Yukime

"The winner will be you, Mr.Shadow, and it will be I."

- Yukime, to Shadow

Yukime (ユキメ) is the ruler of the White Tower in the Lawless City, known as the infamous Spirit Fox (妖狐ようこ) who controls the city's pleasure district and the president of the Snow Fox Corporation, also Gettan's ex-fiancé. She later joins Shadow Garden as its operator and Shadow's colleague.

Appearance
As a Beastkin Fox, Yukime possesses the natural traits of her people, which are her long fox ears and nine tails. Yukime was recognized as a bewitching beauty, with a beautiful face with long snow-white hair, blue eyes, and a curvaceous figure. Yukime covered her horrendous scars behind her back by hiding it inside her kimono. After the end of the Trade Conflict, Shadow healed her properly and removed the scars.

She is dressed in her illustrious kimono colored snow-white as well, with fur on the shoulders, has gold accents on the cuffs, and blue lines accompanying them. The kimono is held together by her Obi, a sash around the belly, where she also keeps her two iron war fans for self-defense.

She has a Japanese style ornamentation: ribbon knots in her hair, bracelets in her hands, rings on her fingers, a pair of Geta sandals. a blue necklace accessory worn at her waist, and Japanese rings near the tips of her nine fox tails. These rings seem similar to Buddhist prayer beads, denoting some measure of spiritual or magical meaning.

Personality
"Verily, I wish for us to get close, Mr. Shadow."

- Yukime, to Shadow

Yukime is an aloof beastkin who uses vulgar language, but she is a very strong and determined woman who has risen to her current position as the leader of the White Tower through her intelligence and unwavering resolve.

As the ruler of the White Tower, Yukime is known for her firm and decisive leadership, but she is not known for murdering those who oppose her. Instead, she handles challenges and threats with shrewdness and wit, employing her intelligence to maintain her position. She's also a shrewd businesswoman who runs a legitimate company outside the Lawless City.

In her past, Yukime faced hardships, including a period where she was involved in difficult circumstances as a former sex worker. However, she has since transformed her life and now cares deeply for the people in her employ, particularly the ladies under her protection in the pleasure district. She is known for being a supportive and protective leader, always grateful for those who have helped her and her subordinates. When she encounters Shadow for the first time, Yukime expresses gratitude for his help in saving her ladies from danger. This gesture shows her appreciation for those who support her and demonstrates her caring nature.

The motivation for Yukime's change from a kind and loving girl to her current state can be attributed to a traumatic event in her past involving the Cult of Diablos. This event caused her to adopt a more guarded and cautious demeanor, making her wary of others' intentions. However, she is not solely driven by revenge but instead seeks to protect others from similar experiences.

Although Yukime is a formidable and calculating individual, she is not ruthlessly manipulative. She may be willing to strategize and use her wit to achieve her goals, but she still retains a sense of compassion and empathy, especially towards those she respects.

Being a former prostitute, Yukime also has a seductive personality as she would often use her beautiful appearance and teasing personality to entice men to lower their guard, particularly towards Shadow who most likely attempts to persuade him to join her.

Despite this though, Yukime still has feelings for Gettan and after Shadow comes to save her, she returns to her old self.

Powers & Abilities
Being the ruler of the White Tower of the Lawless City, Yukime is considerably powerful because her strength is based on the sum of her 9 tails, making her even more powerful than other Spirit Foxes. Yukime is arguably on-par with high-ranking members of Shadow Garden, with only Juggernaut standing as her equal within the city. Still, she is far inferior to being like Shadow and Elisabeth, the latter of whom she could barely keep up with even though she had backup.

Physical Prowess
Yukime, being a ruler and a member of one of the strongest tribes of beast-men, possesses incredible dexterity and supernatural abilities, which are hidden and deceived, due to her beautiful and apparently fragile appearance for some, which at the same time In the end, it usually becomes the downfall of the one who underestimates.

Like everyone from her tribe, Yukime has many abilities such as supernatural hearing, night vision, partially sensitive smell, among other well-developed senses and physical abilities, such as taste and touch.

Strong Intelligence
As the president of Snow Fox Corporation, Yukime has considerable power. Yukime demonstrated to have a strong intelligence and cunning, to be able to direct all her servants and employees, like every leader and president that she is, since at the same time, she also runs a company, outside the Lawless City and inside it. this. Yukime has shown to be very calculating and observant when it comes to doing business, but she herself has shown that she is still a long way from being considered someone of the highest caliber among bosses and businessmen. Since when she raised her plans and methods with John Smith, she was overwhelmed with fear by the test (according to what she believed), that John was doing to see how strong her voluptane was to see if her enemies could get information from her. , in the unlikely event that she managed to elude her enchanting beauty, and they only had to deal with her personality itself, and natural beauty.

Esoteric Beauty
Through the training of her magic, plus the development of her body and the awakening of her true power, Yukime awoke and acquired a beauty and seduction so strong, both natural and supernatural, belonging to her clan, that it makes almost any man, regardless of the race, be it Human, Beastman, or even an elf, he feels strongly attracted to her, without putting up any resistance as such, at all. Yukime usually uses her beauty as if it were a double-edged sword, in order to fight her enemies and at the same time, while doing her job as a prostitute, making them lower their guard, in order to finish them off.

