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Old 2013-08-19, 12:13   Link #66
Vallen Chaos Valiant
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Age: 43
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Originally Posted by Shikijin View Post
No, Yotsugi doesn't have an energy beam. She simply enlarges her finger. As a note, Yotsugi presented herself as a shikigami. The shikigami are famous as spirits used as servants by the onmyouji ("master of the yin and the yang"). Yozuru described herself as a battle oriented onmyouji.
1. It doesn't matter what she actually did, the result is that she generated plasma at great force that destroys things on contact.

2. We found out this episode that she is much more than a Shikigami. The fact that she is made from a human corpse is, as she said, a secret.

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The title of the story is "Mayoi Jiangshi", where the jiangshi is the Chinese equivalent of a vampire, though closer to a zombie for Western thinking.
Funny that, Yotsugi is actually much closer to the old school definition of Jiangshi. All that vampiric characteristics were introduced from the West into Chinese culture relatively recently. So in a way, the title of this arc has multiple meanings.
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