Kakeru Ryūen/Relationships

Kakeru is a delinquent of Advanced Nurturing High School who causes trouble for anyone unfortunate to cross paths with especially those of the lower class at the school.

## Class 1-C

### Albert Yamada

Albert is one of Kakeru's classmates who serve as one of his men, mainly his enforcer. He is very loyal to Kakeru and is willing to put aside his personal feelings and attack Daichi Ishizaki for failing in his task.

### Mio Ibuki

For unknown reasons, she is always by his side as one of his followers however, it is clear she doesn't enjoy the pain he inflicts on others as shown when she flinched after he smashed a glass bottle on the head Daichi Ishizaki or when he had Albert Yamada beat Daichi and the others for their failure in getting Ken expelled.

On the cruise, he was angrily confronted by Mio who made it clear that she couldn't stand nor approve of their cruelty and wanted them to stop their actions. He ignored her words by treating her like a plaything and made advances on her which infuriated her for his callous acts. After he tried to leave, she called out to him but Yamada intervened and Mio was angry and disappointed that he manipulated him into being his pawn before Yamada threw her down and Kakeru grinned at her pain.

When Kakeru wanted to drop out from school, Mio wanted to stop him, Mio said if he is going to drop out, fight her first. But Kakeru said she got bad injuries. Mio kicked him and Kakeru fell to ground. Mio was annoyed that Kakeru remained but even more angry that Kiyotaka defeated Kakeru when Kiyotaka was not even their classmate.

### Hiyori Shiina

Not much is known about their relationship except that he seems to trust her. She acts as an advisor to him and so he treats her with respect not shown to his other classmates. He greatly values her worth and intelligence she brings to their class and cares for her to a certain degree. She doesn’t agree with how he runs the class but doesn’t go out of her way to go against him. She does not associate with him more than necessary on the condition that he wouldn’t bother her during her private leisure time.

### Other Classmates

He is the representative of his class, he and his gang make sure that his orders are followed as Ryuen enjoys leading his fellows by fear.

## Class 1-A

### Arisu Sakayanagi

They appear to be familiar with each other as Kakeru remarked on how it looked as if she established her rule in the school very quickly. He swore to her that he will take down all the classes including hers so that he could rule the school as she found his declaration interesting and accepted the challenge. Initially he treats her as the last and most formidable opponent before he could establish his dream of ruling the school however Kiyotaka soon took that role. He still regards her as a threatening presence in the school and doesn’t go out of his way to make an enemy out of her lest he incur her wrath.

### Kōhei Katsuragi

Not much is known about their relationship, in the survival test the two are shown forming an alliance to take down the other classes. When Katsuragi attempted to shake Kakeru's hand as a sign of agreement, Kakeru told him not to overstep his boundaries by reminding him of his failure to reach the Student Council. He soon walked off as Katsuragi became angry with his unnecessary remark, showing the two have a mutual disdain towards one another.

## Class 1-B

### Honami Ichinose

It is shown in Episode 3, that he knows her due to her immense popularity in the school and she was familiar with him. He greeted her after she finds him and his gang harassing Ken Sudō. When he claims his group were acting in self-defense, she saw right through his lies and reprimands his cruel actions. She soon threatens them by stating that if they didn't let Ken go immediately, she'd had no choice but to get security. He complied to her demands without protest, trying to avoid unwanted trouble with someone who has a huge following. As fellow leaders of their respective classes, he treats her as a huge threat and some level of respect not given to even his classmates. After defeating her in one of their class battles, his impression of her decreased and he became more confident and arrogant whenever she’s around. On the other hand, she feels dejected for her failures and seeks to clean her record by successfully beating him in the future.

## Class 1-D

### Ken Sudō

In Episode 4, Ken and Kakeru are shown to be on hostile terms as Kakeru and his gang made fun of Sudō for being of D-Class. His words easily provoked the latter who would have attacked if Kakeru's men held him down leaving at Kakeru's mercy. Kakeru approached Ken taunting him over how he will be expelled for failing the upcoming test and Ken flinched when it appeared Kakeru would attack only for him to just flick his forehead. Kakeru took joy in watching Ken suffer and his torture of him would have escalated had Honami Ichinose not intervene and threatened Kakeru with security. Kakeru had later set Ken up to be expelled in as he had his men attack him but made it look like Ken was the aggressor in the situation.

