Senkō

**Senkō**(閃光) is a character who debuts in *Shinobi Master Senran Kagura: New Link*. She is a second-year middle school student at Gessen Girls' Academy.

## Profile

### Appearance

Senkō has silver hair and green eyes like her half-sister. She wears a deep dark purple and black suit composed of a short vest over a black and dark purple corset is made from a cotton knit with gold bias down the front. The frogs are gold braid looped over a gold button (all 5). She has black and dark purple long sleeves on her vest, with black losange plates. Around her waist is a dark purple colored and black lined feathery designed waist cape held by a gold belt. She has long slimming dark purple pants on top of dark purple boots. The pentagram symbol is found on several part of the outfit.

### Personality

Like her half-sister, Gekkō, she pretends to be a perfect student in Middle-School and is thus admired by her schoolmates, through that side of personality is mainly a facade to hide her true personality.

Actually, being the serious half-sister of Gekkō, Senkō has a cold and brutal personality, turning back from nothing to achieve her goals. Being slightly fanatical and having a strong drive to Justice, she felt along her sister empty until she found Kurokage's diary hidden in the school's library, discovering his extreme ideals of Justice, which she made hers with her sister. It's only after losing to Yumi that she adopted Kurokage's "New" Justice.

## Relationships

### Gekkō

Gekkō is her half-sister. They work as a pair and plan together.

### Hanzo Team

In the beginning of the New Link anime series, she ambush with her sister and capture all of Hanzo team except Asuka that they leave in a torn clothing, openly contradicting her ideal of Justice. When they lose the Shinobi Masters, and after Hanzo team was freed, they presented their excuses to them for their brutal methods.

### Fubuki

They found Fubuki by following Kurokage diary's indications on mountains, and presented themselves to her as his admirators, thus Fubuki took care of them and directed them to destroy all shinobies.

At the end of the Shinobi Masters, Fubuki abandons them after they put doubt on her methods. They try to fight her once, ending up on a clear defeat, stripped, and try to soften Fubuki at the very end by both touching her hand, but end up knocked out by her Yoma nature.

### Yumi

Yumi fought and defeated them with Asuka at the end of the Shinobi Masters. When they attempt suicide in a river due to feeling abandoned and seeing that their ideals of justice were wrong, Yumi held their hand in sorts to explain her justice.

## Background

Senkō was with her half-sister the archetype of the perfect middle school student, even having influence at the Student Council, and are admired by their schoolmates. Actually, they felt lost, without any goal, and found by some hasard on Kurokage's diary hidden in the library, in which they discover his manichean and murderous ideals, and adopt them. Following the diary's indications, they travel to the top of mountains to find Fubuki and present themselves as Kurokage's admirators, making that Fubuki take them as her henchwomen. From that point, they obey to Fubuki's instructions thinking that they were protecting and favoring Justice in the Shinobi world.