Yuzu Roromori

"""'Encountering something I didn't understand felt like suffocating and it twisted my perception.' ― Yuzu (From chapter 38)"Roromori Yuzu(路々森・ユズ) is a cheerful puzzle-and-maze game streamer that enjoys teasing her teammates, especially Karin. She met Akatsuki online before and the two were planning to do a collaboration together before entering the game. Underneath her ditzy and sarcastic personality though, she harbors a genius-like intellect and an unhealthy obsession for Akatsuki. She is the oldest in the group, thus she's the leader.

Appearance
Yuzu appears to be fair-skinned with a slim body type. She has long, wavy, white hair reaching to her knees and greenish-yellow determined eyes. She has a black gas mask that is usually strapped around her neck facing the back. Yuzu also wears small frame glasses (around 0.5 degree near sighted).

Outfits

 * Casual Outfit: Yuzu usually wears a male-sized white laboratory coat. She wears black sailor uniform with a green bow and a white (with a black stripe on the bottom) skirt underneath it. She also wears knee-length white socks and black flats.
 * Summer Version: Yuzu wears a green crop top underneath a grey long-sleeved outer and a short skirt. She also wears knee-length white socks.
 * Winter Version: a bikini with most of her skin revealed.

Personality
Yuzu has a lively and bubbly personality. Greatly amused by tropical plants and puzzles, her sharp mind is extremely valuable during the games. Yuzu is a natural inquirer and is regularly curious no matter the situation, giving off a positive aura, which disturbs the others. She usually acts like a clown, but because of her unhealthy obsession for Akatsuki, she can be cold as if she's a different person whenever Akatsuki is involved. Even so, Yuzu herself finds it completely normal to contain various pictures of Akatsuki. She's always thirsty for knowledge and can't stand an incomplete puzzle. If there's something she doesn't understand, it'll stress her to no end, to the point she becomes obsessed about it.

History
She used to work as a sampling assistant in the facility before being promoted to a researcher around four years ago. Now she's working as the "recorder" for the game. Not much is revealed about her.

Plot
She is the inside person who works for Paca as mentioned in episode 10.

Facts
Specialty Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Foreign Languages

Favorite Game: Puzzles and Tricks

Hobbies: Plant and Human Observation, Collecting Gross-looking Stuffed Toys

Favorite Food: Junk Food

Disliked Food: Vegetarian Food

Handedness: Right-handed

Weakness: Sitting Straight (Seiza)

Weapon: Chemical Ampules

Family Structure: Father, Older Sister (Yuko)

Yuzu is a genius who already completed master's course abroad (jumping grade) and now she's working with a lab researching plants both for profit and hobby. She has a habit of giving people nicknames. Yuzu will be anxious if she doesn't touch people on regular basis, Karin is her best target to hug.

Character Stats
The perfect score is 3.

Character Impressions
Volume 5 Volume 6
 * Yuzu → Akatsuki: LOVE (obsession)
 * Yuzu → Karin: Feeling uneasy if she doesn't touch her regularly
 * Yuzu → Makino: Good friends
 * Yuzu → Himiko: Looking forward to see how she will look five years later
 * Yuzu → Kaikoku: Double-black alliance
 * Yuzu → Zakuro: Relatively good friends

