Kyoko Hakase

Kyoko Hakase (, Hakase Kyōko) is a character featured in Lost Judgment. She is the school nurse at Seiryo High School and one of four potential girlfriends of Takayuki Yagami. She is unavailable in the base game, being one of the three girlfriends added through the Detective Essentials DLC pack. 
==Profile==
===Attire===
Kyoko wears a lab coat with two pens in its chest pocket over a salmon top and black skirt with black pumps when working as a nurse in Seiryo High School. Off duty, she wears a blue blouse with white stripes and a long white skirt with black stockings underneath, along with a blue scarf and white shoes. She wears a simple necklace with two interconnecting rings in the center in both outfits. 
===Personality===
Kyoko attempts to take her job as school nurse very seriously, although her claims are almost immediately undercut by a student, Nana, informally addressing her and convincing her to let her take time off her classes, along with a fear of blood leading her to botch a simple treatment of another student's scrapes and bruises. Despite these difficulties, she remains dedicated to the students of Seiryo High School in both the roles of nurse and counsellor, frequently working late at nights—which is often when Yagami drops by and visits her. Kyoko is particularly dedicated to Nana as she wishes to inspire her to find her own talents and goals in life after finishing high school.
She pays close attention to details and, as a result of her precise handwork, is skilled at darts and shogi, having honed her abilities with extensive practice in both. Kyoko's penmanship is excellent; all of the school's influenza warning flyers were handwritten by her. Thouugh it was initially a misunderstanding, she continued to write them after being complimented for doing so. Her medical skills extend to her mixing her own medications similar to Iyama's Extracts, and she recommends sunbathing as a healthcare habit. She is sensitive to the students' views of her, forgoing an apron in favour of her lab coat after being mocked for its appearance.
Kyoko is easily flustered and frightened, evidenced by her paranoia over a supposed stalker which turned out to be a cat and her shock at Yagami's attempts to get her attention early on due to her being overly absorbed in work. She is also fairly disorganised, usually taking the minimum amount of care in packing up to leave and dropping her keys on one occasion. Kyoko regularly complains about the influenza virus, mostly because of her increased workload during flu season, and tends to talk to herself when engrossed in her work. Kyoko is a huge fan of Ono Michio and even constructed a figurine in the form of a genuine Ono Michio statue with her own tools and materials.
==Background==
Kyoko has had a dream of being a student nurse since middle school, having gone through excellent counselling during her time in her treatment and wishing to do the same for students under her own care. She worked in real estate until her company went under, after which she decided to become a nurse after all. She went to college and worked hard to get her medical license. She began her career as a school nurse at Seiryo High in 2021.
==Involvement==
===Lost Judgment: 2021===
Kyoko is familiar to and with the student body of Seiryo High School, with numerous students seeking her out for her care during physical education lessons and club activities and at least two boys discussing how to exaggerate injuries during PE in a bid to see her in the nurse's office; even her reading of the eye test chart became the center of a public performance.
Kyoko asks Yagami, who is oblivious to her job at Seiryo High School, to identify someone stalking her. This turns out to be a black cat named Cherry which was adopted as a stray by a doctor, Sakura, in Ijincho before her owner's untimely death in a car accident. Cherry's history is relayed by Sakura's mother Keiko, who explains that Cherry likely started following Kyoko around due to them looking similar and the smell of disinfectant on them both as medical professionals. Keiko Sakura leaves Cherry in Kyoko's care, noting the great affinity the cat has gained for her.
Yagami next catches up with Kyoko in the daytime where he witnesses her fumbling attempts at treating a simple scrape and her interactions with Nana, then later at night during where he learns more about her, such as her aims of being a student nurse dating from her middle school years and confirms her skittishness around blood, encountering Nana once again as they leave. As Yagami walks her home, they are attacked by unsavory men, leading to minor injuries on Yagami's part after soundly defeating them. Kyoko insists on treating Yagami, initially further damaging him with an unsuccessful treament, then properly healing him with a homebrewed folk remedy.
Kyoko gives Yagami the option to get treated by her at night as her test subject, with mixed results; one treatment ends with her accidentally poking Yagami with a needle after being distracted by Nana's sudden entry, the student wishing to get advice from Kyoko to fill up a career questionnaire, but only to complete the assignment as Nana insists she has nothing in the way of vocational skills or future aspirations. While taking care of Cherry, she starts acting bossy and becoming picky of her food, which Kyoko tries to stop.
After Yagami sees Kyoko a couple more times, he encounters her taking care of Cherry in the courtyard, where they further discuss her work and Cherry, and Kyoko asks Yagami to join her at Eomeoni's Vow in Koreatown after a colleague cancelled her plans for dinner together. However, their date is violently interrupted when a car hits Nana whilst she was pursuing the two in order to return Kyoko's dropped key, with Cherry running into the road in an attempt to save her. Yagami gives Kyoko the courage to overcome her phobia of injuries in order to treat Nana with first aid, and convinces the offending driver to take responsibility for the accident following a brief struggle.
They next meet when she's buying drinks from the school vending machine, whereupon she and Yagami overhear a recovered Nana cheerfully submitting her career questionnaire and proudly stating she intends to become a nurse just like Kyoko. Her teacher offhandedly mentions that Nana would have an easier time of it without Kyoko's fear of blood, leading her and Yagami to realise that her phobia was no secret. To make up for not being able to have dinner, Kyoko invites Yagami again for drinks, but she is unable to confess her feelings for him and passes out from drinking too much. Yagami takes her to the nurse's office, and she confesses her love for him when she regains consciousness.
==Gameplay==
When Yagami gets the option to have Kyoko heal him, mild treatments heal him by small amounts and vigorous treatments either further damage him or heal him by great amounts; Kyoko will compensate him with a Mysterious Leaf or a Staminan Light for his trouble should she do more harm than good with her treatment.
===Related Side Cases===
*Somebody's Watching You
*Melody of the Night
*Just a Slight Feeling
*The Dream Continues
== Gallery ==
LJ - Headshot - Kyoko Hakase.png|Kyoko's headshot
Kyoko Selfie.png|Selfie with Yagami on a date, at Yokohama Boulevard
Kyoko Confession.png|Confession scene
Kyoko_Hakase.jpg
==References==
Category:Lost Judgment Characters
Category:Seiryo High School
Category:Lost Judgment Girlfriends