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Character sheet for Is My Reality A Love Game

Protagonist

Hasegawa Ryou

What the heck did I do to deserve being stuck in a game like this?

• Bystander Syndrome: Justified on several fronts. He sees 5-year-old Kurosa getting smacked around by her grandfather but does nothing because... 1.) He's a yakuza boss surrounded by heavily armed guards. 2.) His way back to the correct time-line, Hikami's master, told him not to get involved. 3.) If he interferes with the past too much, it could (and did) cause a temporal paradox that can't be fixed.
• Cast from Money: How all his "game" activities work. Fortunately, he gets huge bounties when he solves a case and has, at least once, looted his enemies for cash to pad his bank account.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Has been put through it at several times, physical, mental, and emotional.
• Does Not Like Spam: Due to lactose intolerance, he can't handle milk.
• Engineered Heroics: When investigating Matsune, he hires a group of toughs to scare her a bit, and then he'd show up to scare them off, gaining her trust. Said toughs come at him while harassing her instead, wanting more money, so he has to take them down, for real. He, rightly, feels guilty using this approach.
• Fish out of Water: Adapting to this "game" has not been easy, and he's been in several quite deadly situations as a result.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: After hitting the "load" button to escape a deadly situation and still finding Matsune dead in her shower, he weeps because he realizes he used the "save" function a few minutes too late.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He's been skewered repeatedly. Fortunately, he's remained conscious long enough to press that "load" button.
• Kidnapped by the Call: As far as he and the audience are concerned, he certainly didn't volunteer to be dragged into The Most Dangerous Videogame, where death is lurking just around the corner, waiting for the tiniest mistake.
• Kiss of Life: He rescues Hikari Yuna by feeding her water and antidote to the drugs in her system mouth-to-mouth.
• Loophole Abuse: Though it only happens once so far. While investigating Akemine Miyuki, he notices that by using the "Save and Load" system, he made a copy of her purse, as a key item. This copied everything in the purse too, especially the money. Doing this, he padded his bank account to 30 million yen from less than 5 million.
• Mate or Die: What he originally thinks the "game" is all about. He quickly learns he's wrong.
• Morton's Fork: While investigating Hikami Yuna, he follows her into an alley, after they eat at a certain food stall. This immediately puts him in a situation where all the game provided options, "investigate the alley further," "leave the alley," peeking around the corner before going into the alley, get him impaled with a blade from behind. After no less than three reloads, he finally gets the option "Look Up." This allows him to weather Hikami's attack with his "Invisible Blade" and tell her she's pretty, allowing him to proceed with the investigation, and win her affection.
• Oblivious to Love: He frequently fails to pick up on the fact that Kusora is murderously jealous. This is justified by the fact that she's a very volatile Mood-Swinger, on the best of days.
• Plagued by Nightmares: Ryou has horrifying nightmares of several "capture" targets coming after him and inflicting graphic death.
• Refuge in Audacity: The main reason Kusora doesn't kill him is that his behavior is, to her, so off the wall bizarre, that she can't help being amused by it.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: His desperation to save Sayaka proves justified when chapter 29 rolls in, because Sayaka being alive and well is a huge Spanner in the Works for Kusora's great uncle.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: The smart guy to Hikami's strong girl. Surprisingly.
• Stupidity Is the Only Option: Most of his early decisions were prompted by misleading labels and prompts along the lines of "dumb decision" and "worse decision." Even in the late chapters, he still gets hit with this from time to time.
• Taught by Experience: He's mastering the finer points of this "game" he's stuck in through the school of hard knocks, and is becoming quite a competent investigator, even without the "save and load" system. As a prime example, whenever he needs to visit Hikami's home, he calls her on the phone outside her door, rather than knocking, so she doesn't come at him with her sword.
• Technical Pacifist: As of the latest update, he has yet to actually kill anyone, but he has had Sawari Ami hauled away by police, facing death-penalty charges, anonymously, and with little remorse, caused Akemine to panic, fleeing into traffic, so she'd get run over and killed.
• Too Dumb to Live: Most of his early decisions were truly bone-headed, and nearly got him killed repeatedly. In his defense, he found himself thrust into The Most Dangerous Video Game without warning, or user-manual, and was railroaded with prompts along the lines of "dumb decision" and "dumber decision" with no other alternatives. Fortunately, he does get better about it as the series progresses.
• Took a Level in Badass: Quite literally. One of the features of the game he's been dragged into is gaining levels.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Originally thinks he's been sucked into a galge game, and acts accordingly. It's not until he's completed his first "assault" that he realizes what kind of game he's actually been dragged into.

Capture Targets: Listed in order of appearance. Warning: Spoilers are unmarked.

Sawakari Ami

Why, tell me, WHY!!!!

