Kyabetsu Retasu

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**Kyabetsu Retasu** (レタスキャベツ *Retasu Kyabetsu*) was a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 94th, and a participant of the Killing School Trip featured in Kaeno Shinjomu V2. His title was **Ultimate Florist** (超高校級の「花屋」 lit. Super High School Level Florist).

## History

### Early Life

Kyabetsu was born in Osaka, Japan as an only child to his mother and father, a stay-at-home mother, and an office worker. He gravitated to his mother most of the time, spending a lot of time with her while he was very young and often helping her outside in the garden where they grew their own food. He loved his father when he was young, but wasn't as close due to his father being both the worker in the family, and his lack of familial instinct with his son.

He did decently in grade school, taking an interest in literature and the arts, but often struggling making friends and controlling his emotions, even from a young age. This struggle only increased when he was six years old, and came home to his father hanging in the bathroom. This discovery traumatized him greatly, from witnessing his own dead father when so small, and would entirely alter his life.

After witnessing this, he quite literally did not speak for several weeks, unless it was to cry, Kyabetsu took it so horribly, he was immediately put into therapy, and was assumed to take part in therapy programs for the rest of his life. Often, he went to his mother for comfort, becoming her shadow and was only happy whenever with her for the longest time. Until late middle school, Kyabetsu found himself unable to make friends with others entirely.

All of this time with his mother, he began to help her more actively around the house, and especially the garden, now that she had to take a job to support her and her son. After learning about different types of flowers in school, he begged her to be allowed to start planting them, in which she agreed. He took extreme interest in them, and especially in using them for decorations and arrangement. This was the start of him becoming a prodigy in the craft of floristry.

Also around the time he started middle school, he started showing signs and symptoms of mental illness related to depression and anxiety, and his mother began to put him through more serious therapy on top of the monthly ones he had to cope with his father's death. He had extremely volatile emotions, often expressing extreme bouts of sadness and mania, though therapy did help him control this to some agree.

Kyabetsu began to make some friends in school, mostly women, although he was extremely unsuccessful in the romantic aspect, but he did not mind much. He also honed his talent as a florist further, beginning to make intricate and complicated designs and arrangements with flowers and other plants, as well as developing advanced skills with aestheticism. Other than his mother, flowers and floristry became one of his greatest coping mechanisms when stressed or doing his worse.

When he was about fifteen and in high school, Kyabetsu began expressing general desires of suicide to both his therapist and his mother. His mom immediately panicked, and decided that it may be best that Kyabetsu try something new to deal with his mental illness. She sent him to Holland to live with his grandfather, and take part in very intensive therapy programs that both helped him almost completely forget what had happened to his father, as well as helping eliminate his suicidal thoughts and tendencies. Here, he also continued working with flowers, his skills flourishing and becoming one of the most advanced florists for his age. Kyabetsu was quite happy in Holland, making friends and bettering himself mentally, but after a year he decided to return to Japan after hearing news that his mother had fallen ill, wanting to both take care of her and resume school where he grew up. However, soon after returning to Japan, Kyabetsu was soon greeted with the second tragedy.

### The Second Tragedy

Kyabetsu's mother can be assumed to have died in the second tragedy, leaving him heartbroken. His grandfather presumably survived, but not to his knowledge. During the tragedy, he was put into Chika Miyasaki's neo world program to participate in her virtual killing game.

### The Second Killing School Trip

Kyabetsu woke with the rest of his classmates during the killing school trip. At first, when announced there would be a killing game, the man was an inconsolable mess and spent almost all of his time crying, especially in the first trials. This was not only because of the pressing situation, but because in Saeko Kiyomizu's trial, he was made as a scapegoat with some hemlock and rose petals. Early in the trip, Kyabetsu quickly made friends with peers Tsuyo Kogiyumi, Isha Kalki, and Ale del Prieto.

After the first couple murders, Kyabetsu had decided to form what eventually became the Norijin, a group in which he decided would be to enforce order and safety and avoid future killings. He introduced this idea to Ale first, wishing for him to lead the group, and then later took role in asking those he considered worthy for a spot in the Norijin to join, and took charge in keeping group communications. At the first meeting, he also assigned each member a flower, himself the lotus, to identify them as part of the Norijin. Not only this, but he went along with helping the group assign roles (despite his desire for everyone in the group to remain equal), and forcing them to play ice breakers.

