After mentioning off-handed that he wanted to taste the persimmon fruit of Namai, his favourite food when he was a child, Tsuyu runs off to the village to search for some. He claims to be healthier and that he will be back in fighting condition soon.
Gosetsu remains bedridden and hospitalized by Tsuyu in the Doman Enclave, still carrying his injuries from the fight at Doma Castle. Hien is greatly concerned for her due to her past actions against the Doman people. She joins him to find passage across the Ruby Sea to Doma to reunite with Hien, who threatens her with his sword upon seeing her. Gosetsu takes to calling her "Tsuyu", and she obediently follows Gosetsu wherever he goes. Yotsuyu has suffered extreme memory loss: she behaves very childlike and innocent, and is entirely unaware of her own name. Gosetsu gets them to Kugane via a makeshift raft. Yotsuyu fails to stop the Warrior of Light from escaping as she is seemingly crushed under the sinking castle.Ĭarried by the current, Yotsuyu and Gosetsu survive and end up stranded on an island. She is cut down when she attempts to shoot Hien, and tries to kill Gosetsu when he holds up the collapsing ceiling. She explains why she sided with the empire and reveals she was buying time for her final gamble: have Doma Castle collapse on itself to take the prince with her. After Grynewaht is defeated, Yotsuyu is cornered by Hien and the Warrior of Light. Yotsuyu commands her forces to fight to the death and has the cyborg monster that Grynewaht is transformed into act out his last attempt of revenge as her last line of defense. Reunited with Hien, the Doman Liberation Front refuses to accept defeat. Yotsuyu attempting to kill Gosetsu and the others She orders Grynewaht to kill the Warrior of Light's group while preparing a massive operation to purge all opposition in Doma.
After slapping Grynewaht when he attempts to help her up, Yotsuyu reveals the Warrior of Light's presence on Yanxia. At their second meeting, he grabs Yotsuyu by her hair, giving her a final chance to end the rebels before throwing her to the ground. He tests the blade on the Warrior of Light and Yugiri in Yanxia when they attempt to assassinate him. Yotsuyu presents the blade to Zenos when he comes to Doma Castle, after hearing of the Confederate attack.
Yotsuyu has Grynewaht slaughter a group of Red Kojin to take the legendary katana Ame no Habaki, which they had among their treasures. The Scions of the Seventh Dawn win over the Confederacy and drive the imperials out of Isari once they force the Red Kojin to abandon their imperial posts. Yotsuyu interrogates him on the whereabouts of Doma's true heir, Hien Rijin, but he remains stalwart in his resistance. Gosetsu, watching her actions with the Warrior of Light, Lyse Hext, and Alisaie Leveilleur, turns himself in as a collaborator with the Resistance to stall for time. With the recently demoted Grynewaht as her bodyguard, Yotsuyu holds court in the fishing village of Isari to satisfy her hatred, on the grounds of weeding out traitors and undesirables. She announces that those who do business with them will be branded enemies of the Empire. Yotsuyu uses her position to torment the Domans while denouncing the Confederacy of the Ruby Sea as a legitimate governing party. Shortly after, Garlemald crushed the Doman resistance and killed Lord Kaien, and Yotsuyu joined Zenos, being crowned the new Imperial viceroy of Doma. Yotsuyu and Zenos after the assassination attempt. After a surprise attack from assassins trying to kill Zenos, he quickly dispatched them and told Yotsuyu he was interested in her potential. Yotsuyu admitted her hatred and rage towards Doma and its people, which interested Zenos greatly. Despite her advances, Zenos was entirely disinterested in her, asking instead how she felt about her expectations working in the pleasure house. Within the brothel, she climbed from a regular girl to one of the more influential courtesans, and was given a task by the then-living viceroy of Doma: spy on the Garlean unit that was visiting the brothel, and seduce the crown prince Zenos yae Galvus to steal battle plans from his father. After his death, Yotsuyu was sent to a pleasure house to settle her husband's debts. While still a young teen, her parents married her away to an abusive noble named Sashihai. They would physically abuse her, often in front of her youngerĪdopted brother, Asahi. Born in the Naeuri family, Yotsuyu suffered a terrible childhood: after her parents died, she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle, who withheld her from schooling to work around their home.