Yuuto Igarashi

**Yuuto Igarashi** (五十嵐佑和 Igarashi Yuuto) was one of the victims of the Satsujin Incident.

## Personality

Yuuto has a blunt and cold way of speaking, refusing to sugarcoat stuff or act all friendly with the other students. His facial expression greatly compliments his way of speaking. It’s rare to see him not wear the same strict and unwelcoming face he always wears. In normal scenarios the most you’ll probably get out of him is some movement in his eyebrows. He also has a habit of pushing up and fixing his glasses even when he doesn’t need to.

Yuuto is an anti-social guy a lot of people may consider arrogant. He’s unwilling to mend with others or try and communicate in a friendly manner. Instead, getting straight to the point and keeping up the same cold and judging way of speaking and behaving. At times, his arrogant personality really shines through the witty comments he makes about the other students. He tends to not take others seriously, specifically loud people and the laid back people who don’t seem to take their own life and future seriously. Yuuto is a little ignorant when it comes to other people’s capacities, tending to see everyone who acts a certain way to automatically be ‘a lost cause’ and not worth his time. Some would say he has a superiority complex. Due to his habit of taking responsibility and wanting to maintain order, Yuuto does try and take care of others. His personality doesn’t suddenly switch to a much more friendly one, though. He still acts the same way he always does, unbothered and a little rude, even calling the person he’s helping out a bother so they ‘don’t get the wrong idea’. On top of that, he does genuinely worry about others, like Hiroshi and Ayane, even though he hides it behind the fact he’s the class president and it’s ‘his duty’ to take care of others. He just doesn’t want to show his real emotions. He wants to keep up his reputation as the collected, strict class president. One that’s both distant and cold yet engaging and helpful to those in need.

## Backstory

Yuuto was a completely different person as a kid. He was the carefree, energetic child that didn’t care much about school and grades and instead spent most of his time hanging out with his friends and going to arcades, rather having fun than thinking about his future. His grades weren’t bad, so he actually managed to pull off not studying at all and still passing his classes, but stuff wasn’t that easy anymore when he went to middle school.

Yuuto met Hiroshi back in kindergarten. Their personalities really clashed with, but in a way also complimented each other. They became close friends pretty fast, and despite their disagreements on stuff like schoolwork, they never really got into fights. There definitely were moments where Hiroshi would act like the party pooper and Yuuto would get annoyed with it, but whenever that happened the situation never escalated. They lost contact when they went to different middle schools despite how close they were, and Yuuto isn’t sure how that ended up happening, but in high school they reunited.

During middle school, Yuuto’s approach to schoolwork came back to bite him in the ass and his grades started to drop at an alarming rate, leaving a nasty atmosphere at his home. His family always let him do whatever he wanted when it came to studying or not studying because his grades spoke for themselves, but now that they’re dropping like this they turned a lot more stricter. Coming home to yelling parents while his situation at school worsened was too much for Yuuto, so it didn’t take long before he started to change himself. Not only because of his current situation... he also realized that he can’t continue keeping up this carefree personality he has if he wants to make it in life when he’s older. He remembered the kind of person Hiroshi was, and thought to himself that if he was more like that, his grades would stop suffering so much and he’d get his act straight. As time went on, he became more and more focused on his school work and went through a massive personality change. He became very focused on the future and stopped having the childish ‘living in the moment’ mindset.

After Yuuto enrolled into high school and met Hiroshi again after years, he was wide eyed at how much he had changed as a person. It’s almost like they switched personalities, but became exaggerated versions of each other. Yuuto became the straight man and Hiroshi became the laid back, carefree one that didn’t care about his grades or future at all for that matter. Feeling responsible for how he turned out, since his old behavior might’ve been the thing that influenced Hiroshi and turned him into this type of person, Yuuto decided to help him get back on track and save him from failing his classes. They’re close friends, but at times it looks more like he’s Hiroshi’s caretaker...