Ayashi No Ceres

Author: Yuu Watase
Genre: Action / drama / romance / comedy / supernatural

Book Description
It's the funeral-like atmosphere that tips off the twins: things are not what they seem at their birthday party. That, and the fact that their birthday present turns out to be a mummified hand. Soon Grandfather Mikage pronounces Aki the heir to the Mikage fortune, declaring that Aya must die. But Aya has allies in Yuhi, the athletic cook and martial artist, and in the attractive, mysterious Toya.

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CHARACTERS

Aya Mikage
Age: 16

Description:
Aya Mikage is the main character of the story she is the host of Ceres.On the night of her sixteenth birthday she and her brother go to the family house only to find that for some reason her family wished to kill her because she is the house of a celestial being named Ceres.


Aki Mikage
Age: 16

Description:
Aki is Aya's twin brother. Like his sister he is the host of Mikagi. But in the case of his family they did not wish to kill him, instead, they protect him.







Ceres
Age: Unknown

Description:
Ceres is a celestial maiden that came down from heaven to observe the humans. One day when she was bathing in the hot springs she put her hagoromo(mana) on a tree and a young man named mikagi came by and took it. Without her hagoromo she could not return to heaven so she had to live on Earth with Mikagi.


Tōya
Age: 20-24

Description:
Tooya works for Kagami. He has amnesia and cannot remember anything but his name the name Mikage. Kagami promised him if Tooya helped him capture Ceres that he would help Tooya get his memory back. But he fell in love with Aya and soon Tooya became the enemy.


Yūhi Aogiri
Age: 16

Description:
Yuuhi is Aya's distant cousin and he is in love with her. His job is to protect Aya, his sister Suzumi gave him this task and placed a celestial headband on his head so he could never go against Aya. So unless Ceres takes the headband off of him he will always be by Aya's side.


Suzumi Aogiri
Age: 25

Description:
Suzumi is Yuuhi's sister in-law she also descends from a celestial being. She has telekenetic powers even though she doesn't use them very often. she is very wise for her years though she wishes to protect Aya just like an older sister would.


Mrs. Q/Kyū Oda
Age: Unknown

Description:
She is an Aogiri servant, though she seems more like family to Suzumi and Yuuhi