Black Lagoon-RPG

1. #1Revy

   Keys: Revy, Rebbeca, Lee

   Revy is a Chinese-American,[4][5] slightly tan-skinned woman who appears to be in her mid to late twenties. She is 165.6 centimeters tall (or 5'5")[1] and has upper back-length burgundy hair (brown hair in the manga) that she typically keeps in a low loose ponytail, including rather large bangs falling onto her forehead on either side along with two shoulder-length side locks framing her face. Moreover, she has amber-brown eyes, a tribal tattoo on her upper right arm that reaches all the way up to her neck, and a slightly muscular build that she does not conceal in the least. Main Outfit

   Her wardrobe typically consists of a black tank top that leaves her stomach exposed, very short cut-off jeans (turned into denim shorts) that she never bothers buttoning up since she uses a U.S. Army webbing belt to keep them up instead, a pair of U.S. military jungle boots without socks, and a pair of black fingerless gloves. Revy also sports a pair of brown leather cross-draw shoulder holsters to store her twin Berettas in whenever she is not using them. She has stated on at least one occasion that she dresses in short clothing because such clothes are easy to move in and do not cause her to overheat, rather than because the outfit is revealing.[6]

   Winter Outfit

   For colder climates, such as winter in Tokyo, Revy resorts to something a little warmer, including a red knitted hat, a white fur-lined brown coat, her regular fingerless gloves, a black turtleneck, a horizontally striped red miniskirt (plaid in the manga), black tights and brown cowgirl boots.

   Revy is a troubled, loud, rude, sarcastic, deadly, competitive, short-tempered, cynical, confident and considerably aggressive person who also exhibits a wild temperament. Unlike Rock, Revy is undiplomatic, believing in the use of brute force and coercion to get her way. Out of all the characters in the series, Revy uses the foulest language and is also a heavy smoker and drinker. Revy is merciless and sadistic, and she is more than capable of killing anyone, even unarmed civilians. Despite her merciless nature, she is also capable of being humorous and witty, and she can be quite a talker when she is not mad. Another aspect of her personality is her racial insensitivity:

   She has mocked Shenhua's broken English and syntax by calling her "yes-lady" (「ですだよ」姉ちゃん).[7] In the English versions of the anime and manga, the term Revy uses toward Shenhua is "Chinglish," which is a portmanteau of Chinese and English. She has used the anti-Chinese slur "chinky" toward Feng Yifei.[8] She has demeaned Leigharch for his Irish heritage (in the English version of the anime, she calls him a "Leprechaun," whereas in the manga, the insult she uses toward him is the anti-Irish slur "mick").[7] She refers to Isaac as "that creepy Jew."[9] She calls a FARC soldier a "beaner."

   Revy's weapons of choice are a pair of modified Beretta 92F's; which are made out of stainless steel and had their barrels extended from 4.9" to 5.9" each (the 5.9" is the combat MOD barrel) and are threaded to be able to accept muzzle breaks

   Revy hails from New York in the United States of America. Few details are known about Revy's past as what is gathered is from brief flashbacks from both the manga and the anime. Revy was born as Rebecca, a Chinese-American, in Manhattan's poverty-stricken Chinatown district of New York City. Growing up on Mott Street,[25] she was raised by an abusive, alcoholic father. One day, she was beaten up by the police within an inch of her life because she was accused of a crime that she did not even commit.[15] Furthermore, after fleeing from one of her father's rampages, she was arrested, beaten and raped by a corrupt police officer.[Note 2] Upon being returned home following this ordeal, Revy shot and killed her father after he callously asked her for another drink, using a pillow as a make-shift silencer.[18] It is not known if this happened in the same day.

2. #2Rock

   Keys: Rock

   Rokurō Okajima (岡島おかじま 緑郎ろくろう Okajima Rokurō), more commonly known as Rock (ロック Rokku), is the main male protagonist of the Black Lagoon series. He is a Japanese businessman who turned into an unwitting pirate of the Lagoon Company. Rock is a fair-skinned, Japanese ex-salaryman with a skinny build and a height of 173 centimeters (or 5'8").[2] His black hair has fringe on the right side, and he has brown eyes. Eda, who likes to tease Rock, defines him as "handsome," but little is known about how others perceive his physical appearance beyond noticing his grooming. In the manga, Rock's employee information shows that he was born in August 1974, making him 20 years old at the beginning of the manga series (early 1995).[4] In contrast, the anime shows that he was born on August 21, 1970, making him 24 at the anime's beginning in 1995 (though his employee certificate erroneously says 25 as his age).[1]

   Despite being a pirate, Rock is able to retain his business persona by continuing to wear a teal neck tie, short-sleeved dress shirt, slacks, and dress shoes. From the outside, Rock appears as a normal person, which ironically makes him stand out from the rest of Roanapur's residents. On the other hand, Revy preferred Rock to wear the Hawaiian shirt that she bought for him when he first joined the company. Being who he is, Rock prefers his usual wear even when he is at Yellow Flag or on a job. Ultimately, Rock not abandoning his Japanese salaryman appearance represents his lingering attachment to his old way of life.

   Rock is a humble and good-natured person despite being on the business end of guns from friends and foe alike. Initially, he is often surprised at the barbarity of the international criminal underworld. Although in the criminal world, he maintains his business persona by wearing his business outfit. He is not a fighter in any way, but rather a pacifist who prefers to use words over weapons when interacting with the hostile people encountered on the job. Rock, from joining the Lagoon Company, has occasionally wondered if he is experiencing Stockholm syndrome, consequentially developing a friendship with his former captors and current co-workers. Yukio Washimine once described him as someone who was neither in a civilian nor criminal world but rather in the twilight, unable to chose between a life of crime or normality.[5]

   Within the Lagoon Company, Rock is usually responsible for account management, diplomacy, negotiation, translation, interpretation, and running occasional errands. Having worked in the resource department of Asahi Industries, Rock is skilled in geology and chemistry. He is also a skilled linguist due to frequent traveling from his previous job, being able to speak various languages such as Japanese (his native language), English,[3] Spanish,[6] some Russian,[7] and has some familiarity with Romance languages,[8] including some French.

   Rock was born into a well-to-do but neglectful family in Tokyo.[13] Due to him failing to enter college on his first try, his family lowered their expectations of him and begin to favor his academically capable older brother who landed a job with the Japanese government. Rock was able to enter college on his second try a year later but by then, his family has already cast away all expectations of him, leaving him to do whatever he wanted.[3] After graduating from a state university, Rock was able to find a job at Asahi Heavy Industrial Co. in its materials procurement department as a salaryman. Since then, Rock had lived an unremarkable life as a white collar salaryman working for Asahi Industries under his boss Fujiwara until he had his near-death encounter with the Lagoon Company.

3. #3Lagoon Company

   Keys: Lagoon Company

   The Lagoon Company (ラグーン商会 Ragūn shōkai), also called Lagoon Traders, is a for-hire shipping, smuggling, and pirate service in Roanapur favored by various criminal organizations for locating and retrieving or smuggling items. Including the leader, the company is comprised of only four members (and one member-in-training) who met under unlikely circumstances and have starkly different backgrounds. The company gets its name from their boat Black Lagoon.

   Dutch began the company in Roanapur at some point either in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Eventually, the Chinese-American Revy came along and joined his company as the second member, and Dutch cited not only her ambidextrous firearm skills as reason for hiring her, but also her great diving skills.[7] Revy's activities before joining are mostly unknown except that she grew up in New York and spent time in child welfare centers,[8] stole things and killed people including her own father,[9] and served a sentence in prison[10][11] until she successfully escaped her imprisonment The Lagoon Company is led by Dutch, who presents himself as a former U.S. Navy PT boat captain who supposedly went AWOL after the end of the Vietnam War. There are currently four other people under the company: the electronics specialist and navigator Benny, the businessman Rock, the gunslinger Revy, and the ex-assassin Le Majeur, the most recent member-in-training. Rock is the second latest addition to the company; before him, it is insinuated that it was Benny. At the beginning, Revy struggles to cooperate with Rock due to his civilian morals, but as the volumes progress, they have developed a strong bond.

   The Lagoon Company has two bases, with one being at the company office on the second floor of a business complex building where the company has a residence rented for meeting with each other. The second base is the dock house at the harbor where the Black Lagoon is stationed. Additionally, the company has warehouses at the Roanapur harbor where they hold shipments for clients. Whereas the two bases are mainly used as Dutch and Benny's residences,[1][2] Rock and Revy have their own respective places elsewhere.[3][4][5][6][2] The Lagoon Company engages in piracy to raid ships of their cargo on behalf of criminals, but they also ship various goods for criminals including but not limited to weapons, alcohol, human beings, and other contraband. Although the company uses the Black Lagoon for water transportation, Benny drives the other members around town using his car.

4. #4Dutchdisabled

   Keys: Dutch

   Dutch (ダッチ Datchi) is the leader of the Lagoon Company and presents himself as a former U.S. Vietnam War veteran in the Black Lagoon series. He is the captain and owner of the PT boat Black Lagoon.

   He has claimed to be a former United States Navy sailor who fought in the Vietnam War, particularly in Task Force 116 of the Brown Water Navy, also claiming that he lied about his age when he enlisted.[5] Shortly before end of the war, Dutch presumably went AWOL, escaped to Thailand and started working as a mercenary. He founded the Lagoon Company at some point during his mercenary career. In the "El Baile de la muerte" saga in the manga, however, it was suggested by Shane Caxton that Dutch most likely lied about his Vietnam service due to his lack of familiarity with U.S. military slang and Dutch being too young,[6] which would leave his past unknown, though it was implied that a man as serious as Dutch would not lie without good reason.

   He is a heavily muscled African-American man who is 194 centimeters (or 6'4") in height.[1] Dutch appears to be in his 30s and is completely bald, has brown eyes and an almost-full, black circle beard with the upper lip shaven. Additionally, he wears a moss green flak-jacket over a tank top, military fatigues, U.S. military jungle boots, a belt with a sabertooth tiger skull emblem on the buckle, three gold earrings on each ear, and a pair of circular sunglasses, as his eyes are never shown except through the lens. Whenever he is relaxing, Dutch usually removes his flak-jacket. He carries a Smith & Wesson 629 revolver with him as well as wielding a Remington shotgun on occasion. Personality

   Dutch tends to stay away from the fighting associated with Lagoon Company's activities. Instead, he gives orders and negotiates contracts with clients, usually Balalaika of Hotel Moscow. However, Dutch is very capable in combat if need be. He is a calm, easygoing character, and most of the time, is quite friendly. He is also displayed as a mentor figure towards Rock.

   Dutch functions as the leader and primary negotiator of the Lagoon Company. He is incredibly level-headed and always committed to completing missions, even when those missions might contrast with his morals. For instance, in "Rasta Blasta," Dutch told Rock to try to maintain as detached from Garcia Lovelace as possible, as to not make himself feel guilty about transporting a child as cargo knowing they were partaking in human trafficking

5. #5Benny

   Keys: Benny

   Benny (ベニー Benī) is a proficient computer hacker, mechanic and fellow pirate of the Lagoon Company. He was originally a university affiliate in Florida until both the FBI and the mafia chased after him sometime in 1992-1993, with Revy saving him from death. Benny is a young man of a Jewish-American background.[1] He has a skinny build, a height of 181.5 centimeters (or 5'11"),[2] pale skin, green eyes, and very thin facial hair around his jaw. Additionally, he has long blond hair tied into a ponytail in the back and large bangs, although in Chapter 77 onward he started to let his hair fall back into a short mullet instead of donning the ponytail. He wears thin squarish glasses and almost always wears an orange Hawaiian shirt with a green leaf pattern, as well as tan pants and white sneakers. Personality

   Benny works as the Lagoon Company's mechanic, computer specialist, and researcher, having excellent knowledge and skills pertaining to machines, electronics, and hacking. He also functions as the driver of the Lagoon Company's car, having driven and owned three cars throughout the series, including a red 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner, a red 1965 Pontiac LeMans GTO, and a customized 1963 Pontiac Tempest 326. Additionally, he can also steer the Lagoon Company's PT Boat Black Lagoon when Dutch is not piloting it. Benny also tends to be possessive of his computers and does not let anyone else touch them.

   Benny has an easygoing and non-violent personality: he readily admits to Rock that the two of them are not gunfighters in any way, shape, or form,[3] and the two become friends. Unlike Rock, however, Benny is hardened to the job and is willing to turn a blind eye to Revy and Dutch's more morally questionable methods. He is also a realist when it comes to dealing with the injustices of the world and tried to toughen up Rock when he could not bear what happened to other people like Hänsel and Gretel.[4] At one point, Dutch even tells Benny that there is something lurking deep down inside the latter, which can mean that there is a darkness with him that has yet to be seen.[5] He is a former affiliate of a university in Florida where he resided until he got into trouble with the FBI and the mafia, and he would have ended up dead if Revy had not saved him. Since then, he had worked in the Lagoon Company for two years in Roanapur before Rock came along. Dutch frequently refers to Benny as "Benny-Boy." On the Black Lagoon, Benny usually resides in the communications room to conduct research as well as keeping track of nearby ships and those ships' communications and, if necessary, copilot the Black Lagoon. Black Lagoon

   Around the beginning of 1995 on a job for Hotel Moscow, Dutch and Revy raided a large ship, the Melanesia on where Rock, at the time named Rokurō Okajima and an employee of Asahi Heavy Industrial Co., was separated from his group. Once Dutch punched Rock, the latter confirmed that a particular disk was in his possession. At that point, Benny informed Dutch from inside their boat about a nearby Philippine Navy patrol boat, so the pirate captain ordered the ship crew to stay put for thirty minutes after he left or he would use the torpedoes on his boat. Rock thought that he would be safe, but Revy decided to take him as a hostage onto the Black Lagoon.

6. #6Hotel Moscow

   Keys: Hotel Moscow

   Hotel Moscow (Russian: Отель Москва;[7] Japanese: ホテル・モスクワ Hoteru Mosukuwa) is a global crime syndicate and variety of the Russian mafia based in Moscow. Balalaika leads the Thai branch in Roanapur. Hotel Moscow, as indicated by its name, is based in Moscow, and other branches across the world answer back to the leaders in Moscow, including the unseen Pyotr Slevinin.[1] For example, Balalaika is the Thai branch's leader whereas Monk Burgashvili is the Japanese branch's leader, but they both answer to Slevinin. Each boss within Hotel Moscow holds the special title of thief in law (Russian: вор в законе).[8][1] Furthermore, Hotel Moscow has great global influence, including branches in New York and Chechnya.[9] History

   Most members of the syndicate are composed of Russians who were once bureaucrats or nomenklatura in Russia's various government agencies, such as the Soviet KGB, and these people left the agencies to join the mafia after the dissolution of the USSR and the corruption in the Russian Federation.[10] Some members are also ex-military, such as the dedicated VDV paratroopers who served under their captain Balalaika during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.[11] Balalaika's Vysotniki are ex-VDV soldiers who act as the Thai branch's special operations team. For gang identification, some Russian mafia members are known to have criminal tattoos on their bodies, such as knives, star symbols, a double-headed eagle carrying a revolver, and heraldic ribbons with words and phrases like "mafia justice." One man was shown with the aforementioned tattoos while in handcuffs, indicating that besides ex-secret police and ex-military gangsters, some members are either current or former prisoners.[12]

   The Thai branch did not exist until 1993. Predating that year, Balalaika and her unit were airborne troops until Balalaika was discharged in 1989 at the end of the Soviet-Afghan War since she violated an international cross-border agreement to save a child.

7. #7Roanapur

   Keys: Roanapur

   Roanapur (Thai: โรอานาปุรั;[1][2] Japanese: ロアナプラ Roanapura) is the fictional city in Thailand where the Black Lagoon series takes place. The city is infamous as a den of crime and corruption and is home to a wide variety of criminals and outcasts including pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen, all of whom operate without much hassle from authorities.

   During World War II, the Imperial Japanese military dredged the harbor to use it as a naval base.[3] In 1944, the Japanese Army even built an underground shelter in town to prepare for attrition warfare.[4] A city born during the Cold War,[5] Roanapur was a dying port town until in 1961 when it started to become the den of vice and crime that it is currently notorious for.[6] At the end of the Vietnam War, a large numbers of Vietnamese refugees and former soldiers who defected arrived into the town, one of these Vietnamese defectors being Bao, who founded the Yellow Flag bar in 1978[7] and took in fellow Vietnamese people.[8] Afterwards, Roanapur became a haven for smugglers and criminals, who flocked to the city in order to capitalize on the growing Southeast Asian drug trade. Currently, Roanapur is dominated by the Hong Kong Triad, which had to previously deal with the introduction of the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow in late 1993.[9]

   The subsequent fight between Mister Chang and Balalaika almost tore the city apart when both of them greatly injured each other, but Dutch saved Balalaika[10] and managed to broker peace between the two,[11] and the two syndicates have been on more or less good terms ever since. Besides the Triad and Hotel Moscow however, Roanapur is home to several other criminal organizations, including Cosa Nostra, the Colombian Cartel, the Nuevo Laredo Cartel, and most recently the Albanian Mafia. The city's mafia heads do their best to keep Roanapur out of international news and intervention since they enjoy their criminal livelihoods and prosperity. The four leading groups (Hotel Moscow, the Triad, Cosa Nostra, and the Nuevo Laredo Cartel) make up a group known as the Council that control and maintain the city's balance of crime.[6] More recently, the Colombian Cartel completely departed from Roanapur due to their decline in their home country, leaving their seat on the Council open to the Nuevo Laredo Cartel.[12] Besides crime syndicates, foreign government groups like the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the People's Liberation Army of China have stationed agents in Roanapur for the purpose of international influence.

8. #8Balalaika

   Keys: Balalaika, Fry face, Bala

   Balalaika (Russian: Балалайка; Japanese: バラライカ Bararaika), real name Sofia Pavlovna Irinovskaya (Russian: Софья Павловна Ириновская; Japanese: ソーフィヤ・イリーノスカヤ・パブロヴナ Sōfiya Irīnosukaya Paburovuna),[1] is the boss of Hotel Moscow's Thai branch in Roanapur. Various people throughout the series derogatorily refer to Balalaika as Fry-Face (フライフェイス Furai feisu) due to the scar on the right side of her face.

   Balalaika is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Russian woman with a skinny build, pale skin, a mole under her left eye, and scars on her neck, bosom, upper legs, and the right side of her face, hence she has been called the derogatory nickname "Fry-Face" by several people. She is 180 centimeters tall (or 5'11"),[2] and her hair is very long and done up in a huge ponytail, going down to the base of her spine. She is usually seen wearing a wine-colored skirt suit with black pantyhose and black 1-inch heels. Her nails are long and painted pink, and she also wears rose-colored lipstick. Whenever traveling, she wears a Russian military coat draped off her shoulders with a rank insignia of a Soviet Airborne Forces captain. However, she removes it when it is considered polite. She is usually shown smoking a thin Russian cigar, in contrast with the other characters who smoke cigarettes. Personality

   Due to Balalaika's leadership during the hellish fighting in Afghanistan, her men look up to her as their superior and will do just about anything upon her orders, with Boris being her right-hand man. She always refers to Boris by the title of "Sergeant" and often refers to her other men by their military rank. As a combat officer, she is a skilled strategist and well-rounded fighter, capable of taking care of herself despite the fact that all of her troopers, including Boris, often worry for her. Although she has shown herself to be rather cynical on occasion, she is also a pragmatic, opportunistic, and professional businesswoman. She frequently employs Dutch and the Lagoon Company because they share a mutual respect and Balalaika trusts Dutch as a discreet man of integrity.

   She is also downright ruthless, willing to utilize whatever means to achieve what she wants. As a mafia leader, she has claimed that trust and profit are her concerns,[3] also remarking once that her motivation is to maximize her group's profits and eliminate anyone in the way by any means necessary.[4] On one occasion, Balalaika even admitted that she only lives to bring destruction and dance as long as she can "on the bottom of hell's cauldron."[5] She has no qualms about killing children, although she used to be hesitant to do so during the Soviet–Afghan War because of Afghan children whom she and her men fought in Panjshir.[6]

   Balalaika regards herself and her men as soldiers who missed their chance to die in Afghanistan.

   In her childhood, she took life advice from her uncle, a marshal in the Red Army of the USSR. Balalaika's father had presumably either been condemned by the USSR or fled the country. Due to her father's condemned status, she felt that she had to restore her family's honor. Instead of participating in the shooting competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Balalaika joined the Soviet Airborne Forces (Vozdushno-Desantnye Vojska; Russian for "air assault troops"), also known as the VDV.[8] During her service, she first received training at the special training area on Wrangel Island, Russian SFSR,[9] and she accordingly became a paratrooper and a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. A fine marksman and sniper, she received the nickname "Balalaika" (one of the Soviet army's slang terms for the Dragunov sniper rifle). Balalaika can be easily identified by the various burn scars across her body, which she sustained from being tortured by the Afghan mujahideen over a month after being captured in Afghanistan, as stated by a former soldier of hers in the first light novel.

9. #9Le Majeur

   Keys: Le Majeur, Le, Majeur

   Le Majeur (ルマジュール Rumajūru) is a former member of Les Cinq Doigts, a five-member unit of France's Service d'Action Civique (SAC). One mission she had as a member was to go to Roanapur and hunt down a man called "La Mouche." Her name is French for "middle finger," also being her code name in Les Cinq Doigts. Majeur is a young Japanese woman of French nationality with a skinny build, pale skin, and short black hair in two rabbit-style twin tails. She wears a bullet-resistant black pantsuit. Later on, her left eye was shot by one of her comrades, resulting in her wearing a white medical eyepatch over her left socket onward from that incident. On her back and upper biceps, she has a large tattoo with a design related to the kabuki play Aoto Zōshi Hana no Nishikie.[1] Personality

   In general, Majeur has a modest personality, feeling greatly indebted to friends and others who help her. When her friend, the first L'auriculaire, dies, Majeur feels resentful over her death, blaming Le Pouce for it and not letting the subject go.[2] Majeur also has a tranquil demeanor about her, not being scared of criminals in Roanapur who interrogated her as well as calmly listening to music occasionally. She takes care of her physical health, specifically rejecting the use of both cigarettes and drugs due to the bodily harm from both.[3][4]

   Le Majeur seems to have a sister complex, as it is implied the first L'auriculaire was similar to her biological sister, leading to Majeur's attachment to her.[5] She quickly starts to bond with Revy after getting captured and calls her "sis" from that point on. She is greatly fond of music and likes to listen to Japanese pop songs and Western songs, such as Japanese TV openings[6] as well as the song "Easy" by the Commodores

   At some point in her life, Majeur moved from Japan to France for unexplained reasons.[6] As a member of Les Cinq Doigts (French for "five fingers"), she got the code name "Le Majeur" for "middle finger" since she is one of the five fingers, the other four members being named after the other four human fingers: Le Pouce, L'index, L'annulaire, and L'auriculaire. In Majeur's initial missions, she deeply cared for the first L'auriculaire in particular, which was seen as a weakness by other group members. When Les Cinq Doigts fled Nigeria after their operation's failure resulted in the first L'auriculaire's death, a new woman took the latter's place, becoming the second L'auriculaire. As time went on briefly, Le Majeur blamed the death of the first L'auriculaire on Le Pouce, who viewed her death as an unavoidable sacrifice due to their soldier life.[2][5] Soon after her death, SAC's network pinpoints La Mouche's likely location to Roanapur in Thailand, so the five women head there.

10. #10Vysotniki

    Keys: Vysotniki

    The Vysotniki (Russian: высотники; Japanese: 遊撃隊ヴィソトニキ Visotoniki), alternatively called the Visotoniki in the English dub, are the special soldiers of Hotel Moscow who were originally a Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV)[4] paratrooper unit during the Soviet–Afghan War under Balalaika's command. An individual member of the unit is called a Vysotnik.

    The Vysotniki are deployed by Balalaika only when the situation gets tense or if they are needed for special operations. The group's members are ex-Soviet veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War in Balalaika's unit who remained loyal to the VDV captain even after being discharged at the war's end. According to Benny, the Vysotniki have a colossal amount of experience and are skilled enough to start and win World War III.[5] In 1989, Balalaika was discharged from the VDV for breaking an international cross-border agreement in order to save a child.[6] In the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, Balalaika met her comrades at a funeral for the death of her second-in-command who lost his life due to "dirty money." Wanting to fight an enemy again as a soldier, Balalaika rallied her men to join her in Hotel Moscow, soon swiftly building their base in Thailand.[7] Soldiers in the Vysotniki commonly wear VDV uniforms with blue-striped telnyashkas.

11. #11Roberta

    Keys: Roberta

    Rosarita Cisneros (ロザリタ・チスネロス Rozarita Chisunerosu), more commonly known as Roberta (ロベルタ Roberuta) and notoriously known as the Bloodhound of Florencia (フローレンシアの猟犬 Furōrenshia no ryōken), is a Colombian maid who works at the Lovelace family household in Venezuela.

    Although Roberta's domestic skills (such as cleaning and cooking) are poor, she developed a close friendship with Garcia Lovelace, the young son of her master Diego Lovelace. Originally known as Rosarita Cisneros, Roberta is a former FARC guerrilla who trained as an assassin in Cuba and an internationally wanted terrorist criminal. Roberta is a young Hispanic[2] woman with a skinny build and pale skin, and she has a height of 169.8 centimeters (or 5'7").[3] She has waist-length, dark purple hair that is tied in low pigtail braids with square bangs hanging over her eyebrows, blue eyes and sharp canine teeth.

