Yuzuriha

-Profile Name: Yuzuriha

Gender: Female

Birthday: July 20th

Height: 169 cm (5'6½")

Weight: 53 kg (116 lbs)

Sizes: Bust: 88cm Waist: 57cm Hip: 84cm

Bloodtype: B

-Alias: Blade of The Godspeed

-Battle Style: Ability: The EXS of Falling Flowers: "Ainsel Lost" Weapon: Iris Blade: "Kamiji-no-Homare"

Yuzuriha is a woman who hates trouble and likes to laze around. She is the most recent Protector of the Shrine after her sister, Hiroha, lost her powers.

Yuzuriha is a young woman with long, reddish-pink hair in a ponytail, red eyes and a slightly above-average bust. She wears a fuchsia camisole that leaves her belly button and stomach visible, a light pink jacket with fuchsia flowers at the end and on the ends of the sleeves that hang on her shoulders, white-bright blue skinny jeans that are unzipped and unbuttoned with a unbuckled belt and Black High Heeled Sandals.

The haori that Yuzuriha wears is made from a traditional cloth passed down her family's lineage, and is traditionally worn when heading out in to the Night. It's used as a good-luck charm when going out to hunt Voids.

Years ago Yuzuriha's ancestors worked for the Night Blade. After the Licht Kreis first appeared and started to fight against the Night Blade for the control of the Hollow Night, Yuzuriha's ancestors were fed up with the fighting and decided to betray the Night Blade and start their lives anew. The only thing they had kept from the Night Blade is the Iris Sword passed down on their lineage.

Yuzuriha's family then started to hold a sword-fighting dojo, from where she was taught her family's sword-style. Around the time, when Hyde went to elementary school, he met Yuzuriha at the dojo. The two have been friends since that point, but their relationship has gotten awkward after a "certain incident", which has left Hyde guilt-ridden ever since.

Yuzuriha is a very cheerful and carefree, acting like anything that goes on around her doesn't seem to bother her. She affectionately refers to her sword as "Ayame-chan" and her smartphone as "Felia-chan" She is also someone who doesn't hold very serious grudges, having already forgiven Hyde for his actions in the past, as well as telling Hilda to rethink her decision on becoming a Re-Birth in a manner akin to a mother scolding her child.

Despite her seemingly happy-go-lucky attitude, Yuzuriha possesses a serious and realistic side to her. Since obtaining her sword, she has taken it upon herself to be the guardian of the city and killing any Void she encounters and admits that her abilities are far from being perfected. When encountering Hilda, she states that carrying an unconscious Hyde and Linne would be more troublesome than fighting Hilda herself, showing a bold and cocky side to her personality as well.

Yuzuriha's ability is the EXS of Falling Flowers: Ainsel Lost, which allows her to enter a state of awareness that enhances her senses to several times sharper than that of a normal person. This increases the accuracy and sharpness of Yuzuriha's swift sword slashes. With her sharpened senses, Yuzuriha can read the opponent's flow of EXS and anticipate their moves.

The sword she uses is the Iris Blade: Kamiji-no-Homare of whom she affectionately calls "Ayame-chan", despite her dislike of having to carry it with her all the time due to its size being that of a narrow tachi. It is an heirloom sword passed down Yuzuriha's family. It was passed on to the Protector of the Shrine as a talisman to help them cleanse "evil spirits". According to Yuzuriha's sister Hiroha, the blade had been broken at one point in the past, which required Hiroha to give up her vessel and EXS in order to reforge the blade.

Yuzuriha wields her family's traditional sword-drawing moves in battle. Their fighting style is called Dual Moon's One Blade Drawing Style. Yuzuriha is the last practitioner of these sword-drawing arts.

-Voids: Voids are dark shadows that are incapable of thinking and only move on their instincts to consume Existence.

Voids are can take many different forms, their most common form is that of a small blob of EXS, the stronger ones take the form of snake-like beings and the strongest forms are tall, human-like creatures shrouded in darkness. When a person first transforms into a Void, they remain mostly humanoid save for their eyes turning completely red and seemingly bleeding and their body slowly being enveloped in a black mass as they degenerate further and further, similar to a zombie. There is a side effect when a person being transformed into a Void: the memories of host and his/her people that made relationships with (such as family or friends) will be wiped out completely. In-Births, on the other hand, are the exception, as they have the memories stayed intact when they saw a person turned into a Void.

Normal people aren't able to perceive or interfere with them. Only the most powerful Voids can materialize themselves. Voids also become visible when they get close to high concentrations of EXS, such as the Abyss.

When a person is bitten by a Void, they become able to perceive Voids for the first time. This is also what triggers a person's awakening as an In-Birth. But if the person isn't able to keep their sanity when they witness a Void for the first time, they'll turn into a Void.

Voids cannot interfere with the real world. They only attack those within the realm of Hollow Night. Once the Night ends, the Voids remain in the alternative realm and wait for the next Night. Only the strongest Voids, such as Merkava, are able to access the real world, but only if there is a high enough concentration of EXS.