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Articles About Izanami
Different Versions Reincarnation - Izanami
Sorry...I don' t think I'm going to survive this. But will you wish to bring me back? No, that's not it. Izanami told me earlier. It's not just because of this wound on my back. I borrowed Izanami's power to fight Loki. But her power was far too strong for me to handle... She told me that I am a reincarnation of Izanami. And that if you desire for me to return to life, you should bring my body deep into her grave, right to the room where she is entombed. If you do so then I will return to life, and this time we can be together. Thanks. Don't abandon me mid-way like Izanagi did in the myth...
~ Yumiko to Akemi Nakajima right before her death

Background

Yumiko Shirasagi is the heroine of the Digital Devil Story novels by Aya Nishitani and the first Megami Tensei game. She is the titular "Megami Tensei," the reincarnation of Izanami for which almost the entire franchise is named.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Yumiko Shirasagi's story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

Yumiko Shirasagi transfers to Jusho High School after her father's job sends him to Tokyo. She quickly senses something is amiss at the school and notices Akemi Nakajima acting of his own accord during classes. Feeling a connection with Nakajima, she happens to overhear a conversation between him and Ohara and decides to follow them to the Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) room, ignoring a warning to stay away from Nakajima. At 9PM, she follows Ohara into the building that houses the CAI room. She faints upon seeing Cerberus and is brought into the CAI room. Yumiko witnesses Ohara, who is wearing a helmet interface, being raped and impregnated by the demon Loki who partially materializes to impregnate Ohara. All this is overseen by Nakajima who is startled by Loki's attempt to materialize, which appeared as a blue haze. After this incident, Loki demands Yumiko as his next "sacrifice."

A month later Yumiko, unable to comprehend what she witnessed, dismisses the event as a magic trick. She receives a phone call from Nakajima, simply stating "Stay home from school tomorrow." and "He's after you. You should stay away for a while." Despite the warning, she goes to school anyway. Yumiko is forced to the CAI room, where Loki finally becomes able to physically manifest himself. He turns parts of his body into tentacles and molests Yumiko's body while pulling other students into his blob-like body. Ohara, overcome with jealousy and enraptured by Loki, twists Yumiko's head and almost kills her. Nakajima summons Cerberus to battle Loki, but Loki is more than a match for the demon. Using this as a distraction, Izanami used Yumiko's body to badly burn Loki with her powers. Yumiko and Nakajima leap into a dimensional warp, but Loki fatally wounds Yumiko as they escape to Asuka.

Yumiko dies from a combination of her wound and the overwhelming power that Izanami channeled into her. Before dying, she tells Nakajima that she can come back to life if her body was brought to Izanami's tomb. Nakajima meditates and finds the tomb, and with the help of Cerberus, brings Yumiko's body there. Loki is able to locate them by using flies as his spies, and he uses the Fourth Kangyo Bank's computer to transport himself to Asuka in pursuit of Yumiko and Nakajima.

Nakajima makes it to the tomb with Yumiko's body where he encounters Yomotsu-Shikome. Yomotsu-Shikome takes him and Yumiko to the burial chamber and gives Nakajima two mystical spheres. Loki quickly follows them, dispatching Yomotsu-Shikome along the way. Izanami, temporarily resurrected from her original body, is captured by Loki who uses Yumiko's corpse to force Izanami to him. Nakajima summons Cerberus to help Izanami, but Cerberus is no match for the powerful demon. Desperate, Nakajima uses the mystical spheres he received from Yomotsu-Shikome and ignites the pomade covering the floor. It summons the fire god Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, who takes the form of a sword of flames. Taking the sword, he plunges it into Loki's head. His body now a formless mass, Loki attempts to send his heart away to recover, but Nakajima uses Hi-no-Kagutsuchi to destroy the last part of Loki. Izanami brings Yumiko back to life, but keeps Yumiko with her to give Yumiko the power to fight demons.

Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City

As Nakajima returns to the human world, Yumiko remains in Yomi with Izanami to learn how to use the great power lying dormant within her. During one attempt to wield her powers, she is distracted by the sound of her mother's voice and falls. After hearing the cause of her failure, Izanami allows Yumiko to return to the human world. Once there, she learns that Ohara, granted demonic powers from carrying Loki's child, had tracked down and killed her family as vengeance for Loki's death. Shortly after, Yumiko arrives at Nakajima's residence, where she finds Nakajima in battle with Ohara and his own mother, who was being controlled by an Apep. Yumiko is forced to kill Nakajima's mother, but flees after seeing Nakajima's reaction. Yumiko chases Ohara into the Soga Forest and uses her power to finish her off. However, at this moment, Seth manages to possess Ohara's unborn child and attach his new blob-like form onto Yumiko.

A week later, Seth has formed into a large tower of flesh with a crucified Yumiko at the heart of the demon, using the magnetite within her to build his form as well as merge the Assiah and Atziluth worlds, calling forth demons from the other side. When Nakajima attempts to cut through Seth, Isma Feed threatens to kill Yumiko, showing Nakajima how Seth crushed her eyes, but Yumiko telepathically tells Nakajima that they need her alive. Yumiko is forced to sit at the heart of Seth's form as he brainwashed the people of the nearby city to come and be sacrificed.

Prior to Charles Feed's plan to re-summon Seth in a satellite in dead orbit, which would render him completely harmless, Nakajima tries once more to get Yumiko out of Seth's body by combining his power with the power granted to him by Izanagi's robe. However, despite his efforts, he was unable to free Yumiko and she was pulled with the rest of Seth's body as it was summoned into space. The magnetic field from the satellite combined with the magnetite in Yumiko's body allowed Seth to form into his full body. Once he realizes that Yumiko is still within him, Seth detaches from the satellite and tries to descend to Earth, however Nakajima and Yumiko are able to destroy Seth by coordinating an attack on the same spot from both outside and in. As Seth's body crumbles, the demons who were summoned alongside him cling to Yumiko and her cross in an attempt to stay in the human world. Yumiko pleads with Nakajima to allow her to fall into the Atziluth realm, as it would prevent any more demons from using her to come through, but Nakajima rescues her before the cross falls through the realms, allowing the door to the Atziluth to remain open.

Digital Devil Story 3: Demise of the Reincarnation

The battle against Seth stole Yumiko’s sight and left ugly scars on her face. While faithfully nursing Yumiko, Nakajima feels the heavy need to atone for his sins.

Every night, Nakajima and Yumiko, possessed by nightmare demons, are tormented in their sleep. One night, however, Yumiko receives a message from what appears to be Izanami, asking her to come to Asuka. Nakajima is urged by Charles Feed to take responsibility and fight the demon invasion, but before he leaves she asks him to take her to Asuka. Despite the danger, he agrees to take her.

Nakajima and Yumiko are immediately surrounded by Siren and her devotees, who attack Nakajima and call the scarred Yumiko a monster. Yumiko being insulted causes Nakajima to go into a rage, summoning Hi-no-Kagutsuchi and killing a human insurgent. After Nakajima is arrested and put on trial, Yumiko is denied the chance to testify in his defense.

When Nakajima is set to be executed for his crimes, chaos descends and Nakajima is again driven berserk. As Yumiko stands dumbfounded, Izanami's voice finally reaches her. She explains that Lucifer has been sealing her power until then. Receiving Izanami's power, Yumiko is healed instantly and heads towards Nakajima. Nakajima though is so lost in his madness that he brandishes his sword towards her. In that moment, Izanami takes hold of Yumiko’s body and uses her power to attack Nakajima, killing him.

Having returned to his senses, Nakajima draws his last breath in Yumiko’s arms. Full of despair, Yumiko throws all her anger at Izanami whose thoughts cannot reach her anymore. Yumiko takes Hi-no-Kagutsuchi out of Nakajima’s hand and stabs her own throat.

The next day, Izanami, now in Yumiko’s body, carries Nakajima’s corpse in her arms and walks west towards Asuka to bury him.

General Information

Name: Yumiko Shirasagi

Origin: Digital Devil Story

Sex: Female

Age: Unknown

Classification: Reincarnation of Izanami[1][2], Student

Species: Human

Occupation: None

Status: Originally Deceased mid way in Digital Devil Story (Izanami's power was far too strong for Yumiko to handle causing her death), Alive currently (Nakajima brought Yuimko to Izanami's tomb where the goddess revived Yumiko)

Alignment: Neutral Good (Yumiko was originally a normal highschool student and once thrown into the world of demons fought to protect the world from it, choosing in the second novel to let herself get pulled into The Expanse so that the demons could not come into the demon world before Nakajima came to save her)

Codex Statistics

Key: Pre-Training | Post-Training | Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei

Tier: High 10-B, Unknown-B with Izanami's Powers, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Unknown-B, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Unknown-A, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower

Cardinality: Finite | Finite | Unknown

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Above Average Human level (Should be comparable to Akemi Nakajima who could wrestle with his teacher with a strength one wouldn't imagine from Akemi[3]), Unknown: Powerful level with Izanami's Powers (Could slightly harm Loki once she obtained a portion of Izanami's powers[4]), Far Higher with Observation (Observation can be used to massively amplify one's stats, such as when the early game Shin Megami Tensei 1 protagonist was amplified to be able to fight with all the other end game protagonists and fight Stephen. With it's power being noted by Stephen to give humans the potential to exceed the Axiom) & Willpower (A characters willpower in SMT allows them to increase greatly in strength allowing them to harm enemies they couldn't even scratch before and survive attacks that would have originally kill them, the will of one's friends and allies around them can invigorate one to become far more powerful then before) | Unknown: Powerful level (Later on in the first novel Izanami notes she has amplified Yumiko with the power to fight off demons after the defeat of Loki[5]. It is noted that she inherits the strength of the Goddess Izanami[6]. Who could harm Loki[7]. Izanami is also a powerful god, which all powerful and god level demons sustain a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon that is sustained by said demon and destroyed upon their death[8], which should put her beyond demons not considered powerful ones such as Tonatiuh, who is an armed warrior that holds the sun on his back[9] and Huoniao, who shot down nine of the ten suns falling from the sky[10][11]), Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Unknown: Cosmic level (Along with Akemi Nakajima, fought and defeated Angel Form Lucifer, who is far beyond his demon form, where he later aids Hideto in his fight against YHVH, each have created the universe the characters inhabit, existing beyond the very boundaries of time within the universe[12]), Far Higher with Observation & Willpower

Durability: Above Average Human level, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Unknown: Powerful level, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Unknown: Cosmic level (Bestowed with Izanami's robe to protect from Lucifer and the fires of the sea of flames), Far Higher with Observation & Willpower

Striking Strength: Above Average Human Class, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Unknown: Powerful Class, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower | Unknown: Cosmic Class, Far Higher with Observation & Willpower

Lifting Strength: Average Human | Average Human | Average Human

Travel Speed: Average Human | Likely Superhuman (After training and inheriting Izanami's powers she should be comparable to demons who can keep up with Raidou who is shown in the Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army intro to outrun Goutou at full speed) | Likely Superhuman

Attack Speed: Average Human, cannot be blitzed due to Observation. Unknown: Undefinable with summoned Demons | Unknown: Undefinable | Unknown: Undefinable

Reaction Speed: Average Human, cannot be blitzed due to Observation (Observation allowed Akemi and Yumiko to avoid hits from demons and Loki. Who are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse). Unknown: Undefinable with summoned Demons (Demons are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse. Due to this, they do not apply by the speed formula and can appear anywhere they want in most cases) | Unknown: Undefinable | Unknown: Undefinable

Stamina: Average

Range: Standard Melee, , Kilometers with Izanami's powers (Izanami's pwoers allows her to emit her divine light and fire on any foe she stares at, with the human eye being able to see this far), Cross-Dimensional with Summoned Demons (Demons passively create adecoherence field, that is essentially a special dimension of quantum fluctuation that they exist in, where humans cannot see them, and can attack from there. Demons can also create mirage realms, that shroud an entire area in mist, with them being able to attack from inside said illusion without being capable of being attacked back, requiring the user to go inside of their illusion to fight them), At least Universal with Observation (Can affect beings such as YHVH through their observation, where YHVH is existence itself)

Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (Yumiko's admission test demonstrated her abilities as a top tier of the gifted class[13])


