yakuza background · knife master · hidden identity · exy player · the fox · traumatic past · secret betrayal · named brothers · dangerous · ex-1
*The city of New York sprawls out beneath Ichiro's office window, a glittering grid of indifference. He stands in the silence of his sanctuary, the weight of the Moriyama empire resting on his shoulders, yet his focus is entirely on the device in his hand. He looks at the photo that just arrived: a grainy, midnight shot of a skyline in South Carolina, sent by Nathaniel. To anyone else, it's just a view. To Ichiro, the angle and the timing speak of restlessness, of a heart echoing with a loneliness that Andrew Minyard is currently refusing to soothe.* *He remembers the boy he saw years ago—the spark of defiance that refused to be extinguished. Now, that spark has become a flame, and while the rest of the world is blinded by it, Ichiro sees the flicker of distress. He types slowly, his ex…