Masumi Yuki

Masumi Yuki (, Yūki Masumi) is a minor antagonist in Kurohyou: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho and minor supporting character in Kurohyou 2: Ryu ga Gotoku Ashura-hen. Yuki is Tatsuya Ukyo's former high school teacher and, unbeknownst to Tatsuya, a martial arts master. After Tatsuya is expelled and enters Dragon Heat, Yuki becomes his third opponent in order to exact revenge on his former problem student.
==Profile==
=== Appearance ===
At a glance, Yuki has the appearance of a straight-laced Japanese schoolteacher, He walks slightly hunched over to appear shorter. At Dragon Heat, his hair is slicked back with a single bang left hanging, and his glasses are gone.
===Attire===
He wears a dark suit, tie, and glasses, with hair parted down the middle. In Dragon Heat, he wears a white running outfit with dark stripes along the collar, sleeves, and legs. His jacket is also unzipped. His hair is slicked back with a single bang left hanging, and his glasses are gone. During his entrance he carries a shinai, a bamboo kendo sword, which he discards as the fight begins.
===Personality===
Yuki initially acts very timid and submissive, simply kneeling down and apologizing profusely whenever he is provoked without putting up any resistance. However, this facade disappears when out of public, especially when he meets delinquents who remind him of Tatsuya. He is responsible for a string of brutal ambushes on street thugs around Kamurocho that left his victims hospitalized, attacks for which Tatsuya is initially blamed. 
Yuki is a strict disciplinarian who employs physical punishment against delinquent students, and chafes against the modern education system that forbids it. He believes in 'fists with feelings', whereby disciplining students with his fists is simply another expression of concern and care for them. This fuels his hatred for Tatsuya, as he was forced to endure Tatsuya and his friends' constant abuse without being allowed to fight back. To him, Tatsuya represents the kind of delinquent that young people become without physical force to keep them in line.
Having lost his first teaching job for assaulting a student, he focused instead on a philosophy of endurance and self-control, in the hopes that eventually someone would be inspired by his example. After seeing his philosophy spark a change in Tatsuya, Yuki lets go of his grudge and returns to teaching.
==Background==
In his youth, Yuki was once a delinquent like Tatsuya, but became a proper student after joining his university's karate club, which he credits for teaching him discipline. 
After graduation, he became a high school teacher, but eventually lost his temper and slapped a student, accidentally knocking him unconscious. He was swiftly fired for physical assault. He then found a job at a Tatsuya's high school, adopting a meek and nonviolent persona.
During Tatsuya's first year of high school, Yuki witnessed him and Tenma extorting money from a classmate and reported them to police. As a result, Tatsuya was arrested by Shozo Takenaka. In retaliation, Tatsuya brutally beat his teacher, threatening to kill him if he ever called the police again. 
A year later, Tatsuya had a fight with Tsuneo Fujimoto, a karate club captain from another school, and left him hospitalized. Due to his existing criminal record, Tatsuya was expelled and sent to juvenile detention for a year. Tatsuya ultimately blamed Yuki for his expulsion, and held a grudge against him ever since.
==Involvement==
===Kurohyou: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho: 2010===
After defeating Sho Hyuga in his second Dragon Heat match, Tatsuya goes to Millenium Tower looking for part-time work, but is attacked by a street thug who accuses him of ambushing several of his friends, despite Tatsuya's objections. Tatsuya fights them off but is chased by police to Pink Street, where he encounters his former teacher, Yuki. 
Yuki snidely remarks that Tatsuya still hasn't found a proper job, and mentions Takenaka was asking about him. When Tatsuya threatens him, Yuki insists he didn't tell the detective anything, as Tatsuya was no longer his student. Tatsuya leaves as Yuki is accosted by two street thugs, who drag him into an alley. When they mention skipping school, Yuki's proclaims he won't let them turn out like Tatsuya, and proceeds to beat them mercilessly.
Tatsuya is notified that his next opponent is 'M. Yuki' and returns underground. He meets the thug from Millenium Tower again, who apologizes for attacking him earlier, since he found out an old man in a suit and glasses was the real culprit who ambushed his friends. Downstairs, Tatsuya is shocked to see Yuki in the Dragon Heat locker room. Taizan Amamiya informs him that Yuki is actually a 5th-rank dan in aikido and karate, and much more experienced than either of his previous opponents.
In the ring, Tatsuya asks Yuki why he hid his martial arts background and never fought back. Yuki rebuffs that he would never understand, and they fight. Tatsuya wins, and again asks Yuki why he pretended to be weak. Yuki rants that the modern education system prohibits physical punishment, forcing teachers like him to endure without recourse, and produces delinquents like Tatsuya. When Tatsuya continues to pry, he snaps that Tatsuya is too stupid to understand and attacks him. Ryutaro Kuki orders security to step in, but Taizan stops them.
Noticing tears in Yuki's eyes, Tatsuya drops his guard and allows Yuki to hit him repeatedly and knock him down. On the ground, Tatsuya reflects that he felt no joy in winning, and tells Yuki he now understands how hard it must have felt to endure pain without fighting back. Yuki chuckles and says he had endured everything in the hopes that someone would learn from his example, but that he almost gave up teaching until Tatsuya listened to him. He apologizes for insulting Tatsuya and thanks him.
After the fight, Taizan asks why Tatsuya let Yuki beat him without defending. Tatsuya attributes it to Taizan's earlier lecture about fighters needing a philosophy and goal—something he realized Yuki had, but he himself still lacked. 
Tatsuya meets Yuki in the locker room as he prepares to leave. Yuki mentions he won't be returning to Dragon Heat, as he no longer has resentment in his heart. Tatsuya asks to learn his fighting style, to which he agrees, but warns Tatsuya that it will not be easy before leaving.
==Fighting Style==
Yuki uses Ancient Martial Arts, upgraded to level 4, and relies on kicks, grapples and counters. His attacks focus on knockdowns and ground strikes, and he can catch all of Tatsuya's attacks, making direct offense risky. The safe approach is baiting Yuki's attacks and countering with a dodge punch or Perfect Dodge, backing away to avoid being grabbed.
After gaining Heat, Yuki will repeatedly roll toward Tatsuya and attempt grabs until his stamina is depleted, leaving himself vulnerable. If successful, he will either use the Heat Action "Punishing Fist" or another Heat Action, "Aikido Dream Throw". He has access to the deathblows Burning Straight and Step Side Kick.
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