KureAoi

"I, Erm...I...I've always had a, erm, a crush-"

- Aoi trying to confess to Kureto that she has a crush on him

KureAoi is the het ship between Aoi Sangu and Kureto Hiiragi from the Seraph of the End fandom.

Canon
Kureto and Aoi are seen to have sort of a master and servant relationship. It's unknown when they first meet, but it's shown in the Catstrophe at Sixteen Light Novels that in highschool Aoi already was one of Kureto's closest servants.

Chapter 57 & 58
In Chapter 57 of the Manga, Aoi and Kureto fight against Tenri Hiragi. Tenri states during the fight that Kureto still keeps Aoi as his pet and asks if he is in love with her, Kureto replies annoyed, "shut up". Later in the chapter, he also says that Kureto is weak and that his weakness will kill him. Tenri then attacks Aoi and Kureto protects her, but his one leg and arm are cut off. This implies that Aoi is Kureto's weakness.

Duringing chapter 58, Kureto is seen to be heavily injured, Aoi runs quickly over to him, to help him. Kureto then has a talk with his Demon Raimeiki.

She tells him that he has a "Greedy Lust" for Aoi the desire to abandon everything. His demon also states that he is jealous of Guren and his sister Mahiru Hiragi because they were giving in to their desire (Guren and Mahiru slept one time with each other in the light novels), which implies that Kureto is attracted to Aoi.

A little bit later in the chapter Kureto's demon Raimeiki tries to fight Shikama Doji, but Raimeiki states that she is not powerful enough to win against Shikama Doji and that she needs more greed and desire from Kureto to win. Kureto then wakes up and Aoi is seen to be next to him crying and waiting for him to wake up, when he say's her name, Aoi is seen to be very happy that he has waken up. Kureto looks at Aoi and seeing her happily smiling makes him blush slightly.

At the end of chapter 58, Kureto pulls Aoi closer to him. Aoi confuses and suprised this, and he then kisses her and Aoi is seen to enjoy this kiss, since she is seen to close her eyes when Kureto kisses her. When the kiss between them is over, Aoi asks Kureto what the kiss means kureto doesn't reply to the question and instead asks his demon if that was enough greed and desire, confirming that he just kissed her to help his demon winning against Shikama Doji. Aoi tries to confess to Kureto that she alway's had a crush on him but he interrupts her confesssion and says that he has lost and that he is no longer worthy of being a King. This confuses Aoi even more, and Kureto then confesses to her that he is about to be being possesed by Shikama Doji and that he just kissed her to give his demon the anmount of greed and desire that it needs to win against Shikama Doji. Aoi then is shown to be very concerned about Kureto asking him what he needs to defeat Shikama Doji. At the end of the chapter he warns Aoi that he can't be trusted anymore and commands her to bring Shinya and Guren to him.

Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen Light Novels
They have the same relationship in the light novels, as in the manga. The only difference is that Aoi makes a lot of tea for Kureto.

Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign
"All of the preparations for departure are complete. We can move out any time."

- Aoi to Kureto

"Yes, I am his pet. And I bear a message from him to you."

- Aoi to Shinya about Kureto

"If you do not win, Lord Kureto, humanity has no future. Justice is on our side."

- Aoi to Kureto

"Even should the unthinkable happen and you fall here... Then I... I mean... We shall stay by your side until the very end and beyond, my lord!"

- Aoi to Kureto

Fanon
KureAoi is a rather middle-popular ship, but popular shipping choice for both characters in the Seraph of the End fandom, however there are also rival ships such as, KureGuren or KureShin.

KureAoi is mostly shipped because of Kureto and Aoi's confirmed feelings for each other, which are mainly pointed out in chapter 58. Others also like the ship, because Kureto seems to have a weak spot for Aoi, the kiss also helped.

Despite Kureto and Aoi's confirmed romantic feeling for each other, this ship received a mixed feedback from fans of the manga, because many believe that the ship developed to fast. Others also might just ignore the ship because both, Kureto and Aoi aren't really well received characters in the fandom, so many tend to just overlook the ship.

On AO3 the ship currently has about 40 fanfictions.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Aoi/Kureto on FanFiction.Net
 * Aoi/Kureto on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * According to the Official fanbook 108, what Kureto looks in the opposite sex is: Females who can give birth to superior children/Females who aren’t obedient to him.
 * Aoi is important enough to Kureto that Tenri threatens to use her as a hostage so Kureto follows his orders.