Mito Jūjō

Mito Jūjō 「十条 美十, Jūjō Mito」 is a colonel of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army and a member of Guren's squad in the Moon Demon Company. She is also the daughter of the prestigious Jūjō family.

She is a main character in the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen light novel series.

Appearance
In the light novel, which occurs eight years before the manga, she has shoulder length curly red hair, which she wears in twin tails, and large purple eyes.

In the manga, her hair has grown to knee length which she wears in a ponytail with a purple hair tie. She wears the standard JIDA uniform, which consists of a long-sleeved black tailcoat with light green details including the shoulder epaulettes. The right one has a fourragère around her right side connecting to the lapel of the coat, and two rows of gold buttons on the front. Along with that, she wears a pair of white gloves, an armband on her left arm, and a white web belt with a gold waist-plate. Instead of the standard female skirt, Mito opted for the trousers seen with the male version of the uniform along with a pair of black shoes.

Personality
Mito is the classic tsundere Ojōsama. She is well-bred, gets riled up easily, and is attentive to etiquette and station. She is also quite stubborn. Despite being part of Guren's personal squad, she refuses to recognize his leadership.

History
The Jūjō's were one of the branch families serving the Order of the Imperial Demons. They excelled in melee combat and were often used as guards or escorts.

Due to the prestige of the house, since she was young, Mito had never been treated by the people around her like a normal girl, until she met Guren. While Guren frequently frustrated her with his snide comments and jokes, she developed an unrequited crush on him due to the refreshing treatment. Seemingly ignorant of the feud between the Hīragi House and the Ichinose House initially, she frequently encouraged Guren to do better and develop a better attitude towards the Hīragi's. She was assigned to Guren's squad by Kureto on several missions.

Saved by Guren multiple times, she was immensely grateful to him, and confessed her love to him while she was on the verge of being killed during an all-out assault by the Brotherhood of a Thousand Nights on Shibuya First High. She accepted the Kiju (Demon-Curse) from Kureto in order to save Guren.

Book 1
Mito gabs at Guren during the principle gives the opening speech.

Later on, Guren’s submissiveness to Seishirō Hīragi makes him lose respect from everyone in the class, including Shinya and Mito.

During the qualification exams, Mito fights Shigure. She wins but feels like the match should be declared a draw as Shigure managed to injure her. She says that if this were a real fight the weapon would have been coated in lethal poison and even she got poisoned by it because of her training, she'd still be able to move and take Shigure out. While the judge agrees with her, he says that all decisions are final and when she tries to protest, he tells her to keep her opinions to herself as the rules were set by the Hīragi.

She apologizes to Shigure to what she said before the fight and she shouldn't have underestimated her because of being Guren't bodyguard and calls her strong. She then tries to persuade Shigure into becoming a bodyguard for the Jūjō family but Shigure is adamant about staying loyal to Guren.

The Brotherhood of a Thousand Nights later attacks and kills many students and teachers.

After the Order of the Imperial Demons announces it put down the "terrorist group" that attacked them before, the school reopens. Mito and Goshi become friendly with Guren, Sayuri, and Shigure.

Book 2
Mito tries to train Guren on fighting and Norito tries to comfort him.

Shinya, Mito, Norito, and Guren leave to continue their examinations in the gym. When Guren arrives for his bout, Kureto questions him about the Thousand Nights and then attacks him with the intent to kill, forcing Guren to fight seriously.

Guren, Shinya, Mito, Norito, Sayuri, and Shigure report to Kureto’s office, where Aoi Sangū lets them in. Kureto orders them to investigate Ueno Zoo. Guren leads this new team.

The squad enters Ueno Zoo and battles a chimera made with genes from the Four Horsemen of John.

Book 3
In class, students spread rumors about Guren hiding his true strength, and Mito scolds him about it until Shinya tells her to leave him alone. When she returns to her seat, Goshi teases her, so she hits him and he laughs. When Kureto calls Guren immediately after class, Goshi asks if it is Guren’s girlfriend on the phone, which surprises Mito. Although it is Kureto on the phone, Guren goes along with the joke and says it is his girlfriend until Shinya takes pity on Mito and explains.

