Shizuku Yaegashi

Shizuku Yaegashi (・) is the best friend of Kaori Shirasaki and the childhood friend of Kouki Amanogawa. She is also one of the summoned heroes from another world.

Appearance
Shizuku has black hair usually tied up in a ponytail and red eyes.

Personality
Shizuku is a hardworking, kind and caring girl who passes her time on practicing her swordsmanship. She is referred to as a cool beauty but actually has a girlish side that like cute things. Kaori Shirasaki stated that she is often hiding her true feelings and putting on a mask so other people did not worry about her.

Shizuku is extremely sharp with an excellent grasp of people's subtleties and relationships, her kind and compassionate personality won't let her ignore trouble around her giving her a lot of hardships. She's also very smart and capable to process things without much explanation which impressed even Hajime Nagumo.

Background
Shizuku is the childhood friend of Kouki Amanogawa and Kaori Shirasaki. Shizuku helped Kaori do a research on anime, novels and mangas because Hajime Nagumo liked it and she knew that Kaori liked Hajime.

During childhood, she showed a great talent as a swordsman and made her family happy. Shizuku tried her best to answer her family's expectation but as time passed, she's felt depressed because she's often referred to as a tomboy even though she is actually very girlish, until she met Kaori. When she was in the Haltina Labyrinth's dream chamber, she dreamed of being a princess and Hajime was her prince.

Weapons & Equipments

 * Black Blade - a black katana made by Hajime Nagumo with compressed azanthium, the hardest ore in Tortus. It has a function that if supplied with magic power, the blade can be extended up to 60 cm in a form of a wind blade. Further more, it can also shoot two more blade from beside the extended part. Its sheathe would clad with thunder when poured with it is magic power with its mouth can shoot needles with tremendous force. During the final decisive battle Hajime created copies of them and the sword is applied by metamorphosis magic and soul magic making it a living sword that can be controlled by Shizuku. Later on, Shizuku is capable to summon a thousand swords and control them perfectly. The following are the abilities enchanted in the sword by Hajime.
 * Thunder Blossom - an electric slash in a form of a flower released from 'Black Blade'.
 * Flash Claw - claws of air are created around the sword.
 * Gale -
 * Confluence - it gathers the energy from multiple attacks and releases it as a single massive attack.
 * Flash Blitz - it cuts through space and can only be defending by one that possess spatial magic.
 * Force Pulse -
 * Shock Slugger - she can generate a powerful surge of electricity that she can stream along her sheath.
 * Sonic Slice -
 * Gravity Flash - it removes gravity's pull of whatever it touches for a few seconds.
 * Gate Key - a key imbued with spatial magic that opens a portal between Shizukui's and Hajime's houses.

Physical Abilities

 * Master Swordswoman - trained since childhood in Yaegashi-ryu, a talented prodigy in Kenjutsu since a tender age of four in Japan, Shizuku was a peerless swordwoman who never lost a single Kendo tournament. After being granted several sword enhancement skills and superhuman physical abilities as a summoned hero and further extensive training. Shizuku became a formidable master swordswoman and one of the strongest members of Kouki Amanogawa's Party, able to defeat all the powerful monsters in the first 89 floors of the Great Orcus Labyrinth.
 * Sword Proficiency - efficiency in the use of sword, increase in attack speed using swords and sword drawing. Shizuku applies this ability along with Yaegashi-ryu swordsmanship, greatly increasing the proficiency.

Combat Styles & Techniques

 * Yaegashi Style - A style of samurai martial arts has been developed by the "Yaegashi Dojo" that had been around for generations. Though its primarily focused on kenjutsu, more suitable for weapons like "Katana", but it also has taijutsu techniques which utilizes the Scabbard and also Taijutsu techniques which employed hand to hand combat. Shizuku is extremely masterful in this form, due to her natural talent as well as relentless training since her childhood. The following are the techniques under this style which Shizuku knows,
 * Rippling Pale Moon
 * Rising Dragon
 * Vacuum Slash
 * Swallow’s Gambit - the user distracts their opponent with their sword while attacking with the sheath.
 * Mountain Tempest - the use starts by slashing diagonally downward, but then switches grips and swings sideways with her sheath instead.
 * Thunderclap - the user blocks an attack with their sword, then steps forward and aims their elbow at their opponent's blind spot.
 * Slipstream - using an incoming attack as a pivot point to rotate all the way around an opponent and launch a fast sword slash.
 * Helm Splitter - by driving one’s blade into the opponents’ helmet, then following that up by pounding the sheath down on the blade, the user is able to cut through helmet and head in one clean stroke. It is one of the few power-based techniques.
 * Blade Reversal - a counter-attack that uses a reverse blade grip and angle the blade to the deflect the attack. They then finish by slashing upward using the backhanded grip.
 * Mirror Bolt - the user throws the opponent using Aikido, then attacks them while they are trapped mid-air.
 * Mist Piercer

