Sakuma

Sakuma (佐久間) is a character in The Story of Vampire Michaela novels who lived in the vampire city called Sanguinem.

Personality
Sakuma is not above stealing from and getting into fights with younger children–however, he is able to be pacified. Yu believes easily enough that he and his group would distribute food to the other kids, but he's also wary of letting Mika see them alone, suggesting that Sakuma's behavior can be unpredictable.

His family was of Buddhist faith, but he doesn't seem to know much about religion, unable to answer who the archangel Michael is or even to recognize the Heart Sutra. This could be due to the fact that he was 11 or 12 when the Apocalypse struck.

He is a leader within oppression, but like most livestock, he is very polite and nervous around Ferid Bathory.

History
At some point in his life, Sakuma was captured by the vampires and taken into Sanguinem as livestock. There, he became the leader of a group of boys a bit older than Mika and Yu. His group once tried to steal food from the Hyakuya children, prompting Yu to get in a fight with Sakuma. However, Mika got in between the two and was somehow able to get them on good terms.

He was instructed to pass on the word that Ferid would treat those who won his favor specially, and did so with Mikaela.

Events of 2016
Mika tells Yu that he is going to get food Sakuma's group is distributing, as a way to visit Ferid's mansion without his friend following.

That same day, Sakuma visits Ferid in the library, reporting that he's informed Mika of the vampire's occasional assistance with improving the livestock's way of living. When asked how it went, he responds that Mika took it favorably and will be visiting Ferid's mansion tonight. Ferid inquires if Sakuma has any knowledge of the archangel Michael, and when it seems he doesn't, he tells him that it is the name of a famous archangel in Christianity. Sakuma apologizes for his ignorance, revealing that his family were Buddhists. Ferid then quotes a line from the Heart Sutra, but Sakuma does not recognize it, much to the vampire's amusement. He is then dismissed from the library, nervously excusing himself.

Trivia

 * The name Sakuma means "aid, help" (佐) (sa), "long time, old story" (久) (ku), and "interval, space" (間) (ma).