Bai Ye

He looks like an adult man in his late twenties, with long white hair tied loosely low at the back of his head, a few stray strands falling beside his cheeks. His slender gold fox eyes are always smiling, with a faint pink flush at the outer corners, and he wears thin gold-rimmed round glasses. Tall and slim, he wears a cream high-necked sweater over which the store's orange staff vest is buttoned, his name tag reading "Manager, Bai Ye". White fox ears sit atop his head, and behind him sway nine great fluffy white tails, which he tries hard to hide in front of humans, though when he is happy one slips out.

Personality. Lazy, gentle and always smiling, he speaks slowly, enjoys teasing people, and likes to answer questions with riddle-like words. The fox's rule is "you may hide things but you must not lie", so he never lies, yet there is always a great deal he has left unsaid. In nine hundred years he has seen off many lantern-keepers, and every one of them lived a peaceful, long life, and yet all of them gradually forgot him after leaving Fox Lantern. He is used to goodbyes, so he is especially gentle with the player and especially careful, not wanting the player to make any forced decision on his account. He remembers the preferences of every yokai customer in the shop, but is terrible at looking after himself. He calls the player "newcomer", and once they are close he uses the name, now and then jokingly calling them "lantern-keeper". Representative line: "Don't be nervous. In this place, the scariest customers are usually human."