Ukina

Slender and pretty, Ukina wears her sandy-blonde hair in a chin-length bob, short bangs and loose side strands framing her features. Her eyes are gray, and she carries a warm, welcoming air.

Warm, sociable, and endlessly curious, Ukina hides a keen instinct behind her sunny front, one that lets her read the truth beneath other people's masks. While carrying her child she shows fierce maternal resolve, choking down human flesh so the baby will survive. Eto's later reading of her mother's diary paints a more calculating side, suggesting Ukina took Kuzen as a lover chiefly to pry open V's secrets and viewed the pregnancy as part of sustaining that bond.

In her past Ukina waits tables at a cafe Yoshimura regularly visits, and the two slowly grow close as she draws the withdrawn man out of his shell. When she uncovers that he is a ghoul, she does not recoil but instead holds him nearer, moved by how alone he has always been. They become lovers and she conceives, though Yoshimura warns that half-human, half-ghoul infants almost never survive to birth. Refusing to accept that, she consumes human meat to nourish the baby, who arrives healthy.

While the couple raise their daughter, Yoshimura discovers Ukina's diary and learns she is really a journalist tracking V, the group that had once brought Kuzen aboard as its cleaner. V soon realizes how much she knows and marks her as a danger, forcing Yoshimura to choose between killing her or dying alongside her. Lured to an isolated spot, Ukina understands her fate and accepts it, worrying aloud only about leaving Yoshimura on his own before he ends her life. Her death lets him escape with their child, and the diary holding everything she learned passes to Eto.