Yuuto Rurikawa (Thief)

## Yuuto Rurikawa

* School Outfit
* Thief Outfit

**Yuuto Rurikawa** in *Phantom Wolf*. He attends Wolf High School (狼高校 lit. *Ookami Koukou*) and is affiliated with both the Boys Kendama Club and phantom thief group Masque de Wolf (マスク・ド・ウルフ lit. *masuku do urufu*).

## Background

Yuuto is the last member recruited into Masque de Wolf. He discovers a phantom thief simulation game on the dark web where the player is tasked with planning for each heist. After each attempt, the creator of the game evaluates the plan with a grade, and Yuuto becomes invested in vying for a better grade each time. When the game is eventually taken off the web, the creator asks if Yuuto wants to continue playing and requests to meet him in person. The game's creator turns out to be Kou, the leader of Masque de Wolf, and after some negotiation, he joins the team.

Yuuto spends most of his time playing games, even during missions, and has an impudent personality that generally doesn't mesh well with others. He usually doesn't refer to other people by their names, either giving them demeaning nicknames or using some other rude form of address, and will only show respect to people that he thinks deserve it. He's also prone to ignoring others when he's in the middle of playing games. His personality makes him very blunt most of the time.

His primary role on the team is as the strategy planner. He treats phantom thief work like a game and excels at coming up with airtight plans (though Yukinari has a way of making things go awry). Due to his exposure to the dark web, he also gathers information or enlists people he knows to do it for him as one of his secondary roles. He's also capable of picking locks. In exchange, he usually does very little during investigations.

## Relationships

### Kou Niimura

Unequivocally the person that he respects the most. He greatly admires Kou's intelligence and pragmatism, and his worship extends to going along with whatever Kou says or thinks. Compared to how he treats everyone else in the cast, his normally indifferent or condescending personality does a complete 180 when he speaks to Kou, and he refers to Kou respectfully as "Kou-san". Kou is also the only person he apologizes to.

Kou is contractually bound to playing games with Yuuto three times a week, and Yuuto likes to keep tabs on where Kou is using a GPS tracker.

### Yukinari Shimotsuki

The member of Masque de Wolf that Yuuto is at odds with the most, and the only member he shows little to no respect. Usually when Yuuto needs to make a negative example, he'll be referring to Yukinari. On the flip side, he also shows some envy/resentment towards Yukinari during investigations when Kou praises him for doing a good job.

He calls Yukinari "Ponkotsunari" (ポンコツナリ lit. *ponkotsunari*), which is a portmanteau of "ponkotsu" ("piece of junk") and the ending of Yukinari's first name. At one point, he also calls him "Sunenari" (すねナリ lit. *sunenari*), another portmanteau of the ending of Yukinari's first name and the word "suneru" (to be in a bad mood).

### Tomoya Aizawa

The other member of Masque de Wolf that Yuuto shows some level of respect. They don't interact a great deal, but their relationship is about as amiable as Yuuto is capable of being with someone that isn't Kou. He thinks Tomoya is too soft on Yukinari.

### Rintarou Mori

One of the rival phantom thieves that he openly expresses dislike towards. Since Kou isn't on the best terms with Rintarou, Yuuto isn't either, and he'll often jump in to defend Kou from being bothered by him.

He gives Rintarou the nickname "Chocolate Bar Abs Monster" (腹筋板チョコおばけ lit. *fukkin ita choco obake*), likely referring to the conspicuousness of his abdominal muscles and his terrifying strength.

### Misaki Mori

He doesn't often interact with her, but he has some respect for her skill in rhythm games.

## Trivia

* Yuuto is fully capable of getting good grades, but he finds studying to be pointless, which causes them to suffer.
* Currently unconfirmed for the *Phantom Wolf* universe (confirmed for *Another*), but the eyepatch over his left eye is likely something he alternates between his eyes so he can keep playing games without tiring both out at once.