Matsukaze Shizue

Matsukaze Choko *(Grandmother)*

Matsukaze Shizue (松風静江 Matsukaze Shizue) is the Lieutenant General of the Japanese Imperial Military and a Left Head Member of CERBERUS. She was accepted into the J.I.M when she was still 18 years old and is a war veteran who participated in the three year long war between America and Russia, aiding American Soldiers against the Korean Soldiers who allied with Russia when she was 19. She is professionally affiliated with both the Japanese Imperial Military and the United Nations Magic Cabal due to their status as the leaders of the Magic Society.

She joined CERBERUS as a representative of the Japanese Imperial Military after the Great Three-Way War, and is a user of magic. She then became a symbol that represents the friendly relationship between the Japanese Imperial Military and CERBERUS. She tends to keep contact with Kihara Eiichiro.

## Personality

Shizue has a short temper and can get easily angered when someone gets on her nerves. She is also sadistic and enjoys fighting, preferably charging headlong into melee combat. This recklessness is often frowned upon by her fellow members, and often results in getting her equipment damaged beyond repair. This was displayed when she was the first one to engage Eiichiro in combat, when he entered the J.I.M's headquarters without warning. She does not kill without reason (i.e. in self-defense or upon a superior's order) but relishes in cutting loose whenever she gets the chance.

In spite of her violent nature, Shizue also longs for a man in her life, specifically one in her age range. Although she does have feelings for Eiichiro, she feels like she shouldn't pursue her feelings until he turned 18 or graduated from high school. It is revealed that she has dated before, but said "dates" inevitably involved going to a martial arts dojo for a "friendly spar", and any boyfriend who failed to beat - or at worst, match - her was summarily dumped, on the spot showing that her man must be the ones that can beat the crap out of her, something that Eiichiro achieved extremely easily. She is also shown to be friendly with the girls at CERBERUS, having apparently gained their respect after they fought along side each other for a long time.

While in the beginning she has a reserved animosity towards Eiichiro, this has lessened over time. Especially after the Great Three-Way War. While she openly dislikes his otaku nature and laid-back personality, she definitely admires his strength in combat and judgement in the battlefield. Something that is highlighted multiple times by the her superiors and she displayed almost every time they meet, thinking herself a subordinate of Eiichiro's when she joined CERBERUS. While she later on agrees to herself in pursuing her feelings with Eiichiro, she made it so that she will use the time to get to know him better before marrying the moment he turns 18 (which was a decision based on her fear of not getting married by 30).

## Appearance

Shizue is a beautiful young woman of average stature (standing at 168cm or 5 feet, 6 inches) and beautiful flowing black hair that is tied in a half ponytail hanging on her right shoulder with a blue ribbon, square bangs that has a single long strand on the right side and chocolate brown eyes. While younger she use to be more tan and tend to dye her hair chocolate brown, however as she grew older she sort of lost her tan skin and she stopped dyeing her hair.

Outside of her military uniform, she tends to wear clothes with a combination of green, red, blue and yellow so that she can use her magic. Most of the time she wears a red shirt covered with a blue jacket or vest, she wears green underwear and yellow sneakers. It is through the clothing that she wears that she can conjure magic.

## Powers and Abilities

### Physical Abilities & Combat Prowess

As a member of the Japanese Imperial Military, Shizue is in top physical condition. She is a skilled combatant with both firearms and melee weapons. She can perform grueling tasks where others would normally give up; a further testament to her abilities. She is also an expert at marksmanship, hand to hand fighting, psychological warfare, airborne skills, diving, explosive use, and so forth. She is described as being able to sense danger better than anyone else, and is described as being able to subconsciously anticipate the attacks coming her way and judge accurately what to do next. She makes accurate assessments about situations and acts accordingly. Managing to learn the different languages of the world and quickly and well enough to understand most conversations. Even among the Japanese Imperial Military, she has shown to be one of the top fighters and the main reason she was put as Lieutenant General.

