Maru

Maru (マル) is one of the main protagonists in the Heavenly Delusion series.

Character Profile
Maru is a boy who is aiming for "Heaven" and to find the other boy who looks like him. He has no memory of his origin and as such has no surname. According to Kiruko, he is "a beautiful boy who is hard to find". He has outstanding physical abilities and a special power to kill man-eaters, which he calls “hiruko”. He was born only a few months before The Calamity and is 15 at the start of the series.

Appearance
Maru is a boy in his mid-adolescence. He has light gray eyes and light gray spiky hair. He sports a black hoodie jumpsuit, a yellow inside shirt and a black midtop trainers with red soles. He also carries around a green army camping bag.

He has been described as handsome by Kiruko.

Kiruko
He fell in love with her shortly after the two began working together. Although knowing their backstory, he still wants to be with her romantically, saying that he never found a girl that he got along with this well. Despite his crush, he most often refers to her as “sis”.

Takezuka
Upon first meeting Takezuka for the first time the two quickly got into a fight. It was the first time in the story that Maru lost a fight. The next day the two exchanged blows in a warehouse to the point they both collapsed in exhaustion. Both claimed that the other had won the fight, establishing a mutual respect between them. Maru took interest in Takezuka because of her use of the word “hiruko” to describe the “man-eaters”.

History
Most of his childhood was spent being transferred between violent gangs. He has no memory of his mother or father. He was described as a fellow “man-eater” by Takezuka but it is presently unclear what this means. A few months before the events of the story he met Mikura who gave him his present mission of finding heaven before passing away.

Skills and Abilities
He was taught martial arts at a young age and is a skilled fighter. His durability is also remarkable as he has been shown dropping from dangerous heights unscathed and regrowing a lost tooth. He can also make use of his “Hiru-Sense” to detect when man-eaters are nearby. The strength of the signal is proportionate to the strength of the monster.

Maru-Touch: Maru has the ability to kill Man-Eaters, which are immortal creatures which preys upon humanity. By touching a Man-Eater with his bare hands, he is able to reach into its body and crush a fatal point which ends the Man-Eater. However, in order to do so, he needs to maintain his concentration. His vision is also crowded with mental images of searching for this fatal element within the Man-Eater, causing Maru to be defenseless while using this ability.