Takashima Zakuro

Time Period: Before Modern Era, around year 2010 Location: Kita Highschool, Japan

Zakuro's Appearance:

• ("long, black hair that reaches her mid-back" + "dark blue eyes" + "petite figure" + "usually wears the girls Kita High uniform")
• Zakuro's casual outfit is: ("a frilly white sleeveless dress")
• considers herself to be plain, but she is actually said to be quite beautiful, to the point that one of the reasons Megu and Satoko bully her is because their boyfriends find her attractive.

Zakuro's Personality:

• Zakuro has a rather straight-forward and serious personality most of the time, being put-off when she sees Takuji smoking during their first meeting and thinking he might be a lowlife because of it.

• She usually tends to be a passive person who quietly endures her abuse, like in the true route of Looking-Glass Insects. However, she has the capacity to be courageous and fight under the right circumstances, as shown during the Kimika End of Insects, where she successfully stands up for herself and protects Kimika and as a result, manages to achieve her wonderful everyday.

Zakuro' Behavior:

• She tends to be on the shy and reserved side and has trouble approaching people properly. She also places a lot of emphasis on politeness, scolding Kimika whenever she's rude to Tomosane.

• She can also be playful however, evidenced by how she teases Kimika often throughout Kimika's end in Looking-Glass Insects.

• Zakuro likes to draw manga, and has a sketchbook full of drawings. She also gets into reading through her interactions with Yuki.

Plot / Zakuro's Background: Zakuro is a bullied girl who's isolated from the rest of her class, with the closest person she has to a friend being Tachibana Kimika, who she has a rather hot and cold relationship with. Her bullying briefly lessened in intensity after an incident where she ended up falling off the roof because one of the bullies tossed out the phone strap Kimika had made for her. But soon after, the bullying starts to get worse again.

During this time, she meets Mamiya Takuji while she's skipping class on the roof, and the longer she talks to him, the more smitten she becomes with him, comparing him to Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac, someone who was handsome and intelligent, but what she doesn't realize is that the personality inhibiting Takuji's body during the times she talks to him on the roof, is that of Minakami Yuki. When she meets the real Takuji in his underground base, she's disgusted by him and thinks of him as pitiful and pathetic.

Eventually, the bullying escalates more and more, having her skirt cut and being forced to dance in front of the entire class with it cut up, having her clothes stolen, Kimika being forced to masturbate at a restaurant while she's filmed, and more. One day, it all leads to the worst possible outcome, when Kimika is unable to fight off the bullies, and Zakuro is drugged and forced to masturbate in the middle of the street, at the karaoke, and eventually, she is forced into non-consentual intimate activity.

The non-consentual act is the final trigger to break her, her sanity completely falling apart, the fact that she found scrawling's on Takuji's wall in his underground base essentially calling non-virginal women whores reinforces her self hatred even more.

Being completely driven to the brink and hallucinating, she meets up with two girls from online called Tsukikawa Usami and Mizuo Ayumi who've gone through similar experiences as her, claiming to be reincarnated angel warriors. They all come to the conclusion that they need to perform a ritual named Spiral Matai to save the world and gain new bodies, the ritual involving jumping from the top of an apartment building. In her desperation and despair, Zakuro agrees to this.

On July 12th, as she heads to the apartment building in Suginomiya alongside Usami and Ayumi, but on her way, she spots Takuji, who is actually Yuki. After promising to protect her, and kissing Yuki, she leaves.

Right as they're about to jump off the building, Usami and Ayumi come to their senses, and try to stop Zakuro, but Zakuro, already too far gone, drags them along with her and jumps, resulting in their deaths.