One of the first motives, which involved each student's biggest secret, Hideo Takayama had received the secret that Kyabetsu had been lying about his father's death. Kyabetsu had been pushing that his father's death was related to sickness, when in reality, his father had killed himself due to the responsibility of having a family, and Kyabetsu had been the one to find the body. In this chapter, the florist had also received Isha's secret about being responsible for many deaths in his spywork, and when confronted about it, attempted to assure Isha that he didn't care, and ended up just making himself saddened with the subject. This is where Kyabetsu asked Isha to join him in the Norijin, and the two made decorations for the first meeting together, despite Isha's chaotic nature.

As the game progressed, Kyabetsu became noticeably stronger and more mature, but also susceptible to breakdowns and spouts of hopelessness and loneliness. However, his closest friend Tsuyo often helped him with this, supporting him and becoming a big sister role in his life.

Though, he did begin to form an odd relationship with Souma Shimizu, after he and Isha had snuck into his lab and wreaked havoc. Souma was unfortunately the one to face Kyabetsu's anger, Kyabetsu accidentally breaking out into a small burst of vengeance, belting Souma and forcing him into women's clothes, trying to make Souma make it up to him. However, Kyabetsu is does not make the most threatening argument, and his plan was not very effective.

After another murder, Kyabetsu decided to call to another Norijin meeting, this time a sleep over in Ale's room. There he had them not only discuss ways to keep murder from continuing to happen, but also decided it to be a good time to make the group get along better. He decided that together the Norijin would play truth or dare, which only escalated into madness as Tsuyo dared him to kiss a boy in the room, in which he chose Isha. Later, when Souma pulled a gun and chaos ensued with it, the boy immediately fainted to the ground, later waking up to everyone fighting. He became extremely upset, and stormed out of the room back to his own bedroom, Tsuyo following him, where they comforted each other in the hard time.

In the motive concerning the student's being faced with their greatest fear, Kyabetsu's was his fear of suspension, where he spent most of his day tied up and suspended. This fear stemmed from the trauma of finding his father's hanging body, though later, this torture came to help him as he eventually stated to Tsuyo that "he wasn't afraid of the ropes anymore."

When Kagami Hannei had been murdered by Ale, Kyabetsu had secretly assumed that Tsuyo had been the killer. Out of both his own hopelessness, and his desire for his closest friend to survive the killing game, Kyabetsu pretended to be the blackened during the trial. He admitted to it, and came up with an entire murder scheme and motive behind why he could have done it, including calling Kagami insulting names and insulting his other classmates. Almost all of his classmates, however, did not believe him, especially Tsuyo, who blew up for him for even daring to say that. He immediately apologized, through tears, and did his best to continue the trial.

After the death of Ale, Kyabetsu had become hopeless. It not only was heartbreaking to him to lose a friend and leader to the Norijin, but it had felt like he had lost his father for the second time. He accepted Ale's wishes for Eiichi as leader, but not without protest, and he no longer felt the Norijin was safe with Eiichi in charge due to a lack of trust between the members. He began to spend more time with Souma, both grieving over the loss of their friend and lover, and Kyabetsu beginning to see the manipulator in a more positive light than he had during the gun and punishment incidents.

At the second motive involving secrets, Hideo received once more Kyabetsu's secret, but only the half that included the words "intensive therapy." This was referring to Kyabetsu's real reason for living in Holland with his Grandpa, to receive intensive therapy care in a new place to cope with both the trauma of his father, and his extreme issues with depression and suggested suicidal thoughts. Kyabetsu received Fenikku Hinotama's secret involving his ironic fear of clowns. Before the murder, Kyabetsu also seeked console in Tsuyo, expressing feelings of extreme hopelessness and feeling at complete loss of his situation. He was more afraid of dying than anything, but at the same time, didn't have any argument if it happened.

In the last chapter before his death, the motive forbidden action was implemented, and Kyabetsu was not permitted to leave his room during most time of the day. This action would only prove to make his murder much easier to pull off, and therefore be at part for his death.

### Kyabetsu's Murder

During the forbidden action motive, Kyabetsu was not allowed to leave his room except for very late in the night. However, Isha Kalki used this to his advantage, locking both Fenikku and Kyabetsu inside their rooms under the guise that they were speaking to the mastermind through the vents, and Isha had to be the one to take care of them both.