    After she fled FARC, Roberta is seen wearing a long French maid uniform with a cross necklace, white gloves, and black shoes. Her large, thick and round glasses are not real as she wears them as part of her maid persona. Roberta's Blood Trail

    Roberta lets her hair loose with the bottom tied up by a white string that shows she has knee-length hair and she no longer wears her glasses.

    She wears a sleeveless white shirt, black pants, black gloves, and black shoes. Furthermore, on her gold-colored belt buckle, which doubles as a pistol, is a custom design. Specifically, there is a hammer and sickle symbol inside a five-pointed star, and behind the star is an upside-down dagger with a large heart symbol in the background of the star and dagger. Beneath the heart is a heraldic ribbon and in the upper left corner of the belt buckle is the capital letter K.

    Roberta is a considerably well-mannered woman despite her murderous past. It is shown that it takes quite a lot to get her upset or angry as seen when Bao insulted her and shoved a drink her way, spilling alcohol on her face.[5] She does not often talk to strangers, but she is very protective and friendly around people she knows, loves and/or trusts. Roberta is bilingual, with her native language being Spanish. Roberta is a Catholic who is deeply religious, constantly claiming her actions are in the name of Santa Maria. She is also seen praying to repent for her sins and asking for the sins of Garcia Lovelace and Diego Lovelace to be forgiven.[6] She is also heard thanking Eda for her help making her arrangements to confront U.S. soldiers and calmly promised her a painless death.[7]

    On another occasion, she even gave a friendly bow to the Manisarera Cartel as she let tons of grenades fall from her long maid outfit.[8] When she does become angry, she is a truly spine-chilling rival, being seen as virtually unbeatable by her opponents. In contrast, whenever she takes on her Bloodhound persona, Roberta's demeanor shifts dramatically, casting aside her typical reserved and soft-spoken mask in favor of complete, unhinged rage and berserk bloodlust. At some point in the 1980s, Rosarita Cisneros joined FARC as a communist revolutionary guerrilla, admitting that she had murdered many people in the name of revolution, including politicians, counterrevolutionaries, and even women and children. She was additionally wanted by Interpol for her role in the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.[1] In 1989, Rosarita assaulted the Magdalena branch of Taisho Electric and abducted and executed two Japanese engineers. Before Roberta killed the engineer Hironobu Satou, she ripped apart his family photograph, and that photo remained in Roberta's mind as one of numerous emotional wounds.[9] In 1990-1991, disillusioned by discovering that she was merely a tool for the drug cartels allied with FARC, she deserted and joined the Lovelace clan as a maid through her father, who was a close friend of Diego Lovelace. As a servant to the Lovelace family, Rosarita additionally began using the alias Roberta. Because of her desertion, FARC put a bounty of $400,000 on her head, dead or alive.

12. #12Eda

    Keys: Eda

    Edith Blackwater (イディス・ブラックウォーター Idisu Burakkuwōtā),[1] more commonly known as Eda (エダ), is a woman posing as a nun in the Rip-Off Church with ties to the criminal world since the convent is mainly a smuggling organization. She is also the titular character of the official Black Lagoon spinoff series Black Lagoon: Eda Initial Stage.

    Eda is a young, Caucasian-American woman who is 165.6 centimeters (or 5'5") in height[2] with waist-length blond hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. She is always seen with angular pink sunglasses even with her nun's habit, and she is often seen smoking and sometimes chewing gum. When she is not in her nun's habit, she wears a miniskirt and a tight tank top that shows off her well-endowed figure. On her upper right arm is a tattoo of a cross moline crucifix with two human skulls facing away from the cross. The tattoo slightly varies in each media appearance; for example, the crucifix may have a halo or heraldic ribbon above, and in some chapters there are different objects surrounding the crucifix, such as thorns or an upside down dagger. Eda's preferred firearm is a Glock 17L, which she wields proficiently. In her spinoff manga, on the other hand, she uses a Walther PPK pistol.

    However, when she performs work for the Central Intelligence Agency, her hair is tied up in a bun and only a few of her bangs are on her face, additionally wearing a blue formal, businesswoman suit with glasses and a light shade of pink lipstick as well as gold-hanging earrings. In her spinoff, she wears aviator sunglasses instead of her angular sunglasses

    Eda is well-trained in intelligence and firearms thanks to her CIA training. Nonetheless, Eda has a quick temper and is impatient when a situation does not go as she planned. As a woman of God, she frequently cites Bible verses throughout the series. Eda also frequently teases Revy about her relationship with Rock, occasionally asking her if she finally engaged in sexual intercourse with him and also flirting with Rock whenever she sees him. She is a fervent American nationalist highly loyal to the U.S. CIA in particular, once taunting Mister Chang by telling him that the United States owns the whole world (although she does not like the U.S. NSA).[3] Like Revy and many of Roanapur's denizens, Eda has also expressed racial insensitivity, including referring to Hispanic people as "cholos"[4] and calling the Asian woman Le Majeur "slant eyes."[5]

    Eda has claimed that she was originally born in Alabama, but later said that her true home is Langley, Virginia. It must be noted that Langley, Virginia, is a metonym for the CIA, as the organization's headquarters is located there. Later on, it is revealed that Eda is indeed a CIA operative and is being hosted by the Rip-Off Church in return for monetary payments. According to her spinoff series, before joining the CIA, Eda was a Harvard University graduate.[6] She is stationed in Roanapur as part of her division's assignment to keep international criminal activity in Southeast Asia in check.

    In Roanapur, Eda collaborates with Sister Yolanda, the Rip-Off Church's leader, for ordering and shipping weapons and drugs. Yolanda knows of Eda's CIA connections and takes on the CIA as a frequent client, and the CIA in turn receives information from the Church's network of informants.[7] Besides Yolanda, Eda also takes orders from agent Ravencroft, her superior in the CIA.

13. #13Sister Yolanda

    Keys: Sister Yolanda

    Sister Yolanda (シスター・ヨランダ Shisutā Yoranda) is a nun and the leader of the Rip-Off Church. Yolanda is an elderly Caucasian woman who wears a black eye patch over her right eye. She wears a typical nun's outfit (black veil and dress, white coif and guimpe) and a gold-colored cross necklace. Additionally, she carries a gold-colored customized IMI Desert Eagle pistol which she wields proficiently. Personality

    Despite her age and gentle appearance, she leads her organization with an iron fist. Yolanda loves tea and is usually stern with Eda drinking alcohol in the chapel. Yolanda usually never fights, leaving this job to her subordinates like Eda and Rico. However, she did use her customized Desert Eagle on one occasion, being able to fire it with one hand and with great accuracy, seemingly unaffected by the gun's infamous weight and heavy recoil. The elderly nun also refers to people by their youth or certain names, including referring to Dutch as "Dutchy-boy" and referring to younger people as either "young man" or "young lady." Black Lagoon history

    According to the second light novel, Yolanda used to be a cunning Nazi spy in WWII and since then has continued to gain an extraordinary abundance of knowledge on various names and organizations in the intelligence world.[1] It is unknown how or when she settled in the Thai city of Roanapur, although her church is officially registered under the Vatican. As the church's leader, she uses the alias Sister P.W. Deegan (シスター・"PW"ディーガン Shisutā Pī Daburyū Dīgan) for business transactions.[2][3] Yolanda is aware of Eda's affiliation with the CIA and allows her to operate using the church's network of informants, even having the CIA as a frequent client of her church.[4] Although the Rip-Off Church does openly deal in firearms, they also sell other firearms without the other crime syndicates' knowledge as well as selling drugs without permission. Yolanda is the only person in Roanapur whom Mister Chang allows to sell firearms, showing good relations with the Hong Kong Triad.

14. #14Rico

    Keys: Rico

    Ricardo (リカルド Rikarudo), who commonly calls himself Rico (リコ Riko), is an apprentice priest at the Rip-Off Church. Rico is a young adult man with a skinny build, light tan skin, and green eyes. He has shaggy, dark green hair styled with a frontal widow's peak and bangs. He normally wears black clerical clothing with a clerical collar. On other occasions, he wears light-colored pants and a short-sleeved dress shirt. Black Lagoon history

    Like Eda and Sister Yolanda, Ricardo is a highly skilled gunman whose choice of weapon is a M60 machine gun. He refers to Eda as "Sis" ("Ane-san" in Japanese) instead of "Sister," much to her chagrin. He helps other church members in the Rip-Off Church's informant network in gathering intelligence and organizing items. Greenback Jane

    When Eda and Revy started a gunfight with the Nuevo Laredo Cartel due to Janet Bhai's escape, Rico came from the back to aid in the shooting, introducing himself to Revy and deploying his machine gun. After Elvis and Lobos's men retreated, the Rip-Off Church members brought Jane inside to discuss why Elvis was after her, and Rico quietly sat in the pews while Eda, Revy and Yolanda questioned her and helped her out.[1]

    El Baile de la muerte

    When Mister Chang desired more information from a CIA agent who he was in contact with, he went to the Rip-Off Church to call the agent. Sitting in the pews, Rico pointed Chang to the confession booth in which there was a cell phone that Chang used to call the agent, who was actually Eda disguising her voice

15. #15Rip Off Church

    Keys: Rip Off Church

    The Rip-Off Church (リップオフ・チャーチ Rippuofu chāchi), also called the Hooligan Church (暴力教会 Bōryoku kyōkai), is a drugs and weapon smuggling operation located in Roanapur. The church is notorious for its double dealings and is run by Sister Yolanda with assistance by Eda and Rico. Their base of operations is located in a Catholic church atop a hill. Besides the chapel, to the left of the building is the drawing room, to where the clergy members usually guide visitors for deals. According to the 2nd light novel, the Hooligan Church is officially registered under the Vatican.[1] Apart from his own group, Mister Chang allows Yolanda to be the only other person in Roanapur to sell weapons, which shows that they are on good terms with the Hong Kong Triad.[2] Eda is seen drinking with Revy often and accompanies her on bounties, demonstrating good relations with the Lagoon Company. Since the church also secretly engages in drug dealing, it is doubtful that they are on good terms with Hotel Moscow. For financial dealings, the head of the church on documents is given as P.W. Deegan,[3] which is Sister Yolanda's cover alias.[4]

    Additionally, Yolanda is aware of the fact that Eda works for the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency, allowing her to operate so long as she gets paid for any intelligence that she provides to Eda.[5] There are only three known members of the Rip-Off Church, although several other people in clerical robes were once seen unloading a truck filled with "laundry" (which Rock easily identified as drugs).[6] Furthermore, the church deals in information brokering via a network of informants throughout Roanapur, and church members are able to create fake passports, travel permits and identification documents,[7][8] demonstrating that the Rip-Off Church is quite a vast organization.

16. #16FARC

    Keys: FARC

    The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (English: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army), often shortened to its acronym FARC or FARC-EP, is a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group that wishes to overthrow the Colombian government. A prominent ex-member of FARC was Rosarita Cisneros, who earned the nickname Bloodhound of Florencia during her guerrilla years when she committed terrorist acts, and she later deserted upon discovering FARC's alliance with drug cartels. The fighters of FARC wear black balaclavas to conceal their faces, in addition to wearing green military uniforms and green patrol caps with a red stripe at the bottom of the cap's crown. The soldiers of the Sumasas Brigade are armed with Norinco Type 56 assault rifles. History

    FARC-EP was initially founded in 1964 by Manuel Marulanda as the military wing of Communist Party of Colombia (PCC). FARC then began their guerrilla war against the Colombian government and perceived U.S. influence, and FARC guerrillas engaged in actions such as kidnappings for ransom, drug trafficking, bombings and murder. In 1989, one mission that Rosarita Cisneros carried out was attacking the Magdalena branch of the Japanese company Taisho Electric, killing two employees but not before ripping up Hironobu Satou's family photo apart.[2] Additionally, FARC was allied with the mafia and protected their coca fields, and after the Medellín Cartel's destruction and dissolution, FARC allied themselves with the Colombian Cartel, resulting in a fragile alliance.[3]

17. #17The Yellow Flag

    Keys: The Yellow Flag

    The Yellow Flag (イエロー・フラッグ Ierō Furaggu), sometimes called the Yellow Flag Bar, is a bar owned by Bao, which he opened up after settling in Roanapur after the Vietnam War. Accordingly, the bar is named after South Vietnam's yellow flag. A recurring theme in the Black Lagoon series is that the bar is often destroyed when major fights take place, with Bao frequently telling Revy that she owes him money for the damage done. The bar has a brothel upstairs called the Sloppy Swing run by a woman called Madam Flora.

    Black Lagoon history

    After defecting from the ARVN near the end of the Vietnam War, Bao went to Roanapur in Thailand, where he and a fellow Vietnamese friend founded the Yellow Flag in 1978,[1] and the bar also took in other fugitive AWOL soldiers.[2] According to him, from the bar's founding to mid-1996, the Yellow Flag has been partially trashed a total of fifteen times and totally destroyed six times,[1] with some of the incidents involving Revy. Bao is a neutral man in Roanapur and accordingly provides information about the city's various crime syndicates to anyone who is willing to pay the right price for it. Many thugs in Roanapur visit the establishment and start fights there, and due to the violent nature of Roanapur and the frequent shootouts, the bar has a built-in bulletproof steel plating installed, which can withstand .50-cal ammunition.[2] Unlike various other businesses in Roanapur, the Yellow Flag is located in neutral territory and is not associated with any crime syndicate.[3]

18. #18Colombian Cartel

    Keys: Colombian Cartel

    The Colombian Cartel (コロンビア・カルテル Koronbia Karuteru), also blended in with the Manisarera Cartel (マニサレラ・カルテル Manisarera Karuteru) in the anime, is a Colombian organized crime syndicate based in Latin America, particularly in Bucaramanga, Colombia.[1] The Manisarera Cartel, which was a separate cartel in the manga, was based in Venezuela. The Colombian Cartel is led by Boss Pasturia, also called "jefe" by his subordinates.[2] In Roanapur, the Thai branch of the cartel was led by Abrego, who was later replaced by Gustavo. Among Roanapur's crime syndicates, the Colombian Cartel was one of four groups that used to be a member of the Council of liaison between the Colombians, Hotel Moscow, the Hong Kong Triad, and Cosa Nostra. History

    The group primarily participates in drug trafficking and murder. Moreover, Los Mivas Coffee Company was the Colombians' front company in Roanapur.[3] In the manga, the Colombian Mafia and the Manisarera Cartel are two different forces,[4] but in the anime they are combined into one as the Manisarera Cartel. Additionally, the Colombian Cartel is a different organization from the Medellín Cartel, the latter which was eventually crushed, causing FARC to ally with the Colombian Cartel instead.[1] The Manisarera Cartel was originally based in Venezuela,[5] whereas the Colombian Cartel operates in Colombia. Nonetheless, as part of their alliance with FARC, the Colombians kept tabs on Roberta, who lives in the Lovelace family mansion in Venezuela.

19. #19Frederica Sawyer

    Keys: Frederica, Sawyer

    Frederica Sawyer (フレデリカ・ソーヤー Furederika Sōyā),[1][2] also known as Sawyer the Cleaner (掃除屋ソーヤー Sōjiya Sōyā) or simply Sawyer (ソーヤー Sōyā), is a young woman who specializes in corpse disposal in Roanapur. In addition to her regular job, Sawyer is a freelancer who partners up with her friends Shenhua and Lotton. She is also the titular character of the first official Black Lagoon spinoff series Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl.Sawyer is a young woman with a thin build, short dark-purple hair, a light complexion, a large horizontal scar across her throat, and vacant blue eyes. Outside work, she wears eye-shadows, red lipstick, a black choker with a cross pendant, and a gothic style of dress. The most common shirt that she wears is a short-sleeved purple shirt with a cross fleury across the chest. Additionally, she also wears a light-purple striped long-sleeved shirt, a dark plaid skirt with white frills, and knee-length black boots. On her ears, she has several ear piercings, and she has several cuts on her wrists as a result of self-harm.[3][4]

    When she is on the job for corpse disposal, she wears a surgical gown, surgical mask, and various personal protective equipment. In the main manga and anime, Sawyer's hairstyle is a short but thick bob cut with wisps. In her spinoff series, Sawyer's hair length is similar but the hair bun on her head is much larger, and her bangs and the hair on top of her head are straight rather than messy. In volume 4 of the spinoff manga, Sawyer wore an elegant key earring on her left ear for five chapters. Sawyer is a sociopath who lacks remorse when she kills people with her chainsaw and exhibits various emotional issues. In general, she has a mellow demeanor about her, and she also suffers from depression. She has a vulnerable side, as shown by her blushing and smiling when she becomes the center of attention and in her response to losing her electrolarynx. She has also made morbid jokes, like when she drew jam-smeared bread as a metaphor for a mattress stained with human remains. Although she communicates with her voicebox, Sawyer can also communicate and get others' attention non-verbally via facial expressions, tickling,[5] and tracing letters onto people's skin.[6] She does not take her friendships for granted, as she has a close and personal bond with Shenhua and Lotton as well as a sister-like bond with her other friends Bunny the Undertaker and The Undertaker No. 2. Likewise, it is shown that she has given thoughtful gifts to her friends, such as the cross necklace that Lotton later wore[7] and the teddy bear that she had gifted to Bunny.[8]

    Sawyer has a tendency for her mood to swing. A common mood swing for her is gaining an urge to gleefully kill attackers whenever put in a tense situation, and she will become quiet or depressed suddenly depending on the situation. For example, she will be in a happy mood but then suddenly freeze or become depressed and crawl into a ball upon losing her electrolarynx.[9][10] On one occasion, she was enjoying her time with Dutch and showed him a teddy bear, but she then became gloomy and depressed when Dutch had no interest in her toy due to her previous attack on the Lagoon Company dry dock.[11] Besides her emotional issues, Sawyer suffers from seasickness and does not enjoy traveling on watercraft Sawyer is the cleaner whom the various crime syndicates turn to for corpse disposal as well as executing people in the most brutal ways possible, usually to serve as examples for their clientele and enemies. Briefly seen only in the anime, her legitimate business front is, fittingly, a meat packing business called U.G. Pork.[14] As first shown in the second light novel, Sawyer is from the United Kingdom.[15][11] Because her throat had been cut open by an ex-partner in a "mistake in love" according to her memory,[15] she speaks with an electrolarynx, although she later switched to a voicebox necklace.[16] She also exhibits a number of emotional issues, as she will drop into a fetal position if she loses her electrolarynx.

    At her workplace, Sawyer works in a large building with a tiled room that is covered in blood from her various executions, and she uses a chainsaw as her tool of trade. Her workplace also has a meat locker and a mortuary table that she utilizes, also possessing body bags and other tools like scalpels, surgical scissors, and meat hooks. Her work room ceiling-sprinklers which she has used to dispense liquid sodium hydroxide on intruders.

20. #20Hänsel and Gretel

    Keys: Hansel, Gretel

    Hänsel and Gretel (ヘンゼルとグレーテル Henzeru to Gurēteru), also respectively known as Fratele meu (Romanian for "my brother") and Sora mea ("my sister"), were two unnamed Romanian twin assassins. They were hired by Roanapur's Sicilian Mafia leader Verrocchio to assassinate Balalaika of Hotel Moscow. The twins' true genders were unknown, but they dressed as a boy and a girl, and regularly switched between them. The boy, Hänsel, had short white hair, and the girl, Gretel, wore a long wig of the same color. They shared the same gray eyes, sharp canine teeth, pale skin, skinny build, and both wore black gothic attire. Gretel carried around a M1918A2 BAR concealed by a blanket, and Hänsel wielded an incredibly sharp battle axe as well as two small revolvers hidden in his jacket. As a result of rampant childhood sexual abuse and being forced to murder other children, the twins enjoyed killing others for the sake of killing, believing that killing other humans extended their own lifespans. Furthermore, the twins also acted incestuously with one another, having a tendency to express this most intensely during charged situations such as murders or narrow escapes. They had literally bathed in the blood of people whom they killed, albeit initially doing so by force. Unknown to most people, "Hänsel" and "Gretel" were also actually two personalities alternately adopted by the two children, both of whom suffered from dissociative identity disorder, meaning they swapped their identities as "Hänsel" and "Gretel" with each other from time to time. Although mentally unwell, Hänsel and Gretel were also cunning, having used one of the local Thai orphans as a decoy to distract the bounty hunters and using money to distract Eda.[1] They were also not above using their innocent appearance to deceive their enemies.

    Due to their abuse, the two children did not believe in God, believing that any higher power had abandoned them and wondered why they had to suffer such abuse. In their spare time, Gretel was a very talented singer, as shown when she sang for Rock, causing Dutch to remark "[The] Girl sure can sing. Hard to believe it's the voice of a homicidal maniac. A devil with the voice of an angel."[2] Because of their upbringing in Sicily, the twins can speak some Italian. Likewise, despite their ruthless upbringing, the twins seemed well-read. During a conversation about the writer of the quote "The ultimate love is cannibalism," they listed off Richard Matheson and Edgar Allen Poe, with "Hänsel" accusing the latter of being a necrophiliac.[3] Both children also sang nursery rhymes such as "The Juniper Tree" by the Brothers Grimm.[4]

    The twins were born in Romania in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains, and were initially put in a state-run orphanage in Romania. Under Nicolae Ceaușescu's government, he enacted a pro-natalist policy which banned abortion to increase birth rates. Due to the economic downturn in the country, people could not afford to take care of their newborn children and sent them to orphanages. After the death of Nicolae Ceaușescu and the downfall of his communist regime, a large number of orphans, including the twins, fell into the hands of various mafias, and the two children were moved to Sicily.[2]

    Under the control of mob groups that used them as sex slaves, "Hänsel" and "Gretel" were forced to participate in pedophilic snuff films, in which they were either to murder other children or be raped. Such horrific incidents and witnessing continual beatings of other children turned them into misanthropic, sadistic, cunning and deranged killers.[4] They had a firm belief that their lifespans were extended by killing others, and this belief derived from the fact that they had to kill other children to avoid beatings. Eventually, the twins decided to work for the Sicilian Mafia a.k.a. Cosa Nostra.

21. #21Verrocchio

    Keys: Verrocchio

    Verrocchio (ヴェロッキオ Verokkio) was the former boss of Cosa Nostra's Thai branch, which was known as the Verrocchio Family under his tenure. Verrocchio was an adult Italian man with a tall build and tan skin. He had a short crop of blonde hair and small light-colored eyes. He wore a tan overcoat with a dark necktie and dark-green dress shirt. Additionally, he carried a Bernardelli P-018 pistol for a weapon. Personality

    Verrocchio was an impatient person who had no respect for anyone but himself, as shown when he beat up a subordinate who disagreed with him and when he constantly insulted Balalaika by calling her "Fry-Face" and insulting her Russian background. History

    Chase for ring-ding ships

    Only in the anime for this arc, Verrocchio was seen eating some food at a restaurant and saw Dutch walking in front of the building. He asked one of his men if Dutch was working for the Russians, and his subordinate responded that the Lagoon Company would take jobs from anyone so long as they met their price.[1]

    Bloodsport Fairy tale

    Annoyed by Hotel Moscow's tightening control of Roanapur, he attempted to use the child assassins, Hänsel and Gretel, to kill Balalaika. When the murders of Hotel Moscow members began throughout Roanapur, an emergency Council meeting was held between Mister Chang, Balalaika, Verrocchio, and Abrego to discern who was behind the killings. While exchanging insults with Balalaika, Verrocchio claimed that one his own men was also murdered, telling Chang that the murders were likely the work of an outsider who was unfamiliar with how Roanapur operated.

22. #22Abrego

    Keys: Abrego

    Abrego (アブレーゴ Aburēgo) was the leader of the Colombian Cartel's Thai branch Abrego was a lean Hispanic man with short dark hair and a thin mustache, also wearing sunglasses and a suit. In the anime, his hair was slicked back, but in the manga and the OVA, his hair was shaggier. He carried a Ruger P90 pistol for a weapon. History

    In the anime, Abrego was the head of the Manisarera Cartel since the anime combined the Manisarera and Colombian Cartels into one group. In the manga, the branch enforcer of the Manisarera Cartel was a different man since they were a cartel based in Venezuela, whereas Abrego was a leader in the Colombian Cartel with a completely different appearance. Rasta Blasta

    In this arc for the anime, Abrego was used in lieu of the Manisarera Cartel enforcer in the manga. He had Garcia Lovelace abducted to use as leverage against the Lovelace family, ordering Lagoon Company to deliver the boy to Hat Yai. At the same time, Roberta came to Roanapur to rescue the boy and asked around town where she could find the Colombians. Hearing about a maid going around town and asking about the Colombians, Abrego and his men went to the Yellow Flag, where he saw her sit at the counter, angrily demanding that she tell him what her business was with him.

23. #23Council

    Keys: Council

    The Council (連絡会 Renraku-kai), initially translated as the Network, is the liaison committee made up of the branch leaders of Roanapur's four most powerful crime syndicates: the Hong Kong Triad, Hotel Moscow, Cosa Nostra, and the Nuevo Laredo Cartel, the last of which took over the Colombian Cartel's seat. Among the bosses, Mister Chang of the Triad is the one who leads the meetings and summons the other three leaders whenever there are threats to their business interests, when there is a problem involving major bloodshed in the city, or both.

