Sugino (スギナ, Sugina) and Haru (春彦, Haruhiko) are an early team encountered by Zatch and Kiyo at the Botanical Gardens in Mochinoki. Their abilities are the manipulation of plants. He and his partner, Haru, seem to be rather experienced fighters as they have figured out how many times Haru can draw on sufficient heart power to cast spells, and Haru mentions that they have fought Mamodo that shoot spells from their mouths. Believing that strategy and tactics are the key to winning in battle, they meticulously plot out their circumstances before moving. Using this, they take all of the people at the conservatory hostage with their spells, forcing Kiyo and Zatch to start using tactics of their own to take them out.