H I M E N O H I R A I
"Oh? Aren't you a cutie~"
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Name: Himeno Hirai
Nickname: Ghost
Sex: Female
Age: 25
Eye Color: Turquoise
Hair Color: Dark green
Height: 176 cm (~5'9")
Weight: 63.5 kg (~140 lbs)
Ethnicity: 5/8 Japanese, 3/8 Korean
Nationality: Japanese
General Alignment: Neutral/Chaotic Good
Wrestling Alignment: Tweener
LAW Manager: N/A
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Faceclaim: Himeno from Chainsaw Man
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On the surface, Himeno is laid back and seldom serious. Situations, even tense ones, rarely seem to outwardly bother her. She likes to joke around and enjoys teasing others. Himeno is often flirtatious and will jokingly flirt with others, be they man or woman. Yet, for the most part, she keeps any overt licentiousness under wraps. The exceptions to that are when she is drunk and when she competes in the ring. In those contexts, she can become quite handsy, especially with women. And when permitted, she is willing to go even further—although she would not force herself upon another person.
Yet, underneath the surface, Himeno is more than just a laid-back woman with licentiousness tendencies. She is keen and analytical, as well as a natural people person. Moreover, even though she is no stranger to overt displays of sexuality, Himeno has a a complicated relationship with sex. Her earlier memories of the act are enough to make her tense up, although she has been desensitized to the act over time, to the point where it feels normal and is not a big deal to her. She enjoys fooling around with both men and women, but can sometimes be slightly more guarded when it comes to men.
Himeno's relationship with herself is also complicated. She is haunted by what has been done to her and what she has had to do to survive in the past. She is wracked with grief over the partners she has lost during her work as a private investigator. Although she is calm and carefree on the surface, there is a scared, lonely little girl locked away on the inside. A girl with suppressed hope, shattered dreams, and a terrible fear of loss. This little girl is ensconced in the shell of a woman who uses smoking and alcohol to deaden her inner cries.
For the most part, this outer shell occludes Himeno's pain from outside viewers. Moreover, despite her freely given acts of supposed intimacy, Himeno is not one who typically gets close and vulnerable with people. Instead, she puts up walls—one may get close, but not too close. And should someone die outside the walls, Himeno's inner sanctum would still be preserved.
All of this is to say that there are essentially two Himeno Hirais: the outer Himeno, a laid-back, confident woman with vices; and the inner Himeno, one who has been so fraught with loss and hardship that she has walled herself off. Most only get to see the outer Himeno, with cracks in her facade few and far between. The inner Himeno, on the other hand, is only shown those who have gained her utmost trust.
Yet, underneath the surface, Himeno is more than just a laid-back woman with licentiousness tendencies. She is keen and analytical, as well as a natural people person. Moreover, even though she is no stranger to overt displays of sexuality, Himeno has a a complicated relationship with sex. Her earlier memories of the act are enough to make her tense up, although she has been desensitized to the act over time, to the point where it feels normal and is not a big deal to her. She enjoys fooling around with both men and women, but can sometimes be slightly more guarded when it comes to men.
Himeno's relationship with herself is also complicated. She is haunted by what has been done to her and what she has had to do to survive in the past. She is wracked with grief over the partners she has lost during her work as a private investigator. Although she is calm and carefree on the surface, there is a scared, lonely little girl locked away on the inside. A girl with suppressed hope, shattered dreams, and a terrible fear of loss. This little girl is ensconced in the shell of a woman who uses smoking and alcohol to deaden her inner cries.
For the most part, this outer shell occludes Himeno's pain from outside viewers. Moreover, despite her freely given acts of supposed intimacy, Himeno is not one who typically gets close and vulnerable with people. Instead, she puts up walls—one may get close, but not too close. And should someone die outside the walls, Himeno's inner sanctum would still be preserved.
All of this is to say that there are essentially two Himeno Hirais: the outer Himeno, a laid-back, confident woman with vices; and the inner Himeno, one who has been so fraught with loss and hardship that she has walled herself off. Most only get to see the outer Himeno, with cracks in her facade few and far between. The inner Himeno, on the other hand, is only shown those who have gained her utmost trust.
