Shizuku Yaegashi/Relationships

Shuuzou Yaegashi
Shizuku's grandfather and an instructor at their family's dojo. Shizuku has an extremely close bond with her grandfather ever since she was a toddler, when Shuuzou discovered Shizuku's prodigious talent for the Yaegashi-ryu at the age of 4. Because of this, Shizuku did her best to live up to her grandfather's expectations, even if it meant suppressing her own desires and feelings. Shizuku also took to heart all of Shuuzou's teachings and values such as treating all disciples of Yaegashi-ryu as foster family regardless of how much trouble they caused or went astray. When her best friend Kaori scolded him for not allowing Shizuku to grow out her hair as a girl, Shuuzou made an exception for Shizuku.

Koichi Yaegashi
Shizuku's father and also an instructor at their family's dojo. Shizuku loves her father very much, Koichi loves his daughter too, however, just like her mother and the students at the dojo, he tries to separate Shizuku from Hajime, which always goes wrong and irritates Shizuku a lot.

Kirino Yaegashi
Shizuku's mother, Shizuku loves her mother very much, likewise Kirino she also loves her daughter very much, but Shizuku gets annoyed with her because of the attempts to try to separate her and Hajime, like when Kirino tried to poison him.

Hajime Nagumo
Shizuku is one of Hajime's classmates that did not harass him, as she is always feeling apologetic towards the behavior of her best friend, Kaori that often puts him in trouble. She is devastated when he falls into the Abyss after protecting her and the rest of their classmates from a Behemoth. She also becomes angry towards those who were bad mouthing him in the Heiligh Kingdom. At first she does not think much of Hajime besides being the love interest of her best friend Kaori, but after Hajime saves her and Kaori from Cattleya's ambush in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, she feels great gratitude and drastically changes her impression of him.

Shizuku also become deeply impressed with Hajime for being able to survive his fall into the depths of the Great Orcus Labyrinth despite originally being the weakest among their group, and is also the first to understand that Hajime must have suffered immense hardships that resulted in his complete change in his personality, and Shizuku also knew that Hajime was dead-serious in his claim of killing anyone else, including his classmates, if they dare to cross him or his companions (harem) and she chose to take the warning seriously as she was fearful that the Holy Church and Heiligh Kingdom would send her to kill Hajime for heresy.

Unlike the rest of their classmates, Shizuku could still get along with Hajime with him even giving her one of his masterpieces: a new, enchanted Black Blade Katana that's better suited for her fighting style. She found herself very attracted to Hajime's crimson mana color and overwhelming strength, finding it beautiful. Unlike Kouki, Shizuku doesn't condemn Hajime after he murdered Hiyama for his betrayal and temporary murder of Kaori, as she chose to never forgive him for what he had done both at school and in Tortus. After he revived Kaori, Shizuku owes Hajime a great debt.

She later starts to develop romantic feelings for Hajime after the Demon Invasion of Heiligh Kingdom's capital and becomes conscious of them during the Haltina Woods Labyrinth Trial. The reason Shizuku falls in love with him is because he is the only person that protects her and sees through her strong cover, he does not expect her to always be strong and expect her to take care of the others all the time. Despite that, she refuses to acknowledge her feelings because she believes that'll be seen as proof of betrayal towards Kaori.

In Volume 9, after Hajime saved Shizuku at the Frost Caverns of Schnee Labyrinth from being killed by her doppelganger and also gave Shizuku encouragement to accept her negative feelings that allow her to defeat her copy, it cemented Shizuku's resolve to pursue her love for Hajime. Shizuku flirtatiously requests a hand-crafted hairclip type restoration magic artifact from Hajime as his second present to her after the Black Blade Katana. After that, Shizuku peacefully slept on Hajime's back as he carried her, while trying to find the others. After Hajime had easily stopped a corrupt Kouki's rampage without killing him, with gratitude and love, Shizuku affectionately kissed Hajime on the cheek, while also confessing her love for him, and her resolve that she will do anything to become his lover.

In Volume 11, Shizuku shyly requested that they call each other on a first name basis, while also clinging to his arm to publicly show her affection towards Hajime.

