Renjiro Imai

Renjiro Imai (今井 蓮次郎, Imai Renjirō) is a cognitive psychology student at Tokyo University and part of Professor Maruyama's research group.
==Physical description==
He has short fair hair and light eyes.
==Personality==
==Biography==
===History===
Imai used to date Kanae Himeno. After she broke up with him, he began to go to her house every day. He swore to make her pay someday for dumping him.
===Psychological Research Lab Murder Case===
When Kanae Himeno is showing Chicory Monki, Ron Kamonohashi, and Totomaru Isshiki, who have come to Maruyama's research lab to gather data, around, Imai and Shun Oigawa get into an argument about the afternoon reservation for the experiment room; both say that they reserved it first.
The next morning, Himeno is killed in an explosion in the lab when she opens the door to the shield room as it has been filled with flammable gas. Toto and Ron investigate her murder and gather Imai, Oigawa, and Riko Niki in a lecture room to interview them as Takanori Aoe told them that the use of the experiment room is left to them. Toto asks if any of them knew that Himeno would be using the experiment room this morning. Imai says that all of them knew, and Oigawa elaborates that they used the lottery feature of a messaging app to determine who would get the experiment room this morning.
Then, Totomaru wants to know what they were doing until this morning, and Imai replies that he went to sleep as it was late. He woke up at nine a.m. as always and headed to Tokyo University afterward. Imai asks if this will ruin his future and then informs Toto and Ron that Oigawa is suspicious as he disliked Himeno for reporting him to the university once. Oigawa replies that Imai used to stalk Himeno after she dumped him. Niki calls Imai a creeper, and Imai says that she hated Himeno the most and screamed "Die, you ugly jerk!" when Himeno scolded her for cancelling the MRI experiment. They yell at and accuse one another, and Toto tells them to calm down
Imai is later present when Toto and Ron gather him, Niki, Oigawa, and Aoe to reveal the culprit and tell them what actually happened. He is shocked to learn that Aoe killed Himeno and nearly dies when Aoe attempts to blow them up with a bomb. Fortunately, Ron can tackle him down beforehand.
==Etymology==
* The name "Renjiro" means "lotus, water lily" (蓮, ren), "next" (次, ji) and "son" (郎, ro).
* His surname "Imai" means "now/just now, immediately, at the present time, this" (今, ima) and "well, mine shaft, pit" (井, i).
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