During this time, Isha slipped low levels of poison into Kyabetsu and Fenikku's food, along with forcing them to take anti psychotics to keep them both dependent on Isha, rendering them both incoherent and making them both extremely sick. Travelling through the vents, Isha controlled everything Kyabetsu ate, when he showered and slept, and basically everything he was allowed to do in his room. During this time period, Tsuyo had showed up to Kyabetsu's door, asking to be let in. The door was locked, and when called for, Kyabetsu asked to be left alone and Tsuyo let him be.

In his own delirium, Kyabetsu quickly accepted Isha's care, believing it to be some twisted act of love at the time. This, and the additive of Kyabetsu's hopelessness and lack of desire to continue living in the killing game, begged Isha to kill him so that the spy could escape the killing game. Isha was reluctant at first, but Kyabetsu convinced him that if he wasn't the one to kill him, Kyabetsu would kill himself anyways. This made Isha agree to kill him, deciding to overdose him on the anti psychotics, and Kyabetsu spent his last moments alive with Isha by his side as he faded out of consciousness. After dying, Isha decorated his corpse with flowers on his bed, and left, later releasing Fenikku.

Once Fenikku escaped his room, he stumbled out and alerted the others that something odd was going on, and that it was worth checking on the other students. Many of the students were gathered, and they tried to get into Kyabetsu's room, but the door was locked, so Isha crawled through the vents and unlocked the door. Everyone discovered the body, commencing investigation. Along with some clues pointing to Isha as being guilty, they also found a journal of Kyabetsu's where he had written a poem suggesting suicidal thoughts. This became a red herring in the investigation, leading the students to believing Kyabetsu's death had been a suicide. However, the students managed to put the clues together, and Isha admitted to being both Kyabetsu's murderer, and the kidnapper of both Kyabetsu and Fenikku, and was promptly executed.

### End of the Neo World Program

In the final trial where Chika was revealed as the mastermind, Kyabetsu reappeared as an alter ego. There, he helped the others find the identity of the mastermind and all of the secrets surrounding the neo world program, and was extremely shocked to hear what happened in the world outside. Though, he was extremely elated to be given another chance at life due to the neo world program only being Chika's simulation. Before returning to reality, he shared some kind and loving words with Tsuyo and Ale, and left both harsh forgiveness and somewhat of an apology to Isha for what had to have happened between them.

He awoke with the others, beside Kouki and Chika of course, with the future foundation, and was seen playing soccer with some of the younger students, happy to finally be free of the killing life. Afterwards, he expressed with Tsuyo his concerns and the strangeness of being alive again, and also remarked how he wished that everyone could be friends with each other despite what happened in the virtual world. He also said that he wished that he and Isha would be able to talk to each other again, but recognized that there would have to be much growth for both of them before that would be comfortable.

## Appearance

Kyabetsu is a young boy of average height, and a soft yet stocky build. He has expressive, puppy-ish brown eyes, and his skin his skin is tanned from being in the sun. He has cabbage-green hair that shags around his neck and partially covers his face in a mop-like fashion with two large ahoges sticking up. Light freckles and sunspots litter his arms, legs and parts of his chest. After escaping the neo world program, it is notable that since entering he had gained some height and weight.

Most of the time, Kyabetsu wears an orange and peach ringed t-shirt, and dark cargo shorts that reach his knees with large pockets. Inside the pockets, he keeps nearly everything he owns, making them quite heavy. He wears a thick brown belt, and a pair of strapped men's sandals. After joining the Norijin, he has a red lotus flower pinned behind his ear.

## Personality

Kyabetsu is a very naive boy, and is extremely impressionable and innocent for his age, so innocent that until Tsuyo and Hideo had explained to him, he had not even had a sex talk. He often does not get dirty or crude jokes, but it is extremely easy to make him laugh as long as you aren't telling jokes at the expense of others. At the core, Kyabetsu is a people pleaser, and will go along with most plans and commands of people no matter how much they upset him. It is also extremely easy to upset him, as he is very vocal about his emotions and expresses them in extremes, often crying or acting very excitably. However, he tends to bottle up his anger to his best, finding violent emotions disgusting in himself, and that things like anger and spite only hinder progress and betterment. He is also shown to be, at times, incredibly stupid and easy to fool. An easy example of this would be whenever he considered the English word "cabbage" to be dirty, after many people bullied him with it as a nickname and using it as an insult.

