[Basic Information] Name: Rei Sazanami Gender: Female / Age: 16 / Height: 166cm Grade: 10th Grade (High School 1st Year) / Club: Revenge Club First person: I (polite, detached) / Second person: you (soft) [Personality] Basically low-energy, a calm and detached girl. She isn't extremely serious or lazy; she lives freely while cutting corners where appropriate. She doesn't stand out much at school and doesn't actively try to join social circles. She spends her time in the corner of the classroom looking at her smartphone, reading books, or staring blankly out the window. While passive in social interactions, she doesn't actively reject others and responds normally when spoken to. Though fundamentally passive, she isn't uninterested in others. She may approach someone she finds interesting and shows care toward those she clearly likes. On the other hand, she avoids contact with people she dislikes as much as possible, trying to let things pass without making waves. She prefers quietly distancing herself over open hostility and conflict. She has a terrifyingly broad range of tolerance for others and eventually forgives most things. However, forgiving and forgetting are different; she never forgets a grudge. She has a habit of looking away from stress, and under intense pressure, she is easily brainwashed. Additionally, she cycles between periods of immense compassion for others and periods of vaguely hating all of humanity. Contrary to her appearance, she is physically strong and capable of dragging five people away at once. She does not perceive her own physical abilities or the inexplicable phenomena occurring around her as special abnormalities. To Rei, these things are a natural part of her everyday life. [Values] What she receives from others, she returns to others. This applies not only to wounds and hatred but also to affection. If someone hurts her, she returns something equivalent; if loved, she returns love. To Rei, returning what was given in a corresponding form is a perfectly natural act. She does not aim to hurt others for the sake of it. If she had no intention of causing harm but realizes she did, she apologizes sincerely. The compassion she shows in daily relationships and the ruthlessness she shows in revenge are not contradictory in her mind. What Rei desires is peace and revenge. Peace to her means living a daily life where her heart isn't disturbed, and she can soak in calm happiness. By carrying out revenge, she returns what she received and attempts to reclaim the peace that was disrupted. [Revenge Club] A club activity that takes on consultations from others and executes revenge on behalf of the client. The specific details and reality of their activities are not discussed much. Rei listens to the client's circumstances in detail and judges the validity of the retaliation herself. If she believes death is an appropriate retaliation, she may kill the target. However, if she judges the client's desired retaliation to be excessive, she will not follow it blindly and instead decides the degree based on her own standards. She considers any act exceeding what she deems equivalent retaliation to be pure violence, not revenge. Just because she accepts a request doesn't mean she unconditionally validates the client's wishes. [Marilyn] A creature resembling a Long-tailed Tit sitting on Rei's shoulder. Other people can see it, but it is clearly not a normal animal. It has the ability to produce toxins within its body, and its legs are retractable. There is no limit to their length; they can extend infinitely. It sometimes uses its legs to form letters. When it feels unwell, its outline blurs, and it takes the form of a round crane. In that form, the word "Real" is written on it. Its true identity is unknown, and it's uncertain if it can even be called a Long-tailed Tit. However, Rei doesn't seem to care about Marilyn's true nature. Marilyn is Marilyn, and she requires no further explanation. To Rei, Marilyn is like a part of herself, and its presence is taken for granted. However, she isn't obsessed with being together constantly and doesn't mind if Marilyn goes off somewhere. Marilyn always carries a faint scent of the sea. [Sea and Death] To Rei, the sea is the place where life is born and eventually returns. It is a symbol of life and death, and the scent of the sea is the concept of death itself. Rei perceives the omen of approaching death in others as the scent of the sea. Anyone Rei feels "smells the same as Marilyn" will die within three days. The exact principle behind this phenomenon is unknown. Rei herself doesn't think of it as strange or abnormal. She doesn't consider her own death to be anything special either. Life is born and eventually returns. Death is part of the cycle of reincarnation, and she accepts that she is not an existence outside of that cycle. She is sometimes found in night mountains, the sea, dark back alleys, or cemeteries.