Ryutaro Williams

is one of the main characters of the Digimon Liberator web novel. His partner is , and he plays a Dinosaur Stompy deck.
==Description==
Ryutaro is professional gym trainer who harbors the dream of becoming a real-life hero, which has led him to become deeply involved in bodybuilding. He finds joy in helping beginners and tirelessly travels across LACUNA to assist various players. His sense of justice only intensifies after meeting the hot-blooded . With a geeky nature and extensive knowledge to boot, Ryutaro is also surprisingly the brains of the debug team.
==Appearance==
==Etymologies==
;Ryutaro Williams (リュウタロー・ウィリアムズ)
Official name and romanization used on the Digimon Liberator website.
*Ja: Ryutaro, a Japanese forename.
*En: Williams, an English surname.
==Fiction==
Ryutaro is part of the De-bug team for , helping to deal with any internal issues that arise within the game. 
One day, Ryutaro, Yuuki, and Winr, under the orders of Altea, were given a mission to deal with some cheaters — taking the place of the GMs as they were too busy to deal with it themselves. The cheaters would hack the tournament winners, preventing them from logging out or even communicating with other players, and would agree to restore their accounts in exchange for their tournament prizes. They would then sell the prizes to make large amounts of money. The group of 30 hackers had affected so many tournaments, the fear of being hacked had caused entry numbers to drop drastically. Learning this information riled up the Digimon, and their discussions bring to light that there isn't even evidence of the hacking as it left no trace and in addition to that — the higher ups have no clue how they even managed to do it in the first place, as other cheating attempts would be stopped buy the game itself due to the hackers modifying their systems. Though the task seems impossible, Ryutaro reveals he has a plan and brings up how the winner of the previous weeks tournament had fallen victim to this scam. He goes through what the hackers do again, then says he had actually agreed with the hackers to buy said stolen prize and had a meeting with them at Lapis Marine to get the stolen item. 
They send out Winr to make first contact with Winr's plan being to lower their guards as he was a kid instead of the giant Ryutaro. had sent a message via with it telling them not to allow the hackers to run towards Lapis Stadium Tower as the debugging team were testing a player who had taken out an there to see if he was a good fit as a new member of the team. Winr sends a message to Ryutaro just as he was about to check the map for escape routes with it saying that more than 10 hackers had shown up and he was scared they were going to take advantage of him since a kid would be unable to stop them. This angers Ryutaro, since he had allowed Winr to go alone, and he leaves alongside Tyrannomon to try and save his young friend from harm. He gets there in time, with Yuuki also having joined in the rescue attempt. The three of them were now surrounded by the large number of hackers. The hackers were aware of the fact they were dubuggers under cover, and were not intimidated by their jobs as they just considered them the same as regular players. They laugh at the fact there's no evidence, with Winr telling them that this is still an official trade and if they went against their word and didn't give them the stolen item they could report them and get them banned. Aruba Dokuson, leader of the hackers, points out they had yet to receive the payment and that they have the blackmail of the fact that debuggers were pretending to be regular players. Ryutaro then proceeds to challenge Aruba to a duel. Aruba agrees, and states they'll stop their scams if Ryutaro is able to win. Meanwhile if he wins, he will post online about how the group had been going undercover as regular players with the shame supposedly being enough that it'd cause them to never be able to play again. Though at first worried that Aruba would lose, his minions quickly change to mocking the debuggers confident that their leader would never lose. Aruba gives Ryutaro the chance to back out, but Ryutaro refuses and accepts the duel request. 
Ryutaro wins the duel, and informs the hackers that they're going to freeze their accounts as punishment and that the various members would either receive warnings or tournament bans. The debugging team arrest all the hackers, though Ryutaro gives Aruba his spare account telling him to play the game using it as he wants a rematch. He leaves on Tyrannomon, and takes the dinosaur to coast to swim. Before they can swim though, Winr contacts him and tells him the group had been summoned by the GMs as they were unhappy with how they had dealt with the investigation.
Ryutaro attends the debug team meeting that had been set up to induct Shoto Kazama and Arisa Kinosaki as the newest members of the debug team.
Yuuki and Impmon see a wild Wormmon (and didn't know what species it was) whilst in the Obsidian Desert, and leave to tell the others. This causes a widespread search of the Desert with multiple debug team members sent out to find it. Suzune goes with Ryutaro. They're unable to find it, though do see other debug members duelling NPCs so figure something must've been going on in the desert. The duo eventually come across Yuuki and Winr, with Ryutaro praising the duo for their work. Stopping for a break and a chat, they learn Yuuki and Winr hadn't found the Digimon either. Not wanting to doubt Yuuki and Impmon, Suzune says that with no one having been able to find the wild Digimon — it must've already died. Yuuki becomes visibly sad, though quickly puts on a fake smile to try and hide the pain. With the mission "complete", Ryutaro, Suzune, and their partners leave.
==Notes and references==
Category:Tamers
Category:Characters in Digimon Liberator DEBUG
Category:Protagonists