Nozomi Aoyama

**Nozomi** **Aoyama** (青山 希, *Aoyama Nozomi*) is a 2nd year Houshou Private High School student.

## Appearance

Nozomi is a fair skinned young woman with green hair that frames her face and reaches her chin with side-swept bangs and blue eyes. She has a kind face and glittering eyes. Her actions later on contradict her appearance.

She wears a red blazer, a white undershirt with a dark colored ribbon, a checker patterned skirt, black thigh high stockings, and slightly dark colored shoes.

## Personality

Nozomi initially comes off as kind, showing concern for Emiko Miyazono and Kayo Suzuki when they return. As the story goes on however, it's shown that she only cares for the well-being of Marika Chuujou, who saved her from Ms. Nozawa. She treats Marika with the utmost respect and loyalty, starting fights with the other students if they don't agree with their teacher. She treats others that may endanger her teacher with callous disregard and disdain. Her loyalty goes to the point of seducing male students to get her way and dismissing the deaths of the other survivors.

Beyond that, she is shown to be very vengeful and malicious. She treats the other survivors with contempt following Marika's death and goes as far as to make attempts on Mutsumi Oribe's life and harm her credibility when new people join them.

After being saved from stag beetles by Mutsumi, Nozomi's feelings towards her take a complete 180. She openly clings to her arm whenever she has the chance and has become both very respectful (Calling her 'Lady Mutsumi') and protective as she knocks Kagami Nakasone out with a chair when she sees her about to sexually assault Mutsumi. She'll also become jealous if other people get too close to her. Nozomi has become genuinely concerned about Mutsumi, saying that her safety takes priority and refusing to leave her side (resulting her going along whenever Mutsumi leaves to enact a plan). Despite her loyalty, she's still extremely abrasive, demeaning and insulting anyone who questions or disregards Mutsumi's advice.

Nozomi displays the symptoms of a mental disorder known as Dependant Personality Disorder. This could explain her sudden loyalties and manic mood swings without a person she depends on present.

## Background

Nozomi was an honor student who caught shoplifting by Ms. Nozawa, and was blackmailed into being a nude model for art class. Nozomi was also assaulted regularly by the art teacher. The assault got so bad that she was considering dropping out of school.

## Chronology

### Kyochuu Rettou

Nozomi was a part of the initial group of survivors led by Marika and Ms. Nozawa. During an argument between the two teachers, Nozomi sides with Marika much to Nozawa's chagrin. She corners Nozomi later to assault her, but is pushed off a cliff by Marika, causing Nozomi to latch onto the senior teacher as a sort of guardian.

She is one of the first to greet Emiko and Kayo when they return with Mutsumi's group.

When Ryou Usui is stopped from raping Mutsumi, Nozomi slapped her, not caring that she was just almost violated. She mindlessly defends Marika, despite her actions being the reason Ayumi Matsuoka died. Following Marika and Mutsumis capture by the giant Atypus karschi, Nozomi seduces Kazuhiko Kai to gain his support in her rescue attempt of the two (though she only cared about saving Marika). By using Kazuhikos phone, they scare the spider out of its burrow; during which Kazuhiko managed to free Mutsumi but couldn't rescue Marika in time. Nozomi, while trying to save Marika, ends up accidentally causing her by scaring the spider and causing the web to tighten to the point it completely dismembered her.

In her guilt ridden state, she blames Mutsumi for Marikas death. After that, she makes two attempts on Mutsumis life: the first being to use the severed hand of Marika to lure in bugs to kill her and the second to push her into a pile of large centipedes in the hopes the cyanide would kill her. Both attempts failed miserably, with the second attempt completly backfiring.

Nozomi ends up being one of the eight original survivors to escape Little East Island in the Mino's lifeboat.

### Dai Kyochuu Rettou

Upon reaching Tatsuno Kami Island, Nozomi unconsciously latches onto Mutsumi, and doesn't realize it until Mutsumi saves her from a trio of giant rhinoceros beetles.

## Etymology

* The name **Nozomi** means "hope" (希)
* Nozomi's surname **Aoyama** means "green, blue" (青) (**ao**) and "mountain, hill" (山) (**yama**).

## Trivia

* Nozomi is one of five students who has yet to appear in the anime. The others are Kasumi Momosaki Miki Shirakawa, Ryou Usui, and Takeshi Minowa.