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    Aoko Aozaki 

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu

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The protagonist of the story, a high school student who has just begun to learn sorcery after moving into an old mansion where a witch was rumored to live. At school, she is the student council president.

To see more of Aoko's tropes, see her entry under Tsukihime.


  • Action Girl: She's a competent badass girl who can eat her enemies for breakfast with, or without her powers. If she can't beam spam her way to victory, then she can just rely on her own hand to hand combat skills instead.
  • Alliterative Name: Aoko Aozaki.
  • Almighty Janitor: Her magic circuits are of average quality compared to her older sister Touko's being of the best in the world, and she is, as of Mahoyo's time, an inept mage compared to both Alice and Touko. However, she is flexible when it comes to utilizing her abilities to their fullest potential. And that's not counting Blue yet...
  • AM/FM Characterization: As a trendy gal who loves modern society and its culture, she's very into rock music. Her electric guitar and speakers are some of the few modern personal items she brought with her into the Kuonji mansion. She also makes a habit of attending rock concerts in her free time and longs to see even bigger ones if she manages to snag future studying in Tokyo.
  • Badass Adorable: She is absolutely adorable when she smiles and goofs off when her guard's down, but she can still pack a punch in combat when needed, or you know, when angered.
  • Beam Spam: Her favorite method of attack.
  • Big Eater: Much to Alice's displeasure, Aoko's appetite is big, and she'd usually finish the food she and Alice are supposed to eat together first before even getting home when ordering take out!
  • Book Smart: She's one of her school's top students.
  • Brainy Brunette: As inept as she is at being a magus, she's an excellent student with top grades.
  • Brutal Honesty: She sees no point in sugarcoating words.
  • Cain and Abel: The Abel to Touko's Cain. Their Sibling Rivalry got real bad and really ugly over the years and the hatred is strong between the two Aozaki sisters.
  • Celibate Heroine: That little incident with Ritsuka must've traumatized her a lot for her to stay away from any and all romantic endeavors at all costs. Doesn't stop the game from giving her Ship Tease with Soujuurou, though.
  • Cheshire Cat Grin: A master of this, next to the Death Glare. It usually pops out whenever she's about to either playfully mock or mercilessly tease someone, a.k.a., Tobimaru. Usually merges with Smug Smiler.
  • Childhood Friends: With Tobimaru Tsukiji. Their relationship is close enough for the others to think that they've got this Childhood Friend Romance thing going on, much to both of their chagrins. Also with Alice Kuonji who has been acquainted with their family for a while. Mind you, she openly admits that she would kill them both as a magus at certain points.
  • Determinator: Her stubbornness and her inability to give up or lose in a fight are features Aoko excels at completely.
  • The Dreaded: Among her schoolmates at school. She's so feared that when she entered Soujuurou's normally boisterous class to check up on him, all of the students present there immediately went quiet and returned to each of their proper seats.
  • Dude Magnet: In her first year, Aoko attracted virtually every boy in the school to the point they were waging fights against each other to eat with her. This stopped when her personality became evident. Heck, even Nasu himself says that Aoko is a high maintenance girlfriend!
  • Enraged by Idiocy: Is pricklier than normal whenever she's around Shizuki. Contributes to most of the game's hilarious moments with her exasperated facial expressions from time to time.
  • Expy: Given that Nasu has stated Neon Genesis Evangelion was a influence on Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, comparisons can be made between Aoko and Asuka; both are blue-eyed Fiery Redhead tsunderes who are enraged by the idiocy of their male friend that they may have a thing for and are the Red Oni to their female "friend"'s Blue Oni.
  • Female Gaze: When she and Alice accidentally walk in on Soujuurou getting dressed. It's also partly because that's when they learn that he's Covered with Scars...
  • Fiery Redhead: Even though her hair is closer to brown as opposed to her older self's bright red hair, teenage Aoko is even more short-tempered and Hot-Blooded.
  • Genki Girl: She's actually pretty cheerful and childishly curious underneath that stern facade she loves putting up all the time.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: Activating Blue makes her naturally blue eyes glow brighter from the power overflowing in her body.
  • Good Is Not Nice: She is definitely a good and kind person underneath that tsun exterior of hers, but you wouldn't be able to tell from the way she acts and speaks sometimes.
  • Hair Intakes: Her hairstyle includes a pair of intakes that look somewhat like small cat ears.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: A lot of things can set her off. She cooled down gradually over time, but this trait of hers is still present in extra materials.
  • Hate at First Sight: She says that she felt displeasure upon meeting Soujuurou for the first time, in contrast to Soujuurou's Love at First Sight with her. Turns out this is more irrational hatred than anything on her part.
  • Hidden Depths: Though most (if not all) of the students in her school fear her for her stern, fiery personality and violent temper, she's also known among them as the type of person who'd (willingly or not) take care of others and is said to be doing a really good job at that. This is one of the earliest hints that she's a lot nicer than she appears to be.
  • Hot-Blooded: In contrast to her more reserved sister and her own stoic best friend.
  • I Gave My Word: She keeps both the letter and spirit of her word. If she makes a promise, she will keep it.
  • Inadequate Inheritor: At least, this is how her sister Touko views her, since her skills in magecraft and magic circuit quality are vastly inferior compared to hers.
  • It Amused Me: At one point, she thinks about how she'll probably reveal to a non-Mage that she's a Mage in spite of this being against the law of the Mage Association, just to see the look on that person's face. Huh.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is totally brash, rude, and a bit of a jerk towards nearly everyone, but shows that she does care for her friends from time to time.
  • Kung-Fu Wizard: She's a rookie magus who kicks ass with both her magus powers and martial arts skills.
  • Leitmotif: Her theme starts out slow before becoming energetic around the 1:20 mark and never looks back, much like Aoko herself.
  • Like an Old Married Couple: With Tobimaru. They bicker and take jabs and hurl insults at each other most of the time, but they're also close enough for them to act more natural toward each other.
  • Meaningful Name: Aoko means "blue child". Her magic consists of blasting things with blue bullets or blue beams and her runes are all blue. There's also the name of the the Fifth Magic, Blue. In the future, she's known by the title of "Magic Gunner Blue" or "Miss Blue". It should be noted however that Aoko's not too fond of her name, if her telling Shiki to call her anything but Aoko is anything.
  • Modesty Shorts: Wears some underneath her skirtnote . Helps that she's a Kick Chick too.
  • Not a Morning Person: A trait she shares with three other Type-Moon characters: Rin, Shiki, and Homura.
  • Oh, Crap!: Her reaction when she accidentally destroyed one of Alice's Ploys. in Chapter 5. And on the same chapter, this is also her reaction when she sees a gigantic Monster Clown getting ready to chomp on her and Soujuurou from above.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Not really, but she constantly gives everyone a Death Glare whenever she's in a bad mood...which is most of the time. Alice calls her out on this.
    Alice: "Your gaze is too harsh for normal people, Aoko. You should try to be a little more lenient."
  • Playboy Bunny: She gets to wear one in one scene. She's...not exactly happy about it.
  • Power Dyes Your Hair: When she uses the Fifth Magic, Blue, her brown hair turns red.
  • Power Glows: When using Blue for the first time, her entire body starts glowing.
  • Pride: Her pride is one of her defining features.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Towards Touko after she brutally kills Soujuurou in front of her. This is what lets her use Blue for the first time.
  • Story-Breaker Power: Blue, as one of the five great Magics from the Nasuverse, allows Aoko to manipulate time to her liking, like how she managed to accelerate her own powers by accessing her ten-years later self's abilities, or when she displaced Soujuurou's death to the far future to revive him. However, the exact nature of Blue is still relatively unknown and what Aoko has shown so far was only the tip of the iceberg.
  • Student Council President: Her role in the school. While she does commit to trying to help her fellow students, as her Establishing Character Moment is grumbling about being called into the school on her day off but still doing her job of giving Soujuurou a tour anyway, she is also noted in narration to be the demon school president because she greatly enjoys the perks given to her as president. A small smattering of what she's done since entering office includes being granted the authority to forcibly recruit anyone she wants into her council projects, declaring her jurisdiction extends to failing students to grant her the possibility to supervise in person all of Yamashiro's classes to the terror of Class 2-C, and compiling a secret file on every single student with information like jobs, relationships, home addresses, and their private activities.
  • Super Mode: When using Blue for the first time to accelerate her own time and to give her the power boost needed to beat Touko, Aoko gets a complete Power Makeover that turns her normally brunette hair bright red, makes her blue eyes glow completely bright, and to top it all off, gets a complete wardrobe change that switches her school uniform to that of a partially ripped white, sleeveless shirt that shows her midriff and a pair of jeans. Oh, and she gets some fingerless gloves to go with the outfit too.
  • Super-Strength: Her kicks are powerful enough to break trees.
  • Time Master: As part of Blue's power package. She uses this to displace Shizuki's death and to fling it to a distant future.
  • Tsundere: A very heavy tsun or harsh type towards nearly everyone she knows thanks to her pride, hotheadedness, and overall grouchiness. Unlike most examples though, it's less of a facade to hide something from anyone and more of her just being genuinely, and harshly frank in general. Uncovering her dere or sweet side however, proves that she can be a very kind and caring person underneath no matter how much she'd want to deny it.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Is stated to be average in terms of her skill in magecraft, but her bullets and energy blasts are powerful and are in a state of pure, raw energy. She also possesses the Fifth Magic, Blue, one of the five great True Magics in the Nasuverse.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With both Tobimaru and Alice, her childhood friends. Soujuurou doesn't quite get how Aoko can seem both distant and friendly with Alice at times.
  • When She Smiles: She's really cute when she's being at her most sincere when smiling.

