Yerin Ma

**Yerin Ma** is a supporting character in **The Warrior Returns**. She is the *Magic Warrior* and a member of the 9-Warriors. However, it is eventually revealed that she is actually a spy for the Reconstructed Government and later switches sides when her cover is blown.

## Appearance

### Human

Yerin Ma in her human form has long bark brownish hair which is tied in a pigtail hairstyle, she appeared to be in her early 20s and has brown eyes.

She wears her school uniform such as a gray suit underneath a black sweater with a red tie underneath it and an office-style skirt. She had pantyhose underneath her skirt and a pair of white sneakers.

### Warrior

Yerin Ma in her Hero form/Magical Girl has pink eyes and very long pink hair which is tied in a pigtail hairstyle. In addition, she has a white ribbon tied on both sides of her pigtail.

She wears a white choker with a pink bow tie around her neck, Her sleeves are tight with a bowtie strapped into it. The front of her torso has a pink dress that was arched at the back with white lines surrounding her torso in her triangular shape at the end of her dress, Her pink long skirt ends around her lower thigh with Long white stockings sorta like boots additionally 2 pinks bow strapped into both of her thighs.

She holds a hollowed heart staff with a giant candy on top and four sets of wings attached to it.

## Personality

Yerin Ma presents herself as a no-nonsense and mature yet pragmatically logical individual, whom at first did not wanted to go out there to defeat other Warriors since they were more stronger than her. However, after the transpired events so far, Yerin Ma manages to have enough courage to confront head on with the Warriors without worrying about her life.

## History

### Current Timeline

A few months ago before the attack of the 9-Heroes, Yerin Ma was walking home with a cake to celebrate her sister's birthday, while she was talking on the phone with her mother, she received the news that her mother already got the cake, and stopped while asking if the store would accept in a refund or allow her to change something else other than cake.

While she was busy being distracted by the phone, the constructed workers accidentally dropped a fridge from above the tall building and crushes her before she could even do anything, thus, she was summoned to another world and was destined to kill the demon lord that may terrorize another world that may cross paths with.

A few months later, Yerin Ma returns to her world after she saves the other world, only to find that it has fallen into nothing but chaos. She learns that there are two factions of heroes, those who wish to destroy and enslave humanity and those who wish to protect everything. However, she didn't side with either of them and instead decided to focus on protecting her family. She is also fully aware of the fact that she's weak to fight against any of them since her demon lord isn't powerful as the demon lords of all the other heroes. Which is why, she ran away with her family along with other refugees to safety.

She struggles her life in trying to take care of her ill mother and younger sister after her return, at first, Yerin Ma wishes not to provoke herself into the personal affairs that the heroes are having. She would only protect the refugees from any attacks such as missiles firing out from other places accidentally since amongst the refugees were her family.

Not long before her identity was exposed when an investigation was launched after the incident where he protects the people from the missile, Yerin was convinced by the reconstructed government to be a spy who works under the Sword Hero and gathers some intel about his faction in exchange for the government protecting her family. Although, the reconstructed government wants her to put her life on the line so that she would protect the hope of humanity.

### Original Timeline

In chapters 61 & 62, it is revealed that in the original timeline, before Seongjun Lee traveled back in time and began altering events, Yerin was one of the rebel warriors who opposed that world's 9-Warriors. After the war, she eventually started a romantic relationship with Hwarang Hong, where they end up having a daughter.

## Synopsis

### The Reconstruction Government Raid

Later when Garam Lee track down the reconstructed government base she and the 6 heroes went into the base to slaughter the remaining refugees of South Korea. After Jeongsu Park and Kim fought each other in critical condition Yerin Ma later betrayed the faction and assist the injured Park and fled to a remote island of Indonesia while 50,000 people were sacrificed.

## Powers & Abilities

### Magic Hero

Yerin Ma has been stated by various characters, including herself, to be the weakest of all the Warriors in the series. This mainly stems from warriors typically only being slightly stronger than their respective Demon Lord, and hers being fairly weak.

Her power originates from the crystal, Sweet Crystal, in her staff, being unable to use any of her abilities without it and instantly reverting to her human form if it is destroyed. She is also noted to have a weak physique, as she never bothered to train and exceed her limits on account of how relatively easy she had it in the other world.

Using the staff she received, Yerin could perform various magic-candy-themed attacks, skills, and spells upon transforming into her hero form.

* **Sugar Dust Stream:** Using her staff, Yerin could fire a pink blast of magical energy and candy at her target. Yerin herself could manipulate the overall power of the blast itself can be increased and its overall destructive power by increasing the amount of power she puts into it.
* **Candy-Destroyer:** A ability where Yerin transforms the tip of her magic staff into a spiked hammer to pulverize her opponent.
* **Molten Lava Cake: Caramel:** A trap ability that Yerin can pre-prepare in advance. This ability allows Yerin to create a hidden landmine of molten caramel that she can activate and detonate at will once her target is within range. The trap itself covers her opponent in molten caramel that immediately hardens once it touches the air, paralyzing whoever is covered in it and leaving them helpless to defend against her attack.

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* **Partial Transformation:** Later, after the Vampire Hero destroyed the jewel of her staff, Yerin lost access to her original powers as the Magic Hero. Forcing her to improvise by stabbing the jewels remains into her fists in order to partially transform herself and regain access to her powers.
* **Magic Robot:** Later, due to no longer having her staff, Yerin instead made use of a robot as her new weapon and likely as a new way to channel her powers as the Magic Hero. As shown from the Robot’s design, it was likely built using the leftover parts of the previous Reformation Hero, Marie Stevenson’s Robot, fused together with Nyancaron.

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### Familiar

* **Nyancaron:** Nyancaron is Yerin’s partner and the one to originally give her the Magic Staff that grants her, her powers. Nyancaron itself takes the form of a floating white cat head in between two pink macarons with a tail. Nyancaron itself also acts as Yerin’s familiar and can give her assistance in battle.
	+ **Strong Strong:** As seen during her fight against the Vampire Hero, Nyancaron can transform its arms and legs into a bulky-muscular form to fight.
	+ **Dessert Strike:** An attack where Nyancaron focuses and pumps their remaining power into their arm in order to to transform it into muscular fist to deliver a powerful punch.

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## Trivia

* Given the fact that Korea was already being attacked by the other 9-Warriors when she returned, it's possible that Yerin is the second-to-last Hero to be summoned and returned to her home world after the Spear Hero.
* According to Narak's Q&A session with Yongdol Gallery, it was clarified that the difference between Yerin Ma's World of Magic and Yuseong's World of Magic is that Yerin Ma is the world of magical girls.