Shuuya Kano

Deceiving Eyes

As a child he did not go to kindergarten, but spent his youth in an apartment block with his mother. His mother appears to have been emotionally unstable and beat Kano nearly every day, and the neighbors were worried that he was being abused. But because Kano was convinced that it was his own fault for making his mother angry, he began to wish that he could erase the injuries on his own body that made the neighbors think badly of his mother. Incidentally, according to notes in the third novel, he always wore long sleeves and long pants to try to hide his injuries at the time.

One day, a burglar forced his way into the house looking for money, and Kano’s mother was stabbed to death by the burglar while trying to protect her son. Kano was also killed at the time. He entered the Heat Haze and was possessed by the Deceiving Eyes snake.