Hiiragi served as the team leader. He was not depicted doing much, and most of the base's day-to-day administration appears to have been handled by consensus or by Gyokuran. Despite his role as base leader, he appears rarely in flashback scenes, even during the extensive flashbacks from Shion and Mokuren's perspectives that detail their days before arriving at the moon base, the daily activities there, and the deterioration of the situation after the Homeworld was destroyed. Hiiragi's most significant plot function was his executive decision to forbid the scientists from evacuating to Earth following the destruction of their homeworld. Hiiragi was the third scientist to die.
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