Kaya Saimori (斎森 香耶, Saimori Kaya?) is the second daughter of the Saimori family, the daughter of Shinichi Saimori and Kanoko Saimori, the younger half-sister of Miyo Saimori and the fiancée of Kouji Tatsuishi. After orchestrating the kidnapping of Miyo, Kaya is sent to an ordinary household and forced to work as a domestic as punishment.
Appearance[]
Kaya is a beautiful young girl who strongly resembles her mother, Kanoko. She has wavy waist-length long blonde hair a bang tied back by a pink ribbon and a pink eyes.
She is shown wear a pink kimono with pink and white flowers and purple butterflies tied by a yellow obi.
Kimonos[]
Personality[]
Kaya is a rotten spoiled, arrogant and emotional girl, she is mentally violent towards her older half-sister, Miyo.
She has rather two-faced despite her polite public appearance, she is rather disrespectful and nasty in her actions when she believes she can get away with it, not only towards Miyo but also towards her fiancé, Kouji.
Kaya oppresses Miyo and treats her like a doormat, even after her engagement to Kouji, but then her fiancé is separated from her for the devastation and failing.
She seems like the classic spoiled golden child as she takes pride in bringing down others as her parents, Shinichi and Kanoko close their eyes or participate in her brutal behavior.
Her mother is especially bad at this, by allowing Kaya's spoiled streak and repressing her every time she commits a mistake; it can be said that she is partially to blame for Kaya's cruelty.
Her paternal grandparents hate her since she was a child, she was jealous that her paternal grandparents love Miyo.
Kaya is marked by her jealousy towards Miyo. She is so jealous regarding her half-sister that whatever good things Miyo ever gets, Kaya feels she must have it or steal it away.
Her father and her paternal grandparents discovered that Miyo has Dream-Sight ability who was sealed by Sumi. Kaya's jealousy and angry increases, she decides to take revenge and remove Miyo's power.
As such, when she sees Kiyoka and learns that him and Miyo are engaged, she decides to do everything that is possible to force Miyo to break off the engagement and become the bride of Kiyoka. She gets humiliated and frustrated after Kiyoka sternly rejects her; by telling her he will never marry a selfish woman such as her, shattering her ego and confidence.
After her family ends up in ruin by losing their home and status, she basically loses everything she's ever owned, all because she couldn't accept Miyo having everything and being better than her. The only thing she has left his her engagement to Kouji, whom she still looks down on.
History[]

Kaya; child
Kaya was born to Shinichi and Kanoko, roughly three years after her half-sister, Miyo.
Her father lost all interest in Miyo when she was born since he preferred her. They discovered that Kaya three years old has not only inherited her mother’s extraordinary beauty but possesses Spirit-Sight ability.
Her father only loved her for having Spirit-Sight ability and for being the daughter of the woman he wants to be with, he wouldn’t have love Kaya if she didn’t have Spirit-Sight ability, he would have treated her the same way he treated Miyo.
Her mother had extremely high expectations for her and verbally abused her whenever she committed a mistake, Kanoko encouraged him to abuse and mistreating Miyo or making did something to impress her father. Kanoko would often tells him not to be "useless" like Miyo. This has stoked Kaya’s envy and hatred towards Miyo.
Mr and Mrs. Saimori (his paternal grandparents) hated her and they rejected her, Kaya was very jealous because her paternal grandparents loved Miyo and not she when the two were young.
Her parents, Shinichi and Kanoko never had an opinion of how their daughter had to take care of herself since she always the things done for her and was never given a chance to be independent. Despite participating in the emotional and physical abuse inflited to Miyo, she was a victim of verbal abuse which is because of her emotional Instability and the develop a sense of anger.
One day, she sees Kiyoka and immediately falls in love with him. Minoru informs Kaya that Miyo is doing exceptionally well with Kiyoka and shows her a photo of the two together.
Seeing the photo, Kaya realizes that the man she saw leaving the Saimori residence the other day was Kiyoka and begins to feel jealous. When Minoru reveals that he had originally intended for Miyo to marry his eldest son, Kaya tries to have Shinichi sever Miyo's engagement but he instantly turns down her request, so she instead offers to Kouji a chance to marry Miyo like he wished.
