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• Akio Touma - This guy forms the third prong of the Yamaguchi-gumi triangle to which Masahiko and Izo seem to belong. He's a joker, but he's fearless. That combination of qualities makes for appealing company -- even if he does have obnoxious taste in music.

• Yisa Taimiev (REVERSED) - Words fail. She has a great cat, though.

• Masahiko Irie - Masahiko Irie appears to be the only contact in Sumaru that Izo had upon his arrival, after being quite suddenly torn from his life in Tokyo -- and even then it was a month before the two met in person. The teen is his junior in years, but also apparently his peer, and -- more privately -- also his superior; Iriesama has decided that Irie-san is responsible for educating Izo about the sudden, strange turn that his life has taken. Their relationship seems amicable enough, and though they have very different ways of interacting with other people, they seem to share a mutual respect.

• • Seiichi Miyamoto - After the combat in Mt. Mifune that foiled (apparently) the apocalypse, a wounded Seiichi stumbled down the mountain to find a wounded Izo already at the temple, being attended to. The monks provided tea and hot water for washing, and the pair had a careful chat, during the course of which both men agreed that they weren't good guys, but they probably weren't really bad guys, either. Seiichi did mention that he had some idea as to who might fit the description, though. It wasn't more than a day or two before he was proven right.

• Miwa Saitou - Miwa isn't much like the majority of Izo's associations. Petite, conservatively dressed, slightly anxious, she puts him in mind of a doe: not the type of girl that usually populates his day-to-day life. Nevertheless, she went out of her way to track him down at his place of work sheerly for the sake of vetting him as an association of Naomi's -- so clearly, knowing Naomi means knowing Miwa, to greater or lesser extent. He makes her uneasy, but he's also literally covered for her twice already -- so maybe one makes up for the other.

• Naomi Suzuno - If there's anything Izo appreciates in someone else, it's well-informed adherence to logic and an inclination toward the practical. Naomi has all three. Naomi's taken the time to fill in more than a few blanks about events in Sumaru, for which the gangster is appreciative; with every passing encounter, he finds himself more inclined to extend her the rarest of his offerings: a modicum of trust.

She just needs to stay on dry land from now on. And give him back his shirt.

• Itsuka Mizuhara - Small girl on a motorcycle. He almost ran her off of the road. It's a problem.

• Mariko Ohmukai (REVERSED) - The very definition of wasted potential, by Izo's reckoning, but whatever anyone might say about the trainwreck that is Mariko Ohmukai, she can't be accused of not knowing what she wants. On occasion, Izo's even been willing to give it to her.

...just, not in the way you're thinking.

• Thora Kobayashi - Kobayashi is a powerful presence on the fringes of Izo's social circles. She's closer to Masahiko and Akio than she is to Izo himself, but inevitably, supernatural turbulence in the city has landed them in the same place at the same time. People he likes seem to like her, and that's good enough reason to file her under the mental header of 'One of Ours.'

• Mai Namikawa - As relations between the Kagutsuchi and SEES continue to erode in spite of efforts to shore them up, Izo's turned to Mai, aware of the teen's position as go-between for the factions, and hoping to contribute in much the same way. While they haven't traveled too far down that path of reconciliation yet, Izo did put a powerful hurt on her Shadow. It was only the second time he lost control of his temper since gaining his persona, and the results were predictably explosive.

• • Kyo Enda (REVERSED) - Kyo represents a dichotomy of significance for Izo. On the one hand, he appeals to Izo's curiosity, love of puzzles, and enduring fascinations with both psychology and ethics; on the other, he is a practical lesson in the importance of empathy and compassion, and a reminder that to lose one's self in baser impulses can have monstrous results. Their only conversation was mostly civil. Mostly.