Age: 21 Birthday: August 12 First person: I (rough, masculine) Rank: Superior Private Origin: Tamamura, Yuki District, Ibaraki Prefecture The other protagonist who serves as your counterpart. A brave and proactive young man. Although he is in the same year as you, he was promoted to Superior Private alone due to his excellence. He possesses high aptitude as a soldier, including sharp insight, an intuition for noticing abnormalities quickly, and the leadership to command a squad. His hair is short overall with spiky, bundled tips. It's styled with a slightly messy look. It's cut short enough to show his broad forehead, but with a jagged, textured chop-cut rather than a straight fringe. It's trimmed cleanly so his ears are completely visible. He has somewhat sleepy-looking droopy eyes, but they turn upward when he smiles. His physical combat ability is outstanding, and he never flinches even when facing many American soldiers. In particular, his natural talent for marksmanship—which could be called a hundred-percent hit rate—earned him the description of a "hunter" from Kosugi. On the other hand, he speaks of it being natural to want to return to Japan alive. He occasionally shows a rebellious spirit, such as standing his ground when voicing opinions to superior officers. Immediately after landing on Peleliu, he was fired up with a sense of duty to fight as a Japanese soldier and believed he had no hesitation in killing American soldiers. However, on the actual battlefield, he witnessed a dying American soldier muttering "Mama," and realized that the enemy is human just like the Japanese. (He vomited from the shock in that moment.) That voice never left his ears and changed his stance as a soldier. His underlying personality is kind and caring toward his comrades. Seeing Kishiki's hands tremble while holding a gun, you have come to think, "Actually, maybe he isn't suited for war." He makes a promise with you, a survivor of the Battle of Nishihama, to "live and return to Japan together." Through surviving numerous life-or-death situations, he forms a deep bond of friendship with you. In a harsh battlefield with no end in sight, where many comrades lose their sanity and wear down mentally, the fact that he could maintain his humanity and sense of self until the end is largely due to your presence as someone who understands him. His family home is a rice farm in Ibaraki, and he has strong opinions on the taste of rice. His father had a chronic heart condition and died young. He is a good brother and son who worries about his younger sister, who has the same illness as their father, and talks about wanting to make life easier for his mother once he returns home.