Editing Ishizu Ishtar (manga)

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Ishizu is from a family of [[Tomb Keeper|Tomb Guardians]], tasked with helping the pharaoh recover his memories, when he returns. She works for the Egyptian supreme council of antiquities and possessed the [[Millennium Tauk (manga)|Millennium Tauk]], which gave her the power of foresight.

Ishizu became disconnected from her brother, [[Marik Ishtar (manga)|Marik]] and the family servant [[Rishid (manga)|Rishid]], after Marik's hatred manifested into the destructive entity, [[Dark Marik (manga)|Dark Marik]]. Ishizu aimed to defeat Dark Marik and save Marik at any cost. As part of her plans, she persuaded [[Seto Kaiba (manga)|Seto Kaiba]] to host the [[Battle City (manga)|Battle City]] tournament, despite foreseeing his failure in said tournament. However, Kaiba defeated her in the tournament against her prediction. This made her optimistic that the future could be changed and she was able to convince Kaiba to help [[Dark Yugi (manga)|Dark Yugi]] defeat [[Dark Marik (manga)|Dark Marik]].

Ishizu came from a family of [[Tomb Keeper|Tomb Guardians]], extending back to the first Tomb Guardian, who served [[Dark Yugi (manga)|Pharaoh Atem]]'s family. The family protected a prophecy foretelling the return of the pharaoh, who would be identified by his wielding of the [[stone slab]]s of the [[Egyptian God|three gods]].<ref name="d 277">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|277|ref}}</ref> Ishizu's family also protected two of the [[Millennium Items (manga)|Millennium Items]], the [[Millennium Rod (manga)|Rod]] and [[Millennium Tauk (manga)|Tauk]] for generations.<ref name="d 231">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|231|ref}}</ref> Their duties involved passing the items onto the pharaoh in time, as they were necessary for him to reawaken his memories.<ref name="d 233">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|233|ref}}</ref>

Marik, having never been outside, yearned to see what it was like. He, Ishizu and Rishid made plans for him to sneak out. Marik faked a fever and pretended to be asleep. After [[Mr. Ishtar (manga)|their father]] fell asleep, he and Ishizu snuck outside, after sunrise for two hours, while Rishid stayed behind to take care of things. Ishizu showed Marik a street and explained what a motorcycle was, when Marik saw one in a book. Before returning to the tomb, they bumped into [[Shadi Shin|Shadi]], who warned them that their fate would be a tragedy splitting their family, which was the will of the pharaoh.<ref name="d 231" /> Ishizu tried asking Shadi who he was, but he disappeared among the crowd. Marik pointed out how Shadi's [[Millennium Key (manga)|Millennium Key]] resembled the Millennium Items their family was guarding, but Ishizu reminded him that they were not to talk about those items in the outside world and insisted that Marik forget everything he saw outdoors, including Shadi.<ref name="d 232">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|232|ref}}</ref>

When Ishizu and Marik returned to their home, Ishizu noticed a rope device that triggered when the door was opened, which their father had used to notice they had left. They found their father punishing Rishid, by cutting his back with a hot knife. Believing he had killed Rishid, he prepared to similarly cut Marik. However Rishid's impairment allowed Marik's alter ego, [[Dark Marik (manga)|Dark Marik]], to emerge. Dark Marik took the [[Millennium Rod (manga)|Millennium Rod]] and used its power to immobilize their father and pin him against a pillar. When Ishizu attempted to intervene, he similarly pinned her to a pillar. Ishizu realized that this was not Marik's true self and shut her eyes as Marik proceeded to murder their father and cut the skin off his back, which bore the [[Seal of Memories]], and drop it on Rishid's back. Dark Marik was suppressed after Rishid regained consciousness. Ishizu stood by Rishid, as they watched Marik weep over her father's body and be told by Shadi that his death was the will of the pharaoh.<ref name="d 232" />

Ishizu and Marik, played ''[[Duel Monsters (manga)|Duel Monsters]]'' and Ishizu won at least [[Marik Ishtar and Ishizu Ishtar's Duel|one of their games]], using a [[Main Deck|Deck]]–[[Graveyard]] switching strategy.<ref name="d 225">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|225|ref}}</ref><ref name="d 227">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|227|ref}}</ref>

Ishizu became the secretary general of the [[Egyptian supreme council of antiquities]]. The council had been tasked by [[Maximillion J. Pegasus (manga)|Maximillion J. Pegasus]] with hiding the three ''[[Duel Monsters (manga)|Duel Monsters]]'' [[Egyptian God|God cards]]. Dark Marik's organization, the [[Ghouls]], stole two of the cards, but Ishizu was able to keep one of them, "[[The God of the Obelisk]]", safe.<ref name="d 147">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|147|ref}}</ref>

