Flare

Flare is a young woman whose dark brown hair falls to her shoulders above dark green eyes, and her resemblance to a pre-timeskip Nami is striking. She works in a white shirt patterned with lines under an orange apron. The anime recolors her with pale orange hair and pale blue eyes, swaps her shirt for a yellow striped one and her apron for navy, and adds brown pants tucked into boots.

Generous by nature, she handed the famished Ryuma a free meal after he had gone five days without food. She is also trusting to a fault, lavishing affection on Cyrano for supposedly rescuing her, a faith that shattered into tears once she discovered he had only been using her.

As a small child, Flare watched a dragon ravage her hometown and collapse her house atop her parents. She escaped and went looking for help, finding the swordsman Cyrano and begging him to save them before fainting from her wounds; when she woke, he claimed only she could be saved. Years on, working at the restaurant Gerard, she reunited with Cyrano and took pity on the starving Ryuma at the window, feeding him for free. She halted the duel Ryuma nearly fought with Cyrano, but when townspeople accused Ryuma of provoking a man named D.R. into summoning a dragon, she slapped him and called him an assassin. Cyrano then volunteered to face the beast, and Flare, troubled, ran to stop him, only to overhear Cyrano and D.R. gloating: the two had engineered the original dragon attack a decade earlier to loot her town, slaughtering everyone, including her father, and sparing her solely for prestige. Stricken with fury rather than grief, she apologized to Ryuma and refused to weep, unwilling to give the schemers satisfaction. From the restaurant roof she resigned herself to dying with the town, then watched in awe as an enraged Ryuma cut the dragon down in a single stroke. He told her to keep living, explained that a battle's worth lies in what one fights for rather than the fame won, and promised to return for another free meal, leaving her smiling as the townsfolk gathered around the slain beast and recalled his title, "The King."