His plan failed due to the intervention of Kiyotaka Ayanokōji and Suzune Horikita who defended Ken and made Kakeru's men withdraw their complaint. Kakeru was infuriated his plan to get rid of Ken failed and punished his men for not carrying out the plan.

They met again at the pool, where in spite of their dislike for each other, Kakeru did not try to harm Ken in anyway but was annoyed with his acts of stopping from proceeding to the change room.

After Kiyotaka defeated Kakeru, Kakeru stopped messing with their class.

### Suzune Horikita

No direct interaction had been made in Episode 6, though Suzune played a role in stopping his plans of getting Ken Sudō expelled and he questioned his men on who set them up and they said it was Suzune. In Episode 7, he spots her giving a speech to everyone at the pool recalling her as the girl who foiled his plans and smiled meaning he had plans for her.

They formally met on the school's cruise ship in Episode 8, Kakeru found Suzune, sitting at the bar, and addressed her by first name, giving hints that he is aware of what she did to get the complaint withdrawn. Suzune, who seemed to be very disgusted by his presence, found his arrogant attitude off-putting and told him to keep away from her but he responded by taking a picture of both her and Kiyotaka Ayanokōji, after claiming to be a fan of hers and stating he had already made plans to take care of her personally, he tells her to look forward to it.

In Episode 10, he was seen flirting and trying to make advances towards Suzune, as she and Kiyotaka were scouting class 1-C, stating that he will prepare a special tent just for the two of them, and that he will make her taste real heaven, as she glanced back at him presumably creeped out, disgusted and probably freaked out, after she is seen leaving with Kiyotaka, stating that being there any longer than they should have will just make her even more sick.

In 2nd year volume 7, Suzune and Kakeru made an alliance to use maid cafe in festival. The class was shocked and angry when Kakeru revealed the plan, though class was not aware of alliance. Suzune told them the truth and apolgized to everyone.

### Kiyotaka Ayanokōji

No direct interaction was made in the first season of the anime, although they saw each other face to face in the survival test.

While Kakeru did not appear to think much of Kiyotaka unknown to him, Kiyotaka played a role in helping Suzune foil his plans.

In Season 2, Kakeru recalls Kiyotaka being around Suzune and starts to ponder if he might be the mastermind of the class and ponders on it, despite Mio's words. When he held Kei hostage, thinking she is involved with the mastermind. he was pleasantly surprised to see Kiyotaka is the mastermind. He began to mock him on being boxed in by his gang only to be impressed by his stoic nature and witness him defeat Daichi and Albert. He remarked on how Kiyotaka was more than he appears. Kakeru complimented his skill and after Mio failed to defeat him, he decided to step in and began to ponder on ways to brutalize Kiyotaka. However, he was attacked by Kiyotaka and attempted to fight back only to be easily overpowered by the latter who continued to violently thrash him, to the point that Kakeru was considered broken. In desperation, Kakeru tried to provoke him into giving in to his rage but was greatly frightened as he saw the lack of anger and emotions in Kiyotaka's attack.

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In the light novels, Kakeru begins to think that someone else besides Suzune is pulling the strings behind D-Class and sets out to find the mysterious person. He then heard rumors about Honami's suspiciously ascertaining a colossal amount of private points, which was later revealed to be legally obtained by her. This was spread as a means for Kiyotaka to trap Kakeru. Catching on to this, Kakeru decided to play along in order to find out the true mastermind of D-Class.

In Volume 7, when he and his gang took Kei Karuizawa, Kiyotaka arrived and confirmed he was indeed the mastermind of his class and Kakeru recognized him as the student who was always associating with Suzune and realized he did it to hide under the radar.

When Kakeru continued to violently treat Kei, this angered Kiyotaka to the point where he violently attacked Kakeru's followers for it, which proved that Kiyotaka was and has the pedigree to be D-Class' mastermind.