Ryou's neighbor and his first target in the game.

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• Attempted Rape: Thinking this, yet unnamed, "game" Ryou finds himself in is a standard sex-sim, when the "rape" button shows up, Ryou clicks it. The police appear in her apartment at a super-naturally fast pace and arrest him mid-act. Fortunately, Ryou did save first...
• Axe-Crazy: She's a bonna-fide psycho; she just pretends otherwise in public.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Combined with Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. She appears like your typical Girl Next Door, but she's a murderous Black Widow who will use sex to lure men into her home, and then kill them for money.
• Black Widow: Not only did she murder her husband, but she lures men into her home for money, by using sex-appeal, and kills them.
• Decoy Protagonist: Appears on the cover, but is dealt with by the end of chapter 3.
• Girl Next Door: Quite literally, but also a subversion. She lives next door to Ryou, but otherwise only pretends to comply with the trope.
• Gold Digger: The only thing she cares about from her man is the size of his wallet.
• Home Nudist: When she's home alone, she likes to wonder around in her underwear, or completely naked.
• Mask of Sanity: Pretends to be a decent woman, and Home Nudist. In truth, she's a total nut-job who keeps her husband's body in a giant refrigerator and lures men into her apartment, using sex-appeal, to kill them for money.
• Starter Villain: The first "target" Ryou has to deal with.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: She spikes the water or fruit punch she serves to her "dates" with deadly poison.

Akemine Miyuki/Kimoto Ririsa

How did you really get this invite card, Hasegawa Ryou?!

• The Aggressive Drug Dealer: The "event" Ryou gets dragged to as part of his investigation is an orgy party, but the participants are force-fed heroin as part of the "services."
• Asshole Victim: Her actions were so odious, Kusora, a yakuza boss, openly cheered when Ryou took her down. In fact, she was looking forward to it, and secretly helped him at a few key points.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Back in high-school, and then college, she bullied the real Kimoto Ririsa to death and then stole her identity.
• Illegal Gambling Den: One of her many illicit activities.
• Karmic Death: Chased by Ryou, impersonating Kimoto, she ran into the street, right in front of a semi, getting herself killed, just like she drove the real Kimoto to suicide.
• Spotting the Thread: Saw right through Ryou from the beginning, but was stringing him along to try and find out who's backing him.
• The Vamp: Uses her sex-appeal, and orgy parties, to gather and control people of influence, politicians, C.E.O.s, Yakuza, you name it.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Kimoto Ririsa, but then thought forcing Kimoto into prostitution, bullying her to death, and then stealing her identity was more profitable.

Kusora Yurea

You are a very strange man, Mister.

An A-rank "capture" target Ryou almost literally bumps into while pursuing Akamine.

