Ayano Miyamizu

* Normal
* Possessed

### Alias(es)

Art Girl (アートガール, *Ātogāru*?) (by Rimuru)Miyamizu-san (宮水さん, *Miyamizu-san*?) (by Akira)

Ayano-senpai (綾乃先輩, *Ayano-senpai*?) (by Natsuki)

## Relations

### Affiliation

Miyamizu ResidenceYukiru Gakuen

Art Club

Class 1-B

## Media

### Debut

**Manga:** Chapter 2**Spin-off:** Chapter 3

**Pilot:** Chapter 2

### Voice Actor

Hiroyuki Aiko

**Ayano Miyamizu** (綾 (彩) 乃 (番号) 宮 (ミヤ) 水, *Ayano Miyamizu*?) is a 2nd-year student at Yukiru Academy's High School division. She made a contract with Echidna and is now bound to him. She is a member of the school's Art Club.

## Appearance

Ayano's hair is short and brown. She wears a pink and blue clip at the right side of her hair. She wears the uniform but with long sleeves. Her eyes are purple and shiny, making her to have a cute look.

When carrying her bag, her bag is color pink and pretty big. She loves arts so she store her art supplies in her bag for her drawings and Art Club.

She wears white stockings with pink stripes. In pilot chapters, it appears that she wears black stockings.

Ayano is noted to be quite beautiful, and Rimuru calls her pretty when they first meet. Ayano appears to be taller than Rimuru.

Interestingly, both Rimuru and Ayano share aesthetic similarities, like their long bangs, long sleeved uniforms, and irregular stockings.

### Possessed by Echidna Appearance

The time she got possessed by Echidna was in Chapter 12. The reason why Echidna did that is to kill her friends, Natsuki and Rimuru to make her lonely again since the deal Echidna made for her is to never have friends. Although, there are many reasons why she's possessing her.

Her hair is still brown but long with a ponytail. Her eyes are blue and wears the same thing whatever she's wearing now.

She always looked scary when possessed because of her eyes like when she's looking at you, she's like death staring you. She also looked older than in her normal form.

## Personality

Ayano is a sweet and cheerful person who is very close with her friend, Lunami. Although she claims to dislike scary stories, she continues to delve into them for the sake of cheering Lunami up, since she knows that Lunami enjoys them. Considering her zealous presentation and continued involvement with the tales, she may actually have some interest in them herself. She is shown to adore romance, as evidenced by her enthusiastic support of Lunami's romantic endeavors and enjoyment of discussing crushes. Despite her continued rejections of his advances, she was also rather jealous and upset when her childhood friend, Jiro, seemingly began to date someone else.

Aoi is also shown to be good with words and is able to get people to do what she wants just by using a little bit of pressure. She is especially harsh towards Jiro, denying every single one of her love confessions all while smiling cheerfully.

If Natsuki is the king of popularity in Yukiru Academy, Ayano is the queen of it. She gets confessed to left and right and easily rejects her suitors.

### True Personality

Her true personality reveals her to be a person who looks down on others, as stated by Jiro. Despite this, Ayano doesn't have a high opinion of herself either, and puts up a constant mask of perfection in an effort to be liked. This backfires as she comes to believe that others will only be disappointed when they learn of her flaws, causing her to become bitter and resentful towards all her classmates, and forcing her to suppress all her negative emotions and traits in fear of being ostracized

Ayano believes that Jiro's feelings are directed towards her fake self, and that the "real" her is not good enough for his love. Ayano feels as if she has no one to trust or rely on as all her loved ones deceive her, and no one understands her nor cares for who she truly is. Ultimately, Ayano is a deeply lonely and unhappy person.

As revealed in Chapter 64, Aoi's always wanted to go "far away", which is why she agreed to help No.6. Jiro claims the reason why she wanted to leave this world was because of the fear that everyone would discover her true, genuine side sooner or later, and turn against her. Although Ayano assumed he was oblivious towards it, Jiro admits that Ayano was inclined to look down on people if given the advantage. She refused to confide or get herself intimately involved with others, even if it meant putting on an act around Lunami.

She no longer has on a cheerful façade in the later chapters, but still has innately kind intentions whilst treating Jiro (despite cynically saying she hadn't want to look at the wound at all). She also gets very emotional after her argument with Jiro, and attempts to run away. When he reveals to her that he had known her true personality all along and cares for her regardless, Ayano starts tearing up, finally understanding that Jiro does love her for who she is. As she's left trapped in the Far Shore, Ayano's biggest regret is that she never said *"I like you too*" to Jiro up until the end.

## Past

Ayano was childhood friends with Jiro Hiroyuki, who became deeply in love with her at a young age. From Chapter 69, it was revealed that Ayano's past consisted of being bullied by her fellow classmates and frequently lied to by her father at a young age. She rarely showed any signs of defiance or sadness when she was picked on by her grade-school classmates, so she didn't have a response to them.

As she grew up with Jiro, she began developing a cheerful facade to cover up her actual thoughts, but despite these changes, she was still perceived to be a *different species* from everybody else. It led to people either putting her on a pedestal or accusing her when she attended Yukiru Gakuen. Although Lunami and Jiro were the two people she trusted, she avoided explaining her personal thoughts or having a genuine personality--which was the part that Jiro despised the most. Nevertheless, he still kept true to his feelings for her when he witnessed her crying as kids, suggesting it was the first time he saw her real identity.

## Abilities

### Seeing Supernaturals

Recurring from Chapter 61, it was shown that Ayano could see supernaturals when she first witnessed No.6 and Jiro's water keeper appearance, much to his surprise. She could also see Cubical in Chapter 64, and she playfully assumed he was Rimuru's crush due to her prior knowledge from the Confession Tree incident.

## Trivia

* Ayano loves stuff toys. She jokingly said to Lunami if when someones touches her stuff toys, she will end their lives except him.
* Her original name is **Teruko Nanamine** (照 (テル) 子 (コ) 七 (ナナ) 嶺 (私の) , *Teruko Nanamine*?). She tries to change her name to hide from her parents.
	+ The options to change her first name are: **Hanako** (花 (ハナ) 子 (コ) , *Hanako*?), **Mitaka** (三 (ミ) 鷹 (タカ) , *Mitaka*?), **Ryuko** (龍 (リュウ) 子 (コ) , *Ryuko*?), **Aoi** (あお (青) い, *Aoi*?) and **Ayano** (綾 (彩) 乃 (番号) , *Ayano*?).
	+ The options to change her last name are: **Motomiya** (本 (もと) 宮 (みや) , *Motomiya*?), **Shiraishi** (白 (シロ) 石 (イシ) , *Shiraishi*?), **Ichigo** (いち (いち) ご (行く) , *Ichigo*?), **Honma** (本 (ほん) 間 (馬) , *Honma*?) and **Miyamizu** (宮 (ミヤ) 水 (水) , *Miyamizu*?)
* She loves supernatural stories and occult. She does have same characteristics as Lunami.
* In her old name, the 七 in Nanamine means seven.
* She loves walking around the "Faerie" forest.
* It reveals that when she was young, she's an introvert and spends time with herself rather than others before she and Jiro met.
* Ayano's latest concern is that her computer is broken and can't play her favorite Project Arrhythmia levels.
	+ Her favorite PA levels are A New Dawn, Pixels, Spectra, Firelight and Peer Gynt v2.
* She loves playing games. But since she can't play PA, she can still play splatoon 2 since her switch is still working.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Databook
2. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Chapter 6 Extra Pages
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Spin-off: Chapter 7
4. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari: Bonus Manga*
5. ↑ *Merodikaru Mikkusu Monogatari* Manga: Volume 9