Daisuke Hiyama

Daisuke Hiyama was an antagonist from the "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest" series.

He was the leader of group of students who would often harass Hajime Nagumo, and was also responsible for his fall in the Great Orcus Labyrinth. He acted as an ally of Eri Nakamura and aided with her plans to plot against the Heiligh Kingdom.

During the invasion, Daisuke was able to kill Kaori Shirasaki in an attempt to use Eri's necromancy to turn her into his undead servant. His plans, however, was foiled by the arrival Hajime Nagumo.

Appearance
Daisuke was young man with with short brown hair that fell flat on his head.

Personality
"I’ll kill you! No matter what it takes, I swear I'll kill you!"

- Daisuke to Hajime

Daisuke was obsessed with Kaori and enjoyed bullying Hajime due to the constant attention that Kaori was giving him. This would later escalate to physical violence after the whole class was transported in Tortus and was granted with the ability to use Magic.

Daisuke was shown to be a disloyal individual and would abandon others if necessary. He was even willing join the enemies' side if stood to benefit him. When Daisuke discovered by Eri for secretly attacking Hajime during the incident happened in the Orcus Labyrinth, he decided to help her with her plots against the Kingdom in exchange for obtaining Kaori.

Later, upon learning of Hajime's survival and seeing his newfound strength, he fear that Hajime would get revenge on him. Overtime, Daisuke became more devious and had gotten to a point where he had no longer had ay qualms of killing others in order to achieve his goals, and managed to ease his copious by telling himself that he was doing it for his and Kaori's sake. Even so, he was disturbed at the lengths his co-conspirator Eri went to in order to achieve her goals.

Biography
One Monday morning during his second year of high school, Daisuke and his three friends Yoshiki, Reichi and Shinji were verbally harassing Hajime after he barely arrived in time before class began.

When it became lunchtime, Daisuke and his class were suddenly engulfed in a large glowing circle that transported. Once it was over, everyone saw that they were suddenly inside a large cathedral. Soon after, they were approach by Pope Ishtar Langbard of the Holy Church, and explained to them that they had been summoned the alternate world of Tortus by humanity's god Ehit, in order to aid in their war against the Demons. When Ishtar revealed that Ehit was the only one with the power to send them home, the students agreed to fight alongside the Humans of Tortus, against the protests of their teacher Aiko Hatayama. The next morning, Daisuke and the rest of his classmates gathered at the palace courtyard to begin their training. They were greeted by the kingdom's Knight Commander Meld Loggins, and were each given a Status Plate artifact before he explained how it worked to everyone. As the students began to activate their plates, Daisuke and his friends were making fun of Hajime after it was revealed that he had the common Job of "Synergist", as well as possessing average Stats. Over the next two weeks, the students trained in the kingdom in order to prepare for the war against the Demons. During that time, Daisuke and his friends continuously harassed Hajime by attacking him with their magic, but would stop whenever they were confronted by their classmates Kaori, Shizuku, Kouki and Ryutarou.

Once the students' initial training complete, they traveling to the town of Horaud in order to explore Great Orcus Labyrinth, and battle the Monsters that resided there as a way to gain combat experience. The night before the students beginning their exploration, Daisuke had been too nervous to sleep in the room of the in. the students were staying in. He stepped out to go to the bathroom and feel the night breeze. As he was about to return to his room, he spotted Kaori in a negligee. He had been so surprised by her sudden appearance that he had reflexively hid himself from her sight. Kaori hadn’t even noticed he was there as she passed by. His curiosity piqued, he’d followed Kaori and watched as she Hajime’s room. This immediately angered Daisuke at the fact that Kaori was willing to spend time with someone like Hajime, rather than him, and began to think of a way to get her to notice him.

During the their exploration into the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Daisuke tried to take a giant Glanz Crystal on he 20th floor, in an attempt to impress Kaori, but it turned out to be a trap and transported everyone to the 65th floor. They soon found themselves at a stone bridge and was trapped between a behemoth and and army of skeletal traum soldiers. Hajime managed to hold the Behemoth back his transmutation magic while the others managed to create an escape path through the skeletons. As Hajime rushed his way towards his classmates, Daisuke attacked Hajime with a fireball spell while everyone was busy bombarding the behemoth with their magic, and caused him to fall off the bridge.

