Sadayo Kawakami

* Casual
* Maid (Becky)

## First Appearance

### Debut

Persona Record - Chapter 12 (Short Story #1) (Cameo)Puella Persona Magia Q - Chapter 17 (Short Story #1)

**Sadayo Kawakami** is a minor character who appeared in Puella Persona Magia Q. She is a teacher at Shujin Academy and She is Ren Amamiya, Ryuji Sakamoto and Ann Takamaki's homeroom teacher.

## Background

Kawakami is a Japanese language and homeroom teacher of class 2-D at Shujin Academy. She appears on the day when Ren Amamiya first arrives at the school on Sunday for registration. The principal assigns Ren to her class which is also attended by Ann Takamaki and Yuuki Mishima because it is the only second-year class with a vacancy. Knowing her new student is a juvenile on probation, Kawakami displays anxiety and expects a tougher male teacher would be more suitable to handle such a student, and complains to Kamoshida who claims that he would kick students like Ren right away if they were to do anything.

Initially, due to Ren's tainted reputation because of a criminal record, Kawakami does not hold him in high regard. However, as she begins to learn more about him, she begins to open up and would also socialize with him.

After her primary occupation, Kawakami dons the cosplay maid uniform and works as a call-in housekeeping service. Ryuji Sakamoto and Yuuki one day are interested in looking for a hot maid after seeing a flyer advertisement and invite Ren to a vacant apartment that Ryuji knows about. They call the maid agency without specified preference and Kawakami ends up being dispatched and is depressed to learn that her customers are her students, though Ryuji and Yuki flee the room before they find out. Ren can later call her to his residence. When she arrives, she is confused by her student, she compliments his sense of justice for opposing Suguru Kamoshida, but baffled by the fact that he would call a maid service, and requested her again. After hearing that he was feeling short of friends due to the bad rumors about him spread by Kamoshida Kawakami offers to let him slack off a bit in class as thanks for keeping her secret, as long as he keeps his grades up.

She also offers him to request her again if he ever needed housekeeping. Initially, she lies that she has a sick sister who needs to pay her expensive medical expense, but as Ren continues to use her maid service and talk to her, Kawakami more hints are shown that it isn't the case, and eventually, she finally confesses the real reason she moonlights for money. When she was teaching in the previous school, she was ordered by the principal to persuade a student called Taiki Takase who had the lowest grades and skipped school frequently to transfer to another school. Kawakami pitied Takase for losing his parents and working three part-time jobs to support his life, hence she tutored him personally to improve his grades. This act of kindness was met with criticism and the principal ordered her to either stop the tutoring or resign because of rumors about Takase being a juvenile delinquent. Kawakami had no choice but to give up on Takase. Takase received her phone call about her difficult decision during his delivery part-time job under heavy rain. He apparently died in a car crash during New years eve because of exhaustion from his part-time jobs and studying. Takase's relatives who adopted him blamed Kawakami for his death and threatened to sue her unless she pays them as an "apology" for Takase's death.

Takase's guardians become increasingly insatiable by raising their demands more frequently. When Kawakami is hospitalized because of being overworked, they only visit her to urge her payment to cover their debts. At this point, Ren protests them using their late son to guilt-trip Kawakami and convinced her to stand up against them, with it quickly being revealed that the true motive behind their blackmail is to pursue a hedonistic lifestyle they originally forced Takase to pay for. After the couple shows up in Shujin Academy to threaten her by making her second part-time job, which they assumed to be prostitution after the latest increase of their demand, known to all Shujin faculties. In reality, her agency has two divisions: one being a legit call-out service and the other being the actual prostitution service, with Kawakami being in the former. The protagonist overhears this and asks Kawakami about their full names, in which a Mementos request will be open so he can steal their hearts in Mementos so she can be liberated from her extortionists. After that, she quits all of her part-time jobs and informs the protagonist that she can finally put full energy in education. She thanks the protagonist in their final rank for all of his support through her ordeal and has surmised correctly that he is a Phantom Thief as only he could have possibly have known about Takase's guardians. Regardless of her relationship status with Ren, she promises to continue to support him in and out of school, using her skills as a maid to help him on his quest to help others.

During the Shido's Palace arc events, Kawakami plays a part in covering up Ren from suspicion. Ann mentions that Kawakami has informed the staff and students that Ren has gone home for a month due to family issues. This allows Ren to better remain hidden from the general public due to his "death" as the leader of the Phantom Thieves.

## Appearance

Kawakami is a youthful-looking woman of medium height and a slender build. She has dark brown unkempt hair, dark brown eyes and consistently has a somewhat long and sleepy face.

While teaching, she wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt striped with white and red horizontal lines, a blue denim skirt and white kitten heel pumps. During her off-time, she wears a beige blazer over her outfit.

During her second job, she wears a French-styled maid costume and has her hair pulled into twin tails.

## Personality

Kawakami is a highly competent and professional teacher who never lets her ever-mounting stress and exhaustion show visibly in either of her jobs. She is laid-back and outspoken, once saying "crap" in class.

While she initially acts very coldly towards Ren Amamiya, this was because she thought he was a problem student and felt unfit to deal with the kind of trouble he could bring. After he stands up to Suguru Kamoshida, she realizes that there is more to him than both his criminal record and the rumors showed and thus becomes more understanding and willing to listen, showing her more compassionate and involved side. This coldness also applies to Ryuji as well, as she warns Ren to keep their distance from him and that he is nothing but trouble, though this is followed by her seeming sad at how drastically he changed compared to when he was in the track team.

She is also something of a hopeless romantic, though both her crushing self-loathing and age cause her to feel that she has grown past the point where she can experience such things. Still, she enjoys cheesy romantic lines and is more than willing to throw some herself. She takes being in a relationship seriously, delaying her response when Ren confesses to her and refusing at first because of their situation as teacher and student. It is only because it is Ren confessing to her and his willingness to be with her that convinces Kawakami to start dating him while also working hard to be a teacher.

Her maid job in Victoria as "Becky" is a housekeeping service focused on providing household chores with a few extra options like sharing a meal with the maid, back massages, and lap pillow. Kawakami effects a stereotypical moe personality, acting energetic, cute and naive. She also acts like a cat and says "meow ♡." As she herself admits, her age and health make this come off as shallow and fake, and she regularly breaks character out of fatigue, at one point, even collapsing on Ren's bed and complaining about all the work and odd jobs she has to do.

## Relationship

### Ren Amamiya

Kawakami is responsible for overseeing and controlling Ren's conduct due to his criminal record. Although she and Ren have a student-teacher relationship, she is still worried and secretly shares useful information.

## Trivia

* Kawa-kami (川上) means "above the river." Sada-yo (貞代) means "chastity-(mundane) world."
* Her name bears resemblance with Sadayakko Kawakami (川上 貞奴), an internationally acclaimed Japanese actress.
* The kind of call-out maid business Kawakami is involved is called "delivery health," or "Deriheru" (デリヘル) for short, which is very common in large cities of Japan. "Health" is a euphemism for sexual service.

## Gallery

Concept artMaid UniformSwimsuitKawakami in the teacher's office.Kawakami after Valentine's day