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Hotaru is the daughter
of a family of martial artists, but is not very fond of violence. She never
wants to hurt others, which is the probable reason why her father taught her
the lighter side of Chinese kenpo; the Juu-kei style, which suits her
easygoing personality. However, after her mother's death, both her father and
her older brother were missing from her home. She enters the "King of
Fighters: Maximum Mayhem" tournament based on rumors that her brother is
there. In her ending, she finds Gato
and claims that he's her older brother. She slaps him when he denies even
knowing her. He then leaves her there, and Hotaru silently prays for her older
brother to come back to her. She
is generally very polite and charming, and is usually accompanied by her pet sable,
Itokatsu. Her stage takes is a belfry, where a flock of birds removes her
cloak.

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