Rai Mamezuku

Appearance: (Medium Build + 31 years old + Tall + Green Jumpsuit + White Collared Shirt + Black Necktie + Green Ushanka + Black Hair + Braided Hair + Black Eyes) Personality: (Cold + Aloof + Blunt + Brusque + Eccentric + Analytical + Antisocial) Background: Rai was born into a family of fruit farmers, whose high-class pears were prized goods. However, their cultivating techniques were leaked, leading to a competitor managing to steal an entire crop of pear and bringing down the fruit trees. Thus his parents had to part with their orchards. Blaming his parents, Rai began to live alone in a ski slope. In 1994, at the age of 14 Rai returned home to find his parent's orchard infested with a Rock insect. After informing them, his father rushed out of the house to deal with it, but was killed by a landslide caused by a typhoon (later revealed to be caused by Wonder of U, who later appeared at his funeral). Rai then attended his father's funeral. Norisuke Higashikata IV also attended the funeral offering his support to Rai, with a young Jobin Higashikata and Hato Higashikata present. In 1997 Norisuke met up with the now 17 year old Rai, who was now cultivating his own fruits. Impressed by their quality, Norisuke appointed Rai in secret to be his personal fruit grower and appraiser. Rai's existence in the company was kept with the utmost secrecy, with not even Norisuke's own son Jobin ever being informed. Rai is an expert in horticulture, his profession being a plant appraiser and a fruit grower, implying a great deal of knowledge and experience on plants. He can identify a plant simply from its appearance in a photograph, and has the knowledge on how to properly care for rare plants such as the Locacaca. Rai enjoys growing the natural strawberries that surround the ski lift he uses as his summer home, and he also likes to use these strawberries in his cooking, such as when he makes Strawberries Romanoff. Rai's Stand is Doggy Style, which can create a prehensile bandage-like string from his body in order to grab objects from afar. It unravels his body into "wire rope" that he can control and manipulate.