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• Bathtub Bonding: Invoked. In chapter 27, she forces Ryou to share a bath with her, no modesty towels. Aside from a bit of flirting, and foreplay, which she openly enjoys, nothing happens.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: As if being forced to be a Yakuza boss by her grandfather wasn't bad enough, in chapter 29, we learn that his younger brother is worse!
• Blessed with Suck: She's the ruler of a Yakuza clan, but she has no friends, no rivals, no love interests, misses out on most social clues, and has been beaten for the "crime" of being happy so long in her childhood that she's utterly jaded and bored, turning to prostitution for a shot at entertainment. She finds "normal life" with Ryou far more entertaining than anything she's ever experienced before.
• Chekhov's Gunman: It's a good thing Ryou earned her favor while investigating Akamine, because if he didn't, Akamine would have drugged and killed him...
  • It happens again when Ryou gives her a ring, as a gift, but that ring's design happens to coincidentally match the insignia of a Human Sacrifice cult. The cult attacks her only to learn, too late, just what kind of hornet's nest they'd be provoking, thus bringing her to Ryou's rescue.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Though she is not clingy, she is insanely jealous, emphasis on insanely, towards Ryou, nearly killing him a few times when she thought he was attracted to another woman.
• Clone by Conversion: Though he didn't change her appearance, her grandfather only praised her when she acted like he did, slowly but surely pushing the yakuza clan into her hands, and she hates it!
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Her parents died shielding her in an automobile accident caused by terrorists setting off bombs in the city.
• Femme Fatale: Uses the lure of sex as a trap. Anyone who takes her up on it tends to die, if they're lucky. She's thrilled with Ryou because he sees through it.
• Finger Gun: She makes the gesture at several points, but it's never a game. She always has snipers around watching and if she points it and goes "bang," it's Boom, Headshot! for you.
• Freakiness Shame: Is ashamed of the burn on her arm. When Ryou saw it and didn't ether run away in disgust nor pity her, she became fascinated with him.
• Freudian Excuse: She used to be a happy and energetic girl, and then her mafioso grandfather beat her for the "crime" of being happy.
• Gilded Cage: Her life has been a prison. She gets the best material goods in the world, and can have people killed with but a gesture, but her movements are strictly monitored and controlled. She can't stand it, and given a choice would burn her entire mafia clan to the ground if she could.
• Groin Attack: Ryou manages to "kidnap" her and separate her from her yakuza for a brief time in chapters 25 and 26. She proves to him that she's still dangerous without them by kicking him in the groin with so much force, he's on the ground, immobile.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: She's a Sword of Damocles on Ryou, but anyone else comes after him, and she will bring her entire Yakuza clan down on their head.
• I Am Not Pretty: She's suffered so much rejection, ridicule, and disgust from the burn on her arm that she's unbelievably jaded and thinks Ryou calling her "pretty" is a bald-faced lie. In chapter 27, Ryou massages and licks her burn, tenderly, proving that it's simply a part of the package that is the stunningly gorgeous Kusora. She gets up and marches out of the bath, embarrassed, and then wonders just what the heck she's feeling.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Hates being seen as a mafia princess and wants to be a normal girl. While Ryou treats her with respect because she can have him killed with but a gesture, he still has the stones to call her out when she steps out of line, and otherwise treats her as an equal. This fascinates her.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: What she likes most about Ryou is that he literally drags her around to places and things she's never seen before, like Karaoke, or instant ramen shops.
• Insane Troll Logic: "I've thought about killing you a few times, but didn't. Isn't that the same as saving you?" Said when Ryou was atop her after he pulled a Diving Save to save her life from a sniper, and her bodyguards had guns drawn upon him.
• Internal Reveal: To save Yurea from Richiko's bomb, in chapter 39, Ryou uses the black ball and pulls her inside with him, which means she knows what he can do know. In chapter 42, she still knows and is aware that he can turn back time somehow.
• It's Personal: She's willing to overlook Sayaka's attack on herself once Sayaka's convinced she's innocent of the death of her elder sister, because said elder sister died in her home, working as her maid. Kusora wants Ryou and Sayaka to tell her who's actually responsible, so she can gun down the perpetrator, personally.
• Mafia Princess: Daughter and heir of a mafia clan, and hates it.
• Mood-Swinger: Her emotional state is wildly unpredictable, even for her. She's frequently gone from "happy and perky" to Tranquil Fury and back again, not to mention everything in between, without warning. Often without any reason or rhyme.
• Noodle Incident: What, just what, happened to her arm to give her that scar. Considering its shape, completely encircling her left arm, the chances of it being accidental are remote, especially considering that it's a burn scar.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: In chapter 33, she tells Ryou that she's the only one allowed to kill him as a romantic gesture. Ryou is rightly stunned.
• Relationship Reset Button: Twice. The first time was due to the Timey-Wimey Ball effect from the time-travel arc. The second time was due to a [Load] being used to rescue her from a sudden triple typhoon event. Hasegawa was able to fix it the first time because he could use [Sunglasses] to negate the [Medicine] but the second time, the cause is unknown, and if he doesn't fix it, his life is at risk.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Chapter 29.2 reveals that she carries over memories from previous saves, even if it's only intermittent, by showing the Bathtub Bonding incident that didn't occur in the current time-line.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Lost her childhood, and most social skills, in exchange for becoming the ruler of a powerful Yakuza clan. She does not think the trade was fair, and wishes she could trade it back.
• Scars Are Forever: Has a terrible scar on her left arm.
• Self-Harm: A flashback shows us how that scar came to be on her arm. As a result of her grandfather refusing to let her mourn the death of her parents, she grew numb. Then he forced her to watch him engaged in torture. So in order to feel something, she used the torture implements on herself!
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Gets one from Hasegawa in chapter 29.2. She claims that it meant nothing to her, but as soon as he's gone, she rubs her lips in an affectionate manner and goes full-tilt What Is This Feeling?
• Slasher Smile: She sports these whenever she wants to be particularly threatening, like when she warns Ryou not to betray her, or she tries to tempt him into sex.
• Sword of Damocles: She brings the constant threat of death if Ryou fails to amuse her.
• Sympathetic P.O.V.: We get to see her backstory through her eyes.
• Technical Virgin: If she's telling the truth, despite dabbling in prostitution, she has yet to experience sexual intercourse. Mostly because her previous "clients" were disgusted by her scar and called it quits as soon as they saw it. She has, however, on-screen, given a footjob to Ryou against his will.
• This Means War!: When she and Hikami meet as he's being hospitalized by leftover cultists, she proclaims that if Hikami gets too close to Ryou, it will be open warfare between the two of them.
• Tsundere: Combined with Yandere. She is obsessed with Ryou, and really wants to own him, but she's too jaded and scared to admit it.
• Used to Be a Sweet Child: As a little girl, she was happy and energetic, then her grandfather literally beat that out of her.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Growing up, all she wanted was her grandfather's time and praise. Starting at five years old, the only time her grandfather praised her was when she acted like he did, making her lose sight of her own identity, childhood, innocence, and most importantly, joy in her life. She'd like nothing more than to turn his legacy to ash, if she could.
• What Is This Feeling?: Raised without any affection, and not being allowed to have love interests, she truly doesn't understand what it means when she really starts to like Ryou, and it irritates her more than anything, to the point she wanted him to experience sex...
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: When she's trapped inside the "black ball" with Ryou, she asks him, point blank, what the meaning of the word "love" is, as she's lying down beside him. He answers honestly, and even posits examples of how "love" can be a bad thing. She praises his honesty, and then warns him to never, ever betray her.
• When She Smiles: Her genuine smile of joy is so endearing, even Ryou is moved, and he's rightly terrified of her.

