Reiko Hayami

Overview

Reiko Hayami is a hero of the Demon War, the king’s royal guard, and the father of Yuki Hayami. Although his house began as minor nobility, it has grown influential through his reputation. Volume I presents Reiko as a knight whose standing is matched by the ice magic and discipline his son inherits.

Reiko comes to the school in His Return, arriving beside Yuki as the adults respond to the conflict around Ryuji. He later enters the arena, raising a huge pillar of ice against Shun. The intervention places him opposite his old fellow hero at the very moment Yuki chooses to stand with Ryuji.

Old friend and rival

Reiko joins Kimiko Torafuku in taking their children to the Tower. His ice magic provides the party's unconventional entry by launching Sawano over the barrier. He later fights Shun at the school and is defeated along with the others.

At the Tower, Reiko questions Shun's apparently unlimited teleportation and prompts the explanation of finite shadow fragments and remote waypoints. Breakfast the next day restores their academy-era pattern of insults and rivalry.