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Mika
The titular "Heartless Boundary Witch"", a young girl who seeks her heart on her 500 year journey.
- Blood Magic: Mika can use her blood to create anything.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: Mika goes "puff" only after a sip of enriched juice (sweetened with brandy).
- Cute Bruiser / Little Miss Badass: Despite being a witch, Mika is well versed in variety of weapons, and strong enough to knock a wall with oversized bludgeon.
- Cute Witch: Mika. Her sister also (may) count.
- Death Seeker
- Not So Stoic: Mika breaks down in tears every once and awhile, and it's heartbreaking to watch.
- One Twin Must Die: At first, it's revealed that Mika's the one who should've died in utero, however, Horloge lied and reveals that Nina was the one who wasn't supposed to live.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Mika, was the older, more outgoing twin, and Nina was the shy, younger one. In the past, they constantly pulled a Twin Switch on the staff.
- Really 700 Years Old
- Rei Ayanami Expy: Light hair, a stoic facad, and a Dark and Troubled Past.
- Sugarand Ice Personality
- Sweet Tooth: Mika has a perchance for sweet, and while it wasn't as bad as before, Mika dumped all of a host's sugar cubes into her tea to sweeten it.
- The Stoic: Wandering for 500 years will do that to you. See [1].
- Walking the Earth
- We Are as Mayflies
- When She Smiles
Lumiere
Mika's companion, who takes on the form of a sturdy lantern.
- A Magic Contract Comes with a Kiss: How Lumiere is able to turn into his human form. Mika originally wanted the transformation trigger to be a fingersnap, and is upset that he took her first kiss.
- Anguished Declaration of Love
- Battle Butler: Or at least, in his human form, Lumiere has the appearance of a butler.
- Bishonen
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Lumiere is not fond of any other man either trying to flirt with Mika or kiss her in some form.
- Hates Being Alone
- Meaningful Rename
- Parental Abandonment: Lumiere was an abandoned egg, and a human took care of him until they died.
- Really 700 Years Old: Despite appearing around his late 20s in human form, Lumiere is more than a 100 year old dragon.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: After he swore to Mika to be transformed into a lantern, Lumiere comments that the contract ritual is like a wedding ceremony.
- Wrong Genre Savvy
Ritsuka
A magician's apprentice who later joins Mika and Lumiere, in order to become more experienced with magic, with Mika as his teacher.
- Bishonen
- Forced Transformation: His transformed state is a cute little mouse
- Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: When Ritsuka transformed back into a human for the first time in 200 years, this occurs.
- Lethal Chef: More like, lethal magician's apprentice. Ritsuka's unable to create potions and medicines without having them explode.
- So Proud of You: Master Laurise, the magician that taught and raised Ritsuka, says this right before he turns into flower petals at the end of the Mirror of Thorns arc.
- Younger Than They Look: Even though he appears to be around Lumiere's age, Ritsuka's a minor - explaining to Lumiere as the reason that he can't order beer for him.
Horloge
A mysterious child that is connected to the twins somehow.
- I Lied: Says this word for word in Chapter 42, explaining to the group that Mika wasn't the twin who wasn't supposed to live, but Nina.
- Meaningful Name: Their name is the French word for "clock"
- Physical God: They're the spirit of the lake of Mika's hometown.
- Resurrective Immortality
- Sharing a Body: In Chapter 40, Horloge explains that he went into Risa's (the mother of Nina and Mika) womb and resided in Mika in order for Mika's heart to continue beating. See I Lied
- Three Wishes
Nina
Mika's little sister, the one who took Mika's heart in the first place.
- Mad Love: The reason that Nina stole Mika's heart in the first place
- Older Than They Look: Like Mika, Nina has been living, and waiting for her, for over 500 years. Despite this, she looks like a teenager.
- One Twin Must Die: At first, it's revealed that Mika's the one who should've died in utero, however, Horloge lied and reveals that Nina was the one who wasn't supposed to live.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Mika, was the older, more outgoing twin, and Nina was the shy, younger one. In the past, they constantly pulled a Twin Switch on the staff.
- Psychic Children: Although twins, Nina was the one who inherited their mother's ability to predict the future.
- Tears of Remorse: Nina sheds these tears while she apologizes to Mika for making her suffer.
- Winged Humanoid/ Our Fairies Are Different: Nina gaining wings was a result of Horloge's powers having an effect on her, since she was their vessel after all.