Murayama

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**Yoshiki Murayama** is a major character in the High & Low series. He is the former Leader of Oya High, he relinquished the position after graduating and gave the role to Fujio.

## Personality

Murayama used to be childish and irresponsible, and is always eager to fight. He continued this trait even after becoming the leader of Oya High. However, he started to change when he lost to Cobra. After their fight, Murayama realized a lot of things and became more mature. He started to understand what being a leader is about. Although the Full-time students, usually Todoroki, hate how Murayama excludes them from SWORD matters, he is only doing it to protect them. He said that it is different from the fights they held at Oya High and is dangerous for the younger students.

## Physical Appearance

Murayama has fair skin and black hair. He usually wears a blue bomber jacket with yellow sleeves and a gold eagle symbol on the left side of the chest, he wears a blue plaid jacket underneath the bomber jacket and a black shirt underneath the blue plaid jacket. He wears black pants and black and white shoes. He also wears a blue handkerchief on his forehead when he goes into battle.

## Biography

As a kid, Murayama would always pick fights with other kids just for fun. He eventually enrolled to Oya High so he could fight the baddest high school delinquents in Japan. Sometime after he enrolled, he became the leader of the school after withstanding 100 punches from the students and he beat them all up after.

After becoming the leader of Oya High, he managed to make the school the "O" in SWORD. As the leader, he challenged Cobra of Sannoh Hoodlum Squad to a one-on-one fight to see who was stronger, he lost. After his defeat, he began to question what the difference was between him and Cobra, he became unmotivated to lead the school and even turned down Todoroki's challenge to a fight for leadership. Oshiage then started to have feelings for him and tried to convince him to get motivated in being the leader of Oya High again. After seeing his friends get hurt, Murayama accepted Todoroki's challenge and defeated him, he then realized that being leader isn't all about being the strongest, but about fighting with and for your friends.

Murayama then decided to graduate and leave Oya High, he left Fujio in charge after seeing that he has the students support.

## Skills

* **Expert hand-to-hand combatant:** Murayama is a skilled fighter, he usually uses feinting and is the strongest fight in Oya High. He is so strong that most students from different schools fear him, they only decided to attack Oya High after he left.
* **Durability:** Murayama is a very tough fighter, often called a zombie by others for being really difficult to take down. He even withstood 100 punches from the students of Oya High and proceeded to beat them all after. He managed to take a chair being broken on his back and withstood getting slammed to some metal garbage by both Cobra and Todoroki.
* **Stamina:** Murayama never gets tired in a fight, he uses this to his advantage by wearing his opponent out then beat them up. Combined with his durability, Murayama is the toughest fighter in the High & Low series.
* **Leadership:** After losing to Cobra, Murayama became more mature and managed to lead his students into countless battles and helped them win. He is well respected by his fellow students and is seen by most high school delinquents as the greatest leader of Oya High.
* **Authority:** Before losing to Cobra, Murayama was a cold-blooded fighter, showing no mercy to his enemies, his fellow students decided to follow him out of fear. But after realizing what being a leader is all about, Murayama became more mature and gained the respect of his fellow students. The students would do anything Murayama tells them to and would even fight gangs that are stronger than them if Murayama told them to.