That evening, Mito, Goshi, and Shinya invite themselves to Guren’s house and play Shogi. Mito loses to Shinya but complains about the TV distracting her. The group disbands.

The next day, Mito approaches Guren while hiding a shogi board behind her back and scolds Guren about taking care of himself. He is completely exhausted, so he agrees with her words to end the conversation faster. She tells him she had fun yesterday and says they should get together again in the future. She challenges Guren to a shogi match but ends up bickering with Goshi and Shinya over who gets to face him. Shinya ends up going against Guren.

The next night, the Thousand Nights attack the school. Mito calls Guren and thanks him for treating her like a normal girl and tells him not to come. She says she loves him. She is trapped in the audio-visual room with some other students and says that Goshi, Shigure, and Sayuri protected her. She says blood and enemies are everywhere. She states that the door is being forced open and asks Guren to save her. There is an explosion, and then the phone disconnects.

Book 4
Mito tries to protect her classmates in the audiovisual room, but the Thousand Nights breaks in and kills off her classmates. Recognizing her by her red hair as a member of the Jujo family, they capture her alive.

Guren goes to the battlefield at the school and kills many Thousand Nights members, but Noya is the one mostly in control. Noya makes him kiss Mito and grow horns, fangs, and claws.

Mito and Goshi narrowly escape while Imperial Demon soldiers seal Guren within the school. Shinya contacts Sakae in order to bargain for Guren’s life. In exchange for saving Guren, Sakae says he will hand over the Ichinose’s research to the Hiragi and will accept any punishment.

Mito, Shinya, and Goshi play video games at Guren’s apartment until Mahiru shows up. Guren attacks her, and they fall from the twenty-fifth floor. Mahiru stops her fall by using her sword. Guren is badly injured but recovers.

Book 5
Guren and Shinya play Bomberman until 3 a.m., and Mito and Goshi are already asleep.

Guren plans his next move with his group and reveals some documents Mahiru left to him about the Seraph of the End.

Kureto visits Guren and orders him to kill Mahiru within forty-eight hours or else he will kill Guren’s father and the rest of the Order of the Imperial Moon. He calls Aoi, stating that Guren betrayed them and cut him down. He orders Sakae’s death, but this is all a ruse.

Guren and his group escape to the roof and steal Kureto’s helicopter before heading to Kyoto. They crash in the mountains and head down to a farmland to steal a tractor. Guren sleeps for seven hours while chatting with Noya. They return to a love hotel and change clothes.

While there, a vampire appears, but they kill her. Asuramaru’s sword materializes in the room.

Book 6
Sakae’s body is returned to Aichi, and his head is reattached prior to his burial. Guren dresses in his father’s ceremonial kimono and greets the other family heads. Shinya, Goshi, and Mito sneak in to visit him.

Guren returns to his apartment to find Mito and Goshi eating curry. They play Bomberman.

On December 10th, Kureto sends in Guren and his gang to take care of students that have become possessed by demons at the school. Guren arrives first and knocks out one demon-possessed boy. Mahiru, now a vampire, appears. Mito and the rest of the group arrive and attack Mahiru, but she escapes.

On December 11th, Mito confesses her feelings to Guren, but he rejects them.

Goshi calls Guren and says his apartment was set on fire by traitors. The call is dropped. Guren steals a bike and escapes, but a van chases him until Shinya uses Byakkomaru to destroy it. None of Guren’s group die at the apartment. Goshi picks them up in a stolen minivan.

Shinjuku Arc
Colonel Mito Jūjō first appears in chapter 11. She joins up with Guren and the rest of their squad during the vampire attack on Shinjuku. When a vampire attempts to kill Sayuri from behind, she kills him in one strike. The battle commences. She fights vampires and has her hands full when Mikaela Hyakuya and Seventh Progenitor Ferid Bathory give Guren a thrashing. After Lieutenant General Kureto Hīragi arrives with reinforcements, she is with the other members of her squad and is talking with Goshi.

Nagoya Arc
In chapter 24, she meets with her squad in the Ebina Rest Stop and reports that there was no sign of any vampire presence there. Goshi teases her, asking her to put on a bikini because Guren wanted to see it, which is a complete lie, but he ignores her blushing and outraged response. Along with the other two girls, she blushes after he gives a brief speech.

