Mai

Mai Inou ( 伊能 舞 Inou Mai) is a heroine in Summer Radish Vacation and a minor character in the Days games.

Background
Mai is the second daughter of Kagura Inou and Tomaru Sawagoe. It is unknown if she is aware of the true nature of her parentage.

At some point after Summer Radish Vacation, she changed her surname to Kiyoura [ 清浦 ] and became the mother of Setsuna Kiyoura.

Appearance
Mai has deep green hair tied into bun and a pale complexion. She usually wears a somewhat formal yellow dress with an orange rose, and reddish lipstick to go with her red eyes. Compared to the other mothers, Mai has rather slender figure similar to that of her daughter, Setsuna, along with a small bust similar to Otome Katou's.

In Summer Days' bad ending "Succumbing to Pleasure", Mai wears a dominatrix costume along with her daughter to help her punish Makoto for cheating with Sekai and Youko.

In her teenage years, Mai sported a similar figure, but her hair and eyes are brown and her hair is tied in ponytail with long yellow ribbon.

Personality
Mai has a mature and sharp personality, taking her job quite seriously. Her sharpness is shown when she is capable of realizing the similarities between Makoto and Shun despite not knowing their actual relation. In addition, she also likes to joke around and teases people, especially with her friend/half-sister/rival Youko, with whom she also competes in many situations from work place to love life. Despite her professionalism, Mai is poor in organizing, with Setsuna noting that her room is always a mess.

While Mai still holds some affection, trust, and respect for her former lover Shun, entrusting him to look after the shop in place of Youko instead of Sakuya, she is also willing to find a new love life as seen in the route where she seduces Makoto under Youko's nose, as well as sneaking him out behind the latter and Manami in one of the endings, and despite fighting over Youko over ownership of Makoto in the harem ending, she is also willing to cede the "number one" position to her daughter Setsuna for her happiness. In another route, Mai can reconcile with Shun, after the latter is determined to give up his womanizer habit and finally becomes a proper father to Setsuna.

Summer Radish Vacation!!
In the prologue, Shun bumps into her while she is carrying luggage and she falls to the ground. Due to their similar appearances, Shun confuses her with Youko and because of that, he talks to her as if they were close. She misunderstands and thinks that he's hitting on her and gets angry, after which she will ask to Shun carry her luggage. Shun can decide to carry or not carry.

If Shun decides not to carry the luggage, he harshly refuses, angering Mai again, and she leaves.

In some of Tomaru's events, he will attempt to seduce her until Shun interferes and disrupts him. If few or none of these events are triggered from the night of 8/14, she will become Tomaru's sex slave. Going to the Summer Radish on this night will trigger a scene where Tomaru rapes her. After this date, she will no longer appear in Summer Radish.



Summer Radish Vacation!! 2
She is briefly mentioned in an event where Rin talks about her sisters. Rin will mention that she already left home.

Summer Days
In Summer Days, Mai is a minor character.

Shiny Days
Mai's role in Shiny Day is significantly extended, turning her into another heroine with own route.

In the semi-canonical Paris for Four ending, Mai becomes pregnant with Makoto's child. Together with Youko and Setsuna, who are pregnant as well, she forces Sekai into pregnancy as well, after learning that she feels left out.

Etymology

 * Her given name Mai ( 舞 ) means "to dance". Her name shares a footwork theme with those of her mother, uncle, and aunt.

Trivia

 * Mai may have started out as an expy of Azusa Hinomori from the Welcome to Pia Carrot!! franchise. This is furthered by the following:
 * The scene where she bumps into Shun is framed similarly to Azusa bumping into Kouji Maeda in Pia Carrot 2.
 * 0verflow hired the VA who voiced Azusa Hinomori to voice Mai in SRV1.