Suika Nayuta

**Relations** | Sakura Chiyoda (acquaintance)
Uriel (navigator)
Momo Chiyoda (enemy)

Suika Nayuta is a character and antagonist from the series Machikado Mazoku. She is a magical girl who, after witnessing the cycle of suffering for countless years, plans to revert the world to a primordial state in order to bring an end to all suffering.

She was an acquaintance of Sakura Chiyoda, and was present when Sakura first found Momo Chiyoda. After returning to Sakuragaoka four years after Sakura's disappearance, Momo discovered that Suika had been living in the town and hunting the demons residing there. After a fierce battle, Suika was driven out and fled to recover her power. With the town's barrier now failing in the present, Momo believes Suika will soon return.

## Appearance

Suika has white hair with red tips. She strangely has pointed ears, similar those of some demon characters like Lilith and Joshua. She often wears black outfits, particularly dresses, typically accompanied by a small hat. She always carries a metal thermos, though its contents are never specified. She wields a simple black spear in battle.

After her body melts away from Momo's wish to "neutralize" her, Suika is reduced to her dark crystal core accompanied by an eyed shadow resembling her human self.

## Personality

Suika is friendly and kind to an unsettling degree. She is also completely honest, as she believes so absolutely that she is in the right that she see's no need to lie. She feels intense amounts of pity towards those she deems unfortunate, whether human, demon, or even inanimate objects. For example, Suika has stopped eating solid food because of the "pity" she feels for it.

As a result of her unique perspective, watching the suffering throughout the world over the span of her very long life has had a drastic effect on her mentality, leading her down a dark path. She justifies the "short term" sorrow caused by her actions as a necessary evil required for her ultimate goal of ridding the world of all suffering.

## Story

### Volume 6

With the town's barrier system failing, Momo is concerned that a dangerous magical girl from her past will return, so she invites Yuko Yoshida into her dream to share her memories of that time. Six years before the start of the series, a young Momo returns to the town for the first time in four years, only to find many of the demons she knew gone, while the human residents couldn't remember them at all. Concerned, Momo headed to Sakura Chiyoda's home, only to discover someone else was living there, who introduced herself as Suika Nayuta. Suika, an old acquaintance of Sakura, recognizes Momo as "the girl form that institution", and though Momo doesn't seem to remember her, Suika says that's probably for the best.

Suika takes Momo to a nearby diner, and when Momo asks why she isn't ordering anything, Suika explains that she doesn't eat because she feels bad for the food, and that she has only been consuming fluids for a millennium. Suika tells Momo that she is an old friend of Sakura, and that her disappearance worries her. She also tells Momo that she wishes to take control of the town in Sakura's place before someone with bad intentions can get to it, but that she has difficulty due to the town's barriers, so she asks Momo to search for Sakura's Demon Registry in her stead, to which Momo agrees. Suika summons her navigator Uriel, and uses three wish point cards so that "Momo can find the one she seeks." Commentating on her memories, present-day Momo ominously states her realization that Suika hadn't lied once during their whole conversation, as she was completely convinced she was right. Momo soon receives the Demon Registry from Gusion (though she doesn't remember their meeting taking place as it did), and hands it over to Suika.

From that point on, Suika would head out every night to visit the demons in the Registry, though she doesn't let Momo tag along, leaving Uriel to keep her company. Momo learns that Suika had done something to Uriel, leaving him unable to say anything other than "Yes ma'am". Uriel uses the lettered cards from the game they were playing to guide Momo to Sakuragaoka Park, where Metako was waiting. When Suika returned, she interrogated Uriel for her location, and Momo remarks that she never saw Uriel again after that. Metako tells Momo that the strongest point of the town's barrier encircled the park's lone Sakura tree, meaning Suika could not approach them there. He explains to her that Suika was once wise and kind, an ideal Magical Girl, however her relationship with the Light Clan began to distort over time. Metako has Momo unearth the Jar of Manna, a magical artifact that powers the town's barrier, and Momo notices a large stash of wish cards, which Metako explains came from her sealing away a certain great demon. While Momo is shocked by the revelation that Sakura had sealed a demon despite wishing to protect them, Suika arrives and uses a card to force Momo and Metako to come with her. She then uses a card to limit Metako's speech to a single phrase: "The time hath come." Momo tries to meet up with Gusion, only to find her now gone like the other demons, but notices the chair she had been sitting in was charred. As the town's demons continue to disappear, Momo knew Suika was to blame.

Momo went to confront Suika, her wand ready behind her back, and accused her of sealing the town's demons. Suika, however, clarified their misunderstanding: as demons in recent times aren't very different from humans she wouldn't seal them away. Suika reassured Momo that she instead killed them painlessly. After a gap in Momo's memory in which she escaped to Sakuragaoka Park, Suika arrived in pursuit, though is unable to approach due to the barrier. She tells Momo of her goal to "erase all that is pitiable from the world", explaining that as the world's tragedies keep repeating in a cycle, she intends to revert the world back to a primordial point devoid of emotions to bring an end to suffering. She knows that she causes widespread sorrow in the short term, but she uses her memory manipulation powers to momentarily free people from that pain until she can achieve her goal. She also states that she has not forgotten a single demon she has consumed.

Suika learned from Uriel that something was buried buried beneath the tree. She used a card to try to force Momo to hand it over, but Momo uses one herself to counteract it. Seeing her method won't work, Suika begins a barrage of attacks on Momo and the tree. Momo, realizing that the only way to stop Suika was to use the cards in her possession, which she later realized came from Joshua, and wishes to kill her, but at the last moment changes the wish to "neutralize". As a result, Suika's body begins melting away, leaving only her core and a shadow beneath it. Despite Suika's protests, asking if Momo knew how much she's sacrificed, Momo ignores her and shatters the core. However, instead of dissipating, Suika's shadow remains and reforms into a human-shaped form. Suika informs Momo that the wording of a wish can drastically alter it's effects, and that she still had leftovers in her thermos which returned some power to her, as she states that "God had not forsaken her", and that she "can still do this." As Momo had left the protection of the barrier, Suika, pitying her injured state, heals her wounds. She tells Momo that even though she is back to square one, she won't falter and intends to rebuild what she had lost before fleeing the city. In Momo's memory however, Suika specifically tells Yuko, who had been watching, that she will one day come to kill her, much to Yuko and Momo's shock.

Though Momo's memory ends there, Metako then brings Yuko into his own dream to show her two of his memories of the past. In the first, Yuko see's Sakura, Metako, and to her surprise, Suika, working together on a mission at a snowy battlefield in an unnamed country (though likely Ukraine). While Suika cowers and laments the situation, the group discover a young girl, who turns out to be Momo, and take her with them. Back to safety, Sakura prepares Udon for Momo as Suika pities her. Sakura urges Suika to have some too despite her penitent towards solid food, and convinces her to at least drink the broth. Suika comments that eating once in a while does feel good. Sakura prepares to return to Japan with Momo, and before they part ways Suika asks for Sakura's contact information, though Sakura shoots her down as "she seems like the type to bombard her with calls."

After Yuko wakes up, she and her friends begin their preparations for Suika's arrival.

## Trivia

* Following the trend of Magical Girls named after fruits, "Suika" is Japanese for watermelon.
* Though her exact age is unknown, she is at least 1,000 years old, and Metako states that she has been a Magical Girl since "the age of myths".