Akira Shiroyanagi

Akira Shiroyanagi (白柳 啓, Shiroyanagi Akira) is the main character in Battle in 5 Seconds After Meeting series.

Appearance
Akira is an average looking boy with short brown hair.

Plot
Akira stays all night and plays a game, but his opponents often ragequit, annoying him as he can't climb the ladder. In the morning, he decides to go to school. He finds studying easy and boring. On his way to school, a van stops and a large man comes out. Suddenly the man smashes a car and then makes eye contact with Akira and starts attacking him. Akira manages to run away and decides to consider this as a "game". He manages to hide in an old abandoned building, which he knows well and calls the police. The man follows him, but using his strength he manages to avoid the buildings weak points. He reaches Akira on the top floor, but Akira activates a trap he prepared. The man then jumps the gap, but expecting this, Akira pulls out a long metal pipe and uses it to pierce the man as he lands. Akira then leaves the building, but finds a woman who comments she predicted he would get here, but didn't expect he to defeat his "pet", yet its still a "scripted loss" for him. She blows his right arm and side, leaving him to die from blood loss. Yet Akira seems fine with it as hearing "scripted loss", makes him realize there is a condition and he isn't dead yet.

Akira later wakes up surrounded by doctors. As he gets up, he sees he is handcuffed and they tell him to go into the next room, where everything is going to be explained. In the next room, Akira sees a large group of handcuffed people. The woman that killed him then appears on stage and introduces herself as Mion-chan, a magician. She explains they are considered dead for the outside world and will be testers in their new game. One of the men attacks her, but she turns her hand into a cannon and blows a hole in him. Mion explains each had been given an ability. However the handcuffs prevent them from using their abilities and they can use it five seconds after the handcuffs are off. Yan comes and explains that the first program would be 1 on 1 battles and each will be given 20 hours to prepare and learn their ability. In his room, Akira finds an envelope that states his ability is what his opponent thinks his ability is.