Miyake Shusui

### Relationships

Miyake & Ryuzu's unborn child, Kondo Shusui (younger brother), Maiko Shusui (younger sister)

## Professional Information

### Nationality

Japanese

**Miyake Shusui** (三宅取水, *Shusui Miyake*) is a prominent character featuring majorly in the first arc of the story as a mentor character to the rest of the gang. He was responsible for managing and executing the escape of Alpheos Tarkimo after she was forcibly turned into a holistic ESPer.

## Appearance

Miyake is a tall young man with amber eyes and messy black hair.

He is usually seen wearing a black tank top and shorts at home, or a similar getup usually with the inclusion of a hoodie when out and about. He is rarely seen wearing a uniform, though when he is it is usually clean-pressed and accompanied by a more well-kept hairdo usually involving gel and a comb, though still sporting his signature spiky style. Miyake usually wears a smile on his face though is noted to look quite serious when he focuses. Miyake has a muscular body underneath his clothes, something that he has no qualms with showing off.

## Personality

Miyake is a characteristically suave and charming man who has no probably trying and succeeding in getting girls. He is widely considered a jester among his friends and is known for his occasional witty quips usually at the expense of himself or someone around him.

He is highly capable of philosophical, introspective thought and oftentimes will give long winded rants about what he was thinking out of the blue. He does this mostly because of his habits from the dark side demanding he review and re-review every last piece of information he is confronted with in order to determine the best solution.

Building off of this, he has a highly analytical mindset capable of working out a strategy to deal with or an outright solution to (in general) any given problem. This makes him a natural leader which allows him to rally people behind his cause which, in combination to his various connections all over Academy City and beyond allows him to pull together small fighting forces in no time whatsoever, which is crucial during many of the serious events he finds himself in.

Miyake is a little reckless when it comes to his emotions as he rarely lets his true feelings shine through, though when they do it usually doesn't end well. A key example of this is when he very quickly jumped straight into a relationship with Ryuzu Tarkimo without considering the feelings of those around him (such as those of Kat) or the consequences of such a relationship (i.e., their child). We also see when he finally gets overloaded with these emotions near the end of the leadup to the escape from Academy City portion of the Dual Skill arc he finally breaks down in front of Jack and admits he doesn't know what he is doing, though he quickly recovers with some kind words of encouragement from his friend.

## History

Miyake was born into the Shusui magic family 15 years ago where he studied under private tutors from the Church of the 15 Dragons to learn Dragon Magic. He played with his younger siblings frequently during this time however was eventually relocated to Academy City to work as part of a dark side organization. There, he entered the power curriculum course and trained in several different martial arts disciplines as well as in the art of conventional weapon usage. At some point there, he developed and started mastering his level 3 ESPer ability, Portals. At some point during his time as a dark side agent, he met Isaac Akosua and Ethan Windsor, as well as got involved in project Radio Noise (also known as the Sister project) where he developed immense feelings of guilt for what he was doing which he bottled up until he met Kat.

## Synopsis

### The Precursor Arc

During the start of the Precursor, Miyake met who would later be known as Kat, a sister left without a purpose after the ending of the level 6 shift project in the Seventh Mist Shopping Mall where the two would get to know each other eventually ending in Miyake bestowing upon her the name of Cat for her cat like traits, which would later be changed at the discretion of the sister to Kat for the purpose of giving it a little more originality.

Later on, Miyake would meet and another boy from his school by the name of Jack MacKenzie, who asked him where he could get something to eat. Miyake would inform him of the cheap diner down the road. The two would talk some more until they arranged to meet up in a nearby park later in the day to discuss a SYSTEM scan Jack was supposed to undergo later on. Miyake invited Kat to come along with them to which she agree and the three began testing their abilities by attempting to combine Jack's Aero Hand ability with Kat's Radio Noise ability which the gang where able to extinguish with the aide of Miyake's portals. The trio later left to go bowling where Miyake score second place with Kat coming in ahead of him and Jack coming dead last.

Later, Jack would go on to question Miyake about Kat's situation due to her living in the hospital at the time, to which Miyake responded by repeatedly dodging the question causing Jack to grow suspicious.

Some time later, Jack and Miyake would find themselves shopping in a local supermarket where they would come across and eavesdrop on a conversation between Tick, a dangerous dark side criminal and Kat, who was looking for some "employment" in the dark side. Confronting Tick about this, Tick was forced to back off for now though without consequence as Jack and Miyake where not quick enough to catch him.

The same day, Miyake would work out all the arrangements to get Kat situated in a free dorm in the Certain Highschool girls dorm block. During the ensuing exchange, he would reveal that if he wasn't given permission to house Kat in the female dorms, he would have been more than happy to allow her to stay in his dorm and even had sleeping arrangements prepared just in case.

After the events that lead to the kidnapping of Isaac Akosua, Miyake would intervene with a strike team consisting of a dual skill ESPer named Issei and a level 5 named Kasumi who with their combined effort were able to overpower the grunts assigned to Hachiro's guard and eventually take out Hachiro himself, freeing Isaac. This would have repercussions for Miyake down the line, not that he knew it at that point.

Later on, Miyake would confront Kat about her involvement in the plan which would eventually end in him taking his anger out on her with a brutal backhand slap that sent her sprawling out across the floor and leading her to isolate herself with her thoughts for several days after.

### Dual Skill Arc

Miyake's first involvement in the Dual Skill arc came when he protected Jack from a lethal firing squad who came to capture Alpheos Tarkimo and wanted to get rid of Jack for getting caught in the crossfire. This got him involved in the meat of the arc as he moved Jack to the hospital for treatment, waiting for him to be discharged to talk more.

In the interim, he spent some time getting to know Kat a little better, as an apology for hitting her.

Later on, a group consisting of Jack, Kat, Miyake and Alpheos, who had escaped her kidnappers though with some extra baggage attached, went bowling. During this stint, the result where similar to the last game the group had played (albeit with the addition of Alpheos) however some strange incidents consistently began happening around the group eventually culminating in a previously level 0 ESPer accessing the power of Aero Hand on a level the same or superior to Jack without him ever having such an ability before.

Some time after the incident, Miyake brought together a group consisting of Kat, Jack and Ryuzu (A magician they had met after being attacked by her as she tried to retrieve Alpheos) who developed a plan to extract Alpheos, now dangerously unstable with the power granted to her by becoming a holistic ESPer after being exposed to some rather unsavoury magical experiments, from Academy City to get her treatment beyond the city walls. Within the following days (and in a somewhat comedic twist of fate due to the two at first seeming to mix like oil and water), Miyake and Ryuzu grew intimate, eventually (and much to the dismay of both) resulting in Ryuzu's conception of their child, though only after being found out by Kat after going on a rather sensual outing to the school pool where things almost heated up too much for this article to not be tagged NSFW.

Under the stress of it all, cracks would later begin to form in Miyake's superman persona as he broke down in front of Jack admitting he wasn't ready to be a parent. He was forced to quickly get over himself, however, as the raid on the west side soon began.