When Yū enters the rest stop for his punishment, she informs him that squad has been partnered with Guren since they were fifteen years old. She asks Guren why he lets Yū talk to him like that and asks who he is, and he half-heartedly orders Yū to be more respectful to his superiors. As punishment, Guren challenges  Shinoa's squad to a match: himself, Mito, and Shinya Hīragi against her entire squad. He gives the kids ten seconds to prepare. Mito approves of it until Shinya points out that Shinoa's squad has three Black Demon Series weapons, and then she becomes alarmed.

Once the match begins, Mito easily punches through Mitsuba's demon dummies. After getting past Mitsuba's attack, she stands on Shinoa's scythe, disabling her movements for awhile. Guren's squad wins easily. Afterward, she calls Shinoa utterly incompetent as a squad leader and scolds her.

Once they commence their operation in Nagoya, she heads underground with the rest of Guren's squad to hunt Nineteenth Progenitor Mel Stefano. Although they succeed in killing him, the battle was dangerous, and Guren nearly dies several times. He assigned three squads per noble, with the exception of two groups: Shinoa and Narumi's squads only had those two squads, and Guren's squad took on one vampire on their own.

Afterward, a soldier named Kusunoki makes it to Guren, informing him that ten soldiers were killed and twenty held hostage. He expires and Guren orders them to reinforce Shinoa and Narumi's squads before heading off to kill Thirteenth Progenitor Crowley Eusford in Nagoya City Hall.

The Moon Demon Company regroups, and Sergeant Aiko Aihara arrives with only seven survivors from her squads. Guren Squad, Shinoa Squad, and Narumi Squad leave to hunt Thirteenth Progenitor Crowley Eusford, Seventeenth Progenitor Chess Belle, and Seventeenth Progenitor Horn Skuld while Aiko waits for other survivors to pass them the order to reconvene at Nagoya Airport.

They reach Nagoya City Hall and after Crowley catches Gekkōin, Guren and his squad discuss what to do while Crowley, Horn Skuld, and the Chess Belle wait patiently for them. After careful planning, Guren decides that his squad will take his squad to attack Crowley while Shinoa and Narumi Squads free the hostages. He gives them five minutes to rescue as many hostages as they can and act as a proper diversion for the main force in Shinjuku. As soon as the five minutes are up, everyone is ordered to retreat to the Nagoya Airport immediately.

Guren and Shinya attack Crowley at the same time but he easily negates their attacks at close range. He then swings Guren into Shinya, throwing them into the wall behind them. Crowley, Chess, and Horn then step toward them. Mito notices this and moves to assist them but Goshi holds her back and tells her, she would only get in the way.

In chapter 33, Guren orders Norito Goshi to take action. Guren's squad breaks in through the windows, and he orders them to save everyone and escape.

As Mika engages the Moon Demon Company in chapter 35, Goshi says Mika is underestimating them, but Sayuri wonders if he has an objective other than attacking them. Shigure says they have to kill it regardless. Goshi summons an illusion, but Mika dives through it anyway, surprising him.

Mika dodges an attack from Sayuri, but Shigure throws three kunai into his right thigh. Mito punches him before he can land and sends him into the ground in front of Shinoa Squad.

Shortly after Mika flees with Yu, vampires rain down around the Moon Demon Company. After seemingly escaping the vampires, Shinya arrives with Guren Squad at Nagoya Airport, sans Guren.

When prompted by Goshi, Shinya says Guren told him a transport chopper was supposed to be waiting there for them to escape with. He says they were supposed to then use the chopper to fly to Shinjuku, where a trap has been set up for the vampires. Shinya reveals that the plan was devised by Kureto, instantly alarming Guren Squad.

Powers and Abilities
Mito excels in spellcast techniques transmitted from generation to generation in the Jūjō family, which enhances her physical ability in close combat. As demonstrated in the anime, she alone was able to fight hand-to-hand in close combat skillfully with both Shinoa and Mitsuba at the same time. Not only does she wields the cursed gear's power in both hands, additionally, Mito would also used it to fight up close against the vampires with her fists through martial art skills.

