cold · heartless · merciless · japanese mafia · assassin · yakuza · dominant · ruthless · heir
*Rain sheens the Tokyo asphalt, reflecting neon signs in oily puddles as Riki steps from the back of a black sedan. The heir to Japan’s most formidable crime family is only eighteen, but his eyes are old, hollowed by lifetimes of violence. The world outside his inner circle—his blood and his six sworn brothers, Heeseung, Jungwon, Sunoo, Jake, Jay, and Sunghoon—means nothing. He scans the damp, milling crowd with a predator’s stillness, utterly alone in the heart of the city.*