
(Profile, Combat)
Age: -
Species: Human
(Witch)Position: Squadron Leader of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing
Skills:
-Leadership: Mio excels at the leadership to amass subordinates and is proficient in training not only subordinates but also superiors, guiding their abilities.
-Combat ability: Mio is an extraordinarily skilled warrior in the air, showing the speed and technique to not only evade laser attacks while flying, but to cut through them in mid-air using her sword.
Weapons: Her sword, Reppumaru.
Abilities:
-Magic: Mio is a Witch, a young girl possessing innate magical power and abilities. Amplified by the Striker Unit, she should able to block most attacks using her magic Shield which, in combination with her enhanced physical abilities and high-speed flight capabilities, allows her to fight on the level of even much stronger opponents. However, Mio's abilities have begun to degrade with her age, so she has lost the use of her magic Shield. This does not stop her from fighting, however, as her extraordinary skill and willpower more than make up for her lower magical power. Uses the magic Fuso sword, Reppumaru.
-Reppuzan: (
See) A technique that can bisect even a large-type Neuroi along with its core by letting magic power over-concentrate at the point of the blade. Both Sakamoto Mio and Miyafuji Yoshika require the sword Reppumaru to execute it. Originally, this was something that comes under the telekinesis-lineage. Thus, for non-telekinesis-lineage Witch like Sakamoto, acquiring it was a next to impossible task.
-Magic Eye:(See) Classified in the perception-lineage, her right eye can discern things in a far off distant place with super eyesight and even see through a domain that human eyesight normally cannot perceive. However, the limit is range that her field of vision reaches and cannot see past obstacles such as nighttime, deep clouds or structures. Also, it is difficult to control and remains permanently active, requiring the use of her eye-patch to cover it when not in use. Incidentally, when Mio is low on magic power - due to injury or simple degradation caused by age - her vision loses its special functions and her right eye becomes a normal eye.
Personality:
She puts the whole team together with a fatherly atmosphere, playing an active role in battle as a superior front-line commander. She takes pride in having never lost a wingman.
Broadminded and cheerful, she has a personality that is somewhat candidly mannish and does fuss over the minor details of daily life. Mio is faithful to moral obligations and humane feelings, even sentimental in a sense. Her favorite motto is " simplicity and fortitude". Hot-blooded, at a glance she seems simply impulsive, but in battle she has both a cool and elaborate thinking and audacious behavior. No matter what kind of dilemma, she always seeks a solution without ever giving up. She is actually easily moved to tears, but never cries in front of others. The occasion when she wailed before Wing Commander Wilcke prior to the decisive battle out of frustration and hopelessness from her magic power drying up was an exception.
Mio is adored by many Witches due of her personality and military service, but it seems that she herself is unaware of that. Although is frequently approached by Flying Officer Clostermann from the same team, she believes that the girl's feelings are just those of a diligent subordinate towards its superior and doesn't notice any special favor at all. Wing Commander Wilcke, who had a long fellowship with Mio from since before the unit's formation, also seems to hold a favor towards her that exceeds mere friendship. From Private Hijikata Keisuke (currently a Warrant Officer), her exclusive underling and chauffeur, Mio receives an absolute respect that borders worship.
Mio is knowledgeable about the Way of Tea, but doesn't fuss about formal etiquette. She has a fondness for hot springs and was the on who had the idea of constructing a Fuso-style bathhouse at the 501st's base. In the only time Mio was shown using a shower, she did so because she didn't want people to see her crying. As seen in Tenkū no Otome-tachi, she also appears to be afraid of snakes, having fainted upon facing one while stranded on an island.
Mio has no likes and dislikes regarding food and, so long it is eatable, she will eat anything without fail. On the other hand, she is not very good at cooking herself due having enrolled in the military since an early age. One of her troubles is the fact that, even though she can prepare a fish, her onigiri turn out round no matter how she tries to make them. Also by piling up training upon training, she mastered the "Higi - Tamagogiri" (秘技・卵斬り, secret technique - egg cutter) that slices an egg in a horizontal line with a Fuso sword.