Ichika Amasawa/Relationships

## Class 2-D

### Kiyotaka Ayanokōji

He is her object of affection and she puts him on a pedestal above every other student. He coincidentally perfectly fits the mold and two criteria she sets when looking for a male partner being a gourmet cook and a strong individual. As such, Kiyotaka cooked for Ichika to convince her to become the representative for Sudou as part of her exam to determine who she'll partner with during the special exam. Ichika's attitude towards Kiyotaka can be said to be a teasing one since when she saw Kei once in his room. She would tease him for looking at her butt so as to make Kei Karuizawa angry at Kiyotaka. She regards Kiyotaka as her personal chef. Prior to her encounter with the guy for the first time, she greatly admires and idolizes Kiyotaka based on what she knew of him from data given to her but wasn't sure if he is really the real deal as everyone views him to be. She is also reflective of her role in Kazuomi Hōsen's strategy to expel him, knowing that it was to help Kiyotaka find a solution to escape expulsion through perfecting the conspirator's plan in a way that he can combat it. Understanding that her action made Kiyotaka warier of her, she makes sure to visit him to express her guilt. She even offers him an apology gift in the form of contraceptives to assist Kiyotaka in having a safe sex experience with Kei if he ever plans on using them.

However, after directly meeting Kiyotaka face-to-face and talking to the man, she came to acknowledge him as someone worthy of her affection. According to Kiyotaka, if he did not meet her expectations, Ichika would likely not have hesitated in trying to expel him. She is desperate to get his attention and have him notice her, pondering if he likes the way she is dressed, and takes pride in presenting herself as cute in front of him. Even when she was doing reconnaissance while observing Kiyotaka from afar, Ichika would intentionally let her presence be known although her senpai pretended to not notice his Kouhai was nearby watching him. She is smugly proud to know more about Kiyotaka the most than anyone else, lavishing praises behind knowing the reasons for his good looks and outstanding abilities.

In her Volume 2 SS, Ichika's inner thoughts reveal that she has an obsession with Kiyotaka, looking to get close to him and exploit his weaknesses no matter the means. She calculated different ways on how Kiyotaka would try to turn her away and make her leave, having already made preparations to counter all of them. For example, she once threatened to expose his relationship with Kei to the public if he doesn't allow her into his bedroom. He is the only senior student she constantly refers to as "senpai" respectfully. Ichika refers to other seniors such as Kei with a neutral tone in her thoughts unlike what she says on the outside. She stalked Kei for two weeks just to get information on Kiyotaka as well. The reason behind her obsession has yet to be revealed in detail.

In Year 2 Volumes 3 and 4, during the Uninhabited Island Exam, she saw through Kikyō Kushida's plan to record the fight between Kiyotaka and Tsubasa Nanase, and use violent methods against her to prevent her from doing anything foolish to her special person. Also telling Kikyō, that she has feelings for "Ayanokouji-senpai" which goes beyond love, and was eager to enjoyably observe how he deals with his situation concerning Tsubasa. Ichika was unhappy that Kikyō only suspected that her feelings toward Kiyotaka were only 'like' and so she taught her lessons in humility. While so, she doubts Kiyotaka has a classmate who he can truly trust and depend on and the view that no one is truly worthy of him. Ichika dislikes having outsiders who are not directly involved with the conflict she and Kikyō face, believing it purposefully impede their lives or causing them problems. For this reason, Ichika refuses to let him be expelled by any outsiders that get in his way and would do what she can to prevent them from interfering, even willing to sacrifice her own health and safety. Ichika has the utmost respect and admiration for his abilities and in turn, he takes her very seriously and observes her cautiously after knowing she was also from the White Room.

In 2nd year volume 6, she went to Kiyotaka's room. Kiyotaka did not wanted to let her in but Ichika said she knows Kiyotaka had some girls come to his room and if he won't open she will tell everyone. Ichika said she knows Kei and Mei-Yu had come to his room. She then again teased him that he stares at her butt, but Kiyotaka said he only looks at her because he does not know what happens if he looks away.

