Sano Mikoto

**Mikoto Sano** (佐野 命) is a secondary protagonist in the manga series A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School. He is a student in Class 2-3 at Hyakki Academy, and is a yakubyougami.

## Appearance

Sano is of average height, with shaggy, bleached blonde hair (naturally black) and blue eyes. He is typically seen wearing the black winter school uniform or the teal summer uniform of Hyakki Academy. Many people who see him note him as being very attractive

## Personality

Sano is very laid-back and cool, but he can be quick to anger, especially when it comes to the antics of Haruaki. He is described to be like a sadist, since he seems to gain a little enjoyment from the suffering of those around him, the suffering mostly coming from Haruaki. This may come form him being a yakubyougami, a god who brings bad luck to those around him.

He doesn't really like to do much, and will flat out tell the people around him if he doesn't want to do something. One exception to this attitude, though, would be when his best friend Mamekichi wants something; Sano then becomes willing to do things he wouldn't otherwise do, even if he has no interest in what Mame wants of him.

Despite this attitude, he has been seen to care a lot for his friends, and even has a soft spot for Haruaki. He is learning to become less cagey and unfriendly, but his moderately sadistic personality still lingers.

## Abilities

As a yakubyougami, Sano's powers can be used to bring bad luck on a person. He can't control them very well, and more often than not, he just ends up blowing people's clothes off their body and leaving only their underwear, as first seen in Chapter 1 when he pulls Haruaki out from under the class podium. He was successfully able to get a dog to escape from it's owner's grasp and chase Haruaki in Volume 2, and in Chapter 46, he brought down a thunderstorm onto his classmates at the beach for ruining the tanuki sand sculpture he and Mame were building.

## History

Not many people know about Sano's past, however, it is implied by Mamekichi that he was kicked out of a school for gods and acted differently when he first transferred to Hyakki Academy. It is implied during the Kyoto Arc that when he broke Haruaki's soul by accident, that something similar to that happened when he was kicked out of school.

When he was a kid, he carried around a tanuki plushie and had a good luck charm that he gave to a teenaged Haruaki as a gift for helping him retrieve his tanuki plushie.

## Relationships

### Abe Haruaki

Haruaki often irritates Sano making him face his wrath often. Whenever Haruaki annoys him, he is quick to hit or kick him. He disliked how cowardly Haruaki was and how quick he was to crying at the slightest insult or inconvenience the students created for him. However, due to Sano being dragged alongside Haruaki for various activities, he grew closer to his teacher.

Over their summer vacation, Sano confided in Haruaki that he wasn't a youkai, that he was actually a god instead. Though Haruaki states that he already knew, he let Sano know that it didn't matter whether he was a god or youkai, that he was always just Sano and that he wanted to be friends with him either way. Sano appreciated the sentiment, even echoing it back to Haruaki when he was feeling insecure about his teaching ability when Ebisu joined the school and got along with the students better and was seemingly better at teaching the students.

During the Kyoto Arc, he believed himself being solely responsible for Haruaki's soul breaking in five pieces and was blaming himself for most of the event. He helped to retrieve the pieces as a way to help and rectify his actions.

### Mamekichi Maizuna

They met during their first year, and it's uncertain how they became friends. However, Sano enjoys small animals, and that's likely something that contributed to their relationship. Mame can get Sano to do things that he usually wouldn't do. If anyone hurts Mame, Sano usually injures them severely. In the case of Banmaru kidnapping Mame, when Mame lied and said that Banmaru was saying he was going to kill and cook him, Sano said he would kill him. After the training at the old schoolhouse, Sano was hugging Mame when they were reunited with the kids who were taken by the Hyakki alumni.

Mame knows a lot about Sano and implies that Sano acts differently from when he first transferred.

### Hijita Koutarou

He, Mame, Hijita, and Beniko all make up a crew. They often play video games together, though Sano refused to give Hijita his phone number. Hijita does disturb Sano with his girl-craziness, however, and confuses Sano on that front.

### Zashiki Beniko

Beniko, Sano, Hijita, and Mame are all in a friend group. When Mame, Beniko, and Hijita wanted to go visit Haruaki's home, he was very reluctant to join them and was about to warn Haruaki. However, after Haruaki teased him, he was willing to allow them to go and bother him during Golden Week.

### Nyuudou Rensuke

Nyuudou and Sano seemingly get along rather well. Sano likes the side of Nyuudou that is quick to violence, especially towards his classmates, likely due to Sano's sadistic nature.

### Ebisu Isaburou

Sano and Ebisu are brothers, however Sano does not like him and they haven't seen each other in three years. Sano seemingly finds him overbearing and upsetting, implying that he used to be nice before something changed. Ebisu joined the school to find a way and reason to take Sano out of it to keep him away from youkai and Sano likely knows that's why he joined the school.

## Trivia

* He used to attend a school for gods
* He has not lost his god status for one reason or another despite being kicked out of the school for gods
* He likes small animals
	+ He appeared to be excited when he met Mamekichi's siblings and seeing how small they were and how many looked like tanuki
	+ He was once late to class because of a TV special on kittens
	+ He once purchased a magazine to look at the section on small animals
	+ He owned a plushie of a tanuki as a child
* He has seemingly never had a crush on anyone
* He is tone-deaf
* His least favorite subject is Music
* He is scared of bugs