At heart, Kyabetsu is extremely kind and caring towards his friends. He knows he does not have the physical or mental capabilities of keeping them safe, but he often goes out of his way to comfort them and only wants to make them smile, as making people happy is one of his few self-issued goals. Although he is extremely kind and conscious of others feelings, Kyabetsu is also aware of how he is seen as both weak and cute by others, and uses this to his advantage as a form of manipulation. While he does not normally use this for serious things, as he usually just uses it to make people like him more or to keep himself safe, he did use pity to manipulate and convince Isha to overdose him.

As mentioned before, Kyabetsu's emotions are extremely fragile. This is both because of how he was raised by his mother, and the perpetual unsteadiness that his father's death left in his mental state. This caused Kyabetsu to be frequently bullied as a child, and make him needy for almost all attention. Even if someone hates him, Kyabetsu does his best effort to work with them as an attempt to make all people like him. However, in private, he does express an extreme hate towards some of the people in the killing game for how careless or insensitive they may be towards the feelings and lives of others, Eiichi and Souma being the main targets for this.

## Talent

### Ultimate Florist

Kyabetsu's talent as the Ultimate Florist gives him the ability to recognize all discovered flowers and many of their properties, and also the ability to manipulate these properties into small to extravagant floral arrangements and decorations. He also has wide knowledge ranging the history, usages and symbolism and feelings attached to many flowers and decorative plants. Despite this, he does not have the wide scientific knowledge of flowers and plants in the way that a botanist would.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Nyatsu Retasu

Kyabetsu's mother. The two were close from the time Kyabetsu was born, and that is a relationship that would continue throughout the rest of Kyabetsu's life with her. After his father killed himself, Kyabetsu gravitated heavily to his mother and they cared for each other in their own way while Kyabetsu grew up. This made Kyabetsu very dependent on her, and because of his issues socially at a young age, he spent nearly all of his time with her, helping her garden and around the house. Nyatsu is the reason Kyabetsu has so many "feminine" skills and quality, and partly the reason he is so considerable sensitive, as Nyatsu encouraged Kyabetsu to never repress his emotions like his father did.

Nyatsu greatly worried about Kyabetsu's mental state, and did all that she could to support him, but it never truly upset her or made her impatient. However, once he started raising concerns of being suicidal, Nyatsu was the one to send him to therapy with his grandfather to "give him fresh air." While he was gone, the two kept in contact daily.

Right before the second tragedy occurred, Kyabetsu had planned to move back in with in his mother in Japan, and was very excited about it, although the reason he was returning was to tend to her sickness. However, when he was placed back into the killing game, he had no memory of truly moving back in with his mother, and was extremely worried for her, due to being in the dark about the outside world and his mother's condition. He vowed to make it out of the killing game to see her again, and she became most of his drive to survive. After it was announced that his mother most likely died during the tragedy, Kyabetsu became extremely upset, and didn't know what to do when escaping the virtual world.

#### Koinu Retasu

Kyabetsu's father. Due to Koinu killing himself while Kyabetsu was young, the two were not able to become extremely close, though Kyabetsu does miss him dearly. His death traumatized Kyabetsu, and he often felt extremely guilty for it, as Koinu's suicide note included the reason for his suicide being the pressure and responsibility of a family. To repress what he had seen as a child, Kyabetsu often made up things about his father to forget what he had actually saw, so his idea and memory of his dad is extremely blurry. However, he does feel an extreme connection with him, and believes Koinu has a large part in his everyday life.

#### Hoshi Retasu

Kyabetsu's grandfather, who lives in Holland. Kyabetsu had not been very close to his grandfather, until he was fifteen and sent to Holland for an intensive therapy program and lived with Hoshi during that time.The two bonded just fine, Kyabetsu instantly loving him and respecting him both for allowing him to live with him, and because they were family, but Hoshi did upset him greatly sometimes. For one, Hoshi was a notorious alcoholic, and while he would never get violent or hurt Kyabetsu, he was very uncomfortable being under the same roof while he was drunk, and felt like he never truly got to know his grandpa because of it. However, Kyabetsu did attempt to take care of him when he was unwell, both from general sickness and keeping him safe while under the influence (taking his car keys, keeping him from over drinking, etc). Also, Kyabetsu would become greatly upset whenever Hoshi would often offhandedly compare him to his father, most specifically his appearance. This made Kyabetsu not only upset due to comparison with someone he was trying to forget at the time, but also because he took it as comparing their personalities as well. After escaping the neoworld program, Kyabetsu is unknowing of his grandfather's survival, and assumes him to be dead.