    Alice Kuonji 

Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa

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A natural-born witch, the daughter of the elder son of the wealthy Kuonji family and a witch he fell in love with, who lives alone in a mansion. She is emotionally detached and self-abusive, thus she does not form relationships easily, but gradually comes to accept Aoko as a friend. She has been acquainted with the Aozaki family for over ten years and serves as Aoko's partner and teacher.


  • Affectionate Nickname:
    • Cock Robin refers to her as "Angel Mum" in accordance with Alice's mother being "Goddess Mum", explaining that only an angel could have the countenance of Alice Kuonji.
    • Ritsuka refers to her as "Allie" in the English localization.
  • Alice Allusion: If her name, fantastical Ploys alluding to Carroll's writing, and association with the world of magecraft weren't already a tipoff, the Wonderful World of Ploys segment outright states that Alice's mother deliberately invoked Alice in Wonderland while developing her technique and named her daughter after the character.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She is emotionally distant towards people and comes off as a cold person in her introduction. The black hair is a bonus.
  • Amplifier Artifact: Her favorite Ploy, Diddle Diddle, serves as this to her other offensive ploys when it's used at night.
  • Ancestral Weapon: A majority of her Ploys were made by her ancestors and then inherited by her. The "weapon" part comes from how lethal some of her Ploys are, especially the Great Three created by the first witch of her line.
  • Barrier Warrior: She maintains an invisible one during combat strong enough to easily shrug off minor spells like Aoko's magic bullets.
  • Berserk Button: Destroying any of her Ploys is a bad idea, accident or no, and she's described as being more hotheaded than even Aoko when this happens, though her face won't show it that much.
  • Brits Love Tea: Though her family is primarily Japanese, Alice vastly prefers English-prepared tea as she was raised in England. She has fine western china made specifically for various tea leaves in that style and emphasizes the importance of following tea time per British custom.
  • But Not Too Foreign: Is half-British and half-Japanese.
  • The Cameo: Her Cock Robin familiar shows up in Fate/Grand Order as Robin Hood's pet.
  • Character Tics: She curls her index finger to place beneath her tilted head whenever she thinks about something.
  • Cold Ham: It is said that she can be more Hot-Blooded than Aoko when provoked, but hides her emotions all the same.
  • The Comically Serious: She can put on a gigantic, cartoonish penguin costume with a completely straight face.
  • Conditional Powers: Her more powerful ploys can only be summoned at night. She can get around this with her Ploy Diddle Diddle, whose power imparts the concept of "night-time" to the area.
  • Cultural Rebel: Being a child of a British witch and a Japanese businessman, it often expresses itself in unusual ways like eating Japanese food solely with western cutlery.
  • Custom Uniform: Her usual outfit is the Reien Girls Academy cassock uniform with cuffs removed and padded shoulders.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Usually at Aoko's expense.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Is icy, stoic, and borderline emotionless at first glance, but once Soujuurou helps her defrost, she shows that she can be a really sweet girl when she wants to be. She's still reserved about it though.
  • Eating the Eye Candy: When she and Aoko run into Soujuurou changing, she isn't participating much in the conversation. Partly due to being a reserved person in general, but mostly because she was too busy blushing at the sight she was taking in.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Even she thought Aoko was going too far when the latter decided to gift Soujuurou a dog collar to replace the bandages on his neck.
  • Failed a Spot Check: The plot kicks off because Alice's Ploy was only calibrated to keep anyone near the area away from them; the thought of a normal person like Soujuurou already in the area after its deployment to witness magecraft at work never occurred to her. She begrudgingly admits she'll have to take that into account the next time she uses a Ploy to keep people away.
  • Fairy Tale Motifs: Her brand of magic incorporates themes directly associated with fairy tales.
  • Famous Ancestor: Fate/Grand Order reveals that she's a direct descendant of Yumina, the first witch and user of the First Magic in the Nasuverse.
  • Graceful Loser: Despite her irritation at losing, she was willing to accept Aoko winning during their confrontation in chapter 5 over Soujuurou because Aoko fulfilled the conditions of discovering Flat Snark and win in that sense. The keyword is was because Flat Snark refuses to obey Alice's decision that they lost.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: She is a half witch born from a pure-blooded witch mother, and a human father. In the Nasuverse witches aren't just female mages, they're a completely separate species similar to fairies.
  • The Heretic: The Meinster witches are considered heretics among mages. This is presumably why unlike most mages seen in Nasu's works, Alice's magecraft is not registered with the Association.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: She's friends with the elderly Yukihiro Tokitsu, who is several decades older than her and is also the only character in the entire cast she refers to with an Affectionate Nickname as "Tokie". It's implied they were acquaintances even before the story, which stands out given how much dedication Alice puts into her life as a Witch and maintains little contact with normal humans.
  • Leitmotif: Her theme is a delicate fairy tale piece with emphasis on the piano to highlight her doll-like grace.
  • Magical Eye: Her left eye is a Mystic Eye of Enchantment, which serves to highlight how powerful she is as Mystic Eyes of Enchantment are typically only found in True Ancestors and superior class Dead Apostles. It allows her to cast powerful, crippling illusions; glowing red when activated.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Due to carelessly unleashing Flat Snark just to kill Soujuurou, she's left without her most powerful trump card by the time she confronts Touko. Even Touko notes had she deployed Flat Snark on her, she might've been in serious trouble.
  • Not So Above It All: During Soujuurou's changing scene, she's shown to be just as taken aback and stunned by his physique as Aoko and they both spend a fair amount of time gawking at him.
  • Not So Stoic:
    • She gets incredibly worked up over the lack of giant tortoises at an aquarium of all things.
    • Kojika notes that Riddell's mere presence causes Alice's stoicism to utterly vanish in favor of pure irritation at her fellow witch.
  • Ojou: Her large mansion is a hint already, but it was mentioned that her father was a rich businessman and Alice inherited all the wealth he had. There's also the fact that she studies in Reien Girls Academy, a school mentioned in The Garden of Sinners to be an academy that houses girls from rich families.
  • One-Steve Limit: Discussed as Alice brings up that she had a childhood friend in England with the same name. Aoko remarks that it would be a lot more feasible for there to be someone with the same name over there rather than in Japan.
  • Only One Who Likes Spam: Alice puts as little effort as possible in making most meals even for others so her normal dinner is usually something like a pile of toast with various jams, lettuce as a salad, and a plate of ham. Aoko can tolerate it but explicitly prefers other options over this and Soujuurou can tell this is absolutely not normal even for someone like him.
  • Parental Abandonment: Both of her parents were already dead before the start of the story which would explain why she's the sole resident of her house before Aoko and later Shizuki came to reside with her. The rest of her extended paternal family never agreed with the union of her parents, so they avoid her.
  • Plague of Good Fortune: She inexplicably is unable to roll anything but sixes with her dice Ploy, causing the Twins to only appear as pigs and none of their other forms that correspond to other numbers.
  • The Quiet One: She makes an effort only to speak when she has to.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Aoko's red.
  • Rei Ayanami Expy: Both Alice and Rei are Defrosting Ice Queens that contrast with their fellow female character who is a hothead. Alice also has a bob haircut and pale skin like Rei. Given that Nasu has cited Neon Genesis Evangelion as a source of inspiration for the novel, this was likely deliberate.
  • Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Though she inherited her father's vast wealth, she has little knowledge on how to use it properly. It's noted that her monthly allowance of 50,000 yen is always quickly spent on luxurious food and she spends the rest of the month scraping by until her next allowance to be splurged without second thought. Aoko isn't any better. Soujuurou being introduced to the household is the first time Alice has actually been forced to be frugal as he took control of their food budget and wound back the amount of money being spent.
  • The Rival: Aoko sees her as one. It seems to be mutual on Alice's part too.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: While only some of her ploys are actively malicious or sadist, they all have a physical container of some kind to reside in when not in-use. Examples include, Tweedledum and Tweedledee's dice, Diddle Diddle's bell-charm, and Flat Snark's vial.
  • School Uniforms are the New Black: Justified. Alice is both too lazy to bother with other outfits outside of school and satisfied with how the black dress suits her look as a Witch.
  • Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?: Averted in Alice's case. Reien Girls Academy explicitly closed in early December for winter break early on in the story so much of her initial tension with Soujuurou is driven by how Alice has far more free time on her hands than usual to do something about his sudden presence in her life.
  • Sore Loser: She admits as much in the aftermath of losing to Aoko.
  • Spotting the Thread: Alice catches on much sooner than Aoko that Soujuurou is far more abnormal than anyone's initial perception of an incredibly ignorant hick from the super boonies, wondering why he wears bandages all the time and how he has such incredible athleticism.
  • Squishy Wizard: Remove her powerful magic abilities from her and Alice is completely vulnerable. Contrast Aoko who is a Kung-Fu Wizard.
  • The Stoic: Her expression rarely changes from its usually calm, disinterested look.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Her default appearance will always be icily stoic, but she has shown that she deeply appreciates and cares for Aoko and Soujuurou in her own way.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: As a witch, Alice was born with her powers and abilities as a magus, having been passed on to her through her blood relation to her late mother, who was also a witch from the Meinster line. This is a result of them being, in turn, directly descended from Yumina, the very first witch and First Magic user. Alice's most powerful Ploys, the Great Three, were also things she inherited from Yumina, their original creator and user.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Aoko. They constantly try to kill each other on an occasional basis and then have regular conversations like best friends have almost immediately after as if this were a regular thing.
  • What Is This Feeling?: Has uncertain feelings towards Shizuki Soujuurou.

