Sayuri Ichinose

**Sayuri Ichinose** (一いちノ瀬せ 小さ百合ゆり, *Ichinose Sayuri*?) is the grandmother of Chizuru Ichinose and a former top actress with Phoenix as her stage name.

## Appearance

Sayuri is a plump, cheerful elderly woman with short, grey curled-up hair, light-colored eyes or dark-colored eyes and oval glasses.

She is usually dressed in a vintage blouse and a sweater . Because of her illness, she is no longer able to walk for long and mostly seen to sit on a wheelchair.

When Chizuru was a junior high, Sayuri's hair was as long as when she was in her youth of actress and less skinnier than the current.

## Personality

Sayuri is a happy and accepting woman . She is completely similar to Nagomi, her friend and the later sister in crime for trying to unite Kazuya and Chizuru to be together for real (despite the fact that they didn't know that the couple's relationship is a lie).

During her younger age when Chizuru was a junior high school girl, Sayuri has some limit of pessimism to not let Chizuru to go overboard. The death of her husband changed her into the current with the reason that she wants to see what is laying behind his husband's wish and principal to go towards the dream.

## History

### Early Life

Sayuri was once a famous actress under the name of Phoenix. She married her husband after many attempts of his to confess on her and blessed with a daughter. Her daughter would later marry a man and she had a granddaughter named Chizuru Ichinose.

Unfortunately, her old age happiness would be cut bit by bit starting from her children's death by a traffic accident and years later, her husband would also die from another traffic accident when Chizuru was a junior high teenager. Before her husband's death, he made a bet with Sayuri that Chizuru would achieve her dream as long as she moved forward from it.

### Current Life

Prior to Chizuru's college life, Sayuri had her body became weaker even rendering her from standing up. She befriended with Nagomi Kinoshita in her hospital period. Because of the ruckus that Nagomi had caused for finding Kazuya and Chizuru to have them being bragged as Nagomi's grand couple, Sayuri met Kazuya and didn't know about the fake relationship between them. Because of that, Sayuri became so happy that Chizuru had herself a boyfriend.

There were times that Sayuri and Nagomi had hung out, but Sayuri was often to be put back into the hospital as her health became worsened and months later, she had reached her limit. Before that, she was thought to have regained her health as checked by her doctor. During this moment, Chizuru had her dream to be a curtain because she finally had her first silver screen debut with the help from Kazuya. The happiness had taken a great enlighten, far enough to have her lost her will to keep on living because she had felt that she had enough time to keep living until Chizuru achieved her goal.

## Quotes

* *"Did you watch, dear? Our grandchild has reached her dream. It's your win"* - Sayuri to her deceased husband after she has seen Chizuru able to reach her dream.

## Etymology

* The name **Sayuri** is composed of "small" (小, *sa*) and "lily" (百合, *yuri*).
* Sayuri's surname **Ichinose** means "one" (一, *ichi*) and "swift current, rapids" (瀬, *se*).
* She shares her first name "Sayuri" with her voice actress, they even share the kanjis of it.