Ost Horai

"No. I was fated to destroy life, to be hated and scorned. People were to cheer when I died, and yet here you are, sad to see me go. I cannot help but feel joyful."

- Ost

Appearance
Ost has shiny brown hair tied into a chignon and sharp Chinese-looking eyes. Her skin is healthy and bright and according to Naofumi, she looks vivacious.

Story
Ost is the human familiar of the Spirit Tortoise. She comes to Naofumi, pleading for him to defeat the turtle before it goes on a rampage. Naofumi at first doesn't believe her, claiming that the turtle is dead and that he had defeated it earlier. However, he is proven wrong, and the two rush back into combat. Naofumi heads out to kill the spirit tortoise, knowing Ost will die as well.

Personality
Ost is kindhearted and will sacrifice what is needed to protect her friends. She cares more about the lives of others than her own. She wishes that she could have lived a life as a normal human and spent more time with Naofumi as an ally, but doesn't let this desire get in the way of defeating Kyo and ending her own life.

It is noted that her first method of calming the waves is to use her beauty to bring about war and harvest the souls to use them to keep the world safe. Because of this it can be assumed she is capable of manipulation and cruelty, Melromark's Queen is quite familiar with this side of her. However this is stated not to be her real personality and it is only used as a means to protect the world, as such she doesn't display any of these traits in front of Naofumi's group because by then hr purpose had been usurped by Kyo and she had no reason to.

Her greatest regret and fear is that she was meant to die hated and alone because of her mission, which requires her to be a villain, as such she is happy that she got to meet Naofumi's group and to be her true self while with them even if the cause was decidedly negative.

Trivia

 * In the english version of the light novel, her hair ones is described as having a red color. That is likely due to the case that the term 紅茶色 was used for her hair color, which can be translated as black tea color. But because 紅 also means red, the hair was translated as red colored.