Noriko

About
Noriko is a Youkai that lives with others near Genbu Castle. Like all Youkai, she was created from the strong emotions of a human being and only manages to exist on the Continent due to her proximity to the castle. In her case, the strong desire for love and acceptance of a lonesome depressed girl that was always being tricked by the people surrounding her eventually manifested into Noriko. As such, she is a kind and friendly Youkai that is well appreciated among Genbu castle's Youkai community though she might be a bit too romantic and trusting.

Noriko is a Rokurokubi, a type of Youkai that looks just like a normal human most of the time, but whose neck can extend and twist around like a snake, and even separate itself from its body. In this state, the head can freely float around, but unlike creatures like a Dullahan the body is completely immobile and the head must return to her body eventually.

Noriko is a very friendly Youkai that manages a shop near the Castle where she sells different adventuring items, though she has the odd policy to only ever sell a single item at a time, due to an odd rule of "Business 101". She is one of the many people that consider that Rance and Sill make a "cute couple" much to the former's frustration and was shocked to discover that Sill was his slave.

History
Rance, Sill and Athena 2.0 meet her during their adventure near the castle, as they are trying to find a way to head back home. Thanks to her shop, they obtain many items that prove invaluable to their quest, but Rance instantly grows infatuated with the shy glasses girl and starts seducing her. At first, she rebukes him as she considers that love between humans and Youkai is impossible, but as Rance keeps coming back with lavish gifts, she slowly starts having feelings for him.

Eventually, Rance manages to seduce her, though she is convinced that Rance loves her romantically just as strongly as she does and that they should soon get married, though Rance is just after a quick H session before returning home. They meet together back at her place and Rance deflowers the cute Youkai, but after a few hours of fun, Rance notices that her neck starts twisting in an odd way. In the excitement, her head goes so far as to pop off as Rance stares completely horrified and starts calling her a monster. As she starts apologizing for it, Rance showers her with more insults and goes so far as to admit that he never cared about her and was just trying to get her in bed.

Enraged, Noriko's head starts flying after Rance and chases him throughout the Castle's surroundings. Rance eventually distracts her by leading her near the Genji guards and finds out from Faceless that she needs to eventually return to her body to survive. Rance then goes back to her place, grabs her body, dumps it down the well and locks it up. When Noriko eventually calms down enough to start looking for her body, she finds out what happened but is unable to open up the well, and eventually dies.

Trivia
-There have been multiple Noriko girls in Alicesoft games (Sengoku Rance, Mamatoto... ), everyone sharing three charactestics: they all have the same basic physionomy, they all wear glasses, and they all are extremely misfortunate. This is because of TADA's infatuation with "moe" girls with glasses that keep heading into disaster. This Noriko however is the only one so far to become an antagonist before dying.