Kiyoko

> I used to be scared of my own powers. I refused to use them where anyone might get hurt, even though it meant I could never use my best magic. But now I know how beautiful these dancing flames are. And that's thanks to you, Tsukiyo.
>
> —Kiyoko, to Tsukiyo, in the bad end route

## Association

### Relation

Father
Mother
Younger brother
Older brother

Kiyoko is the resident mage of Tsukiyo's squad.

## Appearance

Kiyoko is a beautiful young woman who is tall and slender. She has red hair and dark red eyes.

Kiyoko dresses fairly conservatively, wearing long skirts and dresses over tights. Her outfit is generally coloured, but not especially colourful, for example pink and dark red, or pale and navy blue.

## Personality

Kiyoko is polite, intelligent, and graceful. She has more academic intelligence than street smarts, but is a good logical thinker with a good memory and ability to quickly understand complex topics.

## Background

Kiyoko's family traces its lineage back to a minor samurai family of old, and for this reason everyone in the family learns to use a katana, although in modern times it is more of an art than a combat sport. Furthermore, her father was a true genius, and a head scientist at the energy corporation that destabilised reality in Sawayama City. Kiyoko therefore grew up with many expectations placed on her demeanour and achievements, and has striven to live up to them since a young age. Kiyoko has always been near the top of her class in exam rankings, and spent most of her waking hours in some sort of tutoring or training to become worthy of carrying the family name. As a result, she didn't have much time for friends, and could only take pride in making her parents proud.

Kiyoko grew up with two brothers, though she rarely spent time with them. Her older brother spent a lot of time at the lab even as a child, while her younger brother failed to achieve much of what was expected of them, being only average academically. Nevertheless, all children of the Takamine family were awakened to their magical powers as chimeras, and among them, Kiyoko's magical power was the greatest. She nearly burned down one of the family houses while practising with fire, and since then, committed herself to only using wind magic.

## Plot

Kiyoko overcomes her fear of pyromania, to everyone's regret.

## Abilities

Kiyoko has extremely high pure magical power, and a great deal of finesse as well. Her physical strength, agility, and endurance are not very high, though, giving her the stat build of a pure mage.

Kiyoko's offensive magics are fire and wind; her fire magic is substantially stronger, and when given the chance to set up, she can take down major enemies very quickly so long as they don't resist fire. Her wind magic is closer to her baseline ability, and is still stronger than her allies' magic. She can take down multiple enemies at once. Unfortunately, magic is very costly, and despite Kiyoko's high mana capacity, she can't fling around her strongest spells with abandon. Instead, she often reserves her mana for her very powerful healing magic, capable of bringing back multiple allies from the brink of death. But when she does use her strongest attacks, she has more options than anyone else, including the ability to use "artillery" spells that can hit targets from 100 m away.

Kiyoko is also good at archery and katanajutsu, but only in a noncombative ritualistic setting. Unfortunately, beautifully slicing through tatami mats hasn't taught her much about fighting a resisting target, and shooting bullseyes from a set distance isn't perfectly transferable to taking down moving targets. Between this and her low strength, she is not very well suited to taking down enemies with weapons.

## Trivia

* Kiyoko likes to cook, but she uses spice mixes and partially premade food from the grocery store. Tsukiyo thinks this is cheating.