Powers and Techniques

Is a user of Observation which grants them:
Observation (Varies between Unconscious Manifestation & Concious Manifestation; Observation users consciously and unconsciously change truths around them creating Gods and demons from myths and rumors), Negation (The power of observation, has the ability to make something without form, be certain and stable, The Axiom, tasked humans with observing the universe, allowing humans to assign an answer to phenomena without an answer. Dagda mentions humanity's "understanding" (observation) is what's locked him and Danu in physical forms. Nanashi and his party's denial of YHVH cast him into a demonic form. Gods and demons exist within a human's observation. Demons that also exist beyond death can be killed by observation users), Negation of Personal Nonexistence (Ayin Physiology; Can kill The White and demons, who naturally exist within the expanse, which the Monochrome Forest exists within the expanse, a place that is eerily still, having no sound or smell, where even the ground itself feels unusual, which demons naturally exist in. The Forest also holds the White’s realm, which is a vast, white space), Negation of Incorporeality (Can harm and kill demons, who are beings made of data, that exist in a virtual world, along with being pure information. With even the most basic of objects in the verse existing as data), Negation of Abstract Existence (Conceptual, Primordial Source; Demons embody the phenomena and beliefs of humans, with their physical forms only being created due to humanity's observation locking them into these forms, and their true forms existing as the phenomena and beliefs they reside in), Negation of Acausality (Causality Immunity; Can harm and kill demons, who are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse, demons such as Ishtar are capable of going into separate multiverses, along into the "real world", demons such as Demi-fiend, can exist in different universes asides from the original SMT 3 universe, demons can exist even when the flow of time itself collapses and there is nothing left but a void), Negation of Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; Observation users such as Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV, can harm demons with regular guns and swords, even though demons when brought into corporeal forms cannot be harmed by conventional weaponry, along with military grade weaponry[14]), Negation of Immortality (Ageless) & Resurrection (Atemporal Resurrection; It is noted by Lucifer that only a human can kill gods and demons, that when gods and demons try to fight each other the most they can do is seal each other. Permanently killed YHVH. All demons are reliant on the observation of humans to keep them existing, including even nonexistent demons such as The White, allowing them to come back even if they’re erased from existence and nonexistence), Negation of Dimensionless Existence (Non-Dimensional; Demons only have "forms" due to the observation of humanity with even some demons being in the lowest form of humanity's observation making them unseeable without help, the "true forms" of demons are in truth without the concept of form, without observation they are not certain nor stable, are a phenomena without an answer and are unbound by concepts such as truth completely unshaped by reality. Demons under their observation forms embody concepts such as infinity which they are free from in their true forms), Negation of Timeless Physiology (Demons are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse. Due to this, they do not apply by the speed formula and can appear anywhere they want in most cases), Timeless Physiology (Demons are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse. Due to this, they do not apply by the speed formula and can appear anywhere they want in most cases), Negation of Omnipresence (Observation can reduce one into a singular being, when the being was originally one that was everywhere within reality), Negation of Omniscience (Humanity's observation of YHVH defies his words and truths, YHVH is an all-knowing being that sets the fate of the entire world), Irreversible Damage (Nyarlathotep used a spear conjured by humanity's observation of a wound that can never heal to inflict a blow that could not be healed even by the strongest healing magic), Existence Grounding (Observation users can bring a demon or god's existence down to their level, such as when Flynn and his party's denial of YHVH as the one true god brought him to the level of a demon, massively weakening him. Dagda mentions humanity's "understanding" (observation) is what's locked him and Danu in physical forms), Power Bestowal (Gods & demons are granted by humans observations of them. To the point that a gods power is based off if humans still remember them. Observation has the ability to resurrect someone and give them strength to the point where they can fight Stephen with The Axioms powers), Power Nullification (Observation allows one to remove one's defenses and strengths along with some of their innate abilities), Reality Warping (Stephen stated that humans have the power to shape the world. Philemon states people have tremendous power in their souls over the flow of reality, with their strong wills being able to change reality), Conceptual Manipulation, Subjective Reality, & Creation (The power of observation, has the ability to make something without form, be certain and stable, The Axiom, tasked humans with observing the universe, allowing humans to assign an answer to phenomena without an answer), Truth Manipulation (Humans have the ability to change the answer they've found into faith, and eventually into truth. Observation debased YHVH's truths, removing him from everyone's mind, killing him), Memory Manipulation (Through the power of observation, the Persona 2 Innocent Sin cast were able to erase their meeting during a summer evening, creating an alternate timeline), Perspective Manipulation (The power of observation allowed humans to change the very design of the Abyss [the Expanse] to what they perceive it as[15]), Statistics Amplification & Resurrection (Observation has the ability to resurrect someone and give them strength to the point where they can fight Stephen with The Axioms powers. Isamu was able to survive a hit from Thor despite being a regular human), Statistics Reduction (Flynn and his party's denial of YHVH as the one true god brought him to the level of a demon, massively weakening him. One's will and beliefs can lower even a nonexistent entity's (such as The White) stats. Gods powers can be greatly reduced if they're forgotten. Observation allowed Aleph and his party to harm YHVH who stated as they were his creations, there blades cannot harm him, yet they were able to), Resistance to Memory Manipulation (Through the power of observation, the Persona 2 Innocent Sin cast were able to erase their meeting during a summer evening, creating an alternate timeline)

With their Willpower, they get: Sheer Will (Naturally users of willpower tend to have some of the strongest willpower in their respective universes), Statistics Amplification (A characters willpower in SMT allows them to increase greatly in strength allowing them to harm enemies they couldn't even scratch before and survive attacks that would have originally kill them, the will of one's friends and allies around them can invigorate one to become far more powerful then before), Regeneration (True-Godly; Characters that get completely erased by demons to the point that everything returns to nothing (otherwise known as returning to The Axiom) but with enough willpower one can regenerate back to life), Resurrection (Everyone praying for Raidou bolstered his willpower up, allowing him to resurrect and regenerate part of his body), Resistance to Pain (Users with high willpower can fight through pain that's so unbearable that it makes one unable to move, constantly take damage and being unable to control their demons well), Memory Manipulation (Noted by Polaris that all of the memories and relationships of the Devil Survivor 2 cast will be completely erased if they choose to restore the world, requiring a strong willpower to retain them), Empathic Manipulation (Humanity's willpower allows them to ignore the voice of God, with Zelenin needing to sing a stronger sword to wipe their willpower away), Truth Manipulation (Users with huge willpower can ignore the truths created by YHVH due to the bonds with their friends)

Genius Intelligence, Nondualism (Everything within Megami Tensei is one, with one simple word binding all together, oneness),Reincarnation (Reincarnation Cycle, Memory Remembrance; All people when they die are sent to The Axiom to reincarnate back, some become demons in these cases), Weapon Mastery (Capable of using various weapons in combat), Social Influencing (Can recruit demons by talking to them), Accelerated Development (Leveling;Physical Stats, Intelligence, Skills, and Abilities. Yumiko gets stronger the more demons he faces, gaining more stat increases), Fate Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Type 3; Is noted by Lucifer at the end of his battle that "He" is pulling the strings and is the one that essentially aided Nakajima and Yumiko into winning the battle), Resurrection (If Nakajima or Yumiko die, they are taken to the river of styx where Charon will offer to revive them if they give him an offering. With Sacred Bell, revives the dead), Extrasensory Perception (Through her training with Izanami, she honed her supernatural senses allowing her to pick up her mother's faint residual energy and learn that Ohara killed her family[16]), Precognition (Type 1; Foresaw in something awful happening to her mother during her training[17]), Aura & Light Manipulation (Enveloped a Golden Aura around her that allowed her to shoot out light from her fingers[18]), Ice Manipulation (With ice spells, ranges from weak to severe ice damage with a chance of freezing), Electricity Manipulation (With electric spells, ranges from weak to heavy eletric damage), Fire Manipulation & Explosion Manipulation (For a moment obtained the power to burn anything she stares at, allowing her to use spontaneous combustion to destroy several of Loki's tentacles[19]. With fire spells, ranges from weak to severe fire damage), Air Manipulation (With force spells, ranges from weak to severe force damage), Holy Manipulation (With Expel Skills, ranges from weak to severe holy damage), Curse Manipulation (With Curse Skills, can target either one enemy or all enemies), Status Effect Inducement (With the status ailment spells and skills, inflicts sleep, close, poison, palsy, and stone), Sleep Manipulation (With Gussurito, inflicts the sleep status), Power Nullification (With Pulpina, Noppu, and Marin Karin, inflicts the close status effect), Poison Manipulation (With Poison, inflicts the poison status effect), Paralysis Inducement (With Palsy, inflicts the palsy status effect), Petrification (With Stone, inflicts the stone status effect), Healing (With the heal spells such as medi, which heals one ally, medic, which heals all allies, and medical, which is a full health recovery to one ally), Purification (With Patch, cures sleep/close status effect. With Clink, cures poison/palsy/stone status effects), Resurrection (With Recarm, revives a dead ally with low health), Statistics Amplification (With Hyper, increases attack power), Forcefield Creation (With Tetraja, protects from level decrease spells. With Etna, protects from all enemy spells), Summoning (With Sabat, summons a single demon ally from the COMP), Information Analysis & Radar Sensing (With Mapper, creates a mini-map of the current area until the next New Moon), Teleportation (With Start, teleports the party to Micon Town), Erasure, Data Manipulation, Information Manipulation (Conceptual Erasure, Metaphysical Erasure, & Data Erasure; Can completely erase demons, attacks in the Megami Tensei verse erase one from existence, with their body, mind, and soul, this would include a demon's Magatsuhi, which is born from the suffering of emotions, such as suffering, anxiety, sadness, and an enormous amount that exist in the Amala Network, a network which has a place of information and all of one's emotions transferred into Magatsuhi, along with this, melting and liquefying demons and it's been shown humans can be erased too from attacks), Resistance to Mind Manipulation (Yumiko was the only one in the school unaffected by Loki's hypnosis[20]), Erasure, Data Manipulation, Information Manipulation (Conceptual Erasure, Metaphysical Erasure, & Data Erasure; Can survive hits from demons, attacks in the Megami Tensei verse erase one from existence, with their body, mind, and soul, this would include a demon's Magatsuhi, which is born from the suffering of emotions, such as suffering, anxiety, sadness, and an enormous amount that exist in the Amala Network, a network which has a place of information and all of one's emotions transferred into Magatsuhi, along with this, melting and liquefying demons and it's been shown humans can be erased too from attacks)

Healing (With Jewel, fully heals health and cures poison. With Soma, fully heals HP and MP and cures poison), Purification (With Poisonon, cures poison. With Paralynon, cures paralysis. With Petrinon, cures petrification. With Jewel, fully heals health and cures poison. With Soma, fully heals HP and MP and cures poison), Electricity Manipulation (With Zioma Stone, casts zioma), Ice Manipulation (With Bufurama Stone, casts bufurama, a medium ice elemental skill), Fire Manipulation (With Agirama Stone, casts agirama, a medium fire elemental attack. With Maragima Stone, casts maragima), Holy Manipulation & Sealing (With Tabasa Stone, creates a holy light around the party that protects them from and seals Medusa's petrification), Restoration (With Soma, fully heals HP and MP and cures poison), Statistics Amplification (With Muscle Drink, temporarily increases health. With Magic Source, temporarily increases magic), Power Nullification (With Orb of Silence, Orb of Malice and Orb of Resolve, gems used to unseal Izanami in the Sea of Flames. With Lor's Talisman, seals Loki's magic. With Latos' Statue, removes Hecate's invisibility. With White Dragon Orb, seals Lucifer's diarahan spell), Velocity Manipulation (With Purski's neigh, occassionally prevents Seth from moving), Battlefield Removal (With Exorcism Herb, repels low level demons), Resistance to Petrification (With Tabasa's Statue, makes it so Medusa can not turn Nakajima to stone), Fire Manipulation (With Izanami's Robe, protects Nakajima and Yumiko from the fires of the Sea of Flames)

Her summons has Demon Physiology (Powerful level) which gives:

Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Demons can casually rip out a man's throat. They can also casually eat fully grown humans), Sheer Will (Demons are able to survive and withstand attacks that should kill them), Immortality (Ageless; Demons are the descendants of the gods of old. Who are able to do battle for an eternity), Death Protection (Reliance [On Observation], Partial; All demons are reliant on the observation of humans to keep them existing, including even nonexistent demons such as The White, allowing them to come back even if they’re erased from existence and nonexistence), Reincarnation (Reincarnation Cycle, Standard; Along with this, all demons that die return to The Axiom and reincarnate), Undead Physiology ( Many demons tend to be undead beings and humans that die and become ghost become demons), Abstract Existence (Conceptual, Primordial Source; Demons embody the phenomena and beliefs of humans, with their physical forms only being created due to humanity's observation locking them into these forms, and their true forms existing as the phenomena and beliefs they reside in), Dimensionless Existence (Non-Dimensional; Demons only have "forms" due to the observation of humanity with even some demons being in the lowest form of humanity's observation making them unseeable without help, the "true forms" of demons are in truth without the concept of form, without observation they are not certain nor stable, are a phenomena without an answer and are unbound by concepts such as truth completely unshaped by reality. Demons under their observation forms embody concepts such as infinity which they are free from in their true forms), Timeless Physiology (Demons are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse. Due to this, they do not apply by the speed formula and can appear anywhere they want in most cases), Incorporeality (Demons are beings made of data, that exist in a virtual world, along with being pure information. With even the most basic of objects in the verse existing as data. Even if a demon's physical form is lost, their residual MAG can still remain, allowing one to infuse them within one's weapons or objects), Nondualism (Everything within Megami Tensei is one, with one simple word binding all together, oneness), Resurrection (Self-Resurrection; Atemporal Resurrection; All demons are reliant on the observation of humans to keep them existing, including even nonexistent demons such as The White, allowing them to come back even if they’re erased from existence and nonexistence. Along with this, all demons that die return to The Axiom and reincarnate. This allows demons to die and come back in a short timeframe due to their continuous existence from The Axiom and the observation of humans. This means even if all of reality were to cease existing, The Axiom would still exist within it, allowing demons to come back), Acausality (Causality Immunity; Demons are natural residents of The Expanse, a place that transcends the past, present, and future of the multiverse, demons such as Ishtar are capable of going into separate multiverses, along into the "real world", demons such as Demi-fiend, can exist in different universes asides from the original SMT 3 universe, demons can exist even when the flow of time itself collapses and there is nothing left but a void), Hive Mind (Multiversal Hive Mind; Demons are a race of entities and are at the same time the same entity sharing all one collective hive mind of memories, species will note if they've been captured before even if they're being fought in an area one's never been to or were fused prior, demons such as Forneus and Decarabia talk about an event that happened in Nocturne where Forneus was late to a meeting due to his death from Demi-fiend), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance, Nutritional Self-Sustenance, & Restful Self-Sustenance; Demons can naturally exist and breathe within the vacuum of space without any adverse effects done to them.[21] Due to their innate physiologies, demons naturally do not need to breathe, eat, or sleep.[22]), Accelerated Development (Level;Physical Stats and Abilities. Demons and Humans are able to grow from battles, allowing them to enhance their level of strength, magic, agility, luck, etcetera. Additionally, they can learn new skills and abilities from battles and further increase their HP and Magic capacity, and get strong enough to the point that they can fight end game tier demons), Adaptation (Demons as they grow in battle form changes around their body until they transform into a higher level with newer stats and newer abilities to learn), Berserk Mode (Demons enter a state of pure rage and berserk mode during the full moon, being completely irrational and unable to be negotiated with), Extrasensory Perception (Demons are able to tell who is actually a demon in disguise and who is an actual human. Demons can sense the power of an opponent and compare it to the power they sensed of others.[23]), Corrosion Inducement (Demons can shapeshift into a blob, allowing them to melt areas, completely dissolve objects such as steel chairs, and completely crush humans.[24][25][26]), Duplication (Demons can make duplicates of themselves. With them being completely disconnected from the demons, thus killing or defeating the clones in no way affects the original and they can endlessly spawn more), Invisibility & Perception Manipulation (Demons are naturally invisible to humans, and can do actions such as make noises and fight without humans noticing), Quantum Manipulation & Intangibility (Spatial; Demons passively create adecoherence field, that is essentially a special dimension of quantum fluctuation that they exist in, where humans cannot see them), Non-Standard Interaction (Demons can interact with each other and Gods, despite their physiologies and existences), Hell Manipulation (Demons naturally use evil powers from hell), Sealing (Gods and Demons cannot kill each other, thus resulting in them needing to seal each other), Non-Standard Interaction (Soul Interaction; Noted by a soul that demons can eat souls), Empathic Manipulation (Women cannot resist the allure of demons, even if they despised a demon normally, they'd fall madly in love with them if they had sex with a demon even once[27]), Size Manipulation & Statistics Amplification (Demons can grow in size to grow strong enough to fight Messiahs), Technology Manipulation (Demons can stop technology from working with their evil powers), Shapeshifting (Demons can shapeshift into humans to trick others), Hacking (Demons can hack into various servers and set up firewalls and "digital traps"), Necromancy (Demons can raise people from the dead and turn them into zombies), Personal Domain & Battlefield Removal (Application Based; Demons can pull one into alternate dimensions where coordinates and direction are different. Along with pull entire areas such as mansions into pocket dimensions. High level demons such as fiends can create personal realms to battle people in. Alice created her own personal domain that she could freely control. Demons can also freely teleport people to other locations), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Demons can warp areas into alternate dimensions such as the inside of a school. Once one is in said dimension the demon will keep it's hold into the dimension until it's defeated), Subjective Reality (Demons are able to take the thoughts of people and materialize them into something real), Information Manipulation & Matter Manipulation (Can absorb and consume magnetite, which is an information construct. As demons can make pocket realms and higher level demons can make universes, they are by extension they are creating areas entirely made of data and information down to their sub-atomic level. As demons can make pocket realms and higher level demons can make universes, they are by extension they are creating areas entirely made of data and information down to their sub-atomic level), Illusion Creation ("Real" Illusions) & Perception Manipulation (Demons can create mirage realms, that shroud an entire area in mist, with them being able to attack from inside said illusion without being capable of being attacked back, requiring the user to go inside of their illusion to fight them), Velocity Manipulation (When attacks are nullified or avoided, the enemy will forcibly forfeit their turn to move, allowing one to attack sooner, this extends further with absorbing attacks completely ending an opponents turn regardless of how fast they are), Teleportation (Demons are capable of teleporting around usually through manipulating their own Magutushi or Magnetite), Telepathy (Demons are able to speak telepathically to others.[28][29] Demons such as Aogami speaks telepathically with Nahobino), Power Bestowal (The memories of a demon's techniques can be passed down into weapons), Absorption (Demons can absorb lifeforce and Magutushi out of another. Demons can feed off the lifeforce of people to manifest themselves into the real world. Demons have the innate ability to absorb the air and earth into their bodies[30]), Healing Negation (Physical; Demons can inflict wounds that only spiritual magic can heal), Power Absorption (Demons can absorb the remains of other demons to gain their abilities), Consumption (Demons can consume and devour their enemies to gain power in battle), Dimensional Travel (Demons can feed off the lifeforce of people to manifest themselves into the real world), Healing (Demons naturally have healing properties, allowing them to heal other people. Demons have shown to heal wounds they create and "seal them away"[31]), Telekinesis (Higher level demons can telekinetically affect the entire environment to cause the Earth to shake, cause fissures, and affect mountains[32]), Erasure (Existence Erasure, Conceptual Erasure, & Data Erasure; Demons can kill humans, which in the process erases said beings from memory and existence), Pierce Resistance (Pierce Immunity; Demons even when brought into corporeal forms cannot be harmed by conventional weaponry, along with military grade weaponry.[33]), Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; Demons even when brought into corporeal forms cannot be harmed by conventional weaponry, along with military grade weaponry.[34]), Invulnerability Negation (Demons are capable of harming each other, and are viewed as valuable tools to get past other demons invulnerability), Possession (Demons can possess one’s body), Creation (Demons can create Shikimi no Kage's that are unable to be put down for good and will regenerate), Resistance Bypassing (Shikimi no Kage have specific weaknesses that cannot be exploited by Raidou's gun or other things to do with their specific elemental weakness, requiring Raidou to get a demon's elemental magic to affect it), Regeneration Negation (Magic; Demons can fully destroy Shikimi no Kage's, that they've created that are unable to be put down for good and will regenerate), Forcefield Negation (Demons can destroy barriers made to block out humans from entry).



Limited Resistance to Observation (Demons to an extent can resist some humans abilities of observation as shown with them being immune to conventional weaponry[35] and higher-dimensional demons not being able to be perceived by some observation users), Resistance to Cosmic Radiations, Biological Manipulation, & Gravity Manipulation (Demons can naturally exist and breathe within the vacuum of space without any adverse effects done to them.[36]), Death Manipulation (Demons can naturally exist within the vortex world which kills all humans who enter), Disease Manipulation, Corruption, Data Manipulation, & Petrification (All demons are unaffected by the Cuvier Syndrome, a state where corruptive data came out of the black sun, irreversible petrification), Sealing (Demons naturally have a resistance to sealing if they’re stronger then their target, and their sealing resistance gets amplified during the full moon), Forcefield Creation (Demons can pass through tainted barriers that humans cannot pass through), Elemental Manipulation (Shikimi no Kage have specific weaknesses that cannot be exploited by Raidou's gun or other things to do with their specific elemental weakness, requiring Raidou to get a demon's elemental magic to affect it)

Power Bestowal (Demons can grant others their powers and strength), Reality Warping, Space-Time Manipulation & Creation (All powerful and god level demons sustain a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon that is sustained by said demon and destroyed upon their death.[37] Demons such as Morax have created and ruled over their own realms within the Schwarzwelt, and controlled their own sectors, being noted to be the energy source the Strange Journey team were looking for, said energy source is noted to control the entire sector, and be linked to the sector like a magnet. Each sector is a space-time plane layered atop each other, being planes outside of the human worlds local space-time existing in a quantum tunnel, along with being noted as parallel universes and other dimensions overlapping being isolated in time and space by enormous power being connected by quantum tunnels. Demons such as Set with enough Magnetite gathered can merge entire worlds.[38]), Sheer Will, Resurrection, & Transformation (Permanent Transformation; Some fiends are born from men that die in competitive sports), Curse Manipulation (Gods such as Anahita can remove curses).

Resistance to Physics Manipulation (A god's divine energy isn’t bound by the laws of physics)

Werewolf: Status Effect Inducement (With Roar, deals damage, along with dealing the bind status effect to all enemies), Purification (With Posumudi, cures poison), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[39]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[40]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[41])

Lamia: Attack Reflection (Passively reflects eletric elemental attacks), Poison Manipulation (With Poison Fang, deals damage along with poisoning an enemy), Paralysis Inducement (With Paralyze, deals damage along with paralyzing an enemy), Fire Manipulation (With Maragima, medium fire damage to all enemies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun attacks[42]), Fire Manipulation (Has a resistance to fire elemental attacks[43]), Electricity Manipulation (Reflects electric elemental attacks), Holy Manipulation (Has a high resistance to expel based attacks[44]), Air Manipulation (Has a high resistance to force elemental attacks[45]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[46]), Mind Manipulation (Has a high resistance to nerve based skills[47])

Girtablulu: Purification (With Penpatra, cures sleep, bind, happy, panic, and close), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[48]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[49]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[50])

Werecat: Air Manipulation (With Zanma, deals medium force damage to 1-2 enemies), Empathic Manipulation (With Marin Karin, inflicts the happy/panic status effect to 2-3 enemies), Statistics Amplification (With Tarukaja, increases attack for all allies), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[51]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[52]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[53])

Orias: Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[54]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[55]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[56])

Siren: Paralysis Inducement (With Paralyze, deals damage along with paralyzing an enemy), Sleep Manipulation (With Dormina, inflicts sleep on all enemies), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, nullifies energy drain), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a resistance to sword attacks[57]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel attacks[58]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[59]), Mind Manipulation (Has a high resistance to nerve based skills[60])

Lemurian: Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[61]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[62]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[63])

Stolas: Healing (With dia, heals an ally or themself), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[64]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[65]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[66])

Heqet: Healing (With dia, heals an ally or themself), Purification (With Posumudi, cures poison), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[67]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[68]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[69])

Giant: Superhuman Physical Characteristics

Lakhe: Superhuman Physical Characteristics

Dwarf: Superhuman Physical Characteristics

Fungus: Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a high resistance to gun attacks[70]), Fire Manipulation (Has a high resistance to fire elemental attacks[71]), Ice Manipulation (Has a high resistance to ice elemental attacks[72]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a resistance to electric elemental attacks[73]), Holy Manipulation (Has a high resistance to expel based skills[74]), Air Manipulation (Has a high resistance to force elemental attacks[75]), Curse Manipulation (Is immune to cursed based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a high resistance to nerve based skills[76])

Viy: Air Manipulation (With Zanma, medium force damage to 1-2 enemies), Sleep Manipulation (With Dormina, inflicts sleep on all enemies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a high resistance to gun attacks[77]), Fire Manipulation (Has a high resistance to fire elemental attacks[78]), Ice Manipulation (Has a high resistance to ice elemental attacks[79]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a resistance to electric elemental attacks[80]), Holy Manipulation (Has a high resistance to expel based skills[81]), Air Manipulation (Has a high resistance to force elemental attacks[82]), Curse Manipulation (Is immune to cursed based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a high resistance to nerve based skills[83])

YomotuShikome: Fire Manipulation (With Agi, deals light fire damage to 1-2 enemies), Sleep Manipulation (With Dormina, inflicts sleep on all enemeis), Purification (With Patra, cures sleep, bind, happy, panic, and close status effects)

Gnome: Attack Reflection (Can passively reflect curse based skills), Air Manipulation (With Zan, deals light force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun based attacks[84]), Fire Manipulation (Has a resistance to fire elemental attacks[85]), Ice Manipulation (Has a resistance to ice elemental attacks[86]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a resistance to electric elemental attacks[87]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel based skills[88]), Curse Manipulation (Can passively reflect curse based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[89])

Fomorian: Electricity Manipulation (With Zio, deals light electric elemental damage to 1-3 enemes), Holy Manipulation (With Hama, deals light expel damage to an enemy), Power Modification (With Sabbatma, allows Nakajima and Yumiko to summon an ally without using macca)

Puka: Electricity Manipulation (With Zio, deals light electric elemental damage to 1-3 enemies), Fire Manipulation (With Maragima, deals medium fire damage to all enemies), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, nullifies energy drain), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[90]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[91]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[92])

Elf: Ice Manipulation (With Bufurama, deals medium ice damage to 1-3 enemies), Empathic Manipulation (With Marin Karin, inflicts the happy and panic status effect to 2-3 enemies), Resurrection (With Recarm, revives a dead ally)

Troll: Purification (With Paraladi, cures paralyze), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[93]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[94]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[95])