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Fighting Style(s): All-rounder
Preferred Attacks: Anything within MMA
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WARNING/DISCLAIMER
This backstory contains some dark themes. It is by no means excessive, but if you are sensitive to dark themes, you may want to avoid reading this backstory.
Himeno was pledged to the yakuza the moment she was born—not as a member, but as a future woman of the night. In exchange for a loan to keep a small family business of five generations afloat, Himeno's body was to be forfeited to the Kanasawa-gumi yakuza syndicate when she turned eighteen. And so, with the stroke of a pen, the family ryokan (inn/hotel) was saved and Himeno's fate was ostensibly sealed.
Following that, Himeno lived a childhood that was equal parts ordinary and unusual. She went to school and helped out with the family business. But all was not well. In addition to Himeno's future body, her family had to make other concessions in the deal, one of which was playing host to yakuza and other shady enterprises. Subtly so as not to scare off visitors, the inn was frequented by yakuza and other men of the underworld. Himeno was initially ignorant to who these people were, but she eventually wisened up as she got older. However, there was nothing that Himeno could do except serve the men like any other customer of the inn.
Growing up, Himeno did not receive much parental love. Her parents were distant and often seemed to view Himeno as a commodity rather than a daughter—a being whose sole purpose was to serve the family business. As her relationship with her family was often transactional rather than loving, Himeno found companionship elsewhere with friends.
One such friend was a girl named Rin Asano, whose family was in a similar situation as Himeno's family. Himeno met Rin, who was two years older than her, in middle school and they remained close friends until Rin graduated high school. Rin's family owned a private investigation business, Asano Consulting, which had fallen on tough times. In order to stop themselves from going hungry, Rin's parents took out a loan from a yakuza loan shark. When Rin and Himeno found out about their families' shared experiences with the yakuza, their friendship grew stronger.
During Himeno's childhood, Rin was the only constant in her life when it came to friends. Other friends came and went on shorter time scales. But even the friendship between Himeno and Rin grew lukewarm, with Rin going off to college and Himeno still being in high school.
Himeno went on to finish her last two years of high school without Rin. She attained high marks in school and excelled in her school's judo club, even though parental pressures—namely being forced to work at her family's inn—often pulled her away from school and extracurriculars. To her peers and teachers, it seemed like Himeno was bound for a bright future. She had aspirations to study law and become a lawyer, and seemed to have the necessary aptitude to do so.
Then, on her eighteenth birthday, Himeno was put through hell. As promised, Himeno's parents gave her to the yakuza, three million yen changed hands, and the yakuza took Himeno—in more ways than one. The ordeal, which lasted one night, left Himeno bereft of her dignity and sans her right eye. Himeno managed to barely escape the life that had been just about to befall her and went on the run. She fled to Tokyo to escape the yakuza, hoping to blend in among the city's millions of residents. Ironically, with no money and no marketable skills, Himeno resorted to selling her body to survive—the very fate she fought tooth and nail to avoid. She managed to do so for two years without contracting any diseases or suffering any long-term physical harm, but the ordeal took a toll on Himeno's psyche.
By age twenty, Himeno had given up on life. She wanted to end it. In her mind, she had nothing: she had been betrayed by her own parents, robbed of a chance to attain higher education, and was living her life in near-destitution as a prostitute. So one night, Himeno decided to take a stroll through the city, looking for a place to hang herself.
Out of sheer chance, Himeno came across a peculiar sight: a sign that read "Asano Consulting" mounted on the outside of a building. But the Asano Consulting that Himeno knew had been located in a different, nearby city—how could it be in Tokyo? Himeno almost decided to write this off as mere coincidence. However, curiosity got the better of Himeno and she decided to wait outside near the building until it opened.
That morning, Himeno was woken up and greeted with the sight of her old friend Rin Asano staring down at her. The two began talking and after hearing Himeno's story, Rin decided to offer Himeno a job as a private investigator for Asano Consulting. Eager to be with her friend again and eager for a legitimate job, Himeno accepted the offer.
By the time Himeno joined, the new Asano Consulting was just getting started. In fact, Himeno and Rin were the only employees at first. Business was initially very slow. However, this gave Rin ample time to train Himeno. Rin more-or-less taught Himeno everything she knew about how to be a private investigator. Rin also had Himeno train in MMA in order to learn how to defend herself should Asano Consulting begin taking on riskier cases.
