Ai Tennoji

**This article contains *FANSLATIONS* and needs to be updated to official translations.**

## Ai Tennoji

* Bio
* Status

## First Appearance

### Family

Mai Tennoji (younger twin sister, deceased)

### Occupations

Shinobi

**Ai Tennoji** (天 (てん) 王 (のう) 寺 (じ) 曖 (あい)  *Ten'nōji Ai*?) is a shinobi and princess from Soga Village.

## Appearance

Ai is a petite young girl of very pale complexion. She has back-length black hair with bangs swept up and pinned to the left of her face, and slanted dark eyes. Ai has a scar in her chest that was caused by Mai Tennoji when she was younger. Even though the wound didn't kill her, it still made her heart and her overall constituition weak. Ai is usually seen in a school-like uniform which consists of a long-sleeved shirt underneath a vest, a ribbon, skirt, knee high socks and loafers.

When she tranforms, her hair is in a ponytail with a ribbon, and she wears a short, white kimono with an obi sash tied around her waist, arm sleeves, high socks, karuta armour on both her arms and legs, and geta on her feet.

## Personality

Ai is a polite and refined young girl. In the Japanese original version, she utilizes "Uchi" (うち ***"Uchi"***?) to refer to herself, which is mostly used by females in the Kansai dialect as Iko Koishikawa noticed. Since she never left her home on her own, she is ignorant in various matters regarding modern tecnology and what would be common knowledge for Japanese people, such as karaoke, arcade and even department stores.

She is very obstinate and refuses to act in the way her village and Tokimaru expect. As Ai was isolated from the outside world for pretty much her whole life, she wants to be free from her village's shackles and explore the world by herself, even if it means running away from her home with nothing but her sword by her side. Ai has also a very strong perception of justice and thinks it's strange for shinobi to stay hidden in times when they are needed, and want to change this notion.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: Just like any other shinobi in her village, she was trained since she was young in the arts of shinobi. She has a very deep understanding of Hearts and their importance in everyday life, as well as in battle. Even though her physical condition is not good ever since she was attacked by her sister in the heart, she is still capable of very astonishing feats. Ai was capable of getting on top of a torii easily just to argue with Tokimaru, and she effortlessly throws rocks across a river into a tree's stum, which was revealed as basic training for shuriken throwing back in her village.

**Swordsmanship Specialist**: Even though her physical stamina is poor and she easily loses her breath over simple movements, Ai is trained in the art of the self-defense, and is especially skilled with the sword. It was first displayed as she easily knocked out a purse snatcher in front of Teru Momijiyama and Iko. Her abilities extend to any type of blade, as she demonstrated she can adeptly cut ingredients in a very fast manner.

## Trivia

* Her last name has the kanji for "heaven" (天 ***"heaven"***?), "king" (王 ***"king"***?) and "temple" (寺 ***"temple"***?). It may come from the Shitenno-ji. Her first name means "dark" or "not clear" (曖 ***"dark" or "not clear"***?), and it is homophone to the Japanese kanji for "love" (愛 ***"love"***?).
* She likes ninja training and ajarimochi.

## References

1. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 32, page 6.
2. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 32, page 8 and 9.
3. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 34, page 1.
4. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 37, page 8, 9, 10 and 11.
5. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 32, page 16 and 17.
6. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 35, page 7.