After returning to Earth, Shizuku has become one of Hajime's wives and is always happy whenever she's around him. During her wedding photo shoot with Hajime, Shizuku remained by Hajime's side and refused to help her so-called "fans" from the Soul Sisters from getting bullied and completely humiliated by Hajime for their interruption. Unlike most of the other wives, Shizuku still tends to be too shy to openly flirt with Hajime around other people. Hajime usually shows Shizuku sympathy when it comes to dealing with the eccentric behavior of her family. Hajime also showed more affection for Shizuku after returning to Earth as he openly hugged her after being charmed by Shizuku’s lovely appearance in a wedding dress.

Kaori Shirasaki
Kaori is Shizuku's most beloved best friend, due to Kaori being the first girl to show her kindness and compassion during her childhood. Instead of persecution like most other girls her age for her friendship with Kouki as well as her brave efforts, Kaori was able to encourage Shizuku to pursue her own desires as she wants to be more girly. This is seen when Kaori was scolding Shizuku's grandfather, Shuuzou for not letting Shizuku grow out her hair as a girl. Because of this Shizuku is extremely devoted towards Kaori, often supporting her attempts to get along with Hajime to win his affection. After Hajime fell into the Abyss, Shizuku promised Kaori that she would help her discover the truth of what happened to Hajime and to give Kaori closure and peace.

In Volume 4, during Cattleya's ambush of the "Hero Party", when it seemed that Shizuku was about to be killed by the monsters that Cattleya brought, Kaori rushed to Shizuku's side, determined to stay at her best friend's side at the end of their lives. After Hajime saved the "Hero Party" and Kaori decided to go with him, Shizuku was the main person supporting her decision as Kaori was thankful for her support but was regretful about having to part from her best friend.

In Volume 6, when Kaori is killed by Daisuke Hiyama during the Demon Invasion, she is truly devastated and almost breaks down if Hajime had not have consoled her. After Kaori is revived, Shizuku is extremely happy and hugged her while crying loudly. Shizuku is very loyal to her as seen in her attitude that she refused to accept that she loves Hajime because that would mean that she betrayed Kaori and that will make her hate Shizuku. After Shizuku tells Kaori her feelings for Hajime, Kaori does not condemn her and instead asks her to rival against Yue and Shea along with her as comrades, stating that she is happy that Shizuku has started to put her desires above always helping others.

However, Shizuku became disturbed when Kaori started displaying the qualities of a yandere and a stalker. She even felt sorry for Hajime when Kaori starts making plans to get closer to him after she falls for him. Shizuku became also bothered when Kaori started suggesting they team up and assault Hajime at night together.

In the After Story, Shizuku and Kaori live together with Hajime as his wives.

Yue
Shizuku gained the attention of Yue after she brought Hajime to his knees with words alone. Hearing more about Shizuku from Kaori and seeing Hajime give her a new sword caused Yue to see Shizuku as the last boss for Hajime's affection.

Shea Haulia
She has a close friendship with Shea. Initially though, Shizuku is subconsciously jealous of Shea due to Hajime also choosing Shea as a lover.

Tio Klarus
She shares the opinion of everyone with regards that Tio is a pervert.

Aiko Hatayama
Shizuku has a close friendship with Aiko, as she is the only one Aiko would discuss her thoughts and worries with. Aiko also trusted Shizuku enough to ask her to gather her classmates in order to reveal what Hajime learned about Ehit. While Shizuku also cares dearly about Aiko but was dismayed when she learned that Aiko has fallen for Hajime as well.

Myu
Shizuku is won over by Myu's cuteness during their brief encounter in Horaud.

Liliana S. B. Heiligh
Shizuku finds Liliana to be one of her best friends after she is summoned to Tortus.

