Yuri

**Yuri** (ユーリィ, *Yūryi*, spelled **Yuuri** in the Yen On English localization) is a character introduced in the *Wandering Witch* series.

## Appearance

Yuri has brown hair tied back in pigtails, and blue eyes. She wears a black-cloaked jacket, a white dress shirt, a black skirt, brown tights, and black pumps with low heels.

## Plot

### Past Events

When Yuri was an infant, she was abandoned by her parents in an unnamed country. The boss of a spy organization took pity on her and adopted her, eventually learning she was a mage. He raised her as his own daughter while hiding the dirtier, bloodier side of his line of work from her; she grew to idolize his lifestyle and his line of work, eventually joining his organization.

### Story Events

#### Volume 4

Because Yuri's adoptive father felt that she was too naive and kind-hearted to work as a spy in the long run, he concocted a plan to cast her out in "The Fictional Witch". Basing a profile off of Victorica—a traveling witch he had been commissioned to assassinate years ago—he ordered Yuri to find and assassinate a "Fictional Witch" within a week. From what he intended, Yuri would fail to find such a witch, fail the assignment, and he would cast her out thereafter. However, this plan was complicated when Elaina, a traveling witch who fit the profile of the "Fictional Witch", arrived in the country.

On Elaina's first day in the country, she visits a cafe. Yuri, undercover as one of its employees, obtains her signature and tries to serve her poisoned coffee. However, Elaina does not drink the poisoned coffee, and Yuri's co-workers drinks it instead after he fails to pick up Elaina. That night, Yuri gets scolded by her adoptive father for accidentally ensnaring one of her co-workers and not understanding her directive—her job is to kill the Fictional Witch physically.

Over the next five days, Yuri observes Elaina at the cafe, where she apparently spends the whole day. Yuri drinks coffee from the cafe, but ends up vomiting it all over herself all day long, much to the ire of the cafe's employees. At the end of this surveilance period, Yuri's adoptive father tells her that they've been receiving complaints about her from the cafe.

On the last day of the assignment, Yuri arrests Elaina at the cafe with a handcuff spell she had just mastered, but is then confronted by the real Elaina—the "Elaina" she had arrested was in actuality a mannequin. Yuri spends the rest of the day trying to defeat and arrest Elaina, but fails to even land a blow on her. Hopelessly outmatched by this full-fledged witch, Yuri goes home thoroughly defeated, having failed in her assignment.

The next day, Yuri is fired for her failure, and her adoptive father drives her out of his spy organization at gunpoint. He tells her to get out of the country for her own good. Distraught over having been cast out, she has breakfast with Elaina the next day at the mannequin cafe. Elaina points her in the direction of the Land of Mages, and tells her she can study to become a Witch there, and that if she becomes one, she will be welcomed back to her homeland with open arms. Elaina also gives her a letter that she can only open after a year.

Unbeknownst to Yuri, Elaina had actually been working with her adoptive father from her second day in the country onward; he intended for this witch who looked like the "Fictional Witch" to defeat her and give her advice for her next step forward once she had to leave the spy organization and the country.

Over the next year at the Land of Mages, Yuri is a working student as she studies to take and retake the witch apprenticeship exam. A year later, she has failed the exam a fifth time, and is sharing coffee with Saya, who was proctoring her exam. She opens the letter Elaina had given her, discovering well wishes from her adoptive father.

## Abilities

* **Novice Mage**: Elaina describes her magical capabilities at the time of their encounter to be very unrefined, with the ability to only fire balls of raw magical energy. She also spent a week learning a spell to handcuff targets.