    Over a couple of years in the mid-1990s, the Council has changed leaders on a few occasions. At the beginning of the Black Lagoon series, the first Council was made up of Mister Chang, Balalaika, Abrego, and Verrocchio. After Verrocchio's death, Ronnie the Jaws took his place as Cosa Nostra's Thai branch leader in the second era of the Council. Likewise, after Abrego was purged from the Colombian Cartel, Gustavo took over his position in the third era, but he gave up his Council seat after the Colombian Cartel permanently left Roanapur. As of 1997, the fourth and current Council is led by Mister Chang, Balalaika, Ronnie the Jaws, and Fernando Lobos. History

    The Council was formed in the aftermath of the November 1993 gunfight between Balalaika and Mister Chang.[1] Calm down, two men

    While she was skimming pornographic video tapes for information, Balalaika remarked to Rock and Revy that she had to attend a Council meeting concerning an influx of unauthorized drug shipments outside the agreed-upon routes by an unknown third party. Not known to the Council but later discovered by Rock, the Rip-Off Church was the culprit behind the drug shipments.[2]

24. #24Mister Chang

    Keys: Mister Chang

    Chang Wai-San (張 維新チャン・ウァイサン Chan Waisan),[3] also known as Mister Chang (張の旦那 Chan no danna; ミスター張 Misutā Chan) or his lesser-used Triad title Pak Tsz Sin (Chinese: 白紙扇, lit. "White Paper Fan"),[4] is the boss of the Thai branch of the Hong Kong Triad in Roanapur. Chang is an adult man of Chinese descent with short black hair commonly styled back, a skinny build, pale skin, and a height of 180 centimeters (or 5'11").[5] He is always seen wearing dark sunglasses even indoors, and he frequently wears black suits and vests over a white dress shirt. His physical appearance is based on the Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat's appearance in The Bund.[6] Like Revy, he is adept with dual-wielding pistols in a fashion similar to that of gun-fu,[7] and favors a pair of Beretta 76 pistols. The grips of these weapons are inscribed with two Chinese symbols (天帝) which mean "Heavenly Emperor."[8] He is a frequent smoker and is seen smoking in every story that he appears in. Personality

    Chang seems easily amused and unusually easygoing and lighthearted, especially given his position. Nothing seems to surprise or phase him, which could be attributed to the fact that he was once a member of law enforcement.[9] His past as a police officer may explain his combat expertise, although he has stated that he does not actually do much fighting as a Triad boss.[7] He was also able to escape from ambush of superior number of Hezbollah agents, disarm Fabiola Iglesias easily, and survive a shootout with the twins while several of his men were killed. His expertise is often overshadowed by his easygoing character, in comparison with the other, more serious characters. Despite this, Chang no longer engages in combat unless forced. Before his shootout with Revy, he admitted it had been a while since being in the field,[8] and another time Balalaika asked him if she would finally get to see him with a gun in his hand again, to which Chang replied that he did not "dislike getting in the game once in a while."[10]

    Chang has said that what he hates most in the world is hypocrisy, saying it was even worse than what people call "evil" and like a poison that affects both the victim and the user. He also referred to himself as being "a guard dog who burned with justice" when he worked for the police despite having told Balalaika on another occasion that morality and justice have never really suited him. Unlike most criminal bosses in the town, he advocates cooperation and joint ventures in order to keep the status quo in Roanapur, which he has reiterated to fellow crime bosses at his summits at The Golden Swingin Night Club. Chang believes that unless the bosses who run Roanapur from the shadows cooperate to keep its inhabitants in line, the city will end up in the evening news and the minds of politicians, which will ultimately lead to its destruction.[11] He also emphasizes that his own syndicate's primary goal is to advance its business and conspire for profit.[1] Like Balalaika, Chang is courteous enough to compensate people in town for damages to their workplace caused by the Triad's involvement.[12]

    Most of Chang's background is unknown. Before joining the Hong Kong Triad, Chang was a police officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. Given how Chang describes himself, he claims to hate hypocrisy more than anything, and that he says he has "looked into the hearts of human beings and [has] seen things [one] can't even imagine."[9] It is not known if Chang left the Hong Kong police force because of the corruption that he witnessed in the ranks, but he betrayed his police partners by killing them at Star Ferry Pier, Hong Kong.[2] He eventually joined the Hong Kong Triad and became the Thai branch's leader. Although he had bad relations with the cops whom he killed, Chang did have an amicable opinion of one detective even after leaving the police force.[13]

25. #25The Golden Swingin Night Club

    Keys: The Golden Swingin Night Club

    The Golden Swingin Night Club (Chinese: 金詠夜總會; Japanese: 金詠夜総会ゴールデン・スウィンギン・ナイトクラブ Gōruden Suwingin Naitokurabu) is a nightclub and restaurant managed by the Hong Kong Triad under Mister Chang. The business is used by Chang as a front business as well as a place to host occasional Council summits between the four main crime lords of Roanapur.

    The building is located in the Hong Kong Triad's territory near Hamipong Street,[1] and the exterior is a tall glass-windowed building with neon signs of the nightclub's name in English and Traditional Chinese characters. The Chinese signs on the outside also advertise that the nightclub serves food and alcohol. Black Lagoon history

    El Baile de la muerte / Roberta's Blood Trail

    In "El Baile de la muerte," Chang hosted a Council meeting at the club to discuss further action regarding the presence of both Roberta and Grey Fox in Roanapur. Before the meeting began that night, Sister Yolanda told Eda about the planned meeting and asked if she needed a list of participants, and Eda responded that an audio recording or transcript of the minutes would suffice. That night, the Triad boss invited Balalaika, Abrego, and Ronnie the Jaws, also inviting their respective associates Boris, Gustavo, and Tommaso.

26. #26Shenhuaconstant

    Keys: Shenhua

    Shenhua (シェンホア Shenhoa) is a Taiwanese assassin who is employed under Mister Chang as an assassin for the Hong Kong Triad in Roanapur. She later formed an unorthodox three-person team with Sawyer the Cleaner and Lotton the Wizard. Shenhua is a young woman with a skinny and tall build, pale skin, and dark cyan eyes. She has knee-length dark-blue hair with chest-length bangs covering the right side of her face, and she always wears red nail polish, lipstick and eyeliner.

    Her hair is styled differently in the two anime series:

    In the first two seasons of the Black Lagoon anime, she ties her hair in a low ponytail at the top. In the Roberta's Blood Trail OVAs, she ties her hair at the bottom. She has been seen wearing a Rose Chinese cheongsam that shows both of her legs, along with a white jacket. She has a strap holding throwing knives on both legs. On top of all of this, she also wears two long, red, tassel-like earrings on both ears. Personality

    Shenhua is an assassin who takes good care of her personal appearance, and she is also very proud of her native Taiwanese heritage; specifically she is descended from benshengren people, who migrated from mainland China to settle in Taiwan long before other mainland Chinese people (waishengren) fled to Taiwan after 1945.[1][2] In addition to her native Chinese, she only knows just enough English to work and communicate with the other people in Roanapur and does not care about grammar or structure. Her broken English earns her nicknames like "Yes-lady" ("Chinglish" in the English version) from Revy, but those who know her well are more concerned with her expertise with throwing knives and blades. In the main series, it is not specified which Sinitic language that Shenhua speaks, though Mandarin is used in the manga and anime by the editors and staff since it is the Sinitic language most commonly defaulted to when people think of the term "Chinese language." In the Black Lagoon light novel Shaitane Badi, Shenhua is shown to be able to speak Cantonese,[3] and in the light novel Ballad of the Sinful Wizard, she is shown to also understand the Hokkien language.[4] In contrast, in the spinoff manga Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl, she has claimed that she cannot understand a word of Mandarin.[5]

    Her primary weapon involves two kukri blades tied together with a long rope, and she can swing them around, throw them, and quickly pull them back. Her personal philosophy in using such weapons is that guns run out of bullets, while blades and the human body will never fail. Despite her line of work and her attitude toward Revy, she is quite kind, as she recognizes Garcia Lovelace's chivalry and even offered him to stay at her place.[6] Likewise, Black Lagoon creator Rei Hiroe said that Shenhua allowed Sawyer and Lotton to live with her because she is a caring person.[7] A difference between the anime and manga versions of Shenhua involve her religion. In the manga, she mentions to Eda that she is Taoist and is not bothered with killing nuns. In the anime, she refers to herself as an atheist and is not bothered because morals never get in the way of her work. She struggles speaking english

27. #27Leigharch

    Keys: Leigharch

    Leigharch (レガーチ Regāchi) is an Irish driver contracted under the Hong Kong Triad who worked with Shenhua at one time. eigharch is a 40-year-old[1] man with a skinny build, pale skin, short but shaggy blond hair, and a very thin patchy beard. He wears tinted sunglasses, a green dress shirt, and several beaded necklaces including one with a cross moline pendant. Personality

    He speaks English with an Irish accent. A compulsive user of cannabis in the anime (in the manga he additionally uses cocaine), Leigharch has a frequent tendency to hallucinate at inopportune times, particularly in the middle of a car chase in the "Goat, Jihad, Rock'N Roll" arc. Most of his hallucinations are actually references to Western pop culture, such as Playboy Playmates, Star Trek characters like Jean-Luc Picard and Klingons, or sixties rock music legends such as Jimi Hendrix. History

    Goat, Jihad, Rock'N Roll

    Mister Chang had Leigharch serve as a getaway driver for the Lagoon Company when they arrived to the rendezvous point on Basilan Island with the Hezbollah plan documents, having Shenhua accompany him too. While waiting in the car, Shenhua advised him not to be high since they were still on their mission, but Leigharch felt tired and still wanted to use his drugs. Nearby, the two noticed cars speeding by them, with the driver remarking that they were possibly government forces performing a drill. Shenhua asked if they should check out if they were government forces or terrorists, but Leigharch rejected the idea since he wanted to avoid trouble.[1] When the enemy kidnapped Rock and began a shootout with Revy, Shenhua told him that the shooting started and he needed to drive. As Revy got cornered, Leigharch stopped the car behind her as Shenhua used throwing knives to kill the enemy gunmen. Revy asked them if they were the getaway party, with Leigharch confirming by angrily and sarcastically replying that he was a lawyer.

28. #28Hezbollah

    Keys: Hezbollah

    Hezbollah (ヒズボラ Hizubora), also known as the Protectors of the Islamic Front (イスラム過激派 Isuramu kagekiha) in the English version of the anime, is a militant group and political party in Lebanon. In Black Lagoon, the group had a plan in the mid-1990s to carry out a terrorist attack in the United States of America. Although the group in the manga is Hezbollah, the anime changed the group's name and appearance to a generic unnamed Jihadist group due to the controversial subject matter. Whereas the original Japanese version merely refers to the group as "Islamic extremists," the English dub created the name Protectors of the Islamic Front for the group. In the manga, the terrorist group that bombed the U.S. embassy in Zaire is the Islamic Salvation Front, a group independent of Lebanese Hezbollah.[1][2] Appearance

    In the manga, members of Hezbollah wear checkered head scarves around their heads and wear light-colored military uniforms. In the anime, the PIF fighters wear wear dark green military uniforms and pants, also wearing balaclavas of various colors, mostly gray and black. Common weaponry among the soldiers are AK-47 rifles. History

    In Black Lagoon, Hezbollah has an alliance with Abu Sayyaf, which has a training camp on Basilan Island in the Philippines.[3] Two notable members of the group are Ibraha, a top leader within the group, and Masahiro Takenaka, a Japanese New Left activist and terrorist who fled Japan to the Beqaa Valley[4] in the Middle East and at some point met Ibraha there, eventually becoming a Hezbollah staff member.[5] At the beginning, Ibraha joined the group because the Israeli military killed his infant son in their 1987 raid of an International Red Cross camp in Beirut, Lebanon.[4] Before joining Hezbollah, Ibraha left the PFLP so that he could become a member, later being promoted to operations commander in Hezbollah.[6] Years later when Ibraha had a top position in the group, he devised a plan to launch a bio-chemical attack on a Manhattan subway station as revenge for the United States giving money and weapons to the country that murdered his son

29. #29Masahiro Takenaka

    Keys: Masahiro, Takenaka

    Masahiro Takenaka (竹中正洋たけなかまさひろ Takenaka Masahiro) is a former Japanese New Left activist who committed terrorist acts in Japan and fled the country, eventually joining Hezbollah when he took refuge in Lebanon.

    Takenaka is an older Japanese man with pale skin and short, receding black hair. He is 178 centimeters tall (or 5'10") and was born on August 15, 1950, being 45 years old.[1] He wears a green military uniform with combat boots, and he is frequently seen smoking cigarettes. He wields a CZ 75 pistol for a weapon. Personality

    Takenaka is calm, personable, reasonable and is great at keeping his cool. He is able to look at different viewpoints, which allows him to think ahead and plan. However, he sometimes acts with recklessness in regards to himself, as he ended up answering Rock's questions about himself rather than vice versa. History

    Takenaka was born in Adachi City, Tokyo, Japan. In his youth, he had been a member of the Japanese New Left as part of the student movement, joining the Red Army Faction and engaging in protests against the JNR, as well as clashing with riot police and even engaging in terrorism. When more people stopped protesting and supporting violence, he was disappointed that the communist movement in Japan declined since the people involved had stopped fighting because their lives became more comfortable. Sometime after the Red Army Faction's split, he joined the Japanese Red Army splinter group.[2]

    Beginning in the early 1970s, Takenaka committed a number of terrorist acts, including the 1970 bombing incident at Asahi Heavy Industrial Co.'s head office, the 1972 Yokosuka Airport shooting incident, the 1972 kidnapping of an Araki Co. branch manager, the hijacking of a Japan Air Lines flight in 1975, the murder of Japanese nationals in Jakarta in 1976, a 1977 shooting incident at an embassy in Japan, and an unspecified incident in 1978. At some point, he was arrested by Japanese police and charged with murder, using explosives and resisting arrest.[1] Escaping his imprisonment and wanted by Japanese police, Takenaka fled to the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon and joined Hezbollah, eventually becoming a staff member.[3] He has remarked that he did not stop fighting for a people's universal revolution because stopping the fight would mean that his beliefs would all be a lie if he just gave up.[2]

30. #30Lotton
31. #31Bunny the Undertaker

    Keys: Bunny the Undertaker

    Bunny the Undertaker ("墓掘り人"バニーバニー・ジ・アンダーテイカー Banī ji Andāteikā) is a funeral director and the caretaker of the Roanapur Public Cemetery. She despises seeing her real face. She is a recurring character in the Black Lagoon spinoff series Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl.

    Bunny is a young adult woman with short blonde hair styled into two large, short ponytails tied with bows. She commonly wears a light-colored knee-length hoodie, shorts, boots, and a bunny mask that changes appearance in each chapter; each mask that she wears has different designs on the eyes, ears, mouth and head shape. She carries a pointed digger shovel for a weapon. Personality

    Bunny has a very childlike personality, speaking very excitedly and constantly letting out little cheers of happiness and encouragement when she talks. Whenever her mask is removed, her mood violently swings to that of a wrathful murderer, and she claims that she will not leave anyone alive who has seen her face. It is unknown why she is so insecure about people seeing her real face. She frequently hosts and enjoys tea parties at her cemetery, sometimes using the corpses as "guests." Gore Gore Girl history

    Bunny's father, a Catholic priest, was the original caretaker of the Roanapur Public Cemetery. Because her father raised her strictly, Bunny grew to have an angry heart. At some point, she murdered her father and took over as the cemetery's manager.[1] It is unknown when she became friends with Sawyer the Cleaner, whose company she enthusiastically enjoys. She uses her shovel as a weapon for decapitating people.

32. #32Choptop

    Keys: Choptop

    Choptop[1] (チョップトップ Chopputoppu) is Sawyer the Cleaner's assistant and student who helps her in corpse disposal jobs. As a freelancer, he also takes jobs independent of his teacher. Choptop is a young adult man with a skinny build. His head is completely shaven except for a single long ponytail growing from his crown. He is of the punk subculture and accordingly is adorned with various piercings, including a tongue piercing, two piercings on his right temple, one piercing on his left upper lip, two piercings on his bottom right lip, and three ear piercings (two on his left ear and one on his right ear). He also has a distinctive stitch circling his entire crown. He commonly wears an open light-colored vest over a short-sleeved dark shirt, and he also wears dark pants and black boots. He has a pistol for a weapon, but he rarely ever uses it. Personality

    Choptop is a very cheerful and ambitious person. He likes to crack jokes even in tense situations, which greatly contrasts with the quiet Sawyer. He acts very polite to everyone whom he meets; for example he will politely reject an offer that he has no interest in. He has little to no combat skills and usually leaves the fighting to his teacher Sawyer, whom he admires greatly. Although willing to work with various criminals, he will ultimately maintain his loyalty to Sawyer if any of his jobs are against her interests.

    Outside a farmhouse, Choptop was greatly excited to meet the legendary Sawyer the Cleaner, telling her that he was a newcomer in the cleaning industry but could do his part well. The two cleaners walked inside the farmhouse and saw several corpses. Choptop excitedly commented that a psycho-killer and a gang killed each other, joking that everyone in the end collapsed together. Interrupting his lightheartedness, Sawyer silently showed him a mop, but he put his hands together and chimed that he was a corpse specialist and could not clean up. Unamused, she still showed it to him, although Choptop sarcastically replied that it was great but recommended that they stick to inspecting the place for the day. He added that the landlord's victims might also appear besides the visible corpses, remarking that it was impossible to get help in the heat.

    Wanting to explore, Choptop walked above floorboards with several human skulls hidden beneath. Squatting down, he examined that the corpses had injuries in their crotch area, joking that someone must have had a grudge against their genitals. Poking one corpse with a stick, Choptop recalled that the killer was a man, but the punk could not find a corpse that looked like him. Sawyer looked to her left into another room, and he was curious about the locked wooden door that they saw. Choptop tried kicking the lock but injured his foot, making the eye-rolling Sawyer cut the lock open with bolt cutters. Inside, they found a shaggy-haired skinny man with a tattered shirt who had his tied-up arms hanging upward against the wall. Choptop was amazed and asked the survivor if he was a murderer or a gang member.

33. #33The Undertaker

    Keys: The Undertaker, No2

    The Undertaker No. 2 (墓掘り人2号 Haka hori jin ni-gō) is an undertaker and assistant to Bunny the Undertaker at the Roanapur Public Cemetery. She was originally going to be killed by a mafia but got saved by Bunny. She is a recurring character in the spinoff series Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl.

    No. 2 is a young woman with a skinny build, light-colored hair styled into a chin-length shaggy bob haircut that curls forward on each side, and large breasts. Over her head and face, she wears a burlap sack with two eyeholes cut into it and the number 2 written on the forehead. She wears lipstick, mid-calf boots and various dresses, including a spaghetti-strapped dress, a sleeveless turtleneck sweater dress, and a sleeveless buttoned dress. Personality

    No. 2 is a very humbled and quiet person. She is very caring towards every person she meets as demonstrated by her loyalty to Bunny, by her kindness toward guests at the cemetery, and by her empathy towards Jacqueline and her worry concerning the child's affiliation with serial killers. Gore Gore Girl history

    No. 2 once stated that she ran away from her own family,[1] and later in life she somehow gained the ire of a local mafia that resulted in her being captured and tied-up. Once becoming Bunny's assistant after being saved, she has taken on the role of an undertaker as well as a servant for Bunny's tea parties. Volume 2

    One day as Sawyer the Cleaner and Bunny the Undertaker were having a tea party at the Roanapur Public Cemetery, the woman was brought by several gunmen to the cemetery with a bag over her head and a rope tied around her neck, surprising the two women. The men at first told the women to ignore them as they were going to execute her, but they decided that they did not want other witnesses and grabbed the two women instead. The frightened, bagged woman stood on her knees as Sawyer and Bunny fought back against the men and killed them after they had removed Bunny's mask.

34. #34Roanapur Public Cemetery

    Keys: Roanapur Public Cemetery, cemetery

    The Roanapur Public Cemetery (ロアナプラ公営セメタリー Roanapura kōei semetarī) is a cemetery in Roanapur maintained by Bunny the Undertaker with assistance from The Undertaker No. 2. It is a recurring setting in the Black Lagoon spinoff series Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl. The cemetery was originally maintained by Bunny's father, who was a Catholic priest.[1] Although the cemetery almost always hosts Christian burials, the graves contain people from various backgrounds all over the world, and the cemetery is primarily a front for hiding the bodies of disappeared people. The entrance has an arching sign with "Roanapur Public Cemetery" written in English, and the fences also have zebra decorations. Throughout the graveyard are various Christian graves and tombstones, some adorned with statues such as angel statues. Volume 2

    At the front gate of the Roanapur Public Cemetery, Frederica Sawyer looked at the place and entered. The bunny-costume girl, Bunny the Undertaker, spotted and recognized her and dashed past the numerous gravestones, and she joyfully hugged Sawyer to welcome her. Bunny asked Sawyer if she was visiting the cemetery to exhume a corpse or fill up a grave, adding that she would gladly help Sawyer do anything. Jumping up and down in excitement, she also told Sawyer that she had some tea prepared. Pulling out her picnic basket, Sawyer pulled out her stitched teddy bear and presented it to Bunny, who noticed that the bear's button was the one that she gave to Sawyer last time and also noticed the cloth of the blouse of a woman whose husband shot her with a rifle. Seeing that Sawyer was allowing her to keep the teddy bear, Bunny thanked Sawyer and told her that she greatly adored her. Asking if the bear had a name, Sawyer shook her head, so Bunny decided to name the bear Belial.

35. #35Hong Kong Triad

    Keys: Hong Kong Triad

    The Hong Kong Triad (香港三合会 Honkon sangōkai), also just called the Triad (三合会トライアド Toraiado), is a blanket term for a particular group of organized crime in Hong Kong. In Roanapur, Mister Chang leads the Thai branch of the Triad.

    The Triad is structured so that each branch has a boss, with the boss referred to as "eldest brother" (Chinese: 大哥) by members below him, also applying to lower members who must refer to higher-ranking members as "elder brother" or "dailo" (Chinese: 大佬). There are also certain administrative titles for high-ranking bosses, such as Chang being bestowed with the honorific title of "White Paper Fan" or Pak Tsz Sin.[2] Members of the group commonly speak Cantonese. History

    The Hong Kong Triad has global influence and several branches, including a New York branch (with the front business Oriental Mystic Collection or OMC), the Thai branch in Roanapur and Bangkok, and the base in Hong Kong, where a person named Zhuang Dai-Long approves orders for the other branch leaders.[3] In Roanapur, the Thai branch eventually saw Mister Chang, a former Hong Kong Police officer,[4] be promoted as the branch's leader. In Thailand, the Triad controls several businesses and makes other profits from the red-light districts in Phuket and Pattaya.[5] Two of the Triad's front businesses in Thailand include the Hot River Film Company and The Golden Swingin Night Club, the former of which Chang uses as one of several offices, and the latter of which he uses as a location for Council summits between Roanapur's crime lords. Among the city's bosses, Chang is the leader of the Council.

36. #36Fabiola Iglesias

    Keys: Fabiola Iglesias

    NAME Fabiola Iglesias NIHONGO ファビオラ・イグレシアス INFORMATION GENDER Female AFFILIATES Unnamed family members Roberta Garcia Lovelace Diego Lovelace Tavia, Masica and Carina AFFILIATION Lovelace family WEAPON MAG-7 pump-action shotgun (dual wield) China Lake grenade launcher RACE/NATIONALITY Venezuelan STATUS Alive FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 45: El Baile de la muerte Part 2 ANIME Episode 25: Collateral Massacre ANIME VOICE JAPANESE VOICE Satsuki Yukino ENGLISH VOICE Shannon Chan-Kent IMAGE GALLERY LESS Fabiola Iglesias (ファビオラ・イグレシアス Fabiora Igureshiasu) is the second maid of the Lovelace family who is in charge of looking after Garcia Lovelace whenever the head maid Roberta is away.

