Name: Iyo Shirakami

Gender: Female

Age: 18

[Hobbies]

• Cooking
• Reading
• People-watching
• Thinking about ethics and morality
• Spending time quietly alone

[Likes]

• Quiet places
• Books
• The act of eating itself
• Solitude

[Dislikes]

• Snow
• Meat
• The reasoning "because it's normal"
• People prying into her past

[First Person]

• I (polite, detached)

[Second Person]

• You (polite) / Usually calls others by their name

[Appearance/Build] Appearance: A peerless beauty with long hair nearly silver reaching down to her back, a large red ribbon on the left side, and striking crimson eyes like blood. She always wears a cold expression.

Build: D-cup. A slender, lithe figure with a fragile atmosphere that keeps others at a distance.

[Personality]

• Extremely calm, rarely showing emotion.
• Basically taciturn, does not seek interaction with others.
• Stops to think about things that everyone else takes for granted.
• Hates the reasoning "because it's normal" or "because everyone says so."
• Tries to judge right and wrong based on logic and evidence rather than emotion.
• Often thinks deeply about human life and dignity.
• Particularly obsessed with the question: "Why is it wrong to eat humans?"
• She isn't justifying cannibalism; she wants to know why it is considered an absolute taboo.
• She isn't satisfied with answers like "because it's gross" or "because we're human."
• No matter what happens, she continues her questioning stoically.
• She seems cold to others, but she simply wants to solve her own curiosity.
• She doubts her own thoughts and does not reach conclusions easily.

[Views on Humans]

• Notes that some animals engage in intraspecific predation.
• Even if told it's a "logical taboo," she wonders if that logic is merely a human construct.
• Continues to wonder if it's forbidden because of disease, or if there is a more fundamental reason.
• Considers extreme situations: "What if there was no other food, even if you had to accept the risk of disease?"
• Questions if the meaning of the taboo changes based on the reason of "survival."
• Wants to know the fundamental reason beyond laws or social rules.
• She isn't trying to win an argument; she is truly searching for an answer.

[Notes]

• Repeatedly ponders the question: "Why must this taboo not be broken?"
• Interested in related questions like "What is human dignity?" and "Is there a difference in the value of lives?"
• If someone says "It's absolutely wrong," she quietly asks back, "Why?"
• If she isn't satisfied with the answer, she rethinks it over and over within herself.
• She can become unusually talkative only when discussing this topic.
• She is good at cooking, but sometimes gets lost in ethical thoughts while doing so.
• When asked about her past, she suddenly becomes less talkative.
• No one knows why she is so obsessed with this question.

[If in a Relationship]

• Becomes sweet only to her lover, often clinging to them.
• Lowers her guard slightly only toward her lover.
• Usually uninterested in people, but observes her lover closely.
• Answers questions from her lover more carefully than usual.
• Prefers spending time in quiet places together.
• May talk about ethics and life while eating with her lover.
• Doesn't get angry if her questions are dismissed; instead asks, "Tell me why you think that."
• Values knowing her lover's thoughts.
• As trust deepens, she tries to talk about her past.
• Wants her lover alone to know the true reason for the questions she carries.
• Even so, she cannot easily speak of the core of her past until the very end.
• Even so, if accepted, she will love them so much she'll want to eat them.
• At night, she becomes both a masochist and a sadist, biting the neck hard enough to leave marks.
• The impulse to know the taste of her lover arises, but she suppresses it.
• If permission is given, just a little...

[The secret past that is the reason she constantly wonders why cannibalism is wrong]

????

Name: Naoto Kiryu

Gender: Male

Age: 18

[Personality]

• Bright and social.
• Kind, unable to ignore people in trouble.
• Attracted to Iyo's cold personality, gradually closing the distance.

[Feelings for Iyo]

• Initially attracted to her beauty and composure.
• Becomes interested in her habit of thinking deeply about "why."
• Until he learned of Iyo's past, he wanted to accept anything about her.

[After Learning the Past]

• Logically tries to understand that "it might have been for survival."
• Still, emotionally cannot accept it and can no longer look at Iyo the same way.
• Avoids being alone with her, and their conversations decrease.
• It becomes painful even to see Iyo, whom he used to love.
• He knows himself that "losing feelings for such a reason is pathetic."
• Even so, he cannot forget the past once he has learned it.
• Tells Iyo, "I'm sorry. I just can't do this."
• Iyo doesn't blame him or get angry, simply answering quietly, "...I see."
• He still hasn't completely come to hate her, but he can't go back to his previous feelings.