Rakuro Hizutome

* Real Life
* Shangri-La Frontier
* GH:C

**Rakuro Hizutome** (陽務 楽郎, *Hizutome Rakurō*), best known for his nickname **Sunraku** (サンラク, ***Sunraku***), is the main character of the story.

## Appearance

Sunraku is a lean, thin teenager of average height with blue eyes, and blue hair; the front half looks neat, and the back half is spiky.

The appearance of his avatar in S.L.F. is a half-naked, athletic young man with a blue short with belt, and his trademark blue bird headgear with a yellow beak; as a way to cover up his face after selling all of his armor in the character creation menu for early financial advantage. After he was defeated by Lycagon, he was granted the Lycagon's Marking, a scar-like curse that appears on his torso and leg. The marking negates his usage of equipment in the affected areas, forcing him to continue playing his character half-naked.

## Personality

Rakuro is affably relaxed and carefree in person. And he is receptive towards those around him such as letting his mother know that one of her pet butterflies has escaped before leaving for school. But Sunraku's most notable trait is his affinity towards *Kusoge*(Shit Game); games that are well-known for buggy states, unfair mechanics and awful AIs, thus require serious play skills to finish it. As Pencilgon stated during their fight with one of The Seven Collosi, Wezaemon the Tombguard in Chapter 36, "With Sunraku, the crappier the hand the game deals him, the more motivated he gets and the better he is as a player." He is well known by his friends as a *Kusoge* fanatic and lunatic. Thus, Rakuro displays his zeal discussing his endeavors of triumphs over bad mechanics and bugs.

## Abilities

With his job as a **Mercenary (Twin Blade User)** (傭兵（二刀流使い), *Yōhei (Nitōryū-tsukai)*), Sunraku is able to use specific abilities as a skilled swordsman and dual wielder. After Sunraku levels up to level 99 he gets visited by a fortune-teller and gets the arcanum sub job **The Fool**.

* **Sub job “The Fool”**: In exchange for halving the recasting time for skills, the damage and duration of debuffs taken, among others, are doubled, and the success rate of healing items becomes a probability.

* **Screw Pierce** (スクーピアス, *Sukū Piasu*): It can deal a quick blow as a compact attack. It is very powerful, but cannot be fired repeatedly.
* **Spiral Edge**: Evolved form of **Screw Pierce**.
* **Spin Slash**: A spinning slash area attack.
* **Accel**: Grants a temporary boost to attack power and agility.
* **Slide Move**: Evades an attack with a gliding motion.
* **Edge Climb**: Stick a bladed weapon into a vertical surface to climb.
* **Flash Counter**: Bonus added to counters from parry.
* **Perfect Parry**: Able to parry an enemy's physical attack if executed with exact timing.
* **Repel Counter**: Evolved form of **Perfect Parry**, Parries one incoming attack and unleashes a counterattack.

## Battles

* Sunraku vs. Ravenous Snake
* Sunraku vs. Lycagon the Nightslayer
* Sunraku & Emul vs. Mud Digger

## Trivia

* The bird head Sunraku wears is based on a shoebill.
* Based on your official profile:
	+ Likes: Games, Sashimi, and Energy Drinks
	+ Dislikes: Lag, Biased Random Numbers, and Parawana Stag Beetle
	+ Hobbies: Full-dive VR games and enjoying Energy Drinks
	+ Special Skills: Excelling at rhythm games played on mute and distinguishing favorite energy drink flavors
	+ Preferred Type: Someone sharing similar hobbies
	+ Disliked Type: Those seemingly disinterested in listening
	+ Daily Habit: Consuming one energy drink daily
	+ Dream: Owning a room filled exclusively with terrible games
	+ Favorite Game Category: Virtually all genres
	+ Disliked Game Category: Visual Novels
	+ Favorite Game: Survival Gunslinger
	+ Disliked Game: Fairea Chronicles Online
	+ Characteristics: Avidly seeks out subpar games
	+ Motto: "Joy in the heart is a universal curriculum"