In Year 2 Volume 7, Ichika restrained Kushida to impede her from participating in the cultural festival. Kiyotaka decides to intervene causing a physical confrontation between the two White room students. He was able to gain an upper hand after a while and retrain Ichika. Despite praising her fighting abilities, he states that even if she is stronger than most of the fighters in the school and had training from the white room, she is still not at his caliber who stood at the apex. Ichika eventually relents and escaped from his grasp. Seeing how he was serious in defending Kushida, she decides to back down quietly and walk away. Later Ichika wanted to defend Kiyotaka and said she did not wanted to Takuya go after Kiyotaka. She was even willing to fight Takuya despite never beating him before.

In 2nd year volume 8, Ichika came to talk with Kiyotaka, she said she was thankful of him for letting her stay at school because if she had left here she wouldn't have had any place to go.

### Kei Karuizawa

Ichika silently tailed Kei for two weeks as a way to know understand her personality and observe her relations with Kiyotaka. She was well aware that Kei is someone extremely close to Kiyotaka, knowing how the latter has the tendency to go and visit his room and spend time with him surreptitiously. Though she is deciding whether it is out of attachment and protection or true love for both of them. In one instance, she noticed that Kei had finished getting fully dressed and preparing to go to Kiyotaka's room and so Ichika did the same by heading back to her own room and wearing cute clothes herself as well to make herself presentable to him. She comedically joked how Kiyotaka hid his girlfriend shoes and wonders if they were doing anything naughty.

She likes to tease Kei's relationship with Kiyotaka and has interrupted one of their intimate moments before, such as when the two were about to kiss, Though she was not aware of what was happening between them at the time and assumed that they were having intercourse. Ichika is playful with her remarks toward Kei which the latter does not take too kindly of especially when the former starts touching her belongings without permission. Ichika is aware that she might be disliked by Kei for interrupting her moments with Kiyotaka as the latter was not appreciative of the Kouhai being so close around him. Although, she does admit to Kiyotaka that he has made acquaintance with quite a cute Kouhai.

Realizing that, Ichika welcomes the idea of letting Kei stay with her and Kiyotaka in his room as he cooks for the two of them. She notices that Kei gets angry a lot at her after the former's manners of talking to the two. She made fun of how easily Kei shows her frustrations and dissatisfaction whenever Kiyotaka is involved. She initially expected that Kei may have already had sex with Kiyotaka but was puzzled that they haven't done the deed as of yet. She purposefully manufactures situations for Kei to get jealous and bashful and enjoys seeing her frazzled. Furthermore, she displays her considerate nature by also taking steps to help them progress further in their relationship by bringing up sensitive topics that are usually avoided and leaving soon after so they can talk about them.

Ichika interestingly enjoys reading Kei's reactions to discern how much she knows about Kiyotaka's situation behind the scene, revealing information that puts him on the spot before his girlfriend had him explain later once the former was gone from his room. Despite understanding that Kei was Kiyotaka's boyfriend, this doesn't stop her from taking action to flirt with him on occasions in front of her to some degree before leaving them alone so as to see the level of protectiveness. She wonders how long or whether Kiyotaka will truly reveal his secret to his girlfriend but was happy that he is learning the value of love and attaining happiness.

### Ken Sudō

She met Ken together with Suzune and Kiyotaka at the Keyaki mall and heard they were looking for a partner for Ken for the upcoming special exam and Ichika offered to be his partner on the condition that her desire is fulfilled, which consists of a guy that is both strong and can cook. Kiyotaka represented Ken in Ichika's exam for being her partner by being her personal cook. Thanks to Kiyotaka satisfying Ichika with his cooking skills, Ken and Ichika became partners for the special exam. Ichika doesn't mind the man's own confidence in his strength, acknowledging he was one of the strongest second-year students around after confirming it on her own and with further justification by Kiyotaka and Suzune, although she is still looking for someone stronger.

