Reiji Murasaki

Reiji Murasaki (, Murasaki Reiji) is a deceased character who plays an important role in the Biker Gang school story in Lost Judgment. He is the founder and first leader of the motorcycle gang Made in Heaven.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Reiji is a mid-sized man in his early 20's who has his hair dyed golden blonde. He wears a stark white suit with a grey sweater-shirt underneath and black dress shoes.
=== Personality ===
Reiji was described by all his friends from Made in Heaven as a charismatic and fearless man, whose sole goal in life was to improve his skills as a racer and stuntman. He was supportive of his friends and was open about his feelings with them. He was also respectful of their feelings, as shown by how he let Rina Minagawa down gently after she confessed her romantic feelings to him, which he did not reciprocate.
However, in the last few months of his life, Reiji had started becoming weary of the dangerous lifestyle he and his friends led as daredevil bike racers.
== History ==
Reiji Murasaki was from a very poor family in Yokohama. Despite his unprivileged background, Reiji always excelled at everything he tried, meaning he often overshadowed his younger brother, Dan. In his late teens, he developed a passion for motorcycle racing and he initially wanted to become a stunt performer. However, he eventually befriended another biker called Masaru Akatsuka and decided to join the gang of street racers he was a part of. Due to his charisma and great skill as a racer, Reiji quickly became the leader of this gang, which he rename "Made in Heaven".
Made in Heaven developed rivalries with two other biker gangs, the all-girl Raging Angels and the diesel-punk Bakuon Rairyu. However, Reiji eventually managed to beat the leaders of both gangs, Rina Minagawa and Junpei Hanasaki, in races and persuaded to combine their groups with Made in Heaven, becoming sub-factions of his gang. This turned Made in Heaven into the biggest motorcycle gang in Kanto. On top of being his underlings in the gang, Minagawa and Hanasaki also quickly became close friends with Reiji.
As a display of his fearlessness, Reiji soon after developed the concept of the "death race": A bike race where no rules applied, meaning the competitors could use any means they wanted to sabotage their opponents, from physical violence to distractions, etc. The members of Made in Heaven started competing with each other in these death races and Reiji quickly proved to be the best amongst them at this dangerous style of competition. 
The brazen wildness of the death races made Made in Heaven greatly respected amongst Yokohama's street gangs, but they also frequently resulted in serious accidents that injured or, in a few cases, even killed their participants. Naturally this attracted the attention of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police, who set up a special task force led by Detective Kotaro Seyama to put a stop to the gang and their death races. Despite extensive efforts by Seyama and his men to crackdown on Reiji's gang, they were largely unable to stop Made in Heaven from operating.
However, a turning point occurred part way through 2020. Reiji had started growing weary of the constant danger his life was in and, now that he had close friends he cared for, he was no longer as unafraid of death as he'd once been, because he now had something to lose. After an unnamed friend was paralyzed following a crash during a death race, Reiji approached his rival, Detective Seyama, and told him of his intention to dissolve Made in Heaven and put an end to the death races. However, tragedy struck soon after, as Reiji crashed during what was to be his last race and he died on impact, much to the horror of all his friends.
The loss of Reiji almost led to the dissolution of Made in Heaven, until another young biker called Yuma Suou took over as the new leader and, through his charismatic leadership, the gang endured. Detective Seyama tried telling the group's members that Reiji wanted Made in Heaven to dissolve, but none of them believed him. However, Reiji's last wishes would eventually be fulfilled, as in 2021 Takayuki Yagami would eventually succeed in convincing Made in Heaven's members to disband the gang before any more of them died in a senseless accident.
== Gallery ==
LJ - Headshot - Reiji Murasaki.jpg|Reiji's headshot
Reiji-Bike.png|Reiji with his motorcycle in Hamakita Park
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Made in Heaven
Category:Lost Judgment Characters