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.

Hiruko Child
Maru was born with a Hiruko core.


 * Deadly Combatant: Maru displays feats of strength well above any human. He can move faster than the eye can track, effortlessly put one unconscious in a single blow, and jump from heights that would paralyze or kill any normal person without so much as a scratch. He is dexterous in martial arts and even tied with Michika in hand to hand combat.
 * The Maru-Touch: Upon bare-hand contact with a Hiruko, Maru can invade the organism's body in search for its core. This in effect, allows him to almost instantly kill any man-eater if he so choose. However, when entering a Hiruko, Maru's consciousness is transferred into its body; putting him in a state of great vulnerability.
 * Hiru-Sense: Maru can sense any organism containing a Hiruko core.
 * Regenerative Properties: Maru has great proficiency in bodily repair. He recovered from a swollen, bleeding comatose state in three days.