### Suzune Horikita

She first met Horikita by asking her senpai to become her partner during a special exam which the latter turned down. Although the two were unable to pair up together, Amasawa was still able to go out of her way and offer her cooperation to Horikita in becoming Sudou's partner. However, she doesn't immediately agree to pair or work with Sudou until Horikita fulfills the conditions put forward by the former. Amasawa uses the first conversation with Horikita to gather information of what she could about the second-year fighter Sudou before changing the stipulations of her deal around to get what she wants like having the latter allowed to have Kiyotaka cooked for her.

At the same time, she doesn't appreciate getting any girl like Horikita to be her personal chef doing the cooking except for only male cookers she yearns to go after, barring the latter from openly helping Ayanokoji with practicing to make a meal. Amasawa can't help but be resistant to Horikita, questioning her senpai's objective in wanting to go to I2. Amasawa finds Horikita less discerning than Kushida who she had a better understanding of as a person. She gets annoyed and frustrated by Horikita's remarks that the latter made it her wish to get to better know Kiyotaka more than the former could until graduation.

More so, it made Amasawa less interested in wanting to talk to her again and resume their fight thereafter, thinking that Horikita is not actually as capable of a person she expected her to be and can't imagine the thought that she can be helpful and reliable to Kiyotaka. She looks down on Horikita, liking the idea of wanting to toy with her before thoroughly breaking the latter. She refuses to disclose or share any information about herself or Kiyotaka to Suzune, feeling that she and other outsiders have no right to learn of their past, going so far as to evade or ignore the girl's questions entirely.

She is able to keenly deduce that Horikita was lying and remains skeptical about her reason to go to I2, stopping to not only admire but also question her senpai's resolve. Like she did to Kushida, Amasawa was ready to intimidate Horikita by using violence on her and made sure the girl took some time to heal and prolong the fight for as long as she could while enduring her own injury and waiting for the matter in I2 to conclude. When fighting Horikita, Amasawa did her best to not let her senpai catch wind of her injury and attack it until near the end of their duel that the latter eventually discover what she was hiding. Despite being held down, she was able to capitalize on an opening but back down after the situation at I2 concluded. She left soon after, leaving Horikita to her own devices and action without any other plans to impede her.

### Kikyō Kushida

Ichika knows that neither she nor Kikyō will ever get along well. This was after meeting Kikyō for the first time during the Uninhabited Island Exam, that she can resoundingly discern her senpai's true personality and see through her façade after one glance. Ichika doesn't fall for Kikyō's mask and the naivety and caring attitude she puts up, wanting to have an actual discussion with the senpai about her intentions. She was interested to see how different Kikyō's true attitude was unlike the fake persona she put up in front of others, thinking it suits the latter better than that mask.

Ichika doesn't shy away from revealing what she knows about Kikyō's past and desires in front of her, having a good understanding of how the girl acts and imagined herself to be when compared to her classmates and friends. Even after tormenting her, Ichika understood that Kikyō hadn’t developed any fear but rather a resentment of her which she admires her senpai for, having such a strong conviction for her ideals that were beyond her expectations. She understood that Kikyō has come to hate her, as the latter was using hatred towards those like the former who knew about her past to steel her resolve in expelling them. She happily accepts her challenge and scoffs at the idea of her actually succeeding.

However, Ichika warns Kikyō that she won't hesitate to destroy the goody-two-shoes image that her senpai had worked so hard to build by disclosing her past to everyone in the school before considering dropping out. Ichika told Kikyō that it was pointless of the latter to threaten her when the former is stronger than her and doesn't have any weaknesses barring Kiyotaka. Regardless of how her senpai perceived her as Ichika doesn't mind Kikyō's true personality whatsoever and was willing to tolerate it but decided to take matters into her own hand after her arrogant nature became too overbearing. She took a passive-aggressive stance against her, maintaining a sweet exterior, but her dialogue and eyes didn’t match. She was irritated that she would try to cause problems for Kiyotaka and so decided to break her down both physically and mentally.