Goblin: Purification (With Petradi, heals the stone status effect)

Bogle: Fire Manipulation (With Agi, deals light fire elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Air Manipulation (With Zanma, deals medium force damage to 1-2 enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hama, deals light expel damage to an enemy)

Dryad: Air Manipulation (With Zan, deals light force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Purification (With Posumudi, cures poison. With Patra, cures sleep, bind, happy, panic, and close status effect)

Wyvern: Fire Manipulation (With Blaze, deals fire damage to all enemies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun based attacks[96]), Fire Manipulation (Has a high resistance to fire elemental attacks[97]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a resistance to electric elemental attacks[98]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel based skills[99]), Air Manipulation (Has a resistance to force elemental attacks[100]), Curse Manipulation (Has a natural immunity to curse based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a natural immunity to nerve and mind based skills)

Purski: Status Effect Inducement (With Roar, deals damage and deals the bind status effect to all enemies), Air Manipulation (With Zanmaon, deals heavy force elemental damage to 1-2 enemeis), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[101]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[102]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[103])

Quetzalcoatl: Fire Manipulation (With Blaze, deals fire damage to all enemies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun based attacks[104]), Fire Manipulation (Has a high resistance to fire elemental attacks[105]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a resistance to electric elemental attacks[106]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel based skills[107]), Air Manipulation (Has a resistance to force elemental attacks[108]), Curse Manipulation (Has a natural immunity to curse based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a natural immunity to nerve and mind based skills)

Dodongo: Fire Manipulation (With blaze, deals fire elemental damage to all enemies), Absorption (Absorbs all fire elemental attacks), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a high resistance to gun attacks[109]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a high resistance to eletric elemental attacks[110]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel based skills[111]), Air Manipulation (Has a high resistace to force elemental attacks[112]), Curse Manipulation (Has a resistance to curse based skills[113]), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[114]. Has a high resistance to mind based skills[115])

Basilisk: Petrification (With Petrify, deals damage and inflicts the stone status effect on an enemy), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a high resistance to gun attacks[116]), Fire Manipulation (Has a high resistance to fire elemental attacks[117]), Ice Manipulation (Has a high resistance to ice elemental attacks[118]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a high resistance to electric elemental attacks[119]), Air Manipulation (Has a high resistance to force elemental attacks[120]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[121]), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[122])

Stonka: Status Effect Inducement (With Roar, deals damage and deals the bind status effect to all enemies), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[123]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[124]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[125])

Varaha: Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[126]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[127]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[128])

Bander: Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[129]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[130]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[131])

Nekomata: Power Nullification (With Makajam, inflicts the close status on all enemies), Empathic Manipulation (With Marin Karin, inflicts the happy and panic status effects on 2-3 enemies), Healing (With Dia, deals light health recovery), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun attacks[132]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel based skills[133]), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[134]. Has a high resistance to mind based skills[135])

Cerberus: Sheer Will & Healing (With Enduring Soul, endures lethal attacks and fully heals health), Absorption (Can absorb fire elemental attacks), Breath Attack (Cerberus can shoot out a breath attack that destroys Loki's slime parts), Fire Manipulation (With Blaze, deals fire damage to all enemies), Hellfire Manipulation (With Hellfire, medium fire damage to random foes), Resurrection (With Vengeance Seal, passively revives with 50% HP on death. With Recarm, revives a dead ally), Status Effect Inducement (With Bind Voice, inflicts bind to all foes), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation) & Mind Manipulation (With ignite, can affect the soul forcing one to tell the truth), Poison Manipulation (With Venom Bite, light rush damage that deals poison), Disease Manipulation (With Virus Claw, light tech damage the deals the sick status effect), Power Modification & Purification (With Wolvaan, gives the Beast status and cures ailments), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, removes level decreases), Statistics Amplification (With power breath, raises all allies attack and evasion. With Lemegeton, casts two stacks of makakaja. With Beastly Reaction, increases accuracy and evasion. With Omagatoki: Adversity, the lower the HP of all allies, the more damage and HP recovered through skills for 1 turn), Statistics Reduction (With Fog Breath, decreases agility by 2 levels. With War Cry, debuffs all foes' attack and defense), Resistance Manipulation (With Puncture Punch, deals medium physical attacks that ignores affinity resistance and pierces through. Pierce allows the user's physical attacks to bypass all resistances, except for Repel. With Resist Phys, strengthens resistance to physical skills. With Fire Resist, passively voids Raidou's weakness, and cuts all fire damage in half), Explosion Manipulation, Resistance Manipulation, Power Nullification, & Law Negation (With High Pressure, deals medium almighty damage to all enemies.Almighty damage is done to all foes by producing a large explosion. Modes such as Berserk Mode from Digital Devil Saga 2 gives all of their attacks almighty effect, where it bypasses all resistances.Almighty skills bypasses all barriers and reflectors, invulnerability, and resistances, as putting up barriers to reflect, void, resist, etcetera do not affect almighty attacks. Almighty attacks can even work in and affect reason bearers, who can change the very laws of battle to make attacks not allowed in reality which if they are done then the character is sent straight to hell, showing almighty attacks are beyond even the laws of the universe), Resistance to Physical Attacks (Resists attacks that fall under the physicals status), Fire Manipulation (Can absorb and nullify all fire damage)

Cancer: Attack Reflection (Passively reflects eletric elemental attacks), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun attacks[136]), Fire Manipulation (Has a resistance to fire elemental attacks[137]), Electricity Manipulation (Reflects electric elemental attacks), Holy Manipulation (Has a high resistance to expel based attacks[138]), Air Manipulation (Has a high resistance to force elemental attacks[139]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[140]), Mind Manipulation (Has a high resistance to nerve based skills[141])

Salamander: Fire Manipulation (With Agirama, deals medium fire damage to 1-3 enemies), Electricity Manipulation (With Zio, deals light electric elemental damage), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, nullifies energy drain)

Pazuzu: Air Manipulation (With Zanma, deals medium force damage to 1-2 enemies), Sleep Manipulation (With Dormina, inflicts sleep on all enemies), Power Nullification (With Teraja, nullifies energy drain), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword attacks[142]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel[143]), Curse Manipulation (Has a high resistance to curse based skills[144])

Kwancha: Fire Manipulation (With Agirama, deals medium fire damage to 1-3 enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hanmahan, deals medium expel damage to 2 enemeis)

Kelpie: Air Manipulation (With Zanma, deals medium force damage to 1-2 enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hama, deals light expel damage)

Ketam: Attack Reflection (Passively reflects all eletric elemental attacks), Air Manipulation (With Zan, deals light force damage to 1-2 enemies), Healing (With Mediama, deals medium health recovery to all allies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun attacks[145]), Fire Manipulation (Has a resistance to fire elemental attacks[146]), Electricity Manipulation (Reflects electric elemental attacks), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel based skills[147]), Air Manipulation (Has a resistance to force elemental attacks[148]), Curse Manipulation (Has a resistance to curse based skills[149]), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to mind based skills[150])

Treant: Attack Reflection (Passively reflects curse based skills), Air Manipulation (With Zanma, deals medium force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hama, deals light expel damage), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun attacks[151]), Fire Manipulation (Has a resistance to fire elemental attacks[152]), Ice Manipulation (Has a resistance to ice elemental attacks[153]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a resistance to electric elemental attacks[154]), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel based skills[155]), Curse Manipulation (Reflects curse based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to mind based skills[156])

Dawon: Air Manipulation (With Zanmaon, deals heavy force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Electricity Manipulation (With Zio, deals light eletric elemental damage to 1-3 enemies), Statistics Amplification (With Tarukaja, increases attack on all allies)

Sobek: Ice Manipulation (With Bufurama, deals medium ice damage to 1-3 enemies), Healing (With Mediama, deals medium health recovery to all allies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun attacks[157]), Fire Manipulation (Has a resistance to fire elemental attacks[158]), Electricity Manipulation (Reflects electric elemental attacks), Holy Manipulation (Has a resistance to expel based skills[159]), Air Manipulation (Has a resistance to force elemental attacks[160]), Curse Manipulation (Has a resistance to curse based skills[161]), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[162])

Bastet: Fire Manipulation (With Agilaon, deals heavy fire elemental damage to 2-3 enemies), Empathic Manipulation (With Marin Karin, inflicts happy/panic on 2-3 enemies), Healing (With Mediama, deals medium health recovery to all allies)

Apis: Air Manipulation (With Zan, deals light force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Healing (With dia, deals light health recovery), Purification (With Petradi, cures stone status effect)

Lagoon: Attack Reflection (Passively reflects curse based skills), Air Manipulation (With Zanma, deals medium force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hama, deals light expel damage to an enemy), Purification (With Patra, cures sleep, bind, happy, panic, and close status effects), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun based attacks[163]), Holy Manipulation (Has a complete immunity to expel based skills), Curse Manipulation (Reflects curse based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[164]. Has a high resistance to mind based skills[165])

Baku: Attack Reflection (Passively reflects curse based skills), Air Manipulation (With Zan, deals light force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Healing (With Mediama, deals medium health recovery to all allies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun based attacks[166]), Holy Manipulation (Has a complete immunity to expel based skills), Curse Manipulation (Reflects curse based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[167]. Has a high resistance to mind based skills[168])

Hanuman: Air Manipulation (With Zandyne, deals massive force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Empathic Manipulation (With Pulinpa, inflicts the panic status effect to 2 enemies), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, nullifies energy drain)

Jinn: Ice Manipulation (With Bufudyne, deals massive ice elemental damage to 2-4 enemies), Resurrection (With Recarm, revives a dead ally), Purification (With Patra, cures sleep, bind, happy, panic, and close status effects)

Cu Chulainn: Fire Manipulation (With Agirama, deals medium fire elemental damage to 1-3 enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hanmahan, deals medium expel damage to 2 enemies), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, nullifies energy drain)

Tsukuyomi: Air Manipulation (With Zan, deals light force elemental damage), Empathic Manipulation (With Tentarafoo, deals medium damage and inflicts panic status on 1-8 enemies), Purification (With Patra, cures sleep, bind, happy, panic, and close status effects)

Lakshmi: Ice Manipulation (With Bufurama, deals medium ice damage to 1-3 enemies), Sleep Manipulation (With Dormina, inflicts sleep on all enemies), Resurrection (With Recarm, revives a dead ally)

Alraune: Empathic Manipulation (With Marin Karin, inflicts the happy and panic status effects on 2-3 enemies), Healing (With Mediama, deals medium health recovery to all allies), Purification (With Paraladi, cures paralyze)

Kali: Fire Manipulation (With Agilaon, deals heavy fire elemental damage to 2-3 enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hanmahan, deals medium expel damage to 2 enemies), Healing (With Mediama, deals medium health recovery to all allies)

Thor: Air Manipulation (With Zanmaon, deals heavy force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Electricity Manipulation (With Maziolaon, deals heavy eletric elemental damage to all enemies), Statistics Amplification (With Tarukaja, increases attack for all allies),

Yaksa: Air Manipulation (With Zanma, deals medium force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Empathic Manipulation (With Tentarafoo, deals medium damage along with the panic status to 1-8 enemies), Purification (With Patra, cures sleep, bind, happy, panic, and close status effects)

Susano-O: Fire Manipulation (With Agirama, deals medium fire elemental damage to 1-3 enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hanmahan, deals medium expel damage), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, nullifies energy drain)

Naga: Ice Manipulation (With Bufurama, deals medium ice elemental damage to 1-3 enemies), Healing (With Dia, deals light health recovery)

Kohryu: Fire Manipulation (With Maragidyne, deals massive fire elemental damage to all enemies), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, nullifies energy drain), Purification (With Petradi, cures stone status effect)

Barong: Electricity Manipulation (With Maziolaon, deals heavy electric elemental damage to all enemies), Power Nullification (With Makajam, inflicts close on all enemies), Power Modification (With Sabbatma, allows Nakajima and Yumiko to summon an ally without using macca)

Sphinx: Air Manipulation (With Zandyne, deals massive force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Healing (With Diarahan, deals full health recovery), Paralysis Inducement (With Paraladi, cures paralyze)

Anubis: Air Manipulation (With Zanmaon, deals heavy force elemental damage to 1-2 enemies), Resurrection (With Recarm, revives a dead ally), Statistics Amplification (With Tarukaja, increases attack for all allies)

Chimera: Attack Reflection (Passively reflects curse based skills), Ice Manipulation (With Bufurama, deals medium ice elemental damage to 1-3 enemies), Healing (With Mediama, deals medium health recovery to all allies), Resistance to Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun based attacks[169]), Holy Manipulation (Is compeltely immune to expel based skills), Curse Manipulation (Reflects curse based skills), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[170]. Has a high resistance to mind based skills[171])

