Takashi Homura

Takashi Homura (穂村 貴志) is a character introduced in Case 2 of Volume 1. He was the fiancé of Mami Sasu.

Appearance
Takashi is described to be a man on the side of 30.

He has big eyes, and a "baby" face. However, he wears an expensive suit. It gives off a more straight-laced and business-oriented feeling than even Richard's clothing.undefined He states that it will be "all over" for him if he compares his own looks to Richard, when considering a prospect of Mami being interested in the latter instead.

Background
Takashi is the son and heir of his family-run company. It is called "Homura Corporation", and is located in Marunouchi. It is in a business district with land rent that is just as high as Ginza. He is currently in training as a subsection chief. He has a business card for his company, which he gave to Seigi when they first met.

Personality
Mami states that he is not a bad person. She is surprised about the hired detective. However, she is sincere and single minded at heart. It seems that sometimes he acts rashly as well, but he is truly a kind person. Even Seigi didn't think he was such a terrible person, which is why Mami even considered marriage with him.

He has a somewhat narrow-minded view about non heterosexual relationships. Even when he found out about the true nature of Mami and Akashi's relationship. He states that even if two women are consorting together, it will not be seen as romantic love, but only as "good friends". However, he was at least reasonable enough to break off his engagement with Mami after her incident, and her wanting to be with Akashi.

History
He met Mami exactly one year ago. She joined Homura Corporation in spring and he immediately fell for her. They dated, and eventually became engaged. They had even finished meeting with his parents, and it was the marriage stage.

He gave her a ruby brooch inlaid with diamonds for her wedding blues last winter. She seemed to like it. However, he then accused Mami of being evasive and non-committal.

Aftermath
Takashi met up with Richard once more since then. Since Takashi's family is a greatly ambitious jewelry collector, Richard made an arrangement to show Homura more the next time they meet. Takashi states that he will like Richard to show him if the latter has any good stones, making no mentions of Mami and Akashi.

Mami Sasu
She was his fiancée. He fell in love with her, and even keeps a picture of the both of them together in his leather briefcase. The picture is of them being in front of a fountain encircled by a flowerbed of tulips, their arms timidly linked together.

He was however using a detective to investigate and tailed her for at least one month. He found out that she was visiting Jewelry Étranger.

Even if there is a prospect of Mami being interested in Richard instead, and him claiming to lose in looks, he still won't give up on her. He claims that he doesn't mind Mami "cheating on him", when he found out about the former's relationship with Akashi. Richard reasons it to being "Maybe if he was truly, hopelessly in love with someone, he wouldn't mind if you weren't the only one they loved the most, and just wanted to be by their side. No matter what fork it took, no matter what you had to give up".

However, he was reasonable enough to break his engagement with her after learning that she doesn't return his feelings.

Etymology

 * The name Takashi means "valuable" (貴) (taka) and "will, purpose" (志) (shi).
 * Takashi's surname Homura means "grain" (穂) (ho) and "town, village" (村) (mura).