Haruka Kokonose (九ノ瀬 遥 Kokonose Haruka) was the classmate of Takane Enomoto, a student of Kenjirou Tateyama and the upperclassman of Shintaro Kisaragi and Ayano Tateyama.
On August 15th two years before the present plot, he died from his terminal illness and received the Snake of Awakening Eyes to fulfill his wish to have a "strong body to make friends with." When Awakening Eyes recreated his body to be like his video game character, Konoha, Haruka rejected it, causing his mind to remain trapped in the Kagerou Daze while Konoha returned to the real world.
Haruka is a tall boy with black hair that grows down to his ears and it is slightly longer at the back, black eyes with stylistically white pupils and a birthmark above his right cheek.
His high school uniform consists of a white button-up shirt, blue and black plaid pants and black shoes. In the winter season, he wears a long-sleeved green cardigan over his shirt. In the anime, he has pale skin, which is most likely an indication of his weak body and illness.
While in the Kagerou Daze, Haruka wears a pale teal patient outfit that is standard to Japanese hospitals.
In Summertime Record's MV and after getting his body back, Haruka returns to his original appearance, except for his hair, which is now light brown, and his birthmark, which is replaced by two black circles like Konoha's pink ones. He wears a white shirt, a green hooded coat, and black pants. He sometimes requires a wheelchair with this body.
Haruka is very sweet, caring, soft-spoken, and polite. He is at times air-headed and aloof, but tends to smile perpetually, and he is a supportive and determined individual. Despite his cheery and amiable nature, Haruka dislikes worrying others and doesn’t want to be a burden.
When Haruka was ten years old, his father told him that he was going to die in likely six years by the same illness that took his mother, which caused him to be aware of his short mortality from early on. In his first year of high school, his doctors accurately estimated that he had about one more year to live.
Haruka truly mourned this fact and tried to ignore it, as he did not let it hinder his last days as he remained cheerful, especially around his only classmate Takane, whom he deeply cared and adored, and teacher, Kenjirou. Haruka wished to live the last of his days normally and especially looked forward to doing a booth for his school's festival, which he and Kenjirou spent sleepless nights creating. However, despite his outwardly cheery attitude and his aloofness towards his imminent death, in the novels Haruka eventually tearfully admits to Shintaro that he is scared and does not want to die, and feels sickened wondering what dying is like. His resentment towards his situation and his own body caused him to wish for a supernaturally strong one that he can continue living with so that he can make friends, which is what makes him compatible with the Snake of Awakening Eyes in the Kagerou Daze. He immediately realizes that Konoha's body is not the one that he truly wishes for, though, which causes Konoha to return to the real world without him.
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