    Soujuurou Shizuki 

Voiced by: Yūsuke Kobayashi

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A young man from a rural location who is still adjusting to living in the city and as a normal high school student. He is quiet and reserved, but warm-hearted and stable in contrast to Aoko and Alice. He winds up living at the Kuonji mansion as well, despite Alice's attempts to drive him away by ignoring him, and Alice develops uncertain feelings toward him.


  • Alliterative Name: Soujuurou Shizuki.
  • Animal Motif: He's frequently compared to either a dog or a cat by characters' internal narrations because of his openly honest behavior and simplistic views. This is further compounded when Aoko gives Soujuurou a literal dog collar to wear, which even Touko notes has a certain connotation about their relationship. Given how the story opens with Aoko's desperation to revive a dead kitten she inadvertently killed with Magic, which is brought full circle when she uses True Magic to revive Soujuurou, coupled with his consistent dislike of dogs, Soujuurou's animal motif at heart is a cat.
  • Armor-Piercing Response: The first thing that provokes an emotional reaction from Alice and gets underneath her icy exterior is his belief that the mansion, city, and mountain are all equally dangerous so he's fine with living in the mansion because at least Aoko would try to protect him there unlike the other places.
  • Badass Normal: By virtue of being a snake assassin just like Kuzuki from Fate/stay night. Also, according to Nasu, Soujuurou is the strongest male Type-Moon MC (at least, before he descended the mountains, after which he gradually weakened), stronger than even the likes of Shiki Tohno and Shirou Emiya, both of whom are no slouches themselves.
  • Beneath Notice: Everyone assumes that he's a harmless mousy man who has nothing notable to him, even Yuika who uses Super-Senses to detect people can't really see him because of how utterly innocent his aura seems. There are only three people who actually recognize that there could be something more to him: Alice, who can tell there's something suspect about him, but was unable to piece it together for the longest time. Touko, whose sixth sense instinctually told her that he should be killed, but ignored it because she took a liking to his personality. And, lastly Eiri, whose own time in the mountains means he can tell Soujuurou is far more capable than anyone would take him for granted.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's genuinely kind and selfless, but when push comes to shove, he shows off his Snake assassination skills and he's formidable enough to quickly bring down a once thought of to be undefeatable Phantasmal Beast in just two blows to the heart.
  • Blank Slate: What he was before descending the mountains he originated from. As he continues to settle into modern civilization, he slowly begins to gain an individuality of his own at the cost of being gradually weakened the more he blends in with society.
  • Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Soujuurou literally breaks his arm punching Lugh.
  • Child Soldier: Soujuurou came from the same organization as Souichirou, from Fate/stay night
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Thanks to being raised in the mountains for all his life without contact with any form of modernity until recently, he's this.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Sarcastic comments and insults are something he's immune to thanks to this trope. Just ask Aoko.
  • Connected All Along: As the story progresses, it soon transpires that Soujuurou knows, or at the very least, is familiar with almost everyone in the cast even before he meets them to Aoko's consistent surprise because of all the labor he does in Misaki City. He first met Alice while delivering takeout, encountered Touko in the pachinko parlor, saw Lugh Beowulf while doing cleanup at the old school grounds, met Yuika while wandering into the church, and met Ritsuka at the fish market.
  • Country Mouse: He's a young man who spent most of his life in a secluded mountain village and is completely naive and inexperienced with city life.
  • Covered with Scars: Looking underneath his sleeved clothes and bandanged neck reveals that his body is covered in multiple scratches and scars. This serves as Foreshadowing later in his confrontation with Lugh.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Him being a completely meek and very strange but friendly boy completely conceals the fact that he hails from the same organization as Kuzuki, making him a dangerous Snake assassin like him. So his victory over Lugh was a surprising sight for everyone to see.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: He's brutally sliced in half by Touko while he was helping Aoko up. Ouch.
  • Defeating the Undefeatable: He hands Lugh his very first defeat in the entirety of his ventures.
  • Deuteragonist: The second most important character in the story next to Aoko. In fact, he has many chapters in the story that focus greatly on him.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Soujuurou takes down Lugh, a two thousand year old Nature Spirit whom not even Aoko could defeat, by punching him in the heart and hitting his back with an elbow blow, which freaks Lugh out due to it being a new experience and actually getting beaten in fistcuffs.
  • Driven to Suicide: Moments after he wakes up following Aoko bringing him back to life with the Fifth Magic, he almost immediately attempts to kill himself before Alice snaps him out of it.
  • Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Meeting Touko at the Pachinko Parlor elicited him running from his job as far as his legs could take him in Chapter 3.
  • Good Counterpart: He is Soichiro Kuzuki's good counterpart, having similar names, backgrounds, and the same initial emptiness before meeting people. The difference is, Soujuurou is a genuinely nice guy, is one of the protagonists, is willing to protect his friends, and is actually averse to killing while Kuzuki is a ruthless killer who has no problem getting rid of his own students for the sake of his lover, who freed him from the empty life he was living, and is an antagonist Shirou and Rin have to face in their story.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: Soujuurou, courtesy of Touko. But he got better.
  • He Knows Too Much: He witnesses what looked to be a murder in the park by Aoko while she was doing mage-stuff, leading to Aoko and later Alice trying to kill him. Both eventually decide to let it go.
