Hiiragi Renge

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## Hiiragi Renge

* Character
* Stage

* 2020
* 2023

## Name Information

### Appellations

* Watashi (Pronoun)
* Renge (Kensei, Sara, Benedict)
* Renge-san (Anthony)

## Personal Information

### Weapon

Knife
Pistol

## Actor

### Portrayed By

Kudō Haruka
工藤晴香

* 1st
* 2nd

## Name Information

### Appellations

* Watashi (Pronoun)
* Renge (Kensei, Sara, Benedict)
* Renge-san (Anthony)

## Personal Information

### Weapon

Knife
Pistol

## Actor

### Portrayed By

Kudō Haruka
工藤晴香

**Hiiragi Renge** is a character in the ROAD59 franchise and is affiliated with the Kurojou-gumi.

## Profile

The oldest of the feared Hiiragi sisters, who is part of the combat faction in the Kurojou-gumi. Always found together with her sister Sara, they have served the Kurojou together since its predecessor. In battle, she tends to laugh loudly while mercilessly tormenting her opponent both physically and mentally. However, she seems to contain mixed feelings towards her sister's abnormal adoration for Kensei.

## Appearance

Renge has dark teal hair tied into a long braid with a side fringe that is adorned by a lotus hair accessory, leaving only her forelocks loose. She has down-turned brown eyes and quite the short stature based on official material. Similarly to Sara, Renge wears a black oriental gown paired with a neckpiece, bodice and various lace designs embellished on its sleeves. Its skirt has a slit partway up her left thigh area that exposes her leg. The major difference between the Hiiragi sisters' outfits is that Renge wears flared pants underneath her skirt and has her nails painted teal. She also wears peacock earrings and black heels.

## Personality

Renge is a cold-hearted and unrelenting woman who looks down on others except for her sister. While she acts with grace, she speaks in a harshly patronizing and blunt tone whether someone could be her friend or foe, though this swaps whenever she converses with Sara. She also seems to have a sadistic side to her when engaging in battle. If someone requests her for something, she will most likely reply with "Don't order me around".

## Abilities

Just like her sister, Renge fights with a handgun and knife, though she has remarked that her hit rate is higher than Sara's. As a Jingi, she can release gusts of wind to throw her enemy off.

## Relationships

### Shinonome

* Yutsuma Kaya: With the Kurojou, Renge pursues Kaya in the Tenkai Ward. While the two haven't had a genuine conversation, Renge is quite patronizing towards Kaya, pitying and mocking her for being unable to use her Jingi, but also saving her from Sara potentially harming her, claiming that she's "Kensei's precious treasure". Despite this, Renge has put Kaya at knifepoint at least three times in the story.

### Kurojou

* Sumeragi Kensei: She serves him and follows his bidding with her sister. Unlike Sara, who addresses him as "Kensei-sama", Renge addresses him by his last name only when no one's around. In the first stage play, it is revealed that Renge held deep hatred towards him and the way he treats Sara, tgerefore she has been working with PHOENIX to rebel against him. However, he ends up killing her after her scheme is unfolded. According to the second stage play, Renge states that Kensei has killed someone important to her, therefore she is worried that he could do the same to Sara.
* Hiiragi Sara: Renge's beloved younger sister who receives a more loving side from her unlike other characters. The two are always found together and are in perfect unison, whether it'd be battle or a conversation. They look down on others aside from themselves, though Renge can be quite vexed by Sara's obsession with Kensei. In the second stage play, Renge had once mentioned that she can't handle seeing Sara get beaten by Kensei.
* Kurogane Kazuomi: While they both work for Kensei, she does not collaborate well with Kazuomi, nor does he enjoy working with her and sister either. She and Sara mockingly refer to him as "Cyborg".

