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Kohta (コウタ/耕太, Kōta?)

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Kohta (コウタ/耕太, Kōta?) is main male character of the series and is first introduced in Volume 1 when he arrives in Kanagawa Prefecture to attend college, having previously arranged to stay with his cousin Yuka while at school.[6]

Kohta enters the story when Yuka's family rents him a closed down restaurant, the Kaeda House, as long as he maintains it, and begins living there with Yuka while going to a university. Kohta has repressed traumatic memories of witnessing the deaths of his father and sister,[7] which later in the plot is revealed to be by Lucy's hand, who acted out of jealousy.[citation needed]. He suffers from Amnesia brought on by the trauma of this event, caused him to end up in a hospital for over a year following the event[citation needed]. Due in part to his loss, Kohta is sympathetic towards girls in trouble and is extremely generous and protective to the girls around him, because he can relate to them and they remind him of his late younger sister, Kanae.

He meets Lucy in his childhood when she is burying the dead puppy and running away from the orphanage where she killed 4 children (three boys, and one girl to be precise). In the anime, he was visiting his cousin with his family and decided to go to the mountain to draw, taking with him a music box he had recently purchased which played Lilium. He strikes up a conversation with her when she apparently likes the song from the music box. He finds her horns fascinating and gives her a hat to cover them up while in public. He asks her if they could be friends and spends time with her. He takes her to the zoo, telling her that he likes to look at the "weird animals." In Lucy's hallucination, she perceives this as a reason to why he was so nice to her. He lies to her about the gender of his cousin by saying that it is a boy so she wouldn't be upset or jealous. When she finds out that he lied to her, she stows away onto his train and kills his family. Before she goes to kill Yuka, he tackles her and yells at her to stop killing people.

His repressed memories are triggered when Lucy uses her vectors to kill over a dozen soldiers in front of him, afterwards singing Lilium, the song that brought them together. He is more forgiving in the anime, even kissing Lucy and stating that he still loves her and her Nyuu persona though he proclaims that he cannot bring himself to fully forgive her for the murder of his family. In contrast, He is less forgiving in the manga, and he is truly unforgiving towards her for killing his family. In the last chapter, he fulfills his promise to Lucy and kills her. Later, he and Yuka are married, and subsequently name their daughter "Nyu".