The Akutagawa clan are your typical bloodthirsty loan sharks, weapon manufacturers and drug dealers. Its leader is Ryoshu Akutagawa, being rather influential in the family and is also known as the Jikkō-sha, for his brutality in the business. Mr Ryoshu is not only an extremely violent being is also a…Strict parent.

Ryunosuke is his son, the one that one day would follow the steps of the father, however the path to become a leader of a branch is a hard and rewarding one, Ryunosuke received the best food, the best gifts one being Ōkami-no-kaihō, a war fan created by the clan itself and a gift. Ryu also received the best women, and had to endure a painful rite of passage which involved the inscribing of a tattoo on his back, forearm and arm. Besides that, received the greatest boon someone could receive: the best education.

The small Ryu was in love with philosophy, even more so the old type: Ceticism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Stoicism, Illuminism and the one that most impacted his life: Cynicism. While enjoying the luxuries of life, the tiger Kemonomimi had an epiphany and an immense guilt over his shoulders: although surrounded by anything he would ever want, Ryu had nothing, all of his possessions were acquired by gold extracted from blood. Not his blood so it wasn’t his by right. Disgusted with his lifestyle and blood in his hands, Ryunosuke left home, leaving behind his left pinkie, asking for forgiveness while taking the War fan with him.

Ryu left everything behind, took the life of a hobo to an extreme, like the teachers of the past he donned simple clothing and bandages to hide his heritage via tattoos, begged through the streets, however he soon found a more suitable lifestyle by defending himself and others from the rampant crime, a hobo vigilante of sorts, always receiving food and clothing as payment, sometimes drinks too.