After everyone else escaped from the Labyrinth and returned to the inn, Daisuke left that night to an isolated spot in Horaud. He squatted down and continuously spoke to himself about having killed Hajime without anyone being able to trace it back to him. It was then that he was approached by one of his classmates who overheard what he said. After gleefully calling Daisuke a murderer, this individual threatened to expose Daisuke's secret unless he agreed to become a slave. Feeling corned by this choice, Daisuke was thinking of a way to kill his blackmailer, but his classmate managed convince him to accept the offer of becoming a slave by promising to make Kaori his woman. Daisuke asked what his classmate wanted from all of this, but simply answered that it was something that didn't concern him. After Daisuke accepted the offer, the two of them headed back to the inn.

A few days after the students returned to the kingdom, Hiyama began to be shunned by the other students. As Hajime's apparent death began to sink with them, they took out their anger on Daisuke, due to him having activated the Labyrinth's trap that transported them to the room where it happened. In an effort earn their forgiveness, he got down on his knees and publicly begged them for it, in the hopes that doing it in front of Kouki, the class' hero, would help smooth things out with the rest of his classmates. Ultimately, his plan succeeded, and mosts of the students quickly stopped directing their scorn at him. However, Shizuku was still vaguely suspicious of him. Meanwhile, Daisuke began surreptitiously carrying out the orders he’d received from his blackmailer. Despite the dark nature of these orders, he had agreed to carry them out.

Daisuke was among the students that resumed their training in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, in spite of the dangers they knew is contained. As they managed to become stronger and advance deep into the Labyrinth, Daisuke and his friends grew more arrogant and expressed their belief that they were invincible (though they remained humble while in the presence of Kouki and his friends). As they reached the 65th floor once more, they once again encountered the Behemoth and traum soldiers. Despite the lingering trauma from their previous encounter, as well as the fact that there were less people of fight it than before, the students managed to defeat the Behemoth and continued their journey down the Labyrinth.

Daisuke and the other students continued their training in the Labyrinth until they eventually reached the 90th floor. However, they soon realized that they were not being attacked by any Monsters. It was soon discovered that they had all been wiped out by other Monsters that were under the command of a Demon named Cattleya. She approached the students and offered them to join the Demons in the war against the humans, but Kouki immediately refused on their behalf and a battle ensued that forced the suddens to retreat to the 89th floor. However, Cattleya discovered their location and proceeded to attack them once more. In the end, she managed to defeat them after having incapacitated Kouki, and offered the students another chance to join the Demons. Daisuke voiced his desire to accept the offer, which immediately angered Ryutarou and proceed to call him a coward, but Daisuke argued that hey had no choice, given the overwhelming straight of Cattleya's Monsters. Kouki tried to convince them to reject the offer, but Daisuke argued that they should focus on getting ou alive no mater what. As Dashiki was about to accept Cattleya's offer, Kouki managed himself from the Monsters that were retraining him, and proceeded to attack the Demon, but stop upon realized that he was about to kill an actual person. As the Monsters resumed attacking the students and were on the verge of victory, they were stopped by the sudden arrival of a mysterious boy that had accompanied Kousuke Endou (who managed to escape the Labyrinth after Cattleya's first attack in order to find help for his classmates). When Kousuke revealed that was actually Hajime Nagumo who had come to their rescue, Daisuke was utterly shocked and immediately accused him of lying. Kousuke vouched for Hajime and even claimed that he saw his Status Plate earlier to confirm his identity, but Daisuke insisted that it had to have been a forgery. Hajime's companion and lover Yue magically doused Daisuke with water and demanded him to be quiet. Daisuke was unable to argue after seeing Yue intensely glare at him. Once Hajime eliminated all of the Monsters and killed Cattleya, Daisuke joined Kouki in criticizing Hajime for having killed a defenceless opponent, in a bid to discredit him in front of Kaori, but this proved unsuccessful.

As everyone was making their way out of the Labyrinth, Daisuke and Reichi attempted to get closer to Hajime's companions Yue and Shea, but the two girls ignored them completely. This annoyed Daisuke, and tried to grab Shea’s ears, but was hit by a rubber bullet from Hajime.

