Kyoichira Jin

Saki's liaison, a suave cop who works for the Dark Inspector

## Overview

Kyoichira was raised in London, became a private detective in Japan and worked in several cases in both Japan and United Kingdom before being hired by the Dark Inspector. When Saki refused to move into the dorms the Dark Inspector sent Kyoichira to tell her that if she didn’t move he’d quash the rental agreement on her apartment. He was forced to enter the apartment discreetly since their connection had to remain secret.

Saki asked him what the real reason for her being sent to Furinkan given that Kasumi seemed to know a lot about her. Kyoichira just brushed it off as her being astute. Before he left Kyoichira advised Saki to relax and try to get to know her fellow students as people rather than suspects. Saki was angered upon realizing he was telling her to make friends, Kyoichira cut her off and told her that Junko's death wasn’t her fault.

Kyoichira ran Shadow Lady’s image using the footage from nearby security cameras after learning of Kasumi and Usagi’s kidnapping. Naturally Chun Li from Interpols name came up. She had been in Paris at the time and took the first flight to Japan the moment they confirmed that she wasn’t involved. She was in the process of piecing things together with Kyoichiro Jin when Saki Asamiya burst into his office to demand answers.

After Kyoichiru confirmed Chun Li’s alibi to Saki she explained the true nature of Shadowloo as well as her history with M. Bison. Saki and Kyoichira were left shocked that they had never heard of this. Since the psycho power he uses is very hard on a male body Chun Li theorized that Bison wanted to use Kasumi as a battery in some kind of super weapon. Saki remembered that Sakura always talked about a Ryu who was one of the fighters Chun Li mentioned that Bison was after. When Chun Li confirmed that they were one in the same went to go talk to her while Chun Li left to interrogate Copycat Ken.

It turns out that the Sukeban Deka project was being funded by the Illuminati, so why they couldn’t personally help when Kasumi’s location was discovered. The Dark Inspector had Kyoichiru give Saki a pair of keys on a special keychain, and tell her good luck.

The next time Jin saw Saki was after she had found Miyuki and put two and two together that he knew all the time where she was. She accused him of hiding Miyuki from her the moment he opened his door much to her frustration Jin calmly ignored her outburst and offered her some tea. He didn’t even try to deny Saki’s accusation, but before she could say anything, Jin cut her off saying that she never asked about her. Jin gestured to a seat calmly and quietly causing Saki to grit her teeth but obediently sat down as Jin that they had done quite the thorough background check on Saki. Miyuki's current situation came up quite quickly.

The two remained in the stalemate of Jin never telling her and her never asking. However he would have told her if she had in fact Jin fully expected to have to intervene to hold Saki back from seeing her on a whim, but she never even so much as looked into the records. Saki went wide-eyed at this revelation before looking around aimlessly in thought. Jin remained silent for another minute as Saki was lost in her thoughts.
Until he mentioned how Saki had ran into her grandmother it turned out that he knew about her as well. While they had never met personally, she was one of the people who came up in Saki’s background check though and he talked to a few people that had interacted with her. Since she was also one of the things Saki never inquired about Jin decided to lay everything on the table. He believed that Saki didn’t want to find her sister. While Saki started to reflexively deny his accusation that finding her sister would rob her of her mothers attention but trailed off.

Jin also theorize that finding her sister was just a wild goose chase her mother gave her seeing how she never told her who adopted Miyuki. He finally showed some irritation at how long it took Saki to figure out that her mother knew. While he didn’t like being so blunt he flatly told Saki that her mother hated her and it was time she accepted it and stopped seeking that woman’s validation. There was always Guan Li if she was looking for family. As for Miyuki that was a complicated matter. Her family is rather high up the social ladder. While her adopted father was willing to at least entertain some connections he died in an accident some years ago and her grandfather doesn't seem so interested.

After another minute of silent contemplation, Saki asked if the Furinkan assignment was the organization’s way of phasing her out. Jin closed his eyes and after a moment nodded lightly, though he assured her that they would honor every agreement made. In fact the paperwork to get her mother off of death row only needed to go through channels. Saki asked Jin what was next for her and he answered that she had a lot of options. Miss Li said she'd put in a good word with Interpol. Their mutual friend has also indicated he has other work that he could assign her, taking you on as a proper agent. If neither of those suited her fancy, Jin had his own agency. She could also try her luck with her grandmother. Saki agreed that taking up her grandmothers offer of training might not be a bad idea, but there was still the matter of Miyuki. That Jin couldn’t help with much. However her grandmother had some interesting connection so she probably could if Saki asked.

The case against Remi Mizuchi ended up collapsing due to a couple of key judgments going against them despite them being solid. Jin tried to contact Saki, but since she was training with her grandmother he couldn’t get a hold of her until the day before school opened. He met her that morning and just told her to come with him not telling her what happened until they were in the car. Saki immediately realized this must be revenge for her part in taking down Hotel La Bac. Jin believed so as well but had gotten no real feedback on the matter so they couldn’t really be sure. Saki began to panic at what revenge might be planning when Jin dropped another bomb, Remi would be attending Furinkan. At this revelation Saki was ready to rush to the school forcing Jin to calm her down. Pointed out that legally Remi was in the clear and would fully exploit anything Saki did.

When they arrived at the inspector's office Saki could not help but glare at him in a mix of emotions as Jin closed the door behind them. He informed her of the good news they did have, Remi was still largely cut off from her assets. The remaining parts of her organization were also caught up in something he could only guess were his associates. Not content with such a vague answer Saki asked what the inspector thought the illuminati did. The inspector guessed that Remi made a deal, and handed over the remains of her organization to the illuminati in exchange for her freedom. Neither really believed that as it was just too lucrative not to mention pointless. Not only could she just wait out her sentence, but they uncovered that she was planning an escape. What was more concerning was the picture book Jin showed Saki, which contained a lot of very innocent looking artwork of her. While Saki just sighed at this the inspector saw it as a good thing. The fact that Remi was so focused on Saki gave them a chance to turn things around on her.

Saki wasn’t so enthusiastic pointing out that the Illuminati might not help her. Since they hadn’t contacted the inspector she believed they might not actually blame him. After contemplating what to do next the Inspector and Jin told Saki to just keep an eye on Remi for now, and don’t fall for any of her provokes. The inspector left Saki with one last warning something that even Jin didn’t know about. Something big is happening and it sent shockwaves through practically everything. It was so big that it was the one thing he was able to get in contact with the Illuminati about and not even they really knew anything. Since he couldn’t discover anything he asked if Kitsune had a theory, much to Saki’s surprise. While half her theories are total nonsense, the other half seems very solid somehow.