河野 初雪

Hatsuyuki is a third-year student, one of the rare delinquents at his school. He reluctantly shows up in order to fulfill his graduation requirements. He is not your usual hetare nice guy protagonist. He has the reputation of being the guy you don’t mess with in school who can get his way just by staring at people, which has the unintended consequence of making everything he says sounds like threats. He didn’t exactly plan for this, but he couldn’t care less since he doesn’t care about socializing with other people. He is playful at times as well, often playing jokes on other people at their expenses. He is actually the “Ghostchild” that is the leader of all the ghosts in the city destined to destroy the city at the end of winter and vanishes along with it. Since he knows he wouldn’t exist for long, he doesn’t want to get attached to other people. Interestingly enough, he is neither fully human nor is he truly a ghost. He is the host to hundreds of ghosts who died in the hotel explosion infused with intense hatred against the city by his father, and if the ghosts inside him aren’t purged by the end of winter, he will become one of them and vanish. [From Aedes' review]