The [[Millennium Tauk (manga)|Millennium Tauk]] gave Ishizu the ability to see into the future. She foresaw a turn-by-turn account of her Duel with Kaiba, which resulted in Kaiba's loss due to his use of "[[The God of the Obelisk]]".<ref name="d 225" />

Ishizu traveled to Japan to oversee the dynastic exhibit, [[The Art of Egypt]]. This took place in [[Domino City Museum]] and showcased stone slabs, depicting ka battles, from which ''[[Duel Monsters (manga)|Duel Monsters]]'' originated. She invited [[Seto Kaiba (manga)|Seto Kaiba]] to the museum and showed him the slabs.<ref name="d 87">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|146|ref}}</ref> Kaiba was astonished to see that the depicted [[Dark Yugi (manga)|nameless pharaoh]] resembled his classmate, [[Yugi Mutou (manga)|Yugi Mutou]]. Although Ishizu claimed not to know who Yugi was. She told Kaiba about the God cards and tasked him with retrieving them from the Ghouls, through hosting a ''Duel Monsters'' tournament. To bait the Ghouls into coming, she gave him one of the God cards "[[The God of the Obelisk]]". Kaiba asked what if he acquired the three God cards, but refused to let them go, to which Ishizu replied that she trusted him.<ref name="d 147" /> Secretly she gave it to him in anticipation of it leading to his defeat, after which she would reacquire the card and face [[Dark Marik (manga)|Dark Marik]] later in the tournament, which she saw as her last chance to destroy him.<ref name="d 225" /> She felt bad for deceiving Kaiba, but was willing to do what it took to save Marik.<ref name="d 226" />

With the [[Millennium Tauk (manga)|Millennium Tauk]], Ishizu predicted Dark Yugi would visit the museum. When he arrived with [[Anzu Mazaki (manga)|Anzu Mazaki]] and saw the slabs, she approached him. She told him that a great battle would soon be taking place and that he must gather the seven [[Millennium Items (manga)|Millennium Items]] to regain his memories. Seeing Ishizu's own Millennium Item, Dark Yugi asked if she was an enemy. She denied being an enemy, but said that the enemy who was about to appear possessed the last Millennium Item, Dark Yugi was to encounter.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|150|ref}}</ref>

Ishizu took part in Kaiba's [[Battle City (manga)|Battle City]] tournament and was the last to qualify as one of the eight finalists.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|202|ref}}</ref> She abstained from attending lottery selections determining the pairings for the quarterfinals, as she had already predicted their results.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|203|ref}}</ref><ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|209|ref}}</ref><ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|218|ref}}</ref>

[[File:Ishizu gives Yugi the Tauk.png|thumb|right|300px|Ishizu gives [[Yugi Mutou (manga)|Yugi]] the [[Millennium Tauk (manga)|Millennium Tauk]].]]

While discussing the idea of Yugi and [[Katsuya Jonouchi (manga)|Katsuya Jonouchi]] Dueling, Shizuka suggested they ask Ishizu to look into the future to see who would win. Ishizu said that the Millennium Tauk had lost its power, since the future had changed in her Duel with Kaiba. She appealed for Yugi and Jonouchi to do what it took to return Marik to his former self. Fulfilling one of her duties as a Tomb Guardian, she gave the Millennium Tauk to Yugi, since he would need all seven [[Millennium Items (manga)|Millennium Items]] to reawaken the pharaoh's memories. After Ishizu parted ways with Yugi and his friends, Anzu followed her and asked what would happen to Dark Yugi after the seven Millennium Items are placed in [[Millennium Stone|their slab]]. She replied that he will have a place to return to.<ref name="d 233" />

After hearing that [[Yugi Mutou (manga)|Yugi]] had collected all of the [[Millennium Items (manga)|Millennium Items]], with the exception of the [[Millennium Key (manga)|Millennium Key]] and [[Millennium Scales (manga)|Scales]], Ishizu sent mail to [[Yugi Mutou (manga)|Yugi]] with instructions on where to go for [[Dark Yugi (manga)|Atem]]'s final test, as pharaoh, and included a photo of the Door to the Underworld. Her distant relatives from another clan of Tomb Guardians brought the Key and Scales to the [[Shrine of the Millennium Stone|Shrine of the Underworld]].<ref name="d 337">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|337|ref}}</ref>

[[File:Millennium Items returned to the tablet.png|thumb|left|300px|Ishizu hands Atem the [[Millennium Key (manga)|Millennium Key]] and [[Millennium Scales (manga)|Scales]].]]

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