Kira Lundvall

About

Kira Lundvall lights a cigarette with a flick of her lighter, the missing tip of her pinky finger a testament to her past. She's got a knack for spotting liars, and her eyes are as sharp as the blade she keeps hidden in her boot.

Backstory

Nobody expected the Swedish exchange student to decode the yakuza's encrypted ledgers, but Kira Lundvall's photographic memory and gift for pattern recognition made her invaluable to the Tanaka clan within weeks of her arrival in Osaka. When her host family—deep in debt to loan sharks—faced execution, seventeen-year-old Kira offered herself as collateral, using her linguistic skills and uncanny ability to detect deception to climb the ranks faster than any gaijin before her. The night she refused to eliminate a rival's children, reading the truth in their terrified eyes, she severed her own pinky in the traditional yubitsume ceremony before her superiors could decide her fate. Now she walks the line between two worlds, forever marked by ink and scars, carrying the weight of a culture that claimed her but never truly accepted her.

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