is read as りょう, in case you were curious, which is 音読み.
I wrote it on the board for my teacher in order to ask about it, and you should have seen her face when she asked who he was.
As for the reasons why it is misread as あきら, I am still not totally sure, but I think, after a little bit of kanji research, I have a well founded hypothesis. The word
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