Tooru Taki

About Taki, Tooru

Tohru Taki is a fellow student at Natsume's school and one of his closer friends, though Nishimura—who spotted her first based on rumors of her beauty—still harbors an obvious crush on her. She starts off seeming like a quiet, withdrawn person, but there's actually a dark reason for it: a yokai cursed her to have the last thirteen names she speaks devoured by him after a year passes. He also trapped her in a rigged bet for her life that he refuses to honor even when she wins. Once you get to know her, Taki's genuinely cheerful and optimistic. She has an unusual sense of what's cute (she's totally charmed by Nyanko-sensei, for instance), and like Tanuma, she's always trying to help Natsume—though he constantly shuts her out because he's protective about dragging friends into yokai trouble. What makes Taki special is that despite lacking the spirit energy to actually see yokai on her own, she knows how to draw yokai circles—a technique passed down from her grandfather. Once drawn, the circle lets any human see yokai within its radius, and here's the thing: it doesn't require any spirit energy to work, so technically anyone could draw one. The catch is that it's incredibly complicated-looking, and Taki's basically the only person who can pull it off without instructions.

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