Hikami Yuna

Who are you, and why are you following me?

A rather terrifying assassin with a surprisingly soft side to her as well.

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• Badass Adorable: She's exceptionally cute when she dotes on Ryou and she can mow down armies of armed mooks like nothing.
• Cerebus Retcon: Being called "pretty" by Ryou flustered her when she was threatening him, because it's just so bizarre a response to "why are you following me?" and her fondness for milk just looks like a weird quirk of her personality. Then we see how she was raised where she was called "ugly" by a bunch of homely bullies, and force-fed milk as part of the bullying, telling her drinking enough milk to drown on is what will make her "pretty" and strong.
• Childhood Friends: With Kurosa Yurea, thanks to Ryou!
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Very clingy, which is just how Ryou likes it, but is in no way jealous of the fact that Kusora has her eyes on Ryou, she's simply resigned to it, since she's rational enough to know Ryou really has no choice in the matter, if he wants to keep on breathing.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Parents died when she was young. Her younger brother was murdered by organ-smugglers when she was still a child, and then she was taken in by an assassin clan that loved to bully her by beating her up in "sparring" sessions, calling her ugly, and trying to drown her with milk, telling her that milk is what will make her pretty and strong, as a prank.
• Did Not Think This Through: While investigating a certain politician, and being ambushed by organ smugglers, she would have killed everyone present, until Ryou pointed out that they needed to at least interrogate one of their attackers for the location of their base. She complies, just shy of killing the guy, slicing off pieces of his body, one at a time, until she gets the information she wants, then kills him before confirming it.
• Hitman with a Heart: She may be an assassin by trade, but she's a shy, lonely woman who doesn't know how stunningly gorgeous she is.
• I Am Not Pretty: She genuinely does not know how drop-dead gorgeous she is. She was raised in a family of assassins that are all homely at best, but called themselves "pretty" while calling her "ugly" as they bullied her. She genuinely believes she's hideous as a result. Ryou treating her like the most beautiful woman in the world wins her over, and quick.
• I Owe You My Life: Ryou saves her from organ smugglers she was investigating. She falls for him, hard, as a result.
• It's Personal: She hates organ smugglers with undying passion, since a group of them murdered her little brother when she was a child.
• Lap Pillow: Ryou wakes up in hers after she knocks him out with her sword for the "crime" of knocking on her front door unexpectedly, and that's after she fell in love with him.
• Lethal Chef: Though she's fond of Naked Apron, do not let her into the kitchen. The meal she cooks for Ryou looks, smells, and tastes unpleasant, and is toxic.
• Magic Feather: She honestly believes that drinking milk like it's going out of style is what makes her Strong and Skilled. In truth, it's entirely a matter of self-confidence and milk has nothing to do with it.
• Naked Apron: How she thinks a woman is supposed to cook...
• Nightmare Fetishist: She likes skull-adorned jewelry. When Ryou provides her a skull ring he bought on a whim, she's ecstatic!
• One-Woman Army: She routinely tears down armed men by the squad, all by herself.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: She does occasionally recall things from previous time-lines. Case in point, chapter 34 shows her and Kurosa making a "friendly wager" regarding Ryou as he's being loaded unto an ambulance. Chapter 35 has Ryou in her home, having avoided the event that got him into that ambulance entirely, yet she still remembers the conversation.
• Sickening Sweethearts: When Ryou makes her happy, and she dotes on him in return, it makes the fanbase go wild!
• Skewed Priorities: Which even the total amateur Ryou calls her out on. While investigating Matsune's death, she goes through Matsune's refrigerator and drinks the milk straight from its container, because it's a flavor she's never seen before. Even though she knows Matsune was killed via poison.
• Strong and Skilled: Powerful enough to slice through people like they're made of paper mache, skilled enough to dodge gunfire.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: The strong girl to Ryou's smart guy, though she's hardly stupid, but she prefers to face her problems by whipping out her sword and slicing them to pieces.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Sweet and adorable on one side. Cold and professional on the other.
• Sword Cane: She hides a sword in her cane to get around Japan's "Swords and Firearms" laws.
• Sympathetic P.O.V.: We see what her home life is like through her eyes, at least twice.
• Terrifying Rescuer: Chapter 19 shows that one of her "fixes" was rescuing a young boy from organ smugglers. Of course, she was as subtle as the Tsar Bomba, turning the area into a sea of blood, even slicing down one of the goons in half right before the boy. He flees in terror the moment he's freed.
• Took a Level in Badass: After hanging out with Ryou gives her confidence in her looks and skills, she starts taking down the "pretty" bullies in sparring matches instead of the other way around, leaving the bullies stunned at her strength.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Milk.
• Undying Loyalty: To Kusora Yurea. She's not sure how she'd take it if Kusora and Ryou were to openly clash.
• Violence is the Only Option: Her reflexive action to any unexpected situation is to whip out her sword and attack with it, then think about what she's doing. If Ryou hadn't managed to get his hands on "invisible blade" from the item shop to defend himself, she would have killed him a thousand times over.

