Kazuki Karaiya

"The only reason I let worthless pieces of trash like you walk free is so that you can be useful to me in times like these. Got it?"

- Kazuki Karaiya

Kazuki Karaiya (仮頼谷 一樹) is the main antagonist of Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, a spinoff manga of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. He is a police officer in Morioh and a Stand user, sharing control of the parrot Pet Sounds's Stand as well as an ability to manipulate Boingo's Tohth.

Appearance
Karaiya is a tall man with an androgynous appearance. He has light-colored hair styled in a bob cut, a mole below his right eye, and flat eyebrows. He wears a typical Japanese police officer uniform in the springtime consisting of a hat with an emblem on the front alongside a coat with a white dress shirt and a dark tie underneath.

Personality
Karaiya normally appears calm and serious, but is secretly deranged, sadistic, and an elitist. Despite being a police officer, he is fine with Pet Sounds attacking innocent civilians, including Josuke Higashikata, the grandson of Karaiya's coworker, Ryohei. Karaiya allows criminals like Koji Kiyohara to roam free if it means they can be of assistance to his plans. His calm demeanor can quickly change to reveal his true nature when he is angry.

Karaiya is motivated by his grandfather's desire for them to stand at the top of the world together. He inherited his grandfather's ideology which the latter learned from Kars, where the winner should focus on being the one who comes out on top. Before being granted any power by his grandfather, Karaiya felt lost. However, he now feels like he could do anything, especially with Pet Sounds by his side. He has a superiority complex, perceiving other people around him as ignorant imbeciles. Karaiya initially acts friendly when speaking with Boingo, but it is merely an act that he puts on.

Abilities
"They're finally mine... The future and the past are finally mine!"

- Kazuki Karaiya

Pet Sounds
After sharing a piece of his earlobe with Pet Sounds, Karaiya now shares a Stand with the parrot and capable of fully wielding it for his own gain. Pet Sounds's Stand is capable of recording events from the past in and inserting them into someone's body. The victim's body is then forced to reenact the event, essentially parroting what happened.

Tohth
Tohth is a comic-book-like Stand whose whimsical story periodically updates itself to predict the close future with 100% accuracy. After incapacitating Ryoko and Boingo, Karaiya takes the book for himself.

Background
When Karaiya was young, his grandfather advised him not to open his heart to humans because of how shallow they are. Before World War II, his grandfather was at St. Moritz, Switzerland for an intelligence operation, where he experienced something that transcended all of creation. He never shared the truth with Karaiya's father, but decided to tell Karaiya since he felt that both of them were similar. His grandfather passed on the ideology he learned from Kars to Karaiya and later shared a part of his Vampire essence to Karaiya when he became an adult.

In March 1999, Karaiya somehow stole Pet Sounds from his cage in Cairo, Egypt, and brought the parrot with him to Morioh, Japan. He shares a piece of his body with Pet Sounds, linking their souls together and making them share the same Stand. Karaiya works in Morioh as a police officer in the Budogaoka Police Station.

Attacking Hol Horse
Karaiya first controls Pet Sounds to use its Stand on the police inspector, Hiraoka. While driving to work, Hiraoka runs over several pedestrians and nearly crashes into Hol Horse.

At the Budogaoka Police Station, Karaiya takes interest when Boingo mentions that he lost a manga. Ryohei asks Karaiya to escort Boingo back to his hotel. Before they leave, Karaiya ominously hopes that Ryohei could get a promotion someday for his hard work and passion.

Later, Karaiya has Pet Sounds use its ability to possess a group of chefs. Watching from an alley, Karaiya witnesses Hol Horse using his Stand to defend himself and is excited to learn that there are other Stand users in Morioh.

Battle in the Subway
Without directly meeting him, Karaiya gives Koji Kiyohara permission to kill whoever he wants in Morioh's subway station, while also having Pet Sounds attack Josuke and Hol Horse. However, Kiyohara and Pet Sounds are both defeated by the duo, allowing Ryohei to arrest Kiyohara. While Kiyohara is in his jail cell, he sees a memory of Karaiya sitting beside him in a police car. Karaiya asks him how it felt to lose. When Kiyohara doesn't answer the question but instead asks who Karaiya is, Karaiya screams at him. Pet Sounds then appears behind Karaiya and activates its Stand ability on Kiyohara, causing him to shriek in his cell.

Retrieving Tohth
Karaiya looks at the civilians around him and feels that he is superior to all of them. Recalling his grandfather's words from when he was younger, Karaiya has full faith that he can crush anyone that stands in his way. Karaiya walks up to Boingo, who is taking shelter from the rain, and asks if he needs a hand searching for his book. However, Karaiya actually incapacitates Boingo and carries him with one arm while looking for Tohth. He eventually finds Ryoko Kakyoin and uses Pet Sounds's Stand to possess her. With Tohth left on the ground, Karaiya picks it up and becomes its new owner. The pages tell him to give Ryoko a gun so that she can shoot Hol Horse. Karaiya is ecstatic that he can now control both the past and the future using Pet Sounds and Tohth.

Final Battle
Karaiya then uses Boingo as bait to lure Josuke into a trap. Despite Josuke's caution, he falls for it and Pet Sounds is able to attack him. Josuke and Boingo manage to break free from the illusion thanks to Josuke's Stand, causing Karaiya to grind his teeth in anger wondering what kind of ability Josuke has. He assures that no matter what tricks Josuke uses next, he will never win against the abundant memories Pet Sounds has stocked up. He declares that his next attack will be a massacre and he'll kill all of them.

When Josuke, Boingo, and Hol Horse reunite, Karaiya tricks them by using a paper model of Pet Sounds and an illusion of Ryoko to split them up. Josuke runs after the fake Ryoko, and Hol Horse chases after "Pet Sounds". After Karaiya successfully splits them up and isolates Josuke, he makes Josuke relive a memory of Daniel J. D'Arby playing poker with DIO. While Josuke is defenseless, Karaiya comes behind him with a cutting torch and intends to make Josuke's death look like a suicide. Luckily, Josuke manages to escape the memory by punching Pet Sounds before Karaiya could harm him. Karaiya tries to act innocent, but Josuke sees through his trick and punches him with his Stand.

Karaiya attempts to have Josuke hear The World's Stand cry, which he claims is the most powerful sound. Pet Sounds plays the sound with its Stand and Karaiya boasts about taking his place far above humans and looking down on everyone. Fortunately, Josuke is unharmed and only complains about his ears ringing. He had previously broken Pet Sounds's beak when he punched the parrot earlier to escape the D'Arby illusion. Josuke realized that the secret to Pet Sounds's ability is parroting back the exact noises it hears. Since its beak is broken, the sound it parrots will be off-key, and the ability will be useless. Josuke also figures out that Pet Sounds ate a piece of Karaiya's ear, so he uses his Stand to reattach the piece of Karaiya's ear that was in Pet Sounds's stomach. Josuke remembered Karaiya saying he wants to stand far above humans and look down on them, so he gives him exactly what he asked for. Karaiya becomes a hot air balloon after Josuke's Stand fuses the cutting torch with his skin and fuses his arms with a curtain.

Ryohei and the other officers eventually recover Karaiya's gun at the construction site, and also find him strung up on a nearby tree. Even after his defeat, he claims how he will stand above all humans, and is mentally unfit to answer any of their questions.