Aki Hayami

"“I'll stand by your side no matter what happens, Kouta. Nothing can break our love, not bullies, not lechers in trains, not even those onis.” —Aki" Aki Hayami (速水 綾希) is the childhood friend and love interest of Kouta Kazama and a supporting character who, along with Kouta, would ascend to the role of tertiary main characters in the second half of the anime The Hows of Me and Liliana.

Appearance
Aki is an attractive young woman in her late teens with shoulder-length mahogany-brown hair and amber-garnet irises on her eyes.

The Hows of Me and Liliana
Aki is Kouta Kazama's childhood friend who has always been his neighbor and she attends in the same school as he does, along with their friends Tatsuya Nagare, Nozomu Sunohara and Shiori Takanashi. Her parents and Kouta's parents have been friends since long before they were born, so their two families have always been very close. Aki is a very sweet and cute girl, her popularity with boys is incredible, just like with girls. She doesn't seem very receptive to Kouta but in reality she has realized longer than him that they were of the opposite sex.

That's why she starts to panic when she learns that Kouta and her family will come to live with them for two weeks, to her mother's great joy.

Etymology

 * The name Aki means "design" (綾) (a) and "hope" (希) (ki).
 * Aki's surname Hayami means "fast" (速) (haya) and "water" (水) (mi).