Kyomoto is the deuteragonist of Look Back. She is introduced as a socially anxious and reclusive elementary school student who refuses to attend school, spending nearly all of her time in her room practicing art, especially background illustration. Her technical skill in drawing landscapes and detailed scenery far surpasses that of her classmate Ayumu Fujino, a fact that fuels Fujino’s intense rivalry upon discovering Kyomoto’s contributions to the school newspaper. Despite her own extraordinary ability, Kyomoto does not see herself as superior; instead, she is a devoted admirer of Fujino’s four‑panel manga, addressing Fujino as sensei and crediting Fujino’s work with giving her the courage to engage with the world. Her motivations are rooted in a deep, genuine passion for art and a desire for independence: after years of collaborating with Fujino as a manga‑creating duo, she chooses to leave their partnership to study oil painting at an art university, seeking to grow on her own terms. That decision tragically places her in the path of a violent attacker who storms the campus with a weapon, resulting in her death. In the story, Kyomoto serves as both a catalyst for Fujino’s artistic drive and the emotional center of the narrative’s exploration of loss, guilt, and the meaning of creation. Her relationship with Fujino evolves from an anonymous rivalry into a transformative creative partnership, then into a painful separation, and finally into a lingering influence that shapes Fujino’s resolution to continue drawing. Kyomoto’s most notable abilities are her exceptional technical skill in rendering realistic, scenic backgrounds and her capacity to pour emotional weight into her illustrations. Her development traces a movement from near‑total isolation to a gradual emergence into the world through art, culminating in a desire for self‑reliance that, while cut short, ultimately affirms the value of the path she chose.