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.

Beginning of Losing Everything
Yukime was born to the daughter of the Spirit Fox tribe's leader. One day when Yukime was age 14, a rival Beastkin tribe (presumably one of the Cult's invader groups) invaded the village, and she was about to be taken by them as a slave. That is until Gettan, the son of the Dire Wolves' Elder, rescued her and slaughtered the attackers. Yukime and Gettan fell in love ever since then. The Spirit Fox and Dire Wolf tribes chose to form an alliance to better defend themselves against the upcoming war by having Yukime and Gettan get married which is something both of them were happy to comply. However, Yukime had to reach the age of 15 before they could officially get married.

When the war had occurred, both tribes fell victim with only Yukime and Gettan the only survivors. While Yukime tried to comfort her fiancée, Gettan pushed Yukime away and revealed that he tried to save their tribes by gaining aid from a Cult but Yukime's mother refused leading to Gettan murdering her. Yukime tried to flee but unfortunately, Gettan brutally attacked her and left slashed marks on her backs. Just as Yukime was about to be killed by Gettan, a mysterious figure intervened in blocking his intentions while she was unconscious but felt the figure's magic healing her wounds.

When she woke up, Yukime finds that her wounds have healed and realizes that Gettan has disappeared, but that's not all because she sees the invaders have been killed. Yukime walks to her village which has been scorched by the aftermath of the war and found her mother's corpse, confirming what Gettan had done. With her hometown gone after the loss of her mother and tribe, Yukime only had grudges against her former fiancée and vowed to get revenge on him for what he did.

Quest for Vengeance
Driven by severe rage and grieve, Yukime began to seek revenge on Gettan ever since then after losing her mother and tribe by gathering strength after leaving her burned hometown. But with no money, power, or relatives, Yukime spend her days traveling from place to place as a battle prostitute and working her way up.

By the time she turned seventeen, Yukime's hard work has finally paid off after she became the White Tower Monarch in the Lawless City and owning countless brothels in the red-light district. For years, Yukime kept watch on Gettan's activity before enacting her revenge.

At some point, Yukime also founded Snow Fox Corporation and ran her business that operates outside the Lawless City.

Red Moon Incident
Yukime took part in fending off the Vampire and Ghouls forces during the Red Moon to protect her girls that she is not wanting to lose any more girls again as several of them have been killed. On the way, she has a brief skirmishing with a battle crazed Juggernaut before Shadow arrived and the three agreed to work together in stopping Elizabeth's revival and the resurgence of vampires. Before entering, Yukime ran into White Demon and was passed over him after he found out who she really was, since Juggernaut open the Crimson Tower gate before Shadow killed him.

Once inside, Yukime is able to reach the tower room top floor just in time to battle the Blood Queen, Elisabeth. However, due to her immense amount of magic, she gets severely injured and becomes unable to fight her. However, Shadow later arrives and is able to defeat her.

After the crisis was averted, Yukime heard news about the conflict that had occurred in the Midgar Kingdom. Knowing that Gettan was involved in the conflict plus her thought about Shadow that single-handedly stopping Elisabeth's rampage, Yukime decided that this is the right time to get revenge on her ex-fiancé for his actions that caused her everything.

Therefore, Yukime asked her servants to secretly invite Shadow to her White Tower since she believed that he is still in the Lawless City by giving him a proposition, aiming for an alliance between the two of them after witnessing his strength which would later be useful for her revenge plan.

Great Trading Company Conflict
Soon after, Shadow receive Yukime's invitation and comes to visit her as she informed him of the detail situation regarding Mitsugoshi Company and the Great Commerce Alliance have currently been engage in a covert trade war, then tells him that a confrontation between the two major trading company firms is a lucrative business proposal for gaining a huge profit, plus telling Shadow that Yukime also ran a company on her own called Snow Fox Corporation.

Yukime secretly invited Shadow intending to propose an alliance to him for assisting her in executing the plan to deliver a huge blow after both sides have been weakened whilst waiting for the right time, without telling him her real reasons. Shadow went on Yukime request and ended up agreeing to help her, on the condition that will help him get a new outfit so as not to revealing his identity to which Yukime agreed, accompanied by her favor of handing over Gettan who is a leader of the Great Commerce Alliance to her.

When the battle dispute between the two corporations still continues in vying for power, Yukime and Shadow, now taking the identity of John Smith devise ways to usurp both factions. It was at that time that John proposed to cause a "counterfeit notes" to Yukime, which is different from her original plan and after she understood how credit works as such, she agreed to his plan. Yukime orders her workers to build a counterfeits printing factory at the empty hideout that Shadow suggested which was originally a secret facility where Shadow's older sister, Claire Kagenō has been detained long ago and immediately begins in manufacturing counterfeit money to spreading it at the citizens and carrying the stolen gold from the capital to the Lawless City, in order to avoid being investigated before being brought to a base safely which already hidden with Yukime handling the money by organize them in the vault, while Shadow is tasked with protecting the carriage transport line of counterfeits’ distribution chain under the identity as "John Smith".