And as Rin predicted, Asano Consulting did begin to take on riskier cases. Rin and Himeno found themselves barely scraping by. In order to survive, the duo started taking on shady investigations that occasionally ventured into illegal territory. Soon, the two became known for taking on all sorts of shady and potentially dangerous jobs.
This reputation led to Asano Consulting being noticed by a yakuza syndicate known as the Tatsu-gumi. The Tatsu-gumi was at war with a rival yakuza syndicate and needed intel. On the flip-side, Asano Consulting needed clients. Thus, Asano Consulting began taking jobs from the Tatsu-gumi. This led to a marked increase in the levels of danger associated with Asano Consulting's investigations—they were now investigating yakuza as opposed to regular civilians. Yet Rin and Himeno always seemed to come out on top and complete their assignments in spite of the massive amounts of danger.
After a while, Asano Consulting began to grow, taking on new members. As Rin was occupied with her own investigations and managing the company, it fell on Himeno to train these new recruits. Many of these recruits were young, with romanticized visions about what being a private investigator would be like. Some left after realizing that their expectations were not entirely in line with reality. Others ended up getting killed in unfortunate accidents and mishaps. A couple were even murdered as a result of work. None of these deaths were Himeno's fault, but they still weighed heavily on her.
Initially, Himeno had no problems with getting attached to recruits. However, with each passing recruit, Himeno became more and more detached so as to lessen the sting of their potential death or departure. Himeno still maintained her superficial friendliness, but she refused to let herself get too attached.
Ultimately, these deaths netted Himeno the nickname of 'Ghost'. Given what she had been through, she probably should have died many times over. But she was seemingly untouchable, managing to survive incidents which killed her coworkers—it was as if she were already dead, the claws of death unable to gain purchase on her incorporeal ghostly form.
Although Himeno was seemingly immune to the grasp of death, the reality was that death did have a grip on her: the deaths of her coworkers weighed on Himeno, gripping on her soul. Despite not being at fault, she blamed herself for her coworkers' deaths as they were training under her. The fact that Asano Consulting did investigations for a yakuza syndicate also did not sit well with Himeno either, given her history with yakuza. Himeno considered leaving Asano Consulting many times, eyeing more conventional, less shady, and more mundane private investigation firms as alternatives. Yet, at the end of the day, Himeno still very much enjoyed her work and enjoyed working with her friend Rin. This ultimately overrode her reservations.
Eventually, conditions did get better for Himeno. After the Tatsu-gumi's war came to a close, the number of shady and dangerous investigations decreased. The number of jobs that Asano Consulting received from the Tatsu-gumi decreased as well. With fewer people dying and less jobs from yakuza, Himeno's guilt and feelings of responsibility lessened. However, while Himeno could deal with occasionally working for yakuza, she never forgot how her coworkers died under her watch even if the deaths were not her fault.
Business slowed down after the completion of the Tatsu-gumi's war, as jobs from the Tatsu-gumi related to the war had comprised a fair portion of Asano Consulting's work up to that point. Although Asano Consulting still took on some minor jobs here and there, they mostly dealt in low-risk cases with the occasional dangerous or shady case mixed in. Asano Consulting was able to generate a small but steady stream of revenue like this, but the firm was not as lucrative as before. The income of its employees became extremely modest albeit livable.
In an unconventional move, Rin decided to try to use LAW to increase the amount of business that Asano Consulting received. The plan was for Rin and Himeno to become wrestlers in LAW. They could advertise Asano Consulting in the ring, and being in LAW brought them closer to all of the intrigue related to professional wrestling. The hope was that they could draw clients from the general public through advertisement and find additional business from the wrestlers themselves—with all the intrigue surrounding professional wrestling, there surely existed some wrestlers who would want to investigate others.
The shift to LAW fit with both Rin and Himeno. For one, it was low commitment: a match every now and then did not take up much time. Rin wanted more excitement and danger, whereas Himeno wanted to flirt and get handsy with others. Thus, the two started their journeys in LAW due to a mixture of personal and business reasons.