While so, she is able to pick up on Kikyō's strategy and the measures she had taken to prevent the latter's expulsion, correctly guessing what her senpai had managed to prepare beforehand with the private points. Although she was delighted to see her true personality in action, Ichika was not without caution, warning her senpai to keep the noise level down and be wary of their surroundings when the two may end up getting caught talking by someone if they're too loud. With that said, Ichika was said to have been one of the new first-years in the second-year story to have known about the secrets of Kikyō's history and personality back in Middle School.

In Year 2 Volume 7, Ichika restrained and brought Kushida down violently to the floor. She was eventually saved by Kiyotaka who was able to free her from her restraints. After the incident, she reflects how abnormal both of their fighting prowess were as her fear of Ichika reignited.

## Class 1-D

### Tsubasa Nanase

Although she and Nanase were considered to be allies and part of the same group during the Uninhabited Island Exam, neither of the two really trusts each other. Ichika was skeptical about working cooperatively alongside Nanase who felt the same as the latter does not approve of Hōsen's idea about letting the former join their group yet he reaches the decision anyway to get her to pair up with the two of them. As a matter of fact, she and Hōsen volunteered to work independently by themselves from Nanase, heading to different designated areas and doing separate tasks.

Nanase wants her to see that she and Hōsen are on even grounds with her while Amasawa feels that they aren't worthy of being her equals, to begin with especially after their negotiation experience. After having tested the girl's physical abilities with her own hands, Amasawa's opinion of her remains unchanged and actually strengthened as she still doesn't truly regard Nanase as her equal or acknowledge her. Amasawa admits it has nothing to do with which class they are part of but something else entirely but she didn't feel the need to explain her reasoning. This was shown when she had enough of her and started she outrunning Tsubasa not limited to just using her more refined skills but also her vast knowledge of the rough terrain.

When Nanase attempts to interrogate her, Amasawa didn't once respond to her colleague's questions but kept on silently running without hesitation, ignoring everything that was being asked by the girl. Amasawa knows that Nanase sees her as a suspect who perpetrated violence on a group of second-year students in the darkness of night as she was at the scene of the crime after it had happened to them. She is argumentative with Nanase, reasoning that her accusations are baseless without a shred of evidence to support the latter's claims against her.

After Nanase was defeated by Kiyotaka, Amasawa condescendingly views Nanase as an obedient and loyal dog who became submissive to Ayanokoji's orders, thinking her colleague is much better that way than she was before. Nanase is extremely weary of Ichika, knowing that is someone dangerous and shouldn’t be trifled with as she stood in between them.

Ichika couldn’t help but feel amused by how overprotective Nanase was being of Ayanokoji as the latter refuses to allow the former to get any closer to him, calling the girl his knight in shining armor after siding with him and not with her or Hōsen.

However, she did not appreciate her interruption and calls Nanase an outsider who is not welcome to listen in on the private conversation between herself and Ayanokoji about the White Room. She then waited for him to order the latter to leave them alone so they can converse in secrecy.

In Year 2 Volume 7, they had impeccable teamwork and their team was able to be the finalists in the volleyball tournament. Nanase did not hold a grudge that they lost the match after Ichika had hit the ball outside the court, allowing their opponents to win.

In 2nd year volume 8, Tsubasa was suspicious what Ichika wanted to do since she had not come to school for sometime. Ichika talked with Kiyotaka and found out that Tsubasa was the one who told kiyotaka her place. Ichika said she only gives special treatment to Kiyotaka and no one else.

### Kazuomi Hōsen

She met Hōsen for the first time in a store, stopping him from going through with the idea of buying a knife-type weapon that he sought of using to carry out his plan of expelling Ayanokoji. Amasawa volunteers to take part in helping him find a better way to expel Ayanokoji by refining and perfecting his frankly flawed strategy, suggesting to Hōsen that he lets her handle things on her end first before giving him the knife. As a result, she and he became fellow accomplices and conspirators alongside Nanase, working together in cahoots during the Partner Exam.

