Teruko Ōkura

Teruko Ōkura is the vice captain of the Hunting Dogs special units who has the ability Gasp of the Soul.

Appearance
Teruko appears as a short, young girl wearing the standard Hunting Dogs uniform, albeit the hat sports enough space for her hair. Her hair is light, and long, styled in a wavy ponytail and tied with what appears to be a large ribbon. Befitting of the Mad Dogs, she has a sword by her side.

During their pursuit of the Armed Detective Agency at the Sky Casino, she uses her ability to manipulate her age and turn herself into an adult woman and old lady.

Personality
Teruko is intense and boastful. She revels in her power and role among the Hunting Dogs. She has a significantly short fuse and easily intimidates strangers after the initial shock of her youthful appearance disappears. She is aggressive when angered or provoked.

Her temper is so extreme that she regularly threatens violent action against people who oppose her, involving evisceration and gutting. Lower-ranked authorities refer to her as the blood-briar queen, a member infamous for her bloodthirst and feared even by her allies, and she uses a steel whip as her main weapon. She also seems to have an abnormal obsession with Ōchi Fukuchi.

Befitting as the Vice-Captain of the Hunting Dogs, Teruko takes her duties very seriously even if she enjoys the battle experience along the way, often seen laughing in joy as she takes down her opponents. She considers herself a "Protector of Justice" and gladly continues to engage in combat even when heavily injured, stating that is what heroes do. Teruko takes pride in her status as a Hunting Dog member as she describes the Sigma about how a Hunting Dog is a "slave" to society and the "ultimate violence" above all that is necessary to maintain the nation and the world's order and peace and that she would gladly sacrifice her own body and soul via being required to undergo monthly maintenance surgeries and fight to the death for the sake of the people.

Ability
Teruko's ability, Gasp of the Soul (のぎ,), allows her to manipulate the age of anyone she touches. Teruko herself mainly uses her ability for interrogation and torture, enabling her to rapidly age someone to old age and cause them to develop several illnesses and maladies normal to old people. She would then rapidly pull them back to a much younger age, putting a severe psychological strain on her victims' senses and severely damaging them mentally due to how quickly she alters their age before they can acclimate to the new sensations and feelings of their rapidly changing bodies. This makes her ability ideal for interrogations despite her not actually "hurting" her victims.

Other than this, Teruko has also displayed the ability to use her ability on herself, allowing her to alter her physical age for both disguising herself and maturing her body to a physically stronger age.

Skills

 * Interrogation Skills: Teruko is seen to have great interrogation skills as seen when he finally got a confession from ex-lieutenant Jack Gillette from the Seventeen World Villains despite the latter's strong will. She also mentioned that she is the one usually responsible for making people confess about lies, particularly using a torture method.

Quotes

 * (To Sigma) "It is simple. Without order, those most gifted in violence would stand at the top. Such a world is rubbish. Thus, the Hunting Dogs use the strongest violence to serve as slaves to society. Even if the flames of order should burn us to ashes."

Etymology

 * The name Teruko means "bright, glorious, splendid, flame" (燁) (teru) and "child" (子) (ko).
 * Teruko's surname Ōkura means "big, great" (大) (ō) and "warehouse, storehouse, barn, treasury, granary, cellar, magazine, godown, depository, elevator, storage place, repository, supply shed, grain elevator, stockpile, arsenal" (倉) (kura).

Trivia

 * Her author namesake was a student of the real-life Sōseki Natsume.
 * In real-life, she was nicknamed the Japanese by.
 * Teruko shares the same English voice actress as Kyōka Izumi.

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