Rei Miyamoto

Rei Miyamoto is a second year student of Fujimi Academy, and a classmate and childhood friend of Takashi Komuro since kindergarten. She is also a protagonist of the story, next to Takashi Komuro and Saeko Busujima. Rei is a member of the Sojutsu club, and her combat skills have proven to be a strong asset to the group. She fights with a spear made from a broomstick, but, later in the story, she uses a M1A1 Rifle with a bayonet attached. She's also a member of Takashi's Group. Rei has waist-length orange-brown hair that is tied in a single small ponytail on the back of her head while she leaves the rest of her hair down with bangs hanging over her face while she has two strands sticking out above the rest of her hair, reddish-brown eyes and she has a slender figure with ample breasts. Throughout the series, she has been constantly dressed in her school uniform and has seldom changed her attire. While staying at Rika Minami's (Shizuka Marikawa's friend) house, Rei changed into her pajamas consisting of a tight pink tank-top and white panties. After they leave Rika's house, Rei stops wearing the black, thigh-high socks she had on and replaces them with knee pads, in addition to elbow pads. She wears a different green skirt and removes the bow from her shirt. She also adds white fingerless gloves and combat webbing to hang her M1A1 rifle on. At the Takagi Estate, Rei is seen wearing a white robe. In an Omake chapter in the manga, Rei is seen wearing a maid outfit, an Elegant dress with earrings, a bondage dress with a whip and even a puppy costume, as suggested by other female characters. As a member of the Sojutsu Club, Rei is a headstrong and reliable member of the group. She is very caring towards everyone, especially Takashi Komuro, and is easily one of the most kind-hearted members of the group, if not the most kind-hearted. Despite her combat abilities, Rei has a generally pacifistic personality, and seems to be the only member of the group who recognizes "them" as people- during the group's fight in Taiei Shopping Town, she states that, in spite of all they've been through, she still hasn't gotten used to killing in order to survive, and she hopes she never will. Despite her kindness, Rei isn't above tearing into her friends when she thinks they're in the wrong. An example of this is when she calls out Takashi for killing Hisashi Igou in cold blood, even saying that he did it out of resentment rather than to save her, though she wasn't thinking straight when she said it and takes it back immediately afterwards. Although constantly reprimanding Takashi for his selflessness, she admits that this was one of the reasons she originally fell in love with him, and is in fact deeply touched by his attempts to rescue Alice, as it was a reminder that they were still human beings. She is also very protective of Takashi, as shown when she stabbed Tsunoda in response to him attempting to attack Takashi. Rei also seems to have a perverted side, as when the girls took a bath together, she groped Shizuka Marikawa's breasts to see if they were real and later did the same thing to Saeko Busujima. Rei gets extremely jealous whenever Saeko gets near Takashi and is shown to compete with Saeko for Takashi's affection, something that perplexes Saeko as it sharply contrasts her calm maturity. Rei is also implied to be highly intelligent, if not as much as Saya Takagi; according to Takashi, she's a straight-A student, which is why he couldn't understand why she had been held back. The only person Rei seems to genuinely hate is Koichi Shido; in retribution for Tadashi Miyamoto (Rei's father) investigating the shady Shido business led by Ichirou Shido, Shido forced Rei to repeat a grade in spite of being a straight-A student. Rei's father blamed himself for the incident, and Rei has despised Shido ever since. When Shido is around, Rei displays a very dark and cold side to her completely unlike her usual kind self, to the point that she tries to convince Takashi to abandon him to be eaten by "them" and states that he would regret saving him, an instinct that ultimately turns out to be correct. However, even when Souichiro Takagi (Saya's father) gives Rei clearance to kill Shido in retribution, Rei ultimately can't bring herself to do it, having decided he isn't even worth it, a decision that earns her Souichiro's respect. Rei has held deep affection for Takashi since they were in kindergarten and has always liked him, even promising to marry him when they were kids. However, him ignoring her after she was held back in school caused Rei to believe that he had abandoned her, hence why she left him for Hisashi. Despite getting back together with him so soon after Hisashi's death, Rei doesn't consider Takashi to be a replacement for him, and even gets angry at Takashi for suspecting as much. At the Takagi Estate, Rei admits that she never should have broken up with Takashi, that she still loves him and if he were to fall in love with another girl, she wouldn't be able to live on.