Ronaldo

**Ronaldo** (ロナルド, *Ronarudo*) is one of the protagonists of The Vampire Dies in No Time and its anime adaptation. He is a famous vampire hunter (part time Spanish inquisitor hence the costume) located in Shin-Yokohama who goes after the powerful Draluc one day, but ends up realizing he is really weak. As they accidentally destroy Draluc's castle, the vampire and his armadillo familiar John decided to move in to live with Ronaldo in his apartment/office and eventually formed the odd vampire-vampire hunter duo. He writes his adventures in an autobiography series called *The Ronaldo War Chronicles* published by Autumn Publishing under Fukuma.

He was taught and trained by Vamone to be a vampire hunter. He often hangs out with fellow vampire hunters Satetsu and Shot. He also has several run-ins with his former high school classmates Tou Handa and Kameya.

"Ronaldo" is his nickname in high school that stuck. According to the author, Bonnoki Itaru, volume 20 account jack on twitter, Handa insisted calling him "Ronaldo" after a teacher made a mistake while reading how Ronaldo wrote his own name two seconds before passing an exam paper. His real name is **Hideo Kinoshita** (木下 日出男, *Kinoshita Hideo*).

## Appearance

Ronaldo is a handsome young man with white-silver hair, blue eyes and a fit build of muscle from his line of work.

### Outfits

In all outfits, Ronaldo adorns a yellow triangular earring on his left ear, matching with his older brother who wears it on both ears and younger sister who wears one on her right ear.

* During work hours, he wears a black, long sleeved shirt, black gloves, black boots, white pants, red jacket with a shawl, and red hat in reminiscence of his older brother's outfit back when he was still a vampire hunter. Similarly, his weapon of choice is a revolver-type pistol hidden under his jacket.
* On the beach, he forgoes the shawl and keeps the jacket on his shoulders like a cape and wears a short sleeved black shirt instead of the usual long sleeved one.

## Personality

Ronaldo is an extremely rough, short-tempered, foul-mouthed and stubborn man who frequently loses his temper with Draluc, making the vampire die multiple times even in the span of a few hours. On the other hand, he becomes a doting parent when it comes to John in spoiling him and making sure he stays safe.

He is professional when it comes to his main work and never skips regardless of the client that he gets, he gives his all to accomplish the job properly. But much like with everyone else, he's verbally rough with his clients. Regardless, he treats everyone in Autumn Publishing and his fans with utmost respect without missing a beat.

In contrast to Draluc, Ronaldo's not good at house chores and is terrible at games in general. However, he is good at shooting games given that it is his specialty.

In contrast to his physical strength, ability to do amazing feats, and being skilled in literature, Ronaldo is very emotional and a crybaby as he dislikes being left behind and will instantly feel hurt if he feels intentionally isolated or bullied by people he considers as his friends. He also cries at anything that moves his heart no matter how trivial it can be.

Ronaldo sometimes have self-depreciating moments where he reveals his lack of self-confidence on his skills as a writer due to lack of materials to work from or during a moment of writer's block. Writing or not, when the low points hit, he's prone to calling himself a "maggot" with few creative companies to express his own disappointment in himself. This appears to have grown since his teen years when he believed that his older brother Hiyoshi quit as a vampire hunter after an injury from a vampire bite on his shoulder.

He hates celery to an extent of screaming and crying at a mere sight of it, and as well as losing his common sense the longer he's expose to its presence.

When beamed by Ydan Ojisan to reveal a lewd talk, it is revealed that Ronaldo is a boobs kind of guy with a preference on the bigger variety. On his own voluntary lewd talk, he has a preference of anything homemade.

When it comes to his siblings, he can be loving but in a very obsessive manner; he crazily idolizes his older brother Hiyoshi as he strives to reach Hiyoshi's level, and is very overprotective towards his younger sister Himari.

## Plot

Hearing that Draluc had kidnapped a child, Ronaldo enters Draluc's castle, but ends up killing Draluc with the door. Ronaldo is shocked to see how weak Draluc is considering the rumors of his might. Draluc comments he didn't disprove them as tourist gather to see his castle and that helps the economy in the town. Ronaldo requests Draluc to return the child he kidnapped, but Draluc has no idea what he is talking about. They end up seeing a child going and starting to play with Draluc's video game collection and the kid explains that since Draluc sleeps during the day, he sneaks in and play on his video game consoles, but he is close into beating one game and decided to stay for longer. Ronaldo realizes that made the crowd thing Draluc took the child and they attempt to capture the kid, but he keeps getting away. Combining their efforts, Draluc and Ronaldo finally manage to capture him, but as they have activated various traps in the castle, it creates an explosion and the castle ends up being destroyed.

