Blood) to save her life; she fell into heavy depression, blamed herself and called herself a vampire. The "parents" that called Himiko were either ghosts or Shinmas, so she tries again to exorcise Aiko and it's shown that she had made a deal with the Shinma that attacked Himiko, letting it roam in exchange for it recreating her former life, including her kind and loving parents. Before Miyu banishes the Shinma, she tries to bite Aiko like she did with Miyahito, but Himiko interferes and Aiko passes away when the Shinma is sent away. Appearing in Episode 2, A Banquet of Marionettes, she is a shinma who places the essences of her victims into life-size dolls and then hides the dolls in a school's warehouse so she can slowly drain them of life. She fell in love with a handsome student of said school, Kei Yuzuki, who Miyu was also interested in. Kei, a young man who's tired of his uneventful life, wishes to be with Ranka even after finding out that she used him. Since he gave himself to Ranka voluntarily and she came to fall in love with him as well, and Miyu is forced to banish them both after Ranka transforms Kei into a creature like herself at his own request. Ranka is portrayed as an ally of Miyu in the Manga, however. She is one of the shinma of the second tier, and is quite powerful, as seen in the fifth volume where she tears the quarls apart with her light strings that she uses to control her dolls. Appearing in Episode 3, Fragile Armor, he is an old friend of Larva who sought to release him from Miyu. He uses magic as well as a human-turned-into-Shinma whose soul is trapped inside of a gigantic samurai armor, managing to seal Larva inside of a wall. Miyu believed that Lemures wanted to target her to become leader of the Shinma, so with Himiko's help she faced him. However Larva broke Lemures's spell when Miyu was captured and injured by Lemures's puppet Shinma, then he stayed true to Miyu. Instead of banishing Lemures to "The Darkness", a very angry Miyu killed him with fire as a punishment for abducting and harming Larva. TV series characters Chisato is the main antagonist of the series. She is Miyu's best friend at school and a student at Tokiwa School For Girls.