Matsune Haruka

Hello there, would you be interested in some rings?

• Artistic License – Law: The police would not touch her case because it's "only" been 72 hours since her boyfriend went missing. By interpol standards, 24 hours is the maximum amount of time for the police to ignore the possibility of foul play in any disappearance, if the cause is not well known.
• An Entrepreneur Is You: She helped make ends meet by selling hand-made jewelry, fashioned by herself.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde and a genuinely nice girl who wanted Ryou to investigate the disappearance of her boyfriend.
• He Knows Too Much: Both she and her boyfriend were killed by a Human Sacrifice cult because her sketchbook had a design that coincidentally matched their insignia.
• Missed Him by That Much: Due to a "game save" a few minutes too late, Ryou misses the chance to save her life.
• Nice Girl: Unlike all the others on the list of "capture" targets, she's genuinely a good, kind woman who needs help, as opposed to a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that needs to be exposed, woman with serious mental issues, or both.

Sayaka Arumi

Hasegawa? Can you ask Kusora to meet me?

A girl who has a grudge with Kusora.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: While investigating her sister's death, she bows, head to the ground, begging forgiveness from Kusora for the unjust attack, and to help find the girl's actual killer. Kusora promises a week, but states that Sayaka must leave the country at the end of it, regardless.
• All for Nothing: Learns her efforts questing for vengeance against Kusora is not just pointless, but utterly meaningless when Kusora proves she's innocent in the death of Sayaka's older sister.
• But Now I Must Go: Per her agreement with Kurosa, she has to leave the country at the end of her "mission," even though she has feelings for Ryou.
• Home Nudist: She prefers to wonder around the house nude, as Ryou discovers when she has to spend the night at his place, due to certain circumstances, and he comes home to see her prancing around naked, having forgotten that she's in his house...
• Misplaced Retribution: Tries to kill Kusora for the death of her elder sister when Kusora had nothing to do with it.
• Nice Girl: Aside from seeking vengeance for her sister's death, she is this. So much so that when Ryou sees her walking around his house naked, she apologizes, rather than the stereotypical Pervert Revenge Mode route.
• Orphan's Ordeal: When her parents died, with her as a young child, her remaining relatives, save her older sister were absolutely horrible to her. This made her and her sister easy prey for Kagehiro.
• Revenge Before Reason: Comes at Kusora with a knife, trying to kill her, despite knowing she's going to die shortly afterward. It takes monumental effort on Ryou's part to get the two women to sit down and talk things out, without resorting to violence against each other.
• Shipper on Deck: Not only did she almost squee when she saw Ryou give Kurosa a "Shut Up" Kiss, but she tells Ryou that she sees them as a lovely couple before getting on a plane to fly out of the country.

Mizufune Richiko

I'd rather be blown apart by a bomb...