Returning to his office, Ronaldo avoids talking about Draluc, but ends up seeing him in his office, which is also his apartment. Draluc explains that having no home, he was taken by the kid, but his mother threw Draluc out. He then found Ronaldo's office and decided to live there. Ronaldo doesn't agree, but a client comes and sees Ronaldo with a vampire and having no choice, he explains he defeated him and now makes the vampire work for him. The client takes them to his shop and explains that his son was bitten by an vampire animal and is not a pseudo vampire. The son, Bubuo, wants to turn into a vampire, but Ronaldo explains that since he is pseudo vampire, he will return to normal soon. Draluc decides to help and bites Bubuo, but as his blood is too rich, Draluc dies again. Bubuo explains that he wanted to become a vampire for Ellie who works at the store and they to live together for a long time, but Ellie explains she already loves someone else and intends to marry to a rich guy, crushing Bubuo's dreams. As the situation is solved, the media sees them and makes news of Ronaldo the Vampire Hunter working with a vampire.

Soon with Fukuma finding Ronaldo living with a vampire to be a selling point for the *Ronaldo Chronicles*, Ronaldo is forced to let Draluc stay in his apartment since then.

## Abilities

* Exceptional physical strength, endurance and agility, along with good flexibility
* Proficient shooting skills
* Knack on analytics
* A great writer who’s able to convey intriguing stories

## Relationships

### Hunter's Guild

Ronaldo shows immense respect for his fellow hunters and guild master Gousetsu.

He is usually close friends with Shot and Satetsu.

### Ronaldo's Agency

Ronaldo wasn't too keen on Draluc moving into his apartment. In fact, he finds him very annoying and will constantly punch him or a number of things that kills Draluc in one hit. On the other hand, Ronaldo has a soft spot for John instantly, saying that he'll take care of the armadillo but kicking Draluc out. Despite the frequent banter between the two men, they have a bit of mutual trust and never miss a beat to insult each other to the point it's a daily routine. Ronaldo also enjoys Draluc's meals and finds it strange when the vampire is not around. It is implied he does consider Draluc his friend, but mostly he denies such sentiments with his actions.

Conversely, Ronaldo dotes on John, and always scolds Draluc who seems to trust more in John's capabilities by letting John expose to potentially bad influences.

### Vampire Countermeasure Division

Ronaldo is friends with Hinaichi the vice captain.

Tou Handa is Ronaldo's self proclaimed rival and former high school classmate, who always torments him with celery related tricks and pranks.

His older brother Hiyoshi is the VCD captain. Ronaldo has an obsessive admiration for Hiyoshi and thinks Hiyoshi can commit no wrong, completely unaware of Hiyoshi's flaws.

### Others

Kameya is Ronaldo's former high school classmate who tends to be taken advantage by Kameya a lot as news material.

Himari is Ronaldo's younger sister whom he dotes on excessively.

## Etymology

* The name **Ronaldo** means "Rules with counsel/Ruler with counsel/ruler's counselor, advice/Advice Ruler, decision" in Portuguese, Spanish and American.

### Real Name

* **Hideo** means "the Sun, daytime, day, period of time" (日, hi), “to go or come out” (出, de) and "man" (男, o)
	+ These particular kanji characters were chosen due to their resemblance to ロナルド if written sloppily.
* **Kinoshita** means "tree, wood" (木, ki) and "under, below" (下, shita).

## Trivia

* **Likes:** Chocolate mint ice cream, fried chicken, omelet rice, and banana fritters
* **Dislikes:** Celery, Christmas
* Ronaldo never wears plain underwear, it often has flashy patterns.
* Ronaldo started to eat healthy ever since Draluc started cooking for him.
* Mebiyatsu (eye-beam thingy/hat rack) became more attached to Ronaldo instead of Draluc, who they originally belonged to due to Ronaldo giving them a purpose and being more caring and careful with them and his other appliances.
* Ronaldo isn`t a chick attracting magnet, and has bad luck with women.
* When Ronaldo was a kid, he once stuck a popsicle stick into a pot after Hiyoshi tricked him into doing so (Episode 18).
* Ronaldo likes video games, but is a terrible gamer.
* Ronaldo's age is around his 20s.
* Ronaldo has gone to highschool with Kameya (the reporter) and Tou Handa (the dhampir).
* Ronaldo had done several embarrassing things in high school:
	+ Unable to remove a traffic cone from his head.
	+ Falling into and getting stuck in a cage of balls.
	+ Unable to get a porn DVD out of the DVD player in the AV room.
* Ronaldo's more frequently used weapons include:
	+ His own fists (most often)
	+ Fly swatter
	+ Two types of guns:
		- Revolver gun (for coolness)
		- Automatic gun (for practical use)
	+ Spray (for using against lower vampires)
* Ronaldo can't throw things away (which means he can't throw away Draluc’s stuff, too).
* Ronaldo doesn't use any killing repellents for vampires nowadays.
* Ronaldo's chores are taking out the trash in the morning and hanging the laundry out to dry during the day.
* Ronaldo is not good at English.
* In the back of the closet in the agency, there is a collection of Ronaldo's clothes with avant-garde style.

## Reference

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Vampire Dies in No Time Fanbook 2.