Kaori Houjou

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**Kaori Houjou** (宝城 佳織, **Hōjō Kaori**?) is the daughter of boarding Chairman Tsukasa Houjou who was saved by Yuuya Tenjou when she was being harassed by some strangers near the convenience store. Feeling highly indebted to him, she personally invited him to become a student of Japan's most prestigious academy, Ousei Academy. As the story progresses, she falls in love with him although she's yet to realize it. She is the first earthling brought by Yuuya to travel across to another world. In the other world she levels up and does adventurer quests along with him.

## Appearance

Kaori is a beautiful young girl with butt-length black hair that has bangs swept to the left side with hip-length hair strands hanging on either side, wide-set gradient black-pink eyes and she has a slim but well-endowed body which makes her a refined beautiful lady, even called the princess of Ousei Academy.

She usually wears the standard school uniform.

## Personality

Kaori is a kind, caring and sympathetic girl who always thinks of helping out others. Her core personality trait is her innate diplomacy skills, often showing extraordinary skills to even other species. She treats everyone without any discrimination as shown when she was worried about Yuuya Tenjou (before leveling up) after he helped her from some harassers. She is very compassionate as is shown when she always gets concerned over Yuuya's safety and well-being. She dislikes those who are arrogant and rude such as Yuuya's younger twin siblings, Youta Tenjou and Sora Tenjou, going so far as to have their wrongdoings investigated and then revealing those actions to completely humiliate them in public, for discriminating against their own brother, Yuuya. She is also one of the few characters who have seen Yuuya before his transformation. Unlike other love interests; Kaori’s crush is from an emotional attraction. Seeing just how just, kind and honest Yuuya is since she first saw him. She also is very insecure that another woman might steal him away, and often has anxiety about this because she’s aware that Yuuya has become extremely attractive.

Like other girls, she is jealous of Kaede Kazama's big breasts, and she is concerned that Yuya may choose girls who have larger breasts.

## Plot

Kaori Houjou is first introduced as we see her getting harassed by a few thugs. As Yuuya returns from the supermarket he spots the coercion. At that moment, he remembers his grandfather's words telling him that all people must be treated with kindness. He tries to intervene but ends up getting beaten up by the thugs. As police show up, the astounded Kaori Houjou asks whether he needed the hospital but he refused and subsequently left the scene much to the shock of the authorities and Kaori herself.

Kaori will later encounter Yuuya again as he is being interrogated by his middle school bullies and his younger brother and sister as well Kaori humiliated both Sora and Youta in public. She invites him to Ousei Academy where personality is valued over ability. After school, Kaori invites Yuuya to the shopping district. There, they buy and eat crepes as they are monitored by other students at the academy interested in Yuuya.

## Relationships

### Love interest

#### Yuuya Tenjou

Yuuya became Kaori's savior when he saved her from three men. To repay her debt for saving her, Kaori decided to ask her father, Tsukasa Houjou, to allow Yuuya to enroll in her school. She helped him by revealing Youta and Sora's discriminating actions towards their brother in public, which completely humiliated Yuuya's younger twin siblings. When the Red Ogre assaulted Ousei Academy (due to both Youta and Sora's actions, who Kaori completely humiliated), Yuuya once again saved her and defeated the Red Ogre. The gang and Yuuya's siblings were arrested by a large group of cops.

As a result of his heroism, Kaori developed romantic feelings for Yuuya and wishes to become his wife. She is also the only one that actually makes Yuuya return any romantic inclinations. Upon being told the truth of his transformation she begins to realize that being with just one lover, might be selfish for Yuuya, and she might enjoy sharing Yuuya with other kind hearted women.

### Enemies

#### Youta Tenjou and Sora Tenjou

Despite them as Yuuya's younger siblings, Kaori strongly disliked both Youta and Sora for their actions towards their brother, Yuuya. When they asked of her to let them join the Ousei Academy while deludedly believing themselves to be better than their brother, Kaori rejected them and deemed them to be unworthy. She instead completely humiliated these deluded Tenjou twins by exposing evidences of their actions towards Yuuya in public, causing everyone making fun of them. Due to this humiliation, Youta and Sora harbored a complete hatred towards the Ousei's student council member and wanted to retaliate her by hiring the Red Ogre to assault the Ousei but only to be easily defeated by Yuuya as well both the twins and Red Ogre were under arrested by the police for their crimes as well both Youta and Sora were expelled from their school just so Yuuya's siblings will never shown their filthy faces towards her or their brother, Yuuya again.

## Abilities

As a student council member and the daughter of the chairman of the Ousei Academy, Kaori has the authority to transfer any students who are generous and kindhearted to the Ousei such as her boyfriend, Yuuya Tenjou for saving her from three thugs. She is an extremely detective when shown all the evidences of Yuuya's despicable teacher and his abusive siblings of their discriminating actions towards Yuuya in order to completely humiliate them in public. She has an authority to call the police to arrest criminals and send them to prison such as the Red Ogre, Yuuya's younger siblings (Youta and Sora Tenjou) and a thief (who tries to steal an old lady's hand bag and attempted to kill Kaori with a knife only for Yuuya to easily overpowering the thief).

When entering to the Otherworld, Kaori gain magical abilities. Her basic stats are higher than Yuuya's basic stats. Her strongest ability by far is her skills in diplomacy; if a monster shows intelligence she will attempt to negotiate and understand it; which impresses anyone who can she her converse with other species with a warm understanding and believes if anyone or anything can understand, then a bond or tie can be formed. She even astounds the Sage who had trouble understanding the various hostile humanoid monsters during his lifetime. She often dislikes violence and will only resort to it if her life is in danger by a hostile entity.

## Etymology

* The name **Kaori** means "good, beautiful" (佳) (**ka**) and "weave, weaving" (織) (**ori**).
* Kaori's surname **Houjou** means "treasure, jewel" (宝) (**hou**) and "castle" (城) (**jou**).