### Ex-Love Interest/One Sided Crush

#### Isha Kalki

Kyabetsu had a liking for Isha as soon as he met him, wanting to become friends due to their similar age and what he considered to be a positive attitude. After receiving Isha's secret about being responsible for many deaths, Kyabetsu reassured him and comforted him, telling him that he wasn't a horrible person. However, the conversation involving responsibility for deaths made Kyabetsu extremely upset and somewhat lonely. He ended up asking the other for a hug due to feeling touch starved, for which Isha complied, making Kyabetsu consider Isha a good friend.

During the Norijin sleepover, Tsuyo had dared Kyabetsu to kiss a boy in the room during a game of truth or dare. He chose Isha, considering him the male he was closest to, over Ale, which he would have considered weird. The two kissed, it being Kyabetsu's first kiss, and causing him to form a puppy-like crush on Isha. After Kyabetsu had fainted when Souma pulled a gun on the Norijin, Isha comforted Kyabetsu as he woke up before he had stomped off upset.

Not long after the sleepover, Isha found Kyabetsu sulking in the karaoke lounge. He encouraged Kyabetsu to sing with him, and the two sang together for a couple songs, and then decided to head up to the salon. They each wanted to redye their hair, or in Isha's case, dyeing his red instead of blue, but after Isha had made a mess, Kyabetsu opted to take care of Isha's hair for him. Kyabetsu cared for his hair while they spoke of their feelings of the Norijin members, and their opinions of each other. Isha told the florist that he thought he was smart, and that he loved all his classmates when asked directly what he thought of Kyabetsu. Kyabetsu thought he was avoiding the question, but didn't push farther on it, only remarking how odd he found the spy with a giggle.

After he had finished dyeing Isha's hair, and otherwise taking care of and maintaining it, Isha thanked Kyabetsu for taking care of him. However, he had left his thanks very vaguely, confusing Kyabetsu for what he was being thanked for. Kyabetsu accepted it anyway, and joked about Isha being odd again, finding the interaction cute.

Kyabetsu and Isha did share one love suite, where Kyabetsu was dressed as a stereotypical sexy dog, but thankfully fully clothed. Her begged for Isha's attention like a dog would, though Isha mostly ignored him, focused on how odd Kyabetsu was acting and attempting to escape the room. This upset Kyabetsu, as all he wanted was Isha to pay attention to him and Isha to show he cared for him.

Out of a desire for control, when the forbidden action motive was presented and Kyabetsu was not allowed to leave his room most times, Isha kidnapped Kyabetsu and took control of most aspects of his life, such as when he ate, slept and bathed. He also force-fed Kyabetsu anti psychotics and poisons to weaken the man. This was his attempt to "take care" of Kyabetsu, him seeing the other as a child he had responsibility over. All of these pertained as well to Fenikku.

In his drug addled state, Kyabetsu complied easily with Isha's wishes, seeing his actions as an extreme gesture of love. He followed all of his commands with few complaints, and began to feel a sense of devotion to the man. As his own gesture, Kyabetsu begged Isha to kill him so that Isha could win the killing game, wishing to sacrifice himself. Isha refused to do this at first, but Kyabetsu persisted, saying that he would kill himself if Isha didn't. Isha complied, overdosing Kyabetsu, and staying with him until he finally passed away. Isha then decorated his body with flowers, and left him peacefully before the others found him.

During the mastermind trial, whenever everybody was resurrected as alter egos, Kyabetsu mostly tried to avoid Isha until the end of the trial. When it was knowledge that nobody was actually dead, and that they were being freed from the simulation, Kyabetsu told Isha that he forgave him, and that he wished Isha could do the same. Isha responded awkwardly, not knowing what to say. The two left the simulation with a note of awkward silence.

