Ayaka Kirisaki

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**Ayaka Kirisaki** (切崎 殺香, *Kirisaki Ayaka*) is a supporting character is who is a classmate of Taiyo Asano and Mutsumi Yozakura as well as being a spy and maid for the Yozakura Family.

## Appearance

Ayaka is a petite fair-skinned young girl with pink hair that is cut short, pink eyes and she wears a black pincushion hairpin with multi-colored pins on the left side. After the time-skip, Ayaka now has a braided ponytail with a similar smaller pincushion hairpin at the end.

Ayaka is initially seen wearing her white and blue school uniform with black leggings. She also has a case strapped around her left thigh, which she uses to store her needles. Ayaka is later seen sporting a black and white maid uniform with a golden Yozakura Family emblem at the chest area.

## Personality

Ayaka has a very hyperactive and insane personality. She's first described to be a stalker, who hunts down and kills all her targets. Her twisted sense of love makes her want to kill any man that she adores despite her positive feelings about them. Despite feeling like this, she later gains a love for Mutsumi - a girl and doesn't have a desire to kill her but instead wants to live happily with her. She is quick to cry whether it's for happy or sad reasons. She also gets frustrated quickly when she's unable to do something or something gets in her way.

## Plot

### PoPoPPo Arc

Ayaka is first seen taking out a bunch of assassins after Taiyo Asano as she says that Taiyo belongs to her. He holds his wanted poster and says how she'll soon come to take his life.
Whilst Mutsumi Yozakura and Taiyo are eating breakfast on the roof of Sakurajima High School, Ayaka watches them from above, calling Mustumi a home-wrecker trying to seduce Taiyo. She jumps down to attack Taiyo from behind, holding her needles but Taiyo blocks her with a knife. Ayaka feels aroused from clashing with Taiyo and greets him by declaring her love and desire to kill him. Mutsumi identifies her as "The Man-Hunter Spy Ayaka Kirisaki" which irritates Ayaka, causing her to threaten Mutsumi. Mutsumi explains how Ayaka is a pro at pursuit and assassination due to her stalking and killing guys she likes. This makes Taiyo realise that Ayaka likes him and Ayaka tells him how she became a fan after seeing how he's been accepted into the Yozakura Family and works so hard to keep up with them despite being a normal person. She reveals Taiyo's recently issued wanted poster saying how happy she is he's gotten recognised. She then throws her needles off the building into trees, which kills an assassin hiding in there. She says how she's been taking out assassins who have impure hatred towards Taiyo. She then starts looking insane as she says how she wont let anyone even take a piece of his hair until she kills him. She talks about how she knows lots of secret attractive point about Taiyo and gives examples of his thoughtfulness in missions. Mutsumi and Ayaka both agree on how wonderful Taiyo is. Taiyo tells her how he's already married to Mutsumi which causes Ayaka to cry and insult Mutsumi and say that Taiyo must be brainwashed. She mentions how she would like to kill Mutsumi but she made a deal with Kyoichiro, explaining how she made a deal with him in order to kill Taiyo without any of the Yozakura's getting in the way. She then uses "Needle Hell" and explains how all her needles are poisonous and leaves saying she'll meet them in class.

Ayaka tried multiple ways to kill Taiyo in school, including putting needles on chairs, in balls and also just throwing them at him in class. But the end of the school day, Taiyo's whole desk is covered with needles thrown by Ayaka. Ayaka is left crying and broken on her desk, motivating herself to keep going. He uses her "Needle Dolls" technique to hypnotise Taiyo's classmates into attacking him, this leaves Taiyo unable to fight back and captured. Ayaka prepares to attack Taiyo with her needles but Mutsumi stands in the way telling Ayaka to stop and return everyone to normal. Mutsumi then notices the assassin Ayaka attacked earlier coming from the window with a knife, she dives and pushes Ayaka out of the way of the bullet and Taiyo breaks free and shoots him with Yae. Ayaka asks why she saved her and Mustumi says how she can't let someone who loves Taiyo die. Seeing Mutsumi's affection for Taiyo causes Ayaka to fall in love with her too.

The next day, Ayaka is with Taiyo and Mutsumi as they eat at school. Ayaka is laying on Mutsumi complimenting her cooking and wanting to have Mutsumi cook her too, all whilst being completely enamoured. Mutsumi is fine dealing with Ayaka as she views her like a smaller Kyoichiro. Mutsumi says how she though Ayaka loved Taiyo and she explains how she loves Taiyo and wants to kill him, and then she can live happily with Mutsumi.

