Ichika Amasawa

Appearance
Ichika has straight scarlet hair that is tied into twintails and laced with red ribbons, and gradient dark-red eyes. She is seen so far wearing formal school attire consisting of an orange blouse paired with an unbuttoned crimson blazer with a blue ribbon, a short-length white sailor striped pleated skirt, and black thigh-highs. Ichika has the seductive charms to even tempt Ken Sudō to believe her words for a moment based on how she conduct herself in feeling him up with one tiny hand movement.

Personality
Ichika has a very mischievous personality, devilishly teasing every character she has interacted with so far, even when it angers them. Ichika is overly playful with her choice of words, not taking what she said in the open seriously when it is all in fun amusement to the former for the latter almost believing it. She is like a misfit in her classroom where nobody bothers to reach out to the former and befriend her. Despite having amazing communication skills, Ichika admits she is still suck at making friends with the people in her class. Nonetheless, Ichika is thoughtful about her way of life in the White Room and the peers she got to know there that matters to her more than Kiyotaka being her idol of worship. She dislikes seeing outsiders like Kikyō Kushida get in the way of expelling Kiyotaka as people like them have no right to interfere except for those who're rightfully involved such as herself.

History
Not much is known about Ichika's history except for the fact she was raised in the White Room as a member of the 5th generation. In Volume 3 of Second Year Arc, she said that her relationship with Ayanokoji went beyond love. It was later revealed in her monologue that she was born using in-vitro fertilisation, from the parents that, according to her, are said to be geniuses. She had described her life in White Room to be monotonous where a talented person like her wasn't welcomed.

Plot
In LN Year 2 Arc, Volume 1, after overhearing that they were looking for a good partner, Ichika approached Suzune Horikita, Kiyotaka Ayanokōji, and Ken Sudō in Keyaki Mall, offering to partner up with one of them for the Partner Exam. Ichika had been carefully watching how their conversation will play out from the first floor until she steps in and ask them about it. Ichika reassures Suzune that she was not eavesdropping on the three, reasoning that the former had decided to call out to them after overhearing how they're looking to find a partner for Ken. She and Suzune would formally introduce each other by their name, class affiliation and academic ability rating. Upon hearing Suzune's academic capability, Ichika voluntarily asked Suzune if she can be her partner in this special exam while promising that they together can reach the top spot. Kiyotaka noted how Ichika didn't bother to question Suzune's background whatsoever and chose to consider cooperating with her anyway. However, Ichika was turned down by Suzune who the latter suggests she be the partner of Ken instead. Despite already knowing thanks to OAA app, she inquires what the ranking of Ken's academic ability rating is before considering joining hands with him which Suzune states it's an E+. Through this, Ichika easily guesses that Suzune wants a lowly-academic student like Ken to pair up with her so that she can save him from possible expulsion. Ichika doubts that she has a good chance of taking the top spot in the exam by being partnered together with Ken, believing they will end up a little below average.

Although there's nothing for Ichika to get from working with Ken, she didn't mind helping out her upperclassman since Suzune was the one asking for her assistance. Ichika then shifted her sights in Kiyotaka's direction, questioning Suzune if he needs a partner too besides Ken. While Suzunes offers Kiyotaka with a C+ academic ability rating up to her as a partner, Ichika states that she has no intention of agreeing to cooperate with him either. Despite initially offering to pair up with Suzune, Ichika considers her upperclassman's offer of partnering with either Ken or Kiyotaka to have certain conditions that must be met first before going through with their partnership deal as she has the right to call the shots. Since Suzune has no idea what was meant by her statement, Ichika states that she has been super concerned about what to do during this exam, wondering if it was the right decision for her to aim for the top spot and study as hard as she can while considering pairing up with somebody smart like Suzune. At the same time, if not that, Ichika wonders maybe she should just go with the flow and tackle the exam without having to worry all that much. On that note, without having to care a lot about the exam, Ichika admits that she may as well look for someone who she has an interest in and pair up with that person if they happen to be a powerful guy. In other words, Ichika declares that she has a thing for liking strong people and asks Ken to prove his strength by brawling with the other second-years, but Suzune declines due to school rules with regard to violence between students. To Ichika, what she wants from a strong person is not their mental strength, but rather their physical prowess mainly, understanding that perhaps Ken do fit the bill and guesses he is likely someone who has participate in a lot of sports.