Krishna: Fire Manipulation (With Maragidyne, deals massive fire elemental damage to all enemies), Holy Manipulation (With Hamadyne, deals massive expel damage to 2-3 enemies), Resurrection (With Recarm, revives a dead ally), Resistance to Sword Attacks (Has a high resistance to sword based attacks[172]), Gun Attacks (Has a resistance to gun attacks[173]), Fire Manipulation (Has a high resistance to fire elemental attacks[174]), Ice Manipulation (Has a high resistance to ice elemental attacks[175]), Electricity Manipulation (Has a high resistance to electric elemental attacks[176]), Holy Manipulation (Has a high resistance to expel based skills[177]), Air Manipulation (Has a resistance to force elemental attacks[178]), Curse Manipulation (Has a resistance to curse based skills[179]), Mind Manipulation (Has a resistance to nerve based skills[180]. Has a resistance to mind based skills[181])

Odin: Ice Manipulation (With Bufudyne, deals massive ice elemental damage to 2-4 enemies), Power Nullification (With Tetraja, nullifies energy drain), Healing (With Diarahan, deals full health recovery to an ally or themself)

Ganesha: Holy Manipulation (With Hamadyne, deals massive expel damage on 2-3 enemies), Statistics Amplification (With Tarukaja, increases the attack of all allies), Purification (With Patra, cures sleep, bind, happy, panic, and close status effects)


Equipment

  • COMP: A COMP is a portable computer which many characters have used in order to communicate with, transport, and summon demonic entities using the Demon Summoning Program. It comes with a list of other features such as automapping and auto-recovery. Nakajima made his own COMP and the Demon Summoning Program in the Digital Devil Story series and Yumiko uses it alongside him to summon demons.
Items
Item Effect
Jewel Fully heals HP and cures Poison; used in demon negotiations
Poisonon Cures Poison
Paralynon Cures Paralysis
Petrinon Cures Petrification
Sacred Bell Revives the dead
Soma Fully heals HP and MP and cures Poison
Item Effect
Agirama Stone Casts Agirama
Maragima Stone Casts Maragima
Bufurama Stone Casts Bufurama
Zioma Stone Casts Zioma
Item Effect
Exorcism Herb Repels low level demons
Muscle Drink Temporarily increases HP
Magic Source Temporarily increases MP
Amethyst Trade for items at Rag's Shop, or throw at demons to escape from battle. *
Member's Card Member's Card for Rag's Shop, used in Megami Tensei II (KMT only) *
Item Purpose
Orb of Silence Gem required to unseal Izanami in the Sea of Flames. Goes in Second, in the Right Eye.
Gar's Shield Allows entry into Bien from Valhalla Corridor
Small Key Allows entrance into the northern locked area of Bien 2F
Tabasa's Statue Seals Tyrant Medusa's petrification attack. Shatters after use.
Taurus Key Unlocks the recreational area on Bien 2F
Tour Pass Allows the hero to fly the city of Bien. (Talk to the Captain near the 2F Elevator)
Lor's Talisman Seals Tyrant Loki's magic. Shatters after use.
Rick's Bracelet Required to obtain the White Dragon Orb from the Holy Urn in the Sea of Flames. *
Jewel of Heaven Decoy item for obtaining Latos' Statue.
Ares' Necklace Used to obtain Latos' Statue in the Mazurka Corridor.
Orb of Malice Gem required to unseal Izanami in the Sea of Flames. Goes in First, in the Forehead.
Silk Thread Give to Izanami in Megami Tensei to obtain Izanami's Robe in Megami Tensei II *
Latos' Statue Removes Tyrant Hecate's invisibility. Shatters after use.
Silver Relief Allows the Mappara spell to open a secret door in Mazurka 2, 3F.
Orb of Resolve Gem required to unseal Izanami in the Sea of Flames. Goes in Third, in the Left Eye.
Izanami's Robe Protects Akemi Nakajima and Yumiko Shirasagi from the fires of the Sea of Flames.
Purski's Neigh Occasionally prevents Tyrant Seth from moving. Shatters after use.
Ruth's Bottle Required to find the Hinokagutsuchi (Bien 4F) and Lion Shield (Sea of Flames 1F).
White Dragon Orb Seals Tyrant Lucifer's Diarahan spell.
Equipment

Weapons

Weapon Attack Hits Accuracy Crit Sex
Jackknife 1 1 85% 1 Both
Scorpion Whip 3 1-2 88% 1 Female
Platinum Dagger 10 1 89% 2 Female
Mirror Blade 23 1 91% 3 Female
Dancing Sword 23 1-8 87% 1 Female
Vermilion Sword 38 2-4 91% 4 Female
Aura Sword 74 1-2 91% 6 Both

Armor

Armor Defense Sex
Kevlar Helmet 4 Both
Yaksha Mask 9 Both
Aura Helmet 10 Both
Armor Defense Charm Sex
Combat Suit 3 3 Both
Fiber Suit 8 6 Both
Aura Armor 14 9 Both

Notable Techniques

  • Weapons: Yumiko can use weapons to attack enemies, varying from different swords and knives.
  • Gun: Yumiko can use different guns to attack enemies.
  • Demon Summoning: Nakajima's COMP allows Yumiko to summon demons into battle to fight with her.

The following are the spells and skills she learns in Megami Tensei

Magic Spells

Fire Spells and Skills

Name Cost Power Target
Botto 2 MP Weak 1
Bottoraa 5 MP Medium 1-2
Blaze Extra Heavy 1
Boattonaa 10 MP Heavy 1-3
Gaboatto 15 MP Severe 1-4

Ice Spells

  • All Ice Spells have a chance of inflicting the Freeze Ailment.
Name Cost Power Target
Breeze 5 MP Weak 1
Breezer 10 MP Medium 1-2
Blizzardon 14 MP Severe 1-4

Elec Spells

Name Cost Power Target
Cande 4 MP Weak 1-2
Candeon 9 MP Heavy 1-4

Force Spells and Skills

Name Cost Power Target
Psy 1 MP Weak 1
Psycho 4 MP Medium 1-2
Roar Extra Heavy 1
Psychic 8 MP Heavy 1-3
Cyclon 12 MP Severe 1-4

Expel Spells

  • All Expel Spells hit once.
Name Cost Power
Hama 5 MP Weak
Hakke 10 MP Heavy
Hakyou 15 MP Severe

Curse Skills

  • All Curse Skills are Extra and deal weak damage.
Name Target
Curse 1
Curse (2) All

Ailment Spells and Skills

Name Cost Effect Target
Gussurito 10 MP Chance of Sleep 3
Pulinpa 5 MP Chance of Close 2
Noppu 7 MP
Marin Karin 10 MP 3
Poison Extra Chance of Poison 1
Palsy Chance of Palsy
Palsy (2)
Stone Chance of Stone

Heal Spells

Name Cost Effect Target Other Notes
Medi 2 MP HP recovery One ally N/A
Medic 6 MP All allies
Medical 8 MP Full HP recovery One ally
Patch 4 MP Sleep/Close removal
Clink 7 MP Poison/Palsy/Stone removal
Recarm 20 MP Revival from death with very low HP May fail or remove target from COMP.

Support Spells

MT Name Cost Effect Target
Hyper 2 MP Attack power increase All allies
Tetraja 5 MP Protection from Level decrease for one battle Nakajima and Yumiko
Etna 6 MP Protection from enemy Spells for one battle All allies

Other Spells

Name Cost Effect
Sabat 8 MP Summons a single demon ally from the COMP
Mapper 2 MP Creates mini-map of the current area until the next New Moon
Start 12 MP Returns the party to Micon Town
Swadona 10 MP Shows the current Password.

Other

Standard Tactics: Yumiko with the powers of Izanami will use her powers to attack her foes through her stares.

Weaknesses: After using Izanami's powers, it will kill her as her mortal body cannot withstand it. | Her powers wary when her mind isn't focused. | Her demons are weak to mercuric sulfide[182][183][184][185].

Trivia

  • The name Yumiko means "archery bow" (弓) (yumi) and "child" (子) (ko).
  • Yumiko's surname Shirasagi means "egret" (白鷺).
    • Egret is a heron with mainly white plumage, having long plumes in the breeding season..
  • Yumiko is one of the bidders at the Devil Auction in the Devil Survivor games.
  • Yumiko was originally planned to appear in Megami Tensei II as an old woman according to magazine previews, but this idea was scrapped before its release.

