Honoka starts out as just another face in Shuichi and Elena's school days—she knew them back then, counted as a friend. But her real mark on the story comes from creating the Coin Hunt game, the whole twisted system that sets everything in motion.
Things get dark when Kaito brings her back from the dead. The resurrection doesn't go clean; instead of getting her old life back, Honoka becomes something warped and dangerous—a horror that barely remembers what she used to be. That's when she pivots from background character to one of the series' main threats. Fans often point out the tragedy in her arc: the girl they knew is gone, replaced by something the story uses as a driving force of conflict.
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