- "I'll continue living, despised by others. I will continue to incur hate, and hold my head up high as I go to Hell!!"
—Niragi in Chapter 54
Suguru Niragi (韮木 傑 Niragi Suguru?) is Morizono Aguni's former second-in-command of the militant faction of the Beach. Before entering the Borderlands, Niragi was a game engineer and a victim of harassment. He specializes in Diamonds.
Appearance[]
Niragi is a tall, lean male with long black hair that is put into a half-up bun for the entirety of the Beach arc. He has silver piercings on his left eyebrow, left nostril, helix and his tongue. He wears a black-and-white giraffe print long-sleeved shirt and the first few buttons are undone. In Chapter 17, he is wearing black pants and boots, but for the rest of the Beach arc, he is wearing black swim shorts and is barefoot. He is often seen holding a gun against his shoulder.
After he is set on fire by Chishiya and his homemade flamethrower, his skin is severely burnt. He is covered in second-and-third degree burns that seem to only be from his lower torso and up (as he does not bandage up his legs), and throughout the manga, they get worse in appearance due to the fact that he isn't properly treating them. His giraffe print shirt is on his head and covers one of his eyes and half of his face. It is tattered at the ends and hangs down his shoulders. He is barefoot and he has bandages wrapped around his arms and torso.
Personality[]
Niragi is a stubborn, narcissistic man filled with hatred and acidity. He seemingly only acts on impulse, only doing things if he deems them fun or not and lives for excitement, whether negative or positive. This is shown by him riling up the crowd during the Ten of Hearts game to make it more 'enjoyable', as well as him trying to assault Usagi for a second time during the King of Clubs game in order to 'have fun until the end'.
History[]
Niragi was a victim of severe school bullying. He was hated by his classmates, and they had a target in his body shape on an alley wall so they could aim baseballs at certain parts of his body and get 'points' for it. The bullies terrorised him to such a high degree that he went through a series of extreme changes to himself (his personality and appearance) in order to protect himself from being really hurt in the future. They told Niragi that if he did not stay still for the baseballs, they would feed him rice with urine in it. It is also implied at one point that his tongue piercing originally comes from the bullies telling him to pierce his own tongue. At some point before the Borderland and after his tragic school life, he became a video game engineer, grew his hair out and got piercings.
Story[]
Borderland: First Stage[]
Niragi is one of the earliest members of the Beach society lured by Boshiya. Probably inspired by Gandhi's motto quoted by Boshiya, Niragi is also determined to change himself to be the one who inflicts pains and hatred on others instead of it being done to him. Naturally, he joins Morizono Aguni's "martial sect" and is in charged of sniper in game (if weapon is permitted by the rule) so he can be reverenced. He is often referred to as the second-in-command of the martial sect.
Niragi is first shown in the manga playing the Six of Spades game with Last Boss and Aguni, sniping animals and stating that the game is too easy. Later on, he walks alongside Aguni when he goes up to Usagi, and officially meets her and Arisu. Niragi is assigned the job of breaking Arisu's legs for trying to block the militants from Usagi and save her from the impending assault, but Boshiya comes in and tells Aguni to let Arisu and Usagi off, and Niragi is confused as to why Boshiya is defending the newcomer.
He is ecstatic about the death of Boshiya, stating that they should drink the night away. Once Arisu's plan with Chishiya goes haywire, Niragi is the one to bash Arisu and beat him up severely until he passes out. It is Niragi's idea to tie and tape him up and put him in an empty room. After that, he goes to find Usagi and rape her for being the assumed accomplice of Arisu (though technically, the accomplice is Chishiya), stating that girls deserve a different punishment then what Arisu is getting and he loosens his shorts. He tries to assault her during a monologue about society and its laws, but is interrupted by the Ten of Hearts game being started. Thankfully, due to how his attention is grabbed and he no longer feels the excitement of raping Usagi and is instead excited about the impending game, he doesn't go through with raping her.
At the beginning of the Ten of Hearts game, he goes to the crowd and riles them up for fun, causing the water to figuratively boil over and everyone descends into chaos. Unfortunately for Niragi, Last Boss decides that a different plan would be more suitable for this game even though Niragi would rather make everyone kill each other. He is annoyed by Last Boss changing the prospect of it to them killing everyone, but is later joyed by it due to him being able to kill whoever he wanted.
He has a flashback to his younger self and then soon gets bored with the repetitiveness of sniping people, but Chishiya makes it onto the roof and grabs his attention. Chishiya, who detests Niragi because he looks like a mirrored-self to him, throws all stolen cards from Boshiya's safe into the air to distract him and then burns the top half of Niragi's body with a handmade flamethrower. Niragi jumps off of the roof and lands into the swimming pool which extinguishes the fire but leaves his skin severely burnt. Near the end of the Witch-Hunt, he has gone completely manic and decides that burning the entire resort down is better than waiting for everyone to be killed one-by-one. He somehow survives this and is seen later in a hospital applying betamethasone ointment and ingesting morphine to relieve the pain of the burns, as well as wrapping bandages around his torso and arms.
