Marino Hyoudou

Marino Hyoudou is a Magician from Grauzauberer, a Master Ninja of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan of the Hajinmon Faction. She is also the mother of Rio Hyoudou, and the older sister of Issei Hyoudou of AxA universe. She is also Mitternacht Asmodeus's contracted magician.

## Appearance

Marino is an extremely beautiful woman with a very youthful appearance, appearing to be in her early twenties despite being in her 40s. She has long wavy dark brown hair and hazel eyes, she has an athletic body with a very voluptuous, slim, and mature figure that is described as outstanding. Her body measurements are [B100-W57-H92 cm];height is 163cm.

## Personality

Marino is an extremely sweet and kind woman with an outgoing personality. As a mother, she is extremely doting on her son Rio whom she likes to pamper and hug.

Marino is extraordinarily intelligent and wise despite her easygoing nature.

## Powers & Abilities

**Master Magician:** Marino is an outstanding genius master magician, her skill and talent rivalling Lavinia Reni of DxD universe, she was able to learn and mastered magic extremely quickly, having completely mastered all the Ninja Magic spells and knowledge of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan when she was still a Hajinmon Greater Ninja as a teenager at age 16, unprecedentedly surpassing her fellow Hajinmon ninjas including her Ninja Magic teachers in just two years after she joined, she also studied Western Magic in the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Library of Magic which she was able to become a self-taught master of western magic prior to her membership in Grauzerberer. She later joined the Grauzauberer at 17, further refining her overall magic skills and knowledge, within a year she quickly become one of Grauzerberer's best Magicians by the age of eighteen. She also learnt Shinto magic and Onmyoudou magic from Ouka. Her magic abilities were greatly enhanced by Amaterasu's blessings.

* **Elemental Magic**
* **Summoning Magic:** Marino is adept in summoning magic, having made pacts with supernatural creatures which she can summon such as a Phoenix, a Thunderbird, a Fenghuang, a Roc and a Yatagarasu.
* **Enhancement Magic:** Marino has exceptional skill in physical enhancement magic, which she frequently used to superhumanly enhanced her physical strength and speed for physical combat.

**Master Hand to Hand Combatant:** After she began training in Hajinmon Ninjutsu, Marino discovered she has natural exceptional talent for martial arts, as she progress astoundingly quickly in her Ninjutsu training, far greater than most of her fellow Hajinmon Ninjas, becoming a Greater Ninja by the age 16 and a Master Ninja by the age of 17. Due to having far superior martial arts talent than most humans, Marino could retain master level of fighting skills without any long term training. In hand to hand combat, she can combined martial arts with senjutsu, touki or magic to enhanced the power of her physical attacks

**Master Swordswoman:** Marino is one of the most talented swordswoman in the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan, her immense creativity and versaility in wielding her Spirit Sword Beniiro Kouyoku makes her a more formidable swordswoman than most of her fellow Master Ninjas. She has attained immense mastery of mind, technique and body in her swordsmanship, and was acknowledged by Ouka to be flawless.

* **Hokushin Ittō-ryū:** A koryu style of Kenjutsu from the late Edo period which focuses on simple and fast techniques without unnecessary movements, emphasizing simultaneous balance of defense and offense. Marino is one of the most talented masters of this sword style, having fully mastered all of Hokushin Itto-ryu Kenjutsu techniques at age 17 including inventing her own techniques based on this swordsmanship style which makes full use of her personal strengths and abilities.
	+ **Kamusari** (神避り): Holding Beniiro Kouyoku with her right hand, Marino imbued her spirit sword with magic and touki and swing it horizontally, creating a powerful touki and magic enhanced slash to strike her opponent.

Immense Strength: Due to having intensively trained and developed her body to uttermost perfection along with receiving Amaterasu's blessings which enhanced her physical prowess. Marino has immense physical strength. She can also use touki and physical enhancement magic to enhanced her strength further.

