Shigoroki Jangu

Jangu Clan

Pyromaniacs

**Shigoroki Jangu** is a member of the **Dojima-kai** and an ex-criminal who was bailed out from jail by **Dojima Hayajiro** in exchange for his loyalty. He is a known arsonist and a person with several criminal records. He is currently the leader of his own clan, the **Jangu Clan**. Most of the members are pyromaniacs, with Hayajiro calling them the "best arsonist squad around".

## Appearance

Jangu is a young man with a creepy smile and several burn marks on his face, hands, and body. He also has bandages on his right leg due to an injury from the war against the **Eight Blades Alliance**.

## Personality

Before his current personality, he is a normal boy who is rather quiet. But secretly, he harbors the desire to be free from his family and the orphanage he's in, thinking of it as a "chain left by his parents to bind him down". He also desires for something that could cause him to express emotions.

He loves fire due to it being the thing that keeps him warm before him going to the orphanage.

After joining the Dojima-kai, Jangu becomes an impatient and loud fellow. He hates it when things didn't get his way, and he wants to burn everything down. He loves fire ever since he was little, where he even tries to talk to fire and attempt to "connect" with it.

He is thankful for Hayajiro, due to him freeing from prison. He admits that prison is a good place to start fights, but he never thought being in the yakuza is more promising than he first thought.

Due to the agreement between him and Hayajiro, he only listens to Hayajiro's order and only his, this causes him to be one of Hayajiro's closest subordinates.

Jangu dislikes **Hidetaka** due to his cocky attitude towards him, but he is good friends with **Jinya**.

## History

### Past

When he was twelve years old, he was abandoned by his parents to a small orphanage where he met a girl, who openly welcomed him and they became friends.

Three years afterwards, Hayajiro and **Sera** visited the orphanage to adopt several children who is old enough to recruit into the Dojima-kai, and he happened to see Jangu and his friend. Hayajiro later decided to come back in another three years.

In another three years, Hayajiro visits the orphanage again to see Jangu, who has grown up. Hayajiro then asked Jangu if he wants to join the Dojima-kai, but Jangu's girlfriend (the one from back then) tells him not to. Hayajiro chuckles, then he leaves the orphanage.

One day, when Jangu and his girlfriend was on an errand, Jangu asked her why she stopped him back then. She told him that the man was dangerous, and tells him that his place is right here with them in the orphanage.

Jangu slowly gets irritated, and tells her to stop talking. She believes that Jangu leaving will cause Jangu to fall into the wrong path, so she insisted to stop him. However, Jangu snapped and pulls on her hair, and then he pulls out a lighter, and lights her hair on fire. This causes him to be restrained and taken to questioning.

Jangu tries to plead innocent, but he is unable to, as he lost his support from his caretakers and friends in the orphanage the moment they heard that he set his girlfriend's hair on fire. He is placed under several months in prison. He is later visited by Hayajiro, who was informed that Jangu was sent to jail.

During the gap of time he sent in prison, he was challenged to fights by the other prisoners and he eventually learns to adapt to the life in prison. He usually is seen on the corner of prison trying to make a fire. It succeeded several times and he was beaten up for breaking the rules. After several fights, his personality changed completely.

They had a little talk, and Hayajiro eventually forms a contract with him, under the condition that he is bailed out of prison. He eventually leaves the prison and he is taken to the Dojima-kai HQ and meets Hayajiro. Hayajiro then gave him a test: burn down the orphanage and kill all the people inside. Without thinking much, Jangu agrees.

Jangu returns to the orphanage and attacks everyone inside. His friends, especially his former girlfriend, was devastated to see that he has transformed into a monster. He starts burning the orphanage down with molotov supplied by the Dojima-kai. The rest of the people who escaped Jangu's rampage were either captured or killed by the Dojima-kai members waiting outside. None of the people from the orphanage survived.

It is later revealed that the orphanage has been a base of operations for an enemy gang who used the orphanage's basements to spy on the Dojima-kai, with the owner of the orphanage agreeing to use it as shelter and to gather information. Hearing this, Jangu felt no remorse killing them whatsoever, even laughing and saying that he did the right thing.

### 2004 Kotō Incident

Jangu actively participated in the war between the Dojima-kai and the **Eight Blades Alliance**. He and his men played a huge role in the war, like placing a bomb on the car that contains family members of **Inubarashi Shigeru** and capturing **Kanimato Daiguro**'s wife and daughter when **Date Kirigou** let them go.

He is also the one to stab Daiguro's wife with several katanas, while satisfyingly laughing at the sight of Daiguro's daughter crying.

### Post Incident

After the war, Hayajiro promoted him to a higher rank, allowing him to form his own squad. He named his squad "Pyromaniacs", and starts working on their business to "play a game" with the government and the police force of **Kotō**. Having been given freedom by Hayajiro to go on a rampage streak, Jangu led several divisions of his men to do what he would call Operation "Brush-and-Run", to which they would attack a certain place of a rival gang's with molotov, and then retreat as fast as they can.

This tactic can be deemed as cheap, but is proved effective when Hayajiro, who knows of Jangu's strategy, uses it to its full advantage.