Summary
Mei is a Zashiki Warashi, the wife of Majina and Hafuri's mother. A Zashiki Warashi is a Youkai born of a collection of dead babies and young children killed by their parents during famines. They are attached to a household and are said to protect the house and bring good fortune, to sneak into the futon of the family members and to play harmless pranks, all the while only being seen by children or as a shadow near a corner. However, when the household is declining the Zashiki Warashi will leave them, and misfortune will befall them.
She and Majina were killed in the original timeline. After Shinobu's journey to the past changed history, the two survived the attempt on their lives and hid from the world so as to not distort the flow of history. While they were in hiding they managed to replicate the project that had boosted Yukari's power, this time completing it and achieving its final goal. However, Mei became "too perfect" as a Zashiki Warashi, apparently losing all of her emotions and will, only following Majina silently to protect him.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B physically, Unknown with destiny manipulation
Name: Mei, Hyakki Yakou Special-Made Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi
Origin: The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Classification: Youkai, Zashiki Warashi
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Destiny Manipulation, Reality Warping (Can create new destinies), Immortality (Type 1), Self-Sustenance (Type 1 & 2), Resistance (Immunity to conventional weapons and damage inflicted by the normal laws of physics, some resistance to interference from history and destiny)
Attack Potency: Wall level physically (Comparable to Yukari), Unknown with destiny manipulation (Basically a form of reality warping that can achieve the impossible)
Speed: Superhuman with Subsonic reactions (Comparable to Yukari)
Lifting Strength: Superhuman
Striking Strength: Wall level
Durability: Wall level, immune to conventional weapons and damage inflicted by the normal laws of physics
Stamina: Likely high
Range: Standard melee range, universal with destiny manipulation
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Unknown, acts emotionless most of the time and automatically acts to support her family
Weaknesses: Due to her species' origins she's weak against glass made from the powder of a crushed old stone mill (A glass fiber rope will restrain her despite her great strength, and glass bullets will bypass her invulnerability to conventional weapons), Mei counts as "dead" and is vulnerable to some abilities that affect the dead
Feats/Statements
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“Yes. I call her Mei, but it may be simpler if I give you her proper name. Isn’t that right, Hyakki Yakou Special-Made Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi.” Special-Made Ver. 40. That Sexy Youkai had been the Prototype Ver. 39, so was this a later model? Had something been completed, leading them to remove the prototype qualifier? “Well, I had a lot of time on my hands hiding in the shadows of history for nearly ten years. And since the Ver. 39 wasn’t wasted in that incident, a sample remained in the world. I remotely retrieved data and continued my research, so creating a more stable model was not difficult.” [...] “Have you forgotten? I have the Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi. To be blunt, that alone allows us to call checkmate on the world. The only countermeasure the world has would be the Ver. 39, and you are the human closest to her. Even if Hyakki Yakou tried to seize the Ver. 39 by force, I doubt Hafuri’s group has the skill needed to activate it properly.” “…” “So the two players who hold destiny in their hands are you and me. The very fact that we have been set opposed to each other over the Aoandon issue looks like fate setting the stage for us, if you ask me. But knowing that changes nothing. We have no choice but to clash now.” |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Like Yukari Mei has had her power over destiny boosted, although Mei has a perfected complete version and can freely use them even creating new destinies without sacrificing her powers like Yukari |
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The sexy Youkai with a bob cut smoothly and silently held out her palm and a strange tremor ran through the Sunekosuri’s entire body. He felt like a bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid had been tilted to the verge of spilling over his head. Was this the fear of being erased in an alteration to history? “Enough, Mei.” That was all Majina said. “Let’s not do anything today. Noukotsu Village is an important place for us. It would be a shame to defile it with a sudden battle.” |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Mei almost did something to the Sunekosuri with her powers before being stopped by Majina |
