Ayumi Takahara

Ayumi Takahara is the classmate of Keima Katsuragi at Maijima Private High School who is the first capture target in the series and the host of the goddess Mercury. Ayumi has short, dark-brown hair and wears a pink hair-band over her head. She, like most of the girls in the series, is most commonly seen in her Mai-High school uniform. When she's not in school, she seems to either wear a sleeveless top and short pants or the school's track uniform. She also has her hair tied up when she's getting serious in the track. Ayumi's defining character traits include general cheerfulness and athleticism. She is the track and field team's star runner at Maijima and quite possibly the fastest person in the school. In the anime and an omake, she is depicted as running recklessly to get anywhere, often running in her haste into walls or people. Although she initially succumbed to upper-classman pressure, along with her own insecurity of self-confidence, with the help of Keima, she quickly became an important member of the team. One of her habits is to tie her hair up whenever she is preparing to run seriously. She claims to have excelled at academics in the past, but due to her devotion to running, it seems that she is not performing as well presently. She is a good friend to Elsie and has appeared multiple times in the manga, cementing her position as a character of some importance. Ayumi is also in Chihiro's light music band, the 2-B Pencils, where she plays the guitar. At the beginning of the Old Conquest Arc, it has been hinted that she has a Goddess residing inside her heart. There have been indications that she might remember Keima's "conquest" and she gets visibly irritated and flustered by his efforts to expose this potential Goddess, to the point of kicking him violently through a doorway. Later, though, she has shown affection towards Keima, after his sick event. Ayumi also seems to get embarrassed easily, becoming flustered when one called her a "trend-setter" and becoming embarrassed when her classmates asked about her relationship with Keima. She even tried to switch her speaking pattern to call Keima "otamega" once more, though, she failed. Ayumi is rather popular and was chosen to be a model for her class. In the omake chapter, she began to influence the school as people began to wear their hair the same way as her.