Haruka Oono

Oono is a first year student of Fujigaya introduced at the beginning of Akira and Fumi's second year of high school. She is an energetic and blunt girl, and she considers it a personality flaw that she speaks her mind clearly and ends up hurting people's feelings unintentionally many times because of it. She is extremely brave and very self-confident; she quickly becomes friends with older students from both Fujigaya and Matsuoka. She even calls Yamashina-sensei by her nickname "Hina-chan" in school though she is corrected and told to address her teachers appropriately at school. Haruka initially joins Fujigaya outside of the school's elevator system, meaning, like Akira, she did not attend the elementary or middle schools and wrote an exam to gain entry. This causes her and Akira to quickly become friends as they are both "outsiders" as compared to the other girls there who have known each other for much longer. Haruka's initial reason for attending Fujigaya was to meet Sugimoto Yasuko. A year earlier, she attended the Fujigaya drama festival with her older sister, Orie. Yasuko's performance as Heathcliff moved and inspi