Pina/History

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## Background

### Murder Incident Solution arc

Pina is a new freshman who was recruited by Sanu to join the acting team in the drama club.

Pina suddenly makes his appearance entering the drama club's male dressing room where he interrupted a heated argument between Legoshi and Bill. Pina occupies the locker that used to belong to Tem. He highlights the scratches on Legoshi's forearm and casually asks him how many stitches did he need. After leaving his things Pina says goodbye telling them that they can fight to their hearts' content, and he leaves without even giving his name. Legoshi and Bill stop fighting, as Bill diverted his anger to Pina's obnoxious attitude. Shortly after, Pina appears before the members of the club, leaving girls attracted by his appearance and males skeptical by his inclusion. Pina reveals that he joined the club because they asked him, but he doesn't know much about how the club works, and amiably says that hopefully everyone can have fun and get along. Bill interrupts saying if perhaps they plan to make Pina Louis's replacement. Pina asks if it is a matter of appearance, stating that students like the drama club but it's tough without the star actor Louis. Pina remarks that the drama club would have a hard time without a distinguished and handsome male actor, and alleges how carnivores' eyes lose their shine from being consumed by their desires and instincts and that these are just not beautiful. This comment offends all the carnivores in the club who interpret that he is calling them ugly. Pina states that his only redeeming trait is his looks as he doesn't have "herbivore pride" or a conviction and although he cannot replace Louis, he is popular with the females which is good enought for him. Legoshi thinks to himself that the carnivores are uniting together by having Pina as their common enemy. Pina goes to Legoshi and mentions that in the spring one of the members was eaten alive and the star actor disappeared. Pina once again remarks the scars on Legoshi's forearm and concludes that Legoshi is definitely someone dangerous. Legoshi tries to distract him by avoiding getting involved in the discussion, but the carnivores force him away to join their side claiming that Legoshi is one of them.

The next day, Pina observes Legoshi's message to the drama club, being curious about his new appearance.

After several days, while Legoshi shows him the drama club stage crew's storehouse, Pina notices that Legoshi looks very ugly and asks if something is wrong with him. Legoshi showing an exhausted expression asks if Pina knows that he is his senior. Pina remarks that Legoshi has cut his fur and asks if he has heart disease, but Legoshi answers that he does not need to worry and declares that for today he will only be showing him around the storehouse. Legoshi comments that it would be nice if Pina were interested in being a part of the stage crew, but Pina bluntly replies that he is not interested. Legoshi, intoxicated by the smell of females that is coming from Pina, remarks that his cheek is a bit red and Pina replies that a girl he was making out with slapped him when he called her by some other girl's name. Legoshi mentions that that sounds complicated and Pina asks him if he has a girlfriend. Legoshi denies it and Pina asks him if there is someone he likes. Legoshi avoids the topic and ends the conversation but Pina stops him and tells him that he is really pure by being attached to a single girl, stating that that's impressive and very dog-like. Pina claims that he would like to know what it's like to love a girl in a pure way and asks why animals get angry when someone is not dedicated to one single lover. Legoshi tells him that it would be insincere and Pina replies that sincerity is subjective and for him "sincerity" means enjoying life while being true to yourself, claiming that morals don't really do much good. Pina touches Legoshi's fangs and tells him that if he were to eat him alive right now, he wouldn't hate him for it. Pina closes the curtains and claims that when he is alone with a girl in a dimly lit classroom, he feels uncontrollable urge to kiss her and asks Legoshi if he feels like eating him right now. This causes Legoshi for the first time to feel a distinctive and seething hatred towards a herbivore. Legoshi represses his feelings and tells Pina that he does not eat meat and doesn't have a girlfriend, that he is just a good-for-nothing wolf and leaves claiming that he is hungry and is going to the cafeteria to eat some vegetables.