No longer interested in the person's academic ability, Ichika then turned and pointed her finger directly at Ken, questioning if he has what it takes as a powerful guy to partner up with her. While so, Ichika reached out her hand to caress Ken's cheek, leaving him to nervously ask her if she was really okay with someone like him not being smart. Ichika reasons with Ken that she is fine with him being her partner as long as he happened to be that strong person she desired. With that, she proceeded to trace her slender finger across Ken's chest, mesmerizing him with her bewitching appearance and action. When Ken confidently states he is indeed powerful, Ichika expressed she doesn't hate that kind of confidence in a guy like him. With Suzune still feeling uncertain as to what she was referring to, Ichika states it means what it means as she has a liking for powerful dudes who are good at fighting in hand-to-hand combat. Ichika reasons that it has to be somebody who is actually nice and strong who she can accept as her partner. When Suzune tries to vouch for Ken's physical strength, Ichika doubts otherwise thinking that the upperclassman's words alone are not proving to be convincing and states she has to see it with her own eyes to believe. In order to have Ken prove his worth, she wants Suzune to go gather up all of the strongest guys in the second-year and have them arranged a fight with him. She states that whoever emerge victorious in the end will have the right to be her partner even if it is not Ken. When negotiations was about to break down, she didn't mind that that they forget this entire conversation ever happened in the first place. Though Suzune questions how serious she was about that condition, Ichika reaffirms it to be what she desires emphasizing that it has to be someone who is powerful enough for her to be pair with. Ichika initially expresses her sweet excitement that they were going to follow through with her offer of arranging a match among the second-years.

However, Suzune put forward a promise of her own as an important stipulation whereby if nobody shows up to the fight and challenge Ken, Ichika will have no other choice but to partner up with him. Understanding the verbal promise that she will be Ken's partner if he wins by default, Ichika nonchalantly accepts Suzune's stipulation and leaves them to arrange the location of the duel to avoid letting the school catch wind of their action. To seal the deal, Ichika typed out an advertisement message of the fight on her phone as a sign of confirmation. Before sending the message though, Ichika suddenly turned off the screen of her phone and put it back into her pocket to show that she was not really fine with the idea whatsoever. If anything, according to Kiyotaka, it was as though Ichika was trying to sound the three out with this deal she proposed as a way to test them. Having already seen Suzune and Kiyotaka's attitude towards Ken's strength and his physique, Ichika decided to change her mind about her proposal, stating that she knew no one would likely go out of their way to show up to fight Ken himself even if an advertisement message was sent out. Through this conversation, she had more or less came to understand how powerful and physically top-class Ken is among the second year-students. She had managed to reach a conclusion that there was no real need to compare the second-years to Ken through a fight at all. Suzune asked him if she was just toying with the three of them, Ichika said it was nothing like that, stating how the match with Ken won't be fun since nobody is willing to battle him while admitting it was her intention to see and confirm for herself who was the strongest among the second-years (excluding Kiyotaka).

Thinking that Suzune is mad at her, Ichika pressed her forefinger to her lips as she thought it over for a moment, contemplating she ought to give them a second chance to convince her to partner with Ken as an act of forgiveness for her rejecting the proposal from earlier. Ichika then changes her condition by saying that she would liked a boy that could cook a super tasty meal, asking Ken if he can make something like that to impress her. Ichika comments that he not only needs to prepare a home-cooked meal that is scrumptious to her, but he must be sure to make what she asked him to do. Hearing how Ken has never cooked a meal in his lifetime before, Ichika considers retracting her offer right then and there until Suzune cuts in the conversation stating that she wants to handle the task of doing the cooking. However, Ichika was against the idea of having a girl becoming a cook for her and desires a guy who is capable of cooking for her rather than someone of the same gender as her. Ichika conveys her reasoning that there was no point in herself partnering at all if it's not a man that possesses good cooking skills. Ichika suggests Suzune give up and go find a male from Class 2-D in Ken's stead, provocatively teasing the latter of thinking if the former won't be his partner no matter who cooks for her. Ichika went on to say that maybe Suzune should train Ken into becoming a cooking pro, doubting whether she will have enough time to teach him the necessary skills and states that the latter need to hurry up and make it happen before the former finds a partner herself. This in turn, leads Suzune to have Kiyotaka be the one man to cook for Ichika rather than Ken. Ichika says, as her new condition, that if Kiyotaka could satisfy her in terms of cooking, she wouldn't mind being partner with Ken in the special exam.

