Sara Garandou

* Visual Novel
* Anime

**Sara Garandou** (伽藍堂 紗羅, *Garandō Sara*) is Urajima Shrine's sole shrine maiden.

## Personality

Sara has a great fascination with curses and supernatural powers, and has never really stopped believing in unscientific powers. She claims to have a connection with another time traveler from the future. She is the island's enthusiastic believer and little idol.

She is insecure about her body as she was upset by Setsuna's remark over her chest until she hears that he has no problems with them.

## Plot

### Pre-Island

After her parents death, she was taken in by the Kurutsu family, because the father wanted to make his influence grow. Disgusted, Sara flew and went living alone on the shrine. She still called Karen "big sister", but Sara's fugue is a delicate topic between both, Karen thinking Sara should be grateful for their help while Sara hate Karen's father.

### First Island

Sara encountered Setsuna Sanzenkai on Rinne's mansion and initially believed him as a time traveler, almost killing him with a knife but failing as she slipped. Setsuna also believed in time travel, even as far to claim himself as a time traveller too.

She believed that she must do something before her 17th birthday, to impregnate herself with the right man and go back to the past. This belief was because she had the photo of her mother with the same mark on her cleavage, which is the same as she had. She wrongly thought she was her own mother, and had to give birth to herself.

She was revealed to be traumatized with the fact and belief that she had the power to erase the illness towards the villagers' syndrome over the sunlight, and always presented herself as the future savior of this Island, and believed that was her mission, which was later revealed that was no such thing. Her uncle had covered it up by doing a twisted ritual, leading Sara's parents to commit suicide after times.

Sara later learned that the mark on her body was due the ritual and that every generation, the females would be marked. After her problem was solved, she finally celebrated her birthday and stopped thinking about going through time.

Sara would later help Setsuna to give information and ask him to help with giving massages to please the villagers after trying on Kuon and was very effective, also helping him to convince Rinne Ohara to get out during the day to overcome her fear of the sun.

### Second Island

Sara had the very same development on her first encounter with Setsuna, trying to kill him. Setsuna remembered and Sara failed even before trying, making her cry and making Rinne suspicious. Then he revealed everything he knew about Sara to prove he knew her, and proposed her a party with corn flavored curry, with the goal of making her Rinne's friend. He also invited her own mother, to have both of them make up.

In the party, Sara spends time with everyone and mainly Uran dressed like Kuon, who hugged her and found her very cute several times. Later in the beach, Maria had a chat about her past with Kuon and Natsumi, and about her daughter, with Setsuna, revealing the three mothers were best friends.

Sara learned officialy from Setsuna that Uran is her mother by looking at Sara and Maria's photo, but told that she somehow had a hunch when she was her. Her mother indeed didn't die 5 years ago but protected Sara and then went to the mainland with Karen's mother, and went back as a nurse. Both made up thanks to Setsuna's overall influence since the beginning of the Second Island, because he knew who was Maria, and Sara and Maria now live together until Sara gets a family, because Maria plans to go back on the mainland after that.

When Sara was asked by Setsuna about Ohara family, she helped Setsuna discover something odd about Kuon Ohara because of one of her youth photo, leading to the fact that Kuon Ohara is Rinné.

## Etymology

* The name **Sara** means "thread, silk" (紗) (**sa**) and "lightweight fabric" gauze, thin silk, Rome (羅) (**ra**).
* Sara's surname **Garandou** means "nursing, attending/attendant, entertainer" (伽) (**ga**), "indigo" (藍) (**ran**) and "hall" (堂) (**dou**).

## Trivia

* Sara's favorite food is grilled corn, just the name making her drool.
* Sara can easily be tamed with corn dishes, as shown by Setsuna.
* She can believe everything with "proof", as she though she was her own mother.
* As other women in her family, it's hinted in her ending and Never Island she will soon start to grow taller.