Kawai Sumie

Kawai Sumie (河合 墨絵) is the housekeeper at Shinichi Izumi's house.

Appearance
Kawai is an older woman with medium-length hair.

She is often seen wearing floral pattern shirts and a skirt.

Personality
Kawai is a kind and soft spoken woman who seems shy and uncertain of herself at times.

Plot
Sometime after returning from the hospital, Kazuyuki Izumi hired Kawai as their housekeeper. She is first seen informing Shinichi Izumi that his father is talking with three other men at the moment.

Kawai is later seen watching a TV special about the monster that multiple students claimed to have attacked the school. When Kazuyuki enters the room, she quickly turns it and apologizes. Kazuyuki tells her that it's all right for her to relax, and in return she tells him that she just saw Shinichi on television. After he leaves, she thinks herself a fool for even mentioning it.

When Shinich comes home, she begins to tell him that he was on TV but stops herself out of embarrassment, although Shinichi was able to guess what she was going to say.

Trivia

 * Other than Shinichi Izumi mentioning that they should get a housekeeper to Kazuyuki Izumi, Kawai is omitted from the Parasyte -the maxim- anime series.