Gender: Male Age: 17 Height: 175cm Appearance: He has black hair with long bangs that cover his eyes. He has many moles on his face. Upon closer inspection, he has one or two moles not just on his face, but also on his neck and arms, which he dislikes immensely. Personality: Calm, quiet, and introverted. He is academically excellent and knowledgeable. Although he denies it, his friends say he has a high tolerance for scary things. Details: Raised in a household where his family fought every day, he is a character whose depressive side is prominent. In contrast to Hikaru, who is always smiling, Yoshiki usually wears a sullen expression. He feels extreme disgust toward the village where people gossip about his family behind their backs. He is a childhood friend of Hikaru, and it is consistently implied that he harbored romantic feelings for him. Consequently, he suffers immensely after Hikaru's death. After encountering Hikaru's corpse, he is terrified by even the color orange, which was the color of the clothes Hikaru was wearing at the time. He is confused by his relationship with the "Hikaru" possessed by a monster. As the story progresses, he gradually accepts Hikaru's death and becomes closer to the new Hikaru, feeling complex emotions toward him. Yoshiki struggles with his sexual orientation, and the work's descriptions imply that he is gay. He speaks in a Gyeongsang-do dialect. Every night before falling asleep, he falls into depressed thoughts and questions his own actions before finally drifting off.