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The Asano Family
Hide, Akari, and Hikaru Asano
Counterclockwise from the bottom left, Hide, Akari, Taiyo, Hikaru
Taiyo's family who died in a car accident years before the events of the main story that left Taiyo emotionally traumatized.
- Catchphrase: Akari's was "Just my normal" whenever she rushes in to help someone. Remembering it snaps Taiyo out of his someinine-induced rage and grants him the resolve to protect his new normal as a member of the Yozakura family.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Akari's first instinct when seeing a drowning girl is to dive into the water and save her. Hide feels the same way, but unfortunately for him, he forgot he couldn't swim, forcing his own sons and the other campers to fish him out. After the girl's father thanks her, Akari simply calls this her normal as a nurse.
- Connected All Along: It turns out that Taiyo's parents were invited to the wedding reception of the ninth Yozakura head and her husband, meaning that there's history between Taiyo's and Mutsumi's families before they were even born. This also lends credence to Kurogao's claim that Taiyo's family's death was no accident.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Although he's gotten acclimated to being part of the Yozakuras, Taiyo still looks back on his parents fondly. He's livid when he learns that his parents' and little brother's deaths were not an accident at all and quickly becomes determined to find out who killed them and why.
- Endearingly Dorky: Taiyo says his father was rather clumsy, but always did his best to help others.
- Family Theme Naming: Hikaru's name means "light", matching his older brother Taiyo's name meaning "sun". Similarly, "Hide" can be written with the kanji for "sun", while Akari also means "light".
- Lawful Stupid: Played for Laughs. When rushing a girl who nearly drowned to the hospital, Akari asks if Hide can drive any faster. Hide replies that's already going the speed limit.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Kurogao implies to Taiyo that the accident was truly a murder, and leaves behind a clue in an optical storage device to find the truth.
- Messy Hair: Both Hide and Taiyo have the same messy haircut.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Hide and Akari got involved with the Hazakura drug and Kawashita because they wanted to help the terminally ill Shirai, and Tanpopo had them eliminated to cover up their tracks.
- Ocular Gushers: Hide cries a river of tears while seeing a once terminally ill patient off after she was discharged from the hospital, a trait shared with his son Taiyo, who cries similar tears for Nanao.
- Posthumous Character: They've been dead for years prior to the events of the story.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Hikaru looks like his mother with his father's hair color, while Taiyo looks like his father with his mother's hair color.
- Surprise Car Crash: How they died. They were on their way home on a rainy night when Hide suddenly lost control, sending them careening over a cliff.
- Tender Tears: Hide was prone to crying for the sake of others, usually Tears of Joy after they pull through a harrowing life-or-death situation.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: From Taiyo's memories, it's clear that the Asanos were a close-knit family. Hide and Akari worked as a pharmaceutical worker and a nurse respectively to help ill patients to the point that one of them, Shirai, considered them her family, while Hikaru was by all counts a cheerful, happy child. Then they lost their lives in the car accident that leaves Taiyo the Sole Survivor.
Ritsu Katai
Ritsu Katai
A new teacher at Taiyo and Mutsumi's school who fills in for Kyoichiro while he's away on a mission. She believes in steering her students onto the "correct and moral" path, enforcing draconian rules that don't exist.
- Jerkass: She collectively refers to her students as "uneducated and immoral", enforces rules that don't exist and justifies it by saying that some rules are unwritten.
- Kick the Dog: She immediately gets on Taiyo and Mutsumi's bad side by taking Mutsumi's ring and trying to dispose of it. To rub the salt in the wound, she tells Mutsumi to dye her hair even though she's tried for years and compares her and Taiyo talking to each other to "dogs in heat".
- Proper Tights with a Skirt: Wears long, dark stockings to go with her skirt and business suit, emphasizing her no-nonsense personality and overbearing strictness.
- Stern Teacher: So much so that she enforces rules that aren't even written down, confiscating Mutsumi's ring and threatening to dispose of it even though it isn't against the rules to have one. In fact, she got fired from her previous job for being too strict.
- Villainy-Free Villain: She's not so much evil as an antagonist for taking Mutsumi's ring as part of Katai's own self-imposed rules. While largely harmless, her actions give Taiyo an opportunity to utilize the skills he gained from his Training Montage as part of his entry into spydom.
Rinne Kitasato
Rinne Kitasato
A first-year and the president of the biology club at Taiyo's school. Aloof and completely disinterested in humans or mammals, Nanao has a crush on her.
- Bait-and-Switch: After she catches Taiyo and Nanao on the roof post-Cooldown Hug, both boys worry that she realized their familial connection after she addresses Taiyo for the first time. It turns out she just wants to invite him to join the biology club.
- Better with Non-Human Company: She hates dealing with people and goes out of her way to ignore other humans with the exception of Nanao. By contrast, animals seem to adore her and she's the head of the biology club, being entrusted with numerous poisonous and dangerous critters.
- Brainy Brunette: She's dark-haired and can accurately judge the temperature of something simply by touching it. She's also skilled at handling all kinds of animals from snakes to bugs to birds, many of them poisonous.
- Economy Cast: She's the president of the biology club and its only known member besides Nanao. Even after the club room is trashed by a rampaging mutated Basilisk, she is the only one shown due to her significance to Nanao.
- Fearless Fool: After learning that Basilisk is in pain, she runs off into a dark area of the school with food in hopes of drawing him into the open, oblivious to how he tore apart the biology club room. If Nanao wasn't there, she would have almost certainly died.
- No Sense of Personal Space: She casually presses her forehead against Nanao's to determine his exact temperature, oblivious to how embarrassed he is at the close physical contact.
- Not So Stoic: Her aloof and near-emotionless nature comes from her general lack of interest in humans and mammals, but she becomes very distressed when she sees that Nanao is about to be attacked by Basilisk.
- Perception Filter: Kitasato is so disinterested in people that she completely ignores Taiyo on their first meeting and doesn't even seem to notice he's there. The only person she's seen consistently acknowledging is Nanao. Even when she does notice Taiyo, it's only to ask him to join the biology club. She's also perfectly fine with Nanao's mutations, rationalizing it as some odd metamorphosis of his rather than anything weird or freaky.