• Abusive Parents: Richiko's father has a quick temper and would beat her, going back to when she was a little girl. It's the reason why she gets scared every time someone raises their hands. Her father doesn't seem to care for her well-being either. When he knocks into her, she falls and cuts her head, and all he does is get pissed at her again. Even when Ryou was able to talk her down the second time, one look from his pissed-off face was enough for her to try and blow herself up again. Thankfully, Ryou was able to knock her out.
• Ax-Crazy: Years of abuse have ruined Richiko's sanity. The girl is completely nuts, and having a bomb fetish doesn't help with that.
• Broken Pedestal: Richiko sees Yurea as this when she finds out she's in love with Ryou and feels "betrayed" by her.
• Insane Troll Logic: In some weird way, she believes that blowing herself to kingdom come will make her feel like "heaven."
• Nightmare Fetishist: The girl starts touching herself when she witnesses a building that blew up. A bombing that she's responsible for, at least partially.
• Pet the Dog: It's revealed in chapter 41 that Richiko regularly donates money to orphanages. Specifically orphanages towards kids that ran away from abusive parents. Ryou and Detective Kubo utilize this fact to help talk her down from blowing herself up again.
• Shadow Archetype: To Kusora Yurea. Both young women went through abuse from family figures, earned positions of power, felt a sense of emptiness towards the world, resorted to sex to feel something, and were both crazy on some level. However, while Yurea pushed herself to become stronger and got some praise from her grandfather, Richiko didn't and still lives in fear of her abusive father. Yurea maintains her leadership within her Yakuza clan, whereas Richiko loses her position and gets fired. While Yurea gradually falls for Ryou, Richiko is already in a relationship but remains emotionally detached, including during sex. It comes to a head when Richiko, overwhelmed by the hardships in her life, tries to blow herself up with a bomb vest and take dozens of people down with her. Richiko embodies what Yurea might have become without finding someone like Ryou and what she could do if she got fed up with everything.
• Trauma Button: Raised hands. It reminds her of the abuse she goes through from her father.
• Taking You with Me: Pushed to the breaking point by her father's abuse and Yurea's betrayal, she straps a bomb vest to herself to blow them all to kingdom come. When that doesn't work, she detonates the bombs inside of her with a spare trigger.

Yuasa Yukina (alternate)

Take responsibility, Ryou!!

Another player Ryou meets who the game prompts him to "capture." She turns out to be an alternate timeline version of Hikami's master and yanks Ryou into the past, 30 years, for a personal vendetta against Kurosa's grandfather.

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• Axe-Crazy: She is extremely violent and unstable, drawing her sword for any reason or no reason at all. She even attacks Hikami in the dojo when she's with Ryou searching for her current timeline counter-part.
• Magic Skirt: Averted. Her skirt barely reaches her thighs, and she's prone to high-kicks, flips, and all other sorts of acrobatics that flash the public what she's wearing underneath. It's especially bad in chapter 55 when she's got Ryou pinned to the ground, cowgirl style, which happily gives him an eyeful of her panties, with her completely unconcerned.
• Noodle Incident: What is her grudge with Kurosa's grandfather? The dialogue suggests it's Woman Scorned, but doesn't go into specifics.
• Revenge Before Reason: Unlike her current timeline counterpart who buried her grudge with Kurosa's grandfather, she doesn't let her grudge go and went after the guy in spite of having to face a squad of heavily armed bodyguards. In fact, she tricks Ryou into letting her use [Reset] to drag him back 30 years, to a terrorist attack, and used the terrorists to get close to Kurosa's father, damn the collateral damage.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: As a result of her time-travel shenanigans, she's de-aged into barely pubescent teenage girl, and her mentality has also regressed. She now acts very childish, bawling her eyes out when she's scolded and demanding ice-cream when Hasegawa asks her for a favor.
• Woman Scorned: The dialogue of her arc strongly implies that she had a romantic tryst with Kurosa's grandfather, but he scorned her so badly she will stop at nothing to try and kill him, to hell with the collateral damage.

Aiura Honoka

I can't let you get any more involved in my problems!

The capture target in the "Self-consciousness" arc. She's a person of interest in the murder case of the owner of the host bar where she works.

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: In the result of one of the decision prompts Hasegawa gets, he chooses wrong and comes back to see that she's been mangled with a switchblade so horribly that she looks like she went through a trash compactor. Fortunately, Hasegawa had [Saved] first.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: She's a sex-worker who is also a good and kind woman, willing to take the heat for her friend, not realizing her "friend" is a cold-hearted bitch that set her up.
• Interrogated for Nothing: When a Yakuza clan unrelated to Kurosa catches up with her, they torture and murder her for a blackmail list she both didn't know she had and had unwittingly thrown away.
• Living MacGuffin: In her arc, she's wanted both by the police and the yakuza. The yakuza are after her due to her being slipped a black-mail ledger without her knowledge. The police are after her due to her involvement in a murder case.
• Resignations Not Accepted: When she tried to quit the host club where she worked, after paying off her debts, the club owner got violent, decrying her as an Ungrateful Bitch and tried to rape her "as punishment." She grabbed the nearest implement she could to try and escape, which happened to be an especially hard and heavy ash-tray. The club owner wound up dead from blunt-force trauma and she panicked, fleeing the scene. At least that's the original story she gave Hasegawa.
• Taking the Heat: If her testimony in chapter 60 is the truth, she's not the killer. Her friend Mayu is, as the club owner attacked Mayu and Mayu killed her in self-defense but Aiura doctored the evidence to make herself look like the culprit. Unfortunately, as she took a bag of money to give Mayu for her mother's medical treatment, she took an envelope that had sensitive yakuza information in it, not realizing the contents, and then threw the envelope away by mistake.
• Too Dumb to Live: She keeps fleeing from Hasegawa when she's entirely dependent on his good will to stay alive.

