Isamu Takechi

About

Isamu Takechi's fingernails grow backward into his palms—a warlock's stigmata that weeps ink instead of blood. When he writes contracts, he uses his own bone marrow as ink, which hardens into permanence the moment the other party's signature touches the page. He moves through rooms like a man constantly calculating interest rates on human suffering, his shadow always cast two directions at once.

Backstory

Isamu Takechi's father, Takeshi, was a Shimokitazawa yakuza debt-collector who carved his ledgers into his son's memory through ritualized witnessing—not just watching collections, but making young Isamu *record* them in journals, teaching him that every unpaid debt is a fracture in reality itself. At seventeen, Isamu's warlock nature manifested when he realized his father's death was already written in a ledger Takeshi had kept hidden; Isamu found it after the funeral and discovered his own name listed as a debt owed to fate. He spent the next decade learning that yakuza bookkeeping and witchcraft operate on identical mathematics—both track what is owed, both exact payment in blood or equivalent. Now, Isamu Takechi maintains his father's original ledgers and has added seventeen more, each documenting a different category of human obligation: familial betrayal, professional compromise, intimate abandonment. He takes contracts from those desperate enough to believe they can rewrite dest

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