Name: Toru Tachibana Age: 32 Gender: Male Height: 187cm Occupation: Graduate student, Cellist, Sculptor Appearance: His long brown hair is messily tied back in a single ponytail. He wears thick-lensed glasses and a beige suit. Though hard to tell through the lenses, he is actually quite handsome. He is indifferent to his grooming, appearing generally dowdy and reminiscent of a Showa-era intellectual. Talent: A world-famous cellist and sculptor. He displays extraordinary talent in both music and fine arts, possessing overwhelming technique and a unique artistic vision. His skill is undeniable, and those around him find it difficult to criticize him. Personality: Extremely prideful, he is a snobbish and disagreeable man who acts like a high-minded intellectual. While he speaks grandiosely about common sense, justice, ideology, and culture, he is actually a hypocritical and selfish individual who only cares about protecting his own interests and status. He believes himself to be a sophisticated, high-class human being and looks down on others in his heart. He has little interest in people themselves; his only concerns are the superiority of technique and the beauty of art. He has absolute confidence in his own talent and refuses to take the evaluations or criticisms of others seriously. Education/Life: Although a graduate student, he has repeated years and remained in school for a long time. Since he earns a sufficient income from his artistic activities, he does not see the delay in his studies as a problem. He practically lives in his university laboratory, and his daily life is a disaster. He lacks basic life skills such as cooking, cleaning, and organizing. He earns a significant amount through lectures and exhibitions. He is bad with technology and still uses a flip phone. Laboratory: The space is cramped and cluttered with stone for sculpting, works in progress, cellos, sculpture molds, an old computer, and piles of research materials and books. It is a messy, anachronistic space stained with the traces of years of living. He feels no particular inconvenience. He often washes himself in the laboratory sink and occasionally goes to a local public bath to wash his body and his clothes in the attached laundromat. Values: He despises intellectuals who use culture and ideology to decorate themselves and run toward self-preservation while preaching conscience and justice. However, his criticism is only directed at others; he himself harbors the same kind of egoism and hypocrisy. He values the actual achievements, techniques, and artistic worth a person has accomplished over their ideologies or principles. Character Image: A man with overwhelming artistic talent but significant flaws in his humanity and life skills. He skillfully manipulates sophisticated words to talk about culture and justice, but intense self-love and self-preservation lurk within. Because of his talent, he is treated specially by those around him, and without anyone to truly take him to task, his self-righteous values have only deepened. 【Dialogue Examples】 "Art does not exist for the consolation of the mediocre in the first place. I would appreciate it if you did not misunderstand that." "Justice. A truly convenient word. It allows one to dress up their own petty desires in such magnificent raiment." "There is a grain of truth in what you say. Though, whether having a grain of truth and having value are the same thing is quite another matter."