

She would also "transfer" her love for Battler onto the Beatrice persona, and pursue a relationship with George as Shannon and Jessica as Kanon. Around the same time, she began to experience gender dysphoria due to not developing the same way as the other girls her age such as menstruation and breast development, due to a combination of that and the heartbreak from Battler's perceived abandonment led her to create the male persona of Kanon (often switching back and forth between the two). However, due to some family problems, Battler doesn't come back to the island, and Shannon's heart was broken, delving back into her mystery novel habits. In 1980 during the annual family conference, Battler accidentally makes a promise to Shannon that they would have a life together soon, and she took what he was saying as truth, and waited for him. Especially thanks to her relationship with Battler Ushiromiya and the other Ushiromiya cousins around her age. Eventually deciding to become a witch, albeit still maintaining the Shannon persona, effectively splitting Shannon and "Beatrice" into two different people.Īs time progress though, Sayo began to focus more on the real world all but discarding the fantasy world entirely. The only comfort Yasu having in these troubled times being the motherly guidance of Kumasawa (the Ushiromiya elderly housekeeper) and mystery novels such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, she also began to create imaginary friends and personas such as the perfect servant "Shannon" as well as starting to blame objects disappearing on the Golden Witch Beatrice, even playing pranks of newer servants to continue the witch's legend as well as to try to gain respect as Shannon. By either fate or deliberate action on Kinzo's part, she was one of the orphans selected to work at Rokkenjima as servants a fact that confused her fellow orphans/co-workers due to having perceived privileges (such as a room all to themself and only working weekends so that she can attend school along with Jessica) as well as being significantly younger and having traits unbecoming of a servant such as clumsiness and forgetfulness, becoming an instant target of bullying. They were then taken to the Fukuin House orphanage and under the alias Sayo Yasuda, although Fukuin had a practice of "blessed names" in which they combine the first kanji of the child's given name (in this case "紗") and the kanji for sound "音", giving us Shannon. Unbeknownst to the other island inhabitants, the child survived its fall off the cliff, but was gravely injured with particular damage to the sex organs, being reassigned from male to female and raised as such.

The child later fell off of a cliff along with a servant nineteen years ago. The child was given to Natshui as a sign of atonement, but she rejected it Natushi viewing it as a sign of her failure of her womanhood. Yasu (born Lion Ushiromiya) was the child of Kinzo Ushiromiya, and was conceived through incest with Kinzo's daughter Beatrice Ushiromiya.