Kouji discovers what Minoru and Kaya are plotting. Enraged that his father knew about Miyo's abuse but did nothing, Kouji attacks Minoru with his powers, refusing to listen to anything he has to say, stating he won't let him hurt Miyo but he is defeated and restrained.
Once Miyo is kidnapped, she finds herself in that dark warehouse where she was locked up as a child. Kaya decides of remove Miyo's power. Kaya, along with Kanoko, relentlessly torment Miyo, pressuring her to reject the marriage proposal herself but Miyo refuses, angering them to a point where they abuse her to force her to submit.
However, Miyo stands her ground and tells Kanoko and Kaya that she’ll become Kiyoka’s wife whether they like it or not, angering them as they hear someone attacking the house.
After Minoru is defeated by Kiyoka, Kaya unsuccessfully tries to force Miyo to reject the marriage offer, Miyo think about her life with the Saimori family and Kiyoka. He and Kouji comes to Miyo’s aid as she falls unconscious from the abuse she received from Kaya and Kanoko.
They both are shocked to see Kiyoka and Kanoko looks outside and notices the disastrous aftermath caused by Kiyoka’s battle with Minoru before breaking down at the loss of her home. When Kiyoka asks Kaya why she tortured Miyo, she denies any fault and claims Kiyoka should only marry a "perfect" girl like her rather than Miyo. Kiyoka angrily tells her to shut her mouth and dismisses her stating he would never be with a woman as arrogant and entitled as her even if the heavens themselves commanded so.
This shuts Kaya up to the point that she doesn't even try to stop Kiyoka as he brings Miyo away from Kaya and Kanoko once and for all and to a new happier life.
Humiliated and no longer caring about living or not, she tells Kouji to leave her since he cares more about Miyo anyway. Kouji tells her to "shut up" as she is right about him caring about Miyo. However, he won't leave her to die, as Miyo will mourn her death despite all the hell Kaya put her through and states that everyone, including himself, did this to Miyo and he refuses to allow Kaya or anyone else to hurt Miyo ever again and forces her to run out.
After the kidnapping of Miyo, Kaya is sent to a strict household to work as domestic, as punishment for her role in the kidnapping and the years of exploitation and emotional and physical abuse that she inflicted on Miyo under the influence of her mother. Kouji tries to reassure Kaya that they can rebuild the Saimori family but she shrugs him off, wanting nothing more to do with him. She has not been heard from or seen again after this in the manga, although Kouji has reiterated that he is still engaged to her and hopes to prove her doubts in him wrong.
In the novels, Kaya sends a begrudging letter of congratulations to Miyo and Kiyoka at their wedding, stating that she has grown accustomed to servant work at this point. In the anime, she is seen scrubbing the floors at her new household in the OVA, smiling as she wipes sweat from her brow, an indication she is beginning to appreciate the value of hard work.
Abilities[]
Gifts[]
- Spirit-Sight: Kaya possesses this common ability that the majority of the Gifted are born with. It allows her to see the Grotesqueries, creatures invisible to normal humans. As a woman, however, she hadn’t been expected to battle Grotesqueries herself, so she never much cared about mastering paranormal crafts.[2]
Techniques[]
- Familiar technique: Kaya is also able to manipulate of familiars, a supernatural technique that anyone with the Spirit-Sight is capable of learning. It allows her to construct familiars from paper and conjure it for tracking down a target. Kaya uses this ability to locate her older half-sister, Miyo at Kiyoka‘s house and in the Imperial Capital.[2]
- Share-Sight: Kaya is able to use this ability to see through the eyes of the familiar she constructed to spy on Miyo.[2]
Family tree[]
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Trivia[]
- It is unknown whether Kaya and her parents learned that Sumi sealed Miyo’s power: Dream-Sight that scared the Emperor for a long time.
- She was rejected by her paternal grandparents out of hatred.
- It is unknown that she and her fiancé Kouji will meet the Emperor's second son, Takaihito.
References[]
- ↑ Novel, Volume 1 Chapter 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Novel, Volume 1 Chapter 4
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