Akira Hime

**Akira Hime** was a suspect in the murder investigation of tea vendor Kagami Shou in Is This What You Call Love? (Case #12 of Zorro Island), before he was murdered in The Last Laugh (Case #14 of Zorro Island).

### Affiliation

Rafaela Guzman  (Love Guru)
 Rhea Del Prado  (Love Guru)

## Info

Akira is a 34-year-old romance guru from Zorro Island. He has black hair tied back in a ponytail, pale skin, and green eyes. He wears a pastel pink suit and pant combo embroidered with golden hearts on the lapels.

It is known that he eats fried lotus and speaks Japanese.

## Events of Zorro Island

### Is This What You Call Love?

Akira was spoken to when he identified the victim at the crime scene, aghast at the sight of her drowned corpse. Upon questioning, Akira said that he had seen her in passing, but never personally, saying that she seemed like a nice person. He then offered to read Rhea's romantic future, which she refused, but all the same he passed her his business card, saying that she would always want to know eventually, before smiling and leaving.

Akira was interrogated once again when Alita found a letter shaming Kagami was written by him, leading him to sadly and reluctantly inform the detectives that Kagami made a pass at him the night before, despite his homosexuality, and he wrote the note to tell her never to do it again, but he eventually got so angry that he just insulted her, giving her the note at her home and leading to her ripping it up. He would then wish the officers a good day and leave.

Akira was found to be innocent when Dario Di Monte was arrested for the murder.

## Murder Details

Akira was found dead outside the Pranksters' Cathedral, with obvious signs of poisoning. Following Rosa's autopsy, it was discovered that the toxin that killed him was scorpion poison, but there were also additives used to speed up the process, meaning that the killer must have an advanced knowledge of chemistry to be able to pull the crime off.

Later, the bottle in which the spray was added was found, as Pedro was quick to analyse it and notice several miniscule red fibres on the bottom of the spray. He then tied these to the heart badges lots of people had been wearing in memory of Rosalia, meaning the killer wore a red heart badge.

## Relationship With Suspects

Akira had been criticised adamantly by Kaede Shou following her discovery that her late wife had attempted to sleep with him, leading to an argument in which Akira called Kaede a 'near-virgin', causing her to slap him. He had also encountered creative differences with Grace Lowe, who wanted him to move his stall so she could have an actual merchant there, irritating Akira significantly to the point he sued her. Akira also filed a lawsuit towards Anne McGuinness for character assassination after she spread lies about him groping her which led to his guruship being suspended temporarily. Guthrie Zober was a friendly business rival of Akira's, until Guthrie left a threat at Akira's for trying to shut down his business for no apparent reason. Akira had also had several run ins with Kofi Lane, who had attempted to hire Akira as a private guru several times, to which Akira refused.

## Killer And Motives

The killer turned out to be Guthrie.

Despite initial denial, Guthrie eventually confessed to the murder, saying that he had come to the festival to sell his Prank Pastries to the masses, which had gone successfully, until Akira posted a negative review of a pastry online and people stopped buying them completely. Despite multiple attempts to get his business back, Akira refused to delete the post, leading to Guthrie putting scorpion venom in the victim's body spray, bought from Kofi Lane, so Akira would die after he sprayed himself with it. Confused by Guthrie's motives but still angered by his act, Judge Vargas sentenced Guthrie to 15 years in prison.