Akari

**Akari** is the first antagonist of the game. She is dating Soma at the beginning of the game, however she makes it clear on the first day that she doesn't actually like him. She is a school bully and spends her time gossiping and making fun of other students.

## Appearance

Akari is a light-skinned teenage girl. She has long, light pink hair with bright pink highlights that is tied into a ponytail and red eyes. She wears the default female school uniform along with red knee-length stockings with a green border and black loafers.

On a rainy day, Akari will wield a crimson umbrella.

## Personality

Akari's personality is General. If she sees a corpse or witnesses a murder, she will run and hide straight to classroom 1-2. If Akari sees another corpse or witnesses another murder, she will run home. She cannot participate in physical fights against murderers.

Akari is an arrogant and cruel girl who enjoys causing physical and moral pain to other people. Her favorite "hobby" is to mock weak students, in particular Sara, threaten them and use them for their own purposes. Akari also likes to manipulate the boys with whom she is in a relationship, forcing them to buy expensive gifts for her, just to have fun with them. Akari's mother's words imply that her daughter is a troubled teenager who often runs away from home.

## Storyline

Akari is the first rival in the game.

Before the events of the game, Akari bullied Misaki until Sara showed up at school. Akari agreed to "be friends" with Misaki so that the intimidation of students would become more effective, and began to mock Sara together with her.

At some point, Akari met Soma, Sara's brother, and began dating him, but only in order to manipulate him and thus cause Sara moral harm.

At the beginning of the day, Akari and Misaki ambush Sara in the school hallway while all the other students were in the classroom, and push her to the floor. Akari reminds her that she has already ruined Sara's life, and now threatens to ruin her brother's life as well. At the same time, in her imagination, Sara tries to escape from the crowd of Akari and Misaki ridiculing her, until she decides to take a knife and kill the offender.

While Sara was trying to get rid of Akari in her imagination, the real Akari pushed her a second time and hurried to escape with Misaki to the classroom before the teachers and students noticed them. Soon after, Sara notices Akari and Misaki bullying her classmates. She understands that if Akari does not disappear, Soma will suffer mentally and physically, and therefore Sara decides to kill the bully.

## Routine

In the morning, Akari enters the school and puts her bag next to her seat. Then she goes out to the school yard in front of the gate and starts chatting with Misaki until the day is over.

Akari will occasionally go to the lunchbox store to buy something to eat.

## Methods of eliminating

Unlike the simple methods of eliminating students, the game has three unique methods of eliminating Akari. All of the listed methods will become available after Akari ends the dialogue with Misaki in the computer room.

* **Crush** — Sara must find the cigarettes left near the dumpster can on the table and throw them in front of Akari. As soon as she goes outside to light a cigarette, Sara must go up to the second floor of the school, go to the utility closet and push the metal cabinet out the window onto Akari's head.
* **Matchmaking** — Once Akari and Misaki are out of the computer room, Sara should talk to Ryusei to help him become Akari's boyfriend. To do this, he will need a gold chain, which can be asked from Sōgaikō-teki. If you talk to Sōgaikō-teki, he will say that the gold chain is hidden in one of the boxes in the utility closet, storage room under the stairs and library. No matter which box Sara opens, she will only find the gold chain in the last, fifth box. Now Sara must give the jewelry to Ryusei and watch him call Akari to follow him to the track. In a short cutscene, Ryusei confesses his love to Akari, but she ignores his feelings and insults him, for which Ryusei kicks her. In a panic, Ryusei runs away from the school, leaving Akari defenseless. At this point, Sara can safely kill Akari and throw her body into the river.
* **Gossip** — While exploring the school grounds, Sara can find notes from Aisha's diary revealing her crush on Itsuki. There are 4 notes in total and they are all hidden in various places, but if you find them all, Sara can tell Akari Aisha's secret so that she and Misaki stay after school in search of other secrets of their new victim. Once all the students have gone home, Akari and Misaki will start breaking Aisha's locker, and while they are distracted, Sara can walk up to Akari and break her neck by pushing her hard.

## Relationships

### Misaki

Misaki is Akari's best friend/partner in crime, with whom she often intimidates other students. A year before the events of the game, Misaki was Akari's main target for bullying until Sara started studying at their school. Akari decided that bullying other students would be more effective if she had an accomplice, so she agreed to be "friends" with Misaki.

### Sara

Sara is Akari's favorite victim. Misaki mentions that Akari bullied Sara so much that she broke her (either physically or mentally). Sara's only goal is to make Akari disappear, and she declares after accidentally killing Yamiro that he didn't deserve to die, but she does.

### Soma

Soma is Akari's so called "boyfriend". Akari is using him to get free stuff and torment Sara. In her private conversation with Akari, Misaki mentions that Akari had seven boyfriends before Soma, and she was manipulating all of them. Akari also wishes to ruin his life.

### Ryusei

Akari doesn't really return her feelings like Ryusei and like to bully and mock him for having a crush on her. During her private conversation at the computer lab with Misaki, she calls Ryusei a simp, then a creep, and then pushed him to the ground and laughed at him.

## Trivia

* In the early version of the game, Akari's hair was blonde except for the crimson bangs.