Sayu Ogiwara

Sayu Ogiwara is the main female character of the Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou. series. She is a runaway high school girl from Hokkaido who ended up in Tokyo. One night, while squatting beneath a telephone pole, she had a fateful encounter with a drunk salaryman named Yoshida. Sayu is a beautiful young girl with a fairly cute face. Her hair is a shade of brown close to black and has brown eyes with long slits. She has a pretty nose line with a round tip. Yoshida considers her face as somewhere between "beautiful" and "cute." Although still quite young, she has the features of a grown woman. Since leaving her hometown, she only has her high school uniform and brown sweater as her clothes, a set of black lingerie, and a blue backpack. After moving in and living with Yoshida, she now wears new outfits but still puts on her old uniform occasionally. When working at the convenience store, she wears the staff uniform. After running away from her hometown and family, Sayu was forced to adapt and live her new life as a runaway high school girl. With no money to sustain her basic needs like food and shelter, she gathered her resolve and resorted to seducing men, using her body as a bargaining chip in order to survive. As she kept this lifestyle for about half a year, she became shrewd and adopted a playful, flirty mask to hide her pain and used her bright smile for deceit. To mask her identity, she used aliases. She also developed a high level of maturity and strong mental fortitude, traits which are uncommon for a normal high school girl to have at her age. Sayu hated what she was doing at first, but after a while, being wanted by the men she was with made her feel she could be herself and that she was needed. For her, it was simple and she liked it that way. Because she was already used to that kind of arrangement, she was conflicted when Yoshida let her stay without any significant demands. She doesn't know what to do if people do not want her. Sayu dislikes facing things in a straightforward way. She would do what she can just to delay things she does not want to deal with. All she wants to do is running away from everything, to live an easier life but at the same time, she yearns for someone to scold her and tell her to stop running. Through the help of Yoshida and Airi to name a few, she had come to terms with herself and her issues, finally deciding to face the reality; that she has to return back home.