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Reiko Mikami operates the Mikami Ghost Sweeper Office, specializing in supernatural investigations and spirit exorcism. Born to spiritually powerful parents Kimihiko and Michie Mikami, she demonstrated prodigious talent early. After her mother departed through time and her brother Teruhiko Saijou joined the government occult unit, she trained under Christian exorcist Father Karasu during high school. Her mother's death when she was fifteen deepened resentment toward her absent father, cementing her self-identity as "the daughter of a single mother." Disillusioned with the government's Special Investigations Division, she founded her own ghost-sweeping business.
Financially driven, Reiko openly prioritizes high-paying contracts from clients of any background—citizens, corporations, government, or criminals. She maintains a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach, favoring logic and evidence over emotion. Her personality blends greed with hidden loyalty toward close associates. Tsundere tendencies lead her to mask concern with harshness, particularly toward assistant Tadao Yokoshima. She fiercely values independence and control, aligning with Enneagram Type 8 traits that sometimes manifest as domineering behavior. Despite a provocative fashion sense, she dislikes attention and shows occasional vulnerability, like loneliness when separated from her team.
Reiko possesses notable physical strength, enabling feats like sending Yokoshima through stone walls, battling large monsters, and combat-swimming. Her durability withstands spiritual assaults, crushing force, stabbings, and explosions, continuing to function despite injuries like broken ribs. She dodges automatic gunfire, lightning, and laser beams, her speed increasing when angered. Rage amplifies her capabilities, allowing actions like running while weighed down by over 20 tons or reacting at massively hypersonic speeds.
Her extensive spiritual abilities include channeling spirit energy into weapons like her Divine Rod, a lightsaber-like baton, and using enchanted accessories such as earrings and talismans. Her hair senses nearby spirits, flaring in their presence or revealing disguised entities. She creates kekkai barriers for protection or containment, performs astral projection for reconnaissance or deception, and ejects souls from bodies. Skills encompass spirit communication via Kototama, séance channeling of deities, hypnotic flashes, dimensional travel, and sealing or releasing spirits. Her potent spirit energy can temporarily house godly powers.
A key backstory element reveals her past life as the wish-granting demon Mephisto, created in 904 AD by archdemon Ashtaroth to collect souls for the Energy Crystal. After befriending and falling in love with spiritualist Takashima, she betrayed Ashtaroth, absorbed the Crystal's power, and was reincarnated with Takashima reborn as Yokoshima per his dying wish. This connection explains her latent power and occasional chaotic neutrality.
Her relationships evolve significantly. She employs Yokoshima as an underpaid assistant, subjecting him to physical abuse yet displaying fierce protectiveness; his deaths trigger berserk rage or heroic breakdowns. She recruits Okinu, the ghost of a sacrificed shrine maiden, initially as indentured labor, later offering better pay after Okinu's resurrection and supporting her development into a necromancer. Professional rivalry marks her interactions with fellow ghost sweeper Emi Ogasawara. Estranged father Kimihiko evokes conflicted emotions, her resentment softening as she understands his struggles. The birth of her half-sister Hinome Mikami awakens previously absent maternal instincts.
Character development occurs through pivotal events. Training under mentors Shouryuuki and Seitentaisei expands her abilities, enabling her Divine Rod to transform into a whip and granting time travel via electrical surges. Confronting Ashtaroth culminates in her soul being shredded, requiring Yokoshima's intervention to provoke her rage-fueled willpower to reassemble it. This battle, coupled with her team's support, fosters gradual emotional openness. Her journey reconciles past and present identities, resolves familial tensions, and solidifies her commitment to her agency despite its profit-driven ethos.
Financially driven, Reiko openly prioritizes high-paying contracts from clients of any background—citizens, corporations, government, or criminals. She maintains a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach, favoring logic and evidence over emotion. Her personality blends greed with hidden loyalty toward close associates. Tsundere tendencies lead her to mask concern with harshness, particularly toward assistant Tadao Yokoshima. She fiercely values independence and control, aligning with Enneagram Type 8 traits that sometimes manifest as domineering behavior. Despite a provocative fashion sense, she dislikes attention and shows occasional vulnerability, like loneliness when separated from her team.
Reiko possesses notable physical strength, enabling feats like sending Yokoshima through stone walls, battling large monsters, and combat-swimming. Her durability withstands spiritual assaults, crushing force, stabbings, and explosions, continuing to function despite injuries like broken ribs. She dodges automatic gunfire, lightning, and laser beams, her speed increasing when angered. Rage amplifies her capabilities, allowing actions like running while weighed down by over 20 tons or reacting at massively hypersonic speeds.
Her extensive spiritual abilities include channeling spirit energy into weapons like her Divine Rod, a lightsaber-like baton, and using enchanted accessories such as earrings and talismans. Her hair senses nearby spirits, flaring in their presence or revealing disguised entities. She creates kekkai barriers for protection or containment, performs astral projection for reconnaissance or deception, and ejects souls from bodies. Skills encompass spirit communication via Kototama, séance channeling of deities, hypnotic flashes, dimensional travel, and sealing or releasing spirits. Her potent spirit energy can temporarily house godly powers.
A key backstory element reveals her past life as the wish-granting demon Mephisto, created in 904 AD by archdemon Ashtaroth to collect souls for the Energy Crystal. After befriending and falling in love with spiritualist Takashima, she betrayed Ashtaroth, absorbed the Crystal's power, and was reincarnated with Takashima reborn as Yokoshima per his dying wish. This connection explains her latent power and occasional chaotic neutrality.
Her relationships evolve significantly. She employs Yokoshima as an underpaid assistant, subjecting him to physical abuse yet displaying fierce protectiveness; his deaths trigger berserk rage or heroic breakdowns. She recruits Okinu, the ghost of a sacrificed shrine maiden, initially as indentured labor, later offering better pay after Okinu's resurrection and supporting her development into a necromancer. Professional rivalry marks her interactions with fellow ghost sweeper Emi Ogasawara. Estranged father Kimihiko evokes conflicted emotions, her resentment softening as she understands his struggles. The birth of her half-sister Hinome Mikami awakens previously absent maternal instincts.
Character development occurs through pivotal events. Training under mentors Shouryuuki and Seitentaisei expands her abilities, enabling her Divine Rod to transform into a whip and granting time travel via electrical surges. Confronting Ashtaroth culminates in her soul being shredded, requiring Yokoshima's intervention to provoke her rage-fueled willpower to reassemble it. This battle, coupled with her team's support, fosters gradual emotional openness. Her journey reconciles past and present identities, resolves familial tensions, and solidifies her commitment to her agency despite its profit-driven ethos.