Talk:Riko Chiaki

Summary: お姉さん魔法少女たち全員の、妹的存在の魔法少女。 普段は、家のお弁当屋さんの看板娘として、お客さんの心を和ませている。小学生らしい無邪気さを持ちながらも、 周りの大人たちへの気遣いも忘れない、健気な頑張り屋さん。

Riko's family bento shop is always busy and while they love her, her parents had no choice but to have their neighbor's daughter babysit her. Riko's childhood memories is mostly spending time with this cheerful and kind elder sister who teaches her homework, give her gifts when she performs well or during festivals and taking her out to play. They are as close as sisters.

As Riko grows older, she began helping out at her home shop, but since her parents often need to work OT, sis still took care of her at night when she returns home first.

One day, Riko noticed sis has puffy red eyes, but she refused to share her troubles, but still took good care of her as usual. Few days later, as Riko is helping out at the shop, she heard sis and her father arguing at their metal shops.

That night, she manage to pry from sis the reason: she is about to marry far away from the district, and her dad who is worried for her refused to accept it, a sudden change of attitude since he was approving to the relationship all the time. Sis is sad that her beloved father refuses to trust her judgement. Riko wants to help, but have no idea how to.

That night, QB visits Riko and manage to have her make a wish which everybody will give blessings to sis's marriage. It works, and sis is happily married and moved out of the district.

Back now, Riko realized that she is very lonely without sis, and not even her pet dog nor magic Kirin can ease the loneliness and fear when waiting at home for her parents to come home. Rationally, she can understand her parents are working hard for a living, but as a grade school kid, she can't accept this reality.

One day, Riko's parents have to work OT again and send her home first. After finishing her homework, Riko went out for witch hunting and is dismayed that her parents are still not back at 2230 after her easy victory. She decides to help set their futon so they can rest after a hard day's work.

They called back and explained that they can only return after mid-night due to the huge order placed by Tsukasa's dad since he wants to advertise their good food to his customers visiting the next day to expand their market. They promised to take Riko out after this huge order and have a family outing.

Years spend being lonely and emotions that have stag made Riko snapped as she called her parents liars since they have made many promises and broke all of the. She said they were never there for her like sis was and claimed that she hates them, hanging the phone at the same time.

Riko went for witch hunting to vent stress. While she manage to win, she almost died since the witch is stronger then expected. She realized that no one will be there to comfort her in the future and will have to face her trouble and problems alone and got crushed by despair and helplessness, even thinking she should have not made the wish so sis will still be with her.

Take, a disciple of Tsukasa's dad notice the crying Riko and tries to comfort her and bring her home. But his tactless methods frightened the poor girl since she think he is a creep and is trying to sexually assault her. Luckily, Tsukasa come into the rescue and scold Take since he is delaying their work.

Consumed with fear and loneliness, Riko confide in Tsukasa, a regular at her shop about how she feels and the affair with sis. Speaking from experience, Tsukasa thinks being separated is no excuse for breaking contact, since it is easy to do so if you have the heart. She recommend Riko to speak to sis on the issue and escort Riko home after seeing her accepting her advice.

Riko messaged sis and fell asleep from exhaustion at home. Her father carried her back to bed when they came home after work.

The next day, Riko received sis's prompt reply. She explains that she wanted to contact Riko and visit her as well, but she left home after arguing with her father, and even though he eventually give his blessings, she is not sure how to face him yet, and thinks it will be awkward if they meet when she visits Riko. Another reason she cannot visit is because she has been hospitalized and is only out today. She invites Riko over instead.

Riko asks for permission to visit sis, but she think they will not give it since they are too busy to bring her out (Sis is married to another district and is too far for a grade schooler to make the trip) . However, her parents gave the permission as they sincerely apologizes to Riko for making her feel lonely and promise to make up for real this time.

The next day, they visited sis at her place, and she introduces her husband her her baby daughter to them. She was hospitalized since she need to give birth, and she hope Riko can get along with her daughter, just like how she get along with her.

Riko fondly remembers how sis is always there for her, and make a promise to herself that she will be a good sister for the child, just like how sis is for her. She looks forward to the day when she can eat her bento and her shop's bento, and aims to grow into such a fine lady.