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“He supposedly has a Zashiki Warashi that can construct a brand new destiny from nothing rather than change the existing destiny. If he has that, then he wouldn’t need to bother with all this. He could directly mess with the world to make himself Hyakki Yakou’s leader.” “Th-then is the Ver. 40…um, Mei-san not complete yet?” “Do you really think Majina would be that inept?” Hyakki Yakou Special-Made Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi was complete. He could use it at any time and he had no reason to hesitate. Nevertheless, they never used that power to put us in checkmate. Why? “No, that isn’t it.” “?” “Maybe he’s already using it. And for something that makes his return to Hyakki Yakou a secondary concern in comparison.” [...] It was possible I could heal my legs with my kit, but he would never give me the chance. On his own, he could rival the current Hyakki Yakou and he also had the Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi who could create the world’s destiny from nothing. If I was faced with something like that when I couldn’t even stand up, there was no way I could win. [...] “What are you trying to do? No, what are you trying to cause? I can’t figure out why you would start this zombie panic. With the Ver. 40, you should be able to directly create your utopia without going through all this troublesome work… So why aren’t you using the Ver. 40. Could it be that…” “You Hishigami Women like to stall for time by talking and to wait for an opening when the thread of tension grows slack.” “Could it be that you aren’t holding back on the Ver. 40. Could it be that you’re already using it for something else? If so, what are you using it for? No, what is the true problem that you couldn’t find a solution for without using the Ver. 40!?” [...] And the Hyakki Yakou Special-Made Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi named Mei had been thoroughly remade by him to manipulate and create destiny. [...] “I have the Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi. Why do you think we didn’t use that power to put you in checkmate? Because we needed the full power of the Ver. 40 to oppose the ruinous destiny brought by the Ver. 39. If she had used up the Ver. 39 to stop the zombie outbreak, Mei’s Ver. 40 could have contained it. But I never expected her to become a zombie herself and lose her rational mind. This was not malice on Yukari’s part. We should view it as just how cruel the Ver. 39’s ruinous destiny is.” I had assumed Majina’s group had started down this strange path because my changes to the past had allowed them to escape their assassination. “In theory, we should have won, but it didn’t work. This power is great enough to overturn reason and drive back logic. While the Ver. 39 is unstable, that very instability allows it, for brief moments, to surpass the power of the fully stabilized Ver. 40. That is why we could not fully suppress the ruin she brings. That is why we lost.” But that wasn’t all that happened. I had resolved that past incident so the Ver. 39, that Good-for-Nothing Youkai, didn’t have to lose her power. That meant the power of the Ver. 39 remained. If her bodily structure had been destroyed and she could no longer use her power as a Zashiki Warashi, the world might have stabilized. Majina had quickly realized that fact, so he had hidden for a decade, remade his beloved Mei into the Ver. 40, and done whatever it took to resist the ruin approaching the world. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Mai realizes that if Majina is not instantly winning his conflict with Hyakki Yakou with Mei's powers to manipulate and create destiny it must be he's using them for something else, later revealed to be fighting Yukari's ruinous destiny |
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“In the end, I couldn’t make Mei into the ideal Zashiki Warashi.” He smiled thinly and glanced over at the Ver. 40 that did not react in the slightest. “Whether you call it her traits, instincts, or characteristics as a Zashiki Warashi, I wanted to free her from all the rules that leave her at the mercy of her family’s fortune and misfortune. I simply wanted her to be with me, without being torn apart by the bonds of species. But after everything that happened, I ended up heading down the exact opposite path.” Mei still did not react to his words. The Zashiki Warashi in a white yukata was too perfect as a Zashiki Warashi. She had wished for that and Majina had provided the actual technique. [...] Even now, the Hyakki Yakou Special-Made Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi said nothing. Perhaps she had been altered to the point that she couldn’t. She had a thin veil covering half her face and a head-mounted display around her neck. Most importantly of all, she wore the white kimono, a symbol of normality that she could not escape. Majina glanced over at his partner who could not and was not allowed to change her expression. [...] Standing in the pure white snow was an even purer white Youkai. She was the ideal form of the Zashiki Warashi. She would simply protect whoever was set as her master. The sexy Youkai could do nothing more than that, but this still meant the girl was no longer alone. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Mei's perfection as a Zashiki Warashi led to an apparent loss of emotions and will, only silently protecting her family as the "ideal" Zashiki Warashi |