References

  1. Digital Devil Story, Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 39 "As his consciousness faded and he prepared to die, memories of those strange illusions from before spontaneously appeared in a corner of Nakajima's mind.
    What were those? The woman from them called that man that looked just like him "Izanagi." Did it have any connection to the story of Izanami and Izanagi from Japanese mythology?"
  2. Digital Devil Story, Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 39 ""The heart of the seemingly dead Yumiko started to beat faintly.
    Yumiko, Yumiko!
    A kind voice was calling her name.
    Who are you? Is that you, Mom? Yumiko asked instinctively in her mind.
    As if recognizing that she had awakened, the voice cut off briefly, then resumed speaking in a kind voice.
    Stand up, Yumiko.
    Yumiko did not hear the roars of the demon beast nor the sounds of the classroom being destroyed. In fact, she had no sense of her terrible experience at all. All she could hear was the voice of the woman. Timidly opening her eyes, Yumiko realized that the voice was coming from the red aurora in the warped area in the air.
    Through the aurora, the mirage of a peaceful countryside was visible. Blue rice paddies with not-yet-ripened seeds. Rolling hills covered in summer grass. Groups of giant boulders, simple yet mysterious.
    Yumiko had seen that scenery somewhere before.
    Isn't that the Asuka Ishibutai tomb...? As the thought popped into her mind, the woman's voice spoke again.
    When you were Izanami in a former life, that's what you called it.
    My former life? Izanami...you mean the goddess from Japanese mythology?
    Yumiko was confused by the suddenness of the words, but what the voice said had the sense of an undeniable truth.
    Stand, Yumiko. This space in the air is connected to Asuka, where I rest. Take Nakajima--no, your dearest Izanagi--and come to me."
  3. Digital Devil Story, Prologue, Chapter 3, Page 12 "Whispering in synch with the computer, Nakajima continued to enter commands on the keyboard with unbelievable speed. Soon the entire room started to shake from an earthquake, and cracks formed in the windows. Nakajima entered his final command.
    > KILL: KONDO HIROYUKI, TAKAMIZAWA KYOKO
    Iida did not like students like Kondo Hiroyuki and Takamizawa Kyoko. In fact, he hated them, but he felt even more loathing for the manner Nakajima intended to deal with them.
    "Stop this foolishness. If you'd like, I can make sure the incident is investigated fully and have Kondo expelled. Just stop doing this."
    Stumbling through the shaking room, Iida desperately reached for the computer's power switch. To prevent him from interfering, Nakajima grabbed his arm with a strength one wouldn't even imagine from him. While the two struggled, the rumbling started to subside. The fluorescent lights lit up with a creaking sound and illuminated the room as the freezing air surrounding Iida's body dissipated."
  4. Digital Devil Story, Possession, Chapter 2, Page 40 "The instant she obeyed the voice and stood, the angry cries of Loki and the roars of Kerberos filled Yumiko's ears as she returned to reality. Overwhelmed with a sudden dizziness, she immediately sat down again. But as blood rushed to her head and she saw the crumpled Nakajima on the floor, she was struck with an overwhelming sense of duty.
    I've got to save him!
    It was a feeling greater than love or friendship, closer to instinct. It was a powerful emotion; the boy named Nakajima Akemi was literally a part of her, and if he was lost there would be no meaning to her continued existence. Without any idea how to save him, she stood up and clenched her teeth, and the voice sounded again.
    For the moment, I am going to enter your body so you can use my power--the power to burn anything you stare at with conviction. I pray that your body can take the strain of it.
    From the dimensional rift, a blinding flash pulsed, and a pure power Yumiko had never felt before rushed through her body.
    "GYAAH!"
    A bizarre cry snapped Nakajima Akemi back to consciousness.
    Opening his eyes, he saw Loki's smoking tentacle spasming over his head as it gave off the stench of cooked meat. Enduring the head-splitting pain, Nakajima sat up. Pillars of flame burst from various spots on Loki's body, and his charred tentacles flailed through the air like waves, giving off dark fumes thick with that charred meat smell.
    Yumiko, who he had thought dead, was facing off against Loki; gouts of flame shot out everywhere she stared. In medieval Europe, when magic use had been at its height, the ability was known as spontaneous combustion.
    What the heck is going on...?
    Nakajima stared, dumbfounded, as Yumiko wielded a power he could never have imagined her controlling. Nakajima soon noticed that her face was unusually pale, and that her entire body was shaking. Just with the force of her will, Yumiko was channeling the immense power of Izanami, and her body was getting close to the limit of what it could stand.
    Meanwhile, under intense attack from the flame, Loki ejected Ohara from inside his body and started to chant a spell in an eerie rhythm. The pink protoplasm started to condense, changing back into the form of the bronze-skinned youth.
    Yumiko desperately channeled her will and attempted to incinerate Loki with the power of Izanami, but the flames harmlessly dissolved against his bronze skin. Loki did not budge and simply stood still, as if waiting for her to expend all her energy. A wave of intense exhaustion swept over Yumiko's body, and her vision started to waver. Right as she felt like she was going to drop to her knees, no longer able to withstand the effort, the voice spoke once more."
  5. Digital Devil Story, Sword of Flame, Chapter 5, Page 61 "Hesitantly, Nakajima spoke."Yumiko..."
    She showed no response to his breath, but she had definitely returned to life. Her formerly torn mouth had returned to its lovely original shape, and her slightly opened lips shivered slightly as she breathed. Her eye sockets were now covered with well-formed eyelids, and her cheeks had a slight pink hue to them.
    Nakajima's impatience was enveloped by an untainted presence.
    "Don't worry. She will awaken soon enough."
    Turning around, Nakajima saw Izanami standing above him. Though her hair was matted with green blood, her shining, beautiful expression, full of kindness, calmed his soul.
    The goddess opened her lips. "I will take care of her for a while."
    Nakajima was perplexed by her statement.
    "It will not be long; only until I strengthen her enough so that she can fight demons."
    "Fight demons? But Loki's dead!"
    The goddess approached, took Nakajima's hands and looked into his eyes. White light shone throughout the space in front of his eyes, and all color vanished from his field of vision."
  6. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City, Chapter 2, "Set Summoned"
  7. Digital Devil Story, Sword of Flame, Chapter 5, Page 58 ""Izanami..." Nakajima found himself kneeling all of a sudden. The goddess nodded before she turned toward Loki.
    "Demon, return to your world!" Her voice was cold and harsh.
    Loki smiled sarcastically, but his expression could not hide his uneasiness.
    "You appear to be one of the Kunitsukami of Yamato--why do you go to such lengths to support these humans?"
    "Because this girl is my reincarnation."
    "Your reincarnation?" Loki spread his arms in an exaggerated motion. "Very well. You can have the girl. In exchange, I will take the boy. It surely will benefit him to join forces with me. I still wish to avoid any unnecessary confrontation."
    Holding his breath, Nakajima watched the two talk. A shiver ran down his spine.
    "You're simply afraid that some other demon will get a hold of Akemi and his knowledge." Izanami strained her eyes and glared at Loki's chest. Red light exploded on his breast, and Loki stumbled back from the blow. The spontaneous combustion power she used was many times more powerful than when she had possessed Yumiko."
  8. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 4 "Quickening" "I don't think so. From what I've just seen, there's no mistake that a magnetic field suitable for summoning a demon was set up. It may be that the reason no demon appeared was that it might have arrived in the Assiah world via a different magnetic field."
    "There’re still some details about the mechanism for demon summoning that I don't really understand yet."
    "Unusual words, coming from the genius that was the first to successfully summon a demon via a computer." Feed grinned broadly, but his expression soon turned grave as he looked directly at Nakajima.
    "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?"
    "Yes, that's right."
    "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time."
    "So what would happen if two contact points were opened at the same time?"
    "The demon would decide where it wanted to appear. However, there are some examples in medieval records of demon summoning's that report that when the difference in strength of the two magnetic fields was great enough, the demon would be pulled to the stronger field, regardless of which it wanted to go to..."
  9. "The sun god of Aztec lore who is also worshipped as a war god. He is said to give warriors strength. He is often depicted as an armed warrior with the sun on his back."
    —Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse compendium
  10. "A three-legged bird said to live in the sun. In ancient China, there used to be 10 suns which would take turns traveling the sky. But one day, all ten suns appeared in the sky and scored the earth. A man named Hou Yi shot down nine of the suns."
    —Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey compendium
  11. "Ancient Chinese legend has it that once there were ten suns that strode across the sky, each in succession. One day, all ten appeared at once, bringing flame to sear sky and earth alike. A hero named Hou Yi raised his bow to shoot down nine of the suns, sparing humanity and the earth. It was said that a three-legged Kau lived within each of the suns. Now, only one travels across the sky, bringing light to the world. It's sic fires burn strong enough to warm, but not to sear and scar."
    —Devil Survivor 2 compendium
  12. Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei II: Law Ending
  13. Digital Devil Story, Night of Demons, Chapter 1, Page 17 "Yumiko's admission test had demonstrated that her abilities put her in the top tier of the gifted class. Her parents were quite relieved and happy at her scores, but Yumiko felt that this school had an unnatural coldness that she could reach out and touch. Her former school in Sapporo had also been quite a prestigious institution, but there was no sort of artificial separation between "gifted" and "general" classes, and the students there just seemed to enjoy their life as high school students more."
  14. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 7, Chapter 2 "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
  15. Narisawa: Now, let’s change the subject. I’d like to talk about the Abyss or the demon areas. This time the Abyss is designed like the Sephiroth Tree. We need to read the strategy guide in order to understand that, but is this how you originally envisioned it?
    Okada: I said earlier that Tokyo Millenium and the Underworld are in contrast but generally speaking, their opposite is the Abyss. It’s like saying Lucifer is Satan’s opposite.
    Narisawa: Kabbalah is a secret formula that belongs to humans, so how do you explain Lucifer using it to design the Abyss?
    Itou: That is why we have opposites. We can consider the possibility of humans being the ones who were influenced. We don’t know whether they saw the Abyss’s design after a near-death experience or were telepathically struck by some waves, but if pushed to say, the Kabbalah that’s transmitted through the world right now could be a representation of what they “saw”.
    Narisawa: It’s a reversal.
  16. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City, Chapter 5, "Set Summoned" "While Ohara spoke with Nakajima’s mother, Yumiko returned to her house for the first time in ages, only to be greeted by the stench of blood. She stood fixed to the spot, staring at the wet pools of blood in the foyer.
    Why...who did this...?
    Dropping to the floor, her hands slipped in the lake of blood beneath them. The mangled corpses of her mother, father, and younger brother all lay before her. Perhaps she was paralyzed by the overwhelming shock of emotion, but Yumiko did not shed a tear. Suddenly, the image of a sneering woman's face appeared before her eyes.
    "Ohara!" Yumiko's honed supernatural senses had picked up her mother's faint residual energy and amplified it to a clear picture.
    "It was you, wasn't it, Ohara!" Yumiko's field of vision reddened, her sorrow turning to rage. When she regained her senses, she found herself walking outside."
  17. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of Demon City, Chapter 2, "Set Summoned" "Mere moments before Yumiko would have struck the ground, an invisible power picked her up and brought her down slowly like a feather falling leisurely.
    "What's the matter with you?" Izanami spoke harshly as she knelt next to Yumiko. "If this is the best you can do, I can't imagine when I'll be able to send you back to the human world!"
    The goddess realized that Yumiko's eyes were trembling in terror, and softened her tone.
    "You saw something, didn't you?"
    "Yes. Someone close to me crying out, and the smell of blood..." Yumiko replied in a broken voice, her pale lips trembling, drained of blood.
    "Was it Nakajima-kun's voice?"
    "No....it was my mother's voice."
    Yumiko looked up into the sky anxiously. Other than the sound of the wind blowing through the valley, all was silent. But Yumiko was sure that she had heard her mother scream.
    "Izanami, could something terrible have happened to my mother?" Yumiko's voice was full of emotion.
    Yumiko might have foreseen something in the future. There was also the possibility that her desire to return to the human world was subconsciously causing her to hallucinate. Izanami had trouble deciding whether or not she should return her charge to the human world.
    With Izanami's direct instruction, Yumiko had gained mastery of her powers well enough to face off against demons on her own. But her mind was still that of a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl. Like what had happened today, if her determination wavered, it could have disastrous consequences. Furthermore, Yumiko was relying too much on her sense of sight when using her powers."
  18. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of Demon City Chapter 2, "Set Summoned" "The goddess Izanami had brought Yumiko to Yomi to teach Yumiko how to control her power. Though she had lived the life of an ordinary girl for seventeen years, Yumiko had inherited the strength of Izanami. With adept instruction from the goddess herself, Yumiko had learned, bit by bit, to draw out the bottomless power slumbering deep within her in a very short time.
    She was currently in the middle of training to harness the psychic power once held by the ancient gods. Two rock walls, nearly perpendicular to the ground and separated by a gap of two meters, faced each other, towering up into the sky. Yumiko was floating in mid-air, weaving through the gap. Her white skin began to glow with a phosphorescent purple glow. With a boom like thunder, the glow increased in intensity. Yumiko, enveloped in that mysterious light and limned by a golden aura, resembled the smiling visage of the Miroku Buddha. Soon, as if she had transformed into a particle of light herself, the outline of her shape started to blur and become indistinct.
    Silently, Yumiko raised her right hand. The clouds of light surrounding her body started to condense at the tip of her finger. Yumiko brought her arm down forcefully. As she did, the light fired from her finger like an arrow shot through the rock face.
    An immense roar echoed and a brilliant blue pillar of flame flared into the sky. Yumiko watched the giant rock with an almost drunken expression as it slowly crumbled into nothing in perceived slow-motion. Suddenly Yumiko’s eyes clouded up, and she started plunging toward the ground some twenty meters below like a bird whose wings had been pulled off."
  19. Digital Devil Story, Possession, Chapter 2, Page 40 "The instant she obeyed the voice and stood, the angry cries of Loki and the roars of Kerberos filled Yumiko's ears as she returned to reality. Overwhelmed with a sudden dizziness, she immediately sat down again. But as blood rushed to her head and she saw the crumpled Nakajima on the floor, she was struck with an overwhelming sense of duty.
    I've got to save him!
    It was a feeling greater than love or friendship, closer to instinct. It was a powerful emotion; the boy named Nakajima Akemi was literally a part of her, and if he was lost there would be no meaning to her continued existence. Without any idea how to save him, she stood up and clenched her teeth, and the voice sounded again.
    For the moment, I am going to enter your body so you can use my power--the power to burn anything you stare at with conviction. I pray that your body can take the strain of it.
    From the dimensional rift, a blinding flash pulsed, and a pure power Yumiko had never felt before rushed through her body.
    "GYAAH!"
    A bizarre cry snapped Nakajima Akemi back to consciousness.
    Opening his eyes, he saw Loki's smoking tentacle spasming over his head as it gave off the stench of cooked meat. Enduring the head-splitting pain, Nakajima sat up. Pillars of flame burst from various spots on Loki's body, and his charred tentacles flailed through the air like waves, giving off dark fumes thick with that charred meat smell.
    Yumiko, who he had thought dead, was facing off against Loki; gouts of flame shot out everywhere she stared. In medieval Europe, when magic use had been at its height, the ability was known as spontaneous combustion.
    What the heck is going on...?
    Nakajima stared, dumbfounded, as Yumiko wielded a power he could never have imagined her controlling. Nakajima soon noticed that her face was unusually pale, and that her entire body was shaking. Just with the force of her will, Yumiko was channeling the immense power of Izanami, and her body was getting close to the limit of what it could stand.
    Meanwhile, under intense attack from the flame, Loki ejected Ohara from inside his body and started to chant a spell in an eerie rhythm. The pink protoplasm started to condense, changing back into the form of the bronze-skinned youth.
    Yumiko desperately channeled her will and attempted to incinerate Loki with the power of Izanami, but the flames harmlessly dissolved against his bronze skin. Loki did not budge and simply stood still, as if waiting for her to expend all her energy. A wave of intense exhaustion swept over Yumiko's body, and her vision started to waver. Right as she felt like she was going to drop to her knees, no longer able to withstand the effort, the voice spoke once more."
  20. Digital Devil Story, Night of Demons, Chapter 2, Page 24 "Nakajima let out a deep sigh of relief. Yumiko sensed a faltering in his normally rock-solid confidence.
    Nakajima was not a magician. If he had been, he would have known the importance of ironing out a purpose and duration of service when negotiating a contract with a demon.
    However, Nakajima had neglected that. When Loki turned Kondo, Takamizawa and Iida into bloody lumps of flesh, he had deluded himself into believing that he had become a great ruler.
    Loki's power was tremendous. He had taken the subconscious respect that the students and teachers had for Nakajima and converted it through his power, making the men obey him and the women fawn over him. For a formerly powerless high school student, it was a dream come true."
  21. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6 "To Space", The glitter of the stars and the unending void surrounded Nakajima. Below his feet, the endlessly spinning blue globe shone up at him. It took him a few moments to realize that he was floating in outer space. Nakajima unfolded his arms. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi he held emitted a strand of light in the inkwell of space. Its blade twinkled and throbbed, responding to the tens of thousands of stars.
    It seemed that Izanami's robe had given him the power to survive and move in the vacuum of outer space. Suddenly, a sinister psychic wave hit Nakajima from behind. Swinging his sword, Nakajima slowly turned around, and found his field of vision dominated by an open, gaping red maw.
    An incomprehensibly enormous serpent; though the demon had only owned a temporary form on the surface of the earth, the powerful magnetic field that had forced him into space had given Set a complete body.
    Star Scorpion's 60-foot-long solar cells spread out like wings. Set's pale green scales glimmered as he coiled around the beautiful, practical satellite lying in medium Earth orbit.
    It looks like the insignificant humans had enough knowledge to summon me into this empty space.
    The voice echoed in Nakajima's mind.
    But the humans will soon know their folly in thinking that they have banished me. Pulling this machine down with me is an easy task. And that is not all. Have a look at all the demons that were summoned here!
    Several pale glowing things that looked like hoods aimlessly floated beside Nakajima.
    Soon, they will take on bodies and seek safe haven on Earth. The end of foolish humanity’s dominion over the earth will not be long. Nakajima, whether or not you intended, you have become the knight that blows the trumpet signaling the beginning of the apocalypse. The only path remaining for you is to cast aside your humanity and work for me. It would be a shame to kill you. Think on it.
    Ignoring Set's call, Nakajima focused all of his anger onto the sword he held directly in front of him. The environment that had given Set a body had also removed all restrictions on the divine power Nakajima had been granted. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, now an immensely long coil of light, drew a whip-like arc that emitted red light, and came down onto the body of the enormous serpent."
  22. Note: Demons normally showing these contradictions is due to the observation of humanity affecting them.
  23. Digital Devil Story Chapter 4, "Sword of Flame", Page 55 "RAUIERE!" Yomotsu-Shikome tried to tell him something in a foreign tongue. She could sense that this intruder possessed a power much different and far greater than the human tomb robbers that had foolishly wandered in before. If possible, she wanted to repel him without having to fight. Caught off guard, Loki stood still and narrowed his jet-black eyes, as if sizing up the power of this new arrival. Then, he started to walk forward calmly, an arrogant smirk on his face.
