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| - Jyoka (女媧?, Nü Wa) is the strongest of the five original people (the First People) that landed on Earth millions of years ago and started the trend of evolution, and is the ultimate antagonist of the story. She has the paopei "Sangashashoku" and "Shihoken." Her designs were to create the earth's history exactly the same as her world that evolved to the point where it was destroyed. She actually wanted to destroy all the inhabitants on Earth and recreate their home planet. Fukki and the other 3 original people/aliens rejected this idea and imprisoned her in a glass cage to stop her from doing anything to harm the Earth and it's inhabitants. Not wishing for history to repeat itself, argued against this plan and put Jyoka in an eternal sleep, while they merged with the life of the planet, eventually creating the Sennin and Yokai. However, even without a body, Jyoka can traverse the world in her soul form. Jyoka has the ability to work behind the scenes as a spirit, while her body still sleeps, and subtly changes the world to more resemble her own, but when the histories diverge, she simply destroys the world and starts over. No one knows how long this cycle has been continuing until the current history. A few million years later, Jyoka became the Director of history because she can travel through people's dreams using only her soul. Directing history on her whim, her tries meticulously to follow her old home's history, to the point of recreating her home, just so that she can see what would happen if their final mistake hadn't happened. And when history does not go according to plan, she destroys the world and starts over. She has been destroying and recreating the Earth world so many times that she herself has lost count. She has the ability to split her soul, which along with her regenerative abilities, make her a very difficult enemy to destroy completely. In the final battle, her body is taken over by Dakki before she can reach it, and Dakki uses that body to become the Great Mother and merge with the earth, like the other original people. Fighting her is the final battle. It isn't until the end when we find out her true intentions. She was lonely. She didn't want to be alone.... anymore... There is much foreshadowing of Jyoka's appearance throughout the manga; for instance, Chou Koumei's ship is called the 'Queen Joker.'
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