**Immense Speed:** Marino is extraordinarily fast and agile due to her incredible athletic prowess she developed since childhood and her intense Ninjutsu training as a Hajinmon kunoichi. In physical combat, Marino relied on speed and superior footwork to defeat enemies. Her speed can be vastly enhanced by touki and physical enhancement magic. Her speed has also been enhanced from Amaterasu's blessings.

**Senjutsu Master:** Marino is an extraordinarily talented Senjutsu master with advanced mastery and understanding of Ki. Her Senjutsu mastery even surpasses Kuroka a Nekoshou. She further improved her Senjutsu skills via practising Pranayama. Her dedicated daily practise and superior mastery of Senjutsu, immensely enhanced her life force, body and overall longevity. Her blessing from Amaterasu enhanced her spiritual affinity with the sun, allowing her to draw solar based ki

* **Touki**

Semi-Immortality: After consuming the enchanted fruits of Mount Penglai, Marino gained eternal youth, becoming a semi-immortal. Though she is still vulnerable to mortal wounds as she would die if killed.

**Genius Intellect:** One of the most talented geniuses in Japan and one of the most intelligent humans in AxA universe, Marino is an exceptional genius who is extraordinarily multi-talented in numerous academic fields particularly the arts. Even from a tender age according to her late parents and younger brother, she is noted as an extremely rare child prodigy who became exceptionally talented at any artistic and intellectual activities she chose to take part in, completely surprising her parents whom were ordinary people.

* **Expert Scientist:** When Marino was still schooling, she learnt science in elementary and junior high school and became particularly interested in biology due to her love for nature. After she stopped schooling, she continued to increased her biology knowledge by reading biology books or browsing the internet, become an excellent autodidact biologist by her early 20s
* **Master Scholar:** Marino is an immensely intellectual polymath scholar, being an academic genius during her years in elementary school and junior highschool. After she stopped formal schooling at 14 due to her parents' death, she began studying occultism under the Mugen Tenshin Ninja. in addition to quickly learning and mastering various occult knowledge about the supernatural world such as different species of supernatural beings and magic under the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan, Marino continued to read widely from books or internet in her spare time and gained immense general knowledge on many subjects through self-education. She is also an enthusiastic Japanologist specialized in studying Japanese culture, history, literature, art and Shintoism
	+ **Literary Mastery:** Marino is a genius literary scholar with immense knowledge and broad understanding of Japanese literature, Chinese literature and Western literature, particularly on novels and poetry. Her knowledge on Japanese literature is frequently demonstrated on her Shodo calligraphy which she wrote numerous calligraphy manuscripts of Japanese novels or poetry she had previously read from memory. She is also highly well-versed in English literature, Spanish literature, Chinese literature, French literature, Italian literature and German literature.
	+ Expert Linguist: Marino is extremely fluent in English and her native Japanese which she had excelled in since elementary school. Through the internet and language textbooks, She also self-taught herself how to read and understand Chinese, Italian, French, German, Spanish and Latin with expert proficiency.

**Master Chef:** Marino is an magnificient master chef with cooking talents and skills of the highest caliber. Having first learnt cooking from her mother as a child which she further improved through years of culinary research after her mother's death by reading cook books and internet while also learning from a number of master cooks she befriended including Ouka, Alyssa, Reine, Gongsun Sheng, Han Baek-yeong, Moja. According to Issei, Marino's cooking skills has completely surpassed their mother as Marino's home cooked food taste so wonderful, their mother's homemade cooking cannot be compared anymore, being on pair with the greatest gourmet chefs in the Human World. Marino's culinary repertoire is immense, including Japanese cuisine, Yoshoku cuisine, Chinese cuisine, Korean cuisine, Italian cuisine, French cuisine, German cuisine, British cuisine, American cuisine, Spanish cuisine, Russian cuisine and Austrian cuisine.

