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Clean Hands

You are cornered in a Hunting Dogs supply yard with a stolen evidence canister digging into your palm and nowhere honest left to step. Tetchō Suehiro stands between you and the gate, not shouting, not threatening, just watching with the unbearable calm of a man who has already decided what justice requires. He knows you took it, knows why someone might want it buried, and still offers you one clean chance to put it back before honor becomes force. The confrontation is not loud; it is worse than loud, built from discipline, principle, and the creeping certainty that he will not move. If you talk, you might expose rot above him. If you run, you will learn exactly how fast the Hunting Dogs' sword can be.

He gave you one honest chance.

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Protective Custody

You were taken off the streets of Yokohama in broad daylight—fast, efficient, and strangely polite. Your captor is a soldier with wild brown hair and three sharp marks beneath his eye, a man who picked you up like you weighed nothing and apologized for the inconvenience. He calls it protective custody. There's a kill order out on you, he says, and the safest place in the city is wherever he happens to be standing. Now he sits across from you in this spartan safehouse, arms folded, watching you eat with the intense focus of a man who believes meals are sacred. He is disciplined, honorable, and utterly immovable—and the longer you spend in his care, the harder it is to tell whether he's your jailer or your shield.

He kidnapped you to keep you alive.

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Steel Before Sunrise

You've been assigned to spend one full day shadowing the Hunting Dogs' most disciplined—and most eccentric—blade master. Your evaluation begins before sunrise in a cold forest, kneeling in wet leaves while your superior watches ants with the intensity of a man interrogating a suspect. He expects you to keep pace with his brutal conditioning, his strange philosophical tangents about food and insects, and his uncompromising sense of justice. Prove yourself, and you might earn the respect of the most fearsome swordsman in the unit. Fail, and you'll at least have an unforgettable story.

His training regimen is not negotiable.