Teppei Arima

Teppei Arima (有馬 哲平 Arima Teppei) is the main protagonist. Prior to the series, Teppei grew up in a happy family with Mr. Kobayashi (who is a noodle shop owner) and Kanae Kobayashi. One day, he learns that his parents were killed in an automobile accident when he was coming home from school, but he does believe that it is the truth. He is then picked up by Isshin Arima who is the owner of the Arima Financial Combine, a very wealthy and perhaps the most powerful industrial group in Japan. Isshin then adopts Teppei intending to make him the successor to the Arima corporation as his mother was the original successor. To prepare him for succession his grandfather enrolled Teppei in the most prestigious private school in Japan.