Rem

## Satoko Kocho (さとこ こちょ, *Satoko Kochō*?)

* Anime
* Manga

Crazy Girl (いかれた女の子, *Ika reta on'nanoko*?) (Sousuke)

Sorata (ソラタ, *Sorata*?) (Posing as a courtesan)

"Soul"

Photography Club

Class 1-C

**Anime:** Episode 3 (cameo)

Episode 7 (mentioned)

Episode 10

**Rem** (レ (再) ム (ムー) , *Remu*?), whose real name is **Satoko Kocho**, is a "Soul" and a graduating student of Yukiru Gakuen. She learns to love for the first time after meeting Shiro Tsuyuri and lives with her in a shared apartment. Publicly, she tells people and writes in documents that she resides with her aunt, and keeps the fact that she lives with Shiro a secret and does everything to protect their "Happy Sugar Life".

For clarity, the ghost will be called Rem and the human will be called Satoko.

## Appearance

Rem is a fair-skinned girl with hip-length light bubblegum pink hair that is tied into two small buns with a red ribbon with pleated white and a light red cross/diamond patterns on her left bun in a sideways position and ominous blood-red eyes. She wears a brown vest with two golden buttons, a navy blue jacket-like blazer.

She often carries around a heavy blue bag with fake sweets. Inside is a taser, a knife and other tools that she might use to protect herself or committing murder.

When attending school, she wears the uniform of Yukiru Academy with a gem brooch above the front bow.

### "Soul" Appearance

When she entered Shape City or when contacted with her supernatural side, Echidna, she has red eyes and a white polo shirt with blood. She often hold her knife when she became a soul since Echidna told her to.

## Personality

In her split personality, she is a manipulator. She is willing to lie, cheat and even kill if that means that she'll get what she wants which is being able to stay with Shiro. She puts on the facade of a friendly high school student when at school and a helpful maid at work. However, if she is pushed, she can lose control and go on a killing spree. She however understands that killing would reduce her chance of being with Shiro and refrained from bashing Sousuke's head in with a crowbar.

She doesn't appear to show remorse for the life of anyone other than Shiro. She has butchered the corpse of the previous owner of her apartment, gouged out the eyes of two strangers, killed her best friend and agreed to let her aunt burn the apartment down.

Many of her behavioral symptoms are tied to the Yandere trope for her and Shiro to live in and spend their days together forever, away from the corrupted and filthy outside world.

## Abilities

### Seeing Supernaturals

Since she's a "Soul", she can see supernaturals without summoning them. Of course she had a supernatural side and her supernatural is Echidna. All "Souls" can see supernaturals.

### Split Personality

She has a split personality, her Yandere side but somehow she can't control it when someone insults or pushes her. She called her Yandere side, **Ram**. Ram loves to kill and hurt people but Rem won't let Ram take over her body for the sake of Shiro.

### Supernatural Eyesight

Rem possesses extremely sharp eyesight, being able to accurately predict her opponent's next attack and movements by simply observing the subtle shifts of their muscles, joints and the slight movements of their eyes. This allows her to make effective counterattacks and dodges and stay ahead of her opponents. Echidna comments on this feat and remarks that due to this skill, Rem may be more skilled than Light. This ability is enhanced with her **Sun Supernatural: Equinoctial Resplendent Eye**.

### Enhanced Physical Prowess

Rem's physical skills were noted to be stronger than Light by Echidna and could easily outclass Shijima, Rimuru and Jiro during the Rehabilitation Training Arc.

## Powers

### Battle Prowess

**Sun Supernatural** (太 (ダイ) 陽 (ヨ) 超 (チョ) 自 (
ジ) 然 (志賀) 的 (マト) , *Taiyō chō shizen-teki*?): A Supernatural Style, the first and forms all Supernatural Styles, taught by Angel Emiko, the former Sun Seishin of the Shape Slayer Corps. Her sword (probably a knife) skills were then further developed by Light, the Time Seishin of the Shape Slayer Corps.

* **A Wise Sunny Day** (賢 (ケン) 明 (アキラ) な (ナ) 晴 (晴れ) れ (再) た (タ) 日 (日) , *Kenmeina hareta hi*?) - The user slashes through air and the attack will come toward through its direction.
* **Charging Heat Rays** (熱 (ねつ) 線 (セン) の (番号) 充 (満) 電 (デン) , *Nessen no jūden*?) - The user's speed enhanced and jumps up the opponent and create many harsh slashes.
* **Obscuring Lights** (不 (フー) 明 (アキラ) 瞭 (リョウ) な (ナ) 光 (キョーリン) , *Fumeiryōna hikari*?) - The user throws the sword directly to the opponent and the sword will flash very strong lights, making the swordsman's opponent blind.
* **Burning Bones, Summer Sun** (灼 (しゃっ) 骨 (こつ) 炎 (えん) 陽 (よう) , *Shyakkotsu En'yō*?) - A circular slash that defends from imminent frontal attacks.
* **Flame Dance** (炎 (えん) 舞 (ぶ) , *Enbu*?) - A two-combo strike which starts with a vertical slash and then a horizontal one right after.
* **Raging Sun** (烈 (れつ) 日 (じつ) 紅 (こう) 鏡 (きょう) , *Retsujitsu Kōkyō*?) - The user unleashes two horizontal slashes that defend him/her from attacks from the front or side.
* **Holy Light** (聖 (セイ) な (ナ) る (る) 光 (キョーリン) , *Seinaru hikari*?) - A defensive technique that deflects attacks using rotating sword slashes.
* **Unique Obscure** (ユ (ゆう) ニ (に) ーク (クー) な (ナ) あいま (馬) い, *Yunīkuna aimai*?) - A technique in which Rem drastically changes the tempo of her movement to disorient an enemy. When she shows herself, her speed will appear to be extremely slow but when she hides, she moves in the blink of an eye. This technique was created by Satoko Kocho and first seen during her battle against Fuego Agua.
* **The Breath of The Sun** (太 (ダイ) 陽 (ヨ) の (番号) 息 (イキ) 吹 (フキ) , *Taiyō no ibuki*?) - A devastating dashing slash that Kyojuro initiates from a high stance, the technique had enough power to carve a deep impression in the ground where he used it. Before using this technique he remarked to himself about "slashing up a broad area."
* **Equinotical Resplendent Eye** (彼 (ひ) 岸 (がん) 朱 (しゅ) 眼 (がん) , *Higan Shugan*?) - A focusing technique that raises the users kinetic vision to its maximum, while using this technique the user perceives the world as if it were in slow motion. Usage of the technique however is highly dangerous, as the tremendous strain caused to the eyes ruptured blood vessels and could cause partial or complete blindness. After her battle against Echidna, Rem lost usage of her right eye due to the strain of this technique.

