Ayu, she too has an idiosyncratic expression, , which she says when she is frustrated or sad; likewise, it has no real meaning. Near the end of her story, Makoto starts to wear two bells around her right wrist and enjoys the sound they make. From early on, it is obvious that Makoto has a mischievous personality, which leads to her perform various pranks. Yuichi is the exclusive target of the pranks because of her strong dislike for him, something she constantly reaffirms. The pranks vary in severity, from simply dropping food on him to once throwing lit firecrackers into his room. However, he manages to turn each prank back on her, which makes her all the more determined to successfully prank him. As time passes and Makoto begins to feel more as a member of the Minase family rather than a stranger, she honestly grows to like Yuichi, effectively looking beyond her latent distaste for him. Soon after her attitude change, she starts weakening and eventually becomes incapable of communication because her wish to be at Yuichi's side can only last for a short period of time. Makoto falls in love with Yuichi and says she wants to be married to him and stay with him forever. At the end of her story, after she and Yuichi have been "married", she disappears in front of Yuichi, and is presumed to have died. Makoto is in fact not a human being but instead a fox that Yuichi found ten years prior to the beginning of Kanon. Yuichi found Makoto, then a young fox, injured on Monomi Hill and he took her home to treat the injury and kept her in his room for the rest of the summer. One day, Yuichi told the fox about an older girl that he had a crush on named Makoto Sawatari, which is where present day Makoto takes her name. At the end of summer break, Yuichi took the fox back to the hill and ran home soon after releasing her, leading her to be angry with Yuichi. The two are reunited when the fox transforms into Makoto near the start of Kanon. With her desire to see Yuichi again being so strong, her wish was granted at the cost of her memories and later, her life. (Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 games), Akemi Satō (anime/PSP game), Maggie Flecknoe (English) Shiori is a first-year student