Dr. Hiriluk

Hiriluk dressed in mottled pink trousers and a black coat worn over a green shirt, topped by a black hat that matched the coat. Beneath the hat his unusual gray hair stood up in three points, one on each side and one on top, while a black goatee and mustache framed his face.

Eccentric to a fault, Hiriluk would try his untested remedies on unwitting patients and bolt the moment they backfired, yet his heart was genuinely kind; he treated the sick as best he could and never sought any reward. That compassion reached to animals as well. On finding the badly hurt Chopper, his first impulse was to help, and even when the reindeer lashed out he refused to give up, instead becoming a father figure to him. His warmth showed most in his willingness to die rather than let Wapol prevail, certain his country would heal in time. His trademark laugh ran "Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh!"

Once a thief, Hiriluk was told he carried a fatal illness, and what he credited for his recovery was the sight of cherry trees blossoming in a western land. Convinced no sickness was truly beyond curing, he returned to his birthplace of Drum Island to help its people. After Wapol branded every doctor outside his service a criminal, only Hiriluk and Kureha remained free, though his treatments often did more harm than good. He took Chopper in during a blizzard, winning the wary reindeer's trust by stripping bare to prove he meant no harm, and the two grew close. When his terminal illness worsened, Chopper went searching for an Amiudake mushroom to save him, not realizing it was poisonous; moved by the gesture, Hiriluk ate it anyway. Summoned to Drum Castle by a trap meant to kill him, he wept with joy to find Wapol's doctors well, delivered a stirring speech, and, choosing to spare Chopper the guilt of the toxic mushroom, drank a failed medicine that ended his life in a blast, leaving only his hat behind.