Ayumi Takahara

Ayumi Takahara (高原歩美, Takahara Ayumi) is Keima's classmate at Maijima Private High School. She is the first capture target in the series and the host of the goddess Mercury.

Personality

Ayumi's defining character traits include general cheerfulness and athleticism. She is a rising star in the track and field team at Maijima and quite possibly the fastest person in the school. In the anime and an omake, she is depicted as running recklessly to get anywhere, often running in her haste into walls or people. Although she initially succumbed to upper-classman pressure, along with her own insecurity of self-confidence, with the help of Keima, she quickly became an important member of the team. One of her habits is to tie her hair up whenever she is preparing to run seriously.

She claims to have excelled at academics in the past, but due to her devotion to running, it seems that she is not performing as well presently. She is a good friend to Elsie and has appeared multiple times in the manga, cementing her position as a character of some importance. Ayumi is also in Chihiro's light music band, the 2-B Pencils, where she plays the guitar.

At the beginning of the Old Conquest Arc, it has been hinted that she has a Goddess residing inside her heart. There have been indications that she might remember Keima's "conquest" and she gets visibly angry and flustered by his efforts to expose this potential Goddess, to the point of kicking him violently through a doorway. Recently, though, she has shown minimal threat towards Keima, after his sick event.
Ayumi also seems to get embarrasssed easily, becoming flustered when one called her a "trend-setter" and becoming embarrassed when her classmates asked about her relationship with Keima. She even tried to switch her speaking pattern to call Keima "otamega" once more, though, she failed.

Ayumi is rather popular and was chosen to be a model for her class. In the omake chapter, she began to influence the school as people began to wear their hair the same way as her. However, people also began "become hurt", as she did before.

Ayumi Takahara

The world god only knows

[Max Pendragon]

What even is this?