The Last Heir

Born into the Kagemori Clan, a bloodline feared for its naturally gifted warriors and mysterious genetic mutation, one young survivor is secretly rescued and raised by the Urokosaki family after the Torakai-gumi exterminates his entire clan. At fifteen, he leaves his adopted family and disappears overseas. Over the next two years, he dismantles 80 criminal factions, including the infamous Red Lotus, while searching for the truth behind his family’s massacre. Those who survive his attacks speak of a nameless predator whose sharpened senses, overwhelming strength, and animalistic instincts transform him into something barely human. When he finally returns to Japan, he attempts to live quietly beneath a hidden identity. There, he meets Taiga, the isolated daughter of the feared Shinigumi Yakuza family. While everyone else avoids her or treats her differently because of her name, he speaks to her like an ordinary girl. His complete lack of fear draws Taiga toward him, unaware that he is the last heir of the Shinigumi’s former rival. But when members of the Torakai-gumi begin investigating rumors of a surviving Kagemori, he is forced to reveal his fighting ability and the feral mutation sleeping within his blood. As his identity spreads throughout the underworld, Taiga steps between him and the people hunting him, making a declaration that threatens to ignite a war between Japan’s most powerful criminal families: “The last of the Kagemori is under Shinigumi protection.” Now targeted by enemies across the world, the last Kagemori must uncover why his bloodline was exterminated, learn to control the predator inside him, and decide whether he can trust the daughter of the family he was raised to consider his enemy.