Chiharu Masuyo

**Chiharu Masuyo** is the 5th Generation's Angel Goddess of Fire and Kohana Mai's fourth great-grandmother. She is also Sayuri Mai's third great-grandmother.

Chiharu's alter ego is **Luminous Rose** and the Ruby of Flames is a piece of decoration attached to her foldable hand fan.

## Biography

### Appearance

Chiharu is a young woman of average height and has fair skin. She has chest-length brown hair, with some of it pulled into a small ponytail hanging from a bun and held with a rose hairclip, and bright purple eyes. She is usually seen wearing a red kimono with a white obi, alongside purple and blue detailing in her outfit. Her kimono is decorated in pink and white cherry blossoms. She is always seen carrying her purple oil-paper umbrella decorated with white cherry blossom petals, and her red-purple ombre foldable hand fan tied with a red ribbon, with the Ruby of Flames attached.

As **Luminous Rose**, her hair grows longer and flows freely with bright red coated underneath. Her hair is decorated with a big red rose on the right side of her head with two white ribbons flowing from the bottom. Her outfit consists of a red kimono trim with white bows and purple fabric forming into a rose, and decorated in bright flames at the bottom, and a white ribbon obi that subtly fades to red. Underneath her kimono is a red, ruffled-layered skirt. Her long sleeves match her kimono, with white petals around the cuffs on each, and she also wears black stockings and dark red platform geta.

### Personality

Not much is known about Chiharu, but she is a kind-hearted woman who loves and protects her family from dangers. She also loves to perform in front of an audience, as a way to gain attention for her family's business and provide entertainment for everyone who lived in the village.

As Luminous Rose, she has a sense of leadership and bravery against her enemies. She tends to be playful around them before taking down, with her physical strength and elemental powers from the Ruby of Flames. However, she tends to drop this act and becomes more serious, not hesitating to defeat her enemies with all of the power within her.

## Background

Not much is known about Chiharu and her past, but she is later revealed to be Kohana's 4th great-grandmother and Sayuri's 3rd great-grandmother. She has an older brother and younger sister, making her the middle and second daughter to Mr. & Mrs. Masuyo. She was also the 5th Generation's Angel Goddess of Fire under the name of **Luminous Rose**. As of personal life, Chiharu belongs to a normal family with a successful business of managing hot springs for the people in the village while working as a hostess for the hot springs. To help promote and gain attention for their hot spring business, Chiharu uses her talents and perform for the people in their village to garner a good amount of attention to help out in the business.

During one of her travels outside the village to gather a list of materials for the hot springs, she soon finds the Ruby of Flames, laying hidden in the ground that she happened to find, on the way back home. Oblivious to her at first, she takes the Ruby of Flames and brings it back to the village while telling her family about her find. When she showed the stone to her parents and siblings, a bright glow emits from the gemstone and soon transforms into a foldable fan, showing the gemstone sitting in the center of a red bow on the foldable fan. She later learns that she became the new holder of the Ruby of Flames as her generation's Angel Goddess of Fire, surprising her and her parents.

Upon finding the Ruby of Flames and becoming its new owner, a group of Darkalia monsters soon appear and attack the village with their dark magic. Wanting to protect the village and its people, Chiharu steps up for herself and later transforms into the 5th Generation's Angel Goddess of Fire, and uses her elemental powers against the monsters to protect the village from further destruction and saving its people, as well.

One day, Chiharu meets a young woman named Meri Nicole Evian, who let her home country to completely distance herself from all of her problems from both her family and her ex-fiancé. She welcome Meri into their village until a Darkalia monster suddenly appears in the village. Chiharu transforms into Luminous Rose and proceeds to fight the monster to avoid further destruction in her village. Moments later, Meri joins the fight, transformed as **Aqua Lotus**, the 5th Generation's Angel Goddess of Water, thus fate leading them to meet each other and later works together until their complete their generation, later passing their powers onto the next generation.

In the current timeline of the series, Chiharu is usually seen through flashbacks, recorded messages and letters, and appearing in Kohana's Dream World, first appearing to Kohana's aid in saving her generation's Angel Goddess of Water from Dark Corruption.

## Relationships

* Kohana Mai - Kohana is Chiharu's 4th great-granddaughter. Though they haven't met in person, both met each other in the Dream World with Kohana asking some help and ask questions to find her answers, like asking how to save Shiro from her form of "Dark Corruption: Guilt". Though she has died long before Kohana was born decades later, she respected her for her great deeds and achievements to shape the world into what it has become.
* Sayuri Mai - Sayuri is Chiharu's 3rd great-grandfather. Though they haven't met in person, Sayuri knows about the achievements that her great-grandmother has done. She respects Chiharu for her great deeds and would often tell stories to her daughter, Kohana, about everything she has done for her friends.

## Luminous Rose

**"Burn and Blossom into Beauty, Luminous Rose!"**

**Luminous Rose** is the 5th Generation's Angel Goddess of Fire and Chiharu's alter ego, as well as taking on the role of the team's leader. In order to transform, she requires the Ruby of Flames in the form of an accessory, like her foldable fan. To transform, she unfolds her fan and holds it above her head, chanting "Flowers Bloom, Ruby of Flames!" loudly and streams of flames come out of the stone, surrounding her figure and enters the Gemstone Realm to begin her transformation. Once her transformation is complete, she breaks out of the Gemstone Realm and introduces herself while striking her final pose.

Chiharu has the ability to create her fire powers with her own hands and withstand high temperatures. In her transformed form, she gains a pair of fire wings to easily fly around in the air. Her foldable fan is also a medium for her to cast elemental magic or create blast waves onto her enemies. She is capable of performing fire spells and as part of her generation's contribution, Chiharu is also capable of casting "**Summer Dynamite**", a spell based on the Four Seasons as she represents the Season of Summer. Chiharu is able to perform the spells from the 4th Generation down to the 1st Generation.

## Trivia

* Chiharu's family name, "Masuyo" (益世), means "benefit the world", while her given name (千春) means "one thousand springs".