  • Hopeless with Tech: Taken to an extreme when it turns out if not given very literal step-by-step instructions on how to operate a new device, Soujuurou will hopelessly be unable to figure out where he went wrong. Aoko gets a headache when she realizes that Soujuurou hasn't even figured out that he needs to turn on the TV to watch the VCR because Kinomi didn't tell him that.
  • Idiot Hero: Soujuurou. The guy is just plain clueless.
  • The Ingenue: Male example. Soujuurou is completely innocent and curious over many things concerning modern human civilization.
  • In-Series Nickname: Tobimaru calls him Souji. This is rendered in the English localization as "Sono-G".
  • Leitmotif: His theme emphasizes woodwind and string for a rustic atmosphere to reflect his background.
  • Lethally Stupid: At one point, Aoko catches him trying to leave the school building by jumping out of the window. She stops him and asks him the heck he was thinking. Though given his training, he might've been fine anyways.
  • Love at First Sight: Played With. Soujuurou said he liked Aoko the moment he saw her. Of course, afterwards the narration adds it was simple kindness he felt for her.
  • Made of Iron: He takes a Gandr Curse and keeps going, despite the fact that the illness takes root.
  • Magnetic Hero: His kindness and curious naivety won him over a lot of friends.
  • Mistaken for Profound: Ritsuka quickly rationalizes Soujuurou's ignorance of the church without knowledge of his background to be some kind of profoundly witty question on what the church is for.
  • Mistaken for Romance: Tobimaru relays his mistaken impression that Soujuurou has a romantic crush on Aoko, which isn't helped by Soujuurou scrounging up for a reason as to what makes Aozaki interesting to him and comes up with her looks. Aoko asks him after destroying the puppet at Kitsy Land for real about this and Soujuurou can only ask why she has that impression. Aoko punches him from sheer embarrassment that Tobimaru gave her the wrong impression.
  • Mr. Fanservice: As his changing scene reveals, he's has a very muscular body, with a highly sculpted and athletic physique. Something that both Aoko and Alice are shown to be both shocked and rather appreciative of.
  • Muggle Best Friend: Of sorts to Aoko and Alice. His understanding on magecraft heavily relies on Clarke's Third Law, which makes him more accepting to it than most people.
  • Naïve Newcomer: Because of this, he readily accepts the existence of magic as just another wonder of the city.
  • Nice Guy: Very selfless, forgiving, and kind, winning him the friendships of the temperamental Aoko, the aloof Alice, and the abrasive Tobimaru and Kojika.
  • The Not-Love Interest: Despite the seemingly romantic subtext between him and Aoko, there's ultimately no romance between them, with the narration even pointing that out even as they grow closer to each other in the story. However, it's no question that Soujuurou is a very important person in Aoko's life and vice versa.
  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: As someone who grew up in the countryside isolated from modern civilization for most of his childhood during the 1980s, he naturally has very little knowledge of pop culture. This is emphasized by his lack of knowledge on Lewis Carroll when Aoko asks him if he has any familiarity with his work as they try to find Flat Snark.
  • Refuge in Audacity: Soujuurou while running down the magically tall rollercoaster by foot makes the snap decision to use Alice's floating egg Ploy that's been stalking him the whole time as a way to break his fall and descend faster off the rollercoaster. It's noted in narration that Scratch Dumpty would gasp if it had a voice the moment Soujuurou attempts to pull it off.
  • Ridiculously Average Guy: Played with. The story loves pointing out that Soujuurou is a normal person with no special qualities whatsoever especially when you compare him to his friends. While it is true that he's just an average plain paper compared to the more colorful Aoko and Alice, as you go further into the plot, you'll find out that he's anything but regular.
  • Sealed Badass in a Can: He's sealed in a bottle at the end of Chapter 5 by Aoko and Chapter 6 by Alice.
  • Shirtless Scene: There is one scene where the two girls run into him changing his shirt; they were impressed to say the least.
  • Smarter Than You Look: As the second person replaced by Sweets Hearts in the Extra Story, he orchestrates the killings of most of the cast entirely on his own to get back at everyone for believing he had no sense of humor for a year.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: Believes that it's wrong to kill. It's this belief that prevents him from killing Lugh despite defeating him after he harmed Aoko and Alice. It's also because of this that he convinced Aoko to spare Touko's life after Aoko's Roaring Rampage of Revenge over his death at Touko's hands.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He treated Kojika to tea after she showed up to the Kuonji mansion on the wrong day, where he mistook Sweets Hearts for a fancy dessert and offered it as a snack for her. She agreed and ate it, which set the plot of the Extra Story in motion when they became the two guilty parties trying to murder everyone else.
  • The Watson: Being a newcomer to both the wider world outside his original home and magecraft makes him a natural receptacle for exposition from everyone on anything ranging from the passenger pigeon to the Mages' Association.
  • Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: He has multiple jobs, including one where he works at an amusement park. It's justified as he needs the money to pay for both his rent and private school tuition after he came to the city from the mountainside with pretty much nothing to his name. This, however, causes a lot of friction with the school who forbid students from holding multiple jobs.
  • Worthy Opponent: According to All There in the Manual, Lugh seems to be hanging out with Soujuurou because he was impressed by him defeating him and is part of why he is no longer with Touko by The Garden of Sinners.
  • You Are Number 6: Implied. His first name translates to "tenth son" while Souichirou's first name translates to "first son". Aoko's grandfather specifically draws attention to this when they meet, noting that his name inherently indicates the existence of at least nine other men named in a similar fashion.

