Nakime

Nakime is the mysterious Biwa Demon who dwells in the Dimensional Infinity Fortress. Originally, she is merely a Demon who serves to summon other Demons into the fortress on Muzan Kibutsuji's command, but, after Hantengu's death, she becomes the new Upper Moon Four of the Twelve Demon Moons.

Appearance
At the time of her debut, Nakime takes the form of a pale woman with a grayish complexion, who has sharp, blue-stained nails and notably red lips which sharply contrast the tone of her skin. She has shiny, waist-length hair of a dark brown color, which she wears falling down her back in slight waves that cut off sharply at the ends, with two chin-length strands left to frame her face and long bangs that obscure her large eye set in between them, swept to either side of her nose.

Nakime wears a plain black kimono with a white lining, secured with a striped pale brown-striped obi, white socks and no shoes. She is always seen holding a wooden biwa.

Since becoming an Upper Moon, Nakime has taken to wearing her bangs as to not obscure her face, showing that she only possesses a single large, pink-colored eye with the kanji for 'Upper Moon Four' etched onto its iris. The upper portion of her face is also revealed, and appears to be a darker gray color than the rest of her skin with prominent veins surrounding her one eye.

Personality
Nakime is a mysterious yet cold biwa player who displays little emotion. She doesn't speak unless necessary and when she does, she is often straightforward and blunt, making her responses as short as possible.

Functional Recovery Training Arc
Nakime makes her debut within the Dimensional Infinity Fortress playing her biwa, summoning the Lower Moons for a meeting following Rui's death. She does not utter a word.

Red Light District Arc
Nakime once again plays her biwa to summon the Upper Moons to a meeting after Daki and Gyutaro's deaths.

When Akaza asks her where Muzan is, she replies straightforwardly that he has not yet arrived. She is also questioned as to where Upper Moon One is to which she replies (after Akaza's and Doma's bout) that he has always been there; he was the first to arrive.

At the end of the meeting, Nakime plays her biwa again to separate the Upper Moons and bluntly refuses Doma's offer, cutting him off by sending him back to his temple.

Pillar Training Arc
Nakime, now the new Upper Moon Four replacing Hantengu, is shown to be with Muzan. Using small eyeball familiars, she has been tracking down the Demon Slayers and determining their locations and hideout. Expressing her honor at Muzan's compliment for her rapid growth, she uses her technique to locate Kagaya Ubuyashiki.

Dimensional Infinity Fortress Arc
When the Demon Slaying Corps arrive at the Ubuyashiki mansion to try and stop Muzan, they are all transported into the Dimensional Infinity Fortress and separated from one another by Nakime.

Obanai Iguro and Mitsuri Kanroji are the first to encounter her, but find it extremely difficult to land blows on her due to her control over the environment.

After Kokushibo's death in Chapter 176, Nakime is the only remaining Upper Moon and the final member of the Twelve Demon Moons.

Later, during the beginning of Tanjiro and Giyu's fight with Muzan, the latter reveals that Nakime has successfully "defeated" both Obanai and Mitsuri by crushing them both to death using the rooms of her fortress. However, he is taken by surprise when the supposedly dead duo launch a surprise attack on him, still very much alive, and angrily asks Nakime what she's doing. Muzan is shocked upon learning that Yushiro has completely taken control over Nakime's vision, and with it, the Dimensional Infinity Fortress, which he begins to use against the Demon lord as revenge for his killing of Tamayo.

Later upon having her sight taken over,Yushiro began to take full control of her via taking over her brain in order to fully wrestle control of the Dimensional Infinity Fortress,However upon realizing what Yushiro was doing,Muzan immediately began countering by using his own mental powers to take control of Nakime before Yushiro could,starting a fierce battle of wills between the two,causing the fortress to completely spiral out of control as both wrestled for control over it,However due to being contentiously distracted by having to simultaneously defend himself from the attacks of both Giyuu and Obanai and mentally battle Yushiro,Muzan began to gradually lose his hold over Nakime,allowing Yushiro to exert more control over the Fortress and begin bringing it to the surface of the ground in order to expose Muzan to sunlight,realizing that he couldn't defend himself and Nakime,Muzan instead opted to kill Nakime by destroying her head,preventing Yushiro from controlling the fortress any further and allowing Muzan to fully focus on battling the Pillars,However due to Nakime's body not disintegrating right away Yushiro was still able to use her body to violently force the Fortress above ground.

With Nakime's death the Upper Moons have officially become defunct and the full extinction of the Twelve Demon Moons.

Abilities and Powers
As the new holder of the Upper Moon Four title, Nakime possesses a tremendous amount of strength. She is capable of using her abilities to hold her own against Obanai and Mitsuri, two incredibly strong Pillars, simultaneously without either of them being able to so much as scratch her.

Blood Demon Techniques -Although Nakime's Blood Demon Art is not combat orientated as the rest of the Upper Moons,Nakime's power are still on par if not greater than that of her fellow Upper Moons,as she alone controls and manipulates the entirety of the massive Dimensional Infinite Fortress in order to support and aid her fellow demons.


 * Fortress Manipulation - Nakime possesses the ability to manipulate and control a seemingly infinite inter-dimensional fortress by playing her biwa. She is capable of bringing anyone she desires into the fortress and is capable of creating entrances and exits anywhere she desires. By binding and rooting her hair to a nearby wall inside the fortress, she can control the Fortress's positioning as she likes: shifting and changing the positioning of various rooms and walls as if they were her own limbs. However, doing so renders her immobile. Obanai remarks that this ability, while not being very deadly, makes her very annoying to kill.
 * Eye Detachment - Later, upon obtaining the rank of Upper Moon Four and presumably receiving more blood from Muzan, she has now displayed the new ability to create and detach several eyeballs from her body. This allows her to spy on others from a long range. With this new ability she is able to successfully find and locate the positions of nearly all members of the Demon Slaying Corps and successfully locate the hidden mansion of Kagaya Ubuyashiki, who had gone to extreme lengths to hide its location from even the highest ranking members of the Demon Slaying Corps.

Trivia

 * Nakime has many similarities to the former Lower Moon Six, Kyogai. They both use Blood Demon Techniques that allow them to freely manipulate a specific structure at will, have a musical instrument to use their individual techniques, and have been given their epithets based on these instruments.

Quotes

 * (To Doma) "I refuse."
 * (In response to Muzan Kibutsuji's praise) "I am very honored."

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