When Kaori decided to accompany Hajime on his journey after they returned to Horaud, Daisuke begged Hajime to rejoin their party, in order to keep Kaori close by, and even apologized for his previous bullying. However, Hajime refused his offer by subtly dropping hints that he knew that Daisuke was the culprit behind his fall into the Labyrinth's Abyss. Daisuke became nervous at Hajime's words, to which Hajime followed by by calling him and his friends worthless and threatened to kill him if he got in his way. While his friends were outraged by Hajime’s attitude, Daisuke instead complied with Hajime before telling his friends to back down. At first, they were surprised by Daisuke’s uncharacteristic obedience, but his serious tone brooked no argument, so they too gave up on persuading Hajime. As Kaori was getting her thing from Horaud's inn before setting off, Dasiuke ad his friends offered to go with her, but Hajime prevented them from going.

The light after Hajime's departure with Kaori, Daisuke travelled to one of Horaud’s public parks, and vented out is frustration over having lost his love interest, by punching the surrounding tress while cursing. Just then, his accomplice appeared from behind the bushes and openly mocked him for having lost the women he desired. This only served to further anger Daisuke, and threatened to no longer be treated as a slave since Hajime was alive, but his partner assured him that Kaori would still become his once she returned to the kingdom by incentivizing her to protect her friends. Daisuke decided to continue aiding his co-conspirator, despite knowing that meant betraying the rest of his classmates.

Daisuke participated on killing the kingdom's knights at the behest of his partner. One evening, Daisuke approached Meld in his room and asked for his help with something. When Meld invited him in, Daisuke was hesitant to talk about what was wrong, but Meld assured them that they could work it out together. However, their conversation was cut short when Knight Vice-Commander Jose Rancaid approached Meld's room as well. Daisuke offered to wait in the hall until Meld and Jose were done talking. As Meld opened the door, Jose suddenly attacked him with his sword, but Meld dodged him before grabbing his own sword. As the two knights fought, Meld was about to unleash a wind spell on Jose, but was interrupted when Daisuke suddenly stabbed him from behind. Meld, however, instinctively dodged it fast enough to avoid it hitting his heart, much to Daisuke's annoyance. Meld attempted to ask Daisuke for his sudden attack, but he ignored Meld’s question, and once again tried to stab Meld’s heart. Meld then cast his spell by and unleashed a compressed ball of wind that slammed into the floor and sent all three of them away in different directions in the room. Meld then regained his bearing ad was about to attack Daisuke, but was intercepted by more knights that suddenly appeared. Despite Daisuke and the knights attacks, Meld managed to counter them before managed to severely tackle Daisuke. After Meld managed to subdue the remaining knights, Daisuke expressed his frustration at his inability to kill Meld, and even called him a monster due to his skill. Mel, however, claimed that his simply had much more experience when it came to fighting people and hoped that his recent display of fighting prowess would be enough to get Daisuke to surrender. Instead, Daisuke mocked Meld for his confidence before even more knights came to his aid. As Meld was suddenly surrounded, Daisuke demanded that Meld let himself be killed, but Meld decided to flee and jumped out of a window and landed safely outside by using his wind magic. Unfortunately, Meld was killed moments later by a mysterious woman. Afterwords, Daisuke was approached by his accomplice and the two of the discussed how despite they needed the aid of that woman to kill Meld, their plans were proceeding smoothly after having gotten rid of the last obstacle in their way.

Several days later, when the demons invaded the Heiligh Kingdom, all of the students discovered that Eri was a traitor after she commanded her army of undead knights to injure and subdue her classmates within the palace courtyard. When Eri attempted to kill Shizuku, she was stopped by Kaori, while being guarded the barrier magic of Princess Liliana. Eri ordered her knights to attack the barrier, and one eventually managed to break through, but Daisuke suddenly appeared and beheaded the soldier. At first, he appeared to have come to resume Kaori and Liliana, but Shizuku suspected it to be a trap and attempted to warn them. However, Daisuke stabbed Kaori from behind as soon as she let her guard down. As she lay dying, Kaori used the last of her strength to cast a healing spell on her classmates in order to help free them from Eri's knights. Daisuke attempted to stop Kaori by continuously ramming his sword through her, but she succeeded in unleashing her spell, though she was unable to heal herself due to the severity of the wound. As Kaori's classmates attempted to rescue her, Eri began to cast her "Spirit Binding" spell on Kaori's body in order to turn her into an undead minion for Daisuke. However, before she could complete her spell, Hajime suddenly arrived and caused everyone to freeze in fear. He took advantage of this brief pause and immediately approached Daisuke with such incredible speed. Hajime knocked him straight to the courtyard wall, which left him half-buried in the rubble. Daisuke spasmed and coughed out blood. His internal organs had been pulverized, and most of the bones in his upper body shattered. The pain was so great that it knocked him unconscious, and then woke him up again, but rendered him unable to move.

