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| “ | It's okay if you're not able to forgive something, but it's also important to be able to let it go. | ” |
—Kaya, Chapter 103 | ||
Kaya (カヤ Kaya?) was the pockmarked woman seen in Father's memories, whom Izanami took the appearance of in Yomi.
Appearance
Kaya was a young-looking woman described as having pockmarks on her face.[1] She had bangs that reached to her eyes, side bangs that cropped around her chin, and a long ponytail tied at the base of her skull. She wore a tattered kosode
When Izanami took her appearance, she wore an outfit resembling that of a Heian period noblewoman with a sash tied around her waist. Unlike the real Kaya seen in Father's memories, her hair was extremely long.
Personality
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Having heard her story from Father, Izanami described Kaya as a "good woman"; likewise, a villager commented that she is a "wonderful person" to share so much of her food with everyone in the village.
Synopsis
Yomi Arc
When Ebisu and Yato come looking for the Word, Izanami remarks that they are the second and states that her visitor said she looked like a "girl with a pockmarked face."[1] Izanami is later seen donning Kaya's appearance while Father runs away from her with the Word. The Stray remarks that he heard a voice calling for his name.[2]
Heaven Arc
Father is seen holding Kaya, who is presumably dead, stating that people are the ones who forgive the debt of a god's wrongdoing.[3]
Ooharai Arc
Father is once again seen holding her body. He tells Yukine not to run away from his feelings of despair because he has those feelings, too.[4]
Izanami is once again seen taking Kaya's appearance. Although she has told Father that her name is Izanami, Father slips up and mistakenly calls her "Kaya"; Izanami inquires who this "Kaya" person is and asks Father to recount her story to her.[5]
Final Arc
Kaya, along with an elderly woman and two men, attended to Father's wounds after he was injured by a group of men. Although the village in which they lived had nothing, they "gave him everything."[6]
An unspecified amount of time later, Kaya snapped Father out of his daze by taking a lock of his hair between her fingers, commenting that it's grown out lately. When Father asked her where he was, she explained that they're in the village where he washed up. Two men atop a hill behind them then called out to Father, asking for his help with someone who has collapsed in the street and blocked the road. She encouraged him to help, saying this is a world of give and take.
One night, while the villagers were trading food, Father was accused of hiding food at his house. The villagers looked at him with suspicion, but Kaya interrupted by arriving with mochi to share with everyone present. Kaya later found Father by the riverside, visibly upset and throwing stones into the water. She commented that everyone gets agitated easily because they're hungry, including him. She then replaced the stone in his hand with one of the mochi, and told him that it's okay not to forgive something, but it's also important that he can let go of things.
On another day, the group of men who threw Father into the river arrived in the village to collect dues. One man on horseback stole rice from Kaya, and Father suddenly attacked him. Kaya watched on, terrified, as he suffered a fatal injury.
Having finished recounting this story to Izanami, Father again mistakenly referred to Izanami as Kaya. While they carved masks together, Father remarked that gods or the Buddha would never have been willing to appear to him in Kaya's likeness, revealing that he had been carving Kaya's likeness on the mask. He eventually stole the Word from Izanami and began to run away. He wondered for a moment why he would even want to return to the hellish world of the living, but quickly remembered Kaya. At the same time Father thought to himself that he could hear Kaya's voice, her shadowed figure shouted down what may have been a vent.[7]
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Relationships
Father
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The exact nature of their relationship is unknown. However, they seem to have been quite close, based on Father's grief upon her passing.[3][4]
Trivia
- In the Polish and French translations of Chapter 32, her appearance is specified to be a "girl with scars from smallpox on her face" (JP:
痘痕面 の娘 , abatadzura no musume).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 32: She Who Invites (Vol 9)
- ↑ Chapter 37: The Sound of You Calling My Name (Vol 10)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 60: What the Heavens Bring About (Vol 16)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 96: Call My Name (Vol 24)
- ↑ Chapter 98: Natural Law (Vol 25)
- ↑ Chapter 101: For Whose Sake (Vol 26)
- ↑ Chapter 103: Reminiscence (Vol 26)