| “ | I thought that… Maybe it’s fine if I can’t go back to the outside world that won’t give me any attention. | ” |
—Sakurai Haruka, The Second Trial | ||
Sakurai Haruka (
He is voiced by Horie Shun.
Description[]
A quiet young prisoner who's normally always looking at the ground.
At first, he would only respond to Es’s questions with a word or two. But as he starts to open up more through conversation, he slowly starts to become more talkative. When you're able to communicate with him properly, you can see his true personality: a kind and gentle person.
He is mild-mannered and does not seem to dislike being in MILGRAM. He tries to converse with Es and the other prisoners, but since his communication skills are poor, he is unable to hold a proper conversation.
Personality[]
Haruka is a timid and quiet prisoner. Although he does not speak often, when he does, he stares at the floor. The more you get to know him, the more he starts to speak.
As shown in his interaction with Shidou on the MILGRAM Portal Timeline, Haruka has a habit of digging his nails into his palm when he is nervous or tense.
He is also not fond of animals, a claim he made in both his interrogation and the Timeline. He also says in his voice drama that he is not good at dealing with children around Amane’s age.
History[]
Born in 1997, in Nagaoka, Niigata.
From an early age, Sakurai Haruka developed more slowly compared to his peers.
His overprotective parents would not accept that their child had developmental delays, and did not provide him with an educational environment suited to his needs.
The gap in developmental achievements between him and his peers kept widening, so much so that when Haruka reached 15 years old, he could still not adequately read kanji.
It was around that time that his parents simply gave up, and they shift from overprotectiveness to disinterest. From then forth, his parents acted as if Haruka did not exist. Haruka tried to regain his parents' attention by causing problems and disturbances, but his parents' attention was never directed at him again.
Haruka starts to kill small animals in secret from around that time. He killed insects, he killed mice, he killed stray cats and dogs. He felt relieved that there was life in this world that was inferior to him.
Haruka's actions soon escalate, and he starts to kill pet cats and dogs as well.
The following day, as he witnessed the tormented screams of the people who had suddenly lost a life they so cherished, he has a deep emotional reaction where he feels for the very first time that he is indeed connected to the world.
The neighborhood increased its security soon afterward, and Haruka's unsophisticated crimes soon came to light.
The police detained and questioned him harshly. Haruka experiences a heightened sense of excitement with all of this interest and attention directed at himself. When he saw the faces of his parents, who were called in for him and him alone, that heightened excitement reached a fever pitch, and he fainted.
The day he was released, Haruka committed murder. The victim was a small child, clearly much less powerful than himself. It was the day of the fireworks festival. He targeted a child who had strayed from her parents. Haruka weeps, as he clumsily hides the body.
"This child's life was probably much more valuable than my own"
"A future much brighter than mine was probably awaiting this child"
"Why did I end up like this?"
Haruka cried, night after night after that, and repented. He thinks about the future of the child he murdered, and claws at his chest.
When he came to, he was strangling the neck of a second child.
Trial Results[]
(Innocent 58.33 %)
(Guilty 54.97 %)
Etymology[]
- Sakurai means "cherry blossom" (
櫻 , sakura?) and "well" (井 , i?). - Haruka means "distant, far-off, remote" (
遥 , haruka?).
Trivia[]
- Haruka is the youngest male prisoner in MILGRAM.
- Haruka believes in God.
- Haruka dislikes animals, and did not have any pets.
- He also dislikes little children, though he is no longer scared of them during The Second Trial.
- Haruka enjoys talking with his fellow inmates.
- He usually sleeps when bored.
- Haruka's biggest fear is betrayal.
- Haruka's favorite foods are hamburg steak, omurice and cotton candy.
- Cotton candy was the most expensive thing he has bought.
- Haruka's dream is to live normally.
- He also wishes to be a smart, strong and interesting person.
- In conversations, Haruka uses ellipsis whenever he cannot find the right words.[3]
- If MILGRAM has an arm-wrestling contest, Haruka would be ranked fourth.[4]
- Haruka's birth flower is the linden arrowwood.
- Haruka's sash reads "Mors certa" in MILGRAM language.
- It is a reference to the Latin phrase "Mors certa, hora incerta", which means "Death is certain, its hour is uncertain".
References[]
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| v • e Characters | |
|---|---|
| Project Characters | |
| Guards | Es • Jackalope |
| Prisoners | Sakurai Haruka • Kashiki Yuno • Kajiyama Fuuta • Kusunoki Muu • Kirisaki Shidou • Shiina Mahiru • Mukuhara Kazui • Momose Amane • Kayano Mikoto • Yuzuriha Kotoko |
| Others | John |
| Novel Characters | |
| First Novel | Es • Jackalope • Gentle • Nervous • Close • Two-Side • Torch |
| Second Novel | Es • Jackalope • Tatsumi • Rina • Mei • Tomonari • Mako |