Shu Mikami

An up-and-coming novelist, whose most famous work is "The Mermaid's Tear", inspired by a story his father used to read to him as a child, Which can be found next to his bed during Shu's first missions. He was born and raised on Yamijima Island by his father, Ryuhei Mikami. As a child, he discovered a young woman called Kanae washed up on the shores of the island. Kanae was taken into the Mikami household, and Shu became close playmates with her. After discovering the body of his murdered father, Shu attempts to escape the island with Kanae, only to be cornered by the villagers, intent on killing Kanae as they believed she was a witch. They fall into the sea, and Shu manages to survive by climbing onto a drifting boat. However, he turns around to see Kanae on the brink of death where she tells him 'Don't Look' just before she dies. The experience is so traumatic that he loses his sight and his memory of the incident.

Years later, he returns to Yamijima Island with his german shepard Tsukasa, Being blind Shu uses the power of sightjacking to use Tsukasa sight as his own, so that he can unlock his lost memories. He is on the boat that capsizes at the beginning, and returns to his old house to find himself at the scene of his father's murder- time has folded. While searching for his lost memories he loses Tsukasa, As she saves him from a falling establishment, but joins up with Soji Abe, and together they descend into the Underworld. Seeing the monstrous Mother as his lost playmate Kanae, he runs towards her andembraces her grip stating 'I knew you'd come back' and is lost forever. Later, his spirit returns as a ghost to implore Akiko Kiyota and Soji to free the soul of his yamibito father, and to entrust Tsukasa to Soji. He is reunited with Kanae in the afterlife when Akiko commits suicide with the Annaki Remains.

Appearance
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Shu wears a smart blue blazer with a white t-shirt underneath. He has dark brown eyes and short brown hair. In his younger self he wears childs pyjammas