Others

Elder

The ritual is about to begin! Be honored, for you are the sacrifice!

The leader of a cult.

• Axe-Crazy: He makes Sawakari Ami look sane by comparison.
• Bodyguard Babes: He surrounds himself with gorgeous and deadly women completely devoted to his protection.
• Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": He's only addressed "Elder." His name is never mentioned.
• Cult: Runs a cult of religious fanatics.
• Human Sacrifice: A firm believer of it. He even tries to sacrifice Ryou.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: He gets off on chaining women down and literally beating the shit out of them.
• Mugging the Monster: Gives his cult standing orders to attack anyone who carries the cult's insignia which wasn't handed out by him, personally. One of those people is Kusora Yurea. It's not until she's using a semi to smash her way into his "temple," and leading an uzi wielding army, that he realizes just how bad he screwed the pooch.

Kusora's grandfather

Then you are too old for tantrums! KNOW YOUR PLACE!!

• Abusive Dad: Abusive grandfather, to be precise. He beat up on Kusora for the "crime" of being a happy child and wanting some of his time and praise.
• The Don: He's the head of the yakuza clan Kusora runs.
• The Dreaded: He's the only guy Kusora fears.
• Evil Old Folks: Running a yakuza clan is morally dubious, at best, but he also slaps around his family, especially Kusora, for the "crime" of being happy in anything other than organized crime. He was also in his 60s when Kusora was five years old, and yes, he's still alive in the present.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: He only praised Kusora when she acted exactly like him and forced her to be the heir to organized crime, stealing away her childhood.
• Knight Templar: Extremely rigid with the yakkuza clan he runs, and he expects his family to do exactly what he says, how he says it. Failure to comply gets you a beating, at best.
• No Name Given: His name has yet to be mentioned.
• Psychological Projection: Since he never had the chance to mourn his dead lover and is "just fine" then none of the clan gets to mourn their loved ones either, and Kurosa Yurea trying to mourn her parents is "throwing tantrums" that deserves getting slapped around.
• The Unsmile: He's only shown smiling once, and it was completely unnerving, even in-universe.
• Would Hurt a Child: He started smacking around Kusora for "throwing tantrums", ie, being a sweet, happy, and normal child, starting at age 5!

Sayaka Arumi's sister

Find my killer, sis!

• Meido: She worked for Kusora as a maid.
• Post Humous Character: By the time she's introduced, she's long dead.
• Spotting the Thread: She's the first to pick up on the fact that Hashizaki was not one person, but two, though she didn't realize it at the time.
• Undying Loyalty: Implied. An autopsy found an USB with highly classified yakuza data in her gut, that was stolen from Kusora's family. Ryou suspects she swallowed it to prevent whatever information it has from falling into the wrong hands. The data is completely corrupted by the time the USB is recovered.

The Hashizaki twins

We will do anything or you, Kagehiro-sama!

The culprits behind the murder of Sayaka Arumi's elder sister.

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• The Dividual: Invoked. By faking their family register, Kagehiro made them look like one person, so as to fool Kusora's staff, and use them to carry out nastiness, by using one to provide alibis for the other.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When they were no longer of use to him, Kagehiro hunted them down, one of them was even found dead by Kusora's men.

Kusora Kagehiro

The clan is mine, and I'll kill anyone I have to to take it!

The younger brother of Kusora's grandfather.

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• Ambition Is Evil: There's no act of villainy he'd overlook to take over the Yakuza clan from his elder brother, including sending soldiers at his great-niece.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He adopted four little girls, Sayaka Arumi, her older sister, and the Hashizaki twins, and was so nice to them in their hour of need that all four of them looked upon him as a god, just so he could use them as cannon-fodder for his plans.
• Cain and Abel: As bad as Kusora's grandfather is, he's the Cain to that guy!
• The Chessmaster: He is the mastermind behind the murder of Arumi's older sister, and the Frame-Up on Kusora.
• Greater-Scope Villain: To date, he's Kusora's most fearsome enemy, and he will do anything to bring the girl down, so he can take the reins of the clan himself.
• Manipulative Bastard: He manipulates and exploits people all the time. Kusora grew up under this, and realizes his motives immediately upon seeing Ryou present a photo on his cell-phone.
• Xanatos Gambit: Murdering Arumi's older sister and enraging Arumi was this. By setting Arumi on the path of vengeance, he bet that when Arumi attacked Kusora, he could eliminate them both in the confusion, or at worst, Kusora would eliminate all the evidence of Arumi in her rage. Of course, all that went to pot because Ryou managed to find a way to get both women to talk things out peacefully. So he sends an army of actual soldiers at Kusora's mansion.