Kouki Amanogawa
Kouki is one of Shizuku's oldest friends who is usually the one who she is forced to deal with the consequences of his constant dense outbursts and his constant habit of interpreting any situation to his own convenience. The two met each other when they were little when Kouki started to train in her family's dojo. At first, Shizuku thought that she would fall in love with Kouki, thinking that he could be the special one that would understand her and accept her even if she wasn't strong. Nevertheless, shortly after she understood Kouki's nature, she realized that her hopes were wrong. However, she continues being his friend as she considered him family due to her family's philosophy though she is frequently exasperated by Kouki's naive and childiish behaviour due to his immature hero complex. Despite Shizuku constantly warning him the consequences of his naive self-righteousness, Kouki completely ignored her lectures. Shizuku is extremely considerate of Kouki as she would mediate in his disputes with Hajime during their journey and did her best not to upset him regarding his complex towards Hajime. When Kouki became corrupted by his doppelganger trial in the Schnee Labyrinth and attempt to kill Hajime, Shizuku desparately tried to stop and persuade Kouki from clinging to his delusions but to no avail and despite her exhausted state, she desperately tried to stop Kouki from attacking Hajime to prevent Kouki from being killed in ruthless retaliation but was knocked unconscious by Kouki's doppelganger. Shizuku was tearfully relieved when Hajime stopped Kouki without killing him. After Kouki regained conciousness, Shizuku admitted to Kouki she has fallen in love with Hajime and her desire to become his lover at all cost regardless of his personal opinions which intensified Kouki's jealousy and hatred towards Hajime. When Kouki gave into Eri's Soul Bind brainwashing to escape reality and betrayed his friends and the people of Tortus to side with Ehit and Eri to suit his delusions, Shizuku joined Hajime together with Ryuutaro and Suzu to break into the Sanctuary to rescue Kouki. When Kouki declared his delusional justice desiring to kill Hajime and free his friends from brainwashing and asking them to surrender, claiming Ehit will remake Tortus into a more just world, Shizuku was grimly disappointed, telling Kouki he should have realised Eri's and Ehit's malicious intentions, he just pinning the blame on Hajime due to his refusal to acknowledge reality of his own failures and mistakes. Giving him one final warning to wake up from his delusions and face reality, when Kouki refused due to Eri's brainwashing, Shizuku relented to resort to fighting to bring Kouki to his senses. When Kouki stubbornly cling to his delusional self-righteousness, blaming Hajime for his failures and mistakes even after being freed from his brainwashing, resort to burning his life away to create one last Divine Wrath to destroyed himself to deny reality for not conforming to everything he desired, Shizuku finally lost patience with Kouki's tantrums, upon slicing thorough his life force converted mana, Shizuku violently slapped Kouki non-stop venting her years of frustration towards Kouki's misguided justice, his irresponsibility in pushing his personal problems onto her and ruining all the chances she salvaged for him and ignoring her lectures, angrily scold Kouki for behaving like a spoiled brat forcing her, their friends and Hajime to put up with his delusional self-righteousness again and again. Critizing Kouki that life never goes exactly as they wanted, while everyone had to endured what they dislike as they live, despite all his grand and noble desire for justice, Kouki only choose to cling to his delusions and avert his eyes from reality, not bothering to try fighting for what he wanted, telling he is just a spoiled brat who pretend the reality that contradicts his desire to be fake, making excuses for his carelessness and naivety, pinning the blame on Hajime for his own failures and mistakes. Angrily declared to Kouki, they will not allow him to commit suicide, saying he does not deserve to easily escape for all the trouble and problems he cause them and they will bring him back even by force, threatening to violently thrashed him again if he still remain stubborn. When Kouki questioned Shizuku didn't she love Hajime and why she still care about him despite what he did to her. Shizuoka honestly replied while she dearly love Hajime, she also considered Kouki a friend due to having been together since childhood and also were disciples in her family dojo. He is practically family to her which she could never abandoned though she wished she hadn't been such a troublesome younger brother. Kouki finally came to his senses, realising his own emotional weakness and despicable self-righteousness.

Ryutarou Sakagami
Ryutarou is one of her childhood friends and fellow Returnees group. Unlike Kouki, Ryutarou only considered Shizuku as a friend, as he allowed Shizuku to be in love with Hajime to ensure his safety from getting on Hajime's bad side after murdering Hiyama.

Suzu Taniguchi
One of her fellow classmates that were transported to Tortus. She is usually the one to stop Suzu and her perverted antics on the other girls in their party.

