Utagawa Kuniko

**Utagawa Kuniko** (歌川 国子) is a class representative for Class 2-3 and a Gashadokuro

## Appearance

Utagawa has black hair tied into a ponytail with a red polka-dotted bow. Her eyes are baby blue. She wears the usual sailor uniform. On her off days, she wears a light dress, her hair still tied up.

In her relaxed form, she becomes a giant skeleton with the ability to crush anything.

When she was a child, she had blonde hair tied into a ponytail with a blue ribbon. She wore a hospital dress very often, likely due to how long and often she stayed there.

## Personality

Utagawa is very kind and caring when it comes to her classmates. She tends to act as a mom for the class, trying to calm people down whenever they get too rowdy or keeping Nyuudou from getting too violent with their classmates. She tries (but usually fails) to keep the peace with her classmates and also tries to help Haruaki to keep the calm of the classroom.

However, when it comes to Takahashi, she can get rather short with him, often yelling at him whenever he does something bad.

## Past

Before becoming a youkai, in chapter 73, it is revealed that she was "Ruri-Chan" (Nyuudou Rensuke's former crush).

Due to the health condition she was born with, she was very frail and therefore frequently had to visit the hospital. Since she was hospital friends with Nyuudou Rensuke's mom, she was able to meet Nyuudou Rensuke who had often visited his mother. Because she couldn't attend school, Nyuudou Rensuke would tutor her and they became friends as a result. Sometime into Nyuudou's hospital visits, his mask accidentally fell off, revealing to Ruri his eye. She looked scared and horrified initially, causing Nyuudou to run out in sadness. Ruri then chased after him and when Nyuudou took the elevator down, she took the stairs, though she ran out of breath and ended up falling down and dying in the stairwell.

Due to the amount of death in the hospital and Ruri's strong feelings as she died, her spirit was the core of the Gashadokuro that Takahashi found at the hospital. After calming her down and putting her in a body, she was then reborn as Utagawa Kuniko and studied up until her first year in high school to meet Nyuudou again to apologize. She didn't, however, and thus just lived her school life as Utagawa.

Her past was revealed during the Renren Arc.

## Abilities

She can turn into a giant skeleton, which allows for a larger range of sight and she can crush people with her hands in this state.

## Relationships

### Haruaki Abe

She and Haruaki get along, due to her being a class rep and trying to keep the calm of the class alongside him. When he received the ring from Renka, Nyuudou's mother, he learned about Utagawa's past, so that it could help with getting back Nyuudou and he gave her back the ring that belonged to Ruri.

### Rensuke Nyuudou

In their youth, when Utagawa was still "Ruri", Utagawa and Nyuudou were very close. They both developed a crush on each other, and promised to marry each other when they were older. However, upon seeing that Nyuudou was a youkai, Ruri was scared of his face, and made Nyuudou run away. As she ran after him, she died, and her spirit became part of the Gashadokuro in the hospital. After she came back, she said that her main goal was to find Nyuudou and try to apologize to him for her reaction, and to tell him that she still loves him.

When she began high school and met Nyuudou, she started crying and made the lie about finding her father in women's underwear. When she attempted to apologize, she realized that actually saying it to his face was too scary and just introduced herself, and didn't apologize. They grew close over their years, both of them being in the top of their class and having a perfect score on the entrance exam. They both got along and studied together, and Utagawa's crush on him continued throughout the year.

When it was revealed as to who she was, Nyuudou wanted to start anew with her and after the Renren Arc, she and him threw the rings that he had given Ruri and kept himself into the ocean nearby the school.

### Akira Takahashi

In Chapter 58, it was revealed that Takahashi had taken Utagawa in when she was born as a Gashadokuro.

When Takahashi was working at the hospital Renka and Ruri were being treated at, he found the Gashadokuro there and after calming her down, was able to put her core into a body and then raised her from that day on. He aided in her learning so that she could be prepared for high school. She and Takahashi get along well, though, she is very put off by some of the things he does.

## Trivia

* In her first year, she shared a class with Nyuudou and Tama
	+ Her homeroom teacher was also Hatanaka
* She seems to get along well with her adoptive sister