Hanaya Masui

Hanaya Masui (益井 花野 Masui Hanaya) is an antagonist. She is responsible for the bullying of Leyko Kishimoto. Masui spread many lies about Leyko and everyone believed them.

Appearance
Hanaya is a girl of average height with medium-length hair. She wore her street clothes in middle school because it was a public school. When Hanaya was in high school, she wore the Kijiwara Private School issued uniform: a white and navy blue sailor fuku uniform with a blue tie, a white shirt, a blue skirt with black loafers and black soles.

Personality
Hanaya comes off as a very nice girl. She treats people very respectfully. However, Hanaya’s true nature is very different. Hanaya is very lustful and will get anything that she wants, even if she can’t have it. Hanaya does not care if she ruins other people’s lives in the process. Hanaya only cares about what she gains, and Hanaya will get what she wants when she wants something. Hanaya is very unapologetic and unforgiving.

There is no remorse in Hanaya’s actions unless she is with the very person she is lusting after. Hanaya has narcissistic tendencies and often plays the victim whenever things get bad. Hanaya has an issue with running away from her own faults and cannot recognize it.

Year 2 - Middle School
Hanaya transferred to PS328 in the 2nd year. She quickly warmed up to everyone and became friends with a lot of people. There was one friend in particular that Hanaya liked. His name was Hiromasa Naito. Hanaya had a crush on Hiromasa, but Hiromasa was dating a girl named Leyko Kishimoto. Leyko was one of Hanaya’s friends at the time. Seeing how easy it was to warm up to everyone in the grade in just a short couple weeks, Hanaya believed it would be easy to take advantage of that. Hanaya’s crush on Hiromasa was no longer just a little thing anymore, Hanaya wanted it to turn into a real relationship. Hanaya knew that Leyko would be absolutely crushed by Hanaya’s way of getting what she wanted, but Hanaya knew that it would work her way in the end. Hanaya began to spread lies about Leyko, saying that Leyko had been harassing Hanaya because Leyko thought that Hanaya would steal Hiromasa. It was not an easy situation to pass judgement on given the fact that the people in the school were very quick to believe whatever they heard.

As expected, everyone in the school believed Hanaya’s lies. Nobody was Leyko’s friend anymore. People would tell on Leyko for Hanaya. The faculty began to believe the lies, too. Leyko got in trouble many, many times and could never make anyone believe the truth. Leyko was punished so many times for all of the “bad things” that she did to Hanaya. Hanaya did not feel bad for it one bit. That was because in the midst of Leyko’s demise, Hanaya was flirting with Hiromasa. Hanaya convinced Hiromasa that Leyko was always complaining about him behind his back. This led to Hiromasa breaking up with Leyko because he thought that she hated him. Now Hanaya had her chance to start dating Hiromasa. Leyko cried for multiple days and did not return to school for a while.

When Leyko did return to school though, it was as if everything was 10x worse. Hanaya told everyone that Leyko was sending death threats to her. The teachers got involved, then the police were brought into it. Leyko swore that she never sent any death threats to Hanaya and her phone was checked. There was proof of no death threats or anything wrong. Hanaya’s secret began to slipe out. Hanaya’s mother, Chizumi, was called to the school. Chizumi was very unimpressed with Hanaya and swore that her daughter was not born to act like this. The principal assured Chizumi that Hanaya was certainly not born to be like this, but the situation had to be faced properly because people should not lie about death threats.

Hanaya’s mother was on the verge of tears knowing that her own daughter had done something so horrible. Chizumi demanded that Hanaya apologize to Leyko and let Hiromasa get back together with her. Hanaya broke into tears because she really wanted to date Hiromasa. Chizumi said that it didn’t matter what Hanaya’s feelings or opinion was, Hanaya still did something wrong. Chizumi said that if Hanaya did not apologize, Chizumi would let the entire school know what she did. Hanaya was embarrassed, but still apologized to Leyko. Leyko forgave Hanaya.

In the end, Hanaya still wanted Hiromasa. They kept on dating, and Chizumi was mad. Chizumi changed her mind about telling the entire school about Hanaya, so Chizumi grounded Hanaya for a month.

Trivia

 * Hanaya (花野) means, “flower (花) (hana), field (野) (ya)”.
 * Masui (益井) means, “profit, gain, benefit, advantage (益) (masu), well (井) (i)”.
 * Hanaya refers to herself as “Watashi (私)” and refers to others as “Anata (あなた)”.
 * Hanaya calls her parents “Okaa-san” and “Otou-san”.