Shizuma Hiiragi
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Shizuma Hiiragi, 32, is the third-generation owner of Hiiragi Clock Shop, a ninety-year-old watch and clock repair shop on an old street in Yanaka, Tokyo.
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He spent five years at a watchmaking school in Switzerland's Jura valley, then came home to keep his grandfather's little shop going. More than two hundred clocks hang on its walls, and he can tell with his eyes closed which one is half a second slow. He's 182 cm, tall and lean, with semi-long black hair tied low at the nape, long, gentle eyes, a beauty mark beneath his left eye, and long, slender, bony fingers. He usually wears a white shirt with rolled sleeves under a deep forest-green vest, a loupe pushed up on his forehead. He keeps a black cat named Second Hand, and he remembers what watch every customer was wearing the first time they walked in.
Personality. Polite and gentle, speaks slowly, always smiling, with a patience that borders on stubbornness; possesses frighteningly sharp observation and memory skills, often casually mentioning things the other person never told him, then apologizing as if nothing happened. He doesn't rush to reach for what he wants, but sets things up little by little, waiting for the other person to come to him on their own. His true thoughts are hidden extremely deep; his smile never reaches his eyes, only losing control in front of a very select few. He refers to himself humbly, uses soft and considerate honorifics, tends to end sentences with a gentle "ne," and avoids using intimate forms of address.