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“That is why I will play one last piece of mischief.” A small light appeared near Majina’s chest. Was it was some kind of paranormal power? Since it was intentional, perhaps it was best called a paranormal technique. “Our original destiny was to die and this incident was the result of us fooling history for ten years. To put it another way, correcting history to its proper form will erase the tragedy we created. It isn’t actually that simple, but my technique can forcibly twist it in that direction. Of course, it will be a joint effort borrowing my wife’s power.” “Majina…?” “You returned yourself to human with your own power and your human wounds will be healed by the historical corrections brought by my disappearance. This way you can survive to see the world of the Bloodstained Zashiki Warashi.” “Wait. But then what happens to all of you!?” “Ohatsu-san and my wife Mei are both Youkai. They were always paranormal beings, so they have some resistance to interference from history and destiny. Shikimi-san is probably 50/50, but she was always something of a living legend and it’s worth seeing if she can escape her destiny to die. The most unnatural one here is me, a ‘mere human’ who has continued to live in defiance of destiny. So once the distortion of history has concentrated at that weakest point, I will intentionally correct that distortion. That will leave me as the only sacrifice. No one else will be affected.” [...] The bright light that had been released to the surface once more descended into the great pit. It bared its fangs in its proper role. That beam of light swallowed up everything, tore Majina’s hand from my own, and carried that man, who had committed great crimes out of love for his family, into the lava-filled depths of the earth. Once the light vanished, I was a human rather than a zombie. No trace remained of the hole in my chest and I was among the living rather than the dead. My archenemy had been eliminated. History had been corrected and the zombie outbreak was over, so it was the ultimate happy ending. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 08 - Majina uses Mei's power to rewrite history, undoing his survival in the past assassination and also undoing all deaths caused by his zombie Kasha Package |
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Even if the visible problem was financial, we couldn’t take it lightly. The Zashiki Warashi had the power to control destiny, so our opponent here was the world’s destiny. Not of Japan, or of Asia, or of Earth, or of the Solar System, or of the Milky Way. Of the entire giant framework called “the world”. This may have even gone beyond the level of the creator gods. Was this really something that humans could handle? A decline always awaited the prosperous. That was the scope on which the fangs and claws of destiny worked. How many beings could oppose that entire irreversible stream? This world even had plenty of gods who had been entirely forgotten. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 09 - Mai explains that when they talk about Yukari or Mei manipulating the world's destiny, they are talking world in the scale of the universe/setting, not a single planet |
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The girl herself had trouble deciding what she wanted here. Imprisonment in this evil-destroying cell was a last ditch attempt to suppress the Ver. 40’s power to change the world’s destiny, but she did not even know if that was the right thing to do. There was no precedent for this. The Venom Clairvoyant, who could see into the gaps between every world regardless of causality and the timeline, had given her approval, but even she had no way of proving the accuracy of what she saw. It was possible even she was being guided and manipulated. [...] Hafuri briefly thought about forgetting everything, tearing the device from her head, and throwing it to the floor, but then a hand reached in from outside her vision. It belonged to the Hyakki Yakou Special-Made Ver. 40 Zashiki Warashi. That is, to her mother. Hafuri removed the head-mounted display as if to shake off the past image of Majina that continued to cling regretfully to her and she found Mei’s hand reaching out through the peach lattice. That hand was preventing her from destroying the device, but it was somehow reminiscent of a mother rubbing her child’s head. Hafuri stared blankly for a moment but finally understood. (That’s…that’s right… Even this may be a part of the Bloodstained Zashiki Warashi’s ruinous destiny.) She would have destroyed that valuable