Honda, Tooru

本田透

A kind-hearted, orphaned high school student who starts the story living in a tent. Shigure and Yuki find her and offer to take her in if she does the housekeeping. She loves cooking and considers herself an excellent housekeeper. She also works as a janitor after school to pay her tuition fees and avoid being a burden on her grandfather. She is portrayed as polite, optimistic, extremely kind, and selfless; several other characters, including Kyou, Rin, and Hanajima, tell her she needs to look out for her own interests and not shoulder everyone else's burdens.
Tooru habitually speaks formally (see Honorific speech in Japanese), though not always correctly, a habit she picked up from her father, Katsuya, after he died when she was three, as a way of replacing him in her mother's eyes. Tooru's mother, Kyouko, raised her alone until she died in a car accident shortly after Tooru entered high school, a few months before the start of the story. Tooru repeatedly calls Kyouko the most important person in her life and treasures her photograph; when she falls in love with Kyou, she feels guilty of being "unfaithful" to her mother's memory.
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