Airyuu

Airyuu (藍竜, Airyū) is a traveling exorcist who, while passing Hananoyu Inn, felt the ghostly presence there.

Appearance
Airyuu is a young man with messy black hair and beard.

He wears an overused and dirty priest clothes and has a large brown beads around his neck.

Personality
Airyu is a nice young man who left his home few years ago, since then he travels around performing exorcism and trying to help people.

Synopsis
Airyuu was passing the Hananoyu Inn when he felt the ghostly presence there and wanted to exorcise the place. Mineko Seki accepted and invited him inside, where Oriko Seki server him some food. As he quickly ate it, his stomach growled again and Oriko decided to bring him another dish, as he explained he was not eaten in three days. As a gratitude, he wished to exorcists the ghosts in the inn, as he believed they were taking part of Oriko's life.

Later, Oriko brought Genzou Akino who tried to convince Airyuu not to do it and to not waste his life fighting spirits, but Airyuu still wished to perform the exorcism and Mineko agreed.

Airyuu went from place to place looking for the ghosts, while Oriko was trying to warn them, where he was going. In the end he felt their presence in a backroom and as he opened it Makoto Tateuri created a strong wind, saying that he wasn't evil and would never harm Oriko. As he was to perform the exorcism, Oriko stood between them, saying that they weren't evil and won't harm her. Airyuu then explained he knew that as he could felt if they were evil, so he wouldn't have exorcised them, but he also felt another presence and guessed it was a demon. As he looked in the back of the room, he found a charm and a demonic aura came out of it, but Miyo Akino told them that wasn't real and helped them stop it. Then the real demon showed himself and as they had a conversation Oriko decided to keep the demon and asked Airyuu to not exorcise him. In the end Airyuu decided to fulfill her decision and was amazed she tamed a demon.

Later, he had shaved his beard and wanted Genzou to train him, but he refused. Genzou told him a temple where he can go to study, but in exchange he needs to inform his parents from time to time about his whereabouts and condition and Airyuu agreed.

Etymology

 * The name Airyuu means "indigo" (藍) (ai) and "dragon" (竜) (ryuu).