    Appearance

    Fabiola is a young girl who sports the same black French maid uniform and white gloves as Roberta. However, due to her height and build, the uniform is much too big for her. She has a tanned complexion, a skinny but athletic build, and dark-green hair and eyes. Her hair is actually quite long, though it is held up and covered by a white bun cover. She carries multiple weapons on her, such as a knife embedded in her shoe, a pair of MAG-7s hidden in her arm sleeves, and a China Lake grenade launcher on her back. Personality

    Fabiola purposefully acts with honor and does her best to avoid killing people, even if she views them as less than dirt. She is skilled in the martial art capoeira, which she utilizes in battle alongside her various weapons. Despite her skills, she has fear after she kills people—a clear indication of her not being a natural-born killer. Indeed, Fabiola is exclusively equipped with oversized or rapid-fire weapons, as both types of weapons compensate for her decreased combat proficiency resulting from inexperience and her actual reluctance to kill. She does not like death, on one occasion becoming enraged when she saw Revy kill a wounded soldier mercilessly. She cares for her master Garcia Lovelace greatly, but does not have the same infatuation that Roberta possesses for Garcia. History

    Fabiola grew up in the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela. One of her distant relatives was a farmer who worked on the Lovelace family plantation, earning a good amount of money due to recent profits at that time. She also learned capoeira by watching someone at a local dōjō practice it. Because Fabiola's family was very poor with "eleven mouths to feed" and with no work available in the barrios, she decided that she needed money and became a servant of the Lovelace manor using her relative's connection.[1] As one of the manor's five maids, she is in charge of looking after Garcia whenever the head maid is away.[2] She once described her family to Revy once, telling her that she had a loving family. Claiming that her father had a small job and her mother would not tolerate any sins. For example when Fabiola once stole a CD player for her younger brother, her mother had beaten her up black and blue. Revy had told her it sounded like abuse to her, but Fabiola just shook it off and responded that she would not understand that the action was allegedly out of love.[3] El Baile de la muerte / Roberta's Blood Trail

    Fabiola first appeared in Roanapur to seek out the Lagoon Company on behalf of Garcia Lovelace for help in the retrieval of Roberta. While Garcia waited at the Sankan Palace Hotel, she went to the Yellow Flag on a tuk-tuk. As she disembarked, she paid the driver, who wondered if she knew about the hooligan atmosphere of the bar. The girl assured him that she would be fine, and she entered the bar.[4] Inside, she saw that the Colombian Cartel and Gustavo were also present. Ignoring them, Fabiola then told Rock that she sought out the Lagoon Company on behalf of her master at Sankan Palace Hotel but could not reach them at their office. Amused at her appearance, Revy referred to Roberta in a derogatory manner, much to Fabiola's annoyance. When José grabbed up the young maid, the men found out that her belongings contained no weapons, making them burst into laughter since they thought that she would be packing weapons like Roberta did. Subsequently, Fabiola asked Gustavo if they were going to torture her, but he assured her that his men were not the type of criminals to torture a child. Upon hearing that, she swung her knife-tipped shoe behind her and stabbed José in the testicles, angering the Colombians. Gustavo then pointed a gun at Bao's head and commanded his men to search Fabiola. As the men inched closer, Revy purposefully dropped a bottle of Bacardi to startle them, a distraction which allowed Fabiola to pull out her weapons and shoot the men.[5]

    Using her capoeira skills, Fabiola also injured several men whom she could not kill. When Gustavo's men outside the bar used a machine gun to blow the bar apart, Fabiola took cover and avoided the gunfire, greatly in contrast to several Colombians who got hit with friendly fire. Reacting immediately, she pulled out her China Lake launcher and fired a round toward the outside, blowing a car onto another car and crushing it. Annoyed by the whole ordeal, Fabiola offered mercy to the men who were still alive, warning them to flee if they valued their lives, which they did.[6] Furious at her power, Gustavo pointed a gun at Fabiola and yelled that he would get his revenge, but Revy immediately put a gun to his head, forcing him to flee. Dutch and Benny arrived soon after using Benny's car, and Benny drove them back to Sankan Palace. On the way there, Revy teased Fabiola about her outfit, and the young maid replied that she had to make sure that Garcia would not travel alone, hence why she accompanied him without informing the other maids that she carried weapons. Arriving at the hotel, Rock got Fabiola's bags and Revy helped her exit the car, and the pirate was surprised at the girl's trembling hand. Entering Garcia's suite, Fabiola and co. saw Mister Chang sitting down and conversing with Garcia.[7]

    Fabiola guards Garcia Angered, she tried to attack the Triad leader but was disarmed by him, though Garcia assured her that he was only there to talk. Standing by, she warned her young master to be cautious among the visitors since they were criminals like lots of people in the city. Commencing his story, Garcia explained to everyone the details concerning the murder of his father and Roberta's subsequent hunt for the various men involved in the bombing's planning, including Marcos José Lucientes and Colonel Simon Dickens.[2] Soon, Fabiola specified on behalf of Garcia that they desired Rock's help in Garcia's quest to find Roberta, but Dutch and Revy rejected his request. As Garcia began to cry at the thought of Roberta losing her mind, Revy told him to stop crying while Fabiola was angry at her insensitivity. Garcia assured the young maid that he agreed that she should not be crying and had to stay calm-minded. Despite Dutch's rejection, Rock told the two children that he would think about it and left the hotel to think about his decision. Chang left the hotel as well, telling Lagoon Company that the Hong Kong Triad would take Garcia and Fabiola's job if they chose not to. The next morning, Rock and Benny returned to the hotel and met Fabiola at the suite, agreeing to help her find the Lovelace family's head maid.[8]

    Fabiola and Garcia left Sankan Palace and sat in the backseat of Benny's car as he drove them to see Bao, who told them about the various businesses that Roberta visited on Bao's recommendation. At first, the businesses were closed that day, angering Fabiola, so the group went to a market to eat. There, Garcia learned about her expertise in capoeira and was impressed that her purpose for martial art training was to minimize killing anyone, surprising the young girl. Disagreeing with her methods, Benny told Fabiola that not killing would get her killed, advising her that she should shoot to kill if she was in that situation, which she and Garcia disagreed with. After finishing their meal, Benny informed Rock that they would take the two children to Chang's yacht house on Chang's orders.[1] That night, Fabiola was near the pool and was suddenly grabbed up by Rock, startling her. In response, she angrily pushed him away into the water and accused him of being a pervert, but the wet Rock clarified that he merely thought she wanted to go into the pool.[9]

    The next morning, Garcia slept on the couch and Fabiola woke up, noticing that her master was still sleeping. Using the opportunity, Fabiola got some swimwear and took a dive into Chang's swimming pool, enjoying the cool water. Revy then found her there, embarrassing the young girl. As they went to the three businesses, Garcia told Fabiola that she did not have to hide her desire to swim from him, and she apologized to him for her secretiveness. Driving through town, the group first went to Praiyachat's business. Seeing Fabiola in her maid costume, the old man asked Revy if he needed to make a gun for the little maid since he had to repair Roberta's musket. At Tou Chi's apartment, Fabiola had to pretend to be an alien since Tou Chi was high on drugs, telling him that she came to save him from the Cylon Empire.[10] She and Revy found out from Tou Chi that Roberta had help from Richie Leroy, so the group found Leroy and got information from him.[11]

    After gathering various information, Revy called Shenhua and her associates Lotton and Sawyer the Cleaner to help her with the job since Chang had hired the Lagoon Company's help. When Revy asked Garcia what he would offer, he tried to offer as much as Shenhua wanted, but Fabiola pushed his head back to interrupt him and instead offered 6 thousand dollars.[12] As they headed to the location where Roberta took refuge, Roberta began her revenge against the Grey Fox soldiers, so they left the car to begin their search for Roberta while Rock stayed behind. As they got closer to the battle area, Revy remarked to Fabiola that she knew that their next battle would not be easy for the latter, saying that she knew from her trembling hand that the bar fight was the first time that Fabiola shot someone. Although Fabiola glared at her, Revy stated that she was not trying to tease her, advising her to think of the criminals as low-lives who were walking targets that would kill her if she did not shoot first. While trying to find the killer maid, Fabiola and the others came across FARC soldiers, accordingly killing most of them.[13]

    In a narrow area, one soldier was left alive, so Fabiola spoke with him in Spanish to ask about his pursuit and Roberta's mental state. After Fabiola promised she would call medical help for him and relayed the information to Revy, the latter woman killed the soldier, shocking her. Consequently, the young maid angrily pointed her gun at Revy, berating her for killing a wounded soldier and framing it as overkill. Shenhua put her kukri to Fabiola, warning the young girl that she wanted to stick to the job. Garcia interrupted them both and agreed with Shenhua, and the boy told Fabiola that he understood her and that they had to wait a little longer to save Roberta and stay away from Roanapur's "dance of the dead."[14]

    In the chaos of battling more FARC soldiers, she and Garcia accidentally walked in front of several FARC soldiers. Immediately deploying both of her guns, Fabiola advised her young master to get behind her. To everyone's bafflement, Lotton stood in front of Fabiola and gave a speech about how he would be guided by God under a great full moon to deal with the soldiers who would dare harm a young child. Suddenly, Sawyer appeared and cut one of the soldiers in half, sparking another firefight. Unfortunately, the gunfire separated Garcia from Fabiola but ordered her to continue onward while he searched for Roberta in an adjacent building. Once Garcia fainted upon seeing Roberta kill Alberto Camarasa, Roberta screamed loudly, giving away her position to all parties in the vicinity, including Fabiola's.[15] After the Grey Fox troops rescued Garcia from almost being killed by Roberta, Revy and co. saw the angered Roberta in the hallway, and Shenhua's group failed to land a blow on her. When Fabiola decided that she would try to persuade her head maid, Revy warned her, but Fabiola brushed it off and stopped in Roberta's path. Continuing to lose her grip on reality, Roberta casually told Fabiola to help the young master while she dealt with the troops, and the older maid fled, shocking Fabiola due to Roberta's blood-covered face paired with her nonchalant expression.[16]

    Soon, Revy and Shenhua spotted Garcia with Horner and Sanchez and wanted to kill them to rescue him, but the Vysotniki shot them to deter the two women from interfering. Hearing Revy's complaint that their mission could not be fulfilled if they could not rescue Garcia, Fabiola assured her and Shenhua that the Lovelace family would still pay them since their mission technically was to help them find Roberta, which they accomplished.[17] At that point, Garcia was able to reunite with her, much to the troops' surprise. The next morning, he and Fabiola returned to Chang's yacht house, and she talked to him by the pool. As she informed her master that she had travel arrangements ready to leave the city back to Venezuela, the smiling Garcia jumped into the pool and dragged Fabiola into the water as well.[18]

    She was greatly confused as he laughed and teasingly started a splash fight, but she grabbed him and politely told him to calm down. With a warm smile, Garcia assured her that he was happy, surprising her. He told her that he knew she was a bit on edge after seeing Roberta in her deteriorating state of mind. As they continued to stand in the water, Garcia talked about how his father's death affected both his and Roberta's worlds, wanting her to seek peace. When the young boy told Fabiola that he intended on saving Roberta before returning to Venezuela, she replied that she would follow him to the end, adding that they would help Roberta escape the "dance of death" that people did in Roanapur.[19]

    Accordingly, the two children boarded Dutch's boat, and the Grey Fox troops also boarded to continue their original mission to travel northward into the Golden Triangle. On deck, Fabiola talked with Revy about Garcia's adamant goal to save Roberta, with Revy disagreeing with her point about Garcia not needing bullets to win. Angered by the pirate's disrespect toward her master, Fabiola tried to attack Revy, but the two got into a standoff wherein Revy had her at gunpoint. The young maid told her that her pessimism was arrogant since she could not believe that altruistic people like Garcia existed in the world. Laughing, Revy retorted that everyone involved in their mission engaged in the "dance of the dead" of killing people.[20]

    Black Lagoon v09c76 As they traveled on the Mekong River, Rock told Shane Caxton to talk with Garcia about his plan to save Roberta. Meanwhile, he also informed Fabiola of Garcia's plan, enraging her since the plan seemed impossible, but he assured her it would bode well.[21] Much later in the jungles of the Golden Triangle, Fabiola requested on behalf of Garcia to accompany the Grey Fox troops, and although he initially rejected to bring children with him, Caxton reluctantly agreed. Soon, the soldiers spotted Roberta, who began her attack minutes later.[22] When Roberta killed several troops, Raymond McDougal pleaded with Caxton to let the troops retaliate lethally. The major remained silent about his next move, causing Fabiola to point her gun at him and Ray pointed his pistol at the young girl in turn. The young maid sternly asked Caxton if he would side with justice, and he exchanged looks with Garcia and agreed to help them.[23]

    Caxton radioed Roberta to declare that he would give himself up to her if she handed over Shue Yan to his men. After she followed through, Fabiola and Garcia walked with the unarmed Caxton to meet Roberta at dawn. To Fabiola and Roberta's shock, Garcia fake-killed Shane Caxton in an attempt to snap Roberta out of her delusions. Seeing Caxton get up after Garcia kissed her, Roberta was angry that he was still alive, causing Fabiola to stand in front of her gun to prevent her from killing him. Because Garcia asserted that he could still help her, Roberta abandoned her revenge plot and thanked him for saving her, relieving Fabiola. As the Lovelace affiliates headed back to Dutch's boat, Rock revealed that the fake killing was actually his plan so that he could save someone. Enraged at Rock for exploiting her master, Fabiola shot him with a fake bullet, telling him and Revy that they could rot in Roanapur and continue their deathly dance in vain.[24] Afterward, she traveled with Garcia and Roberta back to Venezuela and the Lovelace estate, where sometime later she greeted Caxton and Hironobu Satou's family so that Roberta could make amends with them

37. #37Garcia Lovelace

    Keys: Garcia Lovelace

    NAME Garcia Fernando Lovelace NIHONGO ガルシア・フェルナンド・ラブレス INFORMATION GENDER Male HEIGHT 137.9 centimeters[1] AFFILIATES Diego Lovelace (father) Unnamed mother Roberta Fabiola Iglesias Tavia, Masica and Carina (maids) AFFILIATION Lovelace family RACE/NATIONALITY Venezuelan STATUS Alive FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 02: Rasta Blasta Part 1 ANIME Episode 08: Rasta Blasta ANIME VOICE JAPANESE VOICE Kazue Ikura ENGLISH VOICE Cathy Weseluck IMAGE GALLERY LESS Garcia Fernando Lovelace (ガルシア・フェルナンド・ラブレス Garushia Ferunando Raburesu) is the only son of Diego Lovelace and heir to the Lovelace family line, and as such, is its current head, the twelfth in succession after his father.

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    Garcia is a young boy with a skinny build, pale skin, brown eyes, and short blond hair and bangs. He is 137.9 centimeters tall (or 4'6").[1] He wears a light-blue polo shirt with a light-yellow collar, in addition to light-tan shorts above the knee and black shoes. In "El Baile de la muerte," Garcia wears a pomp and power-colored suit coat and shorts above the knee, a white dress shirt, a light-yellow necktie, black long socks, and black shoes.

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    Garcia appears as a shrewd and confident boy who shows much loyalty to his servitors and Diego Lovelace. He takes much pride in his family name. Initially, he had immature qualities like a tendency to pout. After his father's passing, Garcia became more solemn in his demeanor. He reasoned that he had to act like an adult and needed to stop moping and accept that things sometimes would not go his way in order to run his estate and take care of those closest to him, particularly Roberta. In like manner, he treats his maids Roberta and Fabiola Iglesias as if they were family, and the two women in turn treat Garcia equally good. History

    Garcia Roberta arm wrestle Garcia arm wrestling with Roberta In 1990-1991 when Rosarita Cisneros left FARC,[2] she took refuge in the Lovelace estate, donning a maid outfit and becoming one of the family's staff members under the name Roberta. Garcia is greatly cared for by Roberta and she spends much time with the boy, such as playing games with him, practicing arm-wrestling, and serving him food and drinks. That same year, Garcia's mother died.[3] Garcia enjoys the company of the Lovelace family dog Lazarus (Lazlo in the English dub), which the family got in 1989. Rasta Blasta

    When the Manisarera Cartel tried to intimidate Diego Lovelace into selling his land and plantation to them, Diego refused their threat without fear. Infuriated, the cartel decided to abduct Garcia as revenge and transported the boy across the Pacific Ocean using the Lagoon Company as the shipper. Upon learning of his son's kidnapping, Diego was hesitant to send his only servant Roberta to rescue Garcia, but he eventually permitted her to search for him, so she began killing people once again in order to find out where the cartel took her young master.[4] Meanwhile on the Black Lagoon, Revy was in charge of babysitting Garcia, who threw food at her and angered her. Rock then took over watching Garcia, who also threw food at Rock. The Japanese businessman politely asked the young child to stop throwing food at him, adding that he did understand Garcia's anger since he aided in trafficking the boy. Garcia remarked that Rock seemed different from the Black Lagoon's other members, but the ex-salaryman replied that he was really just a criminal-in-training.

    Garcia told Rock that he was a member of the Lovelace family, making Rock think that he was lying. When Garcia demonstrated that he knew specific details about the family, including the family dog's name and breed as well as knowledge on rare earth metals, Rock started to believe him and became suspicious of the cartel since they lied about the boy's history. Rock relayed the information to Dutch, who decided to call Balalaika to ask her to obtain background on the Manisarera Cartel. When the Lagoon Company arrived in Roanapur, Garcia told them that Roberta was going to save him and that she was even stronger than Revy, making her laugh. As the four pirates talked to the boy, Roberta was in the Yellow Flag and began a gunfight with the cartel members who heard of her presence, shocking Garcia and the Lagoon Company alike.[3]

    The Lagoon Company forced Garcia to hide under a table with them as Roberta and the cartel members shot at each other. In the midst of the chaos, Dutch decided that they would leave the boy behind since the job was too risky at that point. When they tried to leave, Bao yelled at Revy in particular, garnering Roberta's attention toward the Lagoon Company. Revy instinctively pointed her pistol at Garcia's head, threatening Roberta that she would kill the young boy. Roberta carefully contemplated the situation and stated the Lovelace family creed, which Garcia recognized. Revy was forced to let the boy go since Roberta began shooting at her, with Revy receiving a concussion from Roberta successfully landing a blow on her. Garcia continued to cry and could not believe that Roberta was the type of person who would kill people, telling Rock to take him with them. Roberta was surprised by Garcia's comment as Rock took the boy out of the bar, momentarily freezing in place. Immediately after Roberta blew up the bar, Garcia was escorted into Benny's car, so Roberta pursued them. When Roberta eventually latched onto the car with a trench knife, Garcia pleaded with the pirates not to shoot her.[2]

    To his fright, Dutch shot at her and said that it would take more than bullets to kill a skilled assassin like her. In the chaotic chase, Benny's car crashed at the Roanapur port. Garcia watched nearby as Revy and Roberta began a firefight until soldiers of Hotel Moscow interfered, Balalaika among them. The Russian head forcibly disarmed the two women and showed Roberta the cartel's branch leader, adding that Roberta had no reason to continue her hunt since the cartel's base in Venezuela was destroyed and Garcia was safe. When Balalaika referred to Roberta as a "bloodhound," this confused Garcia. Against Roberta's wishes, she briefed him about Roberta's terrorist past as a FARC guerrilla, and Roberta confirmed the stories, even referring to herself as a bloodhound. Garcia pounded on her chest, tearfully asking her not to call herself a bloodhound. The maid promised that she would stop her killings, but not before Revy wanted to engage in a fistfight to settle their quarrel.

    Roberta asked the young master if he was okay with the fight, to which Garcia enthusiastically encouraged her to win against Revy. After the fistfight eventually ended in a draw, Balalaika ordered Boris to drive Garcia and Roberta to the airport so that they could fly back to Venezuela. Before the car left, Roberta asked Garcia to retrieve her glasses not because they were real glasses but because the accessory helped her maintain her warmhearted maid persona for Garcia. The boy happily got the glasses and then left Roanapur with her.[5]

    El Baile de la muerte / Roberta's Blood Trail

    Sometime later, the estate's mine became financially stable, so Garcia's father Diego decided to increase the amount of employees to help out. Because Fabiola Iglesias was distantly related to one of Diego's farmhands, she was able to work for the Lovelace family using her familial connection as another maid alongside Roberta.[6] In August 1996 (or October 1995 in the anime), Diego Lovelace was accidentally murdered in a controlled explosion at a political rally in Barinas State, Venezuela. Garcia's life drastically changed and he became the twelfth head of the Lovelace family. At his father's funeral, he cried into Roberta's chest, asking her if Diego did anything wrong to be killed. Also saddened, Roberta consoled Garcia by telling him that Diego had nothing to fear in the face of God.[7] Although it was reported that a member of a right-wing militia was arrested for the bombing, members of the Venezuelan military sympathetic to the MVR visited the Lovelace estate to tell Garcia and Roberta about 6 conspirators with Western ties involved in the bombing. With this little bit of information and the men's pictures, Roberta secretly left the Lovelace estate to track down the conspirators and find the true culprits behind the bombing which led her to travel to Roanapur.

    Learning of Roberta's leave due to her revenge, Garcia went to Roanapur with Fabiola Iglesias, who came along to protect her master. When the two children arrived in Roanapur, Garcia stayed in the luxurious local hotel Sankan Palace Hotel and wanted to hire Rock to help him track Roberta. Accordingly, Garcia sent Fabiola through town to retrieve the Lagoon Company on his behalf. After her gunfight against the Colombians at the Yellow Flag, Fabiola explained her travels to the Lagoon Company, who drove her back to Sankan Palace Hotel. In Garcia's hotel room, Mister Chang of the Hong Kong Triad had also arrived to speak with Garcia, angering Fabiola. The young maid tried to attack Chang, who easily disarmed her. Garcia assured Fabiola that Chang was only there to talk, so she reluctantly backed off but warned her master that the local townspeople were morally bankrupt.

    Garcia then explained to everyone the murder of his father and Roberta's subsequent hunt for those responsible, showing them a photograph of U.S. and Venezuelan nationals that was given to him by the MVR sympathizers. When Chang remarked that Roberta's tracking abilities truly matched her bloodhound nickname, Garcia angrily slammed his fists onto the table and sternly requested Chang to refrain from calling her "bloodhound" again, so the Triad boss calmly apologized. Once elaborating upon Marcos José Lucientes and Simon Dickens's murders, he continued to explain that a maid-clad woman was seen leaving the burning building where Dickens's corpse had been disposed of, as well as Roberta buying a bus and plane ticket to go from Venezuela to Thailand and from the airport to Roanapur. Concluding, Garcia concluded that he only wanted to bring Roberta back to Venezuela with him since he did not want her seeking revenge on his father's killers, as he was heavily pained by Roberta engaging in murder. Although he did summon the whole Lagoon Company, Garcia asked for Rock in particular, surprising him.[8]

    After the meeting, Garcia and Fabiola accompanied Rock and Revy across town to gather information on Roberta's whereabouts and activities. They first went to see Bao, who told them about the various businesses that Roberta visited on his recommendation. While there outside the destroyed bar, the brothel women surrounded Garcia and were impressed by the boy's appearance and clothing. As he blushed from the adult attention, Fabiola pulled her giddy master away so that they could continue their search. In midday, Garcia and Rock failed to find the businesses open, so they went to a market at sunset to eat at an outdoor dining place. As Rock asked about Fabiola's background, Garcia remembered that Fabiola grew up in Venezuela's barrios. When Rock mentioned Fabiola's fighting skills and she kicked him in response, the confused Garcia asked her what Rock was speaking of. Embarrassed, the young maid confessed that she had learned capoeira to decrease her need to use a gun, however to her surprise Garcia found her skills impressive and her reasoning noble.

    Black Lagoon v07c55 192x192ppx Giving them advice, Benny disagreed and recommended that Fabiola should not hesitate to shoot and kill, but Garcia replied that such advice would get them into trouble. Deciding to leave, Benny told Garcia that he and Fabiola would have to stay at Chang's yacht house for the remainder of their stay per the Triad's recommendation.[6] The next morning, Garcia was sleeping on the couch when Fabiola saw him asleep, so she tried out the swimming pool outside. As Revy found Fabiola and teased her, Fabiola was mortified to see Garcia and Rock nearby discovering her enjoying herself as well. On the way to their destinations, Fabiola apologized to Garcia in the car for swimming behind his back, but he assured that she did not have to hide her desires from him.[9] That day after successfully visiting Praiyachat and Tou Chi's places, the group found out about Roberta taking the Lovelace family's musket as well as Richie Leroy giving her shelter, so on behalf of Garcia, Revy found Leroy and got information from him.[10]

    Upon learning of Roberta's hiding place, Rock drove the group to the approximate area, but before they began their pursuit, Revy used a telephone to call for extra help from Shenhua, Frederica Sawyer and Lotton. When Revy asked Garcia what he would offer, he tried to offer as much as Shenhua wanted, but Fabiola pushed his head back to interrupt him and instead offer 6 thousand. Once Revy and Shenhua negotiated the price, the latter got her two roommates to come with her.[11] As they headed to the location where Roberta took refuge, Roberta began her revenge against the Grey Fox soldiers, dismaying Garcia. As the soldiers managed to make their escape, Rock stayed in the car and told Garcia that he would stick with the boy to the end if he wanted to see it through. Thinking about it for some seconds, Garcia declared that he was going, so he exited the car with the mercenaries while Shenhua complimented his chivalry.[12]

    While trying to find her, he and the others came across FARC soldiers who were sent to kill Roberta, accordingly killing most of them while Garcia kept his distance from the bloodshed.[13] One soldier was left alive, so Fabiola spoke with him in Spanish to ask about his pursuit and Roberta's mental state. After Fabiola promised that she would call medical help for him and relayed the information to Revy, the latter woman instead killed the soldier, discomforting Garcia but shocking Fabiola. The young maid angrily pointed her gun at Revy, berating her for killing a wounded soldier. Interrupting the girl, Shenhua pointed her kukri toward Fabiola, telling the young girl that she wanted to stick to the job. Garcia stood between the two women, stating that they needed to hurry and find Roberta. Before they continued onward, the boy told Fabiola that he understood her perspective and also wanted her and Roberta to return home safely.[14]

    At nighttime, Garcia's group fought more FARC guerrillas, but Garcia got separated from them when he was spotted by FARC soldiers. On the other side of the gunfire, he yelled to Fabiola to help the others while he searched for Roberta. Inside the empty building, Garcia came across an empty bottle of stimulant pills, recognizing it as the medication that Doctor Hartland provided to Roberta. After killing other FARC soldiers, Roberta tried to fight Alberto Camarasa but was easily disarmed and pinned down. Garcia, hiding nearby, grabbed a crowbar to prepare physically confronting Camarasa. The Cuban man then elaborated to Roberta that he did not want to kill her but instead re-recruit her for FARC due to her superhuman skill, stating that she could help revive and train the leftist guerrillas. Roberta, feigning friendliness, agreed to work for Camarasa, even saying that she did not care about what could happen to Garcia anymore. As Garcia was shocked by her mental state and words, he heard them tongue-kissing each other, causing him to bite his thumb hard enough to make it bleed.