Supporting Characters

    Tobimaru Tsukiji 

Voiced by: Fukamachi Toshinari

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The popular vice-president of the Student Council, a classmate of Aoko who becomes Sojuro's best friend. He and Aoko were close friends as children, though they both deny having any feelings for one another. His family life is apparently complicated and he is known to casually smoke and spend nights out.


  • Alliterative Name: Tobimaru Tsukiji.
  • Butt-Monkey: Downplayed. Aoko usually treats him like dirt as her vice student council president, making him do menial tasks like scrounge up info on the nighttime activities of the whole student body.
  • Childhood Friends: With Aoko.
  • Coattail-Riding Relative: To his own parents, mentioning that he can only do so while he's in school for another year, and he's getting his money's worth while he can.
  • Heroic Bastard: He's the son of his father's mistress and he's experienced both being violently bullied by his brothers as well as looked down upon by the rest of the Tsukiji family for it.
  • In-Series Nickname: He's given the nickname 'His Highness' because of his prince-like demeanor.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's the type of person who'll only make friends with you if you benefit him somehow and won't bother with you if you won't. He also won't have much of a problem hurling insults right in front of your face, and yet despite this and his claims that he's a misanthrope, Tobimaru still does his job well as the vice president, often turning away any unfortunate soul who dares try to ask Aoko out to prevent "casualties" from happening, and his friendships with both Aoko and Soujuurou are genuine.
  • Like an Old Married Couple: With Aoko. They may bicker and insult each other most of the time, but apart from Alice, and later, Soujuurou, he's Aoko's second most trusted confidant and they practically hold very natural conversations with each other whenever they're alone.
  • Odd Friendship: With Soujuurou. He mentions that the fact that Soujuurou is so honest is the reason he appreciates him (saying that a human that doesn't lie isn't a human), despite being a self-proclaimed misanthrope that only appreciates people he can use.
  • Parental Favoritism: His grandfather, Kunikimi, favors him above all of his family members, including his own children. Tobimaru doesn't see this as a good thing, as not only has he become an even bigger target of vitriol for the entire Tsukiji clan than he already was since the chances of him inheriting his grandfather's vast fortune are high, his own father, his grandfather's eldest son, treats him like an enemy because of it.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: His family basically runs the school, so while he's in it he has the run of things and uses the privileges to his advantage.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He ends up telling Aoko that Soujuurou was the one who witnessed the murder, sparking the attempt on Souji.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Aoko, his childhood friend.
  • Would Hit a Girl: He mentions once hitting Aoko, fully expecting to get knocked around for it, but she decided to Turn the Other Cheek. The truth is that she caught him before he could hit her and then left him beaten.

    Kojika Kumari 

Voiced by: Chika Anzai

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The treasurer of the Student Council, a friend and classmate of Aoko who possesses a cool-mannered and realistic personality. She is very responsible as a result of being in charge of a household of brothers, but she dislikes how the men in her life look down on her. Though her father disapproves of her desire to attend college, Kojika still works hard to save money to attend anyways.


  • A Day in the Limelight: She's the focus character of the side story included in the visual novel, set after the main story's events.
  • Alliterative Name: Kojika Kumari. See a pattern here?
  • All Love Is Unrequited: She has a one-sided crush on Tobimaru.
  • Ascended Extra: She's a supporting character in the main story, but she becomes the main character of the bonus story included in the VN.
  • Big Bad: In the Extra Story, she's the culprit responsible for the whole murder mystery by unleashing Sweets Hearts although she has no memory of doing so. She works with the cast and ultimately outs herself as the mastermind upon realizing the truth behind the case.
  • Brutal Honesty: Like Aoko, she's straight to point and doesn't bother mincing her words.
  • Canon Foreigner: In that she didn't exist in the original novel and was added to the visual novel as the only new character to the story.
  • Family Versus Career: She goes against her father's wishes by working hard so she could go to college in spite of his disapproval of her doing so.
  • Hates Being Nicknamed: She dislikes Aoko shortening her last name to just "Kuma".
  • Humans Are Bastards: If the story about the Passenger Pigeons she tells Soujuurou is anything, she may believe this.
  • I Have Brothers: While she subverts most of the tropes associated with it, Kojika is the lone daughter of a family of four brothers, and displays an assertive personality when getting what she wants in life, namely by going to college against her father's wishes.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's blunt and overall harsh but earnest and sincere in her words.
  • Meaningful Name: It's stated her father likes pirates so he named her Kojika ("golden deer") in reference to Francis Drake's Golden Hind.
  • Missing Mom: It's noted that her mom died a while ago, so she ended up being the one who takes care of most of the family.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Nearly all of her character sprites have her frowning by default.
  • Properly Paranoid: The correct play for her in the Extra Story is to consistently question everyone else's assertion that they're safe from the murderer whenever they announce it's time to go to bed.
  • The Reliable One: Her family's local Chinese restaurant would have gone bankrupt within a month of opening if Kojika didn't come in every night at 11 PM sharp to actually do their accounting for them.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: In the side story featuring her as the main character, she's (temporarily) one of Alice's ploys and the impostor the guests have to spot in order to win Alice's game in the mansion. Of course, after this, she goes right back to being a regular human again.

    Housuke Kinomi 

Voiced by: Shohei Kajikawa

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A classmate of Soujuurou, Hosuke is a cheerful young man whose primary interests are the attractive girls in class and becoming rich someday. He often tries to organize the male students in class, though his cunning often fails and the girls wind up pitying him instead. He is also Sojuro's co-worker at their part-time job.


  • Accidental Suicide: Self-destructs in 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' due to being in disbelief about the nature of Sweets Hearts. He gets better.
  • Book Dumb: He regularly has to take remedial classes all the time thanks to being this.
  • Butt-Monkey: The guy gets absolutely no respect at all from anyone. Kumari rules him out from being the murderer in 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' on the basis that his jokes are only capable of making people cringe, and he's implied to be the only character who actually had to pay Aoko for the invitation to the birthday party.
  • Casanova Wannabe: He flirts with any new girl he comes across, but he never succeeds in getting them to like him back.
  • Childhood Friends: Much to Kumari's lament, they were next door neighbors since early childhood and have grown up as reluctant acquaintances their entire lives. This is why she's one of two girls in the plot that Kinomi has zero interest in flirting with and they're the only ones who address each other on a First-Name Basis.
  • Money Fetish: He works part-time jobs primarily to have money to play with, and in 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' his character-specific death is to explode in a shower of bills with comically high denominations that have his own face printed on them.

    May Riddell Archelot 

Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori

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An idol singer who has traveled around the world, May is also a mage with an eccentric personality. She is acquainted with Sojuurou by unknown means and is known by the church. As a mage, her ability is considerable enough to cause trouble for Lugh.


