Ebisu Isaburou

**Ebisu Isaburou** (恵比寿 夷三郎, *Ebisu Isaburō*) is the current teacher's assistant for Class 2-3

## Appearance

Ebisu has long, dark brown hair that's tied back into a long braid that reaches down to his back. He has red eyes with blue irises. He wears a white striped button-up with dark pants and typically has a smile on his face. Many of the female students call him handsome.

## Personality

Ebisu initially comes off as a kind and caring person, wanting to help anyone he can out of the goodness of his heart. When he first meets Haruaki, he gets along with him relatively well, though he seems rather cold towards him on occasion.

Underneath his smile and his layer of kindness, he harbors a strong disdain for all youkai. He abhors the idea of his brother, Sano, attending Hyakki Academy and went over to work there as a way to get him to get out of the school. He also seems to have a dislike for humans, with Sano saying that he doesn't care for humans anymore.

As Sano explains in the School Festival Arc, Ebisu used to be like

## Abilities

Whenever he's around people, and seemingly if he allows it, the people he's around suddenly become awash in good luck. During the their time on the train, he was able to make a jump and land on the front of the train, despite being unable to see it and during the Kyoto School Trip Arc, when Nyuudou was looking for a teacher to help them, he ran into Ebisu and when they took a taxi back to where Haruaki, Sano, and the gods were, all of the lights were green, the driver didn't ask much about Nyuudou's eye and he didn't make too much small talk with them during the ride, showing Ebisu's natural luck aura.

However, during Sano's test run of a game for the culture festival, he didn't use his luck to not have Haruaki find Tama and Mame, seemingly showing that he can turn it on and off.

## Relationships

### Sano Mikoto

Sano is Ebisu's younger brother, however, neither of them states this when Ebisu starts working at the school and according to Ebisu, he has not seen Sano in three years. Along with this, they don't share a last name, though, Ebisu doesn't give an explanation for this. Ebisu's reasoning for starting to work at the school is likely to keep an eye on Sano, likely to lead up to him being able to find some reason to pull Sano out of the school and never to speak to any of the students ever again. Sano dislikes him, and implied that he changed sometime in his life during their youkai train trip.

Despite denying it, Ebisu has a bit of a brother complex for Sano, saying to himself that he found Sano very adorable when he got worked up over what he said about Haruaki.

### Haruaki Abe

Ebisu and Haruaki initially got along relatively well. Ebisu decided to help out Haruaki when he was separated from his class during their class trip. Ebisu's opinion on him changed, however, when he witnessed Haruaki rushing in to save the Zashiki-warashi that was trapped in the burning mall. Ebisu also seemed to like stealing the spotlight from Haruaki's students and the student body as a whole when Ebisu first began working there. Haruaki and Ebisu seem to have a rather turbulent relationship, with Ebisu disliking getting close with Haruaki and Haruaki wanting to get close to Ebisu, but being rather wary of him.

### Miki Rintarou

Though Miki hides it initially, he is very wary and suspicious of Ebisu. He doesn't trust him and the first moment he has alone with him, he immediately questions his reasoning behind becoming a teacher's assistant at the school. Ebisu, however, refuses to let up and just shoots him down by mentioning Miki's loss of power due to his mother siphoning some of his power out of him and makes fun of him. However, they make a sort of uneasy truce due to the fact there's one person at the school that the other wishes to protect.

### Hatanaka Izuna

Though we haven't seen them interact very much, a drawing by Mai Tanaka shows that the two get along rather well, despite Hatanaka being a youkai. Ebisu prefers to sit next to him whenever eating out with the teachers, so he can place foods he doesn't eat on a separate plate that Hatanaka will eat for him.

## Etymology

* **Ebisu** means "favor, benefit" (恵) (**e**), "ratio, proportion" (比) (**hi**/**bi**) and "longevity, congratulations, one's natural life" (寿) (**su**).
* **Isaburou** means "barbarian/barbarians, savage, vandal, tramontate, Ainu" (夷) (**i**), "three" (三) (**sabu**) and "son" (郎) (**rou**).

## Trivia

* He is a very picky eater
	+ He doesn't eat meats, fried food, sweets, bell peppers, tomatos, and a few other things
* He draws out his vowels in some of his words, especially when he gets particularly excited about something
	+ This is similar to Takahashi, though Takahashi does it more and Ebisu also does it in his typical sentences too