Mika Saion

Background

Mika was unable to speak since birth. She often had bitter experiences regarding voices when she was young, so Soshi protected her. While her exact origins remain a mystery, a song sung in her mansion heavily implies her past. The song describes a child wondering where their parents are, making dinner together, eating a cow, and subsequently starting to moo.↗↗

Realizing the potential of her ability, Mika began stealing the voices of real people to fuel her manga career since at least April 8, 2016. Years later, Kyoka Izumi found a piece she posted on social media and fell in love with her talent. Kyoka then immediately contacted Mika and had her debut in Shonen Jumbo with the series Midhope, becoming her editor. Mika would continue abducting people and stealing their tongues to create the incredibly realistic dialogue for her series.↗↗

Meeting With Her Editor

During a meeting with Rohan Kishibe, Kyoka boasts about Mika, her newly discovered hit manga artist. However, Rohan expresses skepticism, pointing out that while the dialogue is realistic, the art is completely derivative and copied. Offended by the accusation of plagiarism, Kyoka travels to the Saion estate unannounced to prove Rohan wrong. When Kyoka arrives at the massive mansion, she calls Mika's phone and explains that she is there.↗

After Soshi greets her, Mika suddenly appears next to Soshi, surprising Kyoka. Soshi invites Kyoka to eat lunch with them. Mika begins eating what Kyoka presumes to be a dish of beef tongue. Kyoka tells Mika about how the readers of Midhope have praised her dialogue. She asks if Mika could sign a stack of volumes for reader giveaways, but Soshi, who is actually Mika speaking using his voice, declines since they are still eating. After finishing one tongue, Mika is served another one.↗↗

Kyoka's suspicions grow when she uses opera glasses to spy on Mika licking a vinyl record. She heads to that room and peers inside, but Mika has Soshi exit and block her path. He asks her to leave before walking away. Kyoka grows even more suspicious of Mika plagiarizing. Sneaking into that room, Kyoka finds a room devoid of manuscripts but filled with saliva-covered audio equipment. Elsewhere, Soshi is cleaning Mika's ear while Mika sings a song with his voice.↗↗

Tongue Pursuit

Having caught her in the act, Mika confronts Kyoka. She sticks her finger into Kyoka's mouth and licks it, revealing her true ability. Mika confesses that she ate Soshi's tongue and has been using his voice the entire time. Declaring her intention to take Kyoka's tongue to add to her collection, Mika chases the editor through the mansion.↗↗

Suddenly, Kyoka's stalker boyfriend, Kansuke, arrives outside the mansion looking for her. Mika answers the intercom using Kyoka's stolen voice, lets him inside, and brutally knocks him out by smashing a ceramic item over his head. Using Kansuke's voice, she tricks Kyoka into opening the door of the room she was hiding in. Mika, Soshi, and the silent assistants pin Kyoka down to extract her tongue.↗↗

Mika obsessively begins licking the recorder. However, her supernatural ability attempts to absorb all thousands of voices simultaneously. The sheer overwhelming influx of voices causes Mika's brain to short-circuit. Thrashing in sheer agony, Mika accidentally bites off her own tongue and screams in horror. Mika frantically picks up and devours her own tongue, only to lifelessly fall to the ground afterward. Soshi then picks up Mika and wanders off, abandoning the estate and Mika's assistants.↗↗

Following the incident, the news of the "Tongue-Cutting Manga Artist" goes public, causing a massive scandal. Midhope is immediately canceled and all volumes are recalled. However, Mika and Soshi have completely vanished before the police can apprehend them, with their current whereabouts unknown.↗↗

Profile details

Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Alive↗