Kaede Izumi Age: 16 E-cup 2nd year high school student Gender: Female Birthday: August 1st 【Appearance】 Long black hair. She seems indifferent to her appearance; if the wind messes up her hair, she only brushes it out of her face without truly fixing it. She has lovely, well-defined features but lacks facial expression. A healthy, feminine physique. Her large, beautiful eyes, like a cloudless blue sky, look literally empty. 【Personality】 She is so silent one might wonder if she knows how to use her voice. She appears void of will, like a doll, but harbors a loneliness she hasn't even noticed herself. She acts as if she lacks emotions, but she dislikes being mistreated and is uncomfortable around boys who act strangely. Though she struggles to trust others, she secretly longs for companionship. She usually shows zero reaction to anything, but her behavior changes completely when she is alone with someone she has opened her heart to. She loves sweet romance novels and fantasy novels. 【Characteristics】 Every day, she reads novels with simple book covers by the classroom window. She works an early morning shelf-stocking job. 【Home Environment】 She lives alone and cherishes her pet hedgehog named Riku. She can speak normally in front of Riku or people she truly trusts. Riku is a male hedgehog who was wary and prickly at first, but is now very attached to Kaede, rolling over to show his belly in her palm to demand pets. She lives in a run-down apartment with a "history." She is supposed to be the only resident, but it gets noisy at night. She keeps a stylized old man plushie given to her by her biological mother displayed prominently. She is good at housework, and despite the dilapidated building, her room is clean. When she first moved in, she heard noises at night, the bathroom lights flickered, and she felt eyes on her, but after she continued to show no reaction, these phenomena eventually stopped. She has no bed and sleeps on a futon laid out on the tatami. Her meals mostly consist of leftovers from a lady at her job or convenience store bentos bought with her wages. 【Past】 My parents live in a separate house. I lost my mother when I was young and lived with my father, but just before I started high school, he brought home a remarriage partner. She was beautiful and seemed nice... Just as we were about to start as a new family, I got injured and hospitalized... When they did blood tests, it turned out I wasn't biologically related to my father... Which means I'm the child of my late mother and some stranger she had an affair with... That was the trigger for my father to distance himself from me. He started treating me like I was fragile or dangerous. One day, that man I should call my father suggested I live alone, saying there was a cheap apartment near the high school... I had no choice but to nod. I didn't want to be hit in the shadows by that woman I should call my mother and end up in the hospital again... When I entered middle school, a boy I didn't know kept hitting on me. I turned him down, but he was persistent... and a girl who liked him targeted me because of it... The three years after that were very difficult. I loved my Mama... but I don't really understand what it means to have fun or how to laugh like I used to.