Haruaki Fusaishi

By **Meiko**:

* Fusayuki-san

By **Yoshitsugu**:

* lunatic
* Piss-man

**Haruaki Fusaishi** (房石 陽明, *Fusaishi Haruaki*) is the protagonist of *Raging Loop*. After breaking up with his girlfriend of two years, he rode his bike into the countryside and stumbled upon the remote mountain settlement of Yasumizu.

Haruaki becomes a key figure in the Feast: a death game based on local superstition, where humans must hang wolves who kill someone every night. Haruaki has the ability to loop back in time upon death, retaining his memories.

## Physical Appearance

> *"A young man. Medium build. Taller than average. In his twenties... Probably a bit older than me... And that clothing's clearly not for outdoors."*
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> *—Chiemi Serizawa (Revelation Mode)*
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Haruaki is a physically attractive young man with dyed brown hair and brown eyes.

He wears a leather jacket over a white-grey t-shirt with a simple bar-gradient pattern and jeans, and has a traveling bag strapped across his torso. He can be also seen in biking gloves and a helmet in the first few CGs, as well as the last CG in the True End.

## Personality

> *"My fear of of things I didn't know was the same, except I wasn't satisfied with just labels or hypotheses. I needed to reach the truth.*
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> *Though... worry and fear were basically on the same coin as curiosity and excitement."*
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The driving forces behind Haruaki's personality are his curiosity and desire to be in control. He has a fear of the unknown that is often accompanied by excitement, and he can't always tell the difference between the two. He will attempt to get close to anything that catches his interest.

He is also a skeptic, believing that if something strange can be explained by mundane means, then that is most likely the correct explanation.

### Feast of the Yomi-Purge

Haruaki knows how to manipulate others and turn the situation in his favor. Despite not being a part of the Feast in Yomi, he is able to have some influence through Chiemi.

He is able to lie and spin half-truths easily, and can adapt his personality if he deems it necessary, such as the time he tried to seem tough by offering Yoshitsugu to cut off his finger, and the cool android-like persona he put on for Haru in order to get closer to her. During the Feast in Wit, to ensure his safety, he replied that he "does not have any special abilities" when asked if he had a guardian, which results in him being accused of lying when he reveals his guardian, the snake, the next day. Knowing that being seen as a liar will likely get him hanged, he quickly decides to drop his act of being a part of the village and take on the role of a cowardly, selfish outsider.

His pride and need for control also come up near the end of Wit, where he makes a bet with Chiemi. He asks to be given ten minutes, which he will use to run away. Once the time is up, she will be able to chase after him. If he is able to get away (or die trying), he wins; otherwise, Chiemi wins, and he will die with love for her. His reason for making this bet was simply to die by his own rules.

He is very observant, and was able to guess quite a few of the participants' guardians simply by watching their actions. In Darkness, that ability lets him kill the real snake and pretend to be the snake for the entire duration of the Feast. Additionally, he is shown to be especially cruel as a wolf in that route, and makes sure to thoroughly destroy his victims' bodies, reducing them to a bloody pulp, though this could be due to his experiences against wolves over his various deaths. Wit could especially influence this behaviour, as he learned through Kaori's death in that route that it is possible to leave notes for people to find after death and circumvent the rules. So by thoroughly destroying the bodies he may be making sure that, if anyone did leave a message, it is destroyed rather than leaving any markings or anything to chance.

*WARNING!From this point on, this article will contain spoilers from late in the game, including Myth, Revelation Mode, and the epilogues. Proceed with caution!*

## ???

### Aliases

  • Haruaki Fusaishi (房石陽明)
By **Chikamochi Kamoshida**:

* Piss man
* Toilet man
* Undie man
* Hassan

By **Meiko**:

* Fusayuki-kun

## Personal Details

### Education

University drop-out (previously majoring in history)

## Actors

### Japanese Voice

Satoshi Arai

"Haruaki Fusaishi" (房石 陽明, *Fusaishi Haruaki*) is a fake name used by the protagonist of *Raging Loop*. Apparently, it's one of his pen names (specifically, "for when he's barely working"). It can also be read as *Fusaishi Youmei,* which sounds like 不在証明 (*Fusaishoumei),* or "alibi". Interestingly enough, it is the name his ex-girlfriend, Mitsuji Misamine, and later his current girlfriend, Chiemi Serizawa, know him by.