  24. Digital Devil Story Transfer, Chapter 1, Page 28 "Hashiguchi abruptly noticed that the display looked like it was damp, as if it was covered in a layer of condensation. As he tried to wipe the screen off with his hand, he felt something stick to his fingertips, and jumped back in surprise. Something slimy was stuck to his fingers; as he shook them violently, a heavy, disgusting jelly-like substance fell to the floor with a splat.
    "Ugh! What the hell is this!?"
    Inoue turned around at Hashiguchi's cry and froze in shock. Beneath the skin of the pink protoplasm, a mesh of green-colored veins spread out as the whole blob pulsated like an organ torn out of its host. The repulsive lump of flesh made a squishing sound as it started to approach the two men. Backing up, Inoue stumbled over a chair and sprayed the contents of his stomach all over the floor.
    "Inoue! Get a hold of yourself!" Grabbing his coworker's arm to keep him standing, Hashiguchi started to run toward the door. As he turned, the gelatinous blob lashed out; tentacles covered in a viscous sticky fluid like red jam grabbed onto the legs of both men in an instant.
    "Shit!" Hashiguchi cursed as he grabbed files and the phone off his desk--any object within reach--and began throwing them at his attacker. When it showed no fear, he grabbed a chair, lifted it over his head, and brought it crashing down on top of the thing. However, the skin of the gelatinous blob simply pulled the steel chair into its body, where it was quickly dissolved right before Hashiguchi's eyes."
  25. Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 36 "However, just as Yumiko tried to stagger away and flee, a strange sound came from Loki's arms. For a moment they looked like they were beginning to melt, and then they changed into giant, jiggling, pink-colored blobs of protoplasm. From their tips, multiple tentacles lashed out and wrapped around Yumiko's limbs.
    "No, stop!" The tentacles gripping the crying Yumiko's limbs pulled her up into the air, toward the body of the blob. A new pink tentacle sprouted and wrapped around Yumiko's body, and the liquid leaking from its membrane melted her clothes, latched onto her now-exposed skin and started writhing along her slender body."
  26. Digital Devil Story Chatper 2, Sword of Flame, Page 53 "At that time, Loki swiftly entered Shirasagi Mound, and was standing before the passageway that Nakajima had passed through earlier. "Just you wait, Nakajima. Soon, I will defile your precious woman before your very eyes before devouring you whole." With a twisted smile on his face, Loki transformed himself into an amorphous blob and oozed into the tunnel. Loki descended the passageway that took Nakajima hours to traverse in mere minutes. Soon the blob of flesh made a squishing sound as it dropped to the stone floor of the plaza before the burial pathway. At that instant, its outer membrane hissed and gave off smoke as it started to melt. "Damn you!" Loki quickly transformed back into his bronze body, and kneeling on the ground, let loose a terrible howl. Most likely, he could not stand the chemical reaction that took place when his protoplasmic body came into contact with the mercuric sulfide. Even now, the one gelatinous place of his body between his eyes throbbed and pulsated. Gritting his teeth and standing, Loki stared solemnly at the crimson burial road."
  27. Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 37 "Leaving his handsome face intact, Loki started to change into a cylindrical lump of flesh that sprouted countless small tentacles. The pink protoplasm started to glow and the movement of the tentacle fondling Yumiko's body became faster and rougher.
    Yumiko lost all will to resist, and her head fell to the side limply as she passed out. Loki started to pull her doll-like body into his own; he failed to notice that Ohara was glaring furiously at Yumiko even as she was enveloped within the protoplasm.
    Many women could not resist the allure of demons. Even if they despised them normally, they’d fall madly in love with them if they had sex with them even once. For Ohara, who had devoted herself body and soul to Loki, watching him have sex with one of her students in front of her eyes was an unbearable humiliation. Once Yumiko's slender white legs had sunk into the protoplasm and she was inside Loki up to her chest, Ohara went mad with jealousy, grabbed Yumiko’s head, and started to twist it.
  28. "Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2, "Conflicts" "Crying out, Typhon whipped and spasmed. Sword and all, Nakajima was thrown aside, but Kerberos leaped into the air and caught him. Right then, Nakajima got the sense that he heard Yumiko's voice from far away. Looking around in confusion, the image of Yumiko, bound to a cross and writhing in agony, appeared in his mind. Most likely, Set had sent him the picture of her current state as the core of his enormous protoplasmic temporary body. Nakjima noticed that one of the eyes in her lovely, terrified face was dripping blood."
  29. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6, "To Space" "However, he could not stop fighting. As minor demons from Set's world continued wriggling while trying to enter the Assiah world, an unmistakably familiar voice echoed in Nakajima's mind. Nakajima! I'm here! Aim for here! Yumiko! Is that you!? The instant Nakajima heard the voice, the Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi regained a shine like a nova as it tore through the air. Stab your sword in the direction of my voice! Nakajima quickly noticed a pale, white, phosphorescent glow on a part of the enormous serpent's scale-encased body. Yes, I'm inside the demon! If we attack from inside him and outside him at the same time, we might be able to defeat Set... Led by Yumiko's voice, Nakajima stabbed his blade toward the phosphorescent glow. But an instant before the tip reached it, the tail of the giant snake forcefully knocked the blade aside and sent Nakajima flying far back. Flipping over and regaining his composure, robe fluttering behind him, Nakajima saw the rolling form of Set uncoiling, as if swimming through the vacuum. Foolish girl! To think you would let me know that you still live! Now I no longer have to depend on this irritating machine!
  30. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of Demon City Chapter 2 "Conflicts" "Isma's body appeared to float in the air as he laughed, and two unusual lights appeared by his feet. Covered in jet-black scales, the great black serpent Typhon stared at Nakajima with its golden eyes, Isma riding on its back, as it slowly rose into the air, towering like an enormous tree. With its head nearly extended to the full height of the tower of flesh, the huge serpent shuddered and assaulted Nakajima. The lower half of Isma's body had been fused into Typhon's; perhaps it was another sort of fusion the demon could do in addition to its innate ability to absorb the earth and the air into its own body."
  31. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6 "Quickening" "Matoba was taking a nap on the sofabed in the study next to his office. The heavy black bags under his eyes betrayed his exhaustion from his nonstop efforts to bring his party together and block the National Secrets Protection Act from being passed. Taking advantage of the fact that the world stage was becoming a war of information, the restrictions in the act clearly indicated that the Liberal Party was veering further and further to the right. As the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, that was hard for Matoba to allow.
    A quiet breeze blew into the room through the air conditioner that Matoba had left on. Not even disturbing the sound of that breeze, the snake slipped into the room through the slit under the door. It raised its head, fixating on its prey. Its small red eyes looked over the snoring, sleeping form of Matoba. Wiggling its body rapidly, the white snake slithered across the floor, effortlessly climbed up the sofabed and dove into the V-neck of Matoba's exposed undershirt, clearly by his unfastened tie.
    Without any hesitation, the pale serpent bit into the exaggeratedly expanding and contracting fat stomach before it. Like a sharp drill, the slender body of the snake tunneled into Matoba's gut. As if he felt no pain whatsoever, Matoba slept on peacefully.
    A minute or so later, Matoba suddenly twisted up from the sofabed as if a wave of high-voltage electricity was running through him. His body started to spasm wildly. However, it appeared that the Apep had gained full control of his nervous system; he soon started snoring again and fell into a deep sleep. Strangely enough, the wound on his stomach had sealed, as if cured by some sort of magic. Only moments later, the light sound of a Cedric driving away could be heard from the front of Matoba's manor.
  32. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 2: Chapter 2, ""I made it back to Toyoashihara..." His lips trembled with relief. Opening his arms wide, the youth took a deep breath of the humid air, pursed his lips forcefully, turned around, and sat down. For a while, he stared at the form of the grotesque woman chasing him, then shook his head sadly and closed his eyes. The youth started to meditate. When the woman had gotten within reach of a stone's throw, his body seemed to float slightly in midair for a moment, and then there was a huge undulation in the atmosphere. As if a huge invisible power had been released, the earth shook, and the fissure that appeared directly beneath the youth spread to the surrounding moutains, and countless rocks started to fall on the path. As the woman stopped, a giant boulder rolled in front of the path in front of her eyes, sealing it off. "Izanagi! I will come to you! Even if it takes hundreds or thousands of years!" The sound of the woman's bitter cries rose from beyond the towering pile of earth. "Forgive me, Izanami..." Plugging his ears with his hands, the youth staggered into the wetlands, the tall reeds rising even above his height."
  33. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2 "To Space" "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
  34. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2 "To Space" "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
  35. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2 "To Space" "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
  36. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6, "To Space", "Accompanied by the glittering of the stars, unending empty space surrounded Nakajima. Below his feet, the endlessly spinning shining blue globe looked up at him. It took him a few moments for him to realize that he was floating in outer space. Nakajima unfolded his arms. In them, he held the Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, emitting a strand of light in the blackness of space. Its blade twinkled and throbbed, as if responding to the tens of thousands of stars. Suddenly, a sinister psychic wave hit Nakajima from behind. It appeared as if Izanami's robe had given him the power to survive and move about in the vacuum of outer space. Nakajima slowly turned around, and found his field of vision dominated by an open, gaping red maw. It was that of an incomprehensibly enormous serpent. Though the demon had only possessed a temporary form on the surface of the earth, the natural effect of powerful magnetic field that had forced him into space had given Set a complete body. Star Scorpion's 60-foot-long solar cells spread out like wings. Now a giant snake, Set's pale green scales glimmered as he coiled around the beautiful yet functional satellite lying in dead orbit. It looks like the insignificant humans had enough knowledge to summon me into this empty space. The voice echoed in Nakajima's mind. But the humans will soon know their folly in thinking that they have banished me. Pulling this satellite down with me to the surface is an easy task. And that is not all. Have a look at all the demons that were summoned here into space! Beside Nakajima, several pale glowing things that looked like hoods floated aimlessly. Soon, they will take on bodies and seek safe haven on Earth. The end of the age of the foolish humans' dominion over the earth will not be long now. Nakajima, whether or not you intended, you have become the knight that blows the trumpet signalling the beginning of the apocalypse. The only path remaining for you is to cast aside your humanity and work for me. It would be a shame to kill you. Think it over. Ignoring Set's call, Nakajima focused all of his anger onto the sword he held directly in front of him. The environment of outer space that had given the demon a body had also removed all restrictions on the divine power he had been granted. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, now an immensely long coil of light, drew an arc like that of a whip emitting red light, and came down onto the body of the enormous serpent. Fool, you do not value your life. Set lurched forward. Weaving away from the enormous serpent's attacking fangs, Nakajima was enveloped by a miasma like ice. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi had already produced many pale sparks striking the body of the serpent coiled around the satellite. Yet the tough scales showed no sign of injury. Not only that, but the ugly faces and disgusting tentacles of materializing new demons floated like ghosts in the space around him. The noisy voices of the demons amplified like they were advancing down on Nakajima."
  37. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 4 "Quickening" "I don't think so. From what I've just seen, there's no mistake that a magnetic field suitable for summoning a demon was set up. It may be that the reason no demon appeared was that it might have arrived in the Assiah world via a different magnetic field."
    "There’re still some details about the mechanism for demon summoning that I don't really understand yet."
    "Unusual words, coming from the genius that was the first to successfully summon a demon via a computer." Feed grinned broadly, but his expression soon turned grave as he looked directly at Nakajima.
    "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?"
    "Yes, that's right."
    "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time."
    "So what would happen if two contact points were opened at the same time?"
    "The demon would decide where it wanted to appear. However, there are some examples in medieval records of demon summonings that report that when the difference in strength of the two magnetic fields was great enough, the demon would be pulled to the stronger field, regardless of which it wanted to go to..."
  38. Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 5, "He Who Calls" "Isma had realized that the bizarre life form that had torn itself out of Ohara's belly was a temporary body for Set, who had been planning to take form by possessing Loki's child. According to his theory, summoning a demon via a computer would require creating a magnetic field with which to summon the demon and the processing of the demon's data to be materialized, both of which would have to be done at virtually the same time. If the magnetic field was weak, the point of connection between the demon's world and the Assiah world would narrow, constraining the amount of data that could be processed. On the other hand, no matter how powerful the magnetic field was, unless the digital data could be processed quickly and concisely, the demon would never be able to take form. It was quite possible that even a supercomputer would not be able to handle the massive amount of data that would be needed to materialize a high-ranking demon. Despite that fact, the high-ranking demon Set was able to to take form in the Assiah world, even if it was only in a makeshift body. Something must have added a great deal of power in setting up the necessary magnetic field for a summoning; this in turn would ease the restraints on the data processing. Isma was convinced that something was Yumiko. Most likely, the high concentration of biological Magnetite within her body had been a major player in creating the magnetic field for the summoning. The divine constitution that she had inherited from Izanami was nothing but a giant retention of that highly concentrated Magnetite. While meager in comparison to that of Yumiko, ordinary humans also retained some biological Magnetite. If enough of it was collected, it might be able to create a permanent overlap of the Atziluth and Assiah worlds entirely. Therefore, having already formed a contract with Set, Isma borrowed his power to summon many people and attempt to create a tower of human flesh. And everything was proceeding just according to plan. Even know the heavens split with a terrible thundering, and Set's most powerful servant, the great serpent Typhon, reared its head into the air as if slithering from behind a black curtain, knocking over the Soga Forest's trees as it went. "Typhon, welcome. Breathe deeply and take in the air of the Assiah world." Isma looked kindly at the enormous snake. "Take a look, your first victim awaits in the shadow of that tree." As Isma pointed to the copse where Officer Nimura was, Typhon vanished beyond the trees. Meanwhile, Set had transformed into a gigantic, vile pillar of flesh, his sinister, red glowing eyes at its peak darting all around the area. Typhon's presence is proof that the demon world Set rules is starting to meld with the Assiah world. Now all that remains is to gather more biological Magnetite and solidify the connection... Isma's eyes shimmered even brighter with madness."
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  182. Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 36-37 "Powerless, Nakajima stared at Loki and Ohara.
    I should have considered the possibility that this could happen. I'd better find a weakness, and soon!
    Nakajima frantically pointed the sensor connected to his computer at the nearly-materialized Loki. Calling up the ISG host computer, he sent the data the sensor had gathered about the demon to Craft. Meanwhile, Loki extended his hand toward Yumiko, rigid with terror. His bronze, naked body was beautifully symmetrical, almost like the Greek Apollo, and his muscular chest was covered in black scales. His black eyes, from which no one could possibly fathom any emotion, paralyzed her.
    "Come over here." Pointing his talon at Yumiko, Loki commanded her in a low, cold voice. Yumiko looked to Nakajima for help, but he merely glanced at her and continued talking with the AI.
    Nakajima knew he wouldn't have a chance if he tried to fight Loki directly, but Loki probably couldn’t risk doing anything to him so long as Nakajima had control of the computer environment. Nakajima knew that he had to find some sort of weakness to Loki while he still had the chance. He had a hunch that Loki would not be able to leave the magnetic field being generated by the computer.
    However, just as Yumiko tried to stagger away and flee, a strange sound came from Loki's arms. For a moment they looked like they were beginning to melt, and then they changed into giant, jiggling, pink-colored blobs of protoplasm. From their tips, multiple tentacles lashed out and wrapped around Yumiko's limbs.
    "No, stop!" The tentacles gripping the crying Yumiko's limbs pulled her up into the air, toward the body of the blob. A new pink tentacle sprouted and wrapped around Yumiko's body, and the liquid leaking from its membrane melted her clothes, latched onto her now-exposed skin and started writhing along her slender body.
    >CRAFT, HURRY!
    Covering his ears so he wouldn't have to hear Yumiko's screams, Nakajima frantically kept hitting the keys. Finally the data transfer LED lit up, and Craft sent a response.
    ACCORDING TO THE DATA YOU SENT, THE JELLY SUBSTANCE IS 58% WATER AND 17% ECTOPLASM. THE REMAINING MATTER IS NOT NATIVE TO THE PLANET AND CANNOT BE ANALYZED.
    >HAS THERE EVER BEEN A CASE OF SIMILAR MATTER BEING DISCOVERED BEFORE?
    YES. THIS CENTURY, SIMILAR MATTER WAS DISCOVERED IN A MAYAN TEMPLE AND IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
    > WHAT IS ITS WEAK POINT?
    I CANNOT MAKE A HYPOTHESIS DUE TO INSUFFICIENT DATA. HOWEVER, THE MATTER DISCOVERED UNDER A RELIEF IN THE MAYAN TEMPLE WAS REPORTED TO HAVE EVAPORATED WHEN IT CAME IN CONTACT WITH MERCURIC SULFIDE-BASED PAINT.
    > MERCURIC SULFIDE? YOU MEAN A MIXTURE OF MERCURY AND SULFUR. BUT I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE THAT. TELL ME HOW TO DEAL WITH HIM NOW!
    UNFORTUNATELY I DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT DATA TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER."
  183. Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 1, Pages 50-51 "A viscous drop of water fell onto Nakajima's cheek. Listening closely, he could hear the steady sound of water coming from high above. Over the aeons, the lime deposits in this trickle had accumulated here and there along the path to form giant stalagmites. Nakajima touched the rising cliff to feel it. The surface of the cold stone was wet with condensation. When he scratched it, the rock crumbled away easily, revealing a new layer of red stone below. Idly recalling that the ancient red paint used in ancient Japanese tombs was mercuric-sulfide based, Nakajima suddenly remembered Craft's words.
    When explorers had discovered material that was apparently part of a demon's body in a Mayan temple, it evaporated when it came into contact with their mercuric-sulfide based paint. In other words, this tomb was designed specifically to keep demons out. His courage buoyed by this realization, Nakajima picked up Yumiko's body and walked toward the depths of the red valley. However, he’d never had that much in the way of stamina in the first place. In less than ten minutes, his legs were exhausted. He would have liked Kerberos' help, but he didn't want to put any more stress on the already terribly-injured demon. Besides, this path with walls literally painted with demon repellent would hardly be the most appropriate place for Kerberos.
  184. Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 1, Page 51 "Yomotsu-Shikome took a step forward. As Nakajima met her gaze, he carefully laid Yumiko down, wiped the cold sweat on his hands onto his slacks, and picked up his handheld computer.
    "Kerberos, please come here."
    Before the white haze that emerged from the liquid crystal display could even take on a rough outline of its shape, it vanished with a weak bark. Apparently, the pathway’s crimson paint really did seal off the power of the demon beast.
  185. Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 2, Page 53 "Loki descended the passageway that took Nakajima hours to traverse in mere minutes. Soon the blob of flesh made a squishing sound as it dropped to the stone floor of the burial chamber plaza. The moment he touched the floor, his outer membrane hissed smoke as it started to melt.
    "Damn you!"
    Loki quickly transformed back into his bronze body. Kneeling, he let loose a terrible howl. He could not stand the chemical reaction that took place when his protoplasmic body came into contact with the mercuric sulfide. Between his eyes, the one gelatinous place on his body throbbed and pulsated.

