Ushio Kugayama
久我山潮
She is a student at San Marx Private Academy of Fine Arts and a personal acquaintance of Tatsuya Himekawa. Kugayama is a young woman with shoulder-length, messy light-colored hair, dark eyes and long, thick eyelashes. Her attire is that of her school's uniform for males, which consists of a light-colored shirt, with a dark tie over the collar, and matching light-colored jacket and pants. She later reveals that she uses shoulder pads to broaden her shoulders and shoes with inside platforms to increase her height. She also uses cloth wrappings to bind her chest, though she cheerfully admits that they are not impressive enough to bother hiding. The Kugayama family only accepts men as their heirs; since Kugayama was an only child and a woman, she was raised as a man. From the way of how she talked to even how she sneezed, she carefully conducted herself as a man and her true gender was a secret to all except for her family, servants, and Himekawa. She enjoys living life as a man, but her feelings for Himekawa became too strong and she then wished to live as a woman, and the only way she could do that was if she married Himekawa. Though her appearance is of a beautiful woman, Kugay
