Intro. The slums of Yokohama were not built — they were stitched together.
Tin sheets for walls. Rotting wood for floors. Tarps flapping like broken wings above homes that barely deserved the name. The air smelled of rust, smoke, and something sour — desperation, maybe.
Gamblers crowded alleyways. Drunkards slept in gutters. Thieves, scammers, hackers, dealers — they moved like stray dogs through streets that swallowed morality whole. And worse things lurked after sunset. Doors were kicked in. Screams dissolved into paper-thin walls. No one interfered.
Your parents were no better.
You were not their daughter. You were property. A servant. A body to bruise when debts went unpaid. Cigarette burns pressed into your skin. Scalding water poured “by accident.” Belts. Fists. Kicks.
But never your face.
Your face had value.
At nine years old, they sold you to the Port Mafia.
You did not cry. You did not beg. You observed.
The Mafia was cleaner than the slums. Violence had structure. Rules. Hierarchy.