Minori

Minori is one of the players trapped in the MMORPG Elder Tale. She is a Kannagi and has a twin brother named Touya.

Appearance
Minori is a cute young girl with short brown one sided pony tail. She usually wears a Red-White Japanese traditional Miko costume or a Red Kimono-like when sleeping.

Personality
Minori is the elder of the twins (having been born just shortly before her brother). She is polite and well-mannered and tends to look after her more impetuous brother.

Both siblings are in their second year of middle school, which Shiroe notes in the light novel, is quite young compared to most players. This is their first MMORPG.

She harbors feelings for Shiroe and tries to get others to see more of Shiroe's good points as opposed to his "Villan in Glasses" persona (although some of these attempts have the opposite effect)

Synopsis
When Minori and her brother Touya first began playing Elder Tales, their early quests were a disaster. Touya would rush immediately at monsters, and Minori would follow after his heels, but their levels were too low to succeed with this strategy alone.

Shiroe encounters them on their first day of playing when they had only reached level six. He uses the Elder Tales' "Teacher System" that allows high-level players to play with low-level player by dropping their level and stats to match those of the lower-level players. The system reduced his level to roughly one or two higher than the twins -- which was an ideal level to act as their mentor. At the request of the twins, he accompanied them through the beginner level areas around Akiba.

The Apocalypse
Like other Elder Tale players, Minori and Touya, discover that they are trapped in the MMORPG. The two decide to explore the area and are approached by a group of shady players, who enticed them to join their group by saying that theirs was a guild that helped beginners.

Ultimately the Hamelin guild uses Touya in its battle formations but keeps Minori "hostage" at the guild house.

After the Hamelin guild has been destroyed, Minori decided to join the Log Horizon guild along with Touya. She has been training under the supervision of Shiroe since then and started to develop a crude version of Full Control Encounter which allows her to use 5% as a unit to observe allies' MP and forecast battles 10 seconds ahead. She realised her romantic feeling for Shiroe whom she respects as her teacher during the Libra festival. She tried to suppress her feeling but to no avail. When she confessed this to Touya, he had apparently known of her feeling long time ago even before she realized it herself. She found that the only thing she could do is to be true to herself.

Forest of Ragranda arc
Minori goes along with the other new players to the Summer Training Camp held by the Round Table Alliance.

On the first day of the camp, she is teamed up with Touya, Isuzu, Serara, and Rundelhaus. She tries establishing a formation, only to be disregarded by Rundelhaus and Touya, and gives up. When Touya attracts some Skeletons, she tries blocking their damage but times it incorrectly, summoning a barrier after Touya had already sustained damage. Although Rundelhaus manages to defeat the other skeletons in the vicinity through his Orb of Lava and Isuzu's Harmony Carol, Touya spots more Skeletons and rushes after them before the group was prepared, causing him to take too much damage before Serara could heal him. When Rundelhaus attempts to alleviate the amount of enemies going after Touya, he ends up attracting all the monsters to himself, forcing the entire group to flee as the battle falls apart.

Four days after the initial failure, the group still hadn't improved their position, much to Rundelhaus' annoyance. Although he initially blames the support players for their trouble, after Touya calls him out for it, he bemoans how they were struggling against lower-leveled monsters and Minori can only watch in silence, too insecure to pull the group together.

West Wind Brigade
Touya and Minori are first encountered by Isami when Hamelin first tries to recruit them. She thinks that the Hamelin men are bullying the children and tries to intervene. Magus, however, persuades her that Hamelin was only trying to help the kids, and succeeds in diverting Isami's suspicion and in recruiting the two kids.

However, soon afterwards, Magus uses Minori as a hostage when he encounters the West Wind Brigade again. Although Soujiro tries to rescue Minori, he is forced to stand down when Touya is revealed as another hostage.

Equipment
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Volume 5: