Rem/Relationships

## Background

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**This section contains heavy spoilers, open at your own risk!**
[Click me to reveal the spoiler text]At a young age, Satoko's parents passed away in an unknown accident, leaving Satoko in custody of her sister. Satoko's sister taught her about different kinds of love throughout her childhood, raising Satoko with deranged ethics to accept all types of "love". It is because of her toxic upbringing, that made Satoko emotionless to the word "love," associating it with a bitter feeling. This leads to her hanging out and sleeping with multiple guys, without having real feelings for any of them.
After this, she was murdered by Echidna. However, Amane, her sister, was killed first than her but it makes Tamayo fuel her hatred for Echidna

One day it was raining and an artist asked Rem if she wanted to stay inside his house so she can dry off. Rem accepted the offer and offered to repay him in exchange for the shelter and modeled for a painting. From then on, she regularly visited his apartment. They had conversations regularly when he was drawing Rem. However, when Rem brought Shiro to the apartment, the artist tried to strangle Shiro, which lead to his brutal death at the hands of Ram. Ram took over his apartment as her own castle and locked the room splattered with his blood on the wall, butchering his corpse and then having it incinerated. His painting can be seen at the back of the room, covered with a piece of fabric.

After meeting Shiro, Rem stopped hanging out with guys and began taking on more jobs in order to earn enough money to support Shiro and herself.

Rem learns about a restaurant known as the Princess Imperial, and decides to work there. While there, Akira Anohana asks Rem out for a date only to be turned down. From there, it appeared as though Anohana quit the restaurant out of despair of having been rejected. When the employees get their checks, Rem notices that her check was short despite working more hours for the restaurant. While conversing with the Princess Imperial Manager, Rem notices her cabinet, realizing that Anohana was actually trapped in there. The manager explains to her that she had kidnapped Anohana because she overheard him say that he loved Rem instead of her. Enraged by this, she kidnapped Anohana, forcefully molesting him as her way of making him love her. Unfortunately for her, Rem filmed her confession on her phone, and suggests that she leak the footage to the public lest she be given her due.

Shortly afterward, Sato returns to her high school where she is confronted by her teacher Nagisa Kamabo. After this, she discovers that he was following her and so leads him into an alleyway. When Nagisa was trying to make advances on her, Rem activates her safety alarm, alerting residents and scaring her teacher off. The next day, she forces her teacher onto the ground and stomps on his crotch, manipulating him into helping her get rid of the garbage bags from the pantry under the threat of destroying his livelihood. Rem returns to her original job where she runs into Anohana. After he saves Sousuke Tsuyuri from getting savagely beaten up by thugs, Sousuke is taken to the back to recuperate. Alone with the young boy, Rem realizes that Sousuke had connections with Shiro when she overhears him reciting the "wedding" oath to himself. Fearing the worst, Rem grabs a crowbar and approaches him.

Later on in the manga, Rem's friend, Saichi, finds Shiro and takes a picture of her with her phone. Despite offering to hand over the phone to her, Ram slits her throat out of fear that she might go to the authorities about what she had discovered. However, unbeknownst to her, Saichi had managed to send the photo to Sousuke prior. As Saichi was the only link that Rem had with the outside world, Rem became more unhinged. Realizing that her cover could potentially get blown, Rem convinces Shiro to run away with her to some other location, hopefully a tropical island. The two then decide to actually become married, and Rem buys rings for her and Shiro.

After forging a pseudo wedding with Shiro, Rem goes to her sister's and informs her about what she had done, and that she felt entitled for her sister to assist her in her getaway because of her being "poisoned" by her sister's feelings on love. The plan is to gather several containers of gasoline, and set the room on fire. Rem would pass off Saichi's body as her own, ergo faking her death. She dresses the corpse in her clothes, and mentally removes Saichi from her mind, destroying any lingering remorse that remained. She then tosses Saichi's phone on a moving truck.

Rem tasks Tamayo with burning the apartment building to the ground as a means of covering her tracks. Just when Rem was about to escape with Shiro, she realizes that she left her ring at the apartment. While searching for it, the two are confronted by Sousuke who is surprised to hear Shiro proclaim that she was going to stay with Rem even after Sousuke gave her the facts about what happened on the day their mother abandoned her in the streets. With no way off the roof, Shiro and Rem opt to jump. As the two were plummeting, Rem shields Shiro with her body and takes on the full blow, dying instantly.
### Shiro Tsuyuri/Shinjo Akane

Shiro is Rem's sugar love. They first met at an alleyway, shortly after Shiro was abandoned by Shiro's mother. She is willing to do anything it takes to protect their happy sugar life. She keeps Shiro shut in their "castle" and locks the door to prevent Shiro from going out and to keep her safe from harm. She looks at her love for Shiro to be sweet and genuine, unlike the bitter feeling she had only experienced prior.