This backstory contains some dark themes. It is by no means excessive, but if you are sensitive to dark themes, you may want to avoid reading this backstory.
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Family history
The scars of past atrocities manifest in Himeno's family tree. The scars were formed during World War II era Japan when Himeno's great grandmother, a Korean woman, was forced to become a comfort woman. She was impregnated by a Japanese soldier, giving birth to Himeno's grandmother nine months later. Himeno's great grandmother settled in Japan after the war, raising Himeno's grandmother in Japan. Himeno's grandmother married a Korean man who was residing in Japan. The two had multiple kids, one of them being Himeno's mother.
Himeno's father's family owned a ryokan (inn/hotel) in Yokohama, Japan. Against his family's wishes, Himeno's father married Himeno's mother, a Zainichi Korean. The relationship had a transactional nature from the start: Himeno's mother was chosen for her profound beauty and ability to help with running the ryokan.
Himeno's father's family owned a ryokan (inn/hotel) in Yokohama, Japan. Against his family's wishes, Himeno's father married Himeno's mother, a Zainichi Korean. The relationship had a transactional nature from the start: Himeno's mother was chosen for her profound beauty and ability to help with running the ryokan.
Following that, Himeno lived a childhood that was equal parts ordinary and unusual. She went to school and helped out with the family business. But all was not well. In addition to Himeno's future body, her family had to make other concessions in the deal, one of which was playing host to yakuza and other shady enterprises. Subtly so as not to scare off visitors, the inn was frequented by yakuza and other men of the underworld. Himeno was initially ignorant to who these people were, but she eventually wisened up as she got older. However, there was nothing that Himeno could do except serve the men like any other customer of the inn.
Growing up, Himeno did not receive much parental love. Her parents were distant and often seemed to view Himeno as a commodity rather than a daughter—a being whose sole purpose was to serve the family business. As her relationship with her family was often transactional rather than loving, Himeno found companionship elsewhere with friends.
One such friend was a girl named Rin Asano, whose family was in a similar situation as Himeno's family. Himeno met Rin, who was two years older than her, in middle school and they remained close friends until Rin graduated high school. Rin's family owned a private investigation business, Asano Consulting, which had fallen on tough times. In order to stop themselves from going hungry, Rin's parents took out a loan from a yakuza loan shark. When Rin and Himeno found out about their families' shared experiences with the yakuza, their friendship grew stronger.
During Himeno's childhood, Rin was the only constant in her life when it came to friends. Other friends came and went on shorter time scales. But even the friendship between Himeno and Rin grew lukewarm, with Rin going off to college and Himeno still being in high school.
Himeno went on to finish her last two years of high school without Rin. She attained high marks in school and excelled in her school's judo club, even though parental pressures—namely being forced to work at her family's inn—often pulled her away from school and extracurriculars. To her peers and teachers, it seemed like Himeno was bound for a bright future. She had aspirations to study law and become a lawyer, and seemed to have the necessary aptitude to do so.
Then, on her eighteenth birthday, Himeno was put through hell. As promised, Himeno's parents gave her to the yakuza, three million yen changed hands, and the yakuza took Himeno—in more ways than one. The ordeal, which lasted one night, left Himeno bereft of her dignity and sans her right eye. Himeno managed to barely escape the life that had been just about to befall her and went on the run. She fled to Tokyo to escape the yakuza, hoping to blend in among the city's millions of residents. Ironically, with no money and no marketable skills, Himeno resorted to selling her body to survive—the very fate she fought tooth and nail to avoid. She managed to do so for two years without contracting any diseases or suffering any long-term physical harm, but the ordeal took a toll on Himeno's psyche.
Additional context: Himeno's surname I
The events that occurred on Himeno's eighteenth birthday left her feeling betrayed. Out of a desire to distance herself from her family, who had tried to sell her into prostitution, Himeno dropped her original surname, which was Higashi. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Himeno started going by Himeno rather than Higashi or Higashi Himeno .
Out of sheer chance, Himeno came across a peculiar sight: a sign that read "Asano Consulting" mounted on the outside of a building. But the Asano Consulting that Himeno knew had been located in a different, nearby city—how could it be in Tokyo? Himeno almost decided to write this off as mere coincidence. However, curiosity got the better of Himeno and she decided to wait outside near the building until it opened.
