Kaguya Tsukuyomi

**Kaguya Tsukuyomi** is the main antagonist of the Ataraxia Tournament Arc and the former leader of the adventuring party, Celestia. She is the Lady in Waiting of the Princess of Alfheim. Kaguya is the current apprentice of Eschamali of the Twelve, Mizore Honokami.

She is Embla's opponent in the Ataraxia Tourney.

## Profile

*The relationship between them has soured since long ago. Her loyalty towards her Lady in tatters.*
*Yet in her heart, there exists a yearning to finally find out why her Lady had abandoned her so abruptly.*
*In this tournament of Adventurers, her Fleeting Light is what stands in the way of Yuki's victory.*

## Appearance

Kaguya is a rather tall Fox-Kin. She initially wore a black crop-top with a design that resembles a kimono shirt and black pants with open toed-sandals. Around her shirt, she wore a white coat. Kaguya has black hair that reaches down to her mid-shoulders. She has yellowish-amber eyes and three tails, unlike Yuki who only has 2. During the tournament, Kaguya wore a black kimono that reached down to her midthigh. She wore the same fitted pants and boots.

## Personality

Kaguya is depicted as a calm and collected individual, presenting a cold aura to those around her even her own party members. She gives off the impression that she is constantly looking down on others, preferring not to waste her time with them. Unlike her other party members, Kaguya does not appear to have the same level of arrogance or pride, rather she is more subdued than they are.

Initially, prior to Yuki's exile, Kaguya was a loyal, kind, and honorable maid. She attended to her lady at all times and guarded her with fervor. In addition, Kaguya was one of Yuki's only friends growing up in Alfheim and thus indulged her master's whims around the palace whether it be pranking or sparring. It was this loyalty that caused her to allow Yuki to go into town despite Mizore's strict control over where her daughter could go.

Following Yuki's exile, Kaguya's loyalty was used against her by the Gentry, despite her pleas that her Lady was innocent. Over time, she became bitter and angry at the treatment she received from others despite being Mizore's apprentice and sought to take her anger out on Yuki as payback. After overhearing a conversation from Mizore, Kaguya's need to find her grew and she moved to Midgard. Her restrained anger and obsession became one of her defining traits, doing whatever she could to undermine Yuki and her party. Her cool and calm persona is easily broken when Yuki is mentioned. She is also rather brutal and petty in fights, going so far as to severely wound Embla after Embla refuted her beliefs.

Despite this anger, Kaguya still retained some sense of honor as seen when she allowed Yuki's party to take a quest, stating that it wouldn't be worth it. She still has feelings of worry and kindness for the person she called Lady. Her frustration all boils down to her anger at herself for still caring about Yuki, despite her perceived notion that Yuki had abandoned her. After it was revealed to her by Mizore that Yuki was exiled for her own safety, Kaguya became remorseful and sought to make amends with her master.

## History

Kaguya is Shirayuki's Lady in Waiting and her best friend in Alfheim. She has served Yuki since she was a little girl and was trained by Mizore to do so. She possesses an Arts known as Setsuna. When Yuki began investigating the cause of the Plague in Gimle, Kaguya followed her into the thick of it. After discovering the truth, Kaguya was sent by Yuki to round up the Royal Guard to begin arresting members of the Gentry, only to later realize that Yuki had disappeared. After facing countless amounts of ridicule from the nobility, bitterness and anger festered in Kaguya's heart and she began plotting to break her former Lady and bring her back to Alfheim.

## Powers and Abilities

**Magical Power:** Kaguya possesses potent mana and has displayed great magical skill. As evidenced by her first fight, Kaguya is capable of using magical skills and bursts to a high degree. Despite this, she does not rely on magic and any skill she possesses that is magical in nature is nothing but a minor enhancement to her current strength.

* **Fire Affinity Magic:** Kaguya's natural affinity. She can control and generate fire.

