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[colour=black]'X A K U'[/colour]
[colour=#E5E4E2] 'X A K U'
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[center][colour=red]A g e:[/colour] ?? | [colour=black]R a n k: [/colour]Assistant Commissioner[/center]
[b][u][sup][colour=red]P e r s o n a l i t y[/colour][/sup][/u] :[/b]
Cold, efficient and uncompromising, Xaku is neither soft nor benevolent. Intelligent but detached, Xaku is a well-spoken and levelheaded individual with no tolerance for disorder. Xaku does not shout nor ever utters a curse, regardless of how livid she may be. Her thoughts, however, are another matter entirely. She detests dishonesty, rejects disorganisation and hardly bothers to explain herself beyond short, concise sentences. To Xaku, weakness of the mind and body is a sin, and those who remain stagnant are the greatest of sinners. As callous as she may appear, Xaku holds herself and others to a high standard, and she makes no effort to hide her disapproval when they are not met. Though it may not always be readily apparent, her words can be just as sharp as her blade, and she is adept at tearing people down with words alone. Despite her cold demeanour, Xaku is respected by colleagues and citizens alike for her ruthless, but fair and effective methods.

In battle, which is something of a rarity nowadays, Xaku prefers precision over raw power, though she lacks in neither. Collateral damage is usually kept to a minimum, and fights against her often last only seconds before her enemy is turned into nothing more than a fleeting memory of a pitiful decision.

Xaku does not start fights. But she always makes sure to end them.

[b][u][sup][color=red]S h o w a  S e c r e t[/color][/sup][/u] :[/b]
A newly appointed and notoriously influential Assistant Police Commissioner, and the only demon to have rejected the standard hierarchy of Michikatsu Tsugikuni in order to follow her own path.

Before there was Xaku, there was █████████████, an idealistic orphan from a small town who once upon a time wished to be a hero, to be someone with the strength and courage to protect others as she herself had once needed. It was a child’s dream, shaped by loss, but it was hers nonetheless. To achieve that goal, she became a Demon Slayer to slay the wicked monsters of the night and protect the innocent. But the reality was not what she thought. As time passed, her idealism faded as she was confronted with the true horror of humanity within her own country. Demons were cruel monsters, yes, but [i]humans[/i] were a special kind of evil all their own. Weak in most cases, cowardly, and yet possessed of a capacity for cruelty far greater than any demon she had encountered.

Eventually, slaying demons no longer held the honour and glory it once did for her, replaced with a more powerful feeling that perhaps humans were not worth saving, after all. Still, she held onto her duty, believing that demons were still the worst danger.

That belief would be tested time and time again over the course of her career, until she eventually cut ties with the Demon Slayer Corps entirely. And yet, her idealism never quite died, instead crystallising into a cold, hard, and absolute resolve.

If humans were also wrong, then why should they alone be spared judgment?

It was soon after that she encountered Kokushibo, not long after the death of Muzan Kibutsuji at the hands of the Demon Slayer Corps. After a fearsome battle that left her blade shattered and her body broken, she accepted her fate.

But it wasn’t the cold embrace of death that found her. Instead, the former Upper Moon spared her life and made her an offer she chose not to refuse. At that moment, she chose to abandon her previous identity and reinvent herself completely as Xaku, the lethal enforcer.

And thus, she became the first to be turned by Michikatsu Tsugikuni.

Xaku has a confirmed kill count of exactly six hundred and twenty-five, including twenty-seven Demon Slayers and four Hashira.

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[colour=black]'K e k k ī j u t s u'[/colour]
[colour=#E5E4E2] 'K e k k ī j u t s u'
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[b][u][sup][colour=red]B l o o d  D e m o n  A r t[/colour][/sup][/u] :[/b]

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[h3][b]Disassemble (Bunkai kiru) | 分解切る - [i]lit. Cut Apart[/i])[/b][/h3]
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Precise, destructive and swifter than sight, Xaku's Blood Demon Art combines high range, speed and near-unmatched single-target damage potential. Xaku's attacks are fast, brutal and undetectable to the naked eye. Her slashes make no sound and do not even displace air before making impact with a target. Only those of great skill can even hope to avoid instant death when faced with this power.

✧ [b]Signature "Rend":[/b] Never seen, only felt, this technique is the one used in general combat as both offence and defence. While usually undetectable, the results of this technique speak for themselves in the bisected corpses and split buildings it leaves behind.

✧ [b]Secondary "Sunder":[/b] A far more devastating version of Xaku's "Rend", this technique has very little range, but is more precise and has far more destructive potential, automatically adjusting its output to cut through anything Xaku touches. Rarely used, but powerful nonetheless.

✧ [b]Finisher "Shrine of Desolation":[/b] An all-out attack that unleashes tens of thousands of slashes from both "Sunder" and "Rend" to dismantle everything around Xaku. When the dust settles, nothing remains.
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[b][u][sup][colour=red]T r a n s f o r m a t i o n[/colour][/sup][/u] :[/b] Xaku's only transformation is her current form, an entirely separate look from her original human appearance.
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