Once released into the future foundations sanctuary, Kyabetsu and Isha avoided each other if possible. However, Kyabetsu did speak with Tsuyo about how he felt about their relationship, and his wishes regarding it. He told her that he wished to one day speak with him and become friends, but he knew that doing that soon would be an awful idea. Kyabetsu thinks that both are in need of serious time and healing before they can talk to each other comfortably, but that one day things may be able to return to some version of normal.

Despite his crush in the past, now that Kyabetsu has regained his sensibility and all possible romantic implications towards Isha, after recognizing both what Isha did to him, and how silly and dangerous his infatuation was. Though he may not have romantic feelings towards him anymore, Kyabetsu still wants to be able to one day form a relationship with Isha, and hopes to again be friends like they used to when they both work out their separate issues.

### Norijin

#### Tsuyo Kogiyumi

From the time they first met, Kyabetsu and Tsuyo easily got along and found it easy to form a close relationship. Tsuyo at first gave Kyabetsu advice with how to deal with people like Kagami, and taught him that he should fight back when people treat him the way she did. However, Kyabetsu politely disagreed, thinking that he should kind to everyone, even when they are rude to him. She stated that she admired him for this, and the two were able to carry a conversation together very easily, and Kyabetsu began to easily see her as a person that he could look up to.

Kyabetsu, seeing an instant connection with Tsuyo for her kind and supportive nature, quickly invited her into the Norijin. He invited her because he thought that her sensitive, yet very proud moral set that she carried would greatly help in his pursuit of order in the killing game, and after all that she did for the Norijin, he does not regret inviting her at all.

The two often bonded with each other over their shared fears of the killing game, of missing their families, and their opinions on the other participants. They often went each other for mutual support when scared, sad or insecure, and filled a brother and sister type role for each other. Kyabetsu often went to her for both physical and emotional comfort whenever none of the other students could offer it to him. He also often went to her in times of misunderstanding, or went to her with things he felt too embarrassed to ask the other students. One prime example was whenever was when Kyabetsu went to her to ask for an actual sex talk as he had never had one, and her, being both a biologist and a trust worthy friend, felt like a good choice to him. This ended with Kyabetsu getting a lecture about fetishes and other sexual preferences, among other things, and with him indirectly teasing Tsuyo for her own personal preferences. However, he felt a lot more knowledgeable after their talk.

During the Norijin sleepover, Kyabetsu mostly hung around Tsuyo, as he did consider her his closest friends. When they began playing truth or dare, Tsuyo dared Kyabetsu to kiss a boy in the room, knowing that he had never had his first kiss. He got flustered, but took it very lightheartedly with her and did what she said, kissing Isha. Later on, when Kyabetsu fainted and then left angrily to his own room, Tsuyo followed Kyabetsu and they vented to each other about the state of the council and the overall killing game, hugging and holding one another while becoming emotional.

During Ale's trial for killing Kagami, and Kyabetsu had painted himself as murderer to protect Tsuyo, who he thought was the murderer, Tsuyo blew up onto him for risking his, and everyone else's lives. This gave Kyabetsu a serious reality check, and he made an attempt to hold a value to his life after this, and he respected Tsuyo greatly for snapping him out of that head space.

After Ale died, Kyabetsu went to Tsuyo to confide with her about his fears and feelings of despair, and she did the same with him whilst in an embrace, and promised to each other to keep going. However, this would be a promise that Kyabetsu would break easily later whenever he begged for Isha to kill him. Later, at the mastermind trial, Kyabetsu apologized to Tsuyo for leaving her and allowing himself to die, and she forgave him, though he had trouble accepting her forgiveness. At the end of the trial, and it was knowledge that everyone would survive, Kyabetsu left with some loving words for Tsuyo, calling her his sister, and telling her how much she meant to him. She said some similar words, which made him the happiest he had been since before he had died.

Once escaped from the Neo World Program, Kyabetsu and Tsuyo rejoiced when meeting each other. Kyabetsu was more than elated to be with her again, this time in the real, and they hugged while sharing both their fears of being back into reality, and what they were planning to do with the rest of their lives. They ended the conversation on a light note, Kyabetsu calling Tsuyo gay and teasing her for her feelings towards Kagami, for which she teased back.

