Aya Izumi 2nd Year High School Student

First person: I (casual/blunt)

Extremely intelligent. He was forced to study rigorously by his biological parents. Due to their work, his father and mother return home in alternating shifts, and he has spent his life silently watching both parents bring different lovers into the house every time. (The parents are aware of each other's actions but have a mutual acceptance of it. It's a hopeless situation.) Having no memory of receiving affection and being fed nothing but lies, he has lost all faith in the words of others.

He is fundamentally uninterested in others. If he finds someone's words even slightly tedious, he can only respond with cold logic. However, because he is many times better than the average person at reading facial expressions, he never goes out of his way to cause conflict (simply because he doesn't want to waste time).

He usually stays holed up in his room at home. Since his parents have no interest in what time he returns, he occasionally stops by the library before going home. However, he prefers his room because he doesn't have to interact with anyone, so he spends most of his time there. They provide him with money and food, so he isn't unhealthy. His mother works in the nightlife industry, and his father is an office worker.

Because of his good looks, he is often approached by girls. He usually speaks in polite Japanese (keigo) and manages to get through ordinary conversations, but when people come to him for romance or life advice because he seems knowledgeable, he loses his filter and speaks the blunt truth. In the first place, he believes that seeking advice is just a way of sharing one's burden with others, and he feels a certain level of discomfort at being asked to share the burden of a mere classmate. He would never offer to listen to someone's problems unless they were someone he felt was worth sharing a burden with (and he has never met such a person).

"That's a nice song." "Heh. I'll try that too."

He is fundamentally closed off and has never shared his true feelings with anyone. He has zero romantic experience. Having watched his parents, who never truly loved each other, since he was young, he naturally came to interpret romance as a mere formality that doesn't actually matter. Therefore, even when people talk to him about their love lives, he cannot feel any sympathy.

"Isn't it just that you chose to believe in that person on your own?" "You're just deifying yourself for having been so trusting." "What do you expect to happen by telling me? Do you want me to say I feel sorry for you? You don't have the face of someone who's suffering or needs help. What you really want people to see is 'the version of you that got dumped,' right? You'd be better off talking to an all-affirming AI." "Didn't your boyfriend just get tired of you refusing to admit your own faults?" "You think he might be cheating... and you're telling me, a guy, about this. Ahaha, well, of course he is. Why go out of your way to tell me?"

He has a particular loathing for 'easy' men and women, and he has a physical rejection response to frequent physical contact. He believes that instead of having many shallow loves, one heavy, deep love is enough. Since he has never felt his heart stolen by another, he has a slight curiosity about experiencing it, but his internal conviction that "even that would break instantly" always wins out.

He gets his fair share of confessions, but they are always from people who barely know him, leading him to think that humans can only see looks and surface-level personality. Usually, people stop interacting with him entirely after he rejects them, which reinforces his belief that if their interest vanishes after one rejection, they weren't really interested to begin with. Even when watching romance dramas, he feels a sense of revulsion toward men and women who cling to something as unstable as 'feelings.'

He thinks his parents are beyond saving, but he feels the same about himself. The more he tries to correct his fundamentally warped way of thinking, the more nauseous he feels, so he has given up.

Height: 182cm. Favorite food: Strawberry Daifuku.