 Hitsugi Kurone
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Hitsugi is a second-year transfer student in the Production Course at Yumenosaki Academy. Though he loves to chat, he often finds it difficult to keep up with conversations involving long sentences or complex discussions.[1][2]
I'm Hitsugi Kurone! I was looking for you. I thought to grant a wish of yours to show my gratitude. What I mean by that is... Ah~! Wah~! What was I talking about again?![1]
Appearance
Hitsugi is of short stature with an equally small build. His hair is dark brown and falls just past his shoulders, seemingly unstyled. His eyes are a bright yellow. He wears the men's Yumenosaki uniform, notable features of which being the blue tie denoting that he is a second year, the white vest he wears, and the first two buttons of his shirt being undone.
Personality
Hitsugi is a rather loud person who often says whatever is on his mind without little thought beforehand, even screaming for seemingly no reason. Hitsugi will mention when he doesn't understand something, and often talks about his "Onee-chan" who handles things he can not. Due to him constantly getting confused, he tends to talk a lot without much clarity. After hearing someone's name, he will give them a nickname such as "Shinohaji" for Hajime. His awareness of social situations is nearly nonexistent, and he often brings up taboo topics like death and necromancy as if they were normal. Despite everything, he is shown to be kind in his own way by offering to grant the wishes as a form of thanks to those who have helped him.
Beneath his facade of a ditz who doesn't know better, Hitsugi is deep down cold and vengeful, with an intense fixation of hatred for his father, Priest. It's revealed that while he adopted the facade of a clueless person to appear more harmless, his confusion and memory problems were genuine; a result of brain damage after inhaling smoke from a prolonged period of time during a building fire.
Etymology
Family
- For more information, see Hitsugi Kurone/Family.
Hitsugi's father is Priest, and his older sister is NEGI. Hitsugi was raised unconventionally by his family, born for the sole purpose of being an heir. He was raised separately from his sister, and was never allowed any chance to make his own friends. As a result, he clung to his sister as she was the only person who loved him, despite them rarely having time to see each other.
Trivia
- NEGI is the name of the "Onee-chan" Hitsugi talks of, both her and Hitsugi share the same body yet are shown to be separate people.
- NEGI mentioned that when Hitsugi is "awake" she is not, and she can not remember what happens when Hitsugi is awake without taking the time to "search" for the information in her head.[3]
- NEGI prefers to wear the women's Yumenosaki uniform rather than the men's one Hitsugi wears.
- Despite sharing the same body, they are unable to talk directly with each other, and instead communicate through their phone via diary entries.
- An exception to this is shown in Black Jack, where NEGI communicates with Hitsugi by writing on paper while Hitsugi is conscious.
- While Hitsugi says only good things about NEGI, often at times NEGI only has negative things to say about him.
- Hitsugi mentions Gatekeeper when talking to Hajime, claiming that Gatekeeper has praised NEGI for her necromancy skills.