### Mission: Ayaka's Errand

Whilst our on an errand ready to cook food for the Yozakura Family, Ayaka encounters a cat on the street. She notices how small and weak it is, as well as the collar on it's neck and concludes that it's a lost pet and sets out to find it's owner and reunite them. Ayaka arrives at Sakuragi High School with the cat and consults Rinne Kitasato about any lost cats being mentioned from around their area. Ritsu Katai is also observing them and questions Rinne about Hydra who is slumped over her head. Ayaka mentions how the family are all out on missions before she comes up with an idea.

Ayaka heads to the Hinagiku base where Rin Fudo, Sui Aoi and Oga Inugami are. Rin helps Ayaka by using all the surveillance cameras in the country to look for clues on the lost cat. They find footage of a cat that looks like it's being bullied by a human and suggest that it may be the lost cat's mother. The area where the footage is from is only 10km from where they are, so Rin throws Ayaka to their location. Ayaka arrives to the scene, landing on and kicking the perpetrator. It is revealed that the individual was in fact Sosuke Michibata, who was handling his own family cat who is a bit rambunctious. Ayaka apologies for the confusion and Sosuke suggests that Ayaka goes to the Spy Association HQ to see if they can figure something out for her.

Ayaka arrives at the spy association where she had asked Tsukiyo Hoshifuru to help get information, he had talked to several people from the Spy Association but no one had information on the lost cat. Hoshifuru had also captured Asuka Hatoda who had been causing mischief in the area. Hatoda notices the emblem on the cats collar and mentions that its from Night Cherry. Hatoda explains that Night Cherry is the spy industry's biggest investment company. He says how he could set up a meeting with them, though he's never met them himself and there's a low chance of them appearing. Ayaka arrives at the meeting spot where Keiko Yozakura arrives and explains how the lost cat belongs to one of her subordinates.

Keiko explains how her subordinate lost the cat during an undercover mission, where Ayaka likely picked up the cat right when they started looking for her. Ayaka apologises for picking up the cat as they could have found her sooner, but Keiko reassures her that she did the right thing as the cat could have gotten hurt otherwise. Ban Yozakura then arrives from a manhole and recognises Ayaka. Ban mentions how he was informed that the Yozakura Mansion was under attack and he was on his way there before the family told him that hey had it under control. Ayaka is shocked by this news and cries about how she wasn't there for the family when they needed her. Keiko reassures her that she's made valuable connects today, who could help her in the future.

## Abilities and Skills

Ayaka is known to be a professional at **Pursuit** and **Assassination**. Ayaka is also able to precisely locate and attack enemies with her needles even from the top of a building whilst the opponents are hidden. She is also able to avoid the traps within the Yozakura mansion.

* **Needle Hell** - Ayaka causes hundreds of needles to rain down on her opponents.
* **Needle Dolls** - Ayaka uses the hypnotic poison in her needles to numb people's free will, allowing them to become her faithful slaves. The slaves are unable to hold back, bringing out the most of their strength when they attack.

## Weapons

* **Needles** - Ayaka uses a large collection of needles for combat, these needles are also coated with different poisons like cyanide, organic poisons, hypnotic poisons, and arsenic. She's also able to tailor make the poison dosage to match her target's tolerance.

## Trivia

* The name **Ayaka** means "kill, murder, butcher, slice off, split, diminish, reduce, spoil" (殺) (**aya**) and "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (**ka**).
* Ayaka's surname **Kirisaki** means "cut/cutoff/off, be sharp, ardent, eager, acute, keen" (切) (**kiri**) and "cape, peninsula" (崎) (**saki**).
* Ayaka has ranked as the number-one-rated "Spy You Don't Want As A Girlfriend" for 3 consecutive years.

## References

1. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 180, page 17.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, page 5.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, page 19.
4. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, page 1.
5. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, pages 2-5.
6. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, pages 6-8.
7. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, pages 9-10.
8. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, page 11.
9. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, pages 13-14.
10. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, pages 14-16.
11. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, pages 17-18.
12. ↑ Mission: Ayaka's Errand Part 1.
13. ↑ Mission: Ayaka's Errand Part 2.
14. ↑ Mission: Ayaka's Errand Part 3.
15. ↑ Mission: Ayaka's Errand Part 4.
16. ↑ Mission: Ayaka's Errand Part 5.
17. ↑ Mission: Ayaka's Errand Part 6.
18. ↑ Mission: Ayaka's Errand Part 7.
19. ↑ Mission: Ayaka's Errand Part 8.
20. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, page 7.
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, page 10.
22. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, page 13.
23. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 15, page 14.