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Excerpt lifted from Kasumi Aoi's dossier in the Themis Database, circa 2063:

"Kasumi is the head of the Okinawan Aoi Clan, a long and proud line of Rivers Hunters who intimately tied themselves in with Zangyaku. Her ancestors were among the first to ever become oni-tsukai under Hikaru’s leadership, and every member of their clan has followed in their footsteps. Kasumi herself – as a proud daughter of an Aoi woman, and a Polish Brother in Violence – was no exception to the rule: her parents sent her to Hirato as soon when she was only six years old, and she started training immediately. She actually met Akihiko, her future husband, soon after she completed her initiation at the age of 12 – they were batch mates. By the time they were both 16, they were high-ranking oni-tsukai with licenses in several other conspiracies, and they were completely besotted with each other. They married each other two years later, and Akihiko “killed” his own surname in order to become a Rivers Hunter like his wife.

When Kasumi became pregnant at 23, she and Akihiko immediately knew that their child was going to be Hikaru Shinta because Akihiko was one of the Wardens of the Wolf. Kasumi did not hesitate to become a Warden herself, and agree to move together with her family to Seigi. Soon after her initiation, she and her husband quietly sat down in order to talk about their situation. They agreed on one important matter: that they needed to raise Hikaru as one of their own, and give the boy a proper family. The pair applied themselves to this perfectly as soon as Hikaru entered their lives. Unfortunately, Hikaru ended up awakening violently at 10, and freakish manifestations of the powers at his disposal neatly leveled a part of Tokyo. Akihiko lost his life in an attempt to bring his son back in one piece. Kasumi arrived at the scene just in time to see her young son crying over his dying father. The two of them barely had enough time to say goodbye.

Losing Akihiko utterly crushed Kasumi. While she never blamed Hikaru for her husband’s death, she lapsed into a deep melancholia that ended up lasting for nearly four years. This was a difficult period both for her and her son, as Hikaru did not know where to place himself in his mother’s life, and Kasumi was completely incapable of processing her own grief, much less helping Hikaru with his. It took Hikaru’s suicide attempts to draw Kasumi out of her own slump, as the Blade King’s self-destructive actions were incredibly clear signals on how he felt over killing his father, and how much he needed his mother.

From that point on, Kasumi applied herself with newfound fervor to her roles as an oni-tsukai, a Warden of the Wolf, and the mother of the Blade King. She held the fort for her son whenever he had to leave Japan’s shores – this was especially evident in 2011 and 2012, when Hikaru was most active in the Philippines. She also participated in nearly every Zangyaku engagement that took place in 2012, including Operation Nyx.

Kasumi returned to Japan directly after Operation Nyx; she had previously been shuttling between Japan and the Philippines as Hikaru’s representative, and as a Magistrate on her own right. Her official position in Zangyaku was to serve every function that came with being Mother of the Wolf: Guardian of the Wolf’s Ward, Lady of the Night of the Whisperers, and Leader of Zangyaku in her son’s place whenever he happened to be too busy to handle Japan. She remained in Japan throughout the Breaking of the Veil, the First Reforms, and the Darkest Vigil. She also took charge of Zangyaku completely between 2024 and 2042, while Hikaru was serving a lifetime as Death."