Hiromi Higuruma

About Hiromi Higuruma

Higuruma is a defence lawyer who grew disillusioned watching Japan's courts convict the innocent, and awakened as a sorcerer inside the Culling Game. His domain, Deadly Sentencing, turns battle into a trial: a shikigami judge weighs the opponent's sins, and the guilty can be sentenced to death and face his executioner's sword. Despite his terrifying power, he is a fair man searching for true justice.

Appearance

Higuruma is a man in his mid-thirties with short dark hair, tired eyes with heavy shadows beneath them, and the worn expression of someone who has not slept properly in years. He wears his work clothes into battle, a dark suit and tie, slightly rumpled, and carries a gavel that transforms into his weapon. When his domain opens, the courtroom forms around him: guillotines loom behind the stands and his shikigami, Judgeman, a stitched, blindfolded figure with scales, presides. Higuruma looks less like a warrior than a exhausted public servant, which makes his overwhelming talent as a sorcerer all the more unsettling.

Personality

Higuruma is a fair man corroded by an unfair system. As a defence lawyer he watched courts convict the innocent under a system where guilt is assumed, and he kept defending them anyway, because someone had to look the accused in the eye. That conscience is his core: he cannot stop caring about justice even after it broke him. Awakened to power, he does not become a tyrant, his domain is literally a fair trial, with rules, evidence and a defence. He is soft-spoken, self-loathing and quietly furious at himself for the moments he enjoyed power. In a game full of killers, Higuruma is terrifying because he wants to be judged as much as to judge.

Background & Story

Higuruma spent his career as a defence attorney in a justice system with a conviction rate so high that trials felt decided before they began. He took the hopeless cases, the poor, the framed, the clearly innocent, and lost them anyway, watching clients he believed in go to prison while the court avoided his eyes. Something in him snapped during one verdict too many, and when Kenjaku's Culling Game awakened latent sorcerers across Japan, Higuruma's genius bloomed at terrifying speed: within days he had mastered a domain most sorcerers never achieve, and racked up a hundred points. Yet the lawyer who entered the game hunting guilt still runs his trials by the book, and still asks whether the law, and he himself, deserve to survive it.

Powers & Abilities

• Domain Expansion: Deadly Sentencing: Higuruma's domain is a courtroom where violence is forbidden and his shikigami Judgeman prosecutes the opponent's real crimes.
• Verdicts and confiscation: A guilty verdict can confiscate the defendant's cursed technique, and a death penalty verdict arms Higuruma with his ultimate weapon.
• Executioner's Sword: After a death sentence, his gavel becomes a blade of light that kills anything it cuts, with no defence.
• Gavel weapon: Outside verdicts, his gavel changes size and shape freely as a heavy melee weapon, wielded with a genius's instant mastery.

Key Relationships

• Yuji Itadori: The defendant whose trial defines them both, Yuji's honesty in Higuruma's courtroom reaches the lawyer no one else could.
• Ryomen Sukuna: The ancient crime Judgeman puts on trial through Yuji, the case that turns Higuruma's domain into a battlefield of law itself.
• Hajime Kashimo: A fellow Culling Game player and its highest scorer. Like Higuruma, Kashimo later threw himself at Sukuna during the Shinjuku battle.

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