Ayase Ryoko

**Ryoko** Ayaise (綾瀬 **涼子**) a minor character in Fallen Wife, an investigator of the police. She is the sister of Fuyuno Reiko.

Ryoko is the main heroic antagonist of the game.

## Personality

Ryoko displays an extremely sharp eye for observation and subtly tries to get intel. She is otherwise friendly and hardworking. Ryoko displays an extremely sharp eye for observation and subtly tries to get intel. She is otherwise friendly, hardworking and strongly determined to solve the case.

Though her boss tells her to loosen up, and to enjoy a drink once in a while, she dislikes being lazy and refuses.

She is able to remain strong-willed for a long time, specially if it is for somebody she cares about, there is a breaking point should her trust be betrayed.

## Appearance

She has purple eyes and red hair. In "Ryoko's Degration Ending", she possibly has her limbs amputated and is given a crotch tattoo in the form of a rose.

## History

She is friends with Natsume Sayoko The owner of "Cafe Natsume", she and her sister visited many times. Joining the police, she became originally part of a unit taking care of juvenile criminals, but afterward joined a unit for cyber crime.

Being the leading member of the investigation of the disappeared wife of a political figure "Mihoko Sanjou", she learns of the connection to a crime website Under Eden, which turns women into slaves and sells them oversea. Ryoko would spend most story searching for the physical location of Paradise, a place connected to eden, in Morino City.

In one of the ending routes, Nagisa Haruki is able to successful bug her phone when Ryoko came to sleep over at the Natsume residence. After listening to Ryoko's phone conversations, Haruki found out that Ryoko had indeed discovered Paradise's location and plan to lead a police raid on the location. Haruki was able to warn "the Manager" of the impending raid, and they were able to hid all the incriminating evidence before the police arrived. The failed raid apparently left a blemish on Ryoko's reputations and put her creditably into question. At the end of this route, Haruki has Reiko send a text to her younger sister to meet at "Cafe Natsume". Although Ryoko found the text to be suspicious, she decides to go anyway, with Haruki waiting to meet her there, strongly implying that he intends to make Ryoko his third slave.

Her other fate, in what could be called Ryoko's Degration Ending route, gives a more definitive end to her story. During this route, she is tricked by her sister to meet her at Paradise, unaware that Reiko has become a loyal slave of Nagisa Haruki. Upon her arrival, Ryoko is ambushed by a gang of thugs, and despite putting up a good fight, she is subdued by the Manager after he uses a stun gun against her. She is then forced to undergo a week of sexual "training" while the people of Paradise threaten to harm her sister if she does not comply.

At the end of the week, it was determined that Ryoko would be sold off to a rich Russian billionaire as a personal slave. She is stuffed into a cargo box as a means of transportation and is given a "send off party" from the people of Paradise. Despite all that has happened, Ryoko remained headstrong, hanging on to the hope that she can still save her sister and would one day get her revenge on her tormentors. However, Reiko, along Sayoko and Haruki, reveals themselves to Ryoko and explained how they set her up. Horrified by the revelation and realizing that Paradise now has the means to cover up her disappearance through her sister, Ryoko has a mental breakdown and desperate begs for the trio to save her. The three instead gives their goodbyes as the lid of the cargo box is closed on her. At the end of this route, Ryoko was successful sent over to her new owner in Russia, and Reiko turned in a forged resignation letter to the police, successfully giving an alibi for Ryoko's disappearance. The residents of Morino City never seen or heard from Ryoko ever again.

Other alternative endings would result in Ryoko either leading a raiding on Paradise only for the staff to escape, Ryoko getting ambushed by the Manager of Paradise who plan to make Ryoko his slave, or Ryoko continuing her investigation without realizing that Sayoko and Haruki has become Under Eden's newest mind broken slaves.

### Timeline TABA

After Tokiko was freed from Fuuma Gisuke, she suffers from the ill effects of his training and after an attack on Fuuma Danjo, she is controlled by his eyes even long after. To be cured. Kiryu Mikoto uses one of her machines to send Fuuma Kotaro into her mind.

Ryoko is seen as the navigation avatar Mikoto uses, though Kotaro wonders why she picked this woman and who she is, he ultimately doesn't ask for details and saves Tokiko. It can be assumed that Ryoko's appearance as an avatar is a result of a scan done by her by the criminal underworld at some point, meaning that she has been sold to a criminal group connected to demonic science.

### Timeline RPGX

Her sister is seen as a slave in Yomihara. Though her own fate is unknown.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Hand Gun "New Nambu"

* **Keen-Intellect**
* **Martial Arts**

## Media

* Fallen Wife
* Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena (Indirect)

## Trivia

* Her possible fate in the "Ryouko Degradation" route is considered one of the most grim outcomes for a character in the entire franchise. Ironically, going through this route is a only way to view her CG scenes in Fallen Wife.
* Her cameo appearance in TABA does raise a lot of questions, especially with her canon fate being currently up for debate. It could be that the TABA image of her came from a recording that Mikoto found either on the Under Eden website or from her own criminal sources. Similar to Sayoko and her sister Reiko, that were copied by Doppelganger from a recording or seeing them.
* Though not clearly stated, her last CG in "Ryoko's Degradation" ending route implies she lost both of her limbs for the trip in the cargo box.
* Through data mining of Fallen Wife, a few unused scripts can be found that seems to indicate that Ryoko was initially supposed to be given more CG scenes, but these scenes were seemly cut during production. Also, additional character sprites of Ryoko that wasn't used in the game can be found as well, including one where she is wearing lingerie and another where she is nude.
* She does superficially resemble Ayaka of Taimanin Asagi ZERO.

### Etymology

* **Ayase** means "design" (綾) (**aya**) and "swift current, rapids" (瀬) (**se**).
* **Ryoko** means "cool, refreshing" (涼) (**ryo**) and "child" (子) (**ko**).