Mr.Sakashita

* Manga
* Anime

## Appearance

Mr.Sakashita before deathMr.Sakashita in his gameMr.Sakashita with the curse for the gameMr.Sakashita's soul
## Personality

He used to be a formal teacher who loves children. However, shortly before his death he gained disgust towards them due to a false accusations of sexual abuse on him from his students.

## Synopsis

Former teacher at Tokikoudai Elementary School (Yayoi's school). He was fired due to false accusations of sexual harrasment on his students. Consequently, he endured widespread ostracism and alienation from the people around him, enduring bullying and vandalism from both the school and the community. The distressing situation escalated to the point where his wife divorced him, taking their child with her. Overwhelmed by the ordeal, he tragically chose to end his own life, harboring a desire to curse those responsible for his predicament.

***"May the Demon Children suffer in anguish"***

This curse was intended for those who falsely accused him, but it is noted that the curse misfired and Sakashita was meant to pass on peacefully, but instead, he became a victim of a sadistic entity that replaced Dorothy, Yayoi's classmate. Tragically, he was thrown into a fate more dreadful than death, serving as the core of the death game curse designed to target children.

## Powers & Abilities

In Tokikoudai Elementary School, there is a locked room called 'the forbidden room'. When it is opened, everyone inside the school will faint and anyone around the room will be forced to play Mr.Sakashita's game. Then, every participant will wake up in a place similar to Tokikoudai Elementary School, but it is created by Mr.Sakashita in another dimension. Before the game start, they will see his memories of the reason after his death.

This game is similar to hide and seek, Mr.Sakashita will be the seeker and the other participants will be the hiders. The area of the game is the created school. In this game, Mr.Sakashita will find the hiders, if he see them and blow his candle, the player's soul will be shattered by crows and then captured by him. When a player lose, it is marked by the photo of that player in 'the forbidden room' will be burned. Once the soul being captured in this game, their body in real life will be unconcious and unable to control their behaviors. For the hiders to escape from the game, they have to get to 'the forbidden room' and take their photo before Mr.Sakashita sees them and blow the candle.

Note that in game, Mr.Sakashita is not invulnerable, since Yayoi is still able to damage him with a bat wraped in black rope and with The Spirit in a Transitional period. However, he is immortal by creating new body once defeated.

## Trivia

1. The reason as to why Sensei's smartphone wasn't locked is due to his daughter.
	* His daughter would ask to play his phone everyday and he enjoyed watching his daughter having fun with silly puzzle games.
	* "I wanted her to be able to play freely" was his thought process when he stopped locking his phone.
2. Results of his family confrontation.
	* Sensei's wife concluded that he is a criminal without even listening to his side of the story and based her conclusion on circumstancial evidence
	* Sensei's daughter was his only ally from the day he was convicted and even after his death. In the confrontation scene, her tearful retreat to a corner was not a reaction of disgust towards Sensei but stemmed from her arguments with her mother and bitterness from her inability to persuade her mother and her powerlessness to aid her father in any manner.
	* Upon hearing the news of his suicide, Sensei's wife began to wonder if she made the right call and regretted everyday as to why she didn't support him during his worst moments.
	* Unable to convery her beliefs in her father and was bereaved of him, Sensei's daughter is now studying to be a lawyer so that she is able to help people who were falsely accused like her father.
3. Fates of the students
	* Main offender and other female classmates
		+ Mixed with the wrong crowd when she entered middle school and was arrested for forcing her classmates into prostitution and drugs.
		+ Family was ostracised by society, broked apart and resulted in the offender running away from home.
		+ She then started working as a postitute to make a living where she was infected with a STD, became immunocompromised and died before making to adulthood.
		+ The other female classmates who took part in the bullying ended up in similar roads.
	* Male students who bullied Sensei
		+ Ended up joining biker gangs and died in either traffic accidents or violent incidents.

## References

1. Dark Gathering Manga: Chapter 32, Bonus commentary(Page 46)