Rem loves Shiro with all her heart, devoting herself to her part-time job and saving money by cooking herself, in order to maintain her life with Shiro. Shiro loves Rem just the same and is willing to stop anyone who wants to hurt Rem, this is shown when Sousuke attacked Rem with a bat.

Although she jumped from the rooftop of a burning building and attempted suicide, she learned "true love" just before her death, died by protecting Shiro, saying "I want Shiro to live."

### Satoko Kocho

They met in Ram's soul, convincing Rem to remember her true past by telling Satoko's past to Rem to make Ram disappear in her body. After this, they never seen each other again.

### Amane Kocho

Rem and Amane's relationship is unknown since their meeting is limited, but it appears that Amane told Rem that she was Tamayo before jumping off the roof.

Rem can't describe her face and personality since she didn't show up. Making her curious then jumped off the building.

### Tamayo

Their relationship is complicated. The sister is Rem's only living blood relative. After her parents' death, Rem followed her sister to her apartment so she took Rem in. She firmly told her aunt that her apartment stinks. Tamayo thinks that Rem was adorable.

However, being raised by her aunt has left a bad taste in her mouth. She seldom sees her sister and holds her in a low regard. Despite that, Rem is willing to cooperate with her if it means she'll be able to stay with Shiro. On legal documents specifying where she lives, she uses her sister's address instead of her own, wanting to keep Shiro a secret. When Rem's sister tells Rem that she is overstepping her boundaries, killing for love and that she'll grow into a dirty adult, Rem grabs and twists her sister's collar, demanding that she take responsibility for raising her. Tamayo was initially shocked but agreed to take responsibility. Rem doesn't consider her sister to have truly loved since she loves everyone the same.

Tamayo immediately noticed when Rem killed Saichi, but promises not to tell the police and tells Rem that she isn't the first person who came to her saying they killed someone. She also supported Rem's plan to move elsewhere after the murder, providing her large sums of cash and committing arson to burn all evidence.

When Rem died, she showed no regrets as she believes Rem to have lived a blissful life. However, she remarks that she has no way of verifying Rem's happiness and was truly sorry that she couldn't see Rem's face when Rem committed suicide. However, upon looking at the ceiling and asking how Rem's love and last moments were, she giggled, reminiscing Rem's face. She promises that she'll keep loving Rem, even though she can't see her anymore.

### Sousuke Tsuyuri

She will do anything it takes to keep Sousuke away from Shiro and nearly bashed his head in with a crowbar.

### Akira Anohana

One of her pawns. She met him at work and rescued him from getting raped by her old manager. She exploits the fact that Akira wants Shiro to get him to run errands for her.

### Saichi

Rem's former best friend. They frequently hanged out and shared conversations. However, after betraying her trust, Ram slices her throat for taking a picture of her and Shiro. Rem doesn't dispose of the body, cleaning her up and dressing her in her own uniform, leaving her in the apartment to burn with the fire.

### Kaguya Akane

Kaguya idolizes Rem and wants to be exactly like her, even in appearance. Rem had to lie to her that she loved her to make sure Kaguya did not pry into her personal life again. Kaguya falls for her senpai and is also the one who gives Rem and Shiro her sister and her own passport so they can leave the country. Kaguya appears to be physically crushed hearing about Rem's death on television.

### Nagisa Kamabo

He is a perverted teacher and a masochist who teaches Rem at school. Despite already having a family, he wants a harem for himself. However, his obsession with Rem and perversion made him a prime target for manipulation. Rem uses him as an errand boy and nothing else. He likes to see Rem get in trouble like when the police came to her apartment but was completely dumbfounded when he realized that Rem's sister is alive.

### Shijima Lunami

Shijima likes Rem so much since Rem was being kind to him. Rem was doing this for the sake of their friendship. Shijima and Rem often hangout with Shiro in a cafe, where Shijima's mother works. He loves telling scary stories to Rem since she enjoys it. However, Rem was worried about Shijima's stories, since the stories kept becoming true. She convinced Shijima to stop telling her scary stories since their becoming true. Shijima agreed and stops telling scary stories so Rem won't have any of these nightmares. After hearing Rem's death, she can't stop crying and became very lonely.

### Cubical

Rem works for Cubical in making/finding out new Yorishiros. The Yosrishiro, Cubical's alarm clock, was found out by her. It opens The Clock Tower. After hearing Rem killed Saichi, Cubical started to worry and stay away from her. Ram tried to kill Cubical too for doing this but instead he trapped Ram in the Eternal Sadness Realm.

### Echidna

Echidna made Rem by Satoko's corpse. Rem always run errands for Echidna but it turns out that Tamayo poisoned Echidna. Rem doesn't care when she immediately heard about it since Satoko told Rem that she was the murdered and ghost of her.