Keiwa Sakura

Keiwa Sakurai is a college student who participates in DGP as Kamen Rider Tycoon.

## History

Keiwa Sakurai was born on August 25, 2000 to his parents Shigeru and Yukino Sakurai, and has an older sister, Sara. When Keiwa was young, his parents were slain by the Jyamato in a prior Desire Grand Prix, though his memories of the events were altered following the conclusion of that round. Now under the pretension that his parents died in an unfortunate accident, he was raised solely by Sara.

During his adolescent years, Keiwa often participated in humanitarian aid, which fueled his desire for world peace. After entering college, he began job hunting.

## Personality

Keiwa is an extremely good-natured person who wishes for world peace. He is also described as a straightforward person who thinks of others first. However, he also has a cynical outlook on life, believing that a perfect world is just an unreachable dream. He is also visibly disturbed by the fact that Riders are capable of dying during the Desire Grand Prix. However, despite this harsh fact on life, Keiwa remains an unyielding young man, willing to put his life on the line for others, the principal of the shinobi. After Suel's defeat, Keiwa's wish of world peace is reinforced in him attempting to become a police officer.

In the Desire Grand Prix, at first, due to inexperience, Keiwa does not usually go out to fight the Jyamato, instead opting to save any civilians in the area, which earns him enough points to advance through the rounds, but later he grows to be a formidable combatant who still focuses on saving civilians. His inexperience also leads for him to be tricked by others such as Ace Ukiyo, as the DGP is a game where players compete with each other to get their wish granted and he's one of their opponents. Despite the competitive nature of the game, Keiwa stays considerate to other players, he acts as the peacemaker who constantly tries to make the players get along, talking things out concerning their problems, and calling out the players who behaved rudely. He also often hands over his Raise Buckles he acquires to support someone else, especially the Boost Buckle, which for some reason he keeps finding in the game events through sheer luck. Overall, he wants the Desire Grand Prix and its players to be used as a means to protect the world from the Jyamato.

After Keiwa's elimination from the DGP, as a result of the game's cost of removing desire from a person, several aspects of his personality were temporarily changed, such as his favorite food being sushi instead of tanuki soba and buying lottery tickets for himself instead of donating his money for charitable causes as Sara expected, due to giving up in his efforts to find a job. This is due to Keiwa's cynicism worsening, making him much more unmotivated than usual and instead wallowing in his bad luck. Keiwa later manages to regain his motivation after being inspired by Ittetsu and Yoshiki's risky actions to protect others, and this change fully fades after Keiwa regains his driver and memories.

Despite his heroic and selfless nature, though, he's not completely infallible. Though kind, he lacks resolve and a clear path on what he truly wants in life. This makes him fail to properly understand why the other players would risk their lives to achieve their dreams, thus when he encourages someone, he only offers them weak platitudes, as he doesn't understand their struggles and resolve, getting himself lectured that nice words alone isn't always helpful. His lack of understanding of others' resolve culminates in him being inconsiderate in his attempts to defeat the final boss and save Sara, forcing the other Riders to do his biddings to achieve that, with a strategy that involves them throwing the game and their dreams. This changes after Ace scolds him for his self-righteousness, that other Riders' reasons to fight that are just as valid as his own, and questions if he himself would care if he and Sara are safe. By this, he renews his resolve, and relies on his motivation to save Sara, getting himself eliminated due to his injuries, but gaining the respect of the others, with him later also standing up for the Rider's wishes when Girori calls Ace's wishes "trivial". However, Keiwa is often given brutal training and lectures by Tianyue who expects him to fight harder next time for someone who seeks world peace upon Tianyue seeing him as an amateur which Keiwa finds the new 'Ace' a once confident on winning to now a pushy on him to fight harder.

His motivation for world peace is also done for Sara's sake, like Ace suggested, to make the world safe for her. But with his parents and the players revived by Tianyue's wish which Keiwa continues to wish for world peace and believed that the star must have made the Goddess atone for her 'sins' which Keiwa would wish that Mitsume would have never become the Goddess of Creation believing it would put an end to her 'crimes' however this faded when learning the shocking truth of what really happen that day causing him to turn on DGP upon seeing Suel as nothing but a heartless monster as he had no remorse for his action on killing an innocent child in Mitsume's womb resulting in him into changing his wish where the Fake Goddess never existed which would erase Suel and revive Mitsume and her child for Dinghu's sake and is willing to not let any family suffer like the Bai family did to Kekera and Chimari's protest that Mitsume was nothing but a traitor for choosing a fairytale over entertainment even though Dinghu gave her a child and the chance to see the world which is something her kind could not give her. Keiwa also develops a crush on the Dark Game Rider Hoa Mo.