The only scion of a well-off family that made their fortune in the pre-apocalypse days and are still not doing too badly. As a child, he was an avid reader of Kevin Cecil's work, even reading the professor's works related to the arts. He developed an intellectual crush on Cecil, and it was this that led him to the academy as a student in Ecological Sciences.

To his disappointment, the scholar he admired had given up academia for a peaceful life of gardening. His attempts to talk about theory were rebuffed. However, as Shuu completed his PhD-equivalent and joined the Ecological Sciences, they built an amicable friendship as Kevin helped Shuu look after his delicate specimens and experiments. To his dismay, Shuu found himself developing a huge and rather inconvenient crush on the gardener...