Ikkyu

Small and childlike, Ikkyu has an oversized head set with large, round eyes, while his unkempt hair is tied into a lone braid that juts up like a crest at his crown. His attire is a butler's dark uniform, its bow tie sitting above a pair of checkered trousers.

Wholly committed to his masters, Ikkyu maintains flawless courtesy and betrays no feeling, staying unmoved as guests are punished for poor manners and repeating that etiquette allows no compromise, though his face suggests he feels more than he lets on. Oddly, he remains conscious even after Heaven's Door takes hold of him, remembering everything done to him despite never having heard of Stands before.

Ikkyu keeps house for the Village of Millionaires, serving its rulers, the Gods of the Mountain, and studying each resident's conduct. Grace brings prosperity, while rudeness costs a person something they treasure, a friend perhaps or a relative. When a house goes up for sale, he meets the prospective buyers at the gate, Rohan Kishibe and Kyoka Izumi, walks them inside, and leaves tea before them while he fetches his master. From behind a curtain the two of them watch; Rohan reads it as a test of poise and counsels patience, but Izumi drinks anyway.

The butler returns instantly and demands they go, tallying three lapses: claiming the seats of honor before the host arrived, treading on the tatami borders, and looping her fingers through the teacup's handle. Izumi pleads for a second attempt, and as Ikkyu leaves to ask his master, the curse lands: a rescued fledgling in Rohan's pocket is dead, and a phone call tells Izumi that her mother and fiance died together in a crash. Rohan strikes back with Heaven's Door, laying the village's secret bare, yet Ikkyu stays lucid as a book and charges him with acting without leave, and Izumi's heart begins to fail.

Set before a plate of corn as a new trial, Rohan opts to eat by hand and then springs his own trap: the butler now stands on a tatami edge, because Rohan had earlier inscribed into him a blindness to those borders. Ikkyu protests that cheating invites divine fury and offers one more test of manners, but Rohan refuses, gathers Izumi, and departs for good as the little bird stirs back to life.