Masaki Yoshida (吉田将樹, Yoshida Masaki) is a friend of Yusuke Harada's. They are in the same social circle at their university.
Personality[]
Masaki has a lazy, careless, and cruel personality. He regularly skips class, opting to drink and party daily, and he joins his friends in brutally beating another man while intoxicated.
Background[]
At some point in university Masaki followed Yusuke in joining the softball circle because it functions as a drinking group, and he skips lectures to participate in daily drinking parties on campus. Just prior to the events of the first light novel, Masaki and two of his friends, Jun Murase and Tatsuya Yamashiro, beat a foreigner to death for sport and dispose of the body. The body is recovered and the incident appears in local newspapers in Western Japan, though the perpetrators remain unknown.
Synopsis[]
Mayor Harada Scandal Arc[]
When Reiko Asakura finds Yusuke watching footage he had filmed of his friend group beating a foreign man to death on his orders, she demands the names and addresses of his companions. Her worry is that the careless disposal of the body could lead the police to Yusuke, causing a scandal for his father. He gives her the names, knowing that she will eliminate them.
After Reiko passes along the names and addresses, her companions Shinohara, Munakata, and Ivanov retrieve Masaki and his two friends from campus and drug them to sleep. They are put in a car near Nagatani Dam and blown up with one of Shinohara's new explosives. Shinohara calls the police to report the explosion and confirm payment, and Masaki's death is written off as a drunk driving accident.