Satou Aikinaka

**Satou Akinaka** is the POV Character for the Greater Japan story line and is the current Daimyo of the Kuroinu District and the Kuroinu Samurai Clan. Satou Akinaka is a pupil of the legendary Ishino Senyo a Living Legend and Samurai Master.

## Appearance

Satou is a man in his early thirties with minor wrinkles under his eyes, beside his eyes and around his mouth. He has long pitch black hair held in a chonmage top knot on his head. He wears a loose, black, cloak-like garment similar to a Japanese samurai. He wears a crude, handmade version of a Kasa hat and has bulletproof knee, elbow and torso plating. At his waist he carried an automatic assault rifle cut with kanji and detailed dragon imagery.

Upon achieving the status of Daimyo he abandoned that hat and gained an expensive, satin kimono and a katana he earned from his training with Ishino, her personal weapon passed onto him. He also grew a longer, thicker beard upon promotion feeling it suited him.

## Personality

Satou is a calm, level-headed man who is often very collected, he can sometimes have childish excited outbursts of emotions when he feels intense emotion, when he first encounters, Ishino Senyo and feels intense adoration and respect for her legacy is one such moment. For the majority of the time he is intensely calm and analytical, being a talented problem solver.

Satou is very passionately directed towards his revenge and his goal, taking every chance he has to maintain a steady level of progress to achieving his goal.

Satou is sociable and patient with Amano , empathising with her struggles of coping with her sexuality and understanding her tumultuous past and childhood with the corruption of nobility.. Satou did coddle her in the recent time after their friendship began to which she intensely disliked because she assumed it was done from a place of superiority and condescension so he has adapted his behaviour to be more sensible and respectful of her.

## History

Satou has an intense childhood, filled with training and preparation to become a samurai of the clan, a loyal, skilled defender that his father shaped him into. After his training regime he joined a training academy in the Risen Tokyo Citadel where he earned the official title of a Samurai. After this point he was assigned to the Kuroinu Samurai clan, protecting the Aotora family. Satou’s commanding officer was an experienced Samurai named Ogura Terusada, after befriending Satou and getting on good terms with him, be betrayed him and stabbed him through the heart, informing him that his fellow samurai were part of the conspiracy, Satou being the most talented among them and the most likely of succeeding the possession of Daimyo from the current Daimyo, Naito.

After his “death” he was found by Amano Kuni and brought to a shrine deep in the dense, forested mountains of Japan to meet with Ishino Senyo. After being elated to be alive and meet one of his childhood heroes, she trains Satou to his physical peak, both in strength and skill to have the power he needs to slay his nemesis and regain his honour.

At the end of his training he is captured by a Yakuza mafia family, the: Shino Hari. After being captured, the Shino Hari reveal that they are all former elite samurai who have faked their deaths and maintain anonymity with fearsome masks. They were going to kill him as an Atheist sacrifice but upon knowing his position, they made him an honorary member of the mafia and pledged to aid him on his raid of the castle of the Kuroinu clan.

## Relationships

### Ishino Senyo

Satou venerates Ishino’s name and legacy for being influential and for something that has shaped the very combat style of Greater Japan but because of her modesty she often brushes off these compliments as mere hyperbole.

### Amano Kuni

Satou highly sympathises with Amano’s past struggle of her sexuality and sexual orientation as he too has seen these struggles and has been at odds with himself. They have a thriving friendship, relying on each other for missions and support whilst exchanging friendly banter on occasion. They come to each other for advice in certain situations, be they romantic or platonic advice.

### Naito Hisanori

Satou despises Naito deeply for his mistreatment of him, after Naito forced satou’s life into a living hell and robbed him of his title and respect, he vowed to kill him with his own hands. Satou has plotted and schemed to kill him many times, eventually doing so in the Kuroinu campaign through mutilation and decapitation. Before he double-crossed him, Satou and Naito were good friends and companions but upon realising Naito built up that friendship just to seem like a amiable person, before deceiving him out of jealousy, Satou began to develop intense hatred.