Ikuko Hachijo

"Readers only pretend to read books...No matter what I write in my books, they don't truly read anything"

- Tohya Hachijo,

Tohya Hachijo is a mysterious novelist appearing in and.

Background
Tohya successfully published several mystery novels, each under different pen names. Her popularity skyrocketed when it was discovered that each of these novels were written by the same person.

Personality
Tohya is very reclusive. Like her counterpart, Tohya often refers to humans as "child of man."

Twilight of the Golden Witch
Tohya is solicited by a group of employees for "Company X," who wish to fix the outcome of a mystery novel contest they are holding. Tohya would win 10 million yen and her manuscript would be published and adapted into a film and television drama.

Trivia

 * One of Tohya's pen names, Itouikukuro Reigonamu, is an elaborate pun. The Japanese syllables, when matched to numbers, spell out 11019960576. This number is equal to 18$8$, which is read in Japanese as "tohya no hachijo".