Henry Claremont

**Henry Claremont** is the Tenth Earl Claremont and Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian’s cousin.

When he was younger, he had a health breakdown that caused turmoil in the family.

## Appearance

Henry looks much like his brother and cousin, with pale blond hair and blue eyes. He is a very stern and stoic looking man, who appears slightly aged due to his health crisis, but is rapidly recovering.

## Relationships

### Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian

Henry is Richard's eldest cousin. Unlike Jeffrey, he refers to Richard as only a "brother of obligation" and thinks of him more of a step-brother than a true blood brother. Nonetheless, they are quite fond of each other and Richard pledges his loyalty to Henry once Henry inherits the Earldom.

### Jeffrey Claremont

Jeffrey is devoted to his family and often made himself look smaller and less capable than he was so his older brother Henry would stand out and gain more attention than he or beautiful Richard. In turn, this made Henry feel quite insecure, and as a result he is less close to Jeffrey and Richard than they are to each other. Nonetheless, he cares for them both.

In a fit of worry about Jeffrey in Act Two, he read through Jeffrey's email and discovered his relationship with Joachim Bergmen and was quite accepting. Henry in turn fired the servant who had blackmailed Jeffrey over his sexuality.

### Seigi Nakata

Of the Claremonts cousins, Henry is the most distant to Seigi and they have interacted only rarely before Act Two and even beyond. However, he has accepted Seigi into their family and reached out to him in private to ask for Japanese lessons that Jeffrey and Richard were not privy to. Presumably, this request was in order to communicate better with Seigi, as he is the only Japanese member of the family, and Seigi was also allowed into Henry's private ceremony to become the Tenth Early Claremont, which Joachim and Octavia both did not attend but instead waiting outside.

### Haruyoshi Shimomura

Seigi arranged for Haruyoshi to tutor Henry in Japanese online. During these lessons, they bonded into a close friendship via music, however, Henry was using the alias "Enrique Wabisabi" online to hide his identity as a wealthy nobleman.

Henry's true identity came out when they finally met in person at one of Seigi's parties, alongside many apologies, which Haruyoshi easily dismissed with a hug of his friend. Later, it comes out that he did not quite understand what Henry was saying.

### Octavia Manorland

Henry adopts Octavia in volume 10. Or rather, due to his age ad unmarried status and Octavia's age, he asked his mother to adopt her so that he could finish raising her as the eventual heir to the Claremont family.

They initially bond over the video game Undertale when Henry proves himself to be an unexpectedly skilled gamer, and while playing the game, he managed to talk Octavia out of the worst of her suicidal impulses, stating that he himself understood them and had similar thoughts during his own mental health crisis. He reminded her that "everyone is dying."

## Plot

Henry is initially introduced in Volume 4 during Seigi's trip to London. Jeffrey brings him along to help coax Richard into helping them deal with their ancestor's will.

After the will has been dealt with and Richard begins to make his amends with the Claremont family, Henry's health rapidly begins to improve.

In Act Two, Henry reaches out to Seigi in order to ask for a Japanese tutor, as it is a language both Richard and Jeffrey speak, but he does not, and Seigi is now a consistent part of their family. Seigi connects him with Haruyoshi Shimomura, who is currently living in Spain and begins teaching him Japanese via video call.

He arrives in Volume 10 in order to help out Jeffrey, outing him in the process as Henry had been made aware of Jeffrey's relationship with Joachim Bergmen through reading through Jeffrey's emails. He then visited New York and got dinner with Joachim privately, and encouraged Jeffrey to introduce him to the entire family.

Once that matter has been dealt with, he confronts Octavia and helps convince her to live and not to give up on life, referencing his own health crisis and suicidal thoughts at the time. During this, it's also revealed that he is a fantastic gamer, as he had few other hobbies to indulge in during his health issues.

He then decides to adopt Octavia, although due to her age and his unmarried state, he formally has his mother adopt her into the family for Henry to then raise.

He finally meets his friend Haruyoshi at one of Seigi's parties and immediately apologies for the minor deception in his identity, which Haruyoshi is entirely unbothered by.

## History

Henry suffered severe health issues in his twenties that led to the end of an arranged engagement for him and Richard's engagement to Deborah Şahin. He slowly recovers from them over the course of his appearance in the novels.