Yamazaki Makoto

**Makoto Yamazaki** (山崎 誠) is a police officer on Hyakki Island and an alumn of Hyakki Academy

## Appearance

Yamazaki appears to be a being made up of various white bandages with a basic shape of a face, without eyes. He wears a police uniform, and wears a hat with most of his outfits.

Whenever he goes out into human society, he takes on the appearance of Akira Takahashi and makes the illusion of them being twins

## Personality

Yamazaki is very kind, wanting to protect all of the students at Hyakki Academy out of trouble. When he was growing up, youkai society didn't have very many laws, which spurred him to become a police officer. He was tied up for being a doppelganger, so he holds the laws close to his heart and likely wishes for all of the kids to have a safe place to live. He is very quick to arresting Haruaki on multiple occasions, usually believing that he's sexually harassing the students. Whenever it comes to criminals, Yamazaki is ruthless, transforming into whoever he needs to in order to catch them.

Yamazaki, however, can get frustrated easily when it comes to dealing with Takahashi. Though he gives off the impression that he dislikes his carefree and often terrifying nature, he knows Takahashi is a good person underneath and doesn't truly want him to act differently.

## Abilities

He can transform into anyone who he has seen and can mimic their voices as well. Only people like dodomeki and animal youkai can really tell who he is when he turns into another person.

## Relationships

### Akira Takahashi

He and Akira are childhood friends. Yamazaki was essentially arrested and set to be killed by his village as a kid, before almost being requested to turn into another kid in order to curse him. This kid was Akira, due to the village fearing him because of his obsession with knowledge about things that leads him to doing very violent actions. Akira overheard them and cut Yamazaki down from the tree he was tied to and after interrogating him on the full extent of his abilities, Akira offered to let Yamazaki stay at his house.

He and Akira attended Hyakki Academy together and have been friends ever since they met that night. Yamazaki finds Akira's antics a bit tiring, though he does care about Akira underneath his frustration and believes that instead of him cursing Akira, Akira instead cursed him in a way.

### Haruaki Abe

Yamazaki has caught Haruaki multiple times in inopportune moments, usually finding him saying or doing something that most would consider sexual harassment, usually leading him to having to arrest Haruaki.He even arrests Haruaki preemptively, thinking he's trying to turn himself in for some crime he's committed. Though he's created this idea of Haruaki in his mind, he is willing to aid Haruaki in getting Nyuudou back from his father

### Kuniko Utagawa

Utagawa and Yamazaki get along rather well. It seems that Yamazaki knew of her existence for quite a while, even dropping in on occasion after her creation to help Takahashi with raising her and helping her study. During Parent Observation Day, when it seemed that Takahashi would be unable to show up for Utagawa due to a surgery, he came in his stead to watch Utagawa and report back to Takahashi.

### Kurai Takahashi

It doesn't seem like Kurai and Yamazaki get along very well. Yamazaki was close with Akira growing up, likely being the reason Kurai isn't too fond of him, since he fears and hates Akira. When Yamazaki mentions Akira to Kurai, this makes Kurai beat him up and leaving him behind to find Haruaki during the Renren Arc.

### Izuna Hatanaka

Hatanaka and Yamazaki get along relatively well. Yamazaki works as a police officer on the campus, so he has likely met Hatanaka many times. Sometime during Mame and Tama's first year, when Yamazaki thinks about Hatanaka and says that he reminds him of someone from his childhood. However, Hatanaka doesn't understand this because Yamazaki is 140 years old while Hatanaka is only 28.

## Trivia

* The type of youkai he is, a doppelganger, seems to not be native to Japan
* He, Akira, and Ibara were students under Karasuma Ranmaru