Jihye Hasegawa/Relationships

## Tokyo Manji Gang

### Manjiro Sano

Mikey is Jihye's love interest and they met in an eventful spring day, when she had recently moved to Japan. He saved her from her brother and his bully friends, and bought her some food. After this, he walked her home, only to find out about her abusive home and took her out for a little longer to meet his friends at the Temple.

This is when they found out she was good at medicine, since she patched up Pah-chin when he appeared fresh from a fight. He quickly became her closest friend, and got her to skip class a few times to hang out, since they were in different schools. He taught her how to defend herself in case of an emergency, and after he got his brother's motorbike, he would often drive her anywhere.

When Jihye fell into a deep depression after Baji's passing, Mikey took her out on a date to try and make her feel better, and he managed to finally make her laugh.

In the present alternate timeline, Jihye is kept very close to Mikey, so much so that no one really knows her whereabouts. He is insistent of keeping her out of harms way in order to keep her alive, but it is rumored that she's a spy for the Kanto Manji Gang and works for him in one of his clubs.

### Takemichi Hanagaki

Jihye never met Takemichi in the original timeline. The two only met by chance when Takemichi time leaps to the past, during which Takemichi challenges Masataka Kiyomizu from Kiyomasa's Gang to a 1v1. Jihye was going on a walk with Mikey and Draken when they so happen to come across the fight. Mikey, taking a liking to him, instructs Jihye to tend to "Takemicchi's" wounds and not Kiyomasa's. Later on they become very close friends, and once Takemichi goes to the present on accident, he tells Naoto to look her up, only to find that she had been found dead in a ditch after being missing for several days. It seamed that Toman was involved, and this caused Takemichi to get close to Jihye in order to find out what was happening.

After this, Jihye became close friends with him and Hinata, often telling him that he indeed reminds her of Mikey's older brother, whom she held deeply in her heart. She ends up going with him, Hinata, Emma and Draken to the festival, with Mikey promising her that he'll catch up to them later in the night because he was called to do something in the gang. Takemichi did everything he could to make her feel included, and when the rain started, she followed Emma and Draken. When she was stabbed twice, Takemichi went to visit her in the hospital.

In the first alternate timeline, she was alive, and Takemichi went in search of her after speaking with Draken. He found her in a strip club, where she worked while still being in Toman. She decided to help him, after an attempt against her life was made, and went to live with Naoto.

In the present timeline, she didn't work with him, but rather is a nurse and a part-time singer within the bars of Mikey's gangs, and is considered to be very close with him. She cut communication with Takemichi and Naoto.

### Ken Ruyguji

Jihye considered Draken to be one of her best friends. They have known each other since she was 12. Mikey introduced her to him when he had saved her, and he was surprisingly soft towards her, which is something the other founding members also found themselves doing.

One night when she was still new to Japan, she was cornered by drunk older men near where he lived, and Draken beat them up. He was the first one to find out that she was an illegal immigrant once she refused to go to the hospital to get treatment for her wounds. They're both extremely close.

### Keisuke Baji

Baji is one of Jihye's most dearest friends. When they had recently met, he was the one who mostly looked out for her wellbeing, along with Kazutora, since they lived in the same neighborhood. He'd give her snacks when they were out biking together, and would volunteer to take her around when they'd bike too far away.

As well, he'd scare away her elementary school bullies when they'd try to pick on her. Jihye shared with him her dream of becoming an idol, and he supported her through the years. When Shinichiro's death happened, she stood by him through everything, and thought of him as her family, often thinking maybe something more, but her love for Mikey was more prominent.

When Baji transferred to Valhalla and Jihye snuck into their HQ, she yelled at him and Kazutora that she would never forgive them for betraying Toman, when in reality she felt hurt that they'd abandon her. This immensely hurt Baji, though he'd never admit it.

Even after saying that, Jihye cared for Baji deeply, to the point of wanting to die for him instead. When he impaled himself, she let out an ear-piercing scream, and rushed to his side. She felt her whole world shatter when he confessed his love to her and died, falling into a deep depression.

### Kazutora Hanemiya

Jihye and Kazutora were closed friends, and he'd protect her whenever the Black Dragons would attack them in their neighborhood. He would also sneak her food whenever her father wouldn't feed her, and cared for her like a little sister.

When he killed Shinichiro, Jihye was incredibly distraught, and couldn't bring herself to forgive him. However, after Baji's death, she would often go and visit him in prison, bringing him food just like he used to do for her.

### Shinichiro Sano

Shinichiro is Mikey's brother and Jihye's most influential father figure. He was many years older than her, and would often take care of her whenever her father kicked her out of her home.

When Shinichiro died, Jihye went into a sort of depression like with Baji's passing, but the members made her get distracted and feel better. She strived to continue his legacy, as he inspired her in many ways during both her teen and adult years. Jihye refers to him as her "true father".

### Emma Sano

Emma was Jihye's first female friend, and she taught her a lot of things. Since her mother didn't care about her appearance or anything, Jihye never learned how to properly dress or do her hair, so Emma taught her how to do everything. She keeps her hair in ponytails because Emma told her she looked cute that way.

After her death, a part of her heart died along with her, and it fell on her to tell Draken how she felt about him. Jihye began to live life how Emma would've done, paying homage to her by wearing her bracelet.

## Family

### Soojin Kim

Soojin is Jihye's mother. She had her after a one-night-stand with a man she had just met on a business trip to Tokyo. Soojin had plans to wed Jihye over to a wealthy family for her own benefit, but the girl threw a fit, so her mother sent her to live with her father.

After she moved to Tokyo, Jihye never spoke to her mother again, and refuses to do so. Even though their relationship is severed, she wishes her mother lives a happy life and finds joy in the little things, hoping money isn't everything she wants.

### Takashi Hasegawa

Takashi is Jihye's biological father, and is involved with the Yakuza. Even though he agreed to take care of her when she moved, he often leaves her alone in the home, oblivious to his son's actions towards her.

During the longest time, Takashi didn't know that his daughter was involved with gangs just like he was, thinking that she just had really cool friends. When he found out after Emma's death, he confronted her about it, and he became very angry. However, realizing that she was already in way too deep, all that he could do was give her advice.

### Akaashi Hasegawa

Akaashi is Jihye's older step-brother, and her abuser. When she had recently arrived at Japan, she thought of him as cool, and looked up to him, until he slapped her in the face when their father left. Akaashi abused her behind their father's back, and he never noticed. Jihye, having a weak heart, would just cover up her innuries and say that she had fallen or played too rough with her frends.

His abuse didn't stop when Mikey beat him up, but it did when Baji and Kazutora knocked them out for laying a hand on her. He was afraid to touch her ever since, so he resorted to berate her and insult her instead.

Akaashi revealed that he would have taken her into Black Dragon protection if he had seen how useful she was, referencing to her medical skills. Even so, they don't get along, with Jihye refering to him as "Hasegawa-san".