Spells

 * Vajrayaksa Curse 「ベージュラヤクサ カーヒーウ, lit. Bējurayakusa Kāhīu」: A Hīragi House spell which enhances her physical strength. It is a technique that takes on the ability of a God, borrowing power from demons as noted by Guren.

Cursed Gear

 * Mito's cursed gear takes on the appearance depicting a pair of two black gauntlets with a glowing, green orb on the middle of it. When Mito lands a decisive blow against a common vampire, one of her gauntlets would sparked blue flashes of lightning streaks to appear from the hand that was used to hit it. Therefore, this resulted in Mito killing the vampire for good with the cursed gear's power being concentrated behind the attack from both her fists.

Trivia

 * Mito 「美十」 means "ten beauties."
 * Jūjō 「十条」 means "ten articles."
 * The "to" part of her given name and the "Jū" part of her surname are both written with "十", the kanji for "ten."
 * According to the fanbook:
 * Interests/Likes: [Interests] Games/Things currently popular with girls (Already owns cute clothes, has always wanted to show them off to Guren, but has never had the chance to) [Likes] Guren
 * Favorite food: Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki (Since before the apocalypse and after they all ate together at Guren's apartment)
 * What she looks for in the opposite sex: Guren

Book 1

 * "I should have expected that from an Ichinose. You’re not just rude, you’re ignorant too! How can you not know who I am? Look at my hair!"—Chapter 3, Page 43"
 * "Lady Mahiru is so beautiful. And she treats the other houses so kindly, almost like equals. She’s really like a goddess. She’s smart, too. And strong. I heard she was first in the class in every single subject on the entrance exam. It’s truly an honor for those of us in the Imperial Demons to serve her."—Chapter 3, Page 48
 * "Miss Aiuchi! It’s Guren! There’s blood coming out of his mouth! (No one moves to help him.) What’s wrong with you people?!"—Chapter 4, Page 73
 * "You? Beat me?! Fat chance! Even your master is a wuss. What chance do you think you’ll have against me? I’m a Jujo, you know!"—To Shigure, Chapter 6, Page 105
 * "I want to apologize for what I said before the fight. I shouldn’t have underestimated you just because you work for Guren. You’re stronger than you look. Have you ever thought of becoming a bodyguard for the Jujo Clan? You’re too talented to waste on such a spineless master."—To Shigure, Chapter 6, Page 113
 * "Aren’t you people ashamed of yourselves?!"—Epilogue, Page 171

Book 2

 * "I don’t know why a scaredy-cat like you ever came to this school in the first place."—Chapter 3, Page 225
 * "Who are you calling she-hulk?!"—To Norito, Chapter 3, Page 225
 * "It’s true, Master Kureto! I’ve tried to provoke Guren into standing up for himself at least a hundred times. He really can’t fight at all!"—Chapter 3, Page 229
 * "You’re gonna pay for making a fool out of me!"—Chapter 4, Page 244
 * "So what? You were powerful all along but you’ve been hiding it. So every time I showed sympathy, or criticized you, you were really laughing at me? At how gullible I was?"—Chapter 4, Page 246
 * "Of course I did! And you just took it. You let me pick on you any time I wanted, like it didn’t matter! But all along you were laughing at me behind my back. I—"—Chapter 4, Page 246
 * "By the way, Shigure, my father asked me to give you his regards. I know I mentioned it before, but ever since I told my father about how strong you are, he’s been very interested in meeting you… Couldn’t you visit our compound at least once?"—Chapter 6, Page 282
 * "Come on then, let’s go. This time, let me be the one to save you."—Chapter 7, Page 301

Quotes: Vampire Reign

 * "Your squad? I am a daughter of the prestigious Jūjō family. I am not part of your squad."--Mito to Guren, Chapter 11, "Vampire Attack"
 * "The rookies these days have appalling manners. We need to remind them of their place."--Mito to her squad prior to fighting Shinoa's squad, Chapter 25, "Narumi & The 20-Year-Old Yu"
 * "No. There was a way to prevent further casualties. You were utterly incompetent as squad leader. When fighting vampires, if your formation is broken, withdraw immediately. As everyone knows, vampires are much stronger than us. That is why we form squads in the first place."--Mito to Shinoa after their match, Chapter 26, "Thirst Logic"