As time passes, Yukime and Shadow celebrated the success in their plan which had paid off with all the gold coins collected so far until it was then that Yukime decides to retelling him the story about her past and revealed to Shadow that the reason for requesting his aid was to get revenge on Gettan who had destroyed her life by killing him. After their victory is assured, Yukime confronts Gettan and the two former lovers' battle. Despite being in her most powerful state, Yukime lost the fight. Thankfully, Shadow arrives to turn the tide and declaring to Gettan that Yukime was special to him. This touches Yukime, believing that Shadow came to her aid out of love for her.

Following Gettan's death and Shadow healing her past wounds, Yukime then heads to the hideout to allocate the money kept in the vault while leaving Shadow who at the time is taking care of something which she thoughts that Shadow is digging a grave for Gettan. It was then that Yukime was surprised that the money that had been collected had disappeared until suddenly she was surprised by the arrival of Alpha from Shadow Garden to inform her that all the money that was in the vault had been taken and Alpha's goal to meet Yukime was to give a letter regarding from Gettan's will that is addressed for Yukime containing an apology to her along with all people of her tribe in the village, accompanied by curses on his own weakness and revealing the true identity of the organization which were responsible for Gettan's actions that set him along his path till Yukime then learns that the real perpetrator who had ruined her life was the Cult of Diablos.

By the time Yukime comprehends this shocking revelation, Alpha also tells her that the Cult is Shadow Garden's nemesis who is currently fighting off against, even unveiling that Mitsugoshi is Shadow Garden's front. Upon hearing her statement, Yukime had come to a realization while Alpha surmised that all the course of events which transpired so far had been according to Shadow's prediction whose already played out exactly how he wanted it to from the very beginning as he setting his plan into motion by leveraging her partnership in raising money to help Mitsugoshi through a credit crisis.

Grateful that Shadow saved her twice, Yukime chooses to ally with Shadow Garden under her desire to end the Cult of Diablos when she forge an alliance with the Snow Fox Corporation to forming a partnership with Mitsugoshi Company in cooperated for arrangements of managing and handling the dirty work, as well as acting as Lawless City's liaison for Shadow Garden.

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.

As the president of Snow Fox Corporation, Yukime has considerable power.

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
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 travelling at immensely high speed without a trace, yet she also managed to keep up with Shadow's absolute speed for no effort.

Shadow / John Smith
Yukime acted teasingly and unashamedly flirted with Shadow after he protected her prostitutes from the vampires. Upon witnessing his incredible strength, Yukime desired to gain his aid in order to bring down Gettan and the Great Commerce Alliance. She tried seducing him, but Shadow could tell what her motives were and dismissed the attempts. She finally got Shadow's aid with the promise of riches by collapsing both the Great Commerce Alliance and Mitsugoshi Company.

When the two worked together, Yukime was quite fearful of her partner as she learnt that not only did Shadow (now under the guise, John Smith) possessed power but also seemingly supernatural intelligence which kept her on her toes. Still, Yukime developed respect for John that by the time their plans were complete, she apologized to him for using him for her revenge.

Unbeknownst to her and John, the two had actually met years ago. When Gettan attacked Yukime for refusing to join the Cult of Diabolos, John came to her rescue and used his magic to heal her. Upon being rescued once more and healed of her scars completely by John in the present day, Yukime realized that John and her past savior were one and the same. Combined with the belief he rescued her out of care, Yukime fell in love with John.

When informed by Alpha that John had in fact used her to bring down the Great Commerce Alliance and protected Mitsugoshi Company (a Shadow Garden front), Yukime does not hold ill will towards him.

Gettan
Gettan was Yukime's hated enemy and her former fiancée. The two were romantically in love until Gettan betrayed her by not only attacking her for refusing to join the Cult of Diabolos with him but also murdering her beloved mother. Since then, Yukime solely wanted vengeance against her former fiancée, and she did it by destroying the Great Commerce Alliance which Gettan lead. When the two former lovers confronted each other years later, even though Yukime had Gettan beaten and was about to deliver the killing below, Yukime stopped herself.

Alpha
Yukime had a respectful working relationship with Alpha after the former become an ally to Shadow Garden. Although, Yukime admitted she was envious that Alpha was one of the people Shadow held dear.

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'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.