Haruki

> "*No man nor woman can ever have the same level of power as me. All of you are just background characters in my little show.*"
> ― Haruki to Denji
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## Portrayal

### English Voice

David Matranga

**Haruki** (春樹 *Haruki**?***) is a Devil Hunter whom is working alongside Makima. He is the main antagonist for the 17nth volume and is the partner of Makima. He is a high-ranking Public Safety Devil Hunter who worked alongside Makima, being her new human pet.

As a young boy, he never knew the feeling of being loved after having been abused. He tried his hardest to satisfy his father's needs, only to be abandoned. Haruki always saw his father as someone who never saw him as his own son, but a stranger. He even said that he and Denji are almost alike considering their father issues.

After his father's death, he took the throne and became the new heir to an unknown organization, he changed the appearance and fired all employees, hiring new ones. He is only seen in the manga, his anime debut is still unknown but was said to have a 4-minute appearance in the next season.

During chapter 578, he made a contract with the Gun Devil and became more powerful than ever. Thus being the current **Gun Fiend** right after the death of Aki Hayakwa.

## Appearance

Haruki is a devil with a human-like appearance, resembling a young man in his late twenties. He is a man with slim yet powerful and strong figure. He has short black hair which frays slightly at its ends, and dead-looking black eyes adorned with notable bags underneath. He wears the long-sleeved version of the Public Safety Devil Hunters coat around his shoulders, which appears to have been tattered and burnt at the bottom. Underneath his coat is the regular long-sleeved white shirt and red tie, and then a black vest, both of which are tucked into his belt. Written on the left breast of his coat is 'NO.O1', and 'DEVIL HUNTER" on the side.

He is said to have a mature and gentleman-like style in clothing.

### Fiend Form

After transforming into the Gun Devil, Haruki's hair was a bit longer and messier, he had white eyes and his suit was unbuttoned, revealing robotic-like parts, his left eye had a hole that shoots out fast and strong bullets, there are black strings coming out of his suit from behind, the strings are connected to guns, shooting out powerful bullets.

## Personality

Haruki is a particularly quiet, mellow man. He fails to stand out much among his fellow devil hunters due to his tendency to stay silent and watch rather than actively contribute to discussions. On top of this, when he speaks, his words are often obscure and riddle-like whilst also delivered monotone. His expression never shifts much either, and he is yet to express any strong emotions.

Haruki possesses an almost similar personality to Aki Hayakawa. Having been stoic and cold, sometimes unintentionally saying rude things and never apologizing. He is someone who takes things seriously and sometimes takes jokes to literally. He doesn't really understand the jokes his fellow workers tell him and sometimes question why they are laughing. Some of his workers say that he is very scary when he is mad and would sometimes beat someone if they try to make fun of him. He is very mature and blunt. He is also very sadistic and masochistic, sometimes trash-talking about how weak his enemies are.

Not much is known about Haruki other than that he never had a good childhood growing up, his rudeness and coldness was because of his father's abuse and how he was abandoned as a kid and used as a slave by other people. He saw people as ruthless scums who deserve to die as they were the reason why they made him like this. He blames people especially his family as the reason why he became a Devil. Though, even if he is seen as merciless and brutal. Haruki is very respectful towards his elders, not killing anybody older than 50+, this was because he was raised by his grandfather after being abandoned. His grandfather told him stories about older people saving the world and Haruki still believes it till this day.

Though he may look intimidating at first, he is a very obedient man. He is very submissive when it comes to Makima and always follows her orders. He likes being touched or abused by her and loves it when she shouts at him. He keeps a cold look on his face each time Makima shouts at him, but in the inside, he secretly enjoys it. He is nicknamed by makima as **Inu** (いぬ) which means "**Dog**" in Japanese. Sometimes he is called **Petto** (ペット) which means "**Pet**". He enjoys these nicknames very much and loves being called by it.

## Relationships

### Makima

Haruki's obsession, also his crush. Makima was the only person who showed genuine affection (other than his grandfather) towards too and is the person that took cared for him. He saw Makima as both his "Mother Figure" and his "Future Lover", he often has pictures of her saved on his phone. He loves being her pet and is always following her orders. Even Makima said that he is more obedient and enjoyable to play with then Denji. Haruki would often help Makima in both fighting and healing her when she gets damaged or injured. Haruki is mostly seen clinging onto her or following her around. Makima is the only person that Haruki cares about and puts her first more than anything in the world. Just the slightest bit of attention from her like a quick eye glance or a smile, is already enough to make him flustered.

Not only is Makima's beauty is what Haurki loves, but also the way she spoils him or pays for anything he buys. Even if he said that he shouldn't she still insisted, Haruki always thought of Makima as someone who is "Kind" and "Gentle", but he doesn't know her actual motives.

### Pochita

Not much is known about Pochita and Haruki's relationship, other than that Haruki respects and is obedient to him. The 2 interacted many times before but their current relationship is unknown. Even some characters in the whole series wonder if the 2 are friends or secretly enemies. Pochita onced said that he found Haruki cool and wanted to be friends with him, but somehow he was too shy or scared that maybe he might get killed or not since Haruki isn't the type to make friends.

### Denji

Haruki sees Denji as both his enemy and his friend. The 2 interacted and argued many times before. Denji says that he doesn't deserve Makima's attention and Haruki would always respond with a shrug or a cold stare. The 2 do respect each other but they argue multiple times over small things, sometimes Denji would be the reason why the argument started in the first place.

But even if the 2 argue, Haruki sees him as "funny" and "cool" but also someone that is "Not as strong as him". Haruki often trash talks about Denji but he cares for him but not as much as he cares for Makima. The 2 also have a lot of similarities, like how they both suffered from father issues and that they both care for Makima.

