Haruku Akino

Haruku Akino is a character featured in Re:DanganVirtual 2 - Absentia.

He is known as the Prestigious Super High School Level Locksmith.

Public Backstory
Haruku Akino is a folk hero in the world of banks, jewelry stores, and museums. Many important and valuable caches are sealed behind locks that he developed. Growing up with impressive puzzle-solving and puzzle-making skills, Haruku is famous for the passion he shows in his work as a locksmith. Early on in his career, he would simply unlock doors or vaults when the owners forgot the passcode or lost their keys. The normal duties of a standard locksmith. It wasn’t long before he started developing his on security, though, going from cracking locks into making them. Haruku used his great knowledge of logic, machinery, and the mechanics of how a lock worked to basically turn them into extreme puzzles, nearly impossible to pick while still easy to unlock for one who has the key. He made it into his own art, and that built up an image for him quickly.

He began a business out of that at a young age, and soon there were many others wanting to make sure their caches of valuable goods were secured by Haruku Akino. This became especially true in the early 2030s, when the chaos that was overtaking the world suddenly found even more use than usual for keeping precious things out of the hands of ne’er-do-wells. He was so prolific at such a young age in fact, that he was invited to be part of just the second ever graduating class of the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles, just a short time before his business truly took off. His passion for the job is respectable, and it’s shown in his personal touch on each job, where he stays on the scene for weeks or even months each night, personally overseeing his work to make sure nothing goes wrong. It’s a practice that’s built him a lot of trust with his clients. Unfortunately, this also resulted in his disability. On an early job, there was a failed break in in which Haruku was attacked and sustained head trauma. The would-be thieves stole nothing, but escaped without facing justice, and Haruku went completely mute due to the damage to the speech center of his brain. To combat this disability, he has a speech synthesizer that uses a keyboard strapped to his arm, though he’s admitted to preferring sign language. He doesn’t let that failure deter him, and he continues his work to this day.