Reiko Mikami

Reiko Mikami  is Kouichi's slightly idolized aunt who he lives with after moving to Yomiyama.

Personality
She gives Kouichi lots of advice on how to get by living in Yomiyama. She seems to become very upset when someone talks about the incident 15 years ago, when she was in the 9th grade in class 3. She even states that she hates her bird.

Appearance
She looks young for her age and mainly wears a yellow top with green long pants. She has long brown hair and brown eyes, just like Kouichi. In the manga, she has long black hair and black eyes.



Plot
She first appears at the hospital, when she visited Kouichi while he was sick. While there, she tells him information about how to live in Yomiyama, or which school he was going to attend. When Kouichi becomes suspicious about his class' curse he asks her about it, but she yells and says that she can't help him.

She is Kouichi's aunt from Ritsuko's side and Class 3-3's deputy homeroom teacher. She gives her nephew advice about Yomiyama Middle School through a series of "rules". One of them, is to separate their private life from their school life, thus Kouichi addresses her as Reiko at home and Ms. Mikami at school.

It is revealed at the end of the story that Reiko was the dead person for 1998, when Kouichi realizes that he met Izumi a year prior at Reiko's funeral shortly after she dies to the class curse.