### Yandere Abilities

When Satoko was murdered by Echidna, Echidna revived her but Satoko lost all her memory. Echidna told her that her name is Rem and Satoko only remembers that her name is Rem now. Echidna poisoned Rem to insert her yandere side, although, Rem is still a good girl and won't let her yandere side take her over. She called the yandere, Ram. Since she can't control her yandere side when getting insulted, pushed, or getting frustrated, her eyes began to light up in icy pink color and will lose all her humanity.

Ram has her own abilities. Because of Ram, when Rem found Saichi picturing Rem and Shiro as an evidence, Ram took over Rem and killed her. That makes Saichi turn into a Yukiru Academy ghost.

* **Enhanced Physical Prowess:** Ram has received a huge amount of Echidna's blood by accident, enhancing her physical capabilities to superhuman levels, even being able to overwhelm Hal.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Despite never being formally trained, Ram's naturally enhanced physical strength allows her to easily fight against Shapes, however, due to being untrained, Ram instead relies on simply kicking her opponents or overwhelming them with brute strength instead. Her kicks allow her to sever Shapes and humans heads with ease, or to kick down a door. Her strength is extremely high for a Supernatural, with her strength being able to match even that of a Spirited Shape.
	+ **Enhanced Regeneration:** Ram possesses a tremendous regeneration ability that enables her to restore severed limbs within seconds. The true nature of this ability is solidifying her blood from her severed body parts that she could manipulate at will. Her regeneration ability is shown off during her fight with Nimue, where she regenerated her severed limbs at the speed and proficiency of a Spirited Shape.
	+ **Enhanced Speed:** Ram can keep up with Pylon, a Spirited Shape and an incredibly fast Shape, during their second encounter. After awakening her Supernatural mark, Ram's speed increases even further.

## Gallery

Anime RefOffical Art of Rem and young ShiroRam (Rem's Yandere Side)Ram's icy pink eyesIn the AnimeRem as a waitressRem and Young Shiro before jumping off the apartment buildingYoung Shiro as Rem
## Trivia

* Her real last name means **"butterfly"** (胡 (こち) 蝶 (ょう) , *kochō*?)
* The engravings on Satoko's knife read **"evil demon"** (悪鬼, *akki*?) on the right side of the blade, and **"destroy/kill"** (滅殺, *messatsu*?) on the left side of the blade.
* Rem's favorite food is Neapolitan pizza.
* It appears that Satoko has an alive sister. Her sister was never shown until the ending of Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari. Her sister's name is **Amane Kocho** (あま (馬) ねこ (コ) ち (チー) ょ (ホー) う, *Amane Kochō*?).
* The time when Rem and Satoko met is in Ram's soul. Satoko convinced Rem to to fight against Ram by imitating Satoko's true personality and her real name. Eventually, Rem did it and Ram was finally gone. Now she addresses herself as **Satoko Kocho**.
* Both Rem and Satoko's profession is cooking. They are really talented at cooking.
* Echidna knows how to not let Ram take over Rem's body but she nver told her so she continue ending peoples life when getting disturbed.
* According to Shijima, Satoko do know that she an older sister but when she became Rem, she lost all of her memories.
* Rem does see Amane but she told her that the real Satoko is dead. Only Rem was alive but she also told Amane not to worry, she will be always with her and remember and address her as Satoko.
* At the end of the chapter where Rem and Amane met, Rem went out with Shiro but Shiro's brother, Sousuke, is there to catch Rem but she told Sousuke it was a split personality but Sousuke didn't believe her. They opt to jump off the building and Rem protecting Shiro from falling impact. That caused Rem's death as a ghost.

## References

1. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 7
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 14
3. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 24
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 45
5. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 3
6. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 50
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 10
8. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 101
9. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 102
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 20
11. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 23
12. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 178
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 17
14. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 16
15. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 166
16. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 127
17. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 173
18. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 145
19. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 180
20. ↑ *Merodiakru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 75
21. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 76
22. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Anime: Episode 19
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Databook
24. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Spin-off: Chapter 9
25. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 200