Satoru/Relationships

## Satoru

Syncing with others

**Satoru** interacts with various characters within the Pet series, which affects him as a person and the story as a whole. This article details his relationships with other characters.

## Relationships

### Hayashi

They first interacted in the hospital where Satoru was transported by him into a world made up of his mother's concerns. Satoru speaks to Hayashi in this world and is taken to one of Hayashi's happiest memories, his peak, which enabled Satoru to begin to form memories. He becomes Hayashi's pet and whilst very fond of him, he has not seen him for two years. Thinking if him, he would not want someone else to head into a memory and take Satoru's peak.

Raised by him, when he was older Satoru heard from Hayashi how the higher ups of the Company avoided them out of fear. He lived with Hayashi for ten years and figures if he is doing jobs elsewhere, then Satoru needs to work as well.

Discussing matters in their Peak, Satoru hears sensitive information concerning the Company from Hayashi, including the fact that as pets they are monitored by them. He has also told of the qigong masters by Hayashi, and asks whether all the modern day crushers were taught by them. However, Satoru was not informed by him that Hayashi was the one responsible for locating them.

With doing jobs he does not want to do, to becoming an employee, Satoru wishes for Hayashi to return so he can ask him about it. Remembering him from the past he wonders if he was an idiot for thinking he could spend forever with someone who gave him his Peak.

He was unaware that Hayashi was a Company employee, and that he also shared his Peak with Tsukasa. Satoru was thrilled to see Hayashi in person once more, before changing to being distraught once he realized Hayashi was crushed.

### Katsuragi

He works with Katsuragi when Hayashi is absent, and supports him overall. Even when his canned drink is used as an ashtray by Katsuragi, Satoru remarks that he thinks Katsuragi has done pretty well considering that he did not use an image. He expresses to Hiroki that there are very few people who like Katsuragi. Satoru is not considered for a task where Hayashi is involved when he is found again. Confined to a hotel room during this period, and unable to leave since Katsuragi's head was on the line, Satoru left anyway. With the prospect of working with Jin, Satoru considers that more fun than working with Katsuragi. Eating breakfast with Jin, Satoru assures her he does not want Katsuragi back so soon. For all their working together, Katsuragi was loyal to the Company first but would be used by Satoru as a Carrier Pigeon to receive a message from Hayashi, and to use him to shoot those present for Satoru to escape.

### Hiroki

He was uncertain about inviting himself into Hiroki's memory delving, and thought to himself for Hiroki to forgive him for this. When his hoody is seized, he says sorry to Hiroki for bringing Katsuragi here. He can understand Hiroki's strong reaction to wanting to complete the memory alteration with Tsukasa and is aware Hiroki's peak was given to him by Tsukasa.

Seeking him out at his new Fish & Fish store, he tries to help calm Hiroki in his frustrated state. Failing to help, Satoru feels he should not have come and is called out for always speaking to Hiroki as if he is older than Satoru.

Doing a job together he asks Hiroki about his weight and needs his advice since Satoru says they only speak when on jobs together. Satoru reveals his offer to become an employee to Hiroki even when told by Jin not to. Satoru was under the impression that Hiroki would have been told whether Tsukasa has also received an offer to become an employee.

For all his patience around Hiroki, that is replaced with a desire for vengeance when Satoru is led to beleive the lie that Hiroki crushed Hayashi even after Satoru said he was his Peak giver. After using his door image to trap the goldfish one, Satoru asks whether Hiroki really thinks he can beat him. He quipped that Hiroki was crazy for escaping by letting his own image get cut in half.

Turning to Hiroki for help after bleeding heavily from his leg, Satoru hypnotizes him to have Hiroki see him as Tsukasa to escape abroad. Satoru also needs him to access his memories to remember what was on the memory drive. When Hiroki finds out, Satoru accesses his Peak then explains he did not think fully erasing Hiroki's memories of Tsukasa would help him.

### Tsukasa

Familiar with Tsukasa, he is sent to pick him up after an errand. He asks if Tsukasa is fine to investigate a job by himself and offers to help, which is declined since Tsukasa made a promise with Hiroki. Satoru leans in to ask Tsukasa whether they can really believe what Katsuragi is saying when he hears Hayashi created Meiling without a Lock, unaware that Tsukasa was also attempting to lead Satoru to follow this ruse.

Learning that Hayashi wanted to defend Tsukasa but he may have been brainwashed by the Company, and told that Tsukasa was really the one who crushed Hayashi, Satoru left him behind after pretending to be Tsukasa to escape with Hiroki when he was injured. He considered Tsukasa a fool for making his past with Hayashi and Hiroki out to be one big mistake.

### Ron

Unknown to him, Satoru is spied on by this member of the Company from a pizza shop across the road. He does not seem to think much upon meeting him in person.

### Jin

Offered a drink by her at a hotel bar, he requests this lady's drink be put on his tab. He attempts to use his powers on her before finding they are ineffective on a Company employee and a crusher. He guesses she is around twenty five years old, and must have been around eight or nine when she met Hayashi in China. He is sympathetic to her family background. Speaking of Images, he tells her she is better off having always been able to make her own memories. In line with Jin's wish, Satoru does tell her that someday he will take her inside the memory of a person who knew her mother. Asking how long Jin is staying here, he is keen on the idea of working with her. He blushes when answering her phone call, and eating breakfast together he is privy to knowledge of her mother.

### Meiling

Knowing that she received a Peak from Hayashi, Satoru enters it and approaches Meiling to say it is nice to meet her. He shows concern that if her Valley keeps eroding her Peak then there will be no place left for her to sit peacefully as she is now. Finding the physical location that his Peak is based on, Satoru thinks to bring Meiling here as well.

### Yokota

When Satoru is with Katsuragi, he ensures that Yokota is certain to be driving one hundred miles an hour to take to the skies.

### Kenji

Saying it was good that they did not need to crush Kenji, Katsuragi detected pity from Satoru concerning him.

### Satoru's Mother

Outwardly distant to her, in his mind he is subject to graphic realizations of her bleak thoughts. With her considering suicide, Satoru sees her dismembered body parts floating in the sky, and words that she cannot take anymore. He also internalizes his mother's interactions with his father, that she is the only one to suffer and why does he take things out on her.

### Satoru's Father

His father worked with Katsuragi on a number of jobs. Due to Satoru's state as a child, he remained unreactive to news that he had passed away in an accident.