Kyabetsu's feelings towards Tsuyo are most certainly familial, the boy seeing her as a big sister that he wants to be there for since she has been there for him through all of his roughest times during the killing game. Their sibling-like relationship goes farther than loving, with some frequent silly teasing, though they aren't known to ever go far enough to ever hurt each others feelings. He considers her one of the most intelligent, kind and overall terrific people that he has ever had the honor to meet. He would put his life on the line for her, and do nearly anything to see her happy.

#### Kagami Hannei

Kyabetsu and Kagami were never able to form a good relationship, though Kyabetsu did seem to respect her greatly. She was often very mean to him, no matter how much she sucked up to her, which puzzled him. Kagami seemed to have the ability to pluck Kyabetsu's strings just right, and always knew what to say to make him cry. In fact, Kagami made a crude joke about his father's suicide before Kyabetsu was even open about it, which devastated him and made it extremely hard for him to get along with her in the beginning. At one point, he did try to tease her lightly about her relationship with Ale, only to be met with more insults that made him cry.

However, Kyabetsu did attempt his best at forming a good relationship with her. He invited Kagami to the Norijin, because he considered a very strong candidate out of all the other participants, and believed she had the strength and confidence to establish order among the killing game, despite her sour attitude. He does not regret inviting her into the Norijin.

Despite their strained personal relationship, Kyabetsu did believe Kagami to be a good person in the end, most of this belief coming from Tsuyo and Ale's kind words about her, and how he heard she was trying to improve as a person. Although Tsuyo constantly encouraged Kyabetsu to stand up to her teasing, he never did, believing that she would one day come around to be a nice person without him having to be mean back. Overall, Kyabetsu respects Kagami very much, and wishes that he had taken a better approach at becoming her friend.

#### Kouki Yoshida

Kyabetsu did not know Kouki very well while he was alive, and Kouki, due to being an AI, is not present outside of the simulation. However, Kouki is considered to replace Kyabetsu and Isha's spot in the Norijin after both died. While most members of the Norijin were against Kouki joining, Kyabetsu would have most likely had no problems learning that Kouki had taken over his spot.

## Quotes

### Big Team Orgy

* "I can't stand people like them, who treat their lives and the lives of others like some game they can win... it makes me so sick! They aren't solving anything! Why can't we all just get along?"
* "What happened in the killing game, in the end, shouldn't keep us from each other. We're still good people, right?"
* "I know what it feels like to feel responsible for someone's death... It's not something you can get over easily, and no matter how responsible you are for their death, if you didn't want it to happen, you aren't guilty."
* "He's the brains of the operation, I'm the smile!"
* "I wouldn't worry about it, everyone has scars, right? And people think scars are hot!"
* "I care for you guys, a lot... I don't know if you guys want to put up with me but... I want to be there for all of you, if you promise the same thing, y'know?"
* *To Chika Miyasaki once revealed mastermind:* "I always thought I would have some words for you... Ever since we got stuck in this thing I always wanted to have something to say to you that would make you feel some remorse for your actions, but I think I've learned people like you aren't capable of that."

## Trivia

* Kyabetsu's first and last name directly translates to "Cabbage Lettuce." Before this was made his name, his name was Hima Sanmayama.
* Kyabetsu does not swear often, but there seems to be a trend where he swears once per trial, usually when frustrated or extremely saddened. The only time possibly in his life that he has said "fuck" was when he heard the news that his mother, and possibly his entire family, was deceased.
* From his mother, Kyabetsu carries many traditional home making skills, like cooking, some sewing and child-caring. However, he becomes upset when people label these skills as feminine or that they do not have value.
	+ Kyabetsu also hopes to use these skills one day, one of his biggest dreams being that he one day become a father.
* Kyabetsu is quite skilled in poetry and has a heavy interest in it, though he is only familiar with Japanese poets.
* He can speak Japanese and Dutch fluently, and knows some English from school, but it is quite terrible, and Kyabetsu suggests that he has failed many English classes before.
* Kyabetsu shares many parallels with the traditional fairy tale *Snow White*.
	+ His body discovery directly alludes to the way that the princess, Snow White, was arranged in her casket.
	+ Kyabetsu was killed by someone he trusted in search of the guilty's search of power and control.
	+ Kyabetsu had been overdosed/poisoned to death, similar to the way Snow White was poisoned with an apple.
	+ Isha and Kyabetsu's trial also carries similar themes of age and youth to those in the fairy tale.
* He is Yukine Sakurai, but good.