After a while on an ordinary day, Pina, already crowned as a star actor, finds himself talking with Kibi about costumes. Shortly after they part ways, Tao accidentally rips off Kibi's arm, breaking all the peace in the club. All the members walk away and Tao abruptly panicked tries to convince the others that it was an accident. Bill restrains Tao and gives the order to take Kibi to the infirmary. After Legoshi and Riz took Kibi to the infirmary, the others ask Pina to take Kibi's backpack to the infirmary, and in doing so, Pina ends up listening to Legoshi and Riz's conversation where he discovers that Riz is the murderer. Seeing that Legoshi and Riz are about to have a fight from which Legoshi would undoubtedly end up dead, Pina crosses them and interrupts them claiming that he can no longer wait anymore and reveals to them that he came to bring Kibi's bag to the infirmary. After fulfilling his task Pina leaves the infirmary and remarks Riz's scratches on the ceiling and leaves promising not to tell anyone. Legoshi quickly stops him and nervously asks if he heard anything. Pina alleges that he can't lie and confirms that he heard the whole conversation. Pina declares that he can't say that Riz being the culprit is none of his business and that is why he interrupted them, to be able to get a say in all of this. He calls both of them to discuss this like civilized animals. In the rest area, Pina proposes to have a peaceful discussion and Riz claims to feel nervous. Pina tells him that now that two students know his secret, there is only one way to calm down, but Riz interrupts him by telling him that he must kill him. Pina dissuades him, claiming that if one more herbivore from the drama club gets killed, the police will have to conduct a had investigation, and they would easily reach him just by tying up the carnivore members and searching him. Pina claims to keep the secret since both are in bad circumstances, but declares this as a victory for justice, while Riz is only left frustrated and full of anger. On the balcony, Pina claims that he usually does not get this worked up and Legoshi asks him if he got involved because he wanted to save him and tells him that that was very risky. Pina replies that if he had fought with Riz, he probably would have died. Legoshi tells him that he is in debt to him, and he will protect him from now on. Pina accepts allying with Legoshi and asks for his phone number. After Legoshi and Pina exchange phone numbers to keep in touch, Legoshi asks Pina to send him a message every night before going to sleep and takes a pen from Pina to remember her scent. As Pina leaves Legoshi reminds him his life is at risk and to be careful.

Several days later while Legoshi and Riz have a heated argument where Legoshi is even willing to reveal Riz's secret, Pina interrupts them by diverting attention to the spotlight that Legoshi broke. He tells Legoshi to get a hold of himself, and he shouldn't cause any more damage than he already has and asks Riz if he thinks the same. Legoshi apologizes and Pina takes the scandal for resolved. Pina sees Legoshi thinking and intuits that he is thinking of something stupid. Later, they both sit on a bench in the school courtyard where Pina tells Legoshi not to expect him to clean up after every mess he makes since they are both the only ones who know that Riz is the killer. Legoshi apologizes and Pina claims that he doesn't blame him for getting pissed off as Riz seems to be used to his "good bear" act and that he and Legoshi are like polar opposites. Legoshi replies that he has him as an ally but that Riz is alone and acts in secrecy, so he wonders how Riz can be so calm. Pina compares him claiming that it is as if Legoshi is a virgin and Riz is not. Legoshi affirms him saying that Riz knows something that he doesn't, so he has to know how he thinks. Pina asks him why he wants to lump himself together with a criminal and Legoshi replies that everyone has the potential to be a criminal, especially carnivores. Pina asks him if he is thinking of eating him so he can get closer to Riz, but Legoshi denies it and claims that he must find a way to solve this case since he wants him and Riz to have a mutual understand by fighting him and leaves. Pina is left thinking that he would not be surprised if Legoshi shows up on the news as a sex offender.

Some time later, Pina is flirting with a female goat, promoting his starring role in the New Year's school play and happily mentions that he will be the handsome young man whose soul will be stolen by a reaper and will die at the end of the story. Pina asks "Riona" that if he died for real, would she grieve for him, and he begins to lean in for a kiss, but she maliciously stops him saying that she would laugh and asks who Riona is, claiming that a man who can't remember a girl's name is not worth a funeral. Soon after, Pina goes to the bathroom lamenting his mistake, wondering if he is losing his groove and claims that he is perfect for the role of the guy who dies tragically at the end. He thinks about the drama club's tradition of presenting the story about a tragedy where Adler the reaper goes to a girl to reap her soul, only to fall in love with her. Since Juno will be the one playing Adler and Pina her love interest, the story will break the mold as that kind of casting considered taboo until now, with a carnivore reaping a herbivore's soul, something that's too realistic. Suddenly Pina realizes that Riz is standing behind him and tells him that today he is looking forward to practice. Pina remains calm and tells him that he was surprised, and alleges that he can't feel comfortable peeing next to a murderer, so he leaves. Riz tells him that he will settle things with Legoshi on New Year's Eve. Pina mentions that he figured something was going on with Legoshi, but that he wasn't expecting that and wished Legoshi told him about it. Riz tells Pina he is also part of this, since he is the only one other than Legoshi who knows about his murder, claiming that after killing Legoshi, he will devour him from top to bottom. Pina jokingly says that he would not do it if he were him as he doesn't think his horns taste very good. To his surprise Riz puts Pina's finger in his mouth, leaving Pina in shock. Riz lets go and taunts him saying that his fingers smelled like honey and leaves leaving Pina lying on the floor. Pina relieved to still have his fingers, realizes that he is so relieved that he is lying on the bathroom floor and that he is more desperate to live than he thought. Later at the drama club, rehearsals for the school play begin and Juno tells Pina that he doesn't look so good and asks if he remembers his lines. Pina claims that he remembers them and while listening to how the other members comment that Pina was probably up all night with some girl or that he may have the looks but is nowhere near as good as Louis acting-wise, Pina thinks he is starting to feel better about his whole situation. Juno and Pina practice their lines, where Juno gives rise to Pina's dialogue and after pausing, he recites his lines emptyly and in an impulse of emotions with all his energy Pina finishes reciting his lines, making a parallel with Riz, leaving all the club members stunned. Sanu orders a break and Pina walks past Riz and asks if he "saw that", leaving the shocked members behind.