### Aki Hayakawa

Not much is known about Aki and Haruki's relationship. But he did witness Aki's death by the Gun Devil and was the reason why he wanted to have it's power. Aki's death motivated him but in a bad way. Though the 2 never interacted before, Haruki said that Aki's Gun fied form was quite the looker and that his hair looks nice. Haruki first thought Aki was a girl from behind.

## Abilities

Even among the Public Safety Devil Hunters Haruki is the current strongest Devil Hunter in volume 17, Holding both immense amounts of strength and high intellect. His strategies are both annoying and powerful. No one can match his level of energy other than Makima. His physical and supernatural abilities are almost similar to Makima's. As the owner of both the Fox Devil and Gun Devil, he has insane amount of power that can destroy an entire city in under a minute. He uses his looks to often manipulate and deceive people. Due to the Gun Devil's insane power, Haruki can easily destroy any kind of devil in under a few minutes. Some people tried to stop him but failed to do so.

As a Devil, Haruki also possesses all the standard Devil Abilities. This includes being able to control any kind of devils, and can manipulate humans into killing themselves. Haruki also has insane amounts of strength because of the Gun Devil which makes him powerful, even if he has powerful and insane powers. He still has no experience on how to use it. That's why he barely even uses his power and just sticks with hand-to-hand combat cause he knows his power will go out of control if he uses it with little to no experience. He sometimes relies on Makima to do the fighting. The Japanese Government tried stopping him and his chaotic motives. But he kept going, destroying buildings and murdering people brutally. He gives no mercy to anyone other than his elders.

### Physical Abilities

* **Immense Strength:** Haruki has extraordinary physical strength to fight against powerful devils without a problem, easily causing severe injuries to Denji with powerful punches and throwing him a considerable distance with a single kick during their fight. He was also able to easily explode the Tomato Devil's whole body with sheer physical force and even managed to casually rip out the Zombie Devil's exposed organs. He could casually rip apart transfigured humans and devils, tearing them apart limb-by-limb. He easily incapacitated the Snake Devil with a single punch, leaving the powerful devil still suffering a degree of pain from the lasting wound.
* **Immense Speed and Reflexes:** Haruki is an extremely fast fighter, this was the result after having a contract with the Gun Devil, enhancing his speed more and making him faster than any Devil. Haruki capable of moving faster than the eye could perceive. He managed to easily outpace the Snake Devil throwing almost imperceptible punches and kicks. Haruki was even able to successfully react to and dodge the attacks of someone of Makima's level. Haruki can also eliminate a thousand transfigured humans in five minutes.
* **High Intellect:** Haruki possesses genius-level intelligence and he is capable of perfectly memorizing anything. His school teachers remark that he easily maintained perfect grades. Makima said that he had a reputation of being at the top of his class with perfect grades at the gymnasium (school) he went to. Haruki is prodigiously brilliant in whatever he studies and has a natural aptitude for attaining new talents; picking up complicated skills quickly and retaining them. This is noted by Pochita when praising Haruki's knowledge of law and economics, and by Himeno, who notes that none could surpass Haruki when it comes to intelligence.

### Supernatural Abilities (Devil Abilities)

* **Gun** (銃 *Jū*): Because Haruki signed a contract with the Gun Devil, both physical and supernatural abilities enhanced by 50% making Haruki even more powerful than any demon, but due to his inexperience with supernatural abilities, he barely uses the Gun Devil's ability as he was to afraid that he might hurt himself is he does try.
* **Bullet Flesh**: Due to the speed and power of the Gun Devil, whenever it moves, pieces of its own flesh (which resemble bullets) scorch off of its body and land in random areas it comes across. When devils of any type consume pieces of the Gun Devil's flesh, their power is greatly enhanced. As stated by Makima, his body is currently separated into several pieces and remains in an unconscious state. Twenty percent of his body is possessed by America, twenty-eight by the Soviet Union, eleven by China, four by other countries, and the remaining thirty-seven is held by devils around the world as flesh pieces.
	+ **Passive Regeneration:** The Gun Devil has the ability to passively regenerate itself, as small pieces of flesh from the Gun Devil are attracted to each other and will fuse together upon contact. And large enough chunks will constantly attempt to rejoin the Gun Devil's main body to regenerate.
* **Bullet Projection**: The Gun Devil is able to fire bullets using the several guns which are parts of its body with great precision and speed. It is able to fire a bullet through the head of every adult male within approximately 1 kilometer of it, fire a bullet through the head of every child up to 12 years old within approximately 1500 meters and fire a bullet through the heart of every living thing born in January, February, March, May, June, August, September, November or December in approximately 1000 meters of himself. As a Fiend, its power is significantly weaker, however, it can still fire bullets from the gun in its left forearm and head with great precision and speed. It is able to break walls and Denji apart with ease as well as destroy multiple buildings at once.

## Ethymology

Haruki's name (春樹 *Haruki?*) means "Spring Child", his first name is currently unknown and is not shared yet by the creator.

Haruki was named after his father and mother celebrated their honeymoon during spring. The day of his abandonment as a child was May, 12 1973, which was also Spring Break.

## Trivia

* Haruki's original appearance and sprite came from a game called Limbus Company and his original name is Yi Sang.
* His favorite food is Chocolate.
* He has a sweet tooth.
* Not much is known about his other abilities yet.
* He wasn't introduced yet in the anime yet Fujimoto already made a sprite of him.
* He doesn't like loud places, which are one of the reasons why he barely fights.
* He likes cats and would often pat stray cats on the street.
* He hates working overtime.
* He doesn't like fighting during the day.
* He hates dogs.
* He prefers being alone most of the time.
* He doesn't smile, actually, he only smiles when he is told too by Makima.