Volume 7

Trivia
Extra Information Series:
 * 1) The kanji for her name was supposed to be "柚子", but Osora wanted to write Makino and Kaikoku's names in katakana so everyone's first name is changed into katakana.
 * 2) She owns a dog (mameshiba) in the laboratory which she named Akki.
 * 3) She has a natural wavy hair that it will become 1.5 times bigger than original at rainy days.
 * 4) Yuzu actually likes being barefoot.
 * 5) The gas mask around her neck is making her shoulders stiff.
 * 6) In Japan, her birthday (October 31st) is Halloween and Gas Anniversary Day.
 * 7) Her birth flowers are white carnation (my love is alive) and Chinese bellflower (unchanging love)
 * 8) Her birthstone is hawk's eye quartz (good luck)
 * 9) Her birth color is lilac.
 * 10) She has a tracker to locate Akatsuki.
 * 11) She met Makino & Zakuro at her first stage. They're the earliest to arrive so the three of them spent one day earlier together in the tower. That's why they already got along
 * 12) Osoro said that for Makino, Yuzu is a "safe zone".
 * 1) In "13th District: toothache", if she doesn't go to the dentist she'll end up in rampage.
 * 2) In "13th District: two-person haori tournament", Yuzu is paired up with Akatsuki and they got second place (Yuzu's breath from behind Akatsuki is tremendous).
 * 3) In "13th District: waiting 30 minutes for someone who oversleeps", Yuzu will come to their house.
 * 4) In "13th District: childhood dreams", Yuzu wanted to be like her sister.
 * 5) in "13th District: seeing price tag on someone's clothes", Yuzu will be enthusiastically wanting to take it.
 * 6) In "13th District: attaching message to friendship chocolate", Yuzu writes "Poison tasting is already done" for the message.
 * 7) Her wish for tanabata is "I want to know everything about Akki".
 * 8) Yuzu uses tameguchi (talks like equal friends) to everyone. The way she talks also belongs to the "Going My Way" group along with Kaikoku, Makino, Zakuro, and Anya.
 * 9) In "13th District: going to movie theater", Yuzu will be observing Akatsuki in the dark.
 * 10) In "13th district: When their friend is feeling down/depressed", Yuzu will ask why and give a flurry of hugs.
 * 11) In "13th District: how they share halvsies of taiyaki", Yuzu will invite the person to just chomp on it together.
 * 12) In "13th District: finding Anya sleeping in the hallway", Yuzu will call for Akatsuki or Kaikoku.
 * 13) In "13th District: parfait day", Yuzu will be doing a 3 person challenge with Anya & Akatsuki to finish huge parfait. They will make a straight face at the second half because they're full.
 * 14) In "13th District: Shaved Ice", Yuzu will be having mango syrup. She also takes a bite out of everyone's.
 * 15) In "13th District: Getting Papercut on Finger", Yuzu will dash to Karin.
 * 16) In "13th District: taking care of sales phone call", Yuzu will accept the call and then neglect it.
 * 17) In "13th district: what gets them in a high spirit", it's body-touch from Akatsuki.
 * 18) In "13th district: getting beans thrown at them (setsubun thing)", Yuzu will use Anya (who's nearby) as a shield.
 * 19) In "13th district: Spots to find them", Yuzu is usually at the theater or the closet inside her room.
 * 20) In "13th district: Voting for the strongest person in the group", Yuzu voted for Makino because of his cheat (eyes).
 * 21) In "13th district: waking Anya up", Yuzu will dive to his bed with a long jump.
 * 22) In "13th district: waking Makino up", Yuzu will join him for second sleep.
 * 23) In "13th district: strategy to capture them if this was a dating-simulation game", Yuzu will be level C (third easiest) and the way to capture her heart is you have to accept the skinships.
 * 24) Yuzu's cooking skill is out of question (usually poisonous).
 * 25) Her first impression of Anya: "He's energetic, isn't he?"
 * 26) Her first impression of Karin: "For the time being I want to touch her."
 * 27) Her first impression of Akatsuki: "?"
 * 28) Her first impression of Kaikoku: "Seems interesting."
 * 29) Yuzu's ranking for "I want to touch" is (in order) Karin, Zakuro, Akatsuki, Himiko, Makino, Anya, Kaikoku.
 * 30) Self-Confidence comparison: Kaikoku >>>  Yuzu  > Anya > Akatsuki & Zakuro & Karin > Makino & Himiko >>> Murasaki
 * 31) Curious & Adventurous comparison:  Yuzu  > Akatsuki > Kaikoku > Anya > Himiko > Zakuro > Karin > Makino
 * 32) Anger comparison: Anya > Karin > Zakuro > Himiko (scolds rather than getting angry) > Kaikoku (gets angry quietly) >  Yuzu  (gets angry quietly, usually gets angry because it's involving Akki) > Makino (has a hard time getting angry) > Akatsuki (doesn't know how to get angry)
 * 33) Shyness (not comfortable around strangers) Level comparison: Himiko > Anya & Kaikoku > Makino & Karin & Zakuro >  Yuzu  > Akatsuki