Yayoi Hozuki

Yayoi Hozuki (寶月 夜宵, Hōzuki Yayoi) is the main protagonist of the Dark Gathering series. She is a young girl with a spiritual constitution who's collecting dangerous ghost in order to get enough power to rescue her mother's spirit from an extreme Evil Ghost, Kuubo.

Appearance
Yayoi is a short girl with purple hair. Her polycoria eyes are red with white pupils each that resemble skulls respectfully.

Personality
Yayoi is a girl obsessed with the occult stemming from her desire for revenge on Kuubo for taking her mother's spirit. She will do almost anything to save her. That includes using any kinds of ghost, even if they are extremely evil.

Despite this obsession she has a strong moral compass. She will punish ghost that have killed many people, but she will be kind to those who unwillingly became corrupted. She knows that what she is doing is dangerous and will always put the safety of others as her top priority. She loves her friends and family dearly and has a strong desire to protect them.

Powers & Abilities
Before the incident with kuubo she could see both the living and the dead, but overlapped quite a bit. after the car incident she was able to see both with full clarity.

Because of the car accident when she was younger, Yayoi's IQ became over 160. Because of her newfound intelligence she's able to analyze and create plans fast during ghost hunts. Her polycoria eyes can also glow red.

Equipment
Yayoi has several items to help her fight, catch and control ghosts she encounters:

Dolls
Yayoi has several ghost captured into stuffed animals. Most of them are substitute dolls but some of them she can release the ghost and use their power against other ghosts. This is however not without caution. Many ghost have powers that will affect her and her companions and some ghost might even turn on her if she is not careful enough.

The following ghost are noteworthy:


 * The Spirit in a Transitional period
 * Unknown Graduate spirit
 * Transcedent Jizo
 * High Priest of the Evil Sutra
 * Child of a Thousand Souls who cut their necks
 * The Rappacious Bleached Head
 * The Imprsoned Demon Seargent who died for his country
 * Black Asura of the Eclipse
 * Otogiri, the Soul Sucking Oiran
 * S Tunnel Ghost
 * The A Dam Ghost
 * T Tunnel Ghost
 * Old Woman Ghost

Other equimpent include:


 * A Bat
 * Crowbar
 * The Finger of God
 * Salt
 * Special rope

Etymology

 * Houdzuki means "treasure" (寶) (hou) and "moon" (月) (tsuki/zuki/dzuki).
 * Yayoi means "evening" (夜宵).