Ai Kamiyo

Name: Ai Kamiyo

Gender: Female

Series: Dark Gathering

Voice Actor: Rina Kawaguchi

School Year: First-year high school student

Family Background: Second daughter of the prestigious Kamiyo family of Kyoto

Residence: Begins living alone in Tokyo while still in high school

Notable Feature: Star-shaped patterns in both irises

Ai is a cheerful, age-appropriate girl with a gyaru-like style and a bright personality.

Her most striking feature is her star-shaped irises, which are not cosmetic lenses but a supernatural mark.

At first glance, she seems like an unlucky girl who attracts evil spirits.

In truth, that “bad luck” comes from the power of a god-spirit attached to her.

Ai was born with a constitution that draws evil spirits toward her.

Although she herself usually remains unharmed, disasters tend to strike the people around her.

Because of this, her family came to see her as a source of misfortune.

Even as a high school student, she was pushed into living alone in Tokyo.

The truth is far worse than simple bad luck.

Ai is the current sacrificial bride candidate of the Kamiyo family, who once made a contract with the Taoist inauspicious god Tai Sui Xingjun.

When Ai turns twenty, she is meant to be offered to Tai Sui Xingjun as his bride.

The star-shaped marks in her eyes are proof that she belongs to him.

The god-spirit’s power draws other spirits to Ai, but it also protects her until the day she is offered as a sacrifice.

Because of this, the power can appear almost like a guardian spirit.

However, the protection is not kindness.

It is the god guarding his future bride and property.

This influence also drives away other men around Ai.

Any male who gets too close, even a friend’s boyfriend, can become the target of misfortune.

As a result, Ai has grown nearly resigned to the idea that she cannot form deep bonds with others.

Ai first appears in Chapter 9 as the second student in Keitaro Gentoga’s tutoring job.

She consults Keitaro and Yayoi Hozuki about her misfortune and the death of her older brother, who passed away shortly before the main story begins.

After they help resolve one of her problems, Ai starts relying on them.

Her trust in them becomes important as the truth behind her family and the god-spirit begins to surface.

Ai’s known family includes her father, mother, older brother, and an aunt who appears to have died long ago.

Her father directly tells her that her presence brings misfortune to the family and orders her to leave home.

She ends up following her older brother, who had found employment and still treated her kindly despite knowing about her condition.

Ai deeply loved and respected her brother.

However, he died while protecting her, leaving Ai crushed by guilt.

She later believes that even her brother’s ghost resents her, especially after being nearly killed by him.

After returning to Kyoto for her brother’s forty-ninth-day memorial service, Ai becomes caught in another catastrophe.

On her way back, the Shinkansen she is riding derails because of a battle between the god-spirit and Kuubo.

The accident causes many injuries and deaths.

Ai, protected by the god’s blessing, is left almost unharmed.

Afterward, she is hospitalized at Kyoto Central Hospital.

Rather than bringing her home, her family keeps her isolated under the pretext of long-term examinations.

When Keitaro grows worried and asks his tutoring workplace to confirm her safety, Ai’s mother refuses visits through the agency.

Ai later contacts Keitaro directly, allowing him to confirm where she is and that she is alive.

Yayoi Hozuki realizes that Ai’s family must be either extremely wealthy, influential enough to control access to a hospital, or both.

She also finds it suspicious that the Kamiyo family never sent Ai away through adoption.

Instead, they kept her under minimal control despite treating her as a dangerous burden.

From this, Yayoi suspects that the family has some kind of connection to the god.

Once it becomes likely that Ai will be sacrificed to the god-spirit, Yayoi decides to defeat him.

This leads into the arc centered on overthrowing the divine contract surrounding Ai.

At the end of that arc, Yayoi and Kyusaku form a new contract with the god-spirit.

As a result, the Kamiyo family’s contract is terminated.

The star-shaped marks in Ai’s eyes disappear, showing that the claim placed on her has finally been broken.

In Chapter 34, Ai sees her aunt in a dream.

Ai says that her aunt died long ago.

The aunt also had star-shaped patterns in her eyes.

This strongly suggests that she may have been the previous bride chosen by the god.

Ai shares a curious similarity with Ai Hoshino from Oshi no Ko.

Both are beautiful girls named Ai who have natural star-like markings in both eyes.

Even more surprisingly, their debut timings were only a few months apart.

Ai Kamiyo appeared in late 2019, while Ai Hoshino appeared in spring 2020.

Given production schedules, the overlap is most likely a coincidence, but it is still an unusually specific match.