* **Camembert Carbonara:** Italian Carbonara pasta made with Camembert cheese
* **Tsukimi Carbonara Soba:** A Japanese-Italian fusion Carbonara noodle dish which uses boiled soba instead of pasta cooked with turkey bacons in a frying pan before being coated in a sauce made with lots of eggs and camembert cheese topped with an onsen tamago she bought from her weekly visits to onsens.
* **Straw-Rasp Double Berry in Yogurt:** A very easy to make dish, consist of fresh strawberries and raspberries mixed with yogurt, Marino often prepared this for breakfast for herself, son and her husband.
* **Shimeji, Chicken and Tofu Congee:** A congee made of konbu dashi, shimeji mushrooms, bite sized deboned chicken thighs, grated daikon, spring onions and tofu, Marino often prepared this dish for breakfast or dinner.
* **Sobayaki:** A variation of Yakisoba which Marino thought of which uses actual buckwheat soba noodles instead of Chinese wheat noodles like the original yakisoba. Buckwheat soba stir-fried with thinly sliced pork, finely chopped cabbage, onions, and carrots flavoured with mayonnaise sauce and tonkatsu sauce.
* **Pork Minestrone Pasta:** A healthy and hearty Italian minestrone pasta soup made of soymilk, pork bone broth, thinly sliced pork belly, almonds and mixed vegetables consist of tomatoes, celery, carrots, spinach, cabbages and onions with fusilli pasta.
* Nikujaga: Marino's homemade nikujaga which finely sliced cabbage are added to improve nutrition.
* Pot au feu
* Pizza: Marino is extremely talented and creative in making pizza which she learned from a professional Italian chef and Reine.
* **Sencha Prawn Congee:** A dish inspired by tea congee and Longjing prawns,made by boiling sencha tea leaves in hot water in a pan to make a thick sencha tea infusion before removing the used tea leaves with a sieve, then add Japanese rice, deshelled prawns, beaten eggs and sake to cooked a tea flavoured congee.
* **Gobo-Tamagoyaki:** Tamagoyaki made from beaten eggs mixed with finely sliced burdock root, mirin and soy sauce.
* **Vegetable Soup:** A vegetable soup made of cabbage, carrots and daikon. Though simple, it is extremely delicious with the flavour of each vegetable brought out very well while perfectly harmonized with each other.
* **Kozuyu Shoyu Ramen:** A special homemade ramen made using kozuyu as its base. The broth is made from pressure cooking chicken bones, conpoy, oven roasted vegetables consist of burdock roots, green beans, carrot and celery, roasted shiitake mushroom and cloud ear fungus. Seasoned with kaeshi. Topped with grilled thinly sliced chicken. The soup has incredibly strong flavour derived from chicken bones and conpoy, enhanced by the roasted vegetables's sweetness.
* Gyokai Ramen:
* Japanese Curry Rice: Marino’s homemade Japanese curry rice, she had researched to make many different variations.
	+ Chicken Curry: Homemade Japanese chicken curry made using debone chicken thigh, medium spicy instant curry roux, konbu dashi, sautéed onions and minced garlic, potatoes, carrot, brocoli, gingko nuts, tomatoes and table olives are added as secret ingredients.
	+ Tamagoyaki Chicken Curry: Homemade Japanese chicken curry topped with an uncut tamagoyaki omelette made using konbu dashi, mirin, instant curry roux, additional spices, yogurt, diced debone chicken thigh, sautéed onions, shimeji mushroom, potatoes and carrots. The Tamagoyaki which is made according to Marino's recipe also goes well with the curry.
	+ Pork Curry: Homemade Japanese pork curry, made using broth from pressure cooking pork bones with garlic and vinegar, extra spicy instant curry roux, additional shichimi spices, sauted mirepox of diced onions, celery and carrots, pan seared pork belly, additional sliced carrots, onions and potatoes are added last.
	+ Salmon Curry: Inspired by Ishikari nabe, homemade curry that is made using salmon as the main ingredient along with tofu, daikon, cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, green onions cooked in a broth made from boiling salmon bones mixed with konbu dashi then mixed with instant curry roux and additional spices. It is slightly similar to curry nabe albeit, the sauce is much thicker as it is meant to serve over rice.
	+ Sausage Curry: Homemade curry made using stir fried bacon, cabbage, carrot, potatoes, shiitake dashi, shiitake mushrooms, instant curry roux and finally plenty of sausage the main ingredient.
* Birthday Cake: Marino’s handmade birthday cake which is extremely delicious, she could make in different flavours such as strawberry, chocolate, vanilla or matcha, topped with fruits such as strawberry, kiwi or mango. Marino had made one for the birthday of Mio Ichinose.
* Kimchi-jjigae: Marino's homemade kimchi-jjigae using konbu dashi, doenjang, soju, kimchi, garlic, pork, tofu and shiitake mushrooms.
* Lobster Nabe: Nabemono made using lobster as main ingredient in a konbu based broth flavoured with sea salt, alongside wakame, daikon, nappa cabbage, shirataki noodles and oyster mushroom.
* Carp based Kake Soba: A special soba soup which Marino came up with, the broth is made from the bones and head of a carp, mixed with konbu dashi, dark shoyu, mirin and aromatics such as garlic, parley and cinnamon. Lemon juice and zest are then added as seasoning.
* Sukiyaki: Marino's homemade Kanto style sukiyaki the warishita is made using her personal recipe consist of sesame seeds, goji berries, garlic, paprika, shoyu, honey, a glass of red wine, mirin, orange zest, chrysanthemum tea mixed with dashi.

