Tirol Ochagama

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**Tirol Ochagama** (大茶釜 チロル) is a supporting character in the *Sabikui Bisco* series.

## Appearance

A mysterious, beautiful girl with impressive pink hair in braids that look like a jellyfish.

## Personality

She's dexterous and her head spins fast, but she's very crappy with money. She is also a member of the black leather guard, but her main business is a travel merchant who calls herself "Kurage Shoten".

She accidentally meets up with Bisco and Milo in various places.

## Background

Tirol sells her service to Kurokawa and heads outside of Imihama using her Escargot to kill Bisco Akaboshi. However, to her surprise, Bisco managed to destroy her Escargot fighter. She returns defeated to Kurokawa, who states he will compensate her, but as Bisco went into Imihama, he sends her after him and give her some of his elite forces. Tirol fights Bisco, but ends up easily defeated by him. She ends up begging for her life and states she will changer her profession. As Pawoo then attacks Bisco, Tirol sees a chance and escapes from Bisco.

Tirol runs from Imihama and eventually encounters Milo who is attempting to ride Actagawa. Under the pretext to show him how to ride Actagawa, she gets on it and attempts to steal Actagawa, but Bisco chases her away. That night, she stops at Nikko War Memorial, however she starts choking. Luckily Bisco and Milo decide to spend the night there and find her. Milo realizes that she has a balloonworm in her stomach and helps taking it out. He explains its a worm used to control slaves, who are fed with the eggs of the worm and then given medicine in order for the slaves to not run and keep the eggs not hatching. Tirol realizes that Kurokawa gives the eggs to his special forces and that's how he commands them. She believes they saved her wanting her body, but Milo and Bisco want just food. Tirol then opens her jellyfish shop and sells them some food. Believing she can't sell them gas, she throws her liquid bonecoal gas away. However, that ends up awakening the Nikko War Memorial animal, who is a coal-eating mantis shrimp. Tirol clings to Bisco, while he instructs Milo on how he and Actagawa must stop the shrimp, so Bisco can kill it. In the morning, Tirol leaves them, taking all of Milo's money, but leaving him food for it.

Bisco and Milo find frozen Tirol in Shimabuki. After saving her, she explains that she fixed a helicopter from the memorial, but was shot down by anti-aircraft gun at Shimabuki. She is tired of living with a bad karma, and believes she could have died already if it wasn't Bisco and Milo, but they encourage her to keep on living. Hearing they are heading towards Shirakaba Line, she decides to join them and show them the way. On their way, they meet up traders and Tirol manages to convince the traders to make a good deal with Bisco and Milo, and they even get a bonus book.

Reaching the subways, they find a train, but it requires old coins to run. Explaining that she used to be a mechanic, Tirol decides to help out and bypass the train's fare. Long ago she used to work as mechanic, but one day her group was tasked in fixing a Tetsujin part. People started Rusting to death one by one. As she raised in the ranks, she managed to escape. After she is done with the train, they look at the book and find information about Rust Eater. When Bisco and Milo are about to leave with the train, Tirol decides to go different way. Milo asks for her name, but she initially refuses to say it, to not get laughted. After Milo states they also have funny names, she introduces herself and they thank her for her help and hope they meet their new friend again, causing Tirol to be surprised they consider her a friend.

Tirol reaches the Shimabuki base wanting to trade with Imihama Watch, but finds men with mushroom on their heads. She panics, but then the mushroom fall and the men return to normal, whoever, they have no memory of what happened. Kurokawa's special forces then come with a helicopter wanting to refuel. Tirol then hears that Kurokawa and Bisco are dead and that something dangerous is coming. She then sees the large Tetsujin over the hills, who destroys the government forces and proceeds to south. Realizing that's Imihama's direction, she tells Imihama Watch to stop it, but they argue between themselves if they should do something or not as Pawoo had ordered them to stay there.

Pawoo joins Tirol, who claims to be Milo's friend. Tirol reveals she found a Tetsujin manual and Pawoo takes it to read it, but can't understand it. Pawoo isn't full convince that Tirol is Milo's friend, as she never met a travelling merchant who'd gone that far without wanting anything in return. Tirol confirms, stating only an idiot will risk his life for another person. They return to Shimobuki Base, where they take the Imihama Watch and go after the Tetsujin, picking up Jabi along the way. They manage to catch up to him, but it almost kills them. After repairing the car, they follow it again and catch up to the Tetsujin in front of Imihama gates.

Bisco gets revived and comes out of the Tetsujin. As he fight it, seeing it starts to bulge up, Tirol reveals that its ready to self-destruct and they should not attack it or the incident from the past will repeat. She looks at the manual and figures out that they need to kill the pilot, shooting him in the head and that will prevent eventual self-destruct. As there is nothing else she can do, Tirol decides to leave and Milo thanks her for risking her life. Tirol states she is just repaying her debt and while blushing, that its normal to help out friends in need. When the Tetsujin is defeated, Tirol gets some Rust Eaters and heads out to sell them across Japan.

## Etymology

* Tirol's name came from Japanese Chocolates which are called Tirol Chocolate.

* Tirol's surname **Ochagama** means "big, great" (大) (**o**), "tea" (茶) (**cha**) and "kettle, iron pot" (釜) (**kama**/**gama**).
	+ The kanji when put together means "large tea kettle".