Shojo Hatsumi

**Hatsumi** Shojo (処条 **はつみ**) is a Taimanin.

She has only awoken to her Ninja Art recently and lacks full control.

## Personality

Born as a civilian, Hatsumi has a cheerful and upbeat character. She jokingly uses her charm, to get others help and is both motivated and adventures and follows a straight path.

She has a habit of visualizing her goals and aspirations, and has a piece of paper with the word "Taimanin" written on it in her special calligraphy display in her room.

As she has not grown up as a Taimanin, she is at times over her head and naive, viewing some fights still more as a game. Regardless, she is determent to grow, to pay respect to her now dead family and live up to their expectations, following her father's police man footsteps, and protect others. She is able to make friends with demons and can handle even weird situations surprisingly fast. At stress situations, she can lose her cool at times, still lacking the nerves, which causes her to tense up.

Hatsumi was specially interested in the story of Taimanin Inage, a simple farm girl civilian that became a dragon killer, and connected it to her own struggles. She can be emotional, and has some inner struggle and frustrations about, who she is and what she wants.

On her darker side, ⁣since her childhood, she had some darker urges or desires, to take what she wants, no matter what. While, she often reflects on taking a plush toy from a friend in her childhood, and knows this to be a bad act but felt good driven by a desire to take and act without restrain. Some dialogue, implies that though she is honest, she does live to the expectations of others and does at times not what she really wants. After, she awoke to her Ninja Art, and absorbed a magical blade, the strong impulse "that all she wants is hers" has grown secretly stronger. The effect, which also resembles an Inner Demon or Demonization, can be like a voice pushing her to corruption. In the worst case this can turn her fully murderous, as "a crush" becomes an obsessive desire to kill her lover. Because of that, she is in truth watched closely by the teachers in Gosha.

## History

A Taimanin of Gosha Academy, fused with a demonic blade.

The daughter, of a police officer, she had grown up as a normal civilian, not knowing about demons or Taimanin. In her childhood, at some point she had stolen her friend's plush doll, because "she wanted it" memories that sometimes emerge, specially under stress.

Got into an accident with demons, s, before she could be killed, her own Ninja Art awoke, and she fused with one of the demonic weapons, killing the demons in a trance state. The demonic weapon had a corrupting power on her, and Igawa Asagi and other Taimanin moved her to Gosha Village together with her mother, to watch over. Not knowing about the absorbed object, which could not be separated. Hatsumi tried to become a Taimanin, and protect others but struggled with the use of her own Ninja Art. The teachers looking over her concerned, she could turn into a demon herself in the worst case and would need to be put down. Hatsumi, from this point on, struggles to use her Ninja Art, specially confused about the "philosophy" and state of mind it required, but is motivated to become stronger.

Wishing to learn to become a Taimanin, she accompanied Fuuma Kotaro in Gosha Library, wishing to learn about the demon realm and the kings and queens of it. As Kotaro talked with Amamiya Shisui, about the past world, Kotaro could not remember, Hatsumi found documents connected to her own Ninja Art. As no other user was known in the village, Hatsumi was eager to learn more, and showed Kotaro the legend of Taimanin Natsu, which had defeated an Ancient Dragon, with the same Ninja Art.

Hoping to learn more, she convinced Fuuma Kotaro to assist, and both got the help of Aishu Hebiko and Uehara Shikanosuke (begrudgingly), Latticour the Brain Flayer also followed along interested in that defeated Ancient Dragon. On their way to the small village, the group connected as Kotaro talked about his own connections to Black and struggles with Ninja Arts. Hatsumi also stated, her desire to have a cute ninja costume like Mizuki Yukikaze, as she was not yet allowed to have one.

Once they arrived, Latticour noticed, a portal to another world, left open from abandoned Brain Flayer tech. The portal connected to the Demon Realm, and the group entered it. As they noticed where, they were, Hatsumi wished to continue hopeful to learn more. Kotaro left shortly and made a phone call on his own, learning from Asagi, that Hatsumi could potentially become a risk, and if she lost control needed to be viewed as an enemy. However, allowed Kotaro and the other to continue in the investigation in the hope to find something to help Hatsumi. As Kotaro returned, he did not tell the others about the details of the phone call for now.

The group spotted the Hell Knight apprentice of Nomad, Rola and saved her from a group of Dark Wasps. Rola, had given the Blood Lord a letter from Edwin Black, on a secret mission, which she shared by mistake and now had gotten a bit lost. The group helped her find the village, she had made a stop at, and the group continued together to check out the ruin of the dragon. Carla Cromwell herself disguised, followed the group in secret, noticing Fuuma Kotaro's strange connection to Black.

As the group, reached the ruins in a forest, they were surprised by a number of thieves, **Hatsumi** was taken hostage with everybody dropping their weapons for now. However, under fear and anger, her mind slipped away, and she took the knife of the thief without it able to draw blood. As the blade of the thief started to fuse with her, Carla arrived and used her power to remove the knife from her body. As the group of Fuuma noticed she was not an enemy, the thieves began to flee, but Carla killed them with her powerful blood magic. Introducing herself not as the Blood Lord but as "Witch Carla", Rola almost blew Carla's cover. Carla, herself stated, she together with Taimanin Natsu, had sealed the Ancient Dragon, Cuelebre but his seal recently had become unstable because of the thieves in the above ruin. As Hatsumi, awoke, still shaken she was told by Fuuma, what he talked about with Asagi. Fearful, she would become a demon, and that she no longer was human. She was calmed by the others, which stated that the lines between demon and human were thin, and "pure humans" did not exist.

The group continued deeper, to the dragon, with Carla preparing a plan, as she would create the sealing spell, the others needed to damage the head scale of the dragon and draw blood. Carla also gave Hatsumi words of encouragement, and further understanding about her art, on their way Hatsumi was able to kill a Brain Dog, which was feeding of the Miasma of the dragon.

The group fought against, the Cuelebre but were multiply unable to damage it properly. As Carla, asked Hatsumi if she desired power, she told her to listen to her inner voice, which wished to "take all" and follow it. Able to use the demonic blade from her body, Hatsumi gave the damaged beast a last cut, allowing Carla to reseal it. Though Fuuma, were worried about Hatsumi's somewhat evil look, she was happy to now be in control of her art, as Carla and the group split.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Magical Katana

* **Ninja Art**: "**Soul Art**" of "**Soul Object Devine Combination**", combines own body and soul, with the "soul of an object" or essence of matter. An object is first assimilated, which can be painful, this grants a user, the ability of mastery of an object or material. In practice, somebody fused with a knife could use his own arms, like a blade that can "cut" everything, and would master combat with it. This ability, comes with a risk for once own personality and danger if the object they are fused with is of demonic origin. Sometimes this can lead to, shifts of personality, Demonization and with too little control, inability to separate from the object.
* **Absorbed Demonic Weapon**: Absorbed a magical weapon into her body, which also contains a demonic entity. Can conjure the weapon from her body to fight.
* **Particle Control**: Taimanin are able to manipulate Taima Particles to enhance their physical strength, speed and defense. The particles are also used to counter demonic influences and strengthen damage to demons.

## Trivia

* She is the only user of the Ninja Art currently, in the village.
* In her "What If" event, she is fully overpowered by her inner voice, kills her torturous and after Fuuma arrives, wishes to kill him as well, so that he does not have anybody else than her.