Tetsuo is more alone than ever.Isolated from his wife and daughter, he ignores how to send them information, and do not know that his accomplice outside has nothing to do with his projects.Indeed, the young Kenshin has only one objective: murdering Kubo, this charismatic mafia, for a crime committed many years earlier.A man for so long in the profession that he has thwarted the trap stretched in the blink of an eye to allow the reader to abandon the teenager and return to the heart of the intrigue.
On the one hand, the yakuzas are decided to enrich themselves on the back of the sect.On the other side, Tetsuo will succeed in escaping with woman and child.But nothing is simple.Naoki Yamakawa masters his scenario to sow trouble.Our hero, selected prisoner in one of the many chalets of the Tosu property, no longer knows what to do, especially since the party devoted to the two women of his life is planned for the same evening.A religious celebration that could forever seal the fate of his family ... not to mention the presence of the Kubo group, who came not only to get rich, but also assassinate him.
One thing is certain: whether in front of the mountain clan or in front of the yakuzas, Tetsuo does not play in the same category!His stepfather went master in the art of mental manipulation, as well as his most faithful allies.Kubo, on the other hand, was not born from the last rain: his experience pushes him to review his strategy while our hero, between the two, struggles to find the shadow of a solution.Will he have to lower himself at the same level as these criminals?Everything is possible in this thriller which continues to hold the cadence thanks to the collateral clashes which provide clarification on the protagonists.
If the reader can hope for the arrival of a last straight line, it remains long and strewn with pitfalls!
- ©Masashi Asaki / Kurokawa