  • Childhood Friends: With Alice, having known her since childhood. Also one to Tobimaru because their fathers are business partners, having lived at their mansion when she was young.
  • Daddy's Girl: Despite her verbal berating, May does genuinely adore her father as she's willing to sell everything to save his ass when their chartered helicopter to pick her up crashes and he's taking all the heat for her from the military. Alice's childhood flashback also shows May's primary interest in borrowing Ploys mainly stemmed from a desire to impress her father with amazing magecraft.
  • Last Episode, New Character: She only appears in the game's Extra Story after the main plot's been completed and a majority of the main cast are already acquainted with her when she does appear.
  • The Nicknamer: Turns out that the odd names for Alice's ploys come from her. Before that Alice would just give them numbers as names, that would change depending on how she felt.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Even an outsider like Kojika can pick up on how Aoko and May are much more similar than either would be willing to admit.
  • Ojou: The daughter of a rich family, which she makes obvious with her first impression to the cast being a loud entrance via helicopter.
  • One Degree of Separation: Though she only shows up in the side story that takes place after the events of the main game, it turns out that she is pretty well acquainted with Soujuurou already. How exactly is left unstated, but it is interesting to see that he knew a longtime friend of Alice before encountering her.
  • Only in It for the Money: Loudly proclaims that her idol career is just a means of making money and she cares little for it otherwise.
  • Shout-Out: Give her friendship with Alice, her middle name is likely a reference to Alice Liddell, the real life person who the Alice of Alice in Wonderland was based on.
  • Significant Birth Date: Her namesake is the month she was born in, as she was born on the very first day of May.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: She ends up being the second casuality of the Ploy Kickshaw, Sweets Hearts, or so it seems at first. Despite suffering a heart attack due to violating the Ploy's rules, she survives this seemingly through sheer force of will alone.

    Ritsuka Suse 

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō

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A member of the Mage's Association, though she has only been part of the organization for a year after leaving the Church. It is believed that Ritsuka is apprenticed to the Aozaki family to act as a watchdog, which is why Aoko is suspicious of Ritsuka's intentions.


  • Ascended Fangirl: She loves detective novels and immediately tries to take charge of the group in the Extra Story when it becomes apparent one of them has become a murderer.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: Aoko falling for her while she was dressed in drag is the main reason Aoko has a lot of antipathy towards romance in general. The short story in the "Magician's Basic Tune" booklet shows that Ritsuka now employs magecraft to disguise herself as a man and the included sketch shows her guise is indeed a fairly handsome man.
  • Cool Big Sis: Acts as one to the younger characters.
  • Death by Genre Savviness: While she is savvy enough with mystery novels to have figured out that Aoko was trying to cover up Touko's death and that the best way to deal with possible suspects is to ensure they're locked up, she assumed that's all she needs to do for the case to be "solved" and has no contingencies for getting the wrong person. Subsequently, Soujuurou manages to eliminate her like everyone else.
  • Line-of-Sight Name: She calls herself "Hanazawa" after pointedly glancing at the flower beds for an alias while talking with Soujuurou. The latter is the kind of person who would take that gesture and introduction at face value.
  • One-Steve Limit: Her given name is romanised the same as the main protagonist of Fate/Grand Order, Ritsuka Fujimaru. Though they use different kanji in Japanese.
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Crossdressing is one of her hobbies.

    Yuika Suse 

Voiced by: Akiha Matsui

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Ritsuka's twin sister, a member of the church well-known in town as a pious nun. She possesses a genetic condition that results in heightened senses and is skilled in rougher acts as well.


  • Beware the Nice Ones: Yuika might seem polite and unassuming on the surface, but according to Aoko, she's a fearsome demonic nun with frightening powers of persuasion underneath that. And by "persuasion", we mean, "violently throwing stuff around to get her point across without losing her composure or smile on her face". Apparently, nasty rumors about the Aida Church and its reputation for crushing any competition in the neighborhood are all thanks to her.
  • Cruel to Be Kind: When Soujuurou attempts to run off to stop Aoko and Alice from confronting Touko, she locks him into place with magecraft and tells him outright the only thing he'll accomplish is dying with them since he can't even defend himself from a simple charm and that he's powerless. Cold as it is, she does so specifically because he's an bystander who has no place in a battle between mages and would be throwing away his life. The only reason she doesn't put him to sleep is because Father Eiri insists that he be allowed to act on his own behalf.
  • Deadpan Snarker: For a nun, she's pretty venomous with her comments.
    Yuika: "Oh? Aoko is engaging in charity? The world must be coming to an end."
  • Eyes Always Shut: She keeps her eyes closed due to being blind.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: Despite her thin appearance, it's mentioned that she can casually throw a desk with enough force in one swing to shatter a window.
  • Not So Above It All: Normally a deathly serious nun who claims to be incapable of laughing to any joke, Soujuurou's description of Eiri dying naked with a rose in her mouth has her burst out laughing.
  • Super-Senses: Since she's blind, she uses her heightened senses to detect people and creatures within 30 feet. She's sensitive enough that she can even feel other spirits and elementals. However, she's incapable of sensing Soujuurou unless he directly announces his presence to her, because she's particularly sensitive to any potential threat a person exhibits and he's effectively harmless to her.
  • Taken for Granite: Her Sweets Hearts inflicted death leaves her completely petrified.
  • Volleying Insults: Engages in a stealthy one with Aoko in her introduction.

    Eiri Fumizuka 

Voiced by: Hiromichi Tezuka

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A member of the Church. Despite his gentle personality, his advice is often critical and harsh. He was once apprenticed to the Aozaki family and happens to be Touko's old lover. Because he was strong enough to kill a witch, Touko remains vigilant around him.


  • Church Militant: He's an Executor from the Church like Kirei Kotomine and Ciel.
  • First Love: He was Touko's but she claims to have long since moved past her old feelings for him by the events of the game.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: Implied to some extent. Yuika's grumbling about Eiri includes taking in various stray cats on church grounds and delegating all the hard work of caring for them to her.
  • Not So Above It All: Cracks some bad jokes during a blackout in 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' with the excuse that he couldn't pass up the opportunity to do so, despite laughter being lethal in those circumstances.
  • The One That Got Away: Touko reveals to Lugh at the end of her side story that she actually still holds some lingering fondness when she sees Eiri simply because he reminds her of the person she once was when they were still close. An interview for The Garden of Sinners implies she held onto that feeling well into her thirties.
  • Sequel Hook: His appearance basically serves as this. Word of God is that his true role in the story would be revealed in a potential sequel.

    Kazuki Yamasiro 

Voiced by: Satoshi Hino

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A modern language teacher and homeroom teacher for class 2-C, which Soujuurou and Housuke are in. He's the newest member of the faculty at Private Misaki High School and subsequently wants to avoid any major headaches (which Aoko will do her best to provide).


  • Cool Teacher: He's seen as such by most of the student body for being a fun and friendly teacher who isn't strict and easily gets along with students. Aoko, on the other hand, thinks this makes him out to be a crap teacher and doesn't see much issue with making her opinion very clear on certain decisions he makes.
  • Hidden Depths: His Sweet Hearts inflicted death is far more extravagant than anyone else besides Touko, as his room was turned into a massive field of flowers, which he lies dead in with his arms crossed like a pharaoh. As Sweet Hearts designs all deaths to be based on the person's hidden idiosyncrasies and personality, this implies Yamasiro has a far wilder personality than any of his students could have foreseen. Lampshaded by May who's annoyed at how Sweet Hearts only gave her heart attacks while Yamasiro got an entire magically altered room.
  • Spell My Name With An S: He's referred to as "Yamasiro" in the English localization, but also referred to as "Yamashiro" in supplementary material like the translated booklet for the English localization.