information. She would have closed that path. No grand violence was necessary. Slight coincidences would coincide and bits of bad luck would pass by at the worst possible moment. That was why this kind of message had reached Hafuri in her current mental state. It may have looked comical at first glance, but impulsively slamming the device to the floor might have meant losing the 108 secret rituals of the old Hyakki Yakou. Mei had noticed and stopped her daughter. Even as the evil-destroying peach restrained her power, she was resisting the Bloodstained Zashiki Warashi. That was the gap between the completed Ver. 40 and a half-Zashiki Warashi like Hafuri. It was an overwhelming difference. Even after losing her beloved, losing her very raison d'être, and being weakened by the current Hyakki Yakou’s greatest seal, she remained on the side of protection. The actual action may have been small, but not even Hafuri could imagine how many threads of fate she had needed to slip past to reach that point. That was a Zashiki Warashi. They had no fierce fangs or claws, but they could perceive and control destiny to bring great fortune. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 09 - Even when imprisoned in a power suppressing cell Mei was able to fight against Yukari's ruinous destiny and stop Hafuri from making a mistake while being subtly manipulated |
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Hafuri was confused at first, but she finally caught on after looking behind her. Yes, a sexy Youkai in a white yukata who had an almost ghostly lack of presence was standing right behind her. It was Mei. Without speaking a word, she looked Shinobu in the eye and silently nodded. She also gently rubbed her daughter’s head. Meanwhile, Hafuri was anything but peaceful. “How? What? Eh? But… Weren’t you confined to Hyakki Yakou’s most strictly guarded cell!?” “I really doubt normal logic works with them. It feels like they can directly mess with the world’s destiny. Besides, settling down and leaving when they want is just what a Zashiki Warashi does.” [...] “This means you got into Noukotsu Village just fine, doesn’t it?” “Y-yes.” “Yukari didn’t call for you, but you forced your way in. And it worked…” Could it be? wondered Shinobu. He may have been too conceited. It may not have been his own doing that had allowed all these Youkai to conveniently gather, that had prevented coincidences that sounded like jokes from getting in the way, and that had kept the Bloodstained Zashiki Warashi’s ruinous destiny from intercepting them. Hafuri and Mei may have briefly diverted Yukari’s power that Majina had analyzed as outdoing the Ver. 40’s during its brief spikes. [...] And if what the Aburatori and Aoandon said was accurate, then Noukotsu Village was surrounded by an invisible labyrinth and anyone who would get in the Ver. 39’s way (whether they meant harm or not) would be unable to approach. Even so, the hundred Youkai of my Hyakki Yakou had gathered here. That of course had likely been helped by my special trait to gather Youkai as well as Hafuri and Mei’s ability to bend destiny as white Zashiki Warashi. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 09 - When Hafuri escaped Hyakki Yakou to assist Shinobu Mei escaped from her cell and followed her; Shinobu realizes their power over destiny helped other Youkai arrived at his home despite Yukari's ruinous destiny |
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“Jinnai Shinobu!” The Youkai may have been able to sense it better than a human like me. The Package was complete. The Aoandon called out to me from the side. Either due to her experience in Hyakki Yakou or her senses as a half-Youkai, Hafuri picked up on something and shouted a warning. “Hurry up and use this!! A great fluctuation is appearing! At this rate, you’ll have at most one chance at this!!” I glanced at what she threw toward me and saw the kaleidoscope spinning through the air. The Aoandon and Hafuri were unable to say more. Or maybe my sense of time simply vanished. I heard a sharp sound. Mei, the Zashiki Warashi in a white yukata, had started glaring intently at me in a way she never had before. She had done something. She had used the Ver. 40. But for what? I already knew she wasn’t our enemy, so it must have been to protect me from something. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 09 - Mei uses her powers to protect Shinobu from something as he goes to grab the Package he's going to use to seal Yukari's ruinous destiny |