### Japanese Imperial Military Training

Being from the Japanese Imperial Military, Shizue has received special training to not just combat ordinary humans. She was trained on how to combat and neutralize the supernatural: such as magicians. As such, she has a fair amount of knowledge in the art of magic to be able to determine what type of spell process a magician is casting with a bit of research and soon engineer a method to combat them. This was displayed during the Great Three-Way War against England and Philippines, when she was able to formulate a plan to ensure that the magicians from England and Philippines will be defeated.

Individually, she has showcased the skill to recognize whether a spell is about to be cast and make use of the time needed for the magician to cast it to disarm and prevent the said magician from casting a spell. She is able to make use of the weak points in a magicians' magic spells by having knowledge on the spell's origination and basis, and using them to her advantage. Such as the time when she was able to disarm Kyoko's rune magic by not giving her enough time to read out the required chant for the spell to activate.

Although there are limits to the training that she receives for obvious reasons. Such as that there are beings like: Magic Gods: Divine or Demonic Figures of different religions and mythologies: Adam and Eve: and Kihara Eiichiro who have showcased to be existentially higher than them. The precedence are higher with the transcendent and cannot be faced by even magicians with sorcerer-class power skill and knowledge. There is also the case with magicians that have a way of bypassing the time-consuming methods, such as with Mina Harker and Diana Grey or those that have already done the ritual and can use the spell anytime they want, such as Nicole Eltnam.

There is also a case with enemies who are just a lot stronger physically, such as with Azusa, Eiichiro and Adam and Eve. Since the Japanese Imperial Army are still humans after all. While they can use military weapons such as missiles and or railguns to fight them, this has shown to already be ineffective as displayed by the Imperial Army's battle with Eiichiro who was able to fight an entire army with only a few spells and the Imagine Breaker Replica. Eve has already shown to be physically stronger than Eiichiro, and Azusa can match Eiichiro for a brief amount of time so it can be assumed that it military weapons are also slightly ineffective to her. There is also the difference in technology between Academy City and the Japanese Imperial Military.

### Magic

Having been trained to deal with magicians who intend to attack japan as her primary mission, she has shown to have enough knowledge to be able to cast magic herself (although not on a skilled level like Styil or Kanzaki). She has a fair amount of knowledge of the Idol Theory and Imitation Theory to be able create her own spells: such as using the colors of clothing she wears to be able to cast different elemental spells. Which is why she mostly has something red, blue, yellow and green on her to enable her to use elemental spells when she needs to.

*Example: The red color is used to cast fire magic, blue is used to cast water magic, yellow is used to cast wind magic, green is used to cast earth magic.*

 She also has the knowledge to draw power from another phase, like the time when she was able to cast a healing spell by drawing a magic circle connected to the Angel of the East. However as explained earlier, she is a complete novice when it comes to the technicalities of magic. Also note that she isn't gifted with an extremely large innate magical power like Tsutsukakushi Hana, making her magic easy to deal with and nullify.

## Trivia

Matsukaze Shizue's job as a soldier of the Japanese Imperial Military acts in parallel to Anti-Skill Soldiers in that while Anti-Skill acts as a security force to keep Espers in check, the Japanese Imperial Military acts as a way to keep defend against magicians who intend to go to war with Japan.

#### Some extra non-relevant information regarding Matsukaze Shizue that were not added above:

* She is obsessed with World War Histories.
* She absolutely hates Military Rations.
* She feels insecure that she is unable to find a suitable boyfriend her age and is afraid that she won't get married by 30.
* Her favorite type of man is someone who can beat her in a on-on-one combat without any esper power or magic spells.
* Shizue's mother was admitted to the same Mental Asylum that Amelia Barnes escaped from.

Once every four months, the members at CERBERUS undergo a physical check-up from Academy City and United Nations of Magic Society to record the health and status of the members. These are his recorded physical statistics:

* Recorded Weight: 59kg
* Three Size Measurements: 81 (Bust) • 56 (Waist) • 85 (Hips)
* Recorded Physical Strength: 67kg (Push) • 61kg (Pull) • 100kg (Squat) • 93kg (Hinge) • 67kg (Carry)
* Body Type: Pear
* Body Fat Percentage: 17%