Luna Shouta

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Luna Shouta** (Japanese: **翔太 ルナ** *Shōta Runa*) is a 2nd-year student at Templar Academy. She was a second-year member of the Academy`s Volleyball Team when Hinata was still in junior high. She is part of the Academy`s Volleyball Team, serving as it`s vice-captain, defense specialist, setter, and it`s secretive ace. She skipped ahead two grades so that she was entering High School as a 2nd year instead as of a first-year. As of November 2018, she is a university student and seems to have become wealthy through her inheritance as the heiress of the Shouta Family. However, she is also Kenma Kozume`s trading partner with them being the CEO of their own respective companies.

## Appearance

Luna looks very similar to her sister. She has short black hair in a twintail style and black eyes, typically wearing a black sailor uniform, a red belt that has a red side skirt cover, red gauntlets katana with long black socks, and black shoes, with a katana sheath tied to the left side of her skirt cover, with her katana resting inside.

## Personality

Although she shares some traits with her first cousin, such as her social awkwardness and a big appetite, Luna is much more aloof and seems to show darker sides of her when it comes to battling her enemies. She is cold and ruthless in matches, usually ending the careers of her opponents as one would expect from a seasoned volleyball player. Off court, she seems to have a sweeter and gentler temperament than on-court and is shown to have a sweet tooth. She has a short fuse, which only appears when she is seriously angered. Due to skipping ahead two grades in school, Luna is stoic, emotionless, withdrawn, and rarely ever speaks or shows emotions when on the court or doing other activities. At home, she is kind-hearted and gentle, even helping her teammates with their homework. After the time skip, Luna has since moved in her boyfriend of several years and has become the CEO of her own company. Despite Luna being wealthy, they live in a small house and spend money on necessities.

## Background

When Luna was younger, she was often ignored by her parents in favor of her sister. Eventually, this led her to move out in favor of living with her grandparents. While the sisters communicated regularly, Luna and her parents have maintained a estranged relationship ever since her birth up till now. When she joined the Volleyball Team in elementary school, her immense strength eventually led her to be declared the Ace of the team and she grew into a well-rounded player in her years of playing volleyball. Eventually, she was scouted upon entering Middle School, and transferred to Templar Academy`s Middle School Division. In her second year of Middle School, she became the Captain. Her intelligence eventually led her grandparents to move her two grades up after the end of her first semester in Middle School. Around her time as a second-year, she was treated with amazement as her academic mind was treated with curiosity among the older children in her school. Her skills for Volleyball soon made her popular among her classmates.

## Plot

### **Karasuno High Team Formation Arc**

#### **First Meeting with Hinata**

Luna leaves her high school`s hometown, Nagasaki, and heads out to Miyagi to help out with Karasuno`s practice match against Nekoma, by request of Keishin, her distant uncle. Upon getting there, Luna gets lost alongside Kenma and he ends up playing a mobile game with her. Coincidentally, Hinata also gets lost during a race with Kageyama and approaches the two, trying to start a conversation. Both of them are more interested in the game that they are playing together, until they are asked if they are volleyball players. Luna is surprised at that question and pulls out her shoes to show Hinata, with Kenma nodding his head when asked the same question. Hinata asks both of them countless questions, not stopping until he discovers that they are both second-years with Luna commenting that she was previously in her last-year of Middle School, before she was moved to her Academy`s High School Division much to the surprise of Kenma and Hinata. Sugawara soon finds the two sitting alone, and Luna introduces herself to Sugawara saying that her uncle referring to Keishin Ukai invited her here. Later, she is invited to stay at Kiyoko`s house with the two girls discussing their lives with each other.

#### **Karasuno Practice Match**

The day of the practice match between Nekoma and Karasuno soon arrives. With both teams line up in front of each other, Luna is introduced to Nekoma as a "helper" of some-sorts. Luna casually calls Nekomata "an old cat past his prime", causing shocked faces among her uncle`s team and the opponents` team. Nekomata and Luna then start bantering back and forth, causing her teammates who had seen the whole thing to start laughing, startling both teams. Luna then yells at her team, causing her upperclassmen to comment on how "uncute she is". After taking off her ordinary everyday jackets, she is revealed to be in her school`s volleyball clothes with the words "Templar Academy written on the back of her volleyball jacket. She agrees to help them warm up and is only stopped when Nekoma asks her to play against them on Karasuno`s team.