Profile STEL-920: Minari

Stelciar refers to the spirits of cats that have lived all nine of their lives and are reborn as souls. These spirits appear as cats with wings, and both their wings and tails are enveloped in a breathtakingly beautiful mist of fiery smoke..

In a peaceful rural area, famous for being the Sakari village that grows rice and makes the best sake in the Hiryū country. Many years ago, villagers discovered a creature that looked like a cat with flaming wings and tail that glowed brightly yellow like the rice fields at night. It is rumored that only the feline villagers can see her clearly, she is a beautiful white cat, her eyes shine like stars.

Under the creature's stunning beauty, the villagers built a shrine next to the rice field with the wish that the creature would help the crops flourish and have favorable rice harvests. That small shrine became a shrine when Hyuga, a medical cat apprentice, came to live there.

Minari is the name Hyuga gave to the cat enshrined at that shrine. The name sounds quite similar to the rice god, Inari. Minari means "results achieved" or "blooming" (実 = fruit, 成 = success), referring to a successful harvest.