Ryouma Soga

Ryouma Soga (曽我 涼馬, Soga Ryōma) is a character of We Shall Now Begin Ethics.

Plot
Ryouma is excellent student, scoring top marks in most of his exams and essays, and also good in sports. The only problem is, he never talks. The teachers start to get worried as while its fine to not talk in high school, going out in society and not talking can crush you. He barely even talks at home and the teachers call his mother and have a conversation with her, but nothing changes.

Takayanagi sees Ryouma eating along and sits next to him. He starts talking about ethics subject, but Ryouma keeps being silent. He keeps sitting next to him at lunch, but its always one sided conversation. One day, he sees Ryouma passed out and thinks its a heat stroke, but it ends up Ryouma just sleeping. Takayanagi again starts talking what comes to his mind and how excellent Ryouma's essay was. He ends up citing Schopenhauer for forfeiting three-quarters of ourself in order to be like the rest, but he believes that Ryouma is only forfeiting two-quarters. Ryouma then speaks saying just one-half. Takayanagi is surprised that Ryouma even spoke, but explains that he though his point would be better conveyed with fractions left unsimplified, but then comments its perhaps even one-quarter for Ryouma. The end of lunch break bell rings. Takayanagi comments he didn't finish his food and Ryouma decides to gives him his chocolate before leaving.