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The Zashiki Warashi in a red yukata was bound by what looked like white plastic rope. And not just her arms and legs either. It was wrapped around her torso, her neck, and all of her body like some kind of sick form of torture. Still smiling, the con artist spoke. “You see, the casino knows how to take care of Youkai related to fortunes and money.” He spoke quickly. The Youkai that should have been invulnerable to blades or bullets was giving me a pleading look. “They say Zashiki Warashi come from the threshold, below the floor, or below the stone mill. Those seem to have been common places to bury murdered babies. Using that legend, they crush an old stone mill into powder, place it in a furnace, and create glass fiber rope out of it. Not even the Youkai’s great strength can break it.” [...] Kodama Ryou and the casino had used a special rope to bind the Zashiki Warashi. They had crushed a stone mill to powder, placed it in a furnace, and created a special glass fiber rope. It had likely been made for the Usuhiki Warashi, a subspecies, but if they used it on her… If they created a blade or bullet out of the stone mill glass fiber… |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 04 - Zashiki Warashi have a racial weakness to glass made from an old stone mill. Therefore, a glass fiber rope made out of it can restrain them despite their superhuman strength, and weapons like bullets made out of it can hurt them despite their Youkai invulnerability |
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A single skewer stabbed into the center of her body, as if tearing through her ample chest. That deadly weapon would tear out one’s organs, skewer them, cook them over a fire, and remove the oil. “Ahh…” She looked surprised and her upper body slid to the side. She crumpled weakly to the ground like a marionette with its strings cut. [...] The Zashiki Warashi was not a normal human. She was a collection of the children killed during famines and the like, so it was possible a skewer meant to kill a single child would not kill her. It was possible this would not entirely destroy her. [...] The collapsed Zashiki Warashi’s upper body moved a little. The Aburatori’s attack may have damaged her bodily structure, but she was still trying to protect Shinobu who was about to be destroyed. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Yukari survived one of Aburatori's skewers, as a skewer meant to kill a single individual child cannot fully kill a being like her that is a collection of dead children. Mei should be similar since both are Zashiki Warashi |
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Makuragaeshi, Yamanba, Inugami, Killing Stone, Tsuchigumo, Nue, Furutsubaki, Zashiki Warashi, Oshira-sama. There are plenty of Youkai that use formless curses, but that doesn’t fit with the earlier high-speed movement. The only overlap is the Yamanba. [...] Kudan, Shaberi-Ishi, Zashiki Warashi, fox… Oh, damn. That rules out the Yamanba!! The more hints I have, the closer I should get to his identity and weakness, but this is only confusing me further. At this rate, he’s going to shoot us down before I can figure out- |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 07 - Shinobu lists Zashiki Warashi as a species of Youkai that can use formless curses and predict the future, although this seems to be mostly lore based on Zashiki Warashis predicting the death of their former families to fire or illness when they abandon a household that is declining, so apparently not combat abilities |
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Immortality: All Youkai have an immortal body, since they don't have a concept of lifespan. Once they reach adulthood they stop aging completely, which makes it basically impossible to determine an adult Youkai's age from their physical appearance, as they could be several centuries old but still look young.
- Invulnerability: Youkai are immune to conventional weapons and physical damage that follows the laws of physics. They are also immune to natural poisons and to things like radiation. Even weak, harmless Youkai won't die if nuclear missiles were to pour down like rain. Additionally, Youkai have some resistance to interference from history and destiny.
- Destiny Manipulation: Generally Zashiki Warashi aren't a particularly powerful species of Youkai. They don't have fierce claws or fangs, they can't curse someone to death and they don't eat people. However, Zashiki Warashi rule over destiny. They can perceive and control destiny, sometimes causing their household to have visions of a future disaster as a warning and bringing them prosperity. Mei's ability as a Zashiki Warashi was boosted by her husband Majina, allowing her to fight against the normal destiny and achieve any of the possible destinies. Circumstances and events do not matter, as long as Mei fights the naturally occurring destiny, everything around her will be manipulated and correct itself to bring about the result she desires.
- Destiny Creation: Majina and Mei managed to complete the original project's final goal of going beyond choosing between the available destinies and achieving the creation of a new destiny from nothing. As such, unlike Yukari who is just the prototype and has to sacrifice her powers to do it once, Mei can freely wield this power. She is able to alter the world and make the impossible happen as many times as she wants.
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