Ahiru

## Ahiru (in Parano)

Yoshiharu (true name)

**Ahiru** (アヒル, *Ahiru*) is an inhabitant of Parano.

Ahiru isn't his true name however, as it means "duck", it's unknown who gave him that name, but it was likely Alice of the King.

He is introduced as one of the King's vassal, trying to get Alice back to him.

In reality, he was forced in that situation when the king took his lover, Yonaki Uguisu, hostage.

After the King's defeat, he decides to stay in Parano, reunited with Yonaki.

## Appearance

He dons his curly hair long with a well-trimmed beard. He wears a moss green-colored coat with a fur-trimmed collar, a mantle and boots, which both look well-worn.

He is slightly shorter than Haruhiro who also note that it's hard to give an age to Ahiru as he look young yet also like fairly he is fairly old.

According to Kuzaku, while he looks listless, degenerate and a little filthy but still stylish; he looks like the type of guys who would be popular with girl.

Something to note is that as he only appears in Parano, it's possible that the description above isn't really how he look like as Parano can warp people appearance.

## Personality

Before Parano and before his meeting with Yonaki he was very arrogant and self-centered, he would only do what he wants, the way he wants, disregarding everyone else. An attitude that made a lot of people distance themselves from him, not that he cared.

However, meeting Yonaki profoundly changed him, and when he appears in Parano, while some of his arrogance still remains, he is calmer and less frontal. He also seems to feel quite a bit of self hate, probably stemming from his complete powerlessness to do anything to the King or rescue Yonaki. Alice theorizing that hatred and sadness are what pushed him to make countless statues of his love only to then hate those same statues for not being the real Yonaki.

## Plot

### Before Level 13

Once a talented but arrogant singer, he stopped singing sometimes after falling deeply in love with Yonaki Uguisu, deciding to go wander the world with her instead.

It's during that trip, while they were on the beach, that both of them were transported to Parano. Sometime later Yonaki is capture by the King to become his "pet bird" and Ahiru is forced to become one of his vassals.

### Level. 13 The Heart, An Opening, A New Door

Ahiru appears in Ruins No.6, at that time Alice's home, with the goal of convincing them (Alice's gender is unknown) to go back to the king. However, since he is weaker than them he can't do it through force and instead opted to use his magic to destroys the ruin, probably with the goal of harassing Alice.

### Level. 14 Parano-mania

Later Ahiru is contacted by Alice, who meets him at the summit of the hill of Ruins No.5.

Similarly to how Ruins No.6 was Alice dwelling, Ruins No.5 is Ahiru's place as he has remodeled the whole area, destroying the ruins and using the materials to make hundreds of life-like statues of Yonaki Uguisu. As such, when he first sees Alice there, he assumes they have come to take revenge. Which isn't not the case, but Alice's main goal is to push Ahiru over the edge by making him realize how pathetic he is making statues of his captured lover instead of truly trying to help her.

Something Alice theorizes he is already aware of, and that the attack on Ruins No.5 was a way to lure them to Ruins No.6 so that they destroy the statues for him. Something that Alice, with Haruhiro's help, is more than happy to do. After that Ahiru accepts to become a spy for Alice and to help her defeat the King.

After that Ahiru goes back to Elephant Castle to make his rapport to the King, where he is criticized for his lack of results. To that Ahiru explains that he doesn't have the strength to bring Alice back by force, but that since she is chasing him he will try to lure her to the King.

After that audience with the king, Ahiru leaves the castle through Rainbow Mole's tunnels, then goes from Ruin No.7 to the Iron Tower of Heaven, where he meets Alice once again.

There they Alice shows that she doesn't trust him completely for now and has been following him since Ruins No.7, Ahiru reaffirming his he intends to save Yonaki and leave Parano.

After that meeting Alice, Ahiru, and Haruhiro journey back to Ruins No.7, however this time Parano's strange geography put the Sanzu River on their path, the strange influence of the place stopping them for a time before Haruhiro is able to break out and take the other two with him.

Later on, they come across Mimic Town, where Haruhiro manages to save Kuzaku from becoming a Trickster as he was attacking Team Io, Setora, and not-Merry, who subsequently all join forces with Alice.

They also come across Shihoru fully transformed into a trickster, and while Haruhiro is unable to help her using resonance, Setora is able to trap her with Enba.

After all that they're eventually able to reach the King by making it seems like Ahiru is bringing a captured Alice and Team Io is bringing back new servants.

However, the King quickly through that plan but it buys enough time for Haruhiro to understand how the King powers work. While his first attempt fails, thanks to Shihoru creating a second diversion by bursting out of Enba, and then by letting Tombe dies, Haruhiro is finally able to beat the king.

After that Ahiru is able to rescue Yonaki, finally reunited the two chose to stay in Parano as to never be separated again.

## Abilities

Ahiru is a Philia magic-user whose fetish is his belt. He is able to use that belt to create wide spread destruction as shown when he was able to easily destroyed most of Ruins No.6 and Ruins No.5.

However, he is weaker than Alice, as was stated by both of them.

## Relationships

### Alice

He was tasked by the King to get them back after they manage to escape Elephant Castle, however he has neither the strength nor really the will to accomplished that task as he is weaker than Alice and hate the King. As such he limits himself to harassment, calling them "Princess" (お姫さま, *ohime-sama*), that harassment culminating when he destroy their home Ruins No.6. Something Alice believed he did in part to lure them to Ruins No.5 so that they destroyed the hundred of statues he made there that are now an eyes sore that he can't find the force to destroyed.

On her end Alice find he pathetic and while they don't hate him they do like to see him suffer a bit like when they destroyed the statues of Yonaki.

### The King

Since the King made Yonaki Uguisu his hostage, Ahiru hate him from the bottom of his heart. However the King's mysterious and overwhelming power combine with the fact that he has an hostage mean that Ahiru is force to obey him. However as soon as Alice push him over the edge and start to work on a plan to finally beat the king he switch side.

It does seems like the King think anything of Ahiru, he know he can manipulate him using Yonaki and that he isn't a threat, however he does still have shadow follow him from time to time.

### Yonaki Uguisu

She is the first woman he truly loved and someone he love more than anything, and that seems to be reciprocated as the two choose to stay behind in Parano as to never be separated again.

## Quotes

* *"I don't plan on dying any time soon, so I won't brawl with you."*
* *"The king is angry; if you don't go back, it'll be problematic."*

## Navigation

Episode 1   **•**   Episode 2   **•**   Episode 3   **•**   Episode 4   **•**   Episode 5   **•**   Episode 6   **•**   Episode 7   **•**   Episode 8   **•**   Episode 9   **•**   Episode 10   **•**   Episode 11   **•**   Episode 12