Hikami's Master— Yuasa Yukina

As I thought, you used an "Item."

The woman who trained Hikami to be an assassin and master swordsman.

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• Attack Hello: She greets Ryou at his apartment door, from the inside, by coming at him with a sword. If he didn't use [Invisible Blade], she would have taken his head right off.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: She calls herself "something like an evil spirit."
• Sink or Swim Mentor: She gives Ryou some vague hints about how to play and then disappears.
• Supernatural Martial Arts: She trained Hikami how to use a sword from game [Items].
• Trapped in Another World: She cleared the game, but didn't get enough affection points, so now she's trapped inside.
• Wham Line: She reveals that she's been trapped in the game for 30 years.

Mizufune Satoshi

What is wrong with that girl?! Honestly, I don't understand her!

Owner of Mizufune holdings and the father of Mizufune Richiko.

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• Abusive Dad: He's always beating up on Richiko, even well after she graduated college.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While the man seems like a decent businessman upfront in public, he's an abusive asshole towards his daughter and an overall corrupt asshat.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: All he cares about is getting the most profit. The law and professional ethics can go die in a fire for all he cares.
• Evil Old Folks: Old enough to be the father of a college graduate, and an abusive, corrupt asshat.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He completely loses his shit with disgusting ease.
• Hate Sink: There are no redeeming features to this man. The sooner he dies, horribly, the better.

Mizufune Matsuya

Yes, Richiko. Blow all my competitors away, even that stinking brother of mine, bwahahaha!

Richiko's uncle and the president of all Mizufune holdings.

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• Corrupt Corporate Executive: If Ryou's speculation is correct, he's someone that would happily use bombs to deal with business rivals, and his own niece's trauma to manipulate her.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He's behind the evil acts of his brother and his niece's bombing spree, supposedly.

Miyamori

Of course, I will be the successor! You all don't have a problem with that, right?

One of the girls who loves to bully Hikami. When the master is "away" for a while, she schemes to take over the dojo.

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• Backstab Backfire: After Yuasa (alternate) is defeated, by using Human wave tactics, and has surrendered, Miyamori picks up Yuasa's sword and comes at her. Yuasa beats her down with disgusting ease and rightly looks on her with unbridled contempt.
• The Bully: There's nothing she likes more than going around beating up on others either weaker than herself or by overpowering them with her gang of groupies.
• Combat Pragmatist: When Yuasa (alternate) is in a duel with Hikami, that Hikami started by the way, she and her groupies intervene as Hikami starts to lose and overwhelm Yuasa with the force of numbers. When Yuasa protests, Miyamori declares "in our dojo, ganging up on people is not unfair!" Considering Yuasa's surprise, the dojo rules are apparently different between time-lines.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She comes to Hikami's aid in a duel with Yuasa (alternate), but only so she can then turn on Hikami later to try pass herself off as the dojo's successor.
• Principles Zealot: In addition to being a callous bully, she loves to be self-righteous by rigidly enforcing dojo rules when they work in her favor. After Yuasa (alternate) has laid down her sword and surrendered, crying, Miyamori picks that sword up and raises it high overhead proclaiming "using a real sword in a dojo fight is unforgivable! You must be prepared to be cut with a sword yourself!" Yuasa is unimpressed.

Mayu

My mother just got sick and I can't pay the medical bills!

Aiura's friend and fellow sex-worker. She and a male accomplice try to murder Aiura while making it look like a suicide, and it would have worked if not for Hasegawa tracking her down.

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• False Friend: She was stringing Aiura along from the beginning and tried to get the poor girl to take the fall for the club owner's murder. Auira and Hasegawa found out while hiding in her apartment looking for clues.
• Interrogated for Nothing: When the yakuza catch up to her, they torture the daylights out of her because she took the envelope with cash from the club owner's office Aiura offered her, without really looking inside, throwing the envelope away after taking the cash out without bothering to check if there was anything else inside. The yakuza wanted the document in that envelope that had some very, very sensitive information.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Aiura offers to take the heat so she can escape, but when they get together again, she tries to murder Aiura and frame it as a suicide, pinning the blame of the club owner's death entirely on Airua.