Abe Haruaki

**Abe Haruaki** (安倍 晴明) is the titular human teacher at Hyakki Academy, a youkai school. He teaches Japanese, and is the homeroom teacher of Class 2-3.

## Appearance

Haruaki is often seen dressed in a white button-up shirt, wearing a red and black striped necktie, and a pair of black/blueish pants. On his right wrist, he wears a beaded bracelet. The beads are prayer beads and his family gave them to him as a way to secretly suppress his very strong anti-youkai powers. Haruaki has black hair and an ahoge on top of his head. The strand of hair can be cut off but grows back quite fast. Sometimes the ahoge will start wagging or become completely stiff, depending on the situation he finds himself in. He has red eyes as well.

Another thing to note is that in the manga he is often drawn with a very cartoonish face, or an extremely realistic one.

## Personality

Haruaki is a coward. A scaredy-cat that often gets bullied by small children and his own students sometimes, he runs away from many situations where he feels intimidated. He'll even use one of his own students as a shield, that student being Sano Mikoto (who, more often than not, uses Haruaki as a punching bag). Being a teacher is his dream job and despite being a wuss, he works hard to be a good teacher for his students and is quite enthusiastic about it. Haruaki rarely gets angry and is often shown being happy, though he can be a bit of a crybaby and an airhead.

Haruaki is also surprisingly passionate and determined when he needs to be. For example, when helping Tamao, he goes out of his way to learn about cats in order to make learning easier for Tamao.

Another thing he is quite enthusiastic about is sailor uniforms. His love for them is so extreme, being bribed with them can push him out of his comfort zone, and it is questioned if something happened to him in a past life with sailor uniforms for him to have such a deep connection with them. While often called a pervert for it, he actually does not care for the girl that is wearing the uniform; he simply loves the uniform itself, and has ever since he was a kid. As a child, he would often be seen wearing a sailor uniform for boys as well. In Chapter 1 the Principle bribes Haruaki with a uniform to get him to go inside the classroom to teach his students. Other characters such as Sano, Miki Rintarou and Hatanaka Izuna, have also used sailor uniforms to trick Haruaki into do something.

## Abilities

Haruaki possesses anti youkai powers, which were passed down to him from his ancestor Abe no Seimei. Haruaki's family owns a shrine, and from generation to generation, someone in the family inherits anti-youkai powers. But as Abe Amaaki mentioned, with every generation, the bloodline gets thinner and the power weakens. Haruaki inherited this power, but they are particularly extra strong despite this generational weakening. The reason as to why they are so strong is currently unknown.

The first use of his power was back when he was a toddler. His twin, Amaaki, and their dad accidentally opened a sealed door that held an ultra-powerful, soul-stealing Shinigami youkai, locked away by their great-grandpa. While this yo-kai terrorized Amaaki and his father, Little Haruaki destroyed the youkai through the door without even knowing. Not even their great-grandpa had been able to destroy it as Haruaki had done. With his powers being so powerful Haruaki never was able to see a youkai, as he would always smite them before he even knew they were there.

Haruaki has little to no control over these powers, so his family gave him a bracelet of prayer beads to suppress his powers.

Haruaki's power activation always seems to happen on accident, like when he first met Mujina, and when Haruaki accidentally activated the power while chasing Maizuka Mamekichi, when the student had stolen the bribe Haruaki got from the principle. While Mujina merely got fried and ended up with an afro, Mame fainted due to exhaustion due to the power burning up his spirit energy. This draining of spirit energy is generally what happens to any yo-kai who come into contact with the anti-yokai power.

When he's not wearing his prayer beads, his power becomes even more powerful and difficult to control, the biggest example of this being shown in manga 8, in the "Abe no Seimei, Haruaki Abe, and Shutendouji" arc. At the end of these chapters, where he momentarily loses the bracelet, his powers are so powerful, Haruaki shocks Rintarou just by touching his face, and he needs to be insulted to make the energy of his attack go down so as not to kill Rintarou's mother.

Another thing to note about Haruaki's powers is that they seem to activate whenever Haruaki has an emotional burst and wants someone to do something, most notably when he's telling somebody to stop doing something to him or those close to him.

## Relationships

### Sano Mikoto

Sano is the first student to discover Haruaki's powers, and promises him that he won't tell anyone about them. Sano holds a deep annoyance toward Haruaki at first, but grows to respect and care for him like his other friends.

## Etymology

* **Abe** means "peace, quiet" (安) (**a**) and "part, department, category" (部) (**be**).
* **Haruaki** means "clear weather" (晴) (**haru**) and "bright, light, clear" (明) (**aki**).

## Trivia

* Haruaki is a Pisces.
* Haruaki talks to his sailor uniforms.
* Haruaki was in a calligraphy club and and archery club while in high school, but he didn't seem to have much fun in either of them.
* Haruaki has a terrible sense of direction (which is shown/plays a part through the manga).
	+ Once Haruaki managed to get so lost, he ended up in India.
* He initially wanted to be a sailor uniform maker, however, his sewing ability was subpar
* His ahoge is detachable and can regrow quickly
* He and Miki mess around in the teacher's lounge together
* He's a heavyweight with alcohol, but prefers food over alcohol