### PHOENIX

* Benedict Lorenzo Vasari: In order to escape from Kensei's dictatorship, Renge had made a deal with Benedict to turn Kaya in to him and pass on information of the Kurojou in exchange for having a chance to exile overseas. However, Renge considers Benedict a "weirdo" and treats him sternly whenever he fools around.
* Irina Spessivtseva: The two don't seem to get along at all and cannot reach common ground. At one point, Irina even held Renge at gunpoint as she suspected her to be a traitor to PHOENIX after she betrayed the Kurojou. Renge herself isn't all too pleased with Irina's critical judgement of her, and gives her the same hostility in return.
* Anthony Cello: Renge finds Anthony noisy and annoying.

## Stage Plays

### 1st Stage Play

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Renge and Sara meet up with Kazuomi in order to plan out their capture for Kaya. Despite being irritated with his attitude, the sisters proceed with their mission anyway. Meanwhile, Kaya tries to run away from the other Jingi organizations, but is suddenly cornered the Hiiragi sisters, who attack her with their Jingi until they end up getting chased away by Shigure. Scenes later, the Hiiragis and Kazuomi end up attacking Kaya once again, who was currently with Bakuto, and are able to capture and bring her to the Kurojou's headquarters in order to meet Kensei.

While Kaya converses with Kensei, she expresses open defiance towards his plans with her, leading Sara to become offended by her actions. She attempts to likely harm Kaya, but Renge stops Sara from doing so, claiming that she's "Kensei's precious treasure". Witnessing Sara's actions, Kensei calls her over and rebukes Sara by slapping and stepping on her, disturbing Renge as she turns her back away from them. Afterwards, he commands the Hiiragis to escort Kaya away.

While Kaya is escorted away, she continues to resist against Kensei's coercions of activating her Jingi, so he requests Renge to kill Inaba right in front of her. They are then halted by Sho, Shion and Suzuka, forcing the Kurojou to engage in battle against them. While the others are caught up in battle, Kaya manages to run away with Inaba until she is followed by Suzuka and Kensei afterwards. Kazuomi later arrives to command the Hiiragi sisters to chase after them while he stays behind to deal with the remaining Hakurou members, and as soon as Hiiragis catch up to Kaya and Kensei, they fight against Suzuka upon arrival. Renge retreats after seeing that Suzuka is strong enough to overpower her and Sara but later returns to catch Kaya at knifepoint while the others are distracted, much to Kensei's commend. However, as soon as the members of PHOENIX arrive, it is revealed that Renge had betrayed the Kurojou in order to secretly work as a spy for PHOENIX, much to her sister's shock. Renge and PHOENIX then relocate with Kaya under their custody, and set off an explosion in the city to throw off the other yakuza factions. In the meantime, while the four of them are under refuge, Irina takes suspicion of Renge, thinking that she could possibly betray PHOENIX like she did with the Kurojou, but the latter shrugs her off. Suddenly, the Hakurou ambushes them, forcing the PHOENIX members to depart to another location.

While relocating on her own, Renge runs into Sara, who was tasked to kill Renge due to her betrayal. Forcing an explanation out of her, Renge expresses to Sara that the reason why she betrayed the Kurojou was due to her dissatisfaction under Kensei's dictatorship, stating that she prefers "the previous Kurojou-gumi". As she assisted PHOENIX in trading off Kaya, she explains that she had made a deal with Benedict to live an ordinary life overseas and offers Sara to join her. Though Sara initially shows reluctance, she discards Renge's pleas and ecstatically exclaims she only needs Kensei in her life and not some ordinary life. Clearly having contrasting views, the two battle. Renge manages to get the upper hand on Sara, but the latter continues to have conflicting thoughts until a gunshot from Kensei hits Renge, who attempted to protect Sara from it. Not wanting to live without Renge, Sara requests Kensei to kill her as well, prompting Kensei to fulfill her request without question, and the two die together.

### 2nd Stage Play

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Renge first appears in a flashback before she had been killed by Kensei. Holding a suitcase of counterfeit money, she happily reflects that "this will be the end of Sumeragi" until Sara suddenly appears behind her, reminding her that she should hurry and return home to Kensei. Switching her demeanor, Renge asks Sara if she remembers the first time that the sakura trees bloomed and wonders if the future would be different if "that person" were still alive. Sara gets confused with Renge's words, causing Renge discards the subject and hint that she has plans to travel overseas with Sara, much to Sara's intrigue. Renge then takes her leave, causing Sara to get suspicious and remark that Renge never tells her anything.

