Principal

**Douman Ashiya** (蘆屋 道満) is the principal and founder of Hyakki Academy. He is a Nuraihyon and a former human, having been rivals with Abe no Seimei.

## Appearance

The Principal has purple hair and wears a golden mask over his face with red lips and cut off horns. He rarely shows his face and tends to get upset if someone were to remove his mask. When he's out and not wearing his mask, he tends to have a hoodie with the hood up, a pair of sunglasses, and a face mask.

When he was a human, he didn't wear a mask and kept his hair out of his face for the most part. He usually had a scowl on his face and his eyebrows were typically crossed

After he killed Abe no Seimei, he was left with a scar over his left eye.

He tends to wear traditional yukatas. On his off days, he wears tracksuits so that he can't be recognized easily. He has a more relaxed face and smiles more often than when he was a human.

## Personality

On the surface, he has a very serious, yet kind attitude. He manages to keep Haruaki at the school by trying to bribe him with sailor uniforms to add to his collection or managing to not fire Miki, Hatanaka, or Haruaki.

However, he is rather sadistic, making various pay cuts to the teachers salaries, due to the reason that they often do manage to nearly destroy his school. He also takes happiness out of seeing Karasuma get injured or chased around by Takahashi Akira on one occasion. He gets angry rather easily, likely as a result of having to teach so many youkai over his years of being in charge of Hyakki Academy.

While he is very serious, he keeps some parts of his former personality when he was a human, such as enjoying gambling and going to pachinko parlors on his days off. He can also be very teasing and somewhat friendly with Karasuma, asking him to go with him to see Haruaki's game he made for the culture festival.

## Abilities

As a Nuraihyon, he can enter and leave places without people noticing that he's there unless he's made himself known.

## Relationships

### Abe Haruaki

Douman finds Haruaki rather irritating, though he clearly wants to keep him at the school. He confides in him about his past and tries to teach him about his anti-youkai powers. He has cut his salary many times and gets fed up with him.

Douman has a connection with Haruaki, due to him being the reincarnation of Abe no Seimei. Haruaki reminds Douman of He also has been known to care about him on occasion, taking him out for drinks and aiding the students in getting his soul back.

### Karasuma Ranmaru

When Karasuma was Suzaku and Douman was a human, the two bickered quite often, due to Douman not really respecting the gods very much. Karasuma would and still teases him as a response, though they get along a little less after Douman became a youkai. At some point, Douman had Karasuma employed as a teacher at his school, though at some point, this was terminated for one reason or another. After his termination, he refuses to go back to being a teacher at his school, preferring to be in the thieving business.

They met when they were both trying to find a way to look into the women's public bathhouse and promised to take the way they had met each other to their graves.

Karasuma, reeling from the fact that Douman told the gods that he killed Abe no Seimei decides to agree to visit Douman. Douman then asks him to kill him and turn into a youkai. This shows how close they were, as Karasuma agreed to killing him and turning him into a youkai at the cost of his god status.

### Abe no Seimei

When he was a human, on the surface, he hated Abe no Seimei. They were rivals and he often made everything they did a competition. However, underneath, he really admired Abe no Seimei, sighing wistfully about him when he thought Haruaki looked like him.

### Akira Takahashi

Akira and Doman get along very well. Douman likes Akira and often takes him out to treat him to drinks. He also showed his face to Akira early in their relationship due to him knowing that Akira would use anything to find out what his face looks like. He encouraged Akira to track down and take down Karasuma by telling him that he used to be a god.

### Sano Mikoto

It is implied that they're rather close, as Douman takes Sano in each summer break due to Sano not having a home to go to when the time rolls around.

## Trivia

* He is a drinker
* He likes to gamble
* According to Karasuma, he likes women who "are bigger on the bottom"
* He is ranks fifth overall when it comes to intelligence