Skills

 * Sword Proficiency
 * Improved Slashing Speed
 * Improved Drawing Speed
 * No Tempo - a skill that prevents the enemy from predicting her attack patterns.
 * Supersonic Step/Flash Step - allows high speed movement by making the ground decrease in distance.
 * Burst Supersonic Step
 * Continual Steps
 * Steel Legs - allows the user to reinforce their legs and increase the power and strength of their kicks.
 * No Tempo - a skill that enable movement without preliminary action.
 * Foresight - predicts the incoming attacks of enemies or where they are going to land their next move.
 * Sense Presence - the ability to sense others
 * Projection
 * Invisibility
 * Illusionary Attacks
 * Language Comprehension - a base skill granted to all those who got summoned. It gives the user the ability to understand any language and be proficient in it.
 * Evolution Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows the user to enhance or evolve all other forms of power, be it strong or weak. It can work on even other "Ancient Magic" as well, boosting their power and scope. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the information about existing things'. This magic enhanced or evolved an ability or power by a stage of 1, by interfering with the targets information, and the increased it one-by-one stage.
 * Metamorphosis Magic - one of the "Ancient Magics" originating from the "Age of God", which allows a user to remake the form of a normal being and reform them into a different form. Normally it's used to remake a normal organism and turn it into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. But the true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any organic material'. Meaning not only animals, but it's also possible to remake plants or intelligent beings, and reform their structure as needed. Even byproducts of organic material, like paper or food, can also be manipulated by this magic. The magic stone which gets created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.

Stats
Note :-
 * The base stats given above aren't Shizuku's current stats, as the last time the author provided stats for her in the Web Novel was before she acquired "Evolution Magic" from the Haltina's Labyrinth.

Relationships

 * Hajime Nagumo - Just like Kaori, Shizuku is one of the classmates that did not harass Hajime as she is always feeling apologetic towards the behavior of her childhood friends (especially Kaori) that often puts Hajime in trouble. At first she does not think much of Hajime beside the love interest of her best friend, but after Hajime saves her and Kaori in Great Orcus Labyrinth, she felt great gratitude and drastically change her impression of him. She found very attracted to Hajime's crimson magic color and overwhelming strength, considering it as beautiful. She started to develop feelings for Hajime after the demon invasion to Heiligh's capital and became consious of them during Haltina Forest Laberynth trial. Despite that, she refuses to acknowledge her feelings because she believes that as proof of betrayal towards Kaori. During her time in the Frost Caverns, she comes to terms on her feelings and confesses to Hajime. She felt in love with him because he was the only person that was able to protect her and see through her strong cover, not expecting her to always be strong and expecting her to take care of the other all the time.


 * Kaori Shirasaki - Kaori is Shizuku's most beloved best friend. She's really care towards Kaori and often supporting and helped her to get along with Hajime. When Kaori is killed by Daisuke Hiyama during the invasion of the demon race, she is really devastated and almost breaks down if Hajime did not console her. After Kaori is revived, Shizuku is extremely happy and hugged her while crying loudly. Shizuku is very loyal to her as seen on her attitude that refused to accept that she loves Hajime because that would mean that she betrayed Kaori and will make her to 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.
 * Liliana S. B. Heiligh - Shizuku considers Liliana to be one of her best friends after she is summoned to Tortus.
 * Shuuzou Yaegashi - Shuuzou is Shizuku's grandfather and an instructor at their family's dojo.
 * Koichi Yaegashi - Koichi is Shizuku's father and an instructor at their family's dojo.
 * Kirino Yaegashi - Kirino is Shizuku's mother
 * Kouki Amanogawa - Kouki is one of Shizuku's her oldest friends who is usually the one who 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 the start, Shizuku thought that she could 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 and the fact the fact that her hopes were wrong. However, she continue being her friend and eventually their realtionship become in something more similar to elder sister to younger brother, with Shizuku taking care of Kouki and giving him advice when he needed.
 * Gahard D. Hoelscher - Gahard is infatuated with Shizuku and he 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.

Quotes

 * (To Kouki Amanogawa): "Kouki, I know you're feeling frustrated at the gap in your strength and his. But remember, he didn't start out that strong. He earned that strength by crawling out of hell despite being the weakest one of us. Everything he has now is a result of his unbreakable determination. And what he's determined to do isn't kill the gods or save the world. It's something a lot simpler. He's fighting for the sake of those close to him."

Trivia

 * The name Shizuku means "quiet" (静) (shizu) and "crimson, deep red" (紅), "sky, empty" (空) or "long time" (久) (ku).
 * Hajime Nagumo considered Shizuku as a Yeagashi-Style Kunoichi.
 * Shizuku's family has been shown to have two different sides to their dojo with the 'Reverse Side' being something close to resembling ninjutsu though her family constantly denies this.
 * Shizuku is shown to be extremely popular among the female population on Earth and on Tortus to the point where they created a (semi) secret organization to covertly watch her (Tortus Branch) and to separate her from Hajime who they believe is no good for her (Earth Branch).
 * Ryo Shirakome based Shizuku off of Kanzaki Kaori from .
 * Far from her role as the mature adult type, Shizuku is shown to have a large collection of stuffed animals and plush toys in her room at her family's dojo.