Kakeru complimented his skill and began to ponder on ways to brutalize Kiyotaka. However, he was attacked by Kiyotaka and attempted to fight back only to be easily overpowered by the latter who continued to violently thrash him, to the point that Kakeru was considered broken. In desperation, Kakeru tried to provoke him into giving in to his rage but was greatly frightened as he saw the lack of anger and emotions in Kiyotaka's attack. He realized it was the first time he ever experienced true intense fear of another person.

After his loss, Kakeru attempted to drop out of school only to learn that Kiyotaka covered for him by telling his followers of his plans to leave. This prompted Albert and Daichi to attempt to do the same as Kakeru who was now upset with Kiyotaka's intervention and gave up on dropping out after being put in a delicate position. This also allowed him to continue leading his class. Kiyotaka's victory over him greatly humbled him and now he has a newfound respect for his rival. He was greatly perplexed as to why Kiyotaka would do such a thing for a delinquent like him and even went out of his way to talk to him after the ordeal.

He isn’t afraid to voice his loss against Kiyotaka with others such as Kohei and made it a point to win against him someday.

Even in the midst of an exam, he was willing to drop out after Arisu Sakayanagi offered a deal and asked for his assistance to help save Kiyotaka from expulsion, in turn risking his class standing to drop.

Like Ibuki, his experience with Kiyotaka made him learned that the most harmless are the most troublesome. The fight also made him suspicious of Takuya Yagami.

In 2nd year volume 6, when Daichi heard that Kakeru and Kiyotaka have the same birthday day, Daichi said can they celebrate together to which Kei said Kakeru should apolgized to her. When Daichi asked Kakeru about it, Kakeru hit Daichi.

In 2nd year volume 7, Kakeru revealed he know about Maid cafe and they made one too much to anger of Kiyotaka's class. Kakeru later brought two of his classmates and two of the teachers into student council room and exposed Takuya as the culprit who hit his two classmates. Kakeru catched Takuya's bangs and said he would normally give him a strong injury but since they are infront of Sensei he will let him go and just get expelled. Takuya then started attacking, Kakeru wanted to fight but Some adults come and took Takuya away. It was later revealed that Kiyotaka's class and Kakeru's class have been working together.

In 2nd year volume 8, Kakeru went to Hokkaido with all other students of school, Kakeru and Kito had a pillow fight. Kakeru and Kito raced with each other on ski. They were close to hitting each other when Kiyotaka passed between them. Kakeru asked Kiyotaka did he lie that Kiyotaka is just a beginner. Later Kakeru talked with Kikyo as Kikyo asked him to end their work, but Kakeru wanted to use Kikyo. When Kakeru saw Kiyotaka's angry face the same one he showed in volume 7 when they took Kei, Kakeru was afraid. Kakeru gave up and left.

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### Kikyō Kushida

There was no interaction between them in the first season.

In the second season, she formed a temporary alliance with him to get Suzune and Kiyotaka expelled. To that end, Kikyō leaked information about the class to him and he promised to aid with her endeavors. Kakeru did not seem to mind her duplicitous nature seeing it amusing. he also addressed her by her first name which Kikyō didn't seem to get bothered by it.

But their plans fail one time Kiyotaka recorded their plan and second time Suzune acted before Kikyo and it was revealed that Kakeru had betrayed her by giving answer sheets to mastermind.

In 2nd year volume 8, Kikyo asked Kakeru to stop using her and she does not want to get involved with him. Kakeru did not like the answer and wanted to use her, but Kiyotaka defended Kikyo and was surprised that Kakeru is afraid of Kiyotaka and Kiyotaka said Kakeru is not someone who Kikyo can beat but Kiyotaka can. Kakeru called her Kikyo but when he left he called her Kushida.

Kei Karuizawa

Kakeru found out that Kei has a connection to mastermind of Class-D so he decided that since his other plans does not work he will use her to get to mastermind. Kakeru tortued Kei by splashing water on her to get answer but Kei did not answer so Kakeru decided to destroy her. Kakeru made a big mistake by doing this since with this way of treatment toward Kei Kiyotaka got angry and attacked him violently.

In 2nd year volume 6, Kei seems to not forgiven Kakeru as she said if they want to celebrate Kakeru and Kiyotaka's birthday together Kei said Kakeru should apolgize to her which Kakeru did not accepted.

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