Eri Nakamura
Shizuku was a close friend of Eri Nakamura. However, their friendship was only one sided on Shizuku's part, as Eri had always been murderously jealous of her and Kaori's close friendship with Kouki, to the point that Eri holds absolute hatred towards Shizuku and Kaori that she wished to kill Shizuku and Kaori with her own hands, considering her to be worthless trash alongside the rest of her classmates, and even outright stated that pretending to be her friend was really sickening. Along with Daisuke Hiyama, Eri chose to give her allegiances to Ehit and betrayed Shizuku and her fellow classmates in order to massacre and zombify them into her personal undead army. Eri even planned to zombify Shizuku and then to make her kill her best friend Kaori but failed due to Hajime's arrival.

Daisuke Hiyama
Despite being her classmate, Shizuku holds great hatred and disdain towards Daisuke for his cruelty towards Hajime, for his bullying and his flirting with Kaori which was scaring her. After Daisuke killed Kaori in order to make her his undead slave, Shizuku's hatred towards Daisuke grew even more. After witnessing Hajime kill Daisuke by throwing him to be eaten alive by monsters, she had no qualms or sympathies about it as she could never forgive him or anyone else who hurts her best friend as she looked on pitilessly at Hiyama's demise. Unlike Kouki, Shizuku doesn't condemn Hajime for his murder. When she learned from Hajime that his "fall" wasn't an accident, Shizuku doesn't hold any trace of her sympathies for Hiyama and will always remember him as a selfish, deluded traitor.

Ehit
Shizuku once respected Ehit under the "Hero Party". After learning from Aiko and Princess Liliana what Hajime had told them of Ehit's true nature as an Evil God and how she was used as a plaything in his "game of death" like the rest of her classmates, Shizuku lost all of her respect for Ehit and sided with Hajime.

Soul Sisters
Shizuku's so called fan club and later her enemies after she married Hajime.

A (semi) secret organization formed from young females in both Japan and Tortus who once idolized Shizuku, calling her Oneesama (including the ones who are older than her). While Shizuku tries to be nice to them, she's usually annoyed by their affection for her. She's further annoyed by how they keep trying to break her relationship with Hajime, seeing him as no good for her. When they were bullied by Hajime, Shizuku refused to help them when Hajime humiliated the Soul Sisters in public for their interruption at their wedding ceremony. Because of this, her so-called "fans" lose all their respect for her and became her enemies instead.

Gahard D. Hoelscher
Gahard is infatuated with Shizuku and has made repeated attempts to make her his mistress, but Shizuku always refuses his offer and has made it clear to him that she is not interested in him.

Nia
Nia acted as Shizuku's personal maid. She felt a kinship with Shizuku since they were both trained in swordsmanship at an early age. At first, Nia was nervous serving someone that is considered to be one of Ehit’s chosen Heroes, but she eventually came to see Shizuku as a friend. She was worried about Shizuku when she and the other heroes explore the uncharted floors of the Great Orcus Labyrinth and was bothered when everyone treats Shizuku like she is a special being since all of those expectations would wear her down. Unfortunately, Eri used Shizuku's friendship with Nia against her during the Demon Invasion to make Shizuku lower her guard so the reanimated Nia could stab her in the back. When Nia attempted to kill Shizuku, Hajime arrived before going berserk destroying Nia's body and the rest of the undead after he witnessed Kaori's (temporary) death.

Akari Fudo
Shizuku and Akari have competed against each other at kendo tournaments for years. Akira has an inferiority complex with Shizuku due to always losing to her. Shizuku does not hold any animosity towards Akari and tries everything to help her overcome her negative emotions.

Yaegashi Dojo Students
The students of her family's Dojo who are treated like family. All of the students immensely admire Shizuku, referring to her as Ojou. Despite some of them having government jobs, they prioritize the Yaegashi family over their positions, which is why they are also told about Tortus and Shizuku's abilities. However, Shizuku has grown increasingly annoyed by how they repeatedly attack her lover/husband, Hajime, every time he comes to her house only for them to be easily defeated by him.

Moana de Shelt Synclea
Moana is grateful to Shizuku for helping save her people, but feels a bit envious towards her due to her deep friendship with Kouki.