Misuzu Kusakabe

Misuzu Kusakabe is one of the main protagonist of Sin, Damnation and the Atonement Girl. She is a red-haired Onmyouji from the Kusakabe Clan who goes to the same school as Yuka Minase and Kakeru Satsuki where is one year older than them. She is also the heroine from her After Story. The most predominant trait of Misuzu is her red hair, which is sometimes depicted as a blazing flame by Kakeru Satsuki. At school, she wears the standard seifuku, albeit the skirt is longer in length. Her casual clothes is a white shirt, a red neck ribbon and a black long shirt with brown tights and tall leather boots. The left side of the dress has been split to facilitate her movement in battle. Also, due to having to hide the seals on her finger nails, she almost always wear white gloves to conceal this apparent trait. Whether these gloves magically appear or have to be manually removed depends on the media outlet. Before Kakeru Satsuki's power awakened, Misuzu was the main strength of the gang. She is rational, knowledgeable and has good leadership, which leads the gang to victory on numerous occasions, even though she has a bit cold and condescending attitude toward others people. She is also very independent, as she lives in a mansion deep in the mountain, but does everything by herself instead of hiring maids or butlers. However, being so rigid about traditional ways of Japanese, Misuzu is actually very naive about modern ways of doing things, to the point that she even considered ordering rice balls in a cafe. At the beginning, she didn't get along with Yukiko Hirohara, Shiori Momono and Takahisa Tajima but later warmed up to them (she has a better relationship with them in the anime). On the other hand, while being strong on the surface, Misuzu is the weakest mind of the group. She was traumatized when Misao Kusakabe revealed the truth about the "fragments". For a short few days when Misao give the group's remainders time to think over whether they decide to continue to be her and Avaritia's opponent or to commit suicide by themselves, Misuzu thought of killing herself and was snapped back by Kakeru. She is a lot more affectionate toward him in her After Story, and even tries to behave like a normal girl for him through cooking, something she excels at. She also would like to be closer to Kakeru and begging him to call her "Misuzu" instead of "Misuzu-senpai." In the manga, she maintains the similar personality of sure strength and being cordial but distant. As she trains Kakeru in how to fight, she becomes closer to him. She even offers her cooking and is embarrassed when he is hesitant. She reveals that she is good at cooking after training in solitude and having to feed herself. As such, she often makes rice balls as they are easy to make. Kakeru opens up to her, confessing that he blames himself for Kukuri Satsuki's (Kakeru's sister) suicide, a level of trust that had previously been preserved for Yuka.