**Master Musician:** Marino is extremely talented in music since childhood and is a genius violinist, having started playing the violin at the age of 3 which she already had such magnificent talent for she could play beautiful music by musical improvisation and largely imitating what she had heard from music performances on television or music recordings, before her parents got her to formally learn music from a violin teacher at age 4. Though she stopped taking music lessons on the violin after her parents were murdered when she was 14, she continued to enjoyed playing the violin as a life long hobby throughout her life, learning countless new songs and violin solos from reading music books or browsing the internet for violin sheet music, even managed to successfully played many difficult violin pieces on her first try by sight-reading. Many of her friends and especially her son and younger brother enjoyed listening to her melodious music which is described as very soothing. Marino is also a brilliant composer who is largely self-taught, having learnt the basics of musical composition when she was a violinist-in-training in her early adolsence before self-taught herself composing and writing music by studying many books on musical compositions and browsing the internet after she stopped her music lessons, eventually writing her first composition at age 15, Marino composed exclusively for the solo violin, throughout her life, she have wrote over a hundred music compositions of her own creation, many of her compositions can impressed master musicians and composers. Marino is also a self-taught master pianist, simply by reading her son's piano method books, she could played the piano almost as skillfully as her son who is a genius virtuoso pianist. Even Reine and Mitternacht were also impressed by her musical talent, which Reine noted Marino could become Japan's finest violinist and a world-class virtuoso if she had a formal music education in a music school.

**Master Artist:** Marino is also an extraordinary all-rounder artist in both Nihonga painting and Japanese calligraphy. Marino liked drawing and watercolour painting as a child and already showed great amount of prodigious artistic talent as an amateur child artist. At 16 years old, she became interested in Nihonga painting and Japanese calligraphy as she taught herself how to paint and write calligraphy by studying Nihonga paintings and Shodo calligraphies in her spare time. Eventually, she befriended Ouka at age 21 who became her art mentor who inspired many of her works, Marino became a full-fledged Japanese art master.

* **Master Painter:** Noted by Ouka herself as a genius painter, Marino has immense artistic talent in Nihonga painting on pair with the greatest Nihonga masters which Ouka stated her skills are superior to her former art teacher Takeuchi Seiho who is one of the pioneers of Nihonga.
	+ **Father and Mother:** A Nihonga portrait of her late parents Gorou and Miki Hyoudou wearing traditional Japanese clothings, noted to be very life like.
	+ **Receiving A Precious Child:** A Nihonga self-portrait of herself in an elegant kimono holding her newborn son Rio, painted to express her love for Rio three months after giving birth.
* **Master Calligrapher:** Marino is extremely talented in Japanese calligraphy, self-taught by first imitating the works of any Shodo masters she could find and copying Japanese literature and poetry in an artistic manner before developing her own style under Ouka's guidance based on the calligraphy of Yamaoka Tesshu and Kusakabe Meikaku. Marino's calligraphy is graceful, strong and steady. Her calligraphic works are mainly copies of Japanese novels and Waka poetry.