Borderland: Second stage[]
Entering the second stage, Niragi waits outside the entrance of the King of Clubs for teaming other players to proceed. This surprises the arriving Arisu, Usagi, Hikari Kuina and Kodai Tatta, who reject Niragi for his atrocities in the Beach. Niragi forces his way by wearing the game bracelet which cannot be removed until victory. The rest has no choice but cooperates because Arisu wants to learn the answer from the hosting citizens. Being once a game engineer, Niragi provides an effective strategy to gain early advantage over the opposite team, but after the King of Clubs team proceeds a suicidal ambush which puts Arisu's team in an irreversible disadvantage, Niragi, believing he will die in this game, attempts another sexual assault on Usagi but this earns him Arisu's kick in his already wounded body. Eventually he wins at the cost of Tatta's sacrifice which he barely feels grateful and then wanders aimlessly alone.
When Niragi arrives at a church, he meets a dying man who failed to commit suicide. Niragi takes away his rifle and the bible but refuses to perform mercy-killing, letting the man die in agony. Excited to see Arisu and Chishiya together without noticing him, he shoots Chishiya's left shoulder so he suffers the pain instead of dying right away. Even though all 3 men are carrying firearms, Arisu declares that he will not shoot and bravely exposes himself from the cover. This action ruins Niragi's fantasy of having a person he can relate to. Suddenly Usagi approaches the group looking for Arisu. Niragi believes that Usagi has influenced Arisu to the wrong way and attempts to shoot her, but Chishiya pushes her aside and takes the attack. Niragi is shot by Arisu out of desperation.
Niragi does not die because the bullets used by Arisu is less lethal, but his body is in terrible shape. Arisu decides that he will clear the last game in hope of letting Chishiya and Niragi return to the original world for proper treatment.
Games Played[]
Quotes[]
- (To Yuzuha Usagi) "Predisposition. When left alone, man is a creature that plunders, rapes, kills. So shouldn't we revel in it? What's wrong with living our true selves?"
- "A life of misery. Now, and forever more. Unless I change."
- "This is it! This is the shit! Make a wrong move, and it's decided just like that! I fuckin' love these games!"
- "Life or death is just secondary. It only matters if the game is fun or not!"
- (To Ryohei Arisu) "Ain't no way he's good, hyahaha... Ain't no good guys, ain't no fishy guys..."
- "So you're twisted just because you hate me. Or is it... you're twisted to hate?"
- "Hated, despised, further hated, living a life to be further despised."
- "In the end, the twisted one was me!"
- (To Ryohei Arisu) "You, who are like a beacon of hope, puts you instantly at the top of my hated list!! That's why, with my own two hands, I wanted to defile the thing that gives you hope! Seeing your worthless self in your final moments of life, drowning in anguish, would be so satisfying! Even if I died too!"
- (To Ryohei Arisu) "Gyaha! Gyahaha! Th-They exist, Arisu! People like me in this world who can only create a place for themselves to be hated... people totally twisted from birth!"
- (To Kōdai Tatta) "A noble death? An honorable death? Makes me... sick."
- "Every single one of these people... are too weak! I'm different from you all... until the very last moments, I'll endure all of the agony..."
- (In reference to Isaiah 53:2-3) "You, even after thousands of years, continue to love man... Quite a bit different from myself."
- "I don't kill those who want to die. I've made up my mind. I'll continue living, despised by others. I will continue to incur hate, and hold my head up high as I go to Hell!!"
- (To Ryohei Arisu, Shuntaro Chishiya) "The three of us are pretty similar... Born from being unable to adapt to society, always being selfish. No touch with reality, desiring real world experience - wanderers. Sorry, but I don't have the time left to be worrying about the next stage, or clearing games. Isn't this fine? As similar souls, won't you entertain me?"
- (To Ryohei Arisu) "Self-abandonment? That's not it at all! I'm simply doin' exactly what I want to do!"
- (To Ryohei Arisu, Shuntaro Chishiya) "Aren't you two the same? Open your mouth and it's me, me, me! For people like us, it's all about ourselves! We're just pieces of trash who'll never grow up. The only thing that's certain for people like us in our own worthless ego!! We can never change, so the only thing we can do is embrace it!!"
- "In the end, am I just alone?"
- (To Ryohei Arisu) "Let me say though, make no mistakes, you best not call me evil. If there were 7 billion people just like me, the evil one would be you. You're lucky you're on the side of the populace."
References[]
See also[]
Games played |
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Unknown Number of Games | Six of Spades | Ten of Hearts | King of Clubs | King of Spades |
Players | |
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Beach | Hikari Kuina • Kodai Tatta • Morizono Aguni • Rizuna An • Ryohei Arisu • Shuntaro Chishiya • Suguru Niragi • Takatora Samura • Takeru Danma • Taketo Serizawa • Yuji Mahiru • Yuzuha Usagi |
Others | Akane Heiya • Akifumi Seto • Akitomo Mino • Benzo Yashige • Chota Segawa • Daikichi Karube • Eiji Mitsurugi • Genki Kiriu • Gentle Girl • Hannibal • Hayato Dodo • Hinako Daimon • Ippei Oki • Kaito Kameyama • Kaito Kameyama • Kaito Yamane • Kakeru Kishoin • Kassai Rokudo • Kotoko Shiga • Kunio Kariya • Lieutenant Dan • Masaki Aizen • Meisa Tokui • Motohiko Kaneko • Nitobe • Rui Hibino • Saori Shibuki • Takashi Asuma • Tsuyaruki Hatta • Urumi Aramaki |
Alice in Borderland Retry | |
Himari Horikawa • Masatsugu Kito • Nanase Onoue • Naomichi Taiga • Yuzuru Horikawa |