Saiko Metori

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Saiko Metori
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Character Name
Full Name	Saiko Metori
Kanji	才虎 芽斗吏
Furigana	さいこ めとり
Aliases	Young Master
Personal Info
Epithet	Scion of Saiko
Birthday	September 8
Sign	♍ (Virgo)
Blood type	O
Gender	Male
Height	163 cm (5’4”)
Weight	50 kg (110.2 lbs)
Affiliation	Saiko Corporation
Family	Saiko Father
Occupation	Student
Education
School	PK Academy
Year/Course	Year 3 Class 1 (Currently) Year 2 Class 3 (Formerly)
Media
Manga Debut	Chapter 114
Anime Debut	Season 1 Episode 23
English Voice	Adam Gibbs
Japanese Voice	Matsukaze Masaya

Metori Saiko (才虎(さいこ)　芽斗吏(めとり) lit. Saiko Metori) is the scion of the top-notch Saiko Conglomerate. He transfers to PK Academy after being smitten by Teruhashi Kokomi's appearance when he was in the city. His defining traits are being rich, smug and stubborn, but throughout the story, these traits gradually disappear and Saiko begins to get on better with his classmates.

Background

Metori transferred to PK Academy in order to get closer to Teruhashi Kokomi, but things stop going his way after transferring in when Teruhashi declines his offer because she likes Saiki Kusuo. Metori tries threatening Kusuo and his friends by buying the company his father works and transferring him to Siberia (but of course Kusuo doesn't let that slide), and after that he just kind of hangs around and tries to make people jealous of how rich and great he is.

Appearance

Saiko is a tall boy with beige coloured skin and a refined, polished appearance. His hair is coloured with two tones, grey with black roots. His green eyes are sharp and droop at the sides, with arched eyebrows above them. Metori's face is normally put into an over-confident expression, complete with a smug smile. His uniform is always spotless and well-tailored—typically a crisp white dress shirt with dark accents, stylish green trousers, all adorned with golden accessories from his earrings to the rings on his fingers and on his belt.

Personality

Metori is severely narcissistic and arrogant due to his rich upbringing and pampered life. He constantly bosses around anyone and everyone from his class with stacks of money (especially Takahashi,) bringing his own chef to school during lunch and bodyguards wherever he goes. Like every boy who fell for Kokomi, he does everything he can to get her attention but he fails to do so and instead moved his attention to threatening Kusuo and his friends. He is seen to be keen on following his family's tradition as he would do what his father tasked him to do even if it's against his will, like spending an entire day without his staff or family fortune.

He can be quite vindictive. After Kokomi rejects the marriage proposal he made as the first thing he did at PK, he begins to take out his frustration of being rejected against Kusuo and his friends:

• He forcibly transfers Kusuo and Shun's fathers to Siberia;
• He spreads a rumuor about Mugami Tōru (Kokomi's older brother) dating a woman 42 years older than him, causing a massive scandal which somehow ends up not ruining his reputation;
• He has Aren arrested with charges of assaulting one of Saiko's bodyguards despite that bodyguard attacking him first;
• He cuts off the electricity and water to Chisato's house as well as leaving bread filled with laxatives at her front door, which ended up not working;
• He even puts snot on three pages of the copy of Shōnen Jump that Riki bought. Whether he had someone do that for him or did it himself is left up to the imagination.

Metori likes to show off his wealth and tries to use it to bribe everyone to be on his side, such as Kusuo, Riki, Shun, and Aren... but he comes to learn that he can't always control people with his money. An important event in his character growth is in Chapter 119: He invites Riki to Chateaubriand, and multiple times in the conversation he tries to convince the guy to be his underling. However, Riki refuses that offer multiple times. In Metori's mind, he keeps thinking Riki wants more and more payment, but Riki offers to be friends instead, even proposing he invite Metori out so they're even. Out of options, Metori gives him the suitcase with 150 million yen in it, but he still refuses. He thinks Riki can't be bribed, but it turns out he just doesn't understand the value of 150 million yen because he doesn't know how much ramen that can buy. Once Metori tells him that 150 million yen can buy far more than 100 portions of ramen, he appears to accept it, taking the suitcase, but then he dumps all the money out to throw the case to a drowning child. Metori is genuinely confused why he did that, thinking 'How does that benefit him...?' It then clicks in his head that some things cannot be bought with money due to Riki's selfless act of rescuing the child.

After being shipwrecked on an island, Metori slowly starts to show changes. At first, he stubbornly refuses to eat anything or help building the raft to escape. However, the next night he admits how stubborn he is; His ship was still under maintenance but he forced his employees to rush it and finish before it was safe to do so. Once he's revealed this, he agrees to eat after realising that he is not the only one feeling responsible, after Aren and Shun divulge that they blame themselves for getting everyone in this situation.

While undergoing the 'ultimate trial of the Saiko clan', whereby he is forbidden from using his staff or fortune for 24 hours (except for a bill of 10,000 yen), Metori experiences for the first time in his life how a "commoner" lives, having to walk home, wait in line, and eat cheap food such as ramen. He reveals that he doesn't understand the concept of waiting in line, he doesn't even know how to walk to his house from school, and that surprisingly, he likes ramen. While he still maintains his narcissistic behaviour, he is now more open to others and it doesn't bother him to give his friends a hand, like when he uses his money to provide all the outfits and props for his class play. However, in that case he still introduces a catch: they must cast him as the lead actor in the play, forcing them to rewrite the script so he gets to marry Kokomi in at least a fictional capacity. When he finds out he's been double-crossed he revokes the production of everything he provided for it.

He continues to develop but we don't see much of it. After losing a basketball game (which he initially refused to participate in) despite his distraction, manipulation of Riki and characteristic bribery of Takahashi, he is shown to put in the effort of practicing at home to get better at playing the game legitimately, surprising and impressing his servants. Then, right at the end of the story when threatened by an incoming meteorite, he tries to ask his staff to go out of their way to save the people he now acknowledges as his friends. This is only shown in the Reawakened anime.

Abilities

• Golden Luck: Being the scion of the top-notch Saiko Conglomerate, Saiko has seemingly limitless amounts of wealth. With his monetary abundance, he is able to provide high-end dinners, luxury cruises or ships, significantly remodel his mansion at will, or get his minions to do literally anything in the space of about one panel. He also frequently bribes people, either by directly giving them money or enticing them with what money can offer.

Trivia

• Metori's name is from the word psychometry (サイコメトリー, saikometori).
• In his profile data, Metori was said to have received a private island the year before he moved to PK Academy.
• Due to Toritsuka Reita ending up in Class 2, he is the second PK Academy transfer student to end up in Class 3. The first is Kuboyasu Aren.
• His favorite food is caviar, by the sheer metric of how many times he mentions it when faced with the prospect of eating 'peasant food.'

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