**Yoga Master:** Marino is a self-taught master of yoga which she extensively practised since she was a teenager to supplement her intense Ninjutsu training and to greatly improved her overall health, physical strength, stamina and flexibility. She can also significantly improved her mind and mastery of Senjutsu via the yogic practise of Pranayama.

**Master Brewer:** Marino is a master of Japanese tea ceremony.

**Master Physician:** A largely self-taught medic from reading books on medicine and healthcare, Marino has immense medical knowledge on western medicine, Japanese Kampo and Traditional Chinese medicine. She is an expert dietician and a master of acupressure and moxibustion. She also combine medical knowledge with medical magic and healing magic to administered more effective treatment for illness and injuries.

**Master Sportswoman:** Being very active by nature, Marino love sports and was an outstanding athlete since childhood in cycling, running, and swimming which she enjoyed as her lifelong hobbies. Even while undergoing intense Ninjutsu training during her youth as a Hajinmon kunoichi, she still extensively practised these sports both for recreation and as form of cross-training to effectively trained her body. In adulthood, Marino is still immensely fit and athletic as she still regularly cycle, run and swim to improve her overall health.

**Master Huntress**

**Master Fisherwoman**

## Equipment

**Beniiro Kouyoku** (紅色凰翼, Crimson Phoenix Wing): Marino's personalized Spirit Sword in the form of a Shinogi-Zukuri Style Katana with a mokko type tsuba with a simple design of a bird roosting on a tree branch and a red tsuka hilt.

* Primary Release: In Primary Release form Beniiro Kouyouku transform into a beautiful crimson red tachi with a vivid scarlet blade, a gold and black tsuba with an very ornate design of an encircling phoenix pecking its tail and a crimson tsuka hilt.
* Pure Fire Manipulation: Beniiro Kouyoku, reflecting Marino's spiritual power and personality, is an extremely powerful and unique Fire type Spirit Sword, able to create intense flames of purification, making it particularly effective against evil spirits, undead and creatures of darkness such as devils and youkais.

**Jewelled Branch of Horai:** One of the five legendary treasures of the Tale of Princess Kaguya, Marino acquired it when she visited Penglai Island during her youth, taken from one of the jeweled trees which grew on Penglai, which she fashioned into a Shinto Gohei wand using magic and alchemy, further imbued with powerful magic. Its mythical properties along with the special magic Marino imbued in it made it a very powerful wand for enhancing Shinto magic and rituals.