On New Year's Eve, before the fight between Riz and Legoshi took place, Pina is somehow kidnapped by Riz who gags him and leaves him in a landfill as his hostage. Riz inflicts a wound on his arm to obtain his blood and with it make Legoshi believe that he killed him, while Pina laments having to spend New Year's Eve in the garbage and asks Legoshi to win. Shortly after thanks to the use of his horns, Pina manages to break his bonds and escape from the dump. He called the police who arrive at the place where Riz and Legoshi had just finished their duel. After Riz is arrested, nervous and confused Pina wonders if he called the police at a bad time.

After these events, Pina returns to Cherryton Academy and after his testimony to inspector Papico and those from Louis and Riz, Legoshi is released from the correctional facility.

### Revenge of the Love Failure arc

Several months later, Pina interrupts Bill when he is about to eat a newborn chick that had hatched from a shocked egg. He highlights that this is the first time he had seen a shock egg and asks Bill if he will eat it. Bill, alarmed, asks him what he is doing in the carnivore dorm kitchen, and Pina answers that since the herbivore dorm kitchen was full, he came to this one. Pina tells Bill that if he wants to eat the chick in the soba, he will stand there and watch, and maybe he will learn something. Pina makes a comparison with Bill and Riz, saying that Riz is now in juvie for eating a classmate and Bill can now eat a baby but can carry on living a peaceful school life, claiming that the world is unfair. So Bill yells at him telling him that he is not going to eat it, so Pina proposes to save him. Although Bill claims it is too late for that, Pina declares that they should try. After putting the chick in a thermos in the drama club warehouse, unable to get help from the infirmary and see that the chick is not improving, they have the idea to enlist Aoba's help, whose warmth and presence seem to keep the chick in good spirits. Pina asks Bill if it is not great that now they have the opportunity to save the chick. After taking care of him for a week, once he is healthy enough to go outside, the trio take the chick to a police station where they give him to an officer, and say goodbye. Pina questions Bill's intention to remember the chick's face claiming that he will not recognize him anyway once it turns into a chicken. Bill alleges that that is not the issue. Aoba advises that Bill should stop going to the Black Market for now, so Bill states that he will never eat chicken meat, because it would be terrible if the chick ended up in the Black Market, although he does not say that he will stop going. Pina proposes to go eat soba for lunch but Bill alleges that he will never eat soba either.

After several months, Pina is reunited with Legoshi after he temporarily returned to Cherryton to take refuge, where he denotes his superficial attitude claiming that Legoshi is now an "ugly albino". Pina accompanies Legoshi to the drama club where he reunites him with his old classmates. Pina goes to study with his classmates in order to get good results in the next achievement test and thus keep the drama club active.

At the same time that Legoshi and Melon fight during a turf war on Rexmas, Pina visits Riz in juvie where together with him they watch Louis's press conference by phone. Riz asks him if he did not have club activities and if he told anyone. Pina replies that he did not and Riz states that they will surely be surprised to learn that Pina visits him twice a month. Pina claims that he is only sucking up to him so that he wouldn't eat him when he gets out of juvie and asks Riz if he thinks he needs a furcut. Riz replies that long fur suits him and Pina claims that then he will keep it long. Riz asks what happened to the girl he talked about on his last visit and Pina tells him that they had a date last week but broke up two days ago. Pina tells Riz to just get out of juvie already, claiming that although he knows it's standard procedure, he doesn't want his first male friend wearing a muzzle all the time like this. Riz cheerfully replies yes and thanks him. Shortly after, Pina leaves and they both wave goodbye.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 58
2. ↑ Chapter 62
3. ↑ Chapter 63
4. ↑ Chapter 71
5. ↑ Chapter 72
6. ↑ Chapter 74
7. ↑ Chapter 81
8. ↑ Chapter 87
9. ↑ Chapter 91
10. ↑ Chapter 97
11. ↑ Chapter 98
12. ↑ Chapter 155
13. ↑ Chapter 152
14. ↑ Chapter 182