Noriko

Noriko is a youkai that lives near Genbu Castle. Like all youkai, she was created from the strong emotions of a human being and only manages to exist on the Continent instead of Nippon due to her proximity to the castle. In her case, the strong desire for love and acceptance of a lonesome depressed girl that was always being tricked by the people surrounding her eventually manifested into Noriko and as such her youkai shares much of the appearance and ambitions as her.

Noriko manages a shop near the Castle where she sells different adventuring items, though she has the odd policy to only ever sell a single item at a time, due to an odd rule of "Business 101". She is one of the many people that consider that Rance and Sill make a "cute couple" much to the former's frustration and was shocked to discover that Sill was his slave.