    Whereas Garcia tried to think happy thoughts about Roberta, she attempted to seduce Camarasa further to distract him, soon managing to fire a bullet into Camarasa's abdomen using a secret chamber in her belt buckle as she undressed. Camarasa tried to grab his pistol but Roberta kicked it away and began bludgeoning him to death with her fists, killing him and frightening Garcia, who was watching the whole ordeal. Garcia cried and then fainted, making Roberta see his presence. Realizing that she accidentally allowed her master to see her kill someone, Roberta let out a loud scream, giving her position away to everyone nearby. Roberta cried while begging Garcia to wake up, and her hallucination of a Japanese man whom she killed years ago appeared once more. Losing sanity regarding which people were real or fake, Roberta thought that the frozen Garcia was just another hallucination, pointing a pistol at his head.[15]

    When some Grey Fox soldiers saw that Roberta was going to kill the boy, Master Sergeant Horner and Staff Sergeant Burroughs shot at her to move her away from the boy while Horner grabbed him, with Sergeant Major Sanchez tossing a smoke grenade in the area so that they could exit the building.[16] Outside the building, Garcia woke up and was terrified, so Horner put him down. The soldiers' leader Major Shane Caxton assured the boy that they would prioritize his safety, but Garcia remained scared and speechless. Horner tried to calm down the frightened Garcia by offering him water, but Sanchez interrupted and joked that Horner was not good at talking with children, so Sanchez talked to Garcia in Spanish. As the soldiers planned their next move, Garcia then recognized Caxton as the same soldier in the photograph that the Venezuelan military showed him, realizing that he and his men were directly involved in killing his father.[17]

    Furious with the soldiers, Garcia grabbed a nearby pistol on the ground. When Sanchez saw the boy point the gun toward Caxton, Sanchez quickly drew his pistol toward Garcia, but Horner jumped forward and disarmed the child before Sanchez could shoot. The various soldiers were surprised by the boy's action, and Garcia in tears told them that he knew they were in Barinas, Venezuela and killed his father. When Caxton found out about Garcia's connection to Diego's unintended civilian casualty, he accepted responsibility for Diego's murder and offered his own pistol to the boy. The Grey Fox soldiers demanded Caxton not to let him have the weapon, but Caxton told them to stand down. When Caxton advised the boy that he had to think hard and decide for himself, Garcia remembered his own father telling him the same thing when he told him to understand other people's perspectives.[18]

    Although Garcia decided he could not go through with taking revenge on Caxton, Roberta jumped down to attack Caxton with her guns, but the troops shot back and Horner shielded Garcia to prevent Roberta's gunfire from accidentally killing him. Garcia got up and told the troops not to kill her since her mental state was due to Grey Fox's killing of his father.[19] After the Vysotniki pushed Roberta back, Shenhua and Revy wanted to kill the Grey Fox soldiers and take Garcia, but Hotel Moscow snipers shot them in the arm to deter them from engaging any further. Caxton and his troops started escorting themselves out of Roanapur, so Garcia then reunited with Fabiola, who assured Shenhua and Revy that they would get their payment when the Lovelace affiliates returned to Venezuela.[20]

    While the U.S. troops began to leave the city for carrying out their operation in the Golden Triangle, Garcia and Fabiola returned to Chang's yacht house one last time. Before Garcia left the yacht house, Fabiola saw him at the pool there to tell him that the transportation headed for the airport was ready. The boy then laughed and dragged Fabiola into the pool with him, confusing her.[21] As Garcia teasingly started a splash fight, she grabbed him and politely told him to calm down. Garcia assured her that he was happy, surprising her. He told her that he knew she was a bit on edge after seeing Roberta in her deteriorating state of mind. As they continued to stand in the water, Garcia talked about how his father's death affected both his and Roberta's worlds, wanting her to seek peace. When the young boy asserted to Fabiola that he intended on saving Roberta before returning to Venezuela, she replied that she would follow him to the end, adding that they would help Roberta escape the "dance of death" that people danced in Roanapur.[22]

    In a short amount of time, Fabiola and Garcia then boarded Dutch's boat to find Roberta, who would follow the Grey Fox troops that later boarded the Black Lagoon along the Mekong River. On the deck, Rock told Garcia about his idea to convince Roberta to stop her revenge, and he reluctantly agreed after Rock told him only part of the plan.[23] Afterward, Caxton climbed onto the deck to converse with Garcia, who told Caxton that despite his help, he could still not forgive him for his father's murder. The boy added that he recognized Caxton as a noble soldier but said that he, like Roberta, continued to use death and violence to achieve their goals. Garcia finished by saying that he needed Roberta to get out of the "dance of death" by ironically using Caxton's help to do so.[24]

    As the troops arrived in the Golden Triangle in the pitch black jungle, Garcia and Fabiola demanded to accompany Caxton's team, and even though he initially rejected their request, he allowed them to stay with him. Disembarking, Garcia followed Caxton while other teams surveilled the jungle.[25] As soon as the troops got deeper into the jungle near Shue Yan's camp, Roberta began her rampage on the soldiers, killing several of them. When Caxton's men pleaded with him to gain his permission to retaliate against Roberta, Caxton remained silent, and Fabiola pulled her gun on him and asked the major if he would side with justice. Looking at the solemn Garcia, Caxton looked into the boy's eyes, and Garcia confidently proclaimed that he would save Roberta.[26] Carrying out Garcia's idea, Caxton radioed Roberta to cease her attacks and hand over Shue Yan in exchange for his own surrender, but Roberta refused until Garcia radioed to her to meet with him. Agreeing angrily, Roberta came out and saw Garcia, Fabiola, and the unarmed Caxton standing far from her. Roberta yelled that she would finish her revenge by killing Caxton, but before she could fire her gun, Garcia pulled out his own pistol and shot Caxton in the chest, terrifying her. She denied that her beloved Garcia would kill anyone, and the young boy told his maid that he wanted her to stop her revenge.[27]

    The head maid continued to deny Garcia's request, reasoning that Garcia actually did want revenge. To snap her out of her loss of sanity, Garcia shot her with a fake bullet to show she was not dreaming, causing Roberta to shoot Garcia as well, with her bullet only grazing his kidney. She screamed in terror seeing that she shot her master, but Garcia ran up to her and kissed her, making her blush. He then told her that everything was okay and that she needed to end the "dance of death" that Roanapur reinforced in her. Caxton then woke up, showing that the bullet that hit him was a fake, albeit remarking that the force felt real. Angry, Roberta pulled out her pistol and asked why Caxton was still alive, but Fabiola stood in front of Roberta's line of sight to calm her down.

    Garcia ordered Roberta to put down her gun, remarking that he shot Caxton with a fake bullet. Finally calmed, Roberta hugged Garcia and responded that he had truly grown up. Examining him, Cyrus reported that Garcia would be fine but still needed medical treatment, so the Grey Fox soldiers prepared to help Garcia and Roberta leave. Disappointed, Raymond McDougal pointed his rifle at Roberta, telling Caxton that they could not just let Roberta leave after she killed many of their comrades. Before he could shoot the maid, Caxton shot McDougal first, killing him much to Garcia and everyone's surprise. Afterward, Roberta helped Garcia onto Dutch's boat, where Rock saw them and was glad that his fake bullet plan worked, causing Fabiola to shoot him with a fake bullet. She accused the ex-salaryman of exploiting her master by gambling on his life, but Rock replied that she and Garcia had won.

    Hearing his answer, Garcia told Rock that he truly was a resident of Roanapur, shocking him. Finally, the boy stood next to Roberta while Fabiola bid Rock farewell, telling him that he could continue dancing with the dead while she, Roberta and Garcia went back to Venezuela.[28] Back home, Garcia stood at Roberta's side when she prepared to make amends with the family of someone that she killed. In the anime, Garcia witnessed Roberta rise from her wheelchair since Roberta sustained graver injuries in the OVA than in the manga

38. #38Diego Lovelace

    Keys: Diego Lovelace

    NAME Diego José San Fernando Lovelace NIHONGO ディエゴ・ホセ・サン・フェルナンド・ラブレス INFORMATION GENDER Male AGE 54 (manga)[1] 53 (anime)[2] AFFILIATES Garcia Lovelace Rosarita Cisneros Fabiola Iglesias Unnamed wife (deceased) AFFILIATION Lovelace family RACE/NATIONALITY Venezuelan STATUS Deceased FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 02: Rasta Blasta Part 1 ANIME Episode 08: Rasta Blasta ANIME VOICE JAPANESE VOICE Ryūsuke Ōbayashi ENGLISH VOICE Michael Kopsa IMAGE GALLERY LESS Diego José San Fernando Lovelace (ディエゴ・ホセ・サン・フェルナンド・ラブレス Diego Hose San Ferunando Raburesu) was the eleventh head of the Lovelace family and the father of Garcia Lovelace.

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    Diego was an older man with a skinny build, pale skin, short gray hair, blue eyes, and a mustache. He frequently wore long-sleeved polo shirts and khakis. According to his tombstone, he was born in November 1941, making him approximately 54 years old.[1]

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    Diego was a descendant of a Spanish settler who settled in South America by traveling on Francisco Pizarro's first colonial expedition on the continent.[1] While it is one of the thirteen noble families of South America, the Lovelace family fell upon hard times in the late 20th century, with only the meager income from their plantations in Venezuela maintaining their lifestyle. In particular, tobacco and mineral mining were key to sustaining Diego's declining wealth, though the tobacco crops had been hit by a flood in recent times. Diego's wife died in 1990-1991,[3] and around that same year he took in Rosarita Cisneros when she was escaping from the Colombian Cartel and her former FARC comrades as a favor to his old friend, Roberta's father. He took her in and treated her as family, giving her a maid costume at her request since Roberta claimed that she did not want to be a burden or take advantage of his kindness.[2] After his wife's passing, Roberta took care of Garcia and played with him while Diego attended to overseeing his business. Rasta Blasta

    When valuable minerals like lutetium were discovered during a land survey of the Lovelace estate, the Manisarera Cartel tried to intimidate Diego into giving up his land. When the patriarch refused to give in to their demands with Roberta's help, the cartel kidnapped Diego's son Garcia. Although he was reluctant to send Roberta to find Garcia, in the end he allowed her to track down the boy and rescue him. As the Lagoon Company shipped Garcia to Roanapur to deliver the boy to the cartel, Garcia mentioned his father's name and how a local Venezuelan cartel tried to intimidate the Lovelace head into giving up his plantation, but Diego would not budge. Diego was also seen with Roberta and Garcia in a photograph that Boris provided to Balalaika.[3] Eventually, Roberta brought Garcia home safely back to Venezuela.

    El Baile de la muerte / Roberta's Blood Trail

    Sometime later, the estate's mine became financially stable, so Diego decided to increase the amount of employees to help out. Because Fabiola Iglesias was distantly related to one of Diego's farmhands, she was able to work for the Lovelace family using her familial connection as another maid alongside Roberta.[4] On August 12, 1996,[5][1] Diego visited Barinas State, Venezuela to provide support to a friend who was a high-ranking representative of the leftist party MVR in the country. It was speculated that Diego became friends with party leaders so that he could get government protection for Roberta to stave off groups who wanted the maid dead.[6] At the same time, the NSA's Grey Fox team operated in the country in order to assassinate the leader at his party's inauguration ceremony. Shane Caxton ordered the explosion to go ahead, resulting in the bomb detonating, killing the leader as well as killing Diego Lovelace, who was not a target. Roberta was present nearby and witnessed the chaos, finding out that Diego was killed in the blast. At Diego's funeral, many attendees grieved as a Christian priest delivered a eulogy. Diego's son Garcia cried and asked Roberta if his father did anything to anger God, to which Roberta replied that Diego had nothing to be ashamed of in the face of God. Because of Diego's death as well as Garcia's grief, Roberta decided to avenge her master and took up her "Bloodhound" persona once more to hunt down Diego's killers.[2]

    As Roberta hid in Roanapur to track down and kill the members of Grey Fox in the city, she occasionally saw a hallucination of a man whom she killed due to the great amounts of pills that she ingested. In one instance, she had been praying for Diego's salvation and Garcia's protection, and Roberta's illusion told her that she could not be saved no matter how much she repented, which angered her.[7] In another situation, the apparition told her that Diego would not have wanted her to continue her Bloodhound person and get revenge, but Roberta angrily replied that sins (i.e. Diego's murder) could only be atoned for by blood.[8]

    When Garcia met Caxton by chance and angrily relayed to him how his father was murdered by Grey Fox, Caxton even offered his gun to Garcia to take revenge if he so chose. At that moment, Garcia had a flashback to a memory he had of Diego while Roberta was serving them a drink in the courtyard. Diego listened to his son, who showed him a photograph of somebody hunting in a forest. Pouting, Garcia told his father that Emilio stated that there were four things hidden in the picture, remarking that Emilio bragged about it while the boy could not discern the things. Examining the photo, the relaxed Diego warned his son not to call people liars so quickly. Looking at the back of the photo, Diego saw the four things (a lion, a horned owl, an angel, and Jesus Christ) and pointed them out to his son. Amazed at the hidden things, Garcia asked why he could not see them at first. Saying that Garcia looked at the photo with a bias of one perspective, Diego taught him to look at things, problems, and situations from many different perspectives to get the full picture and solution

39. #39Feng Yifei

    Keys: Feng Yifei

    NAME Li Xinlin (real name) Feng Yifei (primary pseudonym) Red Spear (PLA code name) Violet Spear (internet pseudonym) NIHONGO 李欣林 (Li Xinlin) 馮亦菲 (Feng Yifei; kanji) フォン・イッファイ (Feng Yifei; katakana) 紅槍 (Red Spear) ヴァイオレット・スピア (Violet Spear) INFORMATION GENDER Female AFFILIATES Ronnie the Jaws (boss) AFFILIATION Cosa Nostra FORMER AFFILIATION People's Liberation Army FORMER AFFILIATES Colonel Ma (superior) Jane WEAPON Type 77 pistol RACE/NATIONALITY Chinese STATUS Alive FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 77: The Wired Red Wild Card Part 1 GORE GORE GIRL Gore Gore Girl Chapter 36: The Hangover IMAGE GALLERY LESS In these Chinese names, the family names are respectively Li and Feng. Li Xinlin (Chinese: 李欣林, pinyin: Lǐ Xīnlín), more known by her alias Feng Yifei (Chinese: 馮亦菲, pinyin: Féng Yìfēi; Japanese: フォン・イッファイ Fon Iffai), is a Chinese woman who was part of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as a hacker for cyber warfare. She attempted to infiltrate Janet Bhai's counterfeiting group to understand their counterfeiting technology and methods until Jane set her up and cut her loose.

    Appearance

    Xinlin is a young Chinese woman with a skinny build and pale skin. She has short black hair with a contour clip on the left side and wears thin rectangular glasses. She is initially seen wearing a blue and white horizontally-striped spaghetti-strapped tank top, and when she joins Cosa Nostra, she begins to wear a suit. She carries a Type 77 semi-automatic pistol for a weapon. Personality

    Xinlin is an intelligent woman who is skilled in problem solving and cyberhacking. She is quite sociable as noted by other people like Revy and Eda. Given her home province and her use of a Sichuanese word,[1] it is likely that she speaks a Sichuanese dialect of Mandarin, and she also speaks English. Black Lagoon history

    Xinlin hails from Shennongjia in Hubei province in the People's Republic of China. Her grandfather, the only person in her family whom she respects, served in the 8th Route Army during the Chinese Civil War, and she has three older brothers. With her family not having any expectations for her, she left Shennongjia and joined the PLA's Electronic Engineering Institute in Xi'an.[2] In time, Xinlin had completed five years of service for the PLA,[3] becoming a Sergeant in the PLA's 3rd Department for their technology division and receiving the code name Red Spear (Chinese: 紅槍, pinyin: Hóng qiāng). The Wired Red Wild Card

    Once she was picked from the 3rd Department by Colonel Ma for work in the 2nd Department, Xinlin's assignment was to infiltrate Jane's group of counterfeiters so that she could learn about their technology and methods to teach to current and future PLA members. Contacting the hackers on the Electro Bandits Forum, Xinlin used the internet pseudonym Violet Spear (ヴァイオレット・スピア Vaioretto Supia). Subsequently, Jane witnessed her skills and invited her to Roanapur to initiate her into the group. Unknown to Xinlin, Jane knew what she was after from the beginning and who she was by her particular hacking methods, as Xinlin was able to break into the U.S. Justice Department using her special skills.[4] In Thailand, Xinlin finally arrived in Roanapur with her luggage stolen by different people on her journey, and she met with Jane and Benny to discuss the details of her job, then using her alias Feng Yifei.[5] Feng stayed in a motel room that Benny rented, and she gave a fake background about being from Hong Kong. As Benny tried to explain the room's smell, Sawyer the Cleaner came in, terrifying Jane due to their previous encounter.

    Benny assured his girlfriend that Sawyer was only there to clean the rest of the room due to the remaining mess. With Feng asking about the smell in the room, Sawyer did not have her voice box, so she communicated the story (about four bloody murders in the room) by tracing letters onto Rock's back. As Rock communicated the story to everyone else, the ex-salaryman then felt a sticky material on the mattress, asking Sawyer what it was. She implied that the stickiness was the aftermath of the melted corpses after several days being left to fester in the hot room. Upon learning that, Feng and the others vomited in disgust. Afterward, she reconvened with Jane, Benny and Rock in public, but was surprised to learn that she had to do a job for the Highwaymen before she could join the counterfeiting group. The Chinese spy was also suspicious that Jane already had a backdoor, Annenheim Distributions' server, set up to break into Reinbach A.G.'s server, but she decided to help Jane since the latter dissuaded her from directly breaking into Reinbach's server.

    In the smelly room 9 hours later, Feng called her superior Colonel Ma to report on her status. Ma reminded her that her operation was the beginning of the cyber war that would begin in the 21st century, adding that Feng would be one of the first instructors of the PLA's wǎng jūn. After hearing Ma's compliment of her bravery and how their department would be able to get more funding from the CPC's Central Committee, she responded that she would not know if her family was proud of her, confusing Ma. She said that she would continue her mission, and Ma hung up.[4] In her room, Feng started her work to hack into Reinbach A.G., but while doing so, she only retrieved dummy data while Jane and the Highwaymen exploited her use of Annenheim Distributions' server to retrieve emails from the Chinese government implicating them in a previous attack on Reinbach's server. Panicking about the sudden data retrieval, Feng became scared and exited the server, stopping the Squid service.[6]

    Afterward, she got a call from Jane telling her that she knew she was a PLA agent and was cutting her loose, frightening her. Later, she learned from Colonel Ma that her attempt to break into the avionics data stored by Reinbach A.G. failed and was traced back to the PLA's shell company Annenheim Distributions, thus she was believed to be rogue by the army. Feng denied that she was a traitor, and Ma believed her but replied that he could not vouch for her any longer, adding that the PLA would have her die in Roanapur. Ma assured her that he would personally compensate her by informing Feng's family of her achievements and moving her family to an upscale apartment in Shanghai with the 2nd Department's funds, shocking her completely.[7] When her superior disconnected the phone call, Feng ran outside her rented apartment and into the streets with a gun, scaring nearby people. While running in a panic, she quickly deduced that Rock would likely be at the Yellow Flag and could help her. Once Rock and Revy parked Benny's car near the bar, Feng pointed her gun through the driver window at him and claimed that she did not want to hurt anyone.[3]

    Black Lagoon v10c82 Immediately, Revy began shooting at her, beginning a gunfight while Rock was caught in the middle of the line of fire. Nearby, the brother assassins who had been hired to kill her recognized Feng and started shooting back, prompting the terrified Feng to hang onto the opened car door as Rock drove through an alleyway to escape. Afterward, on a road elsewhere far from the sudden firefight, Feng sat in the backseat as Revy angrily remarked that the car was trashed beyond repair. The pirate berated the hacker for wielding her gun around so brazenly and added that she would die if she acted like an outsider in the city. Revy guessed that Jane set her up, which Feng confirmed. Smoking a cigarette, the gunslinger coldly advised Feng to leave the city, to which she responded in Mandarin that she should not be so mean to a fellow Chinese woman. Resting against the car, Revy retorted that she did not speak any Chinese, so Feng repeated her sentiment in English, which Revy rejected due to claiming that they were only related via the first humans.

    The ex-PLA soldier was irritated that Revy and Rock would not help her since she had a whole system after her head. Moreover, Revy commented that Jane easily outed Feng, with Rock confirming to her that Jane had a picture of her in a PLA uniform, surprising and angering her. Trying to word it differently, Rock elaborated that it would be too much heat for the Lagoon Company to help a mere outsider. With Feng in a desperate mood, Rock told her that her only choice was to run away as far as possible from her pursuers. To Rock's surprise, Feng declared that she would fight hard to survive and go out kicking and screaming if she had to, confirming that she would confront her pursuers in Roanapur since her employers would chase her no matter where she went.[8]

    After exiting the car, she slightly smiled and remarked that she was open to any other ideas, cocking her pistol. Before she left, Rock gave her information about a hideout she could use and a weapons store for further self-defense. Accepting the card from Rock to show to Richie Leroy, she wondered why he wanted to help her, but he merely answered that he had his own reasons. Affected by Rock's help, Feng kissed Rock as a gesture of thanks, surprising both Revy and Rock. Rock immediately backed away and told her that he did not want that as a reward, so she smilingly apologized and reasoned that she was not trying to tease him and only wanted to pay him back somehow. When Feng complimented Rock for being a good person, he disagreed and stated that even children hated him, and he bid goodbye and left with Revy. That night, Feng was sleeping in her new motel and heard a knock on her door, quickly pulling out her gun. Opening the door and aiming the pistol, she was nervously baffled to see no one there, and she felt Revy's pistol at her head. Sheathing her weapon, Feng asked if she was jealous that she "kissed her boyfriend," but Revy nonchalantly answered that she could have already killed her if that was her intention. The pirate then brought Feng to the Yellow Flag and they started drinking.[9]

    Inside the bar, Feng commented that she would rather die by being shot by Revy than being killed by her bosses. Putting her glass down, Revy reasoned that she brought Feng to the bar since they could solve each other's problems, confusing her. Speaking further, Revy clarified that there was a chance that her company could also be targeted, so she needed a chance to plan. Feng raised her glass and told Revy that her grandfather told her that people should not think about their actions and just run, remarking that people were made to reach their destinations. Before continuing her explanation, Revy asked Feng why she had her eye on Rock, and she replied that Rock was an outsider like her, yet he had a grasp on how Roanapur operated. Accordingly, Revy relayed to Feng the story of Rock's disappointment after his attempt to help Garcia Lovelace and Roberta.

    After Revy drank several bottles of alcohol, Feng brought the drunk and sick pirate back to Rock's place, wherein Revy threw up and had to lay on the couch. When Revy entered the shower to cope with her overindulgence of alcohol, Feng began a conversation with Rock and recalled what Revy told her back at the bar. Rock replied that his previous history concerning Garcia and his maid had nothing to do with her, but Feng replied that she needed to talk about her own history to Rock to make him see how his situation was tied to hers, so Rock agreed as she got alcoholic drinks for him and herself.[1] Opening her beer, she noted that he was also an anomaly in Roanapur like her, asking Rock about how he ended up in the city. The ex-salaryman then recollected his ex-boss casting him aside and how he decided that he did not want to go back to his old life anymore despite having the opportunity to do so.

    In turn, Feng explained her family history in China's outskirts and her decision to join the People's Liberation Army's electronic engineering institute. After joking with each other, Rock asked Feng if she would have chosen a different path had she known she would end up disgraced in Roanapur, and Feng nonchalantly confirmed she would. When she affirmed that she would choose how she lived and died despite having pursuers, both she and Rock smiled, with Rock agreeing that such a choice was exciting. Interrupting their thoughts, Feng asked about Revy, and the two of them found her passed out in the bathroom. Per Rock's urgency, she quickly grabbed a towel for Revy.[2]

    After Revy woke up, she got the idea to take Feng to Jackpot Pigeons as a safehouse so that they could find a way to undo the mess that Jane thrust upon her. In the back dressing room, the performer Joanna calmly told Feng that she would have to get used to the business's noise, with Feng replying that she had no problem. Getting onto their topic, Rock told Feng that more people would be sent after her even if Feng's pursuers were killed. Given Jane's trap for Feng, Rock asked her to provide him and Revy any details that would help them find a solution to get the ex-PLA agent out of Jane's trap. Feng then explained her situation in which her attempt to hack a German company's avionics data was actually a way for Jane to expose Annenheim Distributions as a PLA front and expose her as the culprit hacker. Rock then got the idea that Feng should hack back into Annenheim Distributions' server. She agreed but did not know how they could find an internet-accessible computer in the city, and Rock told her that they could go to the internet café in Nankwai.

    To Feng's surprise, Revy had the strippers disguise her in a tight dress and blonde wig. Inside the café, Feng was catcalled by several men, including one man who tried to harass her and offer money in exchange for sexual intercourse, but Revy pointed her gun at him and told him to leave. Using the computer, Feng confirmed that she was able to hack back into Annenheim, so Rock asked her to go through all the server's logs to find a clue. When she mentioned tracks left behind, Rock asked her if she could decrypt it, and she confirmed that she could and would burn the downloaded data onto a CD. Outside the business, an informant of Captain Yang spotted Feng, so he called Yang to inform him of her location.[10]

    As Rock told Feng that they could buy a laptop at the Maplao market to view the CD data, Rob entered the café and Revy began a shootout with him, making Feng and Rock take cover under a table. During the shooting, Rock advised Feng to take the CD and flee to Rowan's place, reminding her to take various transportation in between to shake off any spies. As Rock gave Feng a fist bump and she grabbed the CD, Rob glared at the hacker and shot the CD, breaking it into pieces and telling her to stay put. Shocked but still thinking, Rock told Feng that their only chance left was to take the whole hard drive with them, so he helped unplug the computer case and ran out of the café with the hard drive while Feng grabbed some CDs and tossed them at Rob to blind his sights.[11] Thankfully, Revy managed to force Rob back into cover, allowing Feng to escape and run to Jackpot Pigeons, although the police arrested both gunslingers at the café, putting one assassin behind bars but also keeping Revy locked up.