That morning, Himeno was woken up and greeted with the sight of her old friend Rin Asano staring down at her. The two began talking and after hearing Himeno's story, Rin decided to offer Himeno a job as a private investigator for Asano Consulting. Eager to be with her friend again and eager for a legitimate job, Himeno accepted the offer.
Additional context: Asano Consulting
Asano Consulting had suffered a crisis in the past during the two years before Himeno had joined. Dealings with the yakuza had eventually taken their toll, resulting Rin's parents being killed and the old Asano Consulting building in Yokohama being razed for their failure to pay off their debts. The debt then fell to Rin, who had completed university in three years and had spent one year working at Asano Consulting. But there was a silver lining: the life insurance payout due to her parents' deaths was enough to completely pay off the Asano family's yakuza debts. And with Rin as the sole heir, all of the money went to Rin. Rin used the money to pay off her family's debt and finally free the family from the grasp of the yakuza. Rin used the remaining money to restart Asano Consulting in Tokyo, Japan—a gamble that Rin hoped would lead to more business.
Additional context: The fall of the Kanasawa-gumi
The Kanasawa-gumi, the yakuza syndicate that Himeno's family was involved in debt to, was particularly reviled. It had a habit of forcing its debtors to sign over family members as collateral on loans. Shortly after Himeno fled from the yakuza, the Kanasawa-gumi got in trouble for taking the female relative of a prominent politician as collateral. The politician turned out to be a terrible enemy for the Kanasawa-gumi. He used his influence to direct the authorities to actively come after the group, which eventually resulted in its leadership being convicted, jailed, and imprisoned. The group soon scattered to the wind, its remaining members too disorganized to form any offshoots.
For Himeno, this occurrence was fortuitous: when she found out about the Kanasawa-gumi's demise, she breathed a sigh of relief knowing that the now-defunct syndicate would never come after her. Previously, Himeno had considered changing her name and assuming a new identity to mitigate the (admittedly quite small) possibly of the Kanasawa-gumi coming after her. Now that the organization was gone, this was no longer necessary. Himeno eventually did adopt a couple of alternative surnames aside from her original surname Higashi, but this has nothing to do with avoiding the Kanasawa-gumi.
For Himeno, this occurrence was fortuitous: when she found out about the Kanasawa-gumi's demise, she breathed a sigh of relief knowing that the now-defunct syndicate would never come after her. Previously, Himeno had considered changing her name and assuming a new identity to mitigate the (admittedly quite small) possibly of the Kanasawa-gumi coming after her. Now that the organization was gone, this was no longer necessary. Himeno eventually did adopt a couple of alternative surnames aside from her original surname Higashi, but this has nothing to do with avoiding the Kanasawa-gumi.
And as Rin predicted, Asano Consulting did begin to take on riskier cases. Rin and Himeno found themselves barely scraping by. In order to survive, the duo started taking on shady investigations that occasionally ventured into illegal territory. Soon, the two became known for taking on all sorts of shady and potentially dangerous jobs.
This reputation led to Asano Consulting being noticed by a yakuza syndicate known as the Tatsu-gumi. The Tatsu-gumi was at war with a rival yakuza syndicate and needed intel. On the flip-side, Asano Consulting needed clients. Thus, Asano Consulting began taking jobs from the Tatsu-gumi. This led to a marked increase in the levels of danger associated with Asano Consulting's investigations—they were now investigating yakuza as opposed to regular civilians. Yet Rin and Himeno always seemed to come out on top and complete their assignments in spite of the massive amounts of danger.
Additional context: Himeno's surname II
Even though there was no longer any need to try to evade the Kanasawa-gumi, Himeno did ultimately end up adopting a couple of alternate identities in order to keep herself safe. Asano Consulting's investigations are abnormally risky for a private investigation firm, so Himeno decided to add a layer of protection/anonymity between her work and personal life.
'Hirai Himeno' is Himeno's work identity. Himeno uses this identity when conducting activities related to work and/or LAW. 'Hayashi Himeno' is the identity she uses in her personal life. These identities both have Himeno as the given name as Himeno rather likes her given name. They were created when Rin used her connections to forge new identities for Himeno.
