Hayashi/Relationships

## Hayashi

Speaking with Tsukasa with Hiroki swimming on a goldfish

**Hayashi** interacts with various characters within the Pet series, which affects him as a person and the story as a whole. This article details his relationships with other characters.

## Relationships

### Satoru

He meets him in a hospital when Satoru is a child and Hayashi remembers that he acted similarly to what he did when young when seeing him watching a television. Sharing a vision together, he warmly remarks that this place does not seem like much fun and shares his peak with Satoru.

Hayashi takes Satoru with him after his parents pass away in an accident and his grandmother meets her fate at Katsuragi's hands.

Mentoring him as a teenager, he trusts Satoru in his peak even though he could manipulate and even crush his memories if he wanted to. He reveals they both have lookouts keeping tabs on them in the physical world, and is how the Company bosses keep them both in line. He teaches Satoru how to manipulate these to his benefit and is the one to teach Satoru how to make a carrier pigeon. Learning how to hypnotize others from qigong masters, Hayashi also reveals their existence to Satoru.

Meaning to find him, he feels a sense of duty to look after him since his parent's were murdered due to Hayashi discovering him.

### Katsuragi

They got along amicably at hospital before Katsuragi worked against him and is thought of as an idiot by him, that Hayashi should have known he would be found sooner or later.

As Katsuragi sets a trap for Hayashi, he sets one for him. Aware of his stance regarding money, Hayashi sent a delivery boy accustomed to keeping the change to have Katsuragi leave by himself as Tsukasa questioned the delivery guy. Confronting Katsuragi, Hayashi exploited his fear of cats and tapped into his memories of his family. He succeeded in rendering Katsuragi unconscious, and stole his car keys to escape.

### Tsukasa

   Knowing Tsukasa as a child, he was not permitted to raise him and Satoru. He advised Tsukasa to work for the company. Meeting him some time later, Hayashi's concern for Satoru and not him instigates upset in Tsukasa and Hayashi attempts to modify and leave him with happier memories. Knowing he cannot crush Tsukasa as he wants, and aware Tsukasa cannot match the speed of his wind image, Hayashi overcomes the hostilities from Tsukasa to make his way to an aquarium. Hayashi gains a semblance of Tsukasa's valley and how to access his peak.

### Hiroki

He comes across and asks whether he is Tsukasa's pet when he finds him as a child swimming on a goldfish in an aquarium. After being crushed, Hayashi's wind image reaches out to Hiroki several stories above his body to a hospital room where Hiroki had been taken. Hayashi's mind is entered yet whether not recognizing him as Tsukasa's pet, or not wanting any image user there, he advises Hiroki get out.

### Meiling

Giving her his Peak, he was unwittingly responsible for having Meiling become one of the Company's "babies" of which he feels a great deal of remorse for. When Meiling was troubled by a fiery landscape, Hayashi appeared and told her to focus on her butterfly as a method of coping. He trusted in Meiling to pass a message to Satoru if she were ever visited by him.

### Lianlian

Jin's mother who he helped look after, Hayashi observes that she preferred spending time with Katsuragi, then being treated like a child by those around her.

### Fukurai Delivery Guy

Ordering from him seemingly more than once, Hayashi would allow him to keep the change preparing him to assume the same when delivering to Katsuragi. He was an asset in enabling Hayashi in turning Katsuragi into a Carrier Pigeon.

### Building Manager

A new member who fronted the desk to his apartment complex. Hayashi was aware he was a spy for Katsuragi and hypnotized him to in turn learn Katsuragi's plans.

### Store Owner

An elderly woman who Hayashi manipulated from a distance to cause her to intercede on his behalf in his attempt to wear down Katsuragi's resolve.