    Black Lagoon v11c90 Sweating heavily, Rock soon arrived at Jackpot Pigeons with the whole computer case and a laptop from the market, reconvening with Feng in the dressing room. He was worried that Revy would be hunted by the assassins after she got arrested by the Roanapur City Police, but Feng reminded him that the assassins were after her, not Revy, and they would get no money for killing the latter woman. As Rock sat on the ground, Feng recommended that he should take a shower and get a drink, saying that she would finish the decryption and that Revy was in a safe place at the police station.[12] Once Rock cleaned himself up, he returned to Jackpot Pigeons and sat in the dressing room as Feng asked him to continue his talk about his previous mission with Garcia and Roberta. Rock talked about his status between the two worlds while Feng asked him about his predilection for watching other people's lives play out, telling him that freedom also meant the consequences and terrible things arising from that freedom.[13]

    As Feng continued talking about the definitions of freedom contrasting Roanapur and Japan, Rock noted that the decryption was finished, so Feng started looking at the emails, noting that the Annenheim emails were in English instead of Chinese. As he and Feng read the harsh emails between the PLA and a former Sigurimi official, Rock saw a mention of gold ingots which the Albanians took, being surprised since he saw the term "Ali Dragua" which he heard back at Ronnie the Jaws' place. With that information, Rock told Feng he was going to leave to connect the dots, adding to her that he would enjoy playing with her life.[14] After Rock left to talk with Eda about exchanging information, Feng stayed overnight at the club, and the next morning Rowan talked to her and was disappointed that she had small breasts, recommending that she get some breast implants.[15] Minutes later, Eda and Rico entered the club from the back and Rico laid down his documents on the table as Eda explained the Albanian Mafia's history and the Tirana cartel's recent alliance with Cosa Nostra.

40. #40Boris

    Keys: Boris

    NAME Boris NIHONGO ボリス INFORMATION GENDER Male AFFILIATES Balalaika Polanski Jodorowsky Sakharov Menshov Lazar Daniil Rabochek Eugene Zamyatin Varenkov AFFILIATION Hotel Moscow FORMER AFFILIATION Soviet Airborne Forces WEAPON MP-444 Bagira pistol RACE/NATIONALITY Russian STATUS Alive FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 00: Black Lagoon ANIME Episode 01: The Black Lagoon LIGHT NOVEL Black Lagoon: Shaitane Badi GORE GORE GIRL Gore Gore Girl Chapter 24: cursed ANIME VOICE JAPANESE VOICE Taiten Kusunoki ENGLISH VOICE Mark Acheson IMAGE GALLERY LESS Boris (Russian: Борис; Japanese: ボリス Borisu) is Balalaika's second-in-command in the Thai branch of Hotel Moscow.

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    Boris is a tall, broad Russian man with pale skin and short black hair. He can be easily identified by the large scar running from the right side of his forehead to his left cheek. Additionally, he wears a dark green suit over a black turtleneck shirt and dark green pants. In the manga, his eye sockets are frequently shadowed by his brow ridge. He carries an MP-444 Bagira pistol for a weapon.

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    Boris is reserved and serves Balalaika with unconditional loyalty. Despite being a hardened and intelligent soldier, he is empathetic, especially compared to Balalaika and other Roanapur residents; he found it hard to watch when his boss let a child like Hänsel spend his last moments in pain despite what the twins did to one of his comrades.[1] He occasionally mixes Russian words into his speech, and he has a noticeably deep voice when he speaks. Black Lagoon history

    Like Balalaika, Boris had served in the former Soviet Airborne Forces during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She still refers to him as "Sergeant" (Russian: сержант) rather than by his name, showing that he was her former platoon sergeant; likewise Boris always refers to Balalaika as "Captain" (Russian: капитан). Before his wartime service, his first military training began at a Soviet Airborne Forces academy in Ryazan, Russian SFSR, USSR.[2] In 1987, Boris had not received the scar on his face yet, indicating that he had not been injured until sometime near the end of his service. He continued his loyalty to Balalaika at a graveyard of their comrades when she decided to first join Hotel Moscow.[3] He is very loyal and protective of Balalaika and often worries for her safety when she decides to fight in the field. Furthermore, Boris is the only member of Hotel Moscow who frequently accompanies Balalaika in her office room at the Bougainvillea Trade Company building. Wherever Balalaika travels, he respectively takes off and puts on her military coat around her shoulders whenever she enters and leaves any place. Black Lagoon

    Boris accompanied Balalaika in her office when she called Dutch and confirmed that the Lagoon Company successfully stole an Asahi Heavy Industrial Co. disk containing nuclear weapon blueprints. Later when Dutch returned to Roanapur to give her the disk, he called her again. Boris stood guard with other Hotel Moscow members in Balalaika's office as she had a Chinese man interrogated, who was forced to inform Dutch over the phone about the mercenary company that Asahi Industries hired to hunt down the Lagoon crew in the city. After the Chinese man gave the information, Boris and the other men shot the man as Balalaika calmly covered her ears. Soon, he accompanied Balalaika to Palawan Island to meet up with Kageyama after the Lagoon Company defeated the Extra Order mercenaries and successfully brought the disk to Balalaika. After the trade, Boris drove his boss back to the airport, but not before she commended Rock for helping the Lagoon crew succeed.[4]

    Chase for ring-ding ships

    When Chen blabbed about his plan to assassinate the Lagoon crew to lots of people in Roanapur, Balalaika got word of his plans, so she, Boris and other Hotel Moscow members went to Chen's place and confronted him before he could flee the city. After the Russians tortured and tied up Chen to a chair, Boris stood by outside with fellow Hotel Moscow members as Balalaika called Dutch to imply that she would deal with Chen, detonating a bomb inside the Chinese gangster's residence.[5] Sometime later in the anime, it was shown that Boris and other Hotel Moscow gangsters also captured and executed Donnie Yen for abetting Chen's failed plan.[6]

    Rasta Blasta

    During Garcia Lovelace's initial imprisonment by Lagoon Company (who was shipping the boy), Dutch asked Balalaika for intel on their client, the Manisarera Cartel. Soon, Balalaika gathered the info in her office regarding the Lovelace family, and Boris listened to her mention the family history. When she asked Boris to look at Roberta's eyes in a photo she took with the Lovelace family, he saw that she had the eyes of a soldier.[7] The same night, Roberta began a rampage at the Yellow Flag in her attempt to rescue Garcia, gaining the attention of Hotel Moscow. Accordingly, Balalaika remarked that she owed a favor to Dutch, so she had Boris help her organize the Vysotniki to save the Lagoon Company from being killed by Roberta.[8]

    As Revy and Roberta started a firefight with each other, Boris and several snipers surrounded the two women and forcibly disarmed them. Although Balalaika informed the maid that Hotel Moscow destroyed the Manisarera Cartel's base in Venezuela, she and Revy still wanted to fight. Hours later after Revy and Roberta settled the fight ending in a draw, Balalaika ordered Boris to drive the maid back to the airport so that she and Garcia could return to their home in Venezuela.[9]

    Bloodsport Fairy tale

    Because of the sudden murders of six Hotel Moscow affiliates, Boris called the Lagoon Company office to inform Rock that Balalaika had to cancel her meeting with the Lagoon Company. Afterward, he attended Mister Chang's emergency Council meeting in private to ascertain which mafia did the killings of various gangsters around town. As Verrocchio insulted Balalaika, Boris showed visible disdain toward his comments. Once Balalaika proclaimed that she had no intention of friendship between the mafias due to the recent murders, Boris saw that she was ready to leave and helped her don her military coat.[10] When two more members of Hotel Moscow, Corporal Menshov and Private First Class Sakharov, were murdered by the twins Hänsel and Gretel, Chief Watsap of the Roanapur City Police allowed Boris and Balalaika to investigate the crime scene at the Caribbean Bar, where the two Russian men were murdered. Upon listening to Watsap's recollection of a sole survivor's testimony, the two Russians left the scene. Boris sat in the back seat of a car with Balalaika, who told him that she despised Watsap's character and that she felt she did not account for something. Boris responded that even Menshov and Sakharov were blindsided by the assassins being children. Balalaika stated that the murderers would pay with blood, telling Boris to set up an investigative team outside of their organization. Agreeing to her order and trying to console her, he assured her that Menshov and Sakharov were nonetheless prepared to die in battle when they pledged their loyalty to her.[11]

    Later that night, Balalaika called Rock to see if he recognized the phrases "soră mea" and "buona sera" that the twins used. The ex-salaryman soon realized that the former of the phrases was Romanian and relayed that fact to Balalaika, who told Boris. He remarked that he remembered picking up some Romanian words from Romanian troops in Kabul during the Soviet-Afghan War, admitting that he was embarrassed that he could not recognize the terms. Reminding him that she could not remember either, Balalaika replied that their forgetfulness was just part of growing old. In deep thought, she asked if Rowan "Jackpot" Pigeons distributed black market videos, which Boris confirmed, so she recovered all the child sexual exploitation tapes involving Romanians that Rowan had. Eventually after viewing 250 videos, Balalaika spotted the twins in one of the films, finding out their stage names in the show as well as their appearance.[12]

    Following a discreet meeting with Mister Chang, Balalaika called Boris to confirm that the Hong Kong Triad agreed to an alliance with Hotel Moscow to stop the twins, advising him to gather all their men for a combat mission like their former military days. Later that night, Boris called all of their troops into one room, ordering them to listen to Balalaika. She gave a quick speech about the brotherhood they shared with Menshov and Sakharov, confidently saying that the souls of their fallen comrades would transform their guns into a goddess of revenge. As the Vysotniki spread throughout Roanapur on rooftops on particular streets, Boris stayed in-person with Balalaika at a fountain and had all unit commanders report back to him. As the twins began to run away and were flanked onto a specific path, he relayed the troops' reports to her, but they soon heard a gunshot in an area that the troops had not covered yet.[13]

    In minutes, Jodorowsky reported back to Balalaika, who took control of communications from Boris, concerning the twins' location. At that point, Boris bid good luck to Balalaika and left so that she could wait for Hänsel to be lured to her for his death.[14] The next morning as the operation continued, he waited with the snipers Lazar and Daniil on a distant rooftop as they watched Balalaika sit and confront Hänsel. Boris silently observed as the snipers shot Hänsel's arm and leg while Balalaika watched the boy bleed to death. After Hänsel finished crying and died, she radioed to Boris to say she was done, and he confessed that the ordeal was bone-chilling. Meanwhile, Dutch was shipping Gretel out of Roanapur, and Boris later waited at the front door of Balalaika's room while she called Dutch to sternly affirm that Gretel would not escape alive. Finishing the call, she ordered him to get a hold of Elroy so that she could pay him to kill Gretel as insurance.[1]

    Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise

    Sometime later, Boris traveled Balalaika when she visited Japan to help the Japanese branch of the Russian mafia gain influence in the country. He first accompanied her as she had a meeting with Tsugio Bandō of the Washimine Group to ally together against the Kōsa Council. After the meeting, Boris went with her to a restaurant to talk with Vasili Laptev. He asked her if she wanted him to get her some Russian tea, but she replied that she did not want to make a fuss, asking him in turn if he wanted some toast, but he politely declined. As Balalaika and Laptev ate their food, Boris summarized the Vysotniki's recent attacks on the Kōsa Council, reporting many successful kills without any casualties or fatalities for the Vysotniki. He added that the Washimine Group transcribed the Kōsa Council's wireless communications, so she ordered him to have Rock provide her with the translation as soon as possible. Boris stood by as the two exchanged insults, with Balalaika slamming Laptev against the table and leaving afterward.[15]

    Later, he attended her second meeting with Tsugio Bandō. When Bandō rejected her plan to kidnap the Kōsa Council's head, Balalaika was amused and rhetorically asked Boris if he heard Bandō's answer. After exiting the meeting and seeing Yoshida having to restrain Chaka from beating up Rock, he agreed with Balalaika's comment that the yakuza lacked their military discipline.[16] At the previously visited restaurant, the two Russians met up with Revy and Rock, with Boris again briefing Balalaika on the Kōsa Council, who had surveillance on them increased by the police. He asked his captain if they needed to consult Laptev before moving forward, and she calmly assured him that she had permission from Slevinin to cause chaos.[17] After she murdered Bandō and Ginji Matsuzaki assassinated Laptev, Balalaika asked Boris about the news at their hotel room, with the latter confirming that he heard about it. As he smiled about Laptev's elimination, she declared that Monk Burgashvili would take his place as Hotel Moscow's Japanese branch leader.[3] Much later, on the same night, Rock and Revy helped save Yukio Washimine from Chaka. Meanwhile, Boris ordered his men to prepare their campaign to destroy the Washimine Group. The subsequent morning, when he could not contact Rock at his hotel room, he wondered what he was up to, but Balalaika replied that it did not matter. In the Marya Zaleska war room, the Russians then commenced the anti-Washimine operation.[18]

    Marya Zaleska war room As the assassinations of Washimine enforcers continued, Boris received reports from his men about the killings of the bases and gangsters like Shigeru Itō, Kudō, and Takeshi Ogami. The next day, Rock reconvened with Balalaika and Boris in an underground parking lot, and he demanded that Balalaika wage war with the Kōsa Council instead of the Washimine Group, surprising Revy. When Rock tried to reason that the Washimine Group was already weak enough, Balalaika grabbed him and pointed her pistol at his head. In response, Revy drew a gun on her and on Boris, who drew his gun on Revy in turn. In the standoff, Rock stated that it was his hobby to save people, making Balalaika laugh. As Boris showed slight confusion concerning Balalaika's laughter, the Russian leader withdrew her gun, which made him withdraw his gun too.

    Later, in the anime only, when Yukio and Ginji committed a bank robbery, they framed Hotel Moscow by using a van designed to mimic one of the Russian vans. Minutes after the robbery, Japanese police cars chased the van that Jodorowsky was driving, confusing him. He reported the situation to Boris, who told him to lose the cops. Accordingly, Jodorowsky tossed a smoke grenade out the driver's window, evading the police who were blinded by the smoke. Afterward, Boris told Balalaika that they would get rid of their van due to Yukio's countermeasure, and he stood silently as Balalaika claimed that they needed to exponentially crush Yukio.[19]

    Eventually, Boris and Balalaika waited inside the Kōsa Council headquarters to converse with Masami Kōsa. While Balalaika listened to Rock's request, Boris called for a car to pick them up from the meeting. He then interrupted the two to say that Masami was ready. Sitting down next to his captain, Boris stayed silent as Masami agreed to their terms to team up against the Washimine Group. Still hesitant about the alliance, Balalaika asked Masami's bodyguard to show her his weapon, which she tossed to Boris. She then asked for his backup weapon, a small Accu-Tek pistol, and she insulted the small size of the pistol, greatly shocking Boris. When she turned the pistol on the Japanese men, Boris aided her and killed Masami, Morozumi, and the other Kōsa gangsters in the headquarters. When the police heard the gunshots and tried to barge into the residence, Boris wondered how they would report the situation to Pyotr Slevinin, but Balalaika confidently answered that she followed Pyotr's orders through and through. Seeing that they were done with their mission, she ordered him to throw away Morozumi's pistol.[20]

    Exiting the residence, Boris told Balalaika that they were good for time, so she ordered Rock to inform Yukio about the former woman's ultimatum, and she advised the police officers Yasuzawa and Ishiguro to make way. A Russian Federation embassy car arrived, with V.N. Valizhinov allowing them to travel with him under the guise of diplomatic immunity. The two Russians went back to their ship which they had used to travel to Japan from Roanapur. In the end, Yukio and Ginji died, finally ending the campaign against the Washimine Group.[21]

    El Baile de la muerte / Roberta's Blood Trail

    When it was confirmed that Roberta returned to Roanapur, Mister Chang called for a Council meeting between Roanapur's crime lords, including Balalaika, at The Golden Swingin Night Club. Boris informed Balalaika of the meeting, adding that Chang was likely going to tell them important information about the maid. Balalaika wondered who Roberta's enemy was, and Boris guessed that the people responsible for killing Diego Lovelace could not have been local forces or a political party since the latter would not need refuge in Roanapur, adding that it was likely a well-trained third party.[2] That night, Boris attended the meeting as Balalaika's right-hand man, finding out that U.S. Army soldiers were Roberta's target. Balalaika added that she wanted the U.S. Army out of Roanapur since the Americans would crush the drug trade if they stayed in the city.[22]

    Sometime after the meeting, Balalaika decided to deploy the Vysotniki to stave off Shane Caxton's soldiers as well using the chaos as an opportunity to take territory away from Mister Chang. Once all the teams got into position and prepared a kill zone, Boris informed Balalaika that the men were ready.[23] In exchange for not interfering in Roanapur and Hotel Moscow's affairs for that matter and preventing Roberta from killing them, the Vysotniki offered to cover the rooftops and give cover to the U.S. Army to allow them to leave. Boris accompanied Balalaika as they kept track of Roberta's movements, and Balalaika spoke to Caxton over the radio to support him and later bid him goodbye. In the anime, as Roberta chased the escaping U.S troops, Boris stood by while the Vysotniki shot at her motorcycle with all their firepower, preventing the maid from chasing the troops further. Caxton's squad was able to escape Roberta and leave by traveling on the Lagoon Company's boat, putting an end to the Vysotniki's mission.[24] In the manga, as the Vysotniki contained and prevented Roberta from leaving an alleyway to chase the Americans, Boris ordered his men in Russian to position themselves for giving a gun salute to Caxton as Grey Fox left Roanapur.[25]

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    When Black men were being murdered across Roanapur, of whom the majority were contracted under Hotel Moscow, Mister Chang hosted another Council meeting between the crime lords to share information in order to deduce who committed the murders. Balalaika of course attended, and Boris went to the meeting as well and took off her jacket as she sat down to talk.[26] Later, after Rock found out the identity of the attackers and also had intel on them from the traitor Le Majeur, he went to the Bougainvillea Trade Company building to speak to Balalaika about his plan to use Dutch as bait to lure the Frenchwomen into the open. Boris stood by as she listened to his plan, and she agreed to mobilize the Vysotniki three days later to ambush the women.[27] On that night, Boris waited inside the nightclub with a rifle as the Frenchwomen entered. As soon as Dutch turned around, Balalaika revealed herself, so Boris and his men began shooting at and cornering the Frenchwomen,[28] eventually killing them all after sweeping the building. Afterwards, the next Council meeting to discuss Le Majeur's fate ended with her staying alive, so Boris helped Balalaika don her military jacket, and he left with her.[29]

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    While Balalaika was concluding her meeting with Rock and Revy, Boris peered into her office and informed her that it was almost time for her next meeting with Varenkov and Vasily Krivchenko. Accordingly, the two pirates announced their leave and Balalaika commenced her subsequent meeting.[30] Some day later, after the next Council meeting ended on a bad note due to Gris el Tigres affirming that he would kill Krivchenko, Boris waited in the car as Balalaika told Varenkov that she would put Krivchenko under her protection. On the way back to headquarters, Balalaika relayed to Boris that they would set up a strategy meeting when they returned.[31]

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    In the first light novel Shaitane Badi, Boris waited completely still in Balalaika's office as she spoke with Dutch and then frustratingly spoke with Tatiana Yakovleva. After Yakovleva had left, Boris commended Balalaika for showing restraint, but he politely added that the Nefrit's involvement in the attack on Chang was cause for alarm, also recommending that she should call Dutch to be discreet just in case. Balalaika agreed about the caution but assured the sergeant that Dutch was a man who was always careful. As Balalaika talked to Boris about the possibility of the culprit being a Vysotnik, Boris had the same thought as her when she uttered that the sniper was likely a fellow ex-Spetsnaz like them, given that the assassin knew how to calculate sniping in high winds. Boris in turn uttered the name Junior Sergeant Stanislav Kandinsky, also remarking that Stanislav had been dead for years, with Balalaika responding that she and Boris had also been dead for years.[32]

    Much later after Balalaika had killed Stanislav and Yakovleva's other hired mercenaries got killed, Yakovleva tried to flee Roanapur, but Boris and his driver blockaded her path and forced her car to crash into theirs. As Yakovleva wondered what had just happened, he smashed his arm through the driver window and grabbed her out into a Mercedez-Benz's backseat. Getting into the passenger seat, Boris told the driver to go as he shoved a cellphone into Yakovleva's face. On the other end of the call, Balalaika taunted Yakovleva that she called her bluff and had no more time to waste with Yakovleva. After the phone call finished, Boris and the driver brought her to Don Mueang International Airport and flew with her to Narita International Airport, where they stole all her money and took her gold teeth, killing her and putting her corpse in a women's bathroom stall at the airport. Late at night on another day, when Balalaika finished a call with Vasili Laptev to mock and threaten him, she sat in her office and prepared a cigar, prompting Boris to prepare a match to light her cigar

41. #41Ginji Matsuzaki

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    NAME Ginji Matsuzaki NIHONGO 松崎 銀次 (Ginji Matsuzaki) 人斬り銀次 (Manslayer Ginji) INFORMATION GENDER Male HEIGHT 194 centimeters AFFILIATES Ryūzō Washimine Yukio Washimine Tsugio Bandō Yoshida Inoue Shigeru Itō Kudō Takeshi Ogami Taguchi Kamino AFFILIATION Washimine Group WEAPON Katana RACE/NATIONALITY Japanese STATU FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 22: Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise Part 1 ANIME Episode 19: Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise ANIME VOICE JAPANESE VOICE Kiyoyuki Yanada ENGLISH VOICE Michael Adamthwaite IMAGE GALLERY LESS Ginji Matsuzaki (松崎まつざき銀次ぎんじ Matsuzaki Ginji), also known as Manslayer Ginji (人斬り銀次 Hitokiri Ginji), was the acting wakagashira (underboss) of the Washimine Group and the loyal and humble personal bodyguard of Yukio Washimine. He served under the yakuza group as an infamously skilled assassin.

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    Ginji was a very tall man of Japanese descent with a broad build and a height of 194 centimeters (or 6'4").[1] He had short, spiked black hair with the sides of his head shaved, pale skin, and a short goatee. Additionally, he wore thin sunglasses, a large, dark green overcoat, a white shirt, tan pants, and open-toe sandals. On the skin of his back and arms, he had various yakuza tattoos, including a gashadokuro, a samurai, flowers, and flames.

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    Outwardly, Ginji was a calm and serious individual who, in tandem with his appearance, had an imposing presence. Compared to Revy, he was just as vicious, violent, and sadistic. Ginji did, however, genuinely enjoy his life as a street stall vendor after leaving his life as an assassin behind. He was also close with Yukio Washimine, whom he protected for a time and hoped that she would live a normal life despite her family's criminal background. History

    Ginji worked as a street stall vendor, but was formerly an assassin nicknamed "Manslayer Ginji" due to his use of a shirasaya/katana in combat. His skills in its use were exceptional, manifesting themselves in such feats as cleaving bullets in two in mid-flight. Coupled with his ability to evade gunfire from multiple foes, Ginji completely eschewed the use of firearms for himself. Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise

    Three years before the beginning of the arc, Yukio's father Ryūzō Washimine, whom Ginji deeply respected and fought for, passed away.[2] Ginji subsequently stopped fighting for the Washimine Group since he felt that the Washimine Group began to make money dishonorably in prostitution and drug trafficking, unlike under Ryūzō's reign. Three years later, one night at a new year's festival in Japan with Yukio, he met Rock and Revy after the latter made a scene at a festival stand. He and Revy talked with each other and, despite their language barrier, Ginji recognized that she was cut from the same vicious cloth as him.