The next day, she met up with Kiyotaka at the Keyaki Mall and bought cooking utensils and ingredients for the meal. They headed towards Kiyotaka's room at the second year dormitory, which was neat and clean. Ichika relaxed inside while stating that she liked to eat Tom yam kung, which was a Thai dish. Kiyotaka prepared the dish and presented it to Ichika for a taste test and she seemed satisfied with it. Afterwards, she offered to clean the dishes since she was the one who had forced Kiyotaka to her cooking test, then she agreed to be Ken's partner for the Special Exam.

A few days later, she visited Kiyotaka's room, stating that she had lost her favorite hair rubber. She saw Kei Karuizawa in the room studying with him. Kei introduced herself, and asked her about her relationship with Kiyotaka, and she told her that Kiyotaka was her personal chef, and later teased Kiyotaka for looking at her butt while she searched for her hair rubber, making Kei annoyed. Then Kiyotaka said that he had cooked for Ichika before but could not tell her the details. After she found her hair rubber in the kitchen, she apologized for her teasing and left the room.

It was later revealed in that she had played a role in Kazuomi Hōsen's plan to expel Kiyotaka, but her motives remain unclear.

In LN Year 2 Arc, Volume 2, she decides to team up with Tsubasa Nanase and Kazuomi to form a group to expel Kiyotaka from the next Deserted Island Special Exam.

In LN Year 2 Arc, Volume 3, Ichika catches a spying Kikyō, who tried to use her tablet to record the fight between Kiyotaka and Tsubasa in order to get him expelled. Tormenting her, Ichika physically hurts Kikyō, causing her to show some of her true personality. Ichika goes on to explain that such a sloppy act would not even affect Kiyotaka, who had already noticed the presence of a third party. Kikyō then angrily questions her relationship with Kiyotaka, asking if she liked him, to which Ichika replies that it was something that transcended love.

Abilities
In contrast to her appearance, Ichika has high physical abilities and academic abilities having an A in both of those categories on OAA. She is also known to be intelligent and cunning, which is acknowledged by Kiyotaka himself to be comparable to Arisu Sakayanagi. She was able to keenly see through whatever strategy Kikyō Kushida was scheming to do whereby recording the battle Kiyotaka had with Tsubasa Nanase as evidence to get him expelled. Ichika would go so far as to use violence on Kushida to force the latter in not only revealing her true personality to the former but also giving up on the plan as well. As a girl who was once raised in the White Room for years while being part of the 5th generation, Ichika happened to developed very high-level interpersonal communication and collaboration skills unlike Kiyotaka. It was easy for Ichika to adopt the attitude of a high schooler and adapt to the school's environment better than Kiyotaka did. She could skillfully and deceitfully pull off an rich assortment of different facial expressions to show how talented she was with her acting abilities. Kiyotaka regarded Ichika's physical strength to exceed even that of Ken Sudō and Kakeru Ryūen, believing neither of the two could stand a chance in winning a fight against her due to the variety of refined techniques she was trained in to overwhelm them. This was indicated when Ichika was able to easily toy with and one-sidedly handle both Suzune Horikita and Mio Ibuki all on her own without problem while having already sustain a heavy physical injury to her body prior to the match against the two. She was able to dish out a painful blow to her targets like Kushida without the latter quickly reacting to that incoming attack on time until it was too late to do so upon realizing that they've been hit.

Quotes

 * (To Suzune Horikita): "Heyo~ If you're looking for a good partner, there's one right over here."
 * (To Suzune Horikita): "I won't be convinced with just words alone~ I'll have to make sure of it with my own eyes."
 * (To Suzune Horikita): "I'm saying like, go gather up all of the strong guys in the second year and have ‘em, like, fight each other or something. Then I'll come along and partner up with the one who wins."
 * (To Suzune Horikita): "Other than strong guys, I guess I like a guy who can cook, how's that?"
 * (To Suzune Horikita): "That's no good. I told you didn’t I? That I like a guy who can cook? If I'm not partnering with a good cooking man, then what's the point in partnering at all?"
 * (To Suzune Horikita): "How ‘bout you try and make Sudō-senpai into a cooking pro now? I wonder if you’ll have time for that though. I'm a popular girl, so like, if you're too slow I might settle on a partner already."

Name Etymology

 * The name Ichika consists of kanjis that mean "one" (一) (ichi) and "summer" (夏) (ka).
 * Ichika's surname Amasawa consists of kanjis that mean "heaven, sky" (天) (ama) and "marsh" (沢) (sawa).

Trivia

 * For the 2nd Year arc, when asked about her aspirations for the next year, she answered:  "To enjoy myself, obviously. Eating a lot of tasty food, falling in love. That's what being a student is about!."