Though it was revealed that she was actually trying to assist Ayanokoji instead by having him picked up on clues left intentionally by her so that he can then use them to counter Hōsen's scheme. After going to the grocery store to have Kiyotaka purchased a sheath knife, she returned to his room and retrieved the weapon before handing it over to Hōsen who then continued forward with putting his strategy into motion. Later when the Uninhabited Island Exam was announced, Amasawa was reached out by Hōsen to cooperate with him once again to take down Kiyotaka which she accepted under certain conditions that all the bounty money are given to her in exchange for her helping him achieve his objectives.

She believes her service to him doesn't come at a cheap price and supposedly desires to have the twenty million private points all for herself. He agreed as his main goal was the expulsion of Kiyotaka. Due to this meeting, she became a part of the group comprising of herself, Hōsen, and Nanase once the special exam begins. Not before long though, she starts to work individually from the group and earns points in designated areas and tasks alone without them. More so, she chose to move behind the scene and meet up with Kiyotaka instead of Hōsen. Amasawa regards Hōsen as a vulgar boy and describes him to be the type who was not afraid to lay a finger on a female, harming girls while pretending nothing had ever happened thereafter. She understood that Hōsen sees her as a boring girl who he dislikes for hating on his watch.

Furthermore, Ichika calls Hōsen to be someone cocky and arrogant for thinking that he can easily defeat many formidable upperclassmen. She considered him and Nanase as the main fighting forces of Class 1-D who were ready to go against the agreement he made with the other three first-year classes. In some sense, Amasawa was already probably well aware of the fact that Hōsen is not likely someone who can uphold his end of the deal even when she and he are negotiating with each other. She is cognizant that teamwork with him is nigh impossible if he is paired together with her in designated areas and tasks.

## Class 2-C

### Mio Ibuki

When Amasawa first met with Ibuki and was asked a question, she avoided answering her senpai and instead turn her focus to Horikita, not thinking the former was someone to be wary of as she wasn't intending to go to I2 initially unlike the latter. When Ichika was called a nuisance, she rebukes Ibuki's comment believing it was none of her business to follow after Horikita as they would just be a nuisance to the ongoings of that place.

Nonetheless, Amasawa was surprised to see Ibuki return to the area and save Horikita as she figured the latter would have already left the second year alone to fight her, underestimating the depths of her character.

While she couldn't expel Ibuki and Horikita as they're paired together in a group during the Uninhabited Island Exam, Amasawa heavily considered the idea of either breaking her or her partner down at the very least. She did not appreciate being labeled as some 'first-year' by Ibuki and decides to introduce herself to have the girl remember.

Seeing how her senpai refuses to commit her name to memory, Amasawa laughs and finds Ibuki's reasoning a little interesting before fighting her and Horikita, when they refused to obey her orders. After their battle, Ibuki becomes much warier of her presence as she readily manhandled both of them while injured.

In truth, from the start, Ibuki had already felt she was an unusual and terrifying individual who was way out of her league. The only valid comparison she could think of was with Kiyotaka since she personally experienced defeat and humiliation from both of them. Ibuki honestly revealed how she would rather avoid any confrontation with Ichika despite only seeing just a glimpse of her true capabilities.

This fear was further amplified after she saw how quickly she improved in volleyball despite being a complete amateur, and the monstrous strength she exhibited during their match. Despite winning, Ibuki was dissatisfied since Ichika wasn’t being serious and they had to be saved by the whistle, causing the win to feel unearned.

## References

*You-Zitsu* Light Novel — "What is Reflected in Ichika Amasawa's Eyes" Short Story
*You-Zitsu* Light Novel — 2nd Year Volume 1
*You-Zitsu* Light Novel — 2nd Year Volume 3
*You-Zitsu* Light Novel — 2nd Year Volume 2
*You-Zitsu* Light Novel — 2nd Year Volume 4