Ayase Miharu

Amakawa Haruto’s [unrequited] childhood sweetheart. She mysteriously disappeared soon after their high-school entrance ceremony, which devastated Haruto. He’s always regretted not confessing his feelings to her… even until his next life.

She got caught up in the summoning circle that summoned her friend, Sumeragi Satsuki and Sendou Takahisa, and got dragged off to a faraway world where she got thrown off in the outdoor wilderness with Takahisa's siblings, and got captured right away by slave merchants before Haruto rescued her.

Appearance
Miharu is a cute and quiet girl, with soft features on her face. Her eyes look kind and her long black hair hangs freely, reaching her waist. Under her clothes she actually has quite the figure, with all the curves and bulges in all the right place.

Personality
Miharu is a soft and kindhearted girl, sometimes even too kind for her own good; she ranks number one in her middle school's list of girls the boys want to marry, and also the rank of housewife type girlfriend. She's a caring person, honest, and responsible, and seeing her still fulfilling her promises, she's a really loyal girl, though aside from that, she's also a really shy, not good at interacting with boys, and known to be too forgiving.

History
Ayase Miharu is the childhood friend of Amakawa Haruto. They've known each other since they were kids and practically grew up together. Miharu's family lived next door to Haruto's, and because of that, both their families had a good relationship. Miharu is considered a cute girl (that's still the case even now ), attracting the attention of other boys'. But because of their young age, that attraction turned the boys to pick on her instead, scaring her all the time. Haruto would become the wall to protect her, leading Mahiro to develop a dependence on Haruto.

Suddenly, one day, Haruto had to leave town following his father after his parents divorced. Miharu kept crying, asking Haruto to stay, the latter promising to come back to her one day, and at that time would take her hand in marriage.

Both of them then grew up holding their promises close, bettering themselves waiting for the day they meet again.

Aki, the sister of Haruto that continued to stay with her mother, introduced Miharu to her new siblings, Sendou Takahisa and Masato, where the two of them became the new group of childhood friends to grow up together; she's still not good with boys, but has tried her best to befriend Takahisa for Aki's sake, though she doesn't interact with other boys.

On the first day of their high school entrance ceremony, on their way home, a distortion formed near Takahisa and Miharu's senior, Satsuki Sumeragi, each separately engulfing them. The distortions also enveloped Miharu, with Aki and Masato near her at the time, and before they knew it, found themselves standing in an empty grassland in another world.

Relationships

 * Rio/Amakawa Haruto
 * Ayase Miharu is Amakawa Haruto's (Rio's previous incarnation) first love and childhood friend. Before they separated when they were nine years old, they made a promise to marry when they grew up. Due to that promise, both of them worked hard in every aspect to be a better man/woman for the other party. When they reached the age to enter high school, Haruto returned to the city where Miharu was and managed to enter the same school by chance. After knowing that through the class listing, he went out to search for her. However, upon seeing the seemingly close relationship between Miharu and Takahisa, Haruto ran away and missed the chance to reunite with Miharu as he mistook Miharu and Takahisa's relationship. After a few days of hesitation, Haruto decided to talk to Miharu face-to-face to remove the regret for not facing her. However, the regret couldn't be eliminated as Miharu went missing (she was transmigrated to another world). Haruto carried this regret till the end of his life when he lost his life during a traffic accident.


 * In volume 4, the reincarnated Haruto, Rio, found Miharu and co. in the forest. Rio was confused to how to interact with her again as his moral values were different from those when he was Amakawa Haruto. He also detested the idea of involving Miharu and those he holds dear into his revenge toward Lucius. This stemmed from the fact that he felt guilty of killing people despite being necessary. Hence, he felt that he is not qualified to be close to her nor is he qualified to attain happiness.


 * Later, Aisia bestowed a dream upon Miharu, a dream about Haruto after they separated and Rio before they reunited again. This spurred Miharu to approach Rio more aggressively (it is only aggressive when compared to her usual shy/timid personality).


 * Aisia also warns Miharu that Rio is a kind yet cowardly person as he doesn't want people he loves to enter his life because he may end up hurting them. She also says if Miharu wants to stay by Haruto's side once more, there's one opportunity to do so (when he reveals his true identity), and tells her not to run away if that opportunity comes. Thanks to Satsuki who gave Haruto advice, he can accept himself and Miharu once again. She later tells Sendou Takahisa that she's in love with Haruto as his past and as Rio. Takahisa attempted to kidnap Miharu but Rio foiled his plan and came saving her (also carried her like a princess).


 * While in the WN, Miharu keeps comparing Rio with the previous Haruto, Miharu realizes that she's totally fine just being around Haruto though he supposedly are stranger boy, later on, Aishia put Haruto's life in japan as a dream to Miharu without explanation, completely scaring her, when she reunited with Takahisa and he hugged her, the dream comeback and Miharu completely flipped out, trying to tell Haruto that watching confusedly that he got it wrong, when Takahisa asks her to come with him to Stellar Kingdom, Miharu refuses him and stated that she want to stay with Haruto, in the party, Haruto confessed his love to Miharu, so clearly without letting any chance of misunderstanding, but before he confessed who he was and Miharu answers, their confession got disturbed by Aki and Takahisa, she then get forcefully taken away by Takahisa to Stellar kingdom, and only several month later she know who Haruto is after Lilyana gives her Haruto letter that Takahisa took.