Explanations

The following is an explanation of the various status effects of Megami Tensei

Status Effects
Name Effect Apperances
Freeze Prevents any action in battle. Usually caused by Ice skills and generally only lasts for one turn. In later games, attacking a frozen enemy is guaranteed to cause a critical hit. Most Megami Tensei Games
Shock Prevents any action in battle. Usually caused by Electricity skills and generally only lasts for one turn. In later games, attacking a shocked enemy is guaranteed to cause a critical hit. Most Megami Tensei Games
Poison Depletes health at the end of each turn, often persisting on the field. Most Megami Tensei Games
Paralyze Paralyzed characters are unable to move. Unlike Shock, this often persists for more than one turn. Most Megami Tensei Games
Stun Stunned characters have lowered agility and defense. Most Megami Tensei Games
Confused Confused characters become indecisive and may either attack a random enemy, do nothing or flee in a panic. Most Megami Tensei Games
Charm Character begins attacking their own allies or cast healing spells on the enemies. Most Megami Tensei Games
Stone Prevents the target from moving. This persists even on the field and is treated as similar to being dead. In most games, if the protagonist is petrified, it triggers a game over. In some games, Force spells will shatter a petrified opponent. Most Megami Tensei Games
Sleep Prevents any action in battle. Character loses a turn. In some games, sleeping characters restore some of their HP and MP. Most Megami Tensei Games
KO Can no longer participate in battle. In most games, if the protagonist dies, it is game over. Can only be recovered with Recarm spells. Most Megami Tensei Games
Bind Prevents any action from a unit. In Persona Q and Persona Q2, Binds are spilt into three different subsets that stop specific actions. Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
Persona Q
Persona Q2
Bomb Bomb is implanted in party member. When those inflicted with this status are hit, they explode, dealing damage to the entire party. Defending will prevent damage. In the Devil Children series, only the character inflicted with Bomb is hurt when hit by Fire attacks. Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Devil Children series
Happy Overjoyed and may not attack. Shin Megami Tensei
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Devil Children series
Rage Attack is increased, but the afflicted will attack anyone other than themselves as if they were Charmed. In the Persona series, Rage lowers the afflicted's defense and agility. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Persona 3
Persona 4
Persona 5
Down Character may get their turn skipped and they take more damage. Overlaps with other ailments. Persona 3
Persona 4
Persona 5
Hungry Hungry characters will become indecisive. On their turn, they will either not take action and receive a small amount of Almighty damage or attack an ally. DDS: Avatar Tuner
Persona 5
Sick Capacity (how much the character can carry) is doubled. Shin Megami Tensei NINE
Fly Renders the target 200% vulnerable to all affinities and reduces all their stats except Ag to 1. Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Sick Reduces affected character's outgoing damage by 25%, its evasion to 0 and increases damage taken by 25%. At the end of a turn with a party holding this character, there's a 5% chance that another character will be infected. Shin Megami Tensei IV
Lost Flynn cannot summon or fuse the affected demon and is forced to reunite with said demon through an encounter. Shin Megami Tensei IV
Brand DLC only. Reduces HP and MP recovery to 1 point. Can't be cured. Shin Megami Tensei IV
Sick Reduces affected character's outgoing damage by 25%, its evasion to 0 and increases damage taken by 25%. At the end of the party's turn or an individual party member's turn, if a party member is afflicted, there is a 5% chance that another party member will be infected. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalpyse
Lost Nanashi cannot summon or fuse the affected demon and is forced to reunite with said demon through an encounter. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalpyse
Brand Reduces HP and MP recovery to 1 point. Can't be cured, but wears off randomly or automatically after battle. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalpyse
Close Prevents a unit from using their magic. Represented by kissing and hearts when inflicted by skills. Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis
Mirror Affected character cannot move, takes increased damage from physical attacks but reflects all magic. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Card Affected character cannot move, takes increased damage from Fire attacks, and decreased damage from physical attacks. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Bat Affected character steals HP from allies outside of battle. Can spread to allies. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Plague Stronger version of Poison that deals more damage. Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Dance Affected character cannot move. Evasion is increased. Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Tipsy Affected character may take a random action Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Drunk Affected character performs random actions Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
High Provides bonuses to all actions, but they also become random. Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Guilt Randomly-selected actions cannot be performed. Megami Ibunroku Persona
Blind Hit rate and evasion dropped. Megami Ibunroku Persona
Sick Loses HP at the end of the turn and when walking around.
Works like Poison, but Sick is considered a different ailment in-game.
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Cloak Cannot be directly targeted by single-target attacks.
Defense lowered and cannot summon Persona.
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Puppet Allows controlling a K.O-ed ally.
Puppet can attack and use items, but cannot summon Persona.
Megami Ibunroku Persona
Beast Buffs all stats. Amount varies depending on the current moon phase. Megami Ibunroku Persona
Illusion When a character is in the illusion status effect, his/her hit rate will decrease significantly. Persona 2
Possession Possession occurs when the demon inhibits the characters body. When a possessed character summons a persona, there's a high chance that the possessed character will attack instead. Persona 2
Despair Drains SP every turn, cannot move.
Dies/Faints after 3 turns have passed.
Persona 5 / Royal
Rattled Cannot move, damage taken increased. Persona 5 / Royal
Artist's Grace Inflict weaknesses to all affinities. Persona 5 / Royal
Lust Affected targets may lose a turn. Persona 5 / Royal
Wrath Affected targets have their attack raised sharply, but their defense decreased sharply for a turn. Allows free action. Persona 5 / Royal
Envy Affected Targets may attack random party members with weapons when a support skill is used on anyone but the envied target for a turn. Persona 5 / Royal
Ache After a successful hunt, the character that just ate might get affected by a stomach ache. Occasionally inflicted as a side effect from eating a Moldy Roll. This prevents the character from gaining any AP after the battle. Allies also won't get any AP from the consumed monster, if AP sharing skills are set. Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Bat Reduces all stats and makes the affected character weak to Force. Wears off over time or when battle ends. Does not override passive skills that affect Force resistance. Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Egg When the team holding the affected character has their next turn, the affected character takes a large amount of Almighty damage and a Maggot is summoned next to them. Devil Survivor

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