Ash Lady

Kei's mother better known as the Ash Lady is the main antagonist of Just the Two of Us/ Alone with You the fifth chapter of Mimi's Ghost Stories, by Junji Ito she committed suicide by lighting herself on fire, now she haunts Kei as a spirit to watch over her.
== Personality ==
She did haunt her daughter but it wasn't out of any bad intentions it was to watch over her to make sure she was doing okay, this shows that she cares a lot about her child and wishes the best for her.
== Biography ==
Mimi goes to visit her parents one day where she meets this little girl named Kei, Kei get's extremely clingy of Mimi. Mimi's mom and dad tell her to look after Kei, the parent's soon discover that Kei's face along with the hallway are covered in soot. The soot's look like footprints but every one's feet are clean, Hina complains about Kei. Mimi's mom tells the two that one night her mother took her life by pouring gasoline on herself lighting a match burning herself to death.
That night Kei tell's Mimi that she is afraid of this figure who she refers to as the Ash Lady, Mimi sees a hand print on Kei's face. She thinks that it might be a ghost but quickly dismisses it as Kei doesn't know about her mom's death. Mimi go's back to Kei's room where there are ashen hand prints everywhere a charred corpse is sitting on the bed right next to Kei. Kei see's this and screams, both Mimi and Kei scream out into the hallway, Mimi's parents don't see a figure inside of the room Kei say's it was the Ash Lady. They call for a Shinto priest to perform an exorcism to get rid of the spirit.
A shadow appears in the ash, soot begins to spray everywhere. The priest tells the family the spirit is screaming in pain, the exorcism goes on for five hours. The whole house is covered with soot marks, after the exorcism Mimi's parents close down their bakery for a while. Kei goes home and Mimi learns that she had a good life.
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* The Ash Lady is not a villain as she tried to watch over Kei to make sure she was safe and did nothing malicious at all. And she is possibly the only Junji Ito antagonist to be heroic.
* It is unknown why she committed suicide.
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