 * Sumeragi Satsuki
 * Satsuki is Miharu's senior since middle school, both of them were on the student council. Though their relationship started off pretty stiff, she kept getting closer with Satsuki in the end, also joining the group of childhood friends with Takahisa. After the summoning, they got even more closer.


 * Sendou Takahisa
 * Takahisa fell in love with Miharu at first sight. He's actually straight up frozen in their first meeting after Aki introduced Miharu to the Sendou siblings. Although Miharu is not good with boys, she endured it and tries her best to adapt because Takahisa is Aki's new family now and her brother, but because Miharu never approaches any other boy, she looks like she's close with Takahisa at first glance. Takahisa, too, as the only man that can get close to Miharu, felt some sort of superiority, thinking that it's just natural, and if he confess his love, Miharu will definitely accept; he simply didn't do it because he's afraid to ruin the relationship of their little group, because in the end, the real bond that ties them is through Aki, and he don't want that relationship between Aki and Miharu to change because of him.


 * Their relationship starts to crack after their reunion. Out of a sense of relief after meeting again, Takahisa hugs Miharu suddenly, scaring her. She then states her decision to stay with Haruto, completely collapsing Takahisa's little dream, and after Takahisa's stunt of deceiving Miharu and taking her by force to Saint Stellar, they are pretty much in a cold war with Miharu refusing to interact in any way with him.


 * Sendou Aki
 * Aki really likes Miharu and treats her just like her own sister, though she also get jealous with Miharu and Haruto when they start entering their own world and Aki's always trying to put herself in the middle of them. Aki's feelings of love to Haruto turned to hate Haruto because he broke his promise to stay with Aki forever by leaving with his father. While Miharu kept staying, something Aki considers as protecting her promise, she later tries to recreate her little happy world by pushing his new brother to be with Miharu, to make Miharu forget Haruto and stay with her, disregarding Miharu's feelings.


 * Sendou Masato
 * Masato meets Miharu the first time when Aki introduced her to the Sendou siblings. Masato, just like his brother, stood there freezing, entranced by Miharu's looks.


 * Celia Claire
 * in the WN, Miharu became good friends with Celia in their time staying together with Haruto. While at first she was really surprised to hear that Celia is way older than her and was Haruto's former professor from his days at the academy, Celia was also impressed with Miharu's cooking and housework skills. At the same time, Celia was kinda puffed out when Haruto prioritized clearing the misunderstanding with Aishia waking up in his bed, to Miharu first before explaining it to her.


 * Aisia
 * Miharu and Aishia have a really good relationship. Miharu often teaches Aishia cooking and what Rio likes in his food. While Aishia supports Miharu and also gives her hints about Rio's Japanese identity and advice on how to face Rio at one point, Aishia also created a temporary contract path with Miharu when Rio is away for too long, consequently giving a side effect that raises Miharu's affinity to Spirit arts.


 * Latifa
 * Latifa and Miharu have a close relationship, enough that Latifa confided in her, revealing her previous life's story and her life after reincarnating. Latifa continues to treat Miharu as a rival for Rio's affection.


 * Liselotte Cretia
 * Although it made her nervous to meet a noble lady like Liselotte at first, meeting her several times managed to warm up to each other, enough that now they can interact as normal friends.


 * Lilyana Saint Stellar
 * Though their relationship started pretty stiff because of Lilyana position as the princess, they quickly become close with each other because of Lilyana's kind and friendly disposition, although Miharu asks to have some job in the palace and becoming something like Lilyana's lady attendant, yet she spends more time accompanying her when having tea, Miharu get even more close after Lilyana ask her to be her teacher on the Japanese language.


 * While Lilyana actually felt pretty guilty deceiving Miharu and taking her to her kingdom to follow Takahisa's will, she got even more depressed and feel guilty after she manage to read Haruto letter that she translate that she give the letter to Miharu despite her promise to Takahisa and deeply apologizes to Miharu, she then chose to fulfill Miharu's wish to meet Haruto again even if it means going against Takahisa's will.

Abilities

 * As a summoned person from another world, Miharu received an immense amount of Mana compared to normal people of the world, though she still has no knowledge or ability of using it whatsoever.
 * As a method for self defence, Haruto's instructing her in Martial arts by using a staff/rod, though it's strictly only for self defense, without any ability to defeat opposition.
 * She also learns some spirit arts in the LN, and because of her temporary contract with Aishia, her affinity to spirit arts are boosted to a high degree even compared to Seirei no Tami's highest practitioner.

Etymology

 * Ayase means "design" (綾) (aya) and "swift current, rapids" (瀬) (se).
 * Miharu means "beautiful" (美) (mi) and "spring" (春) (haru).

Trivia

 * In the WN, the price of both Miharu and Aki combined as slaves if they got sold as harlots was approximately 50 Gold coins with Aki on the cheaper part because of her age. As reference, the annual income of a lower class noble is 40 Gold coins.