Shizuku Yaegashi

Shizuku Yaegashi is the one of the heroines of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest. She is the best friend of Kaori Shirasaki. She is a former member of the "Hero Party".

After Story, she married to Hajime Nagumo.

Personality
Shizuku is a hardworking, kind and caring girl who passes her time on practicing her swordsmanship. She is referred to as a cool beauty but actually has a girlish side that like cute things. Kaori stated that she is often hiding her true feelings and putting on a mask so other people did not worry about her. In the Frost Cavern of Schnee, it is revealed that Shizuku didn't originally want to learn swordsmanship, but didn't want to betray her family's expectations, who praised her for her talent. This lead her to suppress her girly nature which included her dreams of being a princess and falling in love with a prince who would always save her. Due to this, she harbors a degree of dissatisfaction due to being unable to act as a normal girl and her constantly being forced to look after other instead of having someone take care of her. After falling in love with Hajime, she has come to terms with those feelings.

Shizuku has an extreme aversion towards bugs such cockroaches as demonstrated in the final trial of the Haltina Labyrinth, or her frightened reaction towards Hajime's Arachnae golems.

Shizuku is extremely sharp with an excellent grasp of people's subtleties and relationships, her kind and compassionate personality won't let her ignore trouble around her giving her a lot of hardships. She's also very smart and capable to process things without much explanation which impressed even Hajime Nagumo. Cattleya considered Shizuku to be the brain's of Kouki's party and the most dangerous because she could calmly analyze every situation and come up with an optimal solution, unlike Kouki, who simply charges into a situation without thinking while also letting his emotions control his actions.

One of Shizuku's most notable traits is her loyalty towards her friends or people she finds interesting. She stayed as Kouki's childhood friend despite her desire to cut ties for the sake of avoiding the bullying of other girls that were in love with him and would try to steer him on the right path when his habit of interpreting things to his convenience would lead him astray. In the case of Kaori, she would always try to help her whether it was protecting her or helping her in her pursuit of Hajime's feelings. She even attempted to help Hajime when their classmates would try to bully him and scorn him as she empathized with his situation due it being similar to her own in the past. After Hajime feel into the Abyss, Shizuku promised Kaori that she would help save him or at least allow Kaori to see his fate despite doubting his survival.

Shizuku is generally one of most realistic among her classmates. Unlike the idealistic Kouki, optimistic Ryutarou and the oblivious Kaori, Shizuku usually acted as the voice of reason and caution among her class instead of blindly rushing in. While she was shocked when Hajime killed Cattleya, she knew she didn't have the right to judge him for his action because she understood the situation, unlike Kouki who couldn't accept what Hajime had done, even through he had no right to complain after already failing. She even resolved herself to be ready to kill her enemies to better protect her friends, knowing full well it would make her a murderer. Due to her more realistic worldview as well as her previous cordial relationship with Hajime in Japan, she often took over the role of meditating conflict between the Hero party members especially Kouki and Hajime due to their clashing outlooks and worldviews.

When Kaori was trying to learn about anime and manga to get closer to Hajime, Shizuku got dragged into it by Kaori. This made her surprising knowledgeable about them herself. She even came to understand an otaku's greatest weakness: they developed many embarrassing chūni habits that haunt them forever. Using this knowledge, she was able to bring Hajime to his knees by threatening to spread all kinds of chūni nicknames about him around Tortus and Japan if he didn't treat Kaori nicely.

While she initially appears to be a cool stoic beauty, Shizuku has a secret cute and girlish side which she usually tries to hide due to embarrassment and to avoid being teased by her friends. She likes the color pink as well as cute animals as was seen when she petted a lost cat she found and has a fondness of cute bunnies which caused her to keep sneaking glances at Shea's bunny ears.