Michiko

Michiko (ミチコ) is a middle school student and a friend of Sakura Asakura. After Sakura was rejected by Kou Yamori, Michiko and Saki Fujiwara verbally harassed him for it. A couple of months later, Kou returned to school and joined them on a trip to Hokkaido.

Appearance
Michiko is a teenage girl with short, brown, shaggy hair and relatively big, dark eyes. She wears a grey sweater vest over her school uniform, with a shortened skirt and, later, a whole, oversized sweater. She wears a darker winter jacket with toggles during the school trip to Hokkaido.

Personality
Michiko, like Saki, is a mean girl. She is an aggressive, mean-spirited bully who enjoys antagonizing someone if she doesn't like them. Michiko is also somewhat vain, claiming herself and Saki to be "above average" in terms of physical appearance. However, she can quickly stop if she is intrigued by someone's personality and can get along with others. Despite being a bully and a sometimes questionable friend, she cares a lot about the people around her. In her friendship with Saki, she often acts as the more reasonable person compared to Saki's oftentimes irrational behavior.

She also has an honorable side that becomes apparent when she demands that Saki shows Kou an appropriate amount of gratitude for bringing her back after she passed out. Michiko is also quick to pick up on people's feelings, noticing that Kou feels enraged when his peers badmouth Mahiru and later also noticing that he is depressed when the two sit next to each other on a plane.

Allies

 * Sakura Asakura - Friend
 * Saki Fujiwara - Friend
 * Kou Yamori - Former Enemy and Buddy
 * Akira Asai - Friend
 * Nazuna Nanakusa

Sakura Asakura
Michiko is a close friend of Sakura but has no respect for Sakura's own agency, harassing Kou on her behalf despite Sakura neither asking her to do so nor harboring any ill will towards Kou; she claimed that Sakura cried and continued to do so when Sakura directly told her that she didn't cry.

Kou Yamori
Michiko and Kou's relationship started out very antagonistic because Kou rejected Sakura which led to Michiko and Saki blowing the thing out of proportion and vilifying Kou for it. When Kou left school, they mistook it as a sign that Kou was trying to spite Sakura, causing them to insult him even further. When Kou returned to school several months later, Michiko's first reaction was to harass him again. She was baffled by his changed personality and got angry when he insulted her.

Despite that, Michiko quickly grew to accept Kou because his new personality was interesting to her. To everyone's surprise, she invited him to join their group on the school trip. While still looking down on him, she later grew closer to Kou as he was very tender with her while she suffered from motion sickness on the train ride and has been on good terms with him ever since, even though her mean girl tendencies are still apparent.



Later, Michiko strongly pressured Saki to thank Kou appropriately for saving her, showing that Kou had earned Michiko's respect. Michiko is repeatedly seen with a friendly expression on her face whenever she meets Kou and actively searches for contact with him, like sitting next to him on a plane. After returning from Hokkaido, she asked Kou to talk with her alone and apologized to him for the bullying, explaining that she thought of him as a jerk in the past. Michiko then asked about Mahiru's whereabouts since she remembered that Kou mentioned wanting to give him one of the two wooden swords he bought and only having one when they returned. Unaware of Mahiru's death, she believed Kou could see him again and felt relieved and happy for Kou, mentioning that she was worried about him because of his apparent depression.

Abilities
As an average human, Michiko doesn't possess any extraordinary abilities.

Trivia

 * Her name was revealed in chapter 135
 * Michiko is prone to motion sickness.

Quotes

 * (To Kou) "We're not ugly! We're above average!!"