Rui Hayata

Rui Hayata (早田塁 , Hayata Rui) is one of the heroines of ''Lucid9. ''She is a second year attending Isamu Imperial Boarding Academy. She is childhood friends with Yama Ishimoto and Misaki Kazehaya. She is also best friends with Akira Karube.

Appearance
Rui is a short, petite girl with shoulder blade-length, light orange hair and deep, brown eyes. Her hair is straight, and her fringe creates a curtain over her forehead. She has a small bust and rather a straight figure.

Yama has noted many things about her, one being her appearance, as exuding warmth, such as her hair and eye color.

Background
Rui has been good friends with Yama since they were little. After Misaki Kazehaya left for District 6, she held a grudge against her. They resolve this relationship in the events of Inciting Incident.

Biography
Rui stays by Yama's side through his psych evaluation and almost confesses her feeling to him. However, fate had other plans; she was killed at the end of Inciting Incident along with her parents in their house. Yama walks into the murder scene, much to his horror. However, it is not confirmed for her to be dead as it may all be Yama's hallucination.

Regardless of whether or not the game formally establishes her as dead or otherwise at a later date, her status as Lucid9's resident mixed signal transmitter and seemingly unavoidable fate has given rise to many memes and fanmade media that either make light of her apparent death or attempt to rectify the situation.

Some have used facts and logic to perpetuate the allegations that Rui is indeed immortal, but the large amount of "ketchup" featured in the final scene of Inciting Incident almost certainly guarantees the contrary.

Trivia

 * Rui is often teased by Yama to not be a girl at all. Rui comes back with vice-versa if Yama walks into it.
 * Rui was planned to be killed at the very start of the development of this game.
 * On the Best Girl Poll made by the developers, Rui was ranked 1st from the very beginning, with Elizabeth Oshiro behind at 2nd.