Yajima

Shitou Yajima is a former member of the Magic Council, and a close friend of the Fairy Tail Guild Master, Makarov.

Appearance
Shitou Yajima appears to be a small old man with thick flesh-colored eyebrows and a little mustache. In his years in the Council, he wore a brown long sleeve shirt with black vertical stripes and a black three spiked hat. When he retired and entered the cooking business, he began wearing chef clothes and a chef hat. During his younger years, he had been of average height, had brown hair, and wore a light-brown collared shirt and dark blue-green pants.

Personality
Shitou is very quiet person. During meetings with the Council, he keeps his silence most of the time, even when he knows something is wrong. This trait remains with him in X791, as he doesn't say anything about Raven Tail cheating, despite being aware of the truth. Shitou greatly supports Fairy Tail, and is always rooting for them. This may be due to his close acquaintance with Makarov, a former teammate of his.

History
At one point, Shitou had been a member of Fairy Tail for some time, being in a team alongside Makarov, Porlyusica, Goldmine, Bob, and Rob.

Phantom Lord arc
After Fairy Tail's war with Phantom Lord, Shitou warns Makarov to be careful in the future. The time may come when he will no longer be able to stand up for Fairy Tail, which may eventually lead to their disbandment in the hands of the Magic Council.

Loke arc
Together with Mirajane, Makarov, Goldmine and Bob, Shitou goes to watch Team Natsu perform the play, Frederick and Yanderica.

Tower Of Heaven arc
When Siegrain is trying to convince the Council to use the Etherion, Shitou vehemently opposes his suggestion. As Siegrain wins majority of the council's favor, Shitou expects the former to take responsibility for the consequences that would be caused by the firing of Etherion, and warns Siegrain that the people's lost lives will be upon his hands.

Afterwards, while preparing the Etherion, Shitou spies on Siegrain and Ultear and overhears them talk about how his dreams are going to be realized. Shitou then sees as the two suddenly disappear. After the Etherion is fired he sees Ultear attacking the Council and is stunned by how he had been fooled the whole time.

Oración Seis arc
After the Magic Council is reformed, Shitou decides to leave and opens a new restaurant in Hargeon Town, named 8-Island. He then hires Team Natsu to be his temporary staff. After the group finishes the job, Shitou thanks them and tells them to give his regards to Makarov.

Grand Magic Games arc
Yajima later appears alongside Chapati Lola as an announcer in the Grand Magic Games Main Events, where he happily congratulates the members of Fairy Tail for passing the preliminaries.

During the first day's initial match where Lucy is fighting against Flare Corona, Yajima senses something when Lucy's Urano Metria is cancelled. However, he keeps his silence.

When the second day of the Grand Magic Games begins, Jason from Sorcerer Magazine stands as the event's guest judge. Chapati then announces the day's event format which is Chariot, a race between competitors on interconnected chariots. Yajima hints that the event is not a regular race. Chapati then asks Yajima who would win in the event but he himself was unsure. They then give comments about the Game, where Bacchus emerges victorious. Later on, the first battle between Toby Horhorta and Kurohebi ensues, and Yajima expects a fair fight, where Kurohebi gains victory. Then a battle between Elfman and Bacchus where Elfman wins. The third is between Mirajane Strauss and Jenny Realight where they are puzzled to who will win their "modeling contest" but Mirajane strikes Jenny with one hit and wins the battle. The second day ends with a battle between Yukino Aguria, from Sabertooth and Kagura Mikazuchi, from Mermaid Heel as Yajima reminding Chapati that it isn't another beauty contest. They were also surprised as the battle heats up. where Kagura wins.

The third day of the Grand Magic Games officially begins, Yajima and Chapati introduces the day's guest judge, Lahar. Yajima wonders what will happen for the third day of the games.

Magic and Abilities
Flattening Magic: Shitou is able to make his body tremendously flat.

Cook: Since Shitou is the owner of 8 Island he uses Magic to cook for his customers.

Trivia

 * He likes his ramen with 12 slices of barbecued (char siu) pork.

Quotes

 * (To Siegrain) It is no longer my place to resist, but I hope you are ready to take responsibility for the consequences, yes?
 * (To Team Natsu) A lot of things are going to be changing at the Council. Without me around, there won't be anyone to stand up for Fairy Tail when they get into trouble anymore.