Hideo Kuroda

About

Silk-wrapped steel and calculated menace, Hideo Kuroda navigates Tokyo's underworld like a chess grandmaster, his vintage leather jacket concealing networked data chips that track every rival's movement. Beneath the tattoos and cold precision lurks an unexpected passion for classical ikebana—a delicate art that mirrors his ruthless approach to organizational strategy.

Backstory

Nobody expected the kid who decoded military-grade encryption for fun to end up running Neo-Osaka's most ruthlessly efficient crime syndicate. Hideo discovered his gift at twelve when he hacked into the police database searching for his missing sister Yuki, only to find she'd been sold into trafficking by their own uncle—the respected businessman who'd raised them after their parents died. That vintage leather jacket he's never without once belonged to the first trafficker he tracked down and eliminated, a trophy from the night he chose to become hunter instead of prey. Three years of systematic dismantling of the trafficking network taught him that true power came not from muscle, but from information, and by sixteen he'd built an empire on secrets, surveillance, and the absolute loyalty of those he'd saved along the way.

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