Asou Makoto

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Asou Makoto (Chinese: 麻生真, Aso Zhen) was an 18 year old waitress from Shinjuku, Japan.

## Biography

### Early life

Makoto used to be a timid and scaredy child, who curled up during thunderous storms. Her parents got divorced when she was in high school, so she left her home to live with her grandmother and lived off her pension. Since it wasn't enough to pay for her college education, she decided to get a job and save up to pay for her own tuition.

### The underworld

She was hired by a manga shop in Shinjuku during the night shift. A member of the mafia named Noda Shou tried to collect protection money from the owners, but they refused to pay. Noda increased the fee as a way to pressure them and every night, he visited the store.

Noda had a crush on Makoto, so he paid for his own coffee and sat down to read manga instead of threatening her. Despite this, she was scared of him and feared losing her job, so she contacted the Orochi's hotline from a phone number that she got from a former classmate and denounced him. The next day she was visited by Gen Chisei, Yabuki Sakura, Caesar Gattuso, Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei, who were there to answer her call. After threatening Noda for raising his protection fees, Caesar bought a figurine from the shop's shelves and the group of enforcers left.

#### Working as a waitress

After she was fired from the manga shop for the whole incident, she got a job at an adult oriented internet cafe called "Mambo" as a waitress. Makoto refused to provide any services that would allow the cafe's clients to have physical contact with her. Noda kept visiting Makoto and people believed they were dating, which granted her a certain level of safety, since her clients would regularly harass single waitresses.

Makoto used stockings to avoid showing too much skin, the cafe's cheongsam uniforms were too revealing for her taste. On her first day, she got confused and believed that a client was going to molest her, causing her to faint in front of him. The customer happened to be a doctor, he called for help and managed to wake her up after trying for 25 minutes.

#### Chibei's raid

She only worked there for a few days until Caesar Gattuso came back and attempted to contact Cassell College. The Mambo cafe used to be a safe heaven for agents of the Execution Bureau, but it was abandoned and sold in the late nineties. Caesar's manual wasn't up to date and his attempts were discovered by Kaguya.

Asou was tasked with bringing food to Caesar. Due to the nature of the establishment, Caesar's computed was soon filled with spam that displayed erotic imagery, which embarrassed him in front of Makoto, who in turn offered to polish his shoes (another of the cafe's services). They managed to have a conversation since Makoto knew how to speak english and he thanked her by promising to give her a full scholarship in Italy and to pay for her grandmother's needs. Makoto was quickly smitten with him, admiring his kindness, but mostly his pride.

Suddenly, the cafe went dark, since EVA managed to break through Kaguya's firewall and contacted Caesar, warning him of an impending attack by local gangsters who secretly worked for Osho, leader of the Mou Kishu.

Makoto took Caesar upstairs, where they found Lu Mingfei hiding in one of the establishment's rooms. After the gangsters sneaked in, Caesar neutralized two of them silently and forced Mingfei to exchange clothes with Makoto to keep her safe from their assailants. Moments later, Caesar, Zihang and Mingfei were forced back in and Makoto helped them to hide in the locker rooms while she distracted the mobsters.

The trio promptly escaped, but the Oni discovered Asou's involvement and used her as a hostage to bring them back. After failing to infiltrate Chu Zihang into the building, Caesar charged towards the crowd in a car and jumped, telling Makoto to jump into his arms. One of the mobsters fired his gunshot at Caesar, who instinctively dodged the shrapnels but missed Asou as a consequence. She was crushed by the car against the wall, breaking most of her bones. In her last moments, Makoto thanked Caesar for coming back for her and asked him to take her to a hospital. By the time Caesar managed to escape, she was already dead.

Her body was recovered by the Yamata no orochi. Gen Chisei made the organization responsible for taking care of her funerary expenses and look over her grandmother.

## Legacy

Makoto's death heavily impacted Caesar, who realized how much he relied on his bloodline and family up to that point. Caesar considered it his duty to protect women (a feeling intensified by the death of his mother) but Makoto was the one who died to save him. He was greatly humbled by the experience and decided to become a better leader as a result. He also blamed the Yamata no Orochi, motivating his quest for revenge against Gen Chisei.