Erina Terushima

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Erina Terushima** (Japanese: **照島** **えりな** *Terushima Erina*) was a second-year student at Johzenji High and the captain of the girls` volleyball team. She was the girlfriend and later on the wife of Yūji Terushima, later dying after being run over a truck; her fifteenth-year old daughter Tadashi Terushima being the only survivor. Her death was while the main characters were growing up, and is one of the main characters that caused Yūji`s personality to change.

## Appearance

Erina has gray hair that is styled over to the left side of her face with bright-blue eyes and eyebrows the same color as her hair. She has a very pale complexion, that makes her appear like a mythical Vampire. She wears a black sailor-style with a large, grey line near the bottom of her creased skirt. She has a blue tie connected to the bottom and sides of her sailor-style collar. On her legs, she wears black knee-high socks and brown loafers as her choice of shoe-wear. When not in school, Erina wore a black kimono with her hair tied into a geisha-style bun with wooden sandles as her choice of footwear.

## Personality

Erina is shown to be cheerful and kind-hearted. She was a wonderful girlfriend and an even better wife in the few memories that Yūji recounts for their daughter; Tadashi Terushima. A huge animal lover, she openly adored cats and dogs, a trait that Tadashi would inherit from her. Responsible, cheerful, extremely energetic, and warm-hearted; Yūji had only fond memories of her and saw some of Erina`s traits in Kiyoko Shimizu. A straight A student, she was smart and well-liked even outranking many of the more popular girls in her school. Tadashi, her only child recounted her memories with her mother as "peaceful" and "joyful", citing that her mother was a kind and loving woman. She loved her family to the point, where she sacrificed her life to get her daughter to safety.

## Background

Born the eldest child of the Sugawara Family, Erina was raised and disciplined as the future heiress of the family, which had roots back to the Tokugawa Era. As she grew up, Erina was trained in the ways of the Samurai and openly didn`t seek friends due to the training that she endured underneath her family`s matriarchs. After those matriarchs died, Erina`s parents ascended to the position of temporary Clan Heads. They would go onto to keep those position until Erina`s twelfth birthday. She had been dating a member of the Johzenji High`s Boys` Volleyball Team for a long time, deciding that she wanted to marry him. At age seventeen, the youngest clan heiress Erina Sugawara married Yūji Terushima in secret away from prying eyes. She later had a child several months after, spending many months recovering at the hospital and catching up on school-work. Her parents raised her young daughter as best as they could, and Erina often took her daughter to practices at Johzenji High passing Tadashi off as her young cousin to avoid suspicion. Several months, after her full recovery; she and her daughter were walking home from her daughter`s school. Her daughter unknowingly stepped in the middle of a path of a speeding car, desperate to save her child, Erina pushed her daughter out of the way. She was then ran over by a car herself, with Yūji watching the whole scene in horror himself.

## Plot

#### **Spring High Preliminary Arc**

Terushima first appears with his team behind him at his gym. They discover that Karasuno is their next opponent, but Terushima confidently remarks that if they could beat Shiratorizawa, they’ll be able to win against anyone else. His thoughts then turn to Erina, a frown on his face as he remembers the shocked face of his daughter, the day his beloved wife died.