'Hirai Himeno' is Himeno's work identity. Himeno uses this identity when conducting activities related to work and/or LAW. 'Hayashi Himeno' is the identity she uses in her personal life. These identities both have Himeno as the given name as Himeno rather likes her given name. They were created when Rin used her connections to forge new identities for Himeno.
Initially, Himeno had no problems with getting attached to recruits. However, with each passing recruit, Himeno became more and more detached so as to lessen the sting of their potential death or departure. Himeno still maintained her superficial friendliness, but she refused to let herself get too attached.
Ultimately, these deaths netted Himeno the nickname of 'Ghost'. Given what she had been through, she probably should have died many times over. But she was seemingly untouchable, managing to survive incidents which killed her coworkers—it was as if she were already dead, the claws of death unable to gain purchase on her incorporeal ghostly form.
Although Himeno was seemingly immune to the grasp of death, the reality was that death did have a grip on her: the deaths of her coworkers weighed on Himeno, gripping on her soul. Despite not being at fault, she blamed herself for her coworkers' deaths as they were training under her. The fact that Asano Consulting did investigations for a yakuza syndicate also did not sit well with Himeno either, given her history with yakuza. Himeno considered leaving Asano Consulting many times, eyeing more conventional, less shady, and more mundane private investigation firms as alternatives. Yet, at the end of the day, Himeno still very much enjoyed her work and enjoyed working with her friend Rin. This ultimately overrode her reservations.
Eventually, conditions did get better for Himeno. After the Tatsu-gumi's war came to a close, the number of shady and dangerous investigations decreased. The number of jobs that Asano Consulting received from the Tatsu-gumi decreased as well. With fewer people dying and less jobs from yakuza, Himeno's guilt and feelings of responsibility lessened. However, while Himeno could deal with occasionally working for yakuza, she never forgot how her coworkers died under her watch even if the deaths were not her fault.
Business slowed down after the completion of the Tatsu-gumi's war, as jobs from the Tatsu-gumi related to the war had comprised a fair portion of Asano Consulting's work up to that point. Although Asano Consulting still took on some minor jobs here and there, they mostly dealt in low-risk cases with the occasional dangerous or shady case mixed in. Asano Consulting was able to generate a small but steady stream of revenue like this, but the firm was not as lucrative as before. The income of its employees became extremely modest albeit livable.
In an unconventional move, Rin decided to try to use LAW to increase the amount of business that Asano Consulting received. The plan was for Rin and Himeno to become wrestlers in LAW. They could advertise Asano Consulting in the ring, and being in LAW brought them closer to all of the intrigue related to professional wrestling. The hope was that they could draw clients from the general public through advertisement and find additional business from the wrestlers themselves—with all the intrigue surrounding professional wrestling, there surely existed some wrestlers who would want to investigate others.
The shift to LAW fit with both Rin and Himeno. For one, it was low commitment: a match every now and then did not take up much time. Rin wanted more excitement and danger, whereas Himeno wanted to flirt and get handsy with others. Thus, the two started their journeys in LAW due to a mixture of personal and business reasons.
Relationships
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Quick Facts
- Himeno is quite fond of her given name "Himeno".
- Himeno is a fan of Quentin Tarantino films, particularly 'Kill Bill' and 'Pulp Fiction'.
- Himeno is a movie buff.
- Himeno is somewhat of a gamer.
Secret
- Himeno is ethnically 5/8 Japanese and 3/8 Korean.
- Although not all of her Korean ancestors were Japanese citizens, Himeno herself is a Japanese citizen.
- Himeno's original last name was Higashi.
- Himeno has two identies, each with unique surnames. She uses the surname Hirai when doing activities related to work and/or LAW. She uses the surname Hayashi for her personal life.
- She likes how the name 'Hirai Himeno' sounds more than how the name 'Hayashi Himeno' sounds.
- Himeno considered using the alias 'Hattori Himeno' for her personal life, with 'Hattori' being a reference to Hattori Hanzo in 'Kill Bill'. However, she ultimately decided on 'Hayashi Himeno' instead.
- Himeno chose her ("明日へ･･･shining future" by Eri Kitamura) because its talk about living on despite past sorrows, something which Himeno feels is relevant to her.
