Chizuru Hishiro

Chizuru was one of the classmates of Arata Kaizaki at Aoba High School during his ReLIFE experiment. Although she is very smart and always gets one of the highest scores in her grade, she is very bad at communicating and lacks social skills which is why she is always alone. Hishiro was, in fact, Test Subject No. 001 of the Kantou Branch of ReLIFE Laboratory. Her inter-personal issues had made her not able to keep any job for long, and the list of short-term employments on her resume eventually made her unemployable. Her first year of ReLIFE experiment was a failure, but she was given a second chance, and she made the effort to make friends the second year. With the help of Kazaki and her friends, she was able to overcome her past issues and restore her feelings that were damaged in the past. After her ReLIFE experiment ended, she joined the ReLIFE Laboratory in the Research and Development Division. Hishiro is a slender girl with an average build and height. She has straight, mid-length black hair, her bangs ending just above her eyes. She has light green eyes. She has a beauty spot on the right side on her neck. She keeps her hair in pigtails; one behind her shoulder and the other one laid on her shoulder which are tied with green bands. This was later changed to gray X-shaped pins that she got a gift from Kariu and Honoka. She wears the 3rd year uniform with a red lapel that all third years wear and added a silver lapel pin after becoming the student representative of her class. Hishiro is noted to have a clever, smart atmosphere to her. She is highly intelligent, always seen getting the first place in any exam, but she never brags about it. Despite her intelligence, she is highly oblivious to her surroundings and people's feelings, openly voicing out insults, such as when she first talked to Kaizaki. She is oblivious and uninterested to surroundings to the point of calling Kaizaki "The Cigarette Guy" and Kariu "The Red Haired Girl who did 7.38 seconds" when she first talks to them. Due to her childhood experiences, her social skills are almost non-existent, so she prefers doing things at her own pace and by herself. She is also quiet and keeps to herself, as she is almost always seen being alone prior to meeting Kaizaki. She is socially awkward and doesn't know how to handle matters with a lot of people in it, and she is also fairly ignorant with regards to anything not directly related to school matters, particularly social and emotional ones. When she first messages Kaizaki on Lime, she sent a message that was similar to a business contact. Later she has begun to use emojis mostly involving cat symbols in her texts. Hishiro was the only child of a single mother that was consistently transferred from one area to another, resulting in Hishiro transferring to new schools before she was able to fit in with her class-mates. This stunted her socialization and communication skills to a point where she became reliant on her doing school projects on her own. Since the only constant between the schools was studying, she focused on that area of school life, eschewing clubs, friendships that would be ended too soon, and what few friends she made and corresponded with soon ended with letters no longer being exchanged. Hishiro graduated from a decent university with excellent results and got placed in a big company. However, due to her childhood experiences, it was only a repeat of her childhood. Although she could do the job perfectly, she didn't communicate with her co-workers and would even finish their job without asking, which resulted in the other employee's value going down. Hishiro became an outcast at her company and received a lot of complaints from her co-workers, as she even got the comment of being "a worthless woman", which saddened her. Because of all the employee's complaints, Hishiro was fired from her first job and got the suggestion to try to sympathize with the other adults. However, Hishiro didn't change and continued to carry the ideology that it would better if she did everything by herself and that if she was truly better than anyone else, she would be able to go anywhere else. Due to her talent and intelligence, Hishiro always easily got employed elsewhere, but it was always the same with her previous company. All of this started to repeat itself and her CV began to look weird. Eventually, companies became suspicious of Hishiro and would hesitate to employ her. At last, she couldn't get a job anywhere since she didn't meet the requirements of any company and she became a neet.