**Skilled Combatant:** Trained from a young age by Sage Eschamali, Kaguya is an extremely proficient fighter. She was capable of defeating a high level adventurer during the Ataraxia Tourney without using her full strength or completely drawing her sword. She is stated by Mizore to be able to defeat Shirayuki at her current level of strength. During her fight with Embla, Kaguya displayed a high level of spatial awareness and possessed exceptionally high reflexes. She was capable of blocking and deflecting Embla's Folded Dances and perceiving and blocking attacks done in conjunction with the Super Acceleration Skill. When she fought Yuki, she pushed Yuki to her absolute limits in combat, overpowering her in the first half of their match and later regaining the upper hand in the first part of the latter half. As a testament to her combat genius, Kaguya is capable of performing a legendary Burst Skill known as the Transcendant Thrust, a Burst that was thought to require the Zero Null to perform. She can also fight against Sigrun briefly.

* **Silent Slash:** A sword skill. The user coats their blade in prana and swings multiple times at high speeds.
* **Flickering Strike:** A sword skill. The user violently slashes the air around them, creating a vaccuum that sends out sword waves to eviscerate the opponent.
* **Sword Wave:** A sword skill. The user sends cutting waves from their blade. The user can fire one blade or send multiple air blades in quick succession in order to overwhelm the foe.

**Expert Prana Control:** Kaguya is an expert at controlling her Prana, using it to perform enhancement skills. Her prana is so powerful that it can generate strong winds and become a visible aura around her body. The winds generated by her aura is said to produce a screeching sound. She can enhance all five of her senses passively as well as reinforce her body's durability and her overall striking strength. Her prana control should be at least equivalent to or greater than Yuki's prior to her attainment of Extinguishment.

* **Enhancement Skills:** Enhancement Skills are a series of skills that involve boosting the body's physical abilities.
	+ **Enhance Parameter:** Enhance Parameter is a basic Enhancement Skill. The user floods their body with their prana, enhancing their entire body ranging from physical strength, speed, and durability. Kaguya can passively use this skill.
	+ **Super Acceleration:** Super Acceleration is a Speed Enhancement Skill that allows the user to go at extremely high speeds over a distance instantly.

### Bursts

* **Meteoric Burst:** A Fire Element Burst first introduced by Kaguya. It can be seen as an upgraded variant of the Fire Breath Skill. The user gathers and stores a massive amount of mana within their lungs. Each mana particle attaches to an oxygen molecule, turning the user's lungs into a tinderbox that is ready to explode. When the user exhales, the air inside their lungs moves erratically, causing their chest to puff up. The stream of air is forcefully expelled and ignited outside the mouth, creating a meteorite like ball of fire.
* **Transcendant Thrust:** A Martial Burst. It was developed by Mizore Honokami and taught to her apprentice and children. Kaguya can perform this Burst without entering Zero Null Stage I: Extinguishment. To perform the technique, the user must summon a massive amount of prana from their bodies and enhance their physical capabilities immensely. Aura surges from their body and creates a windstorm around them. The user then moves forward and thrusts the blade, focusing all the movement and speed vectors at the tip of their blade. The force displaces the air and creates a vaccuum blast that tears through its surroundings. The air surging in the blast acts like a million microscopic needles that pierce and penetrate their targets, ripping them to shreds.

### Arts

**Setsuna:** Also known as the Divine Right to Live Transiently. Setsuna is the Arts of Kaguya Tsukuyomi. It allows for the manipulation of Time. While it appears to be the ability to slow time, it is completely different. Setsuna allows the user to manipulate their personal time to become “instantaneous”. This allows the user to move extremely fast and can be characterized by a blue light that shows the user has entered [Hypercompressed Time]. The sheer speed boost provided by this technique is enough to catch even Sigrun offguard initially. The Arts is mostly seen in conjunction with Sword Skills and the Transcendant Thrust. Due to its strenuous nature, Setsuna has a cooldown time of 180 seconds before Kaguya can perform it again.

* **Transient Mist:** An Arts Skill. Kaguya rapidly draws her blade whilst in Hypercompressed Time and performs a circular slash. Once time resumes normally, the slash wave rapidly expands outward and bisects everything in its path.