (tie with Kirara Hazama and Karma Akabane)
		- **Negotiation:** 5th