    The next day at a park, Ginji talked with Tsugio Bandō, the at-the-time de facto head of the Washimine Group. Bandō relayed to him that he had formed an alliance with the Russian mafia group known as Hotel Moscow, but Ginji remained silent. Reminding Ginji about the Kōsa Council's harassment of their group in the past few years, Bandō tried to convince him to take up his life as an assassin once more. Keeping his serious demeanor, Ginji refused on the basis that the Group engaged in a dishonorable manner of making money via prostitution and drug dealing. In response, Bandō clarified that he did not engage in such fields because he wanted to but because he focused on the Washimine Group's survival first and foremost. Ginji nonetheless thanked Bandō for volunteering to financially take care of Yukio after her father's death, and Bandō stood up and decided that he would leave. Before Bandō walked away, Ginji asked him what the Russians' interpreter looked like. When Bandō told him about the average-looking Japanese guy with a fiery female bodyguard, Ginji knew that Rock and Revy were the ones whom he spoke about.[3]

    Another day while in a kitchen preparing a meal with Bandō, Ginji politely refused Bandō's request once more. As Ginji continued asking for ingredients, Bandō remarked that Hotel Moscow's methods were vicious, prompting Ginji to ask him why he sought the alliance in the first place if he expected their brutality. As Bandō stated that they needed a buffer against the Kōsa Council, Ginji reminded him that he should know that they could not trust outsiders. Smilingly, Bandō responded that they could not ride out the storm and abandon their yakuza brothers who had worked so hard for them. Hearing Bandō's comment about the Kōsa Council's lack of honor, Ginji asked for another ingredient and said that the Russians also lacked honor.[4]

    That same day, Ginji called Yukio to check up on her, and she assured him that she was fine and was merely at a café with the interpreter that they met the other night. Later that night, Ginji and Bandō were in the living room discussing how the Kanto Peace Council would ostracize the Washimine Group if they found out that Bandō sought out Hotel Moscow's help to crush the Kōsa Council. Yukio arrived home and entered the living room, and the slightly surprised Ginji apologized for not noticing her presence before. When she requested that they tell her what they were discussing, Bandō reminded her of the blood-relative successor rule that the Kōsa Council imposed on the Washimine Group. Although Ginji was hesitant to let her in on their group's affairs, Yukio replied that she was the daughter of the previous head and wanted to help in any way that she could. To Yukio's surprise, he informed her that the Japanese man whom she met earlier was the Russians' interpreter, advising her to stay away from him.[5]

    After Bandō's premature death in a failed attempt to kill Balalaika, Yoshida in tears relayed to Ginji the gruesome story of Bandō's corpse being stuffed into a suitcase and tossed at the front steps of a Washimine Group office. As Yoshida continued crying, Ginji tried consoling him that Bandō was a great man who was too smart for his own good. That night after overhearing Yoshida, Yukio sat back-to-back with Ginji and declared that she could not just abandon all the men who had fought hard for their yakuza. He begged her not to get involved in the criminal world, but she looked at the night sky and commented that for the first time in her life, she viewed the night sky and the snow as beautiful things. As Ginji was surprised by her new sentiment, Yukio turned around and asked him if he would defend her as he once did with her father. Shocked but bowing before her, the unhesitating Ginji offered to become her protector and assassin as the wakagashira of the Washimine Group.[6]

    Meanwhile, the relations between Hotel Moscow and the Washimine Group deteriorated due to Bandō's murder, and Ginji agreed to help Yukio fight Hotel Moscow to avenge Bandō. At a meeting of Washimine Group members, Ginji sat silently next to Yukio as Yoshida stopped the tense silence by berating the gangsters for their hesitancy to serve the young woman. Later, arriving at her school at night, Ginji stepped out of the car and informed her that they were ready to follow her orders. As Yoshida drove them, Ginji apologized to Yukio for picking her up in front of her friend Maki, but she brushed it off, saying that Maki had to find out sooner or later. Beginning their retaliation campaign, she ordered Ginji to attack a place where the Russians frequented.

    Black Lagoon The Second Barrage e9 Ginji killing Vasili Laptev's men Bidding her goodbye, he stepped out of the car and went to a Russian-owned restaurant. There, several Washimine gangsters shot the place apart, forcing the Russians to take cover. Entering the restaurant, he saw Vasili Laptev and his men, preparing his katana. With swift speed, he dodged all of the bullets shot at him and killed them all. When the surviving Laptev tried to crawl away, Ginji flashed his katana near the Russian's man head. Turning around and pleading for his life, Laptev claimed that he was framed and knew nothing, but Ginji responded that he would be of no use to him since he could not understand Laptev's Russian words, consequently beheading him with one swing of his katana.

    After Chaka betrayed the Washimine Group and abducted Yukio, Ginji went to her house on foot and in the living room briefly stood off with Revy, who pointed her gun at him in turn. To calm the tension, Rock told Ginji that neither they nor Hotel Moscow were responsible for Yoshida's murder, and Ginji likewise sheathed his sword once he noticed that he did not smell gunpowder. When he tried to leave to find the abductors on his own, Ginji's interest was piqued when Rock stated that he knew that he traveled on foot and that the footprints inside the house indicated that the enemy would be large numbers of gun-wielding gangsters. Even knowing that Revy was in the country on Hotel Moscow's behalf, Ginji agreed to a truce with her, so she hotwired a car and drove for them, eventually tracking down Chaka and his men at Hirano Sports Plaza.[7]

    Heading inside, Ginji and Revy knocked down the men guarding the bowling alley entrance, and he became infuriated upon seeing what Chaka and his men had done to Yukio. Coordinating his movements with Revy, he used his katana skills to kill Chaka's gang with ease while Rock brought Yukio to safety after knocking out Chaka. Soon, Chaka was lured into a trap by Revy to duel with Ginji in the swimming room, and Chaka fired a round from his handgun. To Chaka's surprise, Ginji sliced the bullet apart in mid-flight and cut off his hands, pushing him into the swimming pool. Finally, Ginji used the hilt of his katana to push Chaka's head into the water, making him drown as well as bleed to death. As Ginji put away his weapon and proclaimed that Chaka deserved a worse death, the impressed Revy told the cold-gazed Ginji that she wanted to see his bullet-slicing skill once more by using her own pistol. Quickly acting, he calmly moved his scabbard's hilt toward her reaching hand. Smiling deviously, he advised her not to waste his favor to her for her help, adding that she would be unlucky if he had to demonstrate his abilities toward her. After the slaughter, Ginji reconvened with Yukio afterward and accompanied her as she thanked Rock but warned him that she did not want to see him again.[8]

    The coming morning, Hotel Moscow's Vysotniki efficiently attacked the remaining Washimine Group bases and office. While Ginji and Yukio were driven, Inoue stated that he could not get in touch with the office and his men could not get in contact with the other hideouts. To Ginji's surprise, Yukio informed them that the police told her that Mr. Taguchi's men were dead and she would have to visit the police station the next day for questioning. Realizing that Balalaika's men were likely ex-military due to their swift attacks and addressing the Russian leader as "Kapitan," Yukio remarked that she made a mistake in underestimating them, and Ginji replied that they could still fight back. To counter Hotel Moscow, Yukio met with Masami Kōsa to discuss an action of alliance, and Ginji sat upright and silently next to her. Masami demanded to know how Yukio intended to pay the Kōsa Council back for the men that Hotel Moscow previously killed on behalf of the Washimine Group, and Yukio answered that she was coming up with a plan. After Masami continued to doubt her, she replied that she had enough credibility to bring forth her request to the Kanto Peace Council, angering Morozumi enough to slam the table. Quickly, Ginji blocked the food from hitting the unfazed Yukio, and the two left.[9]

    Another day, Yukio saw the lively Japanese festival and wondered if she could check it out. Although Ginji warned her that they might not be able to show their faces, Yukio exited the car anyway, so he followed her hesitatingly. Walking past the street stalls, Yukio apologized to Ginji for suddenly changing course, and she asked him if he would reopen a stall after their fight was over. Speaking seriously about their situation, Ginji informed her that four of their offices were raided in the past three days with eight dead and twenty in the hospital, stating that the Washimine Group was dwindled down to a third of what it used to be. Thinking silently, Yukio then proclaimed that she wished the festival could go on forever, apologizing for dreaming instead of focusing on their group.[10]

    In the anime only, to continue their campaign despite their dwindled numbers and their destroyed bases, Ginji and Yukio knew that they needed to quickly gain money for more power. Going to a cordoned off crime scene of a destroyed Washimine Group office, they found out the design of the electrician vans that the Vysotniki used on an almost destroyed security camera. Once copying the car's exterior design to match the appearance of the Vysotniki's vans, the two then robbed a bank and then removed their car's door symbol, switching the heat onto a Hotel Moscow van and diverting the police. In the anime only likewise, Yukio also wanted to run away to Roanapur and start anew by ordering the Washimine Group members to cease fighting until she called for them in Thailand where she would rebuild her group, and Ginji agreed to follow her. Since Yukio wanted to defend herself, Ginji found a Stechkin pistol in the house and showed it to her, pleasing her taste.[11]

    Ginji and Yukio kimono In the anime, the two stole a semi-truck and knocked Revy and Rock off their motorcycle, abducting the latter. Revy chased the truck to a stop at a seaport, and she began a duel with Ginji there.[12] In the manga, Revy and Rock, per Yukio's request, went to a shrine where Ginji and Yukio soon arrived clad in kimonos. Rock relayed to Yukio that Hotel Moscow would cease their attacks if they left the city by sundown. Yukio rejected his words, saying that a promise from Balalaika was an empty one.[13] Accordingly, Ginji began to duel with Revy while Rock and Yukio watched. Running forward, Revy shot at him several times, but Ginji evaded her gunfire and even sliced apart one bullet. Charging at her, Ginji performed a downward swing with his katana, forcing Revy to block his blade with her Cutlass pistols. In seconds, the downward force pushed Revy back, and the two reciprocated grins at one another, with Ginji commenting that they were truly both cut from the same bloody cloth.

42. #42Ryūzō Washimine

    Keys: Ryūzō Washimine

    NAME Ryūzō Washimine NIHONGO 鷲峰 龍三 INFORMATION GENDER Male AFFILIATES Unnamed wife Yukio Washimine (daughter) Tsugio Bandō Ginji Matsuzaki Yoshida AFFILIATION Washimine Group RACE/NATIONALITY Japanese STATUS Deceased FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 32: Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise Part 11 (flashback) ANIME Episode 22: The Dark Tower (flashback) IMAGE GALLERY LESS Ryūzō Washimine (鷲峰 龍三 Washimine Ryūzō) was the thirteenth head of the Washimine Group, a yakuza group that was once on friendly terms with the Kōsa Council. Ryūzō had an unnamed wife and one daughter, Yukio Washimine, a high school student who was not initially involved in his family's group.

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    Not much of Ryūzō's physical appearance is known except him being a tall adult man of Japanese descent. He was seen wearing a black haori and kimono in a family photograph.

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    It is not known when Ryūzō's wife passed away, but it was claimed by his own enforcers that Ryūzō himself was a man of honor who treated others kindly, especially his own group that engaged in black market dealings. Ryūzō and the at-the-time head of the Kōsa Council were sworn brothers, having an amicable alliance with one another. Because of Ryūzō's sense of justice, Ginji Matsuzaki gladly served under him as the Washimine Group's assassin. In addition, Ryūzō took care of Tsugio Bandō when the latter arrived to Tokyo from the Keihanshin region of Japan.[1] Five years before the "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise" arc, the Kōsa Council's head died, so his younger brother Masami Kōsa became the head. Masami despised his older brother as well as the Council's relationship with the Washimine Group. Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise

    Two years later after the Kōsa elder's death, Ryūzō himself died. Masami had his Council interfere in the Washimines' territory due to the Council's higher rank in the Kanto Peace Council.[2] Meanwhile, Bandō, who was indebted to Ryūzō, volunteered to take care of Ryūzō's daughter Yukio. Masami assigned a replacement leader for the Washimine Group since he created a new rule between the two yakuza requiring that unless the Group could not find a blood-related successor, then he could send in a replacement leader. Bandō then volunteered to take lead of the Washimine Group as the de facto leader, pushing out the hostile Kōsa elements by engaging in more unsavory fields like prostitution and drug dealing, reasoning that not having an occupation was a disgrace to the Washimine Group.[1]

    Three years after Ryūzō's death, Bandō resorted to allying with Hotel Moscow in order to save the Washimine Group by weakening the Kōsa Council.[3] After Bandō's death, Ryūzō's daughter Yukio volunteered to become the Group's fourteenth head, telling Ginji that she could not abandon the hundreds of men in the Washimine Group by leaving them leaderless as well as not wanting to let the Group be further degraded by the Kōsa Council after her father's death

43. #43Yukio Washimine

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    NAME Yukio Washimine NIHONGO 鷲峰 雪緒 INFORMATION GENDER Female AGE 18[1] AFFILIATES Ryūzō Washimine (father) Unnamed mother Ginji Matsuzaki Yoshida Tsugio Bandō Inoue AFFILIATION Washimine Group FORMER AFFILIATES Maki Yoshi Mami WEAPON Stechkin pistol (anime only) RACE/NATIONALITY Japanese STATU FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 22: Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise Part 1 ANIME Episode 19: Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise ANIME VOICE JAPANESE VOICE Houko Kuwashima ENGLISH VOICE Lalainia Lindbjerg IMAGE GALLERY LESS Yukio Washimine (鷲峰わしみね 雪緒ゆきお Washimine Yukio) was a high school senior and the only daughter of Ryūzō Washimine, who was the thirteenth kumichō (boss) of the yakuza organization called the Washimine Group.

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    Yukio was a young 18-year-old[1] girl of Japanese descent. She had a skinny build, waist-length black hair with bangs, pale skin, and she had a small mole beneath the left side of her bottom lip. Most of the time, Yukio wore oval-shaped glasses and a navy blue female student uniform. In the anime, she later carried a Stechkin APS pistol for a weapon.

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    Yukio was a very mellow girl who was glad to help other people in need, be they her friends or family members. She was very polite and had a keen interest in philosophy, enjoying her free time mainly by reading stacks of books. She had applied her great philosophical knowledge to her life as demonstrated during her lunch meeting with Rock when she quoted Jean-Paul Sartre's quote comparing humans to dice.[2] Yukio did not like horror stories since she viewed them as a genre full of gloom. Moreover, Yukio did not like nighttime or seeing snow since she saw the night as an abyss that exhibited loneliness and could suck people in. History

    As the only surviving direct relation of the former boss of the Washimine Group, Yukio was the only one with a viable claim to the leadership of the Group. Yukio's mother had died sometime in her youth, and three years before the "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise" arc, Yukio's father Ryūzō died. To help her, Tsugio Bandō financially took care of Yukio in Ryūzō's place so that she could continue school and eventually pass entrance exams.[3] Bandō also took control as the de facto boss while Yukio remained a student, staying after school frequently to help her friend Maki organize the school library. As an avid reader, Yukio was hungry for knowledge. Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise

    On one night, she helped Ginji Matsuzaki with his street stall at a Japanese new year's festival. That night, she and Ginji noticed Revy and Rock making a scene there as newcomers. When Revy stared down at Ginji, Yukio nervously interrupted them to recommend that they drink something warm, and Rock chimed in to agree in order to deescalate the situation. Whereas Revy and Ginji sat on one bench, Yukio sat with Rock on the other bench, striking up a conversation with Rock and finding out that he was Japanese too. Yukio was fascinated that Rock had an "international job" as a translator, although she was confused at Rock's comment that his job was sometimes dangerous. When Ginji recommended to Yukio that they leave since it was getting cold, Yukio bid Rock goodbye and told him her first name.[3]

    Later another day, Yukio was in the school library with Maki and was reading Holzwege by Martin Heidegger. Surprised at the subject of philosophy, Maki politely declined to read it in the future, commenting that she read contemporary horror and romance novels. When Maki asked her what she did for light reading, Yukio answered with Natsuki Ikezawa and other Japanese writers and philosophers, turning off Maki's interest. The young girl asked her "senpai" if she read any horror books like those by Edgar Allen Poe, but Yukio replied that she did not read any horror, specifying that she did not like gloomy and lonesome stories, and she especially disliked nighttime and snowy nights due to the feeling that the night would suck her in.[4]

    At a metro station, Yukio again encountered Rock once more, recognizing him from the new year's festival. When they heard from the metro station announcer that there was an inconvenience with the railway, Rock asked her if she knew of any great cafés around, so Yukio brought him to one, asking him if he planned on visiting his parents.[5] To his surprise, Yukio told him that she was once like him wherein she used to dislike her family but then after her father's passing, she appreciated her family's help toward her livelihood. Rock deemed her words wise, to which Yukio remarked that her friends said that she sounded like an old woman, prompting Rock to apologize if that was how his comment came off. Smiling, Yukio assured him that she was joking, and Rock commented that he still felt differently since he could not let go but would not do anything either. Placing down her drink, the schoolgirl asked Rock if he had heard Jean-Paul Sartre's quote about people being like dice insofar as they commit themselves to paths of their choosing. Rock complimented her analysis as blunt when her cellphone suddenly rang, so she briefly excused herself.

    As Yukio assured Ginji that she was all right and was speaking with Rock from the other day, Rock overheard her mention Bandō's name, shocking him. When Yukio relayed to Rock that she had to leave, Rock calmly asked her what her surname was, and she told him that it was Washimine, recalling that her father gave her a feminine name to counter the Washimine surname's stern sound. That night, Yukio returned home and overheard Bandō and Ginji talking about the Washimine Group's potential shunning if the Kanto Peace Council knew about their alliance with Hotel Moscow. Curious, Yukio politely interrupted and requested them to let her in on the discussion, so Bandō reminded her about the Kōsa Council forcing the blood relative successor rule onto the Washimine Group knowing that Yukio could not enter the criminal world. To Yukio's surprise, Ginji informed her that the Japanese man whom she met earlier was the Russians' interpreter. The next day at the school library, Yukio assured the apologetic Mami and Yoshi that they could go to work and help her out another time. Immediately, she was lost in thought about the yakuza conversation when Maki snapped her out, asking Yukio if she was even listening to her grievance with her mother. Yukio apologized but refused to tell Maki about her own dilemma.[6]

    Soon, she reluctantly took up leadership when Balalaika killed Bandō and tossed a suitcase containing his corpse outside the Washimine Group office. At night, Ginji pleaded with her that she did not need to get involved, but looking up at the night sky, Yukio realized that she found snow and night beautiful for the first time. Shocked that she asked him to become her protector, Ginji knelt on one knee with his head down and agreed to serve her without hesitation.[2] Yoshida enthusiastically and angrily vouched for Yukio since many members of the Washimine Group were skeptical of a female leader as well as her age. Because of this, she inevitably fell into the world of the yakuza, soon being devoured by the tragic darkness that she so feared. The night that she officially became the Washimine Group's fourteenth kumichō, several cars pulled up when Yukio and Maki were exiting the school. Touching Maki's cheek, Yukio advised the frightened girl to continue being a good student and fix her relationship with her mother, and she entered one of the vehicles.

    In the backseat of the car as Yoshida drover her and Ginji, Yukio asked if they had anything on Balalaika's whereabouts, which Ginji and Yoshida could not confirm at that time but were looking for Russians nonetheless. The latter of the men asked her if he should have their men check the Narita and Haneda airports, but she rejected the idea, deducing that Balalaika wanted to fight with them before the Russians left Japan. Correspondingly, she ordered them to also surveil the Embassy of the Russian Federation, another location that the Russian gangsters frequented. Removing her own glasses, Yukio began to cry, prompting Yoshida to ask her if he should pull over. Wiping away her tears, she declined and declared that she needed to adapt to her new life, also thanking him for defending her earlier at the previous Washimine Group meeting. Stopping near a Russian front business, Ginji assured Yukio that he would get vengeance on her behalf.[7]

    Returning to her residence, Yukio and Yoshida were suddenly greeted by the Washimine enforcer Chaka, surprising Yukio but angering Yoshida. As the young girl followed him inside, she saw Chaka with his own street gang, now gone rogue. Confused, Yoshida yelled at Chaka for showing such disrespect to Yukio, but Chaka only shot him in the abdomen, causing him to bleed and pleading with Yukio to run. As Chaka casually and gleefully shot Yoshida some more, Yukio ran into the adjacent hallway and bumped into the thug Hanada, who physically beat her for getting in his way. The brutal beating stopped when Chaka smashed Hanada's head with a vase since he did not want Yukio dead just yet.[1]

    The same night, Chaka abducted her, and he and his gang took her to a bowling alley to play a strip game with bowling using the young girl's clothes. The bruised woman sat next to Okazaki as he joked with Chaka about which piece of clothing they would remove next. When Yukio refused to cry or look at Chaka, he grabbed her by her uniform coat and tried to demoralize her by claiming that he could sell her to a violent, perverted man who would force her to be his sexual slave. Soon, Revy and Ginji showed up at the bowling alley, prompting Yukio to cry out Ginji's name. Infuriated at seeing the bruised Yukio, Ginji started killing Chaka's gangsters with Revy's help. Amazed but annoyed by their skills, Chaka took Yukio and ran away to another part of the building, but he slipped on some cleaning fluid that Rock placed. The ex-salaryman showed up in front of him and knocked Chaka out with a bowling pin, taking Yukio to safety into a locker room. While Revy and Ginji continued their killings, Rock gave Yukio his jacket to cover her chest, and she asked him why he was there. Rock answered that he wanted her to have a normal life, but she told him that she chose her own path, sternly clarifying that he was her enemy.[8]

    Black Lagoon v05c32 Yukio telling Rock that he is her enemy Rock responded that she did not have to be bound by an archaic yakuza code about succession by blood, but Yukio contested his claim, specifying that the code was forced upon her group. Summarizing recent years and events, Yukio relayed to him the background and rivalry between the Washimine Group and the Kōsa Council as well as Bandō's "mistake" of allying with the vicious and "dishonorable" Hotel Moscow. Knowing about the hundreds of men who fought for her father for so long, she added that she could not just abandon them all. Upon learning from Rock's expression that he was present with Balalaika when the latter killed Bandō, she retorted at Rock that he had no decision in his life whereas she had a choice and needed to follow her honor. In tears, Yukio yelled at Rock that he was in the twilight between the normal and criminal worlds and had no right to judge her since she was in one world. Continuing to cry, she asked Rock how he could save someone if he had no choice. When he tried to console her, she told him to back away, beginning to calm down and remarking that she envied Rock's freedom. After Chaka was killed, Yukio left with Ginji and thanked Rock for his help, but she warned him that she would kill him if they crossed paths again.[9]

    While Hotel Moscow commenced their bloody campaign against the Washimine Group, somewhere else in town, Inoue claimed to Yukio that he could not get in touch with the office and his men could not get in contact with the other hideouts. To Ginji's surprise, Yukio informed them that the police told her that Mr. Taguchi's men were dead, adding that she would have to visit the police station the next day for questioning. Realizing that Balalaika's men were likely ex-military due to their swift attacks and addressing the Russian leader as "Kapitan," Yukio remarked that she made a mistake in underestimating them, and Ginji replied that they could still fight back. Agreeing, Yukio smiled and proclaimed that they still had their lives and could not back out then. To counter Hotel Moscow, Yukio met with Masami Kōsa to discuss an action of alliance. Masami demanded to know how Yukio intended to pay the Kōsa Council back for the men that Hotel Moscow previously killed on behalf of the Washimine Group, and Yukio responded that she was coming up with a plan. After Masami continued to doubt her, she responded that she had enough credibility to bring forth her request to the Kanto Peace Council, angering Morozumi enough to slam the table. Quickly, Ginji blocked the food from hitting the unfazed Yukio, and the two left.[10]

    Another day, Yukio saw the lively Japanese festival and wondered if she could check it out. Although Ginji warned her that they might not be able to show their faces, Yukio exited the car anyway, so he followed her hesitatingly. Walking past the street stalls, Yukio apologized to Ginji for suddenly changing course, and she asked him if he would reopen a stall after their fight was over. Speaking seriously about their situation, Ginji informed her that four of their offices were raided in the past three days with eight dead and twenty in the hospital, stating that the Washimine Group was dwindled down to a third of what it used to be. Thinking silently, Yukio then proclaimed that she wished the festival could go on forever, apologizing for dreaming instead of focusing on their group.[11] In the anime only, planning to take on Hotel Moscow by themselves, Yukio and Ginji even committed a bank robbery and successfully framed it on Hotel Moscow. Afterward, fulfilling Yukio's request to use a firearm for personal protection, Ginji showed her a Stechkin pistol, which she began to carry in the anime.[12]

    When she refused to cease the fight against Hotel Moscow despite knowing that her group's membership had declined greatly, Yukio still wanted to kill Balalaika with Ginji's help to avenge Bandō. In the anime only, she also wanted to run away to Roanapur and rebuild the Washimine Group there if she succeeded in assassinating Balalaika. Additionally, in the anime, Ginji and Yukio used a semi-truck to kidnap Rock and use him as a hostage, but Rock replied that he would be no good as a hostage. He was then saved by Revy, who crashed into their car and confronted them at the seaport.[13]

    Ginji and Yukio kimono Yukio and Ginji arriving at the shrine In the manga, Revy and Rock themselves went to a shrine per Yukio's request over the phone and waited for her there. Arriving up the stairs, Yukio and Ginji were clad in kimonos and silently stared at the two pirates. Relaying the message from Balalaika, Rock got up and calmly told her that Hotel Moscow would cease all their attacks on the Washimine Group if they left the city by sundown. Not trusting the threat, Yukio rejected his words and the ultimatum, saying that a promise from Balalaika was an empty one. She proclaimed that Bandō's killer was still alive and that she only desired closure for his murder, so she quietly signaled Ginji to begin his duel with Revy.[14]

    During the gun-sword duel between Revy and Ginji, Rock stated to Yukio that he thought that she would take the advice, but she replied that she was fighting to survive. This sentiment made Ginji remember her comment about regretting her turn into the yakuza world, shocking him and giving Revy the opportunity to shoot him dead. Right after Ginji's death, Yukio became silent, additionally apologizing to Rock and Revy for all the deaths that she claimed to have caused as head of the Washimine Group.

44. #44Jane

    Keys: Jane

    NAME Jane (nickname) Janet Bhai (real name) NIHONGO ジャネット・バーイー (Janet Bhai) ジェーン (Jane) INFORMATION GENDER Female AFFILIATES Benny (boyfriend) Theo Maggie D Rodney XX AFFILIATION Counterfeit Club Highwaymen Forum FORMER AFFILIATION Nuevo Laredo Cartel (non-member) FORMER AFFILIATES Feng Yifei RACE/NATIONALITY Indian STATUS Alive FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 38: Greenback Jane Part 1 ANIME Episode 16: Greenback Jane ANIME VOICE JAPANESE VOICE Miki Nagasawa ENGLISH VOICE Kelly Sheridan IMAGE GALLERY LESS Janet Bhai (ジャネット・バーイー Janetto Bāī), also known as Jane (ジェーン Jēn), is a professional money counterfeiter and cyberhacker. She is the leader of an international counterfeiting group and a member of the Highwaymen Forum, an international hacking group. She arrived in Roanapur to make money plates for the Nuevo Laredo Cartel but fled with the help of the Lagoon Company, becoming Benny's girlfriend in the process.

