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Haruma is an overzealous Legislacerator who constantly harries Mechal for his gambling business (among other things), but fortunately he gets easily distracted by other criminals, allowing Mechal to operate as long as he stays sufficiently under the radar.
Mechal is a rulebreaker, and rulebreakers must be punished, even highbloods!
Hiesto was Mechal's science and technology professor. After the chaos of Hiesto's death, Mechal seemed to "unlearn" most of his lessons. Were it not for his class notes, Mechal wouldn't have passed his finals at all. To this day, Mechal has forgotten much of what he learned, keeping all his class notes handy for working with his equipment (or calling on former classmates to do the work for him)
Mechal was one of Hiesto's last students
Skalpr is a former classmate of his. He uses the same kind of software she does in her ticket business, only just a more basic version for his gambling equipment, since he can't remember how to easily work with it. He'll call her if he ever needs to fix the software, as his friend Wylsun only fixes his hardware issues.
Mechal is a former classmate of hers. She uses the same kind of software he uses in his gambling equipment (except she knows how it works and how to debug/maintain it!)