Kureto Hiragi

**Kureto Hiragi** is one of the supporting characters of the *Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign* manga series. He is the Lieutenant General of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army and heir to the Hiragi Family as well as next future General of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army. His goal is to exterminate all the vampires in Japan and find the person who is manipulating the Hiragi family.

## Statistics

* **Name**: Kureto Hiragi
* **Origin**: Seraph of the End
* **Gender**: Male
* **Age**: 25
* **Birthday**: March 31, 1995
* **Classification**: Human
* **Blood Type**: A
* **Height**: 187 cm (6'1.5")
* **Weight**: 73 kg (161 lbs)
* **Skin Color**: Light
* **Eye Color**: Red Brown
* **Hair Color**: Black
* **Relatives**: Tenri Hiragi (Father, deceased), Seishiro Hiragi (Younger brother), Shinya Hiragi (Adoptive younger brother) , Mahiru Hiragi (Younger half-sister, deceased), Shinoa Hiragi (Younger half-sister)
* **Alignment**: Bad
* **Status**: Active
* **Class**: **SS-Class**
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* **Voice Actor**: Tomoaki Maeno

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## Appearance

Kureto is a tall, young man with short black hair and reddish brown eyes. He has thick eyebrows that zigzag up at the ends.

He wears the standard JIDA uniform which consists of a black tailcoat with red details including the shoulder epaulettes with gold trim, an aiguillette worn on the right shoulder with a crescent moon decoration, and two rows of gold buttons on the front. Along with that, he wears a pair of white gloves, an armband on his left arm, and a white web belt with a gold waist-plate. He also wears the uniform trousers with black shoes.

## Personality

Arrogant and powerful, Kureto doesn't tolerate any disrespect from lower-rank families. He is manipulative, ruthless, and treacherous (Shinoa describes him as a "monster"), and will not hesitate to abandon his comrades if he no longer finds them useful. In fact, he finds that being able to abandon one's own friends as a strength. He expects everyone to submit to him with absolute loyalty, and would even go so far as to threaten them to do his work. As such, Kureto is very confident with himself, his plans and his actions.

Kureto has an ambition of wiping out every vampire on the planet and intends to rule the world, stating that he will turn it into a "vampire-free paradise." He plans to gather every surviving country and unite them as one, making Japan the center of all nations (i.e. world domination). Guren comments this as "something a kid would make up."

Despite his harsh personality, he possesses a sense of self-righteousness and sees anyone who is willing to sacrifice others for pure greed and with no goal as evil. Kureto's utilitarianism convinces him that if sacrificing the minority will be able to save a larger amount of people, then he'll gladly dirty his hands with the blood of innocent people. This was shown when although he remorselessly sacrificed the soldiers of the Imperial Demon army, he sincerely believed that they died heroically as it was thanks to their sacrifice that he was able to revive the Seraph. Kureto even seems to consider his life as not being worth that of the world's destruction, as shown by how he told Guren that if he can't be saved, then he is allowed to kill him.

Despite his unsympathetic and serious nature, in the Catastrophe light novels, Kureto seems to feel a level of empathy for Guren Ichinose, which typically bewilders Guren. Before Guren's father's execution, Kureto allows Sakae to call Guren and chat for one last time. He then gives Guren the opportunity to chase after Mahiru by turning himself into a victim and letting Guren steal his helicopter. When the clan heads vote to execute Sakae Ichinose, he is the only one who is against it, even though Guren did not fulfill his goal of killing Mahiru by the deadline. After Guren gets beaten badly by Tenri Hīragi, Kureto offers to drive him home, but Guren calls him weak.

Kureto is also shown to treat his loyal subordinates well and he is not above overcoming personal suspicions, as shown by how after seeing Guren do his orders, he has come to see the latter as one of his subordinates, and keeps an (albeit wary) eye on him in the light novels. He gifts Guren an extremely powerful new sword (prior Guren receiving Noya from Mahiru), and the sword is supposedly a Hīragi family heirloom that was strengthened through the hatred and fear of the people it had slew before. The random acts of kindness he sometimes exhibits to his subordinates includes giving Aoī a gentle and encouraging smile when her leg was sniped off by an assassin sent by Tenrī, and helping Aoī reattach her leg, going as far as bloodying his hands in the process.