Karasuki Ayame

Summary
Rio's mother in the past a princess from the Karasuki kingdom in the Yagumo region, after Zen becomes her bodyguard she would quickly get attracted to him as the embodyment of everything she has always to know more about like the world outside of the castle, she would along Gouki and Kayoko silence the people against Zen being her bodyguard and would teach him all the necessary manners and etiquette for a royal guard, she would constantly insist to Zen in being taken outside of the castle to places like his village no matter how much he tells her that there wasn't anything interested there, her father realized their feeling for each other long ago and wanted to let them getting married but he wasn't able to because the nobles from other factions wouldn't allow her to get married with an upstar like Zen despite being famous as a hero of war in the whole kingdom and she herself having a low post in the succession list..

The night that the Karasuki kingdom was celebrating the stop of the war against the Rokuren kingdom its prince, that was staying at Karasuki's castle as an embassador, would order her kidnapping, Zen apprehended the kidnapper while she was sleeping but he suicided after that, the prince from the Rokuren kingdom would make look his vassal's death as apersonal attack against him and would demand her to become his wife and Zen's execution as a condition for not breaking the ceasefire with his kingdom.

Ayame's father would pretend to accept that demand while ordering Ayame and Zen to escape from Yagumo together while he was making preparations for winning the war to come while earning them time with his charade, after escaping until the Stralh region Zen and Ayame would travel from place to place working as adventurers until they finally settled in Bertram's capital when she got pregnant of Rio.

Once in Bertram's capital they bough a cheap house in a district relatively good outside of the castle walls and began to live there at that time while they were still adapting to their new land Lucius approached Zen began to adventure with him in Ayame's place that was taking care of Rio, when Rio was still a newborn Lucius killed Zen while making it look as him messing up in his job.

Fortunately for Ayame Zen had already earned enough money for her to not need to work for paying for hers Rio's living during his childhood, Lucius still making the paper of good friend for her reached a helping hand too during the next five years, then the day when Lucius finally showed his real colors came and reped and killed her in fron of the five yeras old Rio, stole everuthing from her and abandoned Rio in the slums.

Trivia

 * She dream to go back to Karasuki one day with Rio