Shouta Akimura

Shouta Akimura (秋村 肖太) was a graduate student at Kageo University majoring in Sociology and Human Geography. Tsukasa Taira, Miwako Toda, and he were good friends since they shared the same major. He was also in love with Tsukasa, but in order to suppress his bloodlust for her, he killed three women in separate cases by sucking their blood and raping them. He was arrested by Yuuki Anzai for his crimes.

To keep his identity as a devil hidden from the public, it was reported that he is studying abroad in Canada.

Normal
Akimura is a young man with an average build and height. He has short, beige-colored hair with messy bangs framing his face. He is often depicted having his eyes closed.

Transformed
Like all other devils, Akimura's eyes transform when "entering" his devil mode, they become red and his irises yellow, and veins will appear around his eyes. His teeth will sharpen into fangs and his nails into claws.

Personality
Akimura is portrayed as a calm, kind and considerate young man, but will turn nervous when the topic of devils are brought up, especially around Tsukasa. He was also in love with Tsukasa and cared for her deeply, but this in turn made him kill and rape three women in order to suppress his bloodlust for Tsukasa. His identity as a devil made him very self-concious and guilty, as he didn't understand why he had to kill other women, and wondered if it would be better if he died. He just wanted all human life to be equal.

Story
One day, Akimura, Tsukasa, and Miwako were riding the train. When Miwaki brought up the subject of devils to Tsukasa, Akimura interrupted by saying that she wasn't interested in that stuff. When they reached the station, Akimura walked Tsukasa home since she lived quite far away, and while walking home, they felt a presence of something "dangerous" and he grabbed Tsukasa and ran. When they came to safety, he embraced her and whispered something, but Tsukasa pushed him away, but at that moment, Yuuki Anzai appeared. When showing his bleeding finger, Akimura slowly transformed into a devil and denied Anzai's words about him killing three women. But he later came to admit his crimes, but he later expressed his dismay and guilt about having to kill women in order to "protect" Tsukasa so he wouldn't kill her as well, and wondered if it would be better if he just died. Before being arrested by Anzai, Akimura stroked Tsukasa's cheek and apologized to her.

To keep his identity as a devil hidden from the public, his arresting was reported as him studying abroad in Canada.

Relationships

 * Tsukasa Taira - He was in love with Tsukasa, and Tsukasa in turn also seemed to have some affection towards him. Both valued their relationship a lot and seemed to have a strong connection. It was seen that Akimura was very protective of Tsukasa and wanted to protect her from all harm, and even killed other women so he didn't have to drink Tsukasa's blood or kill her, and he insisted that he didn't want drink Tsukasa's blood either. Before getting arrested, Akimura apologized to Tsukasa and gave her soft look while stroking her cheek. According to Anzai, despite the crimes he had done, he still only showed his good side around Tsukasa, and he notes that Akimura's feelings towards Tsukasa were really genuine, but the fact that he was a devil made it harder for him to hide his true identity. This revelation deeply shook Tsukasa and she had lingering feelings towards Akimura for a while as well.

People killed

 * Three unnamed women

Trivia

 * Akimura was supposed to have glasses since the author really wanted a character with glasses, but everytime the author drew Akimura, the glasses disappeared. But since he liked Tsukasa, the author gave him a pair of tinted glasses to cover his eyes.