Shira Yamano

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"*I don't want this!
 Bad luck sucks!
 Why my house?!
 Go rob another house!*"
— Shira, Chapter 1
Shira Yamano is the main protagonist of *Augma II Arc I*, a student at Xentio Academy, and a co-founder of the Comfy Club.

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*Shira Yamano, 17. After suffering from a strange event that led him to fall into a pit of constant existentialism and confusion, he joins the Comfy Club alongside Loui, who helped him regain the colors to his world.* — The official Twitter

*The main protagonist of Arc I.*

 *While working to better himself from confusion of a past he cannot understand, he created the Comfy Club alongside Loui to relax and further himself away from his trauma. He has trouble being able to understand a mysterious past, and now he seems to be caught up in a chain of events that raises more questions than answers.* — Written by Kamigigana

## Appearance

Shira is a 17-year-old boy with black hair and pink eyes. He wears a black and white coat with a Hundou Tsunagi pattern over his red and black shirt with a Sayagata pattern. He wears black pants and black shoes. His physical body is skinny and androgynous due to his high metabolism and lack of eating.

When using Astralia's powers, Shira's hair turns white.

Earlier plans for *Arc I* describe Shira as wearing a striped hoodie.

## Personality

Shira is a lonely person due to his lack of parents and other friends. He suffers from trauma because the apocalyptic event four years ago caused him to die repeatedly, warping his perception on the value of his own life. Despite his loneliness and trauma, he attempts to overcome this by making new friends, slowly starting with Loui and later meeting Kat, Linna, and Rags. Shira is a very relaxed person, making the Comfy Club, a school club with the only purpose being to sit down and relax. However, Shira often acts rashly, lashing out at his friends in anger and swearing or making dangerous decisions like breaking into Fenrir Storage on a whim.

## Abilities

*Shira Yamano is an Augano user. For more information, see Terminology, Circuitry, Etherius Equation.*

### Verynstryfe

*For the Verim Chasm as a location, see Verim Chasm.*

> “...Aureum mortem, alba labyrinthusA golden death, a white labyrinth....”
> “...Verynstryfe...”
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Originally named "the Verim Chasm" by Shira himself, Verynstryfe is the true name of Shira's Augano. Verynstryfe can be activated subconsciously, by calling out its true name, or by Veryn themself, and opens doors from anywhere that lead to a stark-white labyrinth. The labyrinth (referred to as the Verim Chasm in order to distinguish it from Veryn) contains many rooms with various objects and doors that lead to anywhere, including other universes like Kamaloka. Veryn explains that the Verim Chasm takes up all four tiers of the Etherius.

### Astralia

> “A coruscating effulgence that enkindles the stasis starscape.”
> “An aurora of hyperborean chains, unbounded by tellurian laws. An unscatched chalice, a preternatural possession of the seventh heaven.”
> “'Twas the holy grail, emanating from the depths of the Cocytus river.”
> “And so, in this moment of my overwrought nature, I would saunter this earth once more, but as an absconder of death.”
> “For I was revivified through one's ascendancy; my heart set ablaze by the passion of an angel's nympholepsy.”
> “So I call for you, my moment of interminable Arcadia, coruscation of my yearnings.”
> “Elysian Encore — Itaque, ego eorum vivet iterum.And so, I shall live once more.”
> “With the power of the Verim Chasm, open the gates...”
> “...To the land of dreamers — beyond the horizon.”
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Astralia is the alias of Shira's second Augano. Astralia's true name is unknown, along with the reason why Shira even has a second Augano. Astralia is activated whenever Shira dies, is near death, or succumbs to it, and grants Shira strength proportional to whatever would have killed him instead. This grants him a form of immortality but the strength given is highly self-destructive and only allows for brief uses of Astralia's power. Shira's eyes and hair turn white when using Astralia, along with his personality taking a sudden intelligent turn. Veryn describes this power to be "from an entirely different circuitry."

## Trivia

* Shira swears the most out of any character in *Arc I*.

## External Links

* Shira Yamano at The Visual Novel Database