    Yukihiro Tokitsu 
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Formerly a magnate of an industrious corporate baking empire, he is now content to be a retired gentleman and lament what happened to his alleged magnum opus, Kitsy Land.


  • Small Role, Big Impact: He's responsible for the creation and abandonment of his amusement park, Kitsy Land, which would be used by Aoko, Alice, and Touko as the place they plan to kill their target in the main story. He's then the catalyst for the Extra Story happening at all as he asked Alice to host his birthday party and is the first to die, kicking off the reveal the cast is going to be picked off one-by-one. His only actual appearance in the plot is one scene with Alice and Tobimaru.

Antagonists

    Lugh Beowulf 

Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki

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One antagonist of the story, an ageless nature spirit whose true form is a golden werewolf, though he appears as a fair-haired young boy. Other werewolves once revered him as the werewolf who would revive their race, but was ostracized and later sold to Touko Aozaki when it became apparent he was not a true werewolf.


  • All of the Other Reindeer: Lugh's backstory.
  • Animorphism: Lugh can take either the form of a pretty boy or a wolf.
  • Anti-Magic: Lugh is a 2000-year-old phantasmal beast who is completely immune to modern magecraft, making him the perfect weapon to fight against magi and other magical creatures.
  • Big Eater: He eats roughly 50 pounds of meat every day. Soujuurou realizes that's why all his restaurant and market employers have been complaining about such a weird spike in meat orders the past month and pieces together where Lugh has been the whole time under Aoko's nose.
  • Break the Haughty: Having never once lost a single battle against any being he and Touko have encountered in their exploits around the world combined with his invulnerability to magic and brute strength in general has given Lugh a massive ego and a tendency to look down on his opponents. He gets a rude wake up call when Soujuurou easily defeats him in just two blows.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Similar to his master, he makes an early appearance stealing food from the students cleaning up the old school grounds in chapter 8.
  • Complete Immortality: A given for a nature spirit as powerful and as long lived as he is.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He's both the giver and the receiver of this in the story:
    • Due to his very high magic resistance and brute strength, his fights with Aoko and Alice would always end in a swift and brutal victory in his favor.
    • He underestimated Soujuurou, ignorant of the fact that the boy was in reality a highly trained assassin, when he attacked him. Lugh promptly regretted it when in an instant, Soujuurou delivered two precise strikes to his torso and back which tore out his heart. He lives, but is left traumatized and helpless for the rest of the final fight.
  • The Dragon: To Touko's Big Bad.
  • Dumb Muscle: Downplayed. More like simple-minded. Owing to the fact that Touko is more of a squishy wizard compare to her sister, Lugh generally acts as the physical fighter focused on taking down the opponents in front of him, while Touko hangs back and casts her spells.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: He's mentioned in The Garden of Sinners as Touko not having a familiar, which means that their contract has since absolved.
  • Healing Factor: Comes with the territory of being a powerful nature spirit. It's potent enough to instantly regenerate his heart when Soujuurou destroyed it defending himself from Lugh.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After losing to Soujuurou and after Touko abandons him, Lugh decides to follow Soujuurou and the gang around as revealed in a side story set a year after the events of the main story.
  • Immortal Immaturity: His human form is a young boy and his voice in all forms is still that of a young child. Though he claims that he shouldn't just be mistaken for a child, Touko laments that Lugh truly was a child at heart because he can't cope easily with defeat and breaks down after Soujuurou beats him.
  • In-Series Nickname: Touko tends to just refer to him as "Beo". Everyone else follows suit when he sticks around in Misaki and starts to make himself known to the other characters.
  • Invincible Villain: He went on numerous expeditions with Touko that involved him defeating an unknown number of enemies and other phantasmal beasts and had yet to be beaten once. Not even Aoko and Alice can beat him thanks to his invulnerability to magic. Soujuurou, however, finally ends his invincible streak.
  • Love at First Punch: It's revealed in the side story that in addition to his Heel–Face Turn, he's fallen in love with Soujuurou and desires to be his mate.
  • Meaningful Name: Touko named him for Beowulf. His first name, Lugh, came from his blonde hair/golden fur evoking the sun to the werewolf tribe.
  • Morphic Resonance: All of his forms shown seems to retain his blond hair and green eyes in some way.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: Lugh No Sells a kick that could break a tree in half.
  • Non-Human Non-Binary: Nasu states Lugh doesn't have the concept of gender due to being a phantasmal species. For simplicity, narration tends to use male pronouns when he appears as a human child and it as the pronouns when taking on the form of a wolf.
  • Older Than They Look: He takes on the appearance of a pretty young boy in his human form, but he's 2000 years old as of the story's time.
  • Phenotype Stereotype: A European werewolf who has blonde hair even in human form. Soujuurou deduces that his human child form must be the wolf with golden fur since he's the only blonde person in Misaki City during the story.
  • Pointy Ears: Has them in his human form.
  • Savage Wolves: His time with the werewolf tribe has left him with a preference for wolven forms when he needs to fight.
  • Shapeshifter Default Form: He prefers being in his wolf form whenever possible, finding it a nuisance to be in human form unless Touko insists otherwise. It's flipped after Soujuurou defeats him, leaving him a craving to be in human form to understand the person who beat him and interact with him as much possible.
  • Super Mode: He can shift his wolf form into different builds, particularly, his final form is that of a muscular, gigantic golden werewolf whose strength is maximized to his peak compared to his other smaller wolf forms.
  • Villainous Breakdown: He's left a quivering mess in the aftermath of his defeat at the hands of Soujuurou.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifter: His primary weapon.

    Touko Aozaki 

Voiced by: Ruriko Aoki

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Aoko's older sister, regarded as a genius magus in the Aozaki family, who believed that their magical lineage was dying out. She and Aoko don't get along particularly well. Alice enjoys Touko's company because she is a person who can truly understand Alice, though Alice does little to stop the two from fighting.

To see more of her tropes, see her folder in The Garden of Sinners.