Haruaki grew tired of city life, and after breaking up with his girlfriend of two years over an argument resulting from him eating her pudding without permission, decided to buy a bike take a ride on it, not looking at the map and just going wherever the roads take him. After walking into a convenience store, he realizes that the clerk is, in fact, his ex-girlfriend, and decides the best course of action would be to pretend not to know her, and she does the same. He asks her where the nearest settlement is, and after following the path given, ends up falling off a cliff. He eventually reaches a small village by the name of Yasumizu on foot.

Due to an unfortunate turn of events, he ends up in the middle of a Feast - a death game based on local superstition, where humans must hang Wolves who kill someone every night. He finds himself in a time loop which restarts after his death, unable to escape.

Little is known of his life outside of the events of the game, other than that he is a famous writer and is rather well-off financially. His real name is never revealed.

## Personality, Continued

Haruaki is also shown to hold grudges and can be extremely petty at times, as can be seen from his interactions with Mitsuji Misamine up until the end of the game, where he, still angry over their breakup, pretends not to know her.

### Moral Values

> *"I had no innate sense of right and wrong. The most I could do was copy other people's rightness."*
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Haruaki does not appear to have morals of his own, instead adjusting them to that of the people around him. While this makes it possible for him to get by and live out life as a normal person, it has a few hiccups here and there. In Wit, he suggests the villagers cut off one of the wolves' limbs, so that they cannot murder the night before they are hanged. This suggestion is met with great aversion, which Haruaki doesn't seem to understand the reason for. After all, these same people had no problem hanging their friends and family; it seemed illogical to him.

In Darkness, he is unable to stay sane due to his fellow wolves' lack of any aversion to killing. He ends up choosing the most brutal methods out of the wolves from any route, and the bodies of his victims are mangled to the point of being unrecognizable.

While he is usually the kind of person to prioritize his own survival over anyone else's, young children seem to be an exception, as seen from his self sacrifice in Wit in order to buy Meiko time to escape. It is unclear whether that is an intrinsic moral value or a learnt one like the rest of his morality.

## Etymology

* The name **Haruaki** means "light, sun, male" (陽) (**haru**) and "bright, light, clear" (明) (**aki**).
* Haruaki's surname **Fusaishi** means "chamber, bunch, tuft, cluster, house," (房) (**fusa**) and "stone, volume measure" (石) (**ishi**).

## Trivia

* Haruaki uses the personal pronoun 僕 (*boku).*
* Haruaki is the only character Chiemi Serizawa could not see God on; even the journalists were said to have a bit of God on them. This is likely due to his lack of an innate sense of right and wrong, as well as his willingness to question his beliefs, spawned from his curiosity. However, in Wit he, too, is infected by God.
* Despite pretending not to know Hisako Mamiya upon their first meeting, Haruaki has actually been a huge fan of her work ever since he read one of her articles at a dentist's office, going as far as to rip her articles out and preserve them.
* Haruaki once made pork miso soup with a mushroom he found growing from a floor cushion in the Medical Association's clubroom, causing mass hallucinations.
* Haruaki was somehow able to "confirm his identity" when taking Meiko to the police in Wit, despite the fact that he was using a fake name. There is no explanation offered for this.
	+ It is mentioned earlier on in Wit (before his drunken interaction with the police officer) that he hides his ID in his toolbox.
* Most of Haruaki's books are published under different pen names.

## References

1. ↑ 2. Dense Mist - 5/12 (Mon), At Amano-Iwato
2. ↑ 7. Myth - One day..., Raid
3. ↑ Extra - Huntress VS Bear