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Inari is a central figure in the story, known as the original Myoue before he gave that name and title to his adopted son, Yakushimaru. He is the biological father of the protagonist Koto, as well as the father of Kurama, Yase, and Yakushimaru, whom he adopted. He is also the husband of Lady Koto.
Physically, Inari has dark brown hair and distinctive red eyes, a trait he shares with his daughter. However, he almost always conceals his features behind a fox mask, especially when in public or on missions, presenting an enigmatic and detached facade. He is frequently seen carrying a katana.
Inari's history is defined by his dual nature as a creator god. He and his older brother inherited the universe from their father, with Inari being tasked with overseeing the forces of chaos, creation, and destruction. He was an outcast among his own kind due to the reality-warping nature of his abilities. Bored with his endless duty of maintaining order across the twelve planes of existence, he committed an act of creative rebellion: he built the Looking Glass City, the unauthorized thirteenth plane, as a home for himself and the woman he loved, Lady Koto.
His personality is complex and often contradictory. His wife describes him as self-centered, selfish, and even stupid at times. He is prone to melancholy and self-hatred, having become depressed after ceasing to help his brother maintain universal order. Despite these flaws, Inari genuinely and deeply loves his family, though he expresses this love in profoundly misguided and destructive ways. His fundamental conflict stems from a severe existential crisis; as a god, he feels disconnected from the world, but his time with Lady Koto and their children gave his existence meaning and made him feel truly alive for the first time.
Motivated by his own sense of purposelessness and a stubborn desire to secure a future for his offspring, Inari constructed an elaborate, traumatic plan. Believing his own role was over, he decided to pass his powers of creation and destruction on to his children. He gave the prayer beads containing the power of creation to his adopted son, Myoue, and, in a shocking act, stabbed his daughter Koto with his sword to unleash her inherited power of destruction, intending for her to annihilate the flawed universe so that a new one could emerge. He never fully explained his motives, leading to immense pain and confusion within his family and embodying a core theme of poor communication.
His key relationships are the driving force of the narrative. As a husband, he shares a foundational love with Lady Koto, a being who became his anchor to reality. As a father, he is deeply caring but also seemingly cold and uninterested in his adopted sons, Yakushimaru and Kurama, and his daughter Yase, for much of their lives. In contrast, he served as a loving teacher and protector to his biological daughter, Koto, training her as his student within the Shrine organization. However, this relationship is severely tested when his paternal love becomes tangled with his cosmic plan, ultimately using her as an unwitting tool for universal destruction.
Throughout the story, Inari undergoes significant development, moving from a distant, masked figure pulling strings behind the scenes to a vulnerable and flawed individual. He begins as a seemingly malevolent and unknown entity, but is eventually revealed to be a broken god paralyzed by his own insecurities and lack of self-worth. His character arc culminates in a confrontation with his own daughter, who refuses to accept his self-sacrificing plan. Rather than letting him disappear, she forces him to confront his family and accept a simple life with them, free from grand cosmic purposes.
Inari possesses immense power as a creator god, including the abilities of creation and destruction granted to him by his father, which are significant enough that other characters treat him as being stronger than his elder brother. Beyond these cosmic forces, he is a skilled combatant who wields a katana in battle. He also has the power to travel between dimensions.
Physically, Inari has dark brown hair and distinctive red eyes, a trait he shares with his daughter. However, he almost always conceals his features behind a fox mask, especially when in public or on missions, presenting an enigmatic and detached facade. He is frequently seen carrying a katana.
Inari's history is defined by his dual nature as a creator god. He and his older brother inherited the universe from their father, with Inari being tasked with overseeing the forces of chaos, creation, and destruction. He was an outcast among his own kind due to the reality-warping nature of his abilities. Bored with his endless duty of maintaining order across the twelve planes of existence, he committed an act of creative rebellion: he built the Looking Glass City, the unauthorized thirteenth plane, as a home for himself and the woman he loved, Lady Koto.
His personality is complex and often contradictory. His wife describes him as self-centered, selfish, and even stupid at times. He is prone to melancholy and self-hatred, having become depressed after ceasing to help his brother maintain universal order. Despite these flaws, Inari genuinely and deeply loves his family, though he expresses this love in profoundly misguided and destructive ways. His fundamental conflict stems from a severe existential crisis; as a god, he feels disconnected from the world, but his time with Lady Koto and their children gave his existence meaning and made him feel truly alive for the first time.
Motivated by his own sense of purposelessness and a stubborn desire to secure a future for his offspring, Inari constructed an elaborate, traumatic plan. Believing his own role was over, he decided to pass his powers of creation and destruction on to his children. He gave the prayer beads containing the power of creation to his adopted son, Myoue, and, in a shocking act, stabbed his daughter Koto with his sword to unleash her inherited power of destruction, intending for her to annihilate the flawed universe so that a new one could emerge. He never fully explained his motives, leading to immense pain and confusion within his family and embodying a core theme of poor communication.
His key relationships are the driving force of the narrative. As a husband, he shares a foundational love with Lady Koto, a being who became his anchor to reality. As a father, he is deeply caring but also seemingly cold and uninterested in his adopted sons, Yakushimaru and Kurama, and his daughter Yase, for much of their lives. In contrast, he served as a loving teacher and protector to his biological daughter, Koto, training her as his student within the Shrine organization. However, this relationship is severely tested when his paternal love becomes tangled with his cosmic plan, ultimately using her as an unwitting tool for universal destruction.
Throughout the story, Inari undergoes significant development, moving from a distant, masked figure pulling strings behind the scenes to a vulnerable and flawed individual. He begins as a seemingly malevolent and unknown entity, but is eventually revealed to be a broken god paralyzed by his own insecurities and lack of self-worth. His character arc culminates in a confrontation with his own daughter, who refuses to accept his self-sacrificing plan. Rather than letting him disappear, she forces him to confront his family and accept a simple life with them, free from grand cosmic purposes.
Inari possesses immense power as a creator god, including the abilities of creation and destruction granted to him by his father, which are significant enough that other characters treat him as being stronger than his elder brother. Beyond these cosmic forces, he is a skilled combatant who wields a katana in battle. He also has the power to travel between dimensions.