Ryuen

Biodata

Name	Ryuen Kakeru (龙园)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	First-Year Class C, Advanced Nurturing High School
Occupation/Role	Class C leader
Status	Active student
First Appearance	4

Background

Before enrolling at Advanced Nurturing High School, Ryuen was known as a delinquent leader. After entering Class C, he quickly established himself as its dominant figure through intimidation and violence. 6 18

Ryuen aimed to lead Class C to Class A and, depending on circumstances, envisioned having the entire first-year grade graduate from Class A. Students who resisted his authority were pressured into submission, while those with useful abilities could receive preferential treatment. 4 9

Kujo Makoto provided Ryuen with information about the school’s class-point system, promotion rules, special exams, teachers, and upperclassmen. Ryuen tested the information by anonymously spreading it across the school’s internal social platform, mixing genuine details with misleading claims. 7

Appearance

Ryuen is a red-haired boy with a confrontational presence. After a fight with Ishizaki and Albert, he was described as disheveled, with messy clothing and bruised lips. 4

• Red hair. 4
• Smaller in physical stature than Albert and not regarded as Class C’s strongest fighter. 9
• Frequently adopts an arrogant posture, such as crossing his legs or placing his feet on a desk. 4 27

Personality

Ryuen is aggressive, shameless, and driven by a need to make others acknowledge his authority. He uses fear, pressure, and violence to control Class C, but his methods are rooted in a genuine determination to lead the class rather than indiscriminately destroy it. 4 9

He is highly persistent after defeat. Kujo’s overwhelming victory on the rooftop did not break his resolve; Ryuen continued watching Class D, pursuing new schemes, and repeatedly seeking ways to overcome Kujo. 10 13 36

Ryuen pursues complete victories rather than merely favorable outcomes. His plans are designed not only to defeat opponents but to make them experience the failure of his schemes firsthand. 37

Abilities & Skills

Class Leadership and Intimidation

Ryuen maintains Class C’s internal order through personal intimidation and the threat of force.

• Class C students waited for Ryuen and his group to leave before departing the classroom themselves. 6
• Ishizaki became his subordinate and carried his bag after school. 6
• By the first monthly results, he held effective absolute authority over Class C. 27
• He grants privileges to classmates with useful talents rather than treating every student identically. 9

Strategy and Manipulation

Ryuen uses misinformation, proxies, and social pressure to create advantageous conflicts between classes.

• Spread anonymous posts containing school-rule information to test whether Kujo’s intelligence was true and provoke the school’s response. 7
• Ordered Ishizaki to impersonate Kujo and propose a false Class B–Class C partnership, intending to draw Class B into conflict with Kujo. 13 14
• Sent Manabe Shiho to spread information and act on his behalf. 4 20
• Investigated Koenji’s method of acquiring points from upperclassmen and attempted to copy it through deception. 27
• Approached Hoshinomiya Chie to seek information for a joint effort against Class D. 40

Combat and Resilience

Ryuen is willing to initiate physical confrontations and use surprise attacks, though he is outmatched by Kujo.

• Challenged Kujo to fight shortly after their first meeting. 7
• Was rapidly defeated by Kujo during their rooftop fight. 10
• Attempted a surprise punch and kick against Kujo in a camera-blind stairwell, but neither attack landed. 13
• Returned to confront Kujo again with an iron pipe despite having lost their earlier fights. 36
• His combat ability is below Albert’s, and he ranks near the bottom of Class C academically. 9

Framing Schemes

Ryuen devised a plan to use the iron pipe meeting to manufacture evidence against Kujo.

• If Kujo could not use the weapon, Ryuen expected to win physically. 37
• If Kujo injured him, Ryuen intended to accuse Kujo of malicious assault. 37
• If Kujo left no visible injury, Ryuen planned to injure himself with the pipe bearing Kujo’s fingerprints. 37
• Kujo exposed the plan before it could be carried out, after which Ryuen refused to self-harm. 36 37

Relationships

• Kujo Makoto — Rival, repeated opponent, and reluctant strategic counterpart. Kujo supplied Ryuen with school intelligence and used him as a conspicuous threat; Ryuen recognized this manipulation and repeatedly sought revenge. 7 13 36
• Ishizaki Daichi — Subordinate and frequent agent in Ryuen’s schemes, including the impersonation of Kujo during the false alliance proposal to Class B. 6 13 14
• Yamada Albert — Associate within Ryuen’s core group. Albert viewed Ryuen as a “brother” after accepting his claim that he would use strength for Class C’s sake. 10
• Manabe Shiho — Class C gyaru-group leader who follows Ryuen’s orders and helped spread information. 4 20
• Shiina Hiyori — Classmate who openly opposed his handling of the Class C fight. Ryuen did not interfere with her relationship with Kujo, partly because he wished to see whether Kujo had gained a weakness. 4 15
• Sakagami Kazuma — Class C homeroom teacher. Ryuen paid him 40,000 points to observe the rooftop confrontation and retain evidence against Kujo, but Sakagami did not follow through. 10
• Ichinose Honami — Class B leader targeted through Ryuen’s false alliance proposal and attempt to bait her class into probing Kujo. 14 20
• Hoshinomiya Chie — Class B’s homeroom teacher, whom Ryuen approached to request information for an operation against Class D. 40

Story Role / Major Arcs

Establishing Control of Class C

Ryuen is introduced amid a violent confrontation involving Ishizaki and Albert. He reveals that he has already used Manabe to spread school information and declares his intent to command Class C’s path toward Class A. 4

Receiving Kujo’s Information

Kujo meets Ryuen in Class C and reveals information about the school’s systems. Ryuen becomes interested enough to verify it by circulating anonymous posts, setting the wider first-year competition in motion. 7

Rooftop Defeat

Ryuen meets Kujo and Sakagami on the rooftop to settle Class C’s leadership issue. Kujo defeats Ryuen, Ishizaki, and Albert, but Ryuen retains his will to fight rather than surrendering his position. 9 10

Retaliation and False Alliance

After recovering, Ryuen attacks Kujo in a stairwell and develops a mistaken belief that Kujo is targeting upperclassmen. He orders Ishizaki to pose as Kujo when approaching Class B, hoping to provoke conflict between Ichinose’s class and Kujo. 13 14

Point Gathering and Renewed Challenge

Ryuen copies Koenji’s approach to raising private points from upperclassmen and continues monitoring Kujo’s plans. He later challenges Kujo with an iron pipe, attempting to force a win or create grounds for Kujo’s expulsion. 27 36 37

Move Against Class D

Following the midterm results, Ryuen approaches Hoshinomiya to propose cooperation against Class D, arguing that Class D’s rise threatens both Class B and Class C. 40

Notable Quotes

“Sooner or later, I’m going to get you expelled.” 36

“Let’s make a deal. Let’s work together to target Class D.” 40