List of Otogi Zoshi Characters - Minamoto No Hikaru

Minamoto no Hikaru / Hikaru (源光 / ヒカル?, Voiced by: Fumie Mizusawa)
Minamoto no Hikaru is a young girl that has been secretly assigned by her father to pose as her brother, Minamoto no Raikou due to Raikou being severely sick. In her brother's stead, she is supposed to retrieve the Magatama of Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth through the orders of Seimei. She is at first attempting to retrieve the Magatama of Earth so as to heal her weakened near-to-death brother. Hikaru begins the story with her trusted retainer Watanabe no Tsuna in hopes of retrieving the Magatama. She later finds out that the Tsuchigumo clan is the holder of the Magatama. Hikaru regularly wields her bow and arrow as her weapon when not being directly protected by her loyal retainer. Hikaru will then later run into a small village where she meets Usui Sadamitsu. Sadamitsu will later join her along with Tsuna as to destroy the Tsuchigumo. Hikaru's personality generally reflects great kindness towards other people, and she doesn't like to hurt anyone unless forced to. Thus, Hikaru will continue to move onwards in the name of the Capital to retrieve the Magatamas.

When the story later continues, it is found out that Hikaru's brother dies just before she returns with the first Magatama. She is greatly saddened by this, but is still determined to find the other Magatamas as to save the Capital. Following this, Hikaru will then retrieve the Magatama of Water, which will be under the possession of a man by the name of Torakuma (literally translating as Tigerbear). Torakuma soon allows Hikaru the Water Magatama after he realizes that it is the reason for the great chaos he has been through, such as seeing his own wife be killed in front of him. After Hikaru attains this magatama, a large tsunami appears and throws her into the sea. She later wakes up upon an island filled with Kumaso soldiers under Shutendouji. She is later attacked by two of these soldiers but is saved by Mansairaku. Later on, she ends up running into her allies that happened to all be washed up on the same piece of land. A young boy by the name of Kintarou then joins under Hikaru. After they attempt to take the final Magatama of Fire from Shutendouji - after realizing that he had it, Hikaru quickly heads back to the Capital. She had done so because she had heard from another that Shutendouji was planning on doing so.

After Shutendouji is defeated at last and the final Magatama is attained, Hikaru's magatama of Fire is stolen by Urabe for reasons unknown. Hikaru later realizes by the words of the dying Urabe that Abe no Seimei has evil intentions towards the Magatama. However, due to Matsumushi, Hikaru arrives too late to stop Seimei. This is where Hikaru sees the true destruction of the Capital before her very own eyes. Hikaru, along with Usui Sadamitsu, Watanabe no Tsuna, and Kintarou immediately head to the main area of summoning where Seimei is at. They are quickly poised against various warriors of the capital who still believe in Seimei's ideals even when they truly understand little. This causes for the separation of both Kintarou and Sadamitsu; thus Hikaru and Tsuna head to Seimei together. Right before Hikaru had the time to notch an arrow to her bow and shoot it at Seimei - who had been standing atop the summoning building, she along with Tsuna were both attacked by two large samurai warriors. Suffering from a large arrow wound, Hikaru defeats the spear shooting warrior by shooting him in the eyes multiple times with a barrage of arrows. To Hikaru's dismay however, she sees her fellow ally, Tsuna get struck fatally hard on his left shoulder - which was because he randomly lost eyesight. This leads to Tsuna standing dead right before her with his sword struck in the ground, which made Hikaru's anger fill to the skies. Hikaru then quickly charges up the stairs and shoots an arrow right at Seimei's forehead in her rage. To Hikaru's ultimate surprise however, she soon realizes that Seimei is truly Mansairaku, the man that she had loved.