Kakeru Ryūen

Appearance
Kakeru is a young man of average height with shoulder-length magenta hair that is styled on either side and sharp magenta eyes that strike fear onto anyone he meets and he has a slim and muscular physique in addition.

In the light novel, he wears the standard uniform of the school. However, in the anime, his dressing consists of a standard red jacket and an unbuttoned black shirt underneath with no tie.

Personality
Kakeru is a blameworthy and delinquent person who likes causing trouble for others, this was seen when he and his gang caused trouble for Ken Sudō.

He also possesses a sadistic side, as shown when he looked as if he was going to attack the helpless Ken after his men held him down only to instead flick him on the head while laughing at his fear. He was very ruthless as he took a glass bottle and hit one of his followers on the head with it, showing no remorse after the act. This shows he is willing to use followers for any goal as he sees fit to achieve his purpose till the end without a second thought. He is also shown to be very insubordinate and disrespectful to certain characters, as shown when he spoke with Suzune Horikita and Mio Ibuki even having Albert Yamada throw the latter down after telling her to come to his room.

Despite his intimidating and dangerous appearance, Kakeru is sharp in his own way of thinking, as he was quick to cover his tracks by telling Honami Ichinose even when she witnessed the event and he declared that it was self-defense. He would come up with many unexpected strategies, this was seen when he and one of his followers attack an injured follower who failed in his task to frame Ken Sudō for assault and get him expelled. He also chose not to pick a fight with Class 1-A while in the presence of Manabu Horikita, the Student Council president.

Plot
Kakeru is first seen harassing Ken Sudō along with members of his gang where Kakeru voices plans for Sudō, but the near brawl is broken up by Honami Ichinose who sees through his obvious lie and threatens to call security if he doesn't cease his act and he complies.

Abilities
Kakeru is a notorious delinquent who has gathered many followers and as the representative of his class, he is the leader of his class ruling them not by loyalty but fear.

Intellectual Abilities
In spite of his violent mindset, Kakeru is shown to be very intelligent as he forged an alliance with Kōhei Katsuragi to aid him in the survival test. He also planted spies in camps of classes 1-B and 1-D in order to learn the identities of the leaders to gather points for his own class. He did this in a way to garner more points, due to a contract with Kōhei and his plan would have been successful had he not been outsmarted by Kiyotaka Ayanokōji.

Physical Abilities
Kakeru is shown to be very strong, as he was able to intimidate Daichi Ishizaki, who was a delinquent in middle school, picked fights and was able to scare Ken, another delinquent. He also was seen physically harming Mio Ibuki, and overpowered her pretty easily, despite her knowledge of several martial arts skills, while he didn't even flinch when she tried to kick him.

Name Etymology

 * The name Kakeru consists of kanji that mean "soar, fly" (翔).
 * Kakeru's surname Ryūen consists of kanjis that mean "dragon" (龍) (ryū) and "garden" (園) (en).

Trivia

 * Kakeru shares the same birthday with Kiyotaka Ayanokōji.
 * Kakeru ranks #17 in "Male Character" category in the 2021 edition of 's  guidebook.
 * For the 2nd Year arc, when asked about his aspirations for the next year, he answered  'To crush Ichinose’ class and Sakayanagi's class. If anyone from the 1st year or the 3rd year interferes, I'll crush them too. That's all.'