Renge then appears in another flashback, where Benedict and Kensei are discussing business affairs for their respective corporations. Before Benedict leaves, he (intentionally) drops his handkerchief, prompting Renge to attempt to deliver it back to him before Kensei smacks her with it. As Renge was secretly trying to work something with PHOENIX at the time, her excuse of delivering the handkerchief was for the sake of interacting with Benedict. Shortly after getting permission from Kensei to deliver the handkerchief, Renge meets up with Benedict, scolding him that his behavior around Kensei was stupid. Benedict tells her that it was a way of greeting his "new friends", but Renge retorts that he shouldn't be all friendly with her as she hasn't decided to work as his accomplice yet. Much to Benedict's disappointment, he expected that Renge came all the way to his lair to be friends with him, but she reminds him that Kensei has the ability to read the future so he shouldn't underestimate him.

She then claims that the longer he fools around, the longer her sister will suffer under Kensei. Benedict downplays said suffering, remarking her sister's "unusual tastes" and "blind love" (for Kensei), but Renge says that it wasn't "love" she had but rather "obsession". Benedict continues to describe the kind of obsession that she might've had, but Renge snaps at him for getting off task. Irina then interrupts, pointing out that Renge herself is obsessed with her sister as well as getting revenge on Kensei. Renge, not pleased with this judgement, tells Irina that she wouldn't understand what it means to lose an important person to her, but Irina retorts back by saying her own family was killed in war.

Regardless, Renge thinks that Irina still wouldn't understand, explaining that Kensei killed his own brother and someone important to her in the past and could kill Sara next, so she's trying to complete a "mission" for herself rather than getting "revenge". Irina calls her weak for being unable to kill Kensei by herself and needing to rely on PHOENIX, prompting Renge to get irritated and start attacking Irina. Though Benedict is unable to stop them from fighting, Ichijo suddenly appears next to him for his meeting, much to his panic.

Renge introduces Ichijo to Benedict as a manufacturer of counterfeit money, whom she brought over after stopping him from attending a business meeting with Kensei. Benedict questions what he will be useful for, and Renge states that the production of counterfeit money could create suspicion among the Tenkai Ward's yakuza groups and cause them to fight amongst each other, thus weakening them and allowing PHOENIX to take over. In addition, she plans to mix the counterfeit money with the profits of Kensei's cooperation. With this, Renge convinces Benedict to work with her and Ichijo in exchange for getting information on Kensei. She ecstatically thinks about the misery that it could cause Kensei before nonchalantly dismissing herself.

## Gallery

### Illustration

* Promotional Art
* Twitter Art
* Miscellaneous

Full Body IllustrationFull Body 2023 IllustrationKurojou MembersHiiragi ChibisROAD to Party Key Visual**ROAD to Party Countdown:** "Since it's a long-awaited vacation, it'd be a waste if we didn't have any fun, Sara."

2021 April Fools' Comic No.2Commemoration Illustration of ROAD59's ComicalizationGidora's Illustration for ROAD59's 2nd Stage Play"New Life" Support Campaign Illustration

ROAD to Party IllustrationROAD to Party Illustration**LINE Sticker**: "You're more of an **idiot** than I expected."
### Cast

* Promotional Images
* 1st Stage
* 2nd Stage

## Etymology

* **Hiiragi** (柊) is the name for the "Osmanthus heterophyllus", variously known as a holly osmanthus, holly olive, and false holly.
* **Renge** (蓮花) directly translates to "Lotus flower", also known as the "Nelumbo nucifera". She notably wears a lotus as a hair accessory.

## Trivia

* Her eyes and hair are inverted from her sister's, having teal hair and brown eyes instead of brown hair and teal eyes.

## References

* Official Website Profile

1. ↑ Renge's Twitter Overview