## Trivia

* Marino is born from the second pregnancy of Miki Hyoudou of AxA Universe, thus her DxD universe counterpart does not exist as DxD Universe's Miki Hyoudou's second pregnancy ended in miscarriage.
* Marino is eight years older than her younger brother Issei and five years older than her deceased husband Zenshin
* Marino gave birth to her only child Rio when she was 23 years old.
* Marino deeply love bathing in onsen, Japanese hot springs, so much that once a week on Saturday she would use teleportation magic to travel to famous onsens in Japan particularly Kusatsu, Hakone, Izu and Atami to bath for at least two hours on each visit. She would practise Senjutsu breathing meditation while bathing in these onsen as she felt the enhanced relaxation from being immersed in the hot spring waters allow her to open up her mind and body's sensitivity to nature based ki from the atmosphere and onsen waters which she could efficiently absorb to further boost her health and constituition. Issei even believed one of the reasons Marino looks so much younger than her biological age is due to her weekly onsen bathing which vastly enhanced her health.
* Marino's favourite food are
	+ Cream stew
	+ Soba
	+ Tofu
	+ Nigirizushi particularly salmon and sea bream
	+ All kinds of vegetables
	+ All kinds of fruits
	+ Chrysanthemum chicken carrot soup
	+ Mizutaki
	+ Straw-Rasp double berry yogurt
	+ Pot-au-feu
	+ Paella
	+ All kinds of wagashi particularly kusa mochi, oshiruko and dango
	+ Sachertorte
	+ Pork minestrone pasta
* Marino's favourite drinks are
	+ Warm drinking water (which she drinks at least fifteen glasses of warm drinking water a day to improve her health and complexion, five in the morning, five in the afternoon and three in the evening, the last two at night)
	+ Milk (She drinks 3 glasses of milk daily for strong healthy bones two in the morning during breakfast, and the last glass before going to bed)
	+ Mixed vegetable juice particularly carrot and cucumber juice (which she drinks a glass everyday in the morning to boost and maintain her health)
	+ Chrysanthemum tea
	+ Mineral water
	+ Matcha (which she frequently drinks while enjoying wagashi)
* Marino's hobbies are hatha yoga, Pranayama breathing meditation, misogi, bathing in onsens, cycling, running, swimming, reading, culinary research, playing the violin, Japanese calligraphy, Nihonga painting and studying magic.
* Marino is very fond of reading books, particularly books on magic, Western esotericism and Shintoism.
* She also have a hobby of Japanese tea ceremony.
* Marino is highly health-conscious as she not only frequently exercise to improve her physical and mental health including running 30km early in the morning before practising yoga twice both in the morning and evening on a daily basis, she paid great attention to her personal diet and the diet of her family, when preparing homecooked meals for herself and family, she took special care in researching and selecting the most healthy and nourishing ingredients, careful usage of seasonings as well as extensively research specific cooking techniques to turn them into delicious yet healthy gourmet meals. Thus, she can make food that are not only incredibly delicious but also the most healthy and nutritious. Once every two weeks, she personally would practise water fasting, spent an entire day drinking only plain water without consuming any food to cleanse her physical constitution, while doing Senjutsu breathing meditation and yoga to absorb large amount of nature based ki to enhanced her life force and body .
* Marino prefer to used honey and cinnamon to substitute sugar in her cooking particularly when baking confectionary
* As a chef, Marino like to use pressure cooking to make bone broth or stew.
* Marino almost never drinks alcohol, as she bought European wine and Japanese sake solely to used it for cooking. On rare occasions, when she does drink alcohol during festive or celebratory events, she strictly limit herself to drink only one glass.
* As a tea master, Marino preferred preferred Raku and Ido chawan in Japanese tea ceremony.
* Though the Hyoudou family including her parents are Buddhist, Marino has a very strong affinity for Shintoism. Marino even admitted one of her dreams was to be a Shinto priestess in a Shinto shrine. She is an avid practitioner of misogi as a hobby and also painted many Nihonga masterpieces depicting Shinto gods and goddess to reflect her Shinto faith, among the Shinto gods and goddesses she has painted are Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo, Ame no Uzume, Ōkuninushi and Takemikazuchi. She even set up a Kamidana in her home apartment for Shinto worship.
* Marino practise misogi naked twice at home everyday, the first misogi bathing in cold water with water magic very early in the morning after waking up before going for her daily 30km morning run and the second misogi at night before going to bed. Occasionally, she would use teleportation magic to travel to sacred waterfalls, lakes and rivers alone to perform misogi.
* Marino received the blessing of Amaterasu the Shinto Sun Goddess, granting her enhanced physical and magical abilities along with a spiritual affinity for the sun.
* Marino has collected many magic treasure and mythical artifacts as a result of travelling to various mythical locations with her fellow Magicians of Grauzerberer and her husband, among them the Jeweled Branch of Horai and the Swallow's Cowrie Shell.
* Marino is noted an affinity for mythical birds, having made contracts with legendary mythical birds such as a Phoenix.
* Marino has gained eternal youth from consuming the enchanted fruits of Mount Penglai at age 23 two months before she became pregnant with Rio, though she is only semi-immortal as she will die if mortally wounded as seen in the case of her husband Zenshin who also consumed the fruit at age 18 gaining eternal youth, but died years later after being fatally wounded during a mission as a Mugen Tenshin Ninja.