Shigekura Rui

Summary
Rui Shigekura is the Hero belonging to the Beltrum Kingdom, He was summoned to another world with another four people, his friends Kouta and Rei, his girlfriend Akane and one more girl of who there isn't any detail yet.

Appearance
Rui is half Japanese half American, his mother is from the United States, he has blonde medium long kinda shaggy hair and blue eyes.

Personality
Coming from a healthy family like Satsuki, Rui has gentleman like behavior. Rui is kind and calm: after the summoning he helps his friends to learn the Strahl language and adapt the new world. Despite being the hero he understands he is more a symbol of power for Arbor's faction and decide to play along, however he recognizes the Beltrum Kingdom to be rotten. He does not hesitate to use his authority as a hero to impose himself to chase after his friends despite Charles's doubts. Rui is a curious man, taking interest in Rio's homeland which is very Japanese like and try to maintain good relationship with the other heroes (including Hiroaki who rejects him). However Rui can show himself quite overconfident: having succeeded in all, he fails to understand Rio is far more powerful than him. He also understands that he "steals" his friend's crush but decided to ignore it which leads to Kouta and Rei's escape.

WN Route
Rui hasn't yet made an appearance in WN, with only being barely mentioned several times.

LN Route
Rui's father is the CEO from one of the biggest companies in Japan, his mother is from the United States, where he lived until he was 16, when he moved to Japan due to his father's job and began to assist the same high school than Kouta, Rei and Akane.

When he entered the high school, he became his year's top student and joined a school club that researched foreign languages as its activities, where he would become Kouta's and Rei's friend and Akane's boyfriend, something that with the time would make Kouta to almost hate him due to his jealously and inferiority complex towards Rui due to him being the top student of their year and because Kouta, as Akane's childhood friend has loved her from long ago, he presumably became acquainted with Satsuki too during his time in Japan when assisting both in several occasions to parties held by some of their families or some other business meetings.

He was summoned to another world getting dragged with him his friends Kouta and Rei, his girlfriend Akane and one more other girl whose relationship with the other four or any personal detail hasn't been revealed yet, just after the summoning he stayed always by his friends' side telling to them how the things that the people around them said sounded in Japanese, helping them to slowly learn the Stralh's language, something that would further fuel Kouta's inferiority complex towards him and would end to make him want to escape with Christina in the future.

The reasons why he did that are still unknown, but Rui seems to have agreed to become Bertram's hero as he seems to have a collaborative and cordial relationship with Charles and other military men like Alfred.

He was supposed to bless Charles wedding with Celia and after her "kidnapping" he would try to help to rescue her shooting at Rio from the distance before his fight with Alfred.

He would appear again later in the evening party with Christina as his partner, he would try to talk to the other hero's with the goal of forming a cordial relationship with them and for asking them if they were able of discovering anything about a way to go back to Japan and to compare the dream where he was explained how to use his divine weapon with theirs, Hiroaki and Takahisa answered his questions at the beginning, but they got away from him after that, one because he didn't like how he was more handsome than him, and another because he wanted to keep Miharu away from him due to his possessiveness and insecurity. Only Satsuki and Rio talked to him normally, later that night he would help Rio to defeat Reis' assassins.

The next day he would approach Rio for asking him about the similitude of his name's and family name's nuance with the Japanese'. When leaving Galarc's capital when he saw Rio seeing him off with Charlotte he said to him that he would like to meet again with him and to be his friend because he was the only one with whom he feels he was able of getting close to since the summoning and because nobody else but him and Satsuki talked to him normally.

After his return from the evening party, worried about Rei's and Kouta's disappearance and suspecting that the reason for Kouta's runaway must be the inferiority feelings and the jealously of his relationship with Akane, that he realized but didn't dare to talk about, decided to join the national army in Christina's search. He would arrive to Creia at the same time that Rio and Celia, the next morning at dawn he would try to capture the Rio that defeated Charles' knights for stopping Christina's pursuing shooting him from the distance.

Nine days later he would fight with Alfred against Rio after repeating to him his intention of befriending him and saying to him that he didn't want to fight against him or killing him if possible, that he just does it because of his condition as hero, after the battle he would talk to Kouta about the feelings that he has been repressing and make up with him, after that he would order the soldiers to retire peacefully after the defeat and would accompany Rio's and Cristina's group until their exit from the soldiers' encirclement for making sure that no soldier tries something rush, he would say his farewells to Rei, Kouta and Rio, after giving his best regards to Kouta and Rei he asks Rio to keep an eye on them and to reach a helping hand to them if possible, after that he would repeat to Rio again his intention of being friends and they would promise each other to help the other when they may need it in the future.

Relationships
Sumeragi Satsuki: The two of them come from wealthy families. They meet during social events and have a cordial relationship.

Saiki Rei: Rui's senpai and friend.

Murakumo Kouta: At the beginning Rui was a transfer student into Kouta and Akane's school. Rui gains Akane's affection but also Kouta's jealousy (he was in love with his childhood friend Akane). All of them including Rei were summoned in the Strahl region, Rui is the only hero who has a divine arms which can translates the Strahl language he helps his friends to adapt the new world. Finally Kouta develops an inferiority complex and his jealousy towards Rui, moreover despite being treated as the "hero's friend" Kouta has the feeling he is more like a prisoner, all of that made him to decide to escape with princess Christina. Rui is aware of Kouta's feelings through the years he dated Akane but for the sake of not destroying their relationship they have decided to ignore the matter. Rui deeply care about Kouta and chase him with Charles and Alfred. After his defeat by Haruto, Rui settles the matter with Kouta and asks Haruto to keep an eye on his friends.

Rio: They meet in Cleia when Rio "kidnaps" Celia during her wedding. Rui is stunned by Rio's abilities to dodge his divine arms (a lightening bow). They encounter near Beltrum's border when Christina escapes the Arbor's grasp. Rui feels Rio's arrival and confronts him with Alfred but both of them lost. After that Rui thanks Rio for reminding him that he is not foolproof and his help for settling his relationship with Kouta. He asks Rio to keep his friends safe and promises his help if needed.

Akane: His Girlfriend. Not much is known about their relationship with her. Before the summoning Rui got transferred into Akane and Kouta's school. His gentleman and good looks made Akane fall for him despite Kouta's feelings for her. Akane is Rui's sweetheart and he is very faithful to her : after his defeat he refuses to follow Christina to return to her sides (giving up his freedom in the process). During in a interlude in the royal castle in Beltram, Rui reflects on his situation stating the kingdom in Arbor's grasp is rotten. Worried, Akane looks for him and asks him why he has such grim face.

Abilities

 * He has a great quantity of magic power, the same that the rest of heroes and summoned people.
 * Divine weapon, he has a white bow with yellow/golden decorations that controls lightning.
 * Archery, it's unknown if he ever touched a real bow while on earth, but in the other world his sniping ability was described as troublesome by Rio.

Etymology

 * Shigekura means "multilayered" (重) (shige) and "warehouse" (倉) (kura).

Trivia

 * He never lost on anything against anyone until his defeat at Rio's hands.