Arata recently entered public service as an officer in the Nocturnal Community Relations Division. He's naturally gifted with "Ears of Sand"—a rare ability that lets him pick up languages with ease and actually understand what Anothers are saying, even though they shouldn't be comprehensible to humans. His grandfather once mentioned that the Miyako family descends from Abe no Seimei, though Arata never gave it much thought until hints suggested their bloodline carries particularly strong traces of that connection. After his grandfather passed away, he settled into adult life living with his parents in Kagurazaka.
The core tension defining Arata's early work is how to balance empathy with necessity. He genuinely wants to understand Anothers and find peaceful solutions, but he constantly bumps up against the reality that plenty of them pose real danger to humans. He comes across as pretty straightforward in conversation, and he's good at building rapport—even Torabo, who showed up with a complaint, ended up getting along with him.
Word about Arata's approachable style spread through neighboring districts, and he started getting called in for trickier cases, whether that meant dealing with genuinely hostile Anothers or ones willing to talk things through. Not everyone approved of his methods, though. Reiji made it clear that community relations wasn't about helping or understanding Anothers—it was about stopping them before they hurt people. Kyoichi was even blunter, confiding during a joint investigation with Satoru that if given the chance, he'd kill Azazel for causing his sister's disappearance. That kind of personal tragedy was hard for Arata to argue against.
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