When Eri was about to get killed, Daisuke attacked Hajime with a fireball before charging towards him with his sword. He was easily neutralized by Hajime and quickly stopped him by kicking him in the chin before slamming him to the ground. As Daisuke’s head bounced back up, Hajime kicked it again, sending him flying into the air. He held back so that Daisuke would regain consciousness instead of die. As he fell back down, Hajime grabbed the back of his collar and held him up. Daisuke struggled against Hajime’s grip, but to no avail. Daisuke then screamed a Hajime by blaming him for Kaori not being his. Hajime, however, was unfazed by Daisuke's rants, and instead stated that that it was Daisuke's own fault for how things turned out for him. Rather than repent for his actions, Daisuke vowed to kill Hajime. After sparing one final look of pity, Hajime threw him up and punched his face before sending him away with a kick to the abdomen. Daisuke landed outside the courtyard, where he was quickly assaulted by the monster army. His left arm had been eaten off before he attempted to crawl away to safety, but he was quickly caught and eaten from the feet up, thus killing him.

Relationships

 * Hajime Nagumo - Daisuke hated the fact that Kaori was interested in Hajime so he decided to make Hajime's life as miserable as possible. His hatred towards Hajime rose when after he saw Kaori coming out of latter's room in the middle of the night. This event caused him secretly attack Hajime during an incident in the Great Orcus Labyrinth which caused him to fall into the lower levels of the Labyrinth. After finding out of Hajime's survival, he felt scared and intimidated after witnessing Hajime's newfound strength and ruthlessness. Later, when Hajime foiled his plans to make Kaori an undead puppet, he blamed Hajime for all of his misfortunes until he was ultimately killed by a group of monsters.
 * Kaori Shirasaki - Daisuke was obsessed Kaori and would do anything to obtain her. At first, he did not feel that he was worthy and simply admired her from a distance due to her constantly hanging around Kouki. However, he decided to make a bid to make her is woman after seeing how close she was with Hajime. He was even willing kill her to turn her body into an undead puppet with the help of Eri's necromancy.
 * Eri Nakamura - Eri was one of his classmates. After she discovered that Daisuke was responsible for Hajime's fall in the Orcus Labyrinth, she blackmailed him and force him to work with her. Daisuke also respected and feared Eri's devious nature, but despised having to be subservient to her.

Weapons & Equipment

 * Longsword - His main weapon since being summoned to Tortus.

Physical Abilities

 * Enhanced Physical Abilities - Being one of the summoned heroes, Daisuke was blessed with superhuman physical abilities than an average human in Tortus.
 * Enhanced Stamina - Hiyama has enough endurance and stamina.
 * Expert Swordsman - Daisuke was shown to be skilled and proficient in using sword due to his job as Light Warrior.

Skills

 * Sword Art - A skill that increase efficiency in using a sword.
 * Wind Magic Affinity - It allows the user to use wind magic at a capable rate.
 * Language Comprehension - A base skill granted to all those who got summoned. It gives the user the ability to understand any language and be proficient in it.

Spells/Attacks
Fire Magic
 * Fireball - One of the most basic fire spells.

Quotes

 * (To himself about Hajime Nagumo): "Heheheheh... Hee hee hee. I-It was all his fault. Because that damn loser... g-got cocky... I-It was divine punishment. I didn’t do anything wrong... It was all for Shirasaki’s sake... Now she... doesn’t have to waste time with that loser... I didn’t do anything wrong... Hehehe."
 * (To Hajime Nagumo) "It's all your fault! If it wasn't for you, Kaori would've been mine!"

Etymology

 * The name "Daisuke" means "big, great" (大) and "help, assist, between, shellfish" (介).
 * The 介 (suke) in Daisuke's name is a Japanese kanji reading of jiè.
 * Daisuke's surname "Hiyama" means "white cypress" (檜) and "mountain" (山).

Trivia

 * Daisuke is the third (formerly fourth) member of his class to be killed, but the only one to be killed by either the demons or their monsters (Hajime knocked him towards a group of approaching monsters).
 * Daisuke is the second member of the Hero's Party to openly betray the group, but chronologically betrayed them first by attacking Hajime during the incident with the Behemoth in the Orcus Labyrinth.