Sakura Akagawa

Sakura Akagawa (赤川 さくら, *Akagawa Sakura*) is the guard of The Divine Lake and the Eternal Cherry Blossom. She is the sister of Natsune Akagawa, the sunset god.

## Physical description

### Personality

Unlike the rest of Midoriyama, Sakura is really caring towards humans if she's still in her human form. She even offered tea and some talk to the heroines in The Incident of The Strange Moon. In her beast form, though, she is hostile to everything except her master Higanjin Ichijou.

## Abilities

### Manipulating thermodynamics

Sakura can manipulate heat of any certain location to make water boil. That's how she misled the heroines in the first incident.

### Art of enlightment

She can use the art of enlighment taught by Ichijou to attack. Especially with the powers of Eternal Cherry Blossom, she can be really dangerous.

## Character Information

### Name

Her full name is Sakura Akagawa (赤川 さくら). Her surname, Akagawa, means "red river.. Her name, Sakura is commonly used for cherry blossoms.

### Design

She wears a purple-blue dress with cherry petals on it. On her beast form, the dress becomes red and the petals become white. Her eyes are normally pink, but she has red eyes in her beast form.

## Appearances

### The Incident of The Strange Moon

Sakura misleads the heroines from the Eternal Cherry Blossom to the Road of Brightly Blooming Flowers in stage 3. On the Brightening Cherry Blossom difficulty's first stage, Sakura re-appears as the stage boss.

On the Reincarnation stage, Sakura comes as the midboss in her beast form to stop the heroines from apparoaching Higanjin Ichijou.

### The Incident of The Divine Mountain

On stage 3 and 4 and the extra events, Sakura appears as the midboss to stop the heroines from approaching Higanjin Ichijou.

### Chigawajin's Nightmare

On Chigawajin's Nightmare's Midoriyama route, Sakura attacks Chigawajin with Rengetsu Akiyama, Higanjin Ichijou and Akitsuki Akimoto.

## Relationships

### Akitsuki Akimoto & Akira Akimoto

Akitsuki and Akira are Sakura's friends no matter the species difference. Especially Akitsuki is her fellow friend. This is shown in The Incident of The Strange Moon as Akitsuki settles off from the battlefield to warn Sakura about the heroines coming.

### Rengetsu Akiyama & Chigawajin

There's a complex relationship between Rengetsu and Sakura. Sakura, in her beast form, fights Rengetsu really often, while in her normal form, they're still rivals, but not as fierce.

Chigawajin is Sakura's old rival because of Higanjin Ichijou, so Sakura doesn't approach her often.

### Higanjin Ichijou

Higanjin is Sakura's master and her source of enlightment, so Sakura appreciates Higanjin a lot. Higanjin's arts of life and death can also be used by Sakura as martial art.

### Natsune Akagawa

Natsune is Sakura's elder sister, but it's unknown if Sakura knows about her or not.

### Hanadama Ichijou

Hanadama is Higanjin's younger sister, and now she's a jiang shi. Sakura does everything to protect her because Hanadama is being moved with Higanjin's powers.

### Junkumosora Raijin & Kyokatsu Yamiame

Junkumosora was residing around the Eternal Cherry Blossom so she probably is aware of Sakura. It's unknown if Sakura knows her, though.

Kyokatsu is around The Divine Lake through the events of The Incident of The Divine Mountain, so Sakura might've seen Kyokatsu around.