The beauty that Yukime fires is so great, that just by looking into her eyes, a person already begins to feel attracted to her, in the light novel, and in the anime, Yukime uses her tremendous charm, as a way of making her opponents to drop their guard or be unable to resist her, which allows Yukime to finish them off without much trouble.

Despite its incredible, powerful, enchanting and deadly beauty that could be considered divine, it has been shown that certain beings or races can oppose strong resistance to its charm abilities, to the point of being immune to its beauty; like the ghouel, who have lost all moral judgment and conscience, since they are only interested in feeding on anyone, vampires, since they have also shown to use certain ignotic charm abilities, and therefore a charm ability, can in certain degrees to oppose resistance to the other.

The only 2 men, at the level of the human race, who were able to show strong resistance, to the point of being immune to Yukime's beauty, are Juggernaut and Shadow, although in the past, Juggernaut was apparently initially attracted to Yukime, while Shadow was not affected by anything to Yukime's charms and beauty, due to his training in all areas, including the magic part.

With the passage of time, while Yukime walked the path of prostitution, she learned the arts, disciplines and charms of a seductive woman, which allowed her to further increase her beauty on a natural level, which are Charms, Persuasion and Seductions, both on a verbal level, as well as on a personality level, which makes it easier for her to be able to make her clients tell her things, even secret ones, which allows yukime to know, what on the outskirts of the Lawless City, like all their subordinates hunting, without revealing his true intentions.

Magic
Thanks to the training, as well as practicing magic, Yukime managed to awaken the half-forgotten magical techniques and abilities of her clan, before being completely lost to oblivion by the Cult of Diabolos, when her clan and family perished, which allowed Yukime to return once again as the monarch of the Lawless City.

Yukime's magic specializes in elements related to fire and wind, allowing her to perform powerful burst attacks in just a few moments. Until she was blessed by Shadow in joining Shadow Garden, Yukime's magical power drastically grows at an overwhelming rate, which slighty surpasses the likes of Rose Oriana and the rest of the group's members.

Standard Equipment
Yukime fights with a pair of metal-ribbed fans, as she is mastering a dance-like fighting style, resembling the traditional ritual dance: Kagura.

9-Tails Attack
Yukime can use her nine tails to subdue the surrounding foes simultaneously at close range. Whether they are empowered with magic or not, her tails are extremely strong and durable against most attacks.

Secret Art: Power of the Fox
TBC

Quick Flash
Yukime is capable of traveling at an immensely high speed without leaving a trace, being very stealthy, like any fox, being on par with Juggernaut, and being a little superior to the "Normal Members" of Shadow Garden. But although her speed is very good, she is still far from being compared to the "Named Numbers", to the "Seven Shadows" and above all, to Shadow.

Trivia

 * The name of yukime, usually makes reference, comparative or similarity (without meaning as such), to the name of a snow maiden, known as Yuki-onna, (who is a beautiful Yokai who handles the snow covered by an obi, of Japanese mythology).
 * Yukime's name is shared by another female character from another story by another author, named Yukime from "jigoku sensei cloud".
 * Both the design and the character of Yukime are inspired by the kitsunes, from mythology Japanese.
 * Both Yukime's beautiful appearance, behavior, and personality are speculated to be inspired by, or resemble, the famous mythical character, named Tamamo no Mae, from Japanese mythology.
 * In the Light Novel, Yukime's age was unknown. However, considering that she was 14 years old when a young Cid Kagenō saved her, it can be presumed she might be around her 20s.
 * Yukime and Zeta share something in common, and that is that they are both the only two surviving girls, from each family and tribe, of the Beastmen Race, and the other part is that they both lost what mattered most to them, because of the Cult of Diablos, even though the circumstances are different from each other. (It is still known if there are still tribes with blood or family traits).
 * Yukime's beauty, both natural and supernatural, is so strong that she finds it necessary to cover her face with a hat-smock to prevent her charm power from becoming a problem, with men that she doesn't want to deal with. in anime and game, which is counter-wise, since in the manga, Web Novel, and Light Novel, Yukime doesn't cover her face at all, regardless of the situation.
 * When Yukime met Shadow face to face, when he got in the way of his fight against Yugernaut, just like him, when he knew Shadow's name, he knew that he was someone well known but not how strong he was, until he saw him defeat alone, the vampire queen Elizabeth.
 * Yukime is one of the few people (if not the only one so far) who rejected the power of Cult of Diabolos, not wanting to take the red pills, which give more power, offered by her ex-boyfriend Gettan, since he suffered the loss of her family since she was little, until her adulthood, when she returned to confront her ex-boyfriend.
 * Yukime being a prostitute of the highest level, it is unknown how many men she has slept with, or how many have paid her very high or won the privilege of having a one night stand with her.
 * Despite the fact that Yukime has slept with many men, and put aside her purity, she is not allowed or wanted to have children from these men, until now, since she had other goals that were even clearer to achieve. (as is known)
 * It is unknown what method Yukime and the girls who serve her use, so as not to have children of the men, with whom they spend the night, (according to the Manga, Light Novel and Web Novel, the anime and the game remain to be confirmed).
 * Shadow so far, he is the only man who has refused Yukime's charms and lewd proposals, to her surprise and disappointment, though not in the end, not seeming to bother Yukime in part, since until now, he had to make a living using such means to gain power.