Asa

**Asa** (旦) is the father of Tsubomi Yozakura, he is also the earliest known ancestor of the Yozakura Family.

Due to his inability to help those around him in the past, he seeks to use Tsubomi's gifts to fulfill his own desires by any means necessary. He can be considered the true antagonist of the story, due to his ambition to "harvest" the bodies of his descendants.

## Appearance

Asa is a man with a normal build. He has long, light-colored; white, slicked back hair; thin eyebrows; and prominent, round eyes.

Asa wears a pure white trench coat with a white shirt and has a tie and earrings with a sun design.

## Personality

Asa is an apathetic man. Cold and calculating, he will do whatever it takes to fulfill his research. In the past, he cruelly experimented on his only daughter, Tsubomi, using her body parts and organs to produce potent medicines. In the present, he views his descendants as medical plants, intending to harvest them once they have "ripened". Asa was offended when Rei and Momo rebelled against him, but he isn't fazed when his existence is revealed to his current descendants.

## History

Around 300 years from the present story, Asa was a doctor who travelled the country with his daughter, Tsubomi, who had the power to heal others people.

They would go to different villages, using her powers to help those you're in need.

However, do to his feelings of powerless at his inability to help others despite his medical knowledge and in a desperate attempt at saving more lives, Asa proceeded to continuously dismember and dissect Tsubomi; using her body as ingredients for medicine which he would give out.

Eventually, their various miraculous escapades had garnered the attention of the emperor himself who gave them clan status, thus creating what would eventually become the Yozakura Family.

## Plot

Asa first appears following Kyoichiro and Taiyo's victory against the rouge Yozakura patriarch, Momo, using his mysterious ability which turns the whole area white as well as effortlessly disabling the eldest Yozakura son's Blooming before whisking away the body of Momo and the heart of Rei, stating how the Yozakura Family's blood is precious and he'll keep it safe and useful for the good of the world.

However, Taiyo when tries to prevent him from taking Rei's heart, Asa quickly subdues the young man using his aforementioned unknown power which turns Taiyo's body white and renders him unable to do anything.

At this point, Kyoichiro reactivates his Void and threatens to unleash it on the mysterious man, but Asa explains that he has no intention of harming them, stating how he set the Yozakura's loose on the world and now he needs to remove them so they can bloom someplace where they belong; he then effortlessly removes Kyoichiro's Void from around himself before the whole area becomes engulfed in a giant explosion, with Asa being nowhere in sight.

A few days later, Asa shows up, somehow bypassing the security at the Yozakura mansion, in order to collect Tsubomi.

## Abilities and Skills

While little is know about him, Asa has displayed a hereto unknown ability that's capable of turning seemingly anything within his immediate vicinity into a white, stone-like substance, effecting both organic and inorganic matter as well as being able to completely disable Kyoichiro's Void.

Asa has also shown the ability to easily shatter even the nigh-impenetrable defenses of Kyoichiro's "**Goddess' Web**" technique, although it is unclear whether this feat is a result of his own physical capabilities or it's also connected with his ability to make things "White".

As stated by Asa, he had studied extensively in various fields of medicine and extensively studied and researched his daughter's body to learn more about her unique physiology. In fact, his knowledge is great enough that he's even capable of creating an entire human being by using the cells of his daughter, stating to have made Momo Yozakura.

## Gallery

Asa and his family watching the wedding.Asa greets AlexandryuAsa uses Tsubomi's tears on a potato.
## Trivia

* He has the odd tendency to offer food to anyone he introduces himself to, be it friend or foe. Despite wanting to harvest his descendants, he attempted to offer them his favourite brand of Yokan jelly (Taiga Ya). When Alexandryu arrives at Asa's hideout, the latter offers him curry he cooked as a welcome dinner.

## References

1. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 165, pages 8-12.
2. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 160, page 16.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 160, page 11.
4. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 160, page 10.
5. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 160, pages 6-7.
6. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 160, page 15.
7. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 160, page 8.
8. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 165, pages 8-12.