  • Affably Evil: She's genuine friends with Alice and is nice in her own way to other people except for Aoko, who she loathes, but she is the Big Bad of the story.
  • All Your Powers Combined: Steals the magic crests of numerous magi to give herself the power boost necessary to defeat Alice and Aoko.
  • Being Watched: Touko somehow knew when Souji saw her in the camera and turned to face him.
  • Big Bad: The main antagonist of Witch on the Holy Night who spends much of the story attempting to kill Aoko as part of their feud over the family inheritance.
  • Big Bad Friend: To Alice.
  • Body Backup Drive: Touko's infamous spare body system was already completed by the time of the novel. This of course, made her more or less immortal with no real drawbacks unlike other mages in the Nasuverse.
  • Cain and Abel: The Cain to Aoko's Abel. Let's just say she was pissed when her inferior, less talented, and completely untrained younger sister was given the family crest instead of her who had to work hard to even try to earn it.
  • Chekhov's Gun: If you've read or watched The Garden of Sinners before, then the puppet sent to attack Aoko in Chapter 5 should be the biggest hint that confirms that Touko is its creator and that she's been the one instigating the attacks against Aoko and Alice.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: She appears as early as Chapter 3 playing pachinko in the casino Soujuurou worked part time in but doesn't appear again until later chapters for tada! It's revealed she's the Big Bad and intruder Aoko and Alice have been trying to hunt down.
  • Combat Pragmatist:
    • She's a completely dirty fighter in her fights against Alice and Aoko thanks to bringing the undefeated Lugh along with her during her encounters with them.
    • She also didn't hesitate to slice Soujuurou in two after she witnessed him effortlessly defeat Lugh.
  • Crazy-Prepared: She pulls out all the stops in her fights against Alice and Aoko; in her fight against Alice alone, she inscribes 300,000 mobile runes into the ground prior to prevent Alice from using Diddle Diddle and her other Ploys, has vastly enhanced her Mystic Eyes to overpower Alice's own Eyes to the point of it being called insanity by the narration from the sheer amount of Eyes Touko had to use for this one purpose, and brought in Lugh Beowulf just in case Alice managed to overcome both of those.
  • Evil Is Petty: She steals Aoko's teacup just because she could, making it the latest in a long string of petty thefts from Aoko to make a point that she can steal and break her little sister's things.
  • Evil Redhead: As a contrast to Aoko.
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: Twofold! When she reveals her true identity to Soujuurou during their second encounter, she mentions her "sixth sense" is telling her to kill him but chooses to spare him since she's taken a liking to him. This comes back to screw her over when the former defeats Lugh Beowulf singlehandedly. After she finally decides to kill him following Beo's defeat, that ultimately jumpstarts Aoko unlocking the Fifth Magic which completely ruins her plans.
  • The Glasses Come Off: Glasses on, she's the friendly older sister-type character who is playful and teasing towards you. Glasses off, and she's probably scheming your death in more ways than one.
  • Immortal Life Is Cheap: It's revealed that by the time of the novel, Touko's puppet duplicate system was already fully operational. It allowed her to escape Aoko's curse, which banished her from Misaki Town for a decade's time, one year after the epilogue of the story when she got tired of it by committing suicide and transferring to a spare body.
  • Instant Runes: Her final defensive magecraft takes the form of not just any runes, but three Primordial Rune Replicas she had managed to re-create.
  • Meaningful Name: "Touko" means "orange child", a name that contrasts that of her sister's name's Color Motif.
  • Mythology Gag: Her appearance here in this game is a combination of her old prototype design and her updated redesign.
  • Near-Villain Victory: She was about one day away from victory and fully overpowered all three main characters in her quest to steal Misaki City as her territory, its Bounded Fields for her use, and the Aozaki heritage. However, her final goal of obtaining the Fifth Magic to reach the Root goes out the window when she kills Soujuurou and inadvertently pushes Aoko into overcoming the trauma blocking her from wielding Magic. From there, an Aoko using Blue manages to not only undo Soujuurou's death, she asserts herself as the inheritor of all things Touko had managed to wrest from her little sister and banishes her from Misaki.
  • Pet the Dog: While it was for pragmatic purposes, her taking Lugh under her wing before abandoning him following his loss to Soujuurou can be seen as this. Her sparing of Alice in their first encounter despite having the opportunity to kill her right then and there is also this.
  • Post-Stress Overeating: Amusingly, the third Wonderful World of Ploys segment implies that Touko's way of dealing with her loss to Aoko is to hit up a sushi restaurant and start eating as much luxury tuna sushi as she can.
  • Purely Aesthetic Glasses: She shatters her glasses as a show of intimidation when she switches to her other mode. Soujuurou deflates this attempt by only being concerned that Touko has no backup pair, so she has to clarify that she doesn't need them to see.
  • The Resenter: To say Touko was pissed when Aoko inherited the family crest and Blue instead of her, after she had been training a lifetime in magecraft for this, is an understatement.
  • Retcon: Nasu notes that he originally intended for Touko's age difference with Aoko to be only two years when he first conceived the character, but decided to adjust that number to four for the game version of this story.
  • Self-Made Orphan: More like "self-made granddaughter" since she murdered her and Aoko's grandfather after he passed on the family crest to Aoko instead of her. This is one of the reasons for Aoko's animosity towards her. Subverted later on when it's revealed that it was actually her ex-lover Eiri Fumizuka that killed him simply on a whim.
  • Smoking Is Cool: Good lord she smokes like a chimney! She smokes Japanese cigarettes in this story, commenting that they taste far too good for her to give up. This in turn sets up her smoking the now-defunct Taiwanese Dragon Smoke cigarettes, which she refuses to give up because of their rarity, not their (terrible) taste.
  • Undignified Death: In the Extra Story, her Sweet Hearts death was being dead of alcohol poisoning and singing enka surrounded by several dozen posters glamorizing her in Aoko's room. Said image inadvertently got Lugh to laugh and die as well because of how hilarious the image of his former master was.
  • The Unfavorite: Even though Touko's the eldest child and is well within her rights to be the first in line to inherit the Aozaki's magic crest, her grandfather instead passed her over in favor of giving the crest to her younger sister, Aoko, despite Aoko's lack of experience and training in magic unlike her.
  • Vague Age: It's never specified beyond early to mid twenties in appearance. However, Aoko's brief explanation of her backstory implies that Touko is currently about 21 at the time the story happens as Aoko was 15 when her grandfather gave the inheritance over to her instead of Touko, their age difference is four years, and two years have passed to where they are now.
  • Villainous Crush: Develops one towards Soujuurou during their first meeting, to the point of asking him to leave Aoko for her, and outright stating that he can be her plaything, leaving no doubt what her feelings towards him are. It's an unusually amicable example, as Soujuurou himself finds her overtures to not be entirely unwelcome, and part of his reasoning for declining her is that he genuinely thinks it wouldn't be good for her. Furthermore, Touko herself takes his decline fairly well, opting to leave him be.
  • Villains Out Shopping: The first thing she does when she arrives at Misaki is hit up the pachinko place to start gambling. She needed to win herself some cash really fast because she spent all her money renting a helicopter to cart all her magical materials into her makeshift workshop at the old school building and had nothing left to buy food with for Lugh and herself.

    Sweets Hearts (UNMARKED SPOILERS

Voiced by: Chika Anzai / Yūsuke Kobayashi

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One of the many Ploy Kickshaws owned by Alice Kuonji. Sweets Heart is a Ploy typically seen in the form of an egg. It is capable of impersonating other people and serves as the main antagonist of the Extra Story.


  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: Once the truth behind the case has been revealed, it takes on a Magical Girl-like version of Kojika Kumari's appearance.
  • Ambiguous Gender: Due to its nature as a Ploy Kickshaw, it doesn't have to a set gender considering it masquerades as both Soujuurou and Kojika. Though after The Reveal, it mainly sticks to a female voice.
  • The Dragon: While it is the Ploy causing the murder mystery that occurs in the Extra Story to happen, It was ultimately only activated by its user, Kojika Kumari.
  • The Final Temptation: Upon both the culprit (Kojika) and the killer (Soujuurou) being outed, it offers Kumari a chance to take her prize as the victor of its game. Much to its shock, she refuses and demands that it end the mystery and bring everyone back.
  • Literal Split Personality: During the climax, it's revealed there are two Sweets Hearts. The killer, who is aware of the fact they're Sweets Hearts, and the culprit, who is not aware.
  • Smug Smiler: Upon being revealed, it's almost constantly sporting a smug smirk on it's face during her final conversation with Kumari.
  • Voice Changeling: Should Kumari opt to leave Alice's mansion early on before the murder mystery begins, she ends up encountering Sweets Hearts who speaks in both her voice and Soujuurou's before killing her.

Alternative Title(s): Mahou Tsukai No Yoru

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