    Appearance

    Jane is a young adult woman of Indian descent.[1] She has thick, shoulder-length blonde hair, light brown skin, and a skinny build. She wears oval glasses and a headband to keep her hair back. In her first appearance, she wears an orange dress shirt, a green skirt, and a blue jacket tied around her waist. Later, when she returns to Roanapur, she is seen wearing a loose jacket, a strapless bra, and skinny jeans. Personality

    Little is known about Jane, however she is an ardent perfectionist. While she was working on the counterfeiting plates for the Nuevo Laredo Cartel, she passed the deadline by two months and exceeded the budget by $200,000. Even after being threatened multiple times, she refused to compromise with them, believing that perfection requires patience. She is also prideful about her work, given how she reacts whenever it is threatened. Moreover, she is quite sexually liberal (according to Benny); Revy once called her a "bonafide fuck freak."[2] Besides English, Jane is able to speak some German.[3] History

    Greenback Jane

    Coming from Germany with her fellow counterfeiter Theo, Jane arrived in Roanapur with him to finish a counterfeit money plate for the Nuevo Laredo Cartel under Elvis's supervision. When Jane and Theo were two months past the original deadline on producing the final product, Elvis paid them a visit. Hearing his impatient complaints about the deadline and how she went $200,000 over budget, the annoyed Jane explained that good work could not be rushed. Frustrated, Elvis said that he would not put his hand against a woman, so one of his men shot and killed Theo, terrifying Jane. Being interrupted immediately, she was threatened into working faster, with Elvis giving her a deadline of two days. Being terrified to work for Elvis any longer in addition to Theo's death preventing her from accessing her counterfeit plates, Jane escaped her confinement by locking one cartel member in the bathroom while knocking José unconscious with her computer monitor.[4] Taking a laptop and duffel bag of money with her, she ran throughout Roanapur and first tried to request help from the police but realized they were shady individuals. Eventually, Jane arrived at the Rip-Off Church with the cartel not far behind.

    As she knocked on the chapel door frantically, Eda pushed the door open, knocking Jane onto her back. Although Eda initially turned her down, Elvis arrived and shot at the church door to threaten Jane, but this angered the nun and Revy into shooting back at Elvis, scaring off the cartel henchmen. Sister Yolanda then brought the baffled Jane inside the chapel to discuss why the men were after her, and she discussed her counterfeiting work and how the Nuevo Laredo Cartel were too impatient to understand the time she needed to perfect the outcome, making Eda and Revy bored from her long talk. After demonstrating to Revy and Eda her knowledge of spotting a counterfeit bill, the Indian counterfeiter asked for further help and chastised the women for their refusal to understand her perspective. Yolanda suggested that she could give her the money plates and the Lagoon Company would guarantee her safe passage out of Roanapur, but Jane replied that the plates were incomplete. She accordingly offered $30,000 for the plates, an offer which Yolanda rejected, so Jane decided to leave. Before she exited the chapel, Eda advised her that she should stay at the Ramsap Inn to avoid being found, and Jane left a $300 donation for her tip.[1]

    Unknown to Jane, Eda had planned for Jane to stay in a special room where she would be able to escape the hotel and then meet up with Eda to negotiate a price for fleeing Roanapur. While lying down face up on her bed, the exhausted Jane saw the "escape from death" sign on the ceiling pointing to the window. That night, several bounty hunters hired by Russell on behalf of Elvis stormed the hotel and started shooting one of the rooms, waking up Jane. Trying to escape the room through the door, Jane quickly went back into her own room after seeing Shotgun Arnie and the other gunmen. Remembering the sign that she saw, the young woman escaped out of the window and slid onto the ground, running away in the streets. As she ran, she was met by a slow-moving car with Eda inside, who offered to help her flee. The counterfeiter offered several deals, but Eda turned them all down. When several bounty hunters like Quentin the Tiger were close to Jane, she begrudgingly agreed to any price that the nun wanted, prompting Eda to let her in the car while she and Revy fought off the bounty hunters.

    Bringing the girl to the Lagoon Company dry dock, Eda found out that Dutch's boat was not there, ruining her initial plan and disappointing Jane. Revy said that Dutch and Benny were doing a delivery and would be back in some time, so they waited around while Jane locked herself in a closet to continue her work. On her laptop, the young woman could not access the data that Theo had managed, frustrating her. When more of Russell's bounty hunters stormed the building to capture Jane alive, Eda and Revy spent a long time fighting off the bounty hunters, so Revy ordered Rock to help Jane flee. Guiding her to the door back, both of them stood back as Sawyer cut down the door. Terrified at the chainsaw-wielding girl, Jane grasped onto Rock as they both screamed. Hearing them, Revy shot at Sawyer to cover the two, but against Rock's advice, Jane ran down to the dock door only to find Claude "Torch" Weaver blocking her path. Slowly backing away up the stairs, she awkwardly asked the smiling Claude if he could let her pass, but he in turn asked if she liked barbecues, using his lighter and frightening her.

    Running back into the dock building as Claude started his arson, Jane ducked while Revy yelled at her to kick a crate containing an ARWEN grenade launcher to Eda, who used it to disperse the bounty hunters on a nearby building. At that point, Rock had Jane escape with him to the roof using the ladder, and on the roof she demanded that Rock come up with a plan.[5] In the chaos below as Revy and Eda faced off with Shenhua, Sawyer followed Jane and Rock onto the roof and cut off the ladder, cornering the two.[6] As Sawyer talked about how she would take her time in killing the two, the roof shook from the fire, causing Sawyer to lose her voice machine and refusing to fight further. Baffled at her behavior, Jane wondered why the goth woman stopped fighting.[7] Eda and Revy arrived to help the two, but then the roof began to totally collapse, and on the way down, Rock kicked Jane out of the way of a beam. Thankfully, Dutch's boat arrived on scene, so the four of them jumped onto the boat, with a few bounty hunters and Russell getting on deck.[8]

    Jane kissing Benny Guiding Jane into the bow hatch, Rock soon walked her into the hold, where she blushed upon meeting the hacker Benny. While Revy and Eda fought the remaining bounty hunters on deck, she realized that she forgot her laptop since she thought Rock had carried it with him. While arguing with Rock, Jane realized she could use Benny's computer and demanded that he let her access the web to access her plates, but Benny refused since he did not want anyone touching his electronic equipment. She was in despair at first, but he offered to help her on the condition that he did the work as he guided her, and he managed to break past the cipher and hack back into her plate data, downloading it. Jane was delighted, causing her to kiss Benny, whom she found handsome. Meanwhile, after the bounty hunters were pushed off the boat, Eda killed Russell, ending the chase and guiding Jane out of Roanapur.[7]

    Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise

    Only in the anime version since "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise" took place after "Greenback Jane" in the anime, Jane had emailed photographs of herself to Benny to keep in touch.[9]

    The Wired Red Wild Card

    After Jane fled Roanapur, she kept in contact with Benny for several months via emails, eventually visiting him half a year later in Roanapur. She arrived and told Benny that she bought new lingerie, surprising him. In particular, Jane had returned to the city since she hired Feng Yifei, who requested to join her counterfeiting group, for a hacking job. While Jane reunited and embraced Benny at the Yellow Flag, Bao was annoyed by her sexual display of affection. The bartender told her if she wanted to screw around with Benny, then she could rent one of the rooms above the bar for only $30 for one night, enticing Jane. Benny then warned Jane that if they did rent the room, then Bao would be selling their sex tape across town. Upon hearing this, Jane replied to Bao that he should be paying her if she was going to rent the room, confusing Benny and angering Bao. Rock interrupted them to remind them that they needed to find Jane's assistant Feng.

    Jane remarked that Feng would be fine, but Bao responded that she was naïve for thinking that newcomers to Roanapur would not be spotted easily. When Benny asked for a photo of Feng to learn what she looks like, Jane showed a photo of Feng in a PLA uniform to Bao, Rock and Benny, surprising them. Rock interrupted them to inform them that Feng was outside, and they saw that her stuff got stolen as she was kicked off a motorcycle. At a motel in a room that Benny rented, Jane asked Feng to introduced herself since she only knew of her profile and username Violet Spear on the Electro Bandits Forum.[10] As they started talking about the room's smell, Sawyer the Cleaner entered the place, terrifying Jane due to her almost-deadly previous encounter with the cleaner. Restraining Jane as she held a folding chair, Benny assured his girlfriend that Sawyer was only there to clean the rest of the room due to the remaining mess. With Feng asking about the smell in the room, Sawyer did not have her voicebox, so she communicated the story (about four bloody murders in the room) by tracing letters onto Rock's back.

    Jane learned from Benny that the motels were booked up at that time of year due to Roanapur's sex trade, and he managed to get a room that opened up, which was the bloodied, smelly room. Upon seeing Sawyer's analogy about the melted corpses on the mattress being like melted butter on bread, she and the others vomited in disgust while Sawyer smiled about the analogy. Afterward, Jane went with Benny to an outdoor dining place to inform Feng about her particular job to hack into Reinbach A.G.'s avionics data. Wiping her face due to the humidity and heat, Jane asked Feng if she knew who the Highwaymen were, clarifying that the Chinese woman needed to do a job for them before she could officially join Jane's Counterfeit Club. Elaborating on the details, she explained that Feng would use Annenheim Distributions' server as a backdoor to break into Reinbach A.G.'s main server and steal their avionics data. Seeing Feng's expression of hesitation about the backdoor, Jane smugly smiled and retorted that she did not have time for newcomers and that Feng merely needed to be truly confident in her skills to join the Counterfeit Club. Once Feng agreed, she clapped her hands together and smiled. That night, Jane had sexual intercourse with Benny elsewhere. Getting dressed afterward, she informed him about Feng being a secret PLA agent whose real name was Li Xinlin, declaring that she would cut "Miss Peking Duck" loose and get triple the reward from Reinbach.

45. #45L'annulaire

    Keys: L'annulaire

    NAME L'annulaire NIHONGO ラニュレール INFORMATION GENDER Female AFFILIATES Le Pouce L'index Le Majeur L'auriculaire AFFILIATION Les Cinq Doigts Service d'Action Civique WEAPON Jericho pistol RACE/NATIONALITY East Asian-French STATUS Deceased FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 102: L'homme sombre Part 1 IMAGE GALLERY LESS L'annulaire (ラニュレール Ranyurēru) was a member of Les Cinq Doigts, a five-member unit of France's Service d'Action Civique (SAC). One mission she had as a member was to go to Roanapur and hunt down a man called "La Mouche." Her name is French for "annulary" (or "ring finger"), also being her code name in Les Cinq Doigts.

    ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

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    L'annulaire was a young woman of East Asian descent with a skinny build and pale skin. She had black hair styled in a short bob cut, and she wore a bullet-resistant black pantsuit with black gloves and shoes. In addition, she carried a Jericho pistol for a weapon.

    ADVERTISEMENT History

    Before her affiliation with Les Cinq Doigts, she worked for the French government, not yet having her code name. L'homme sombre

    As a member of Les Cinq Doigts, she helped her comrades Le Pouce, L'index, Le Majeur, and L'auriculaire complete covert missions on behalf of the DGSE. In the mid-1990s, Les Cinq Doigts got a new mission to hunt down "La Mouche," who was profiled as a Black man who was 2 meters tall and worked for anti-French forces in Africa. The five women went to Nigeria on ambiguous intelligence, and their operation there ended in them being surrounded. To help her comrades escape, the first L'auriculaire sacrificed herself to let her comrades flee, being murdered in the process. Soon, a new blonde-haired woman replaced L'auriculaire,[1] and their intelligence network, the Réseau, provided Les Cinq Doigts with more credible intel that indicated that La Mouche was in the Thai city of Roanapur.

    Accordingly, L'annulaire with the other four Frenchwomen arrived in the city and began targeting and killing tall Black men in the city, including a fight promoter working for Ronnie the Jaws. In that particular incident, they went to a fighting ring and sat down to watch the fixed match between Somsak and Kittikhun. Complaining about the town's hot, tropical atmosphere, L'annulaire commented to Le Pouce that her intel had better be correct. After Le Majeur volunteered to fight the winning boxer and won, she entered the promoter's office, asking him if he was familiar with several names and the date September 18, 1989. When the promoter found her questioning ridiculous, L'annulaire and the other women entered the office as well to back Majeur up, killing the promoter's henchmen but sparing him to interrogate him. L'auriculaire eventually killed the promoter without learning anything of significance.[2]

    In a later incident, L'annulaire witnessed L'auriculaire interrogate and prematurely kill another Black man. Immediately afterward, L'annulaire warned L'auriculaire that she went too far, but the latter woman responded that she only followed orders to make him talk. Le Majeur then began to question Le Pouce's intel once again due to the botched operation in Nigeria,[3] but Pouce replied that her intel was more accurate this time. Nonetheless, Majeur retorted that she had no obligation to believe Pouce after the first L'auriculaire's death. L'annulaire agreed with L'index and advised Majeur to let go of her grudge, with Pouce adding that the first L'auriculaire's death was a sacrifice. Angered by her comment, Majeur pulled her gun on Pouce, prompting L'annulaire and the other women to pull their guns on Majeur in turn. When Pouce reminded her that L'auriculaire did save their lives and that she truly felt sorry, all four women put away their guns upon Majeur sheathing her weapon and angrily leaving to calm down.[4]

    After the argument between Le Pouce and Le Majeur, L'annulaire went to a café with L'auriculaire and L'index, and L'index told the new L'auriculaire about Majeur's grudge against Pouce due to the former accusing the latter of intentionally getting the first L'auriculaire killed. L'annulaire elaborated that the first L'auriculaire was a kind and gentle person who was not the type of person one would expect to be in their line of work. Confused by Majeur's resentment, the second L'auriculaire responded that Majeur should not be so angry since casualties were expected in their line of work, adding that they could lose another member if Majeur continued to let her feelings interfere in their job.[1] Around this time, L'annulaire and her comrades almost killed Jinx, another Black man who was contracted under Hotel Moscow. When Hotel Moscow arrived at the bloodbath, the Frenchwomen fled to save themselves, leaving Jinx alive.

    The next Black man that Les Cinq Doigts targeted was François Modibo, who worked at Isaac's antiques shop. Accordingly, the women arrived outside the store. As they exited their car, Le Pouce relayed to the others that she would wait outside while they entered the building.[5] Inside the shop, Le Majeur asked L'annulaire which person in the store was the target, and L'annulaire nonchalantly pointed out to her that it was the large Black man behind the "Arab" Isaac. Seeing that Revy realized that they would put up fight, the four Frenchwomen began a shootout with Revy, Shenhua and Modibo while Rock and Isaac hid behind the counter. During the fighting, Shenhua threw her kukri at L'annulaire's left arm, but her armored suit protected her from having her arm cut off. Revy used suppressive fire for Shenhua as the latter woman pushed L'annulaire out of the store window, knocking her onto her back. Majeur asked L'annulaire if she was all right, and she got up with the others to flee to the car due to being outmatched. As Majeur struggled to get away, L'auriculaire aimed her pistol and intentionally fired at Majeur, hitting her in her left eye and incapacitating her. Pouce was shocked, but L'auriculaire yelled at her her to drive, so L'annulaire and the women left Majeur behind to escape.[6]

    Later the next night, Le Majeur returned to Les Cinq Doigts' safehouse, surprising the other women enough to pull out their guns on her.[7] L'index stated that L'auriculaire told everyone that Majeur died at the shootout, to which L'auriculaire responded that she thought Majeur got killed after her capture. When Majeur retorted that L'auriculaire should have aimed between the eyes to kill her, L'annulaire claimed that she was right to shoot her since she fell into enemy hands. Although they continued pointing their weapons at Majeur, Le Pouce ordered them to lower their guns, smilingly remarking that she was glad that Majeur returned. Recapping what happened during her disappearance to L'annulaire and the other three, Majeur mentioned that she got intelligence from an informant on La Mouche's next location in three days at a nightclub. Slightly sweating, L'annulaire remarked that she accomplished a lot in such a short time frame. Despite Majeur's details, L'annulaire suggested that they do reconnaissance first, but Pouce rejected the idea, reasoning that they should not spread themselves thin and lose another member. Consequently, the women planned an ambush for that night, and they entered the club and waited for Dutch to arrive as well.

    As L'annulaire stood by, L'auriculaire listened on her communications until L'index spotted him, prompting the women to get moving. L'annulaire and the women confronted Dutch, addressing him as La Mouche of Burkina Faso. To their surprise, Balalaika with her Vysotniki of Hotel Moscow surrounded them, telling the women that they would end up as pig food. Immediately, the Vysotniki began shooting at the women, scaring the club customers out of the building. Shouting that she could take care of the soldiers on the upper level, L'annulaire asked Majeur for backup but received no response. As she tried to shout for L'index's help, L'auriculaire furiously reported back that Majeur deceived everyone.[8] While L'index, Le Pouce and L'auriculaire took cover, the angry L'annulaire ran toward Dutch and tried to shoot at him, but he shot her first, knocking her to the ground. As she angrily looked up and grimaced at Dutch, he advised her to not lose focus next time and to enjoy hell, and the Vysotniki shot her dead. L'annulaire's murder prompted a terrified L'index to surrender, but she was killed by Balalaika upon stepping out into the open.

46. #46Lai Faa

    Keys: Lai Faa

    NAME Lai Faa NIHONGO 麗花 INFORMATION GENDER Female AFFILIATES Unnamed father Unnamed mother WEAPON Snub-nose revolver RACE/NATIONALITY Chinese (Hong Kong) STATUS Alive FIRST APPEARANCE GORE GORE GIRL Gore Gore Girl Chapter 38: Vengeance IMAGE GALLERY LESS Lai Faa (Chinese: 麗花, Jyutping: Lai6faa1; Japanese: 麗花リーファ Rīfa) is a young Chinese girl and the daughter of a Royal Hong Kong Police detective. She survived an arson attack on her home started by vengeful Hong Kong gangsters, but her face was burned and her mother was killed.

    Appearance

    Lai Faa is a young Chinese child. She has a skinny build, pale skin, brown eyes, and short black hair tied into two ponytails and styled into bangs parted to the right side of her face. Across the skin around her right eye, she has a scar from being horribly burned, and she wears bandages on her legs, chest, and arms to cover up her burns. She is seen wearing a blue dress with a few red butterfly patterns near the hemline. Gore Gore Girl history

    Volume 6

    In Hong Kong, Lai Faa's father, a police detective, was investigating Triad gangsters. In retaliation for his actions, five gangsters set fire to the detective's home. Lai Faa and her father survived, but the former had her face burned and her mother was killed. Escaping with her dad, the young girl eventually settled in Roanapur, to where her father followed the gangsters. In the city, she helped her father operate a goldfish stand while he planned to get revenge on the gangsters. Carrying out his revenge, Lai Faa's father left her alone at the stand while he began to stalk and fight the five men in town. Waiting for her father, she remained silent and gloomy and noticed Shenhua and Sawyer the Cleaner observing the goldfish. Seeing through the plastic bags, Shenhua noticed the young girl and asked her if she was all alone and where her parents were. Although the Taiwanese assassin smiled at her, Lai Faa sulked and kept quiet.

    Lai Faa gun Lai Faa pulling out her revolver, also revealing the burn scar around her right eye. As her father began killing the gangsters in an ambush, Lai Faa sat down while Shenhua sat next to her, trying to cheer her up by claiming that her father would show up soon. When Shenhua asked for her name in English, Lai Faa remained silent, so Shenhua asked the question again in Cantonese. At that point, her father was nearby and got shot by one of the surviving gangsters. Seeing his daughter ahead of him, the police detective shouted Lai Faa's name. Immediately, she pulled out a snub-nose revolver and pointed it at the gangster. In the standoff, her father ordered her to shoot, but Sawyer restrained the girl's arm while Shenhua tossed her kukri at the gangster's head, killing him in the blink of an eye. Lai Faa calmed down but still felt despair concerning her father's death. Empathizing with her, Shenhua complimented her name and remarked that she could still live a new life unlike her father. In the end, Mister Chang personally ordered the Triad gangsters to back off of Lai Faa and allowed her to leave the city, particularly because he was friends with the girl's father back when he was a police officer

47. #47L'auriculaire

    Keys: L'auriculaire

    NAME L'auriculaire NIHONGO ロリキュレール INFORMATION GENDER Female AFFILIATES Le Pouce L'index Le Majeur L'annulaire AFFILIATION Les Cinq Doigts Service d'Action Civique WEAPON Jericho pistol Knife RACE/NATIONALITY French STATUS Deceased FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 102: L'homme sombre Part 1 IMAGE GALLERY LESS L'auriculaire (ロリキュレール Rorikyurēru) was a member of Les Cinq Doigts, a five-member unit of France's Service d'Action Civique (SAC). One mission she had as a member was to go to Roanapur and hunt down a man called "La Mouche." Her name is French for "little finger" (or pinky finger), also being her code name in Les Cinq Doigts. Furthermore, she was the second known person to take on the L'auriculaire code name.

    Appearance

    L'auriculaire was a young French woman with a skinny build and pale skin. She had blonde hair tied into two ponytails, and she wore a bullet-resistant black pantsuit with black gloves and shoes. In addition, she carried a Jericho pistol and a knife for weapons. History

    Before her affiliation with Les Cinq Doigts, she worked for the French government, not yet having her code name. After the first L'auriculaire died in a botched operation in Nigeria, she was assigned to take the first woman's place, becoming the second L'auriculaire.[1] L'homme sombre

    As soon as she joined Les Cinq Doigts, she accompanied her new comrades (Le Pouce, L'index, Le Majeur, and L'annulaire) to Roanapur as part of Les Cinq Doigts' mission to hunt down "La Mouche", who was profiled as a Black man who is 2 meters tall and worked for anti-French forces in Africa. Accordingly, the five women began targeting and killing Black men in the city, including a fight promoter working for Ronnie the Jaws. At the fighting ring, L'auriculaire was betting on which Muay Thai fighter, Somsak or Kittikhun, would win the match. She then teased Le Majeur that the latter still needed to fight the winning fighter, which she begrudgingly did. After Le Majeur was escorted to the promoter's office due to the henchmen's anger, L'auriculaire and the other women entered as well to back her up, killing the promoter's henchmen but sparing him. Smiling, L'auriculaire pulled out a knife and began to interrogate him via torture, but she prematurely killed him.[2]

    Some day later, she interrogated another Black man and yet again killed him quickly. Getting up, she remarked that they had killed 5 people so far. L'annulaire told her that she needed to give each man they come across a chance to talk, to which the latter responded that she only followed orders to attempt to make him talk, offering them to take her place.[3] As Pouce argued with Majeur, the latter woman pulled out a gun on the former, causing L'auriculaire to join the other two in drawing their weapons on Majeur. Angry with Pouce but knowing that they still had to continue their mission, Majeur sheathed her pistol and walked away, with L'auriculaire sheathing her pistol too.[4]

    After the argument between Le Pouce and Le Majeur, L'auriculaire went to a café with L'index and L'annulaire and learned about Le Majeur's grudge against Pouce due to the former accusing the latter of intentionally getting the first L'auriculaire killed. Confused by Majeur's reasoning, the second L'auriculaire responded that Majeur should not be so angry since casualties were expected in their line of work, adding that they could lose another member if Majeur continued to let her feelings interfere in their job.[1] Around this time, L'auriculaire and her comrades almost killed Jinx, another Black man who was contracted under Hotel Moscow. When Hotel Moscow arrived at the bloodbath, the Frenchwomen fled, leaving Jinx alive. The next Black man that Les Cinq Doigts tracked down was François Modibo, who worked at Isaac's antiques shop. Subsequently, the women arrived outside the store, and Pouce waited in the car while the other four entered the building.[5]

    The four Frenchwomen began a shootout with Revy, Shenhua and Modibo, but they were outmatched and pushed back by the latter group. Consequently, L'auriculaire wanted to retreat and L'annulaire agreed, so the women began fleeing to the front door. Barging out of the shop, L'auriculaire waited in the car while L'index saved Majeur from being captured by Shenhua. As Pouce started the car's engine, L'auriculaire advised her to wait. While Majeur struggled to get away, L'auriculaire aimed her pistol at her and fired, hitting Majeur in her left eye and incapacitating her. Pouce was shocked, but L'auriculaire yelled at her to drive, and the women left Majeur behind to escape.[6]

    Later the next night, Le Majeur returned to Les Cinq Doigts' safehouse, surprising the other women enough to pull out their guns.[7] L'index stated that L'auriculaire told everyone that Majeur died at the shootout, to which L'auriculaire responded that she truly thought Majeur got killed after her capture. Majeur retorted that she should have aimed between the eyes to kill her, but Le Pouce interrupted them, saying that she was glad that Majeur returned. L'auriculaire remained skeptical while Majeur discussed what happened during her disappearance, mentioning that she got intelligence on La Mouche's next location in three days at a nightclub. With the new information, the women planned an ambush for that night, and they arrived outside the club. Inside, they waited for Dutch to enter, with L'auriculaire listening on her communications until L'index spotted him, prompting the women to follow him.

    Black Lagoon v13c111 Chapter 111 The women confronted Dutch, addressing him as La Mouche of Burkina Faso. To their surprise, Balalaika with her Vysotniki of Hotel Moscow surrounded them, proclaiming to the women that they would end up as pig food. Immediately, the Vysotniki began shooting at the women, scaring the club customers out of the building. Quickly taking cover, L'auriculaire angrily realized that Le Majeur set them up and promised to kill her.[8] While L'index, Le Pouce and L'annulaire engaged in a firefight with the Russians, L'auriculaire chased after the fleeing Majeur elsewhere in the club.[9] Majeur could not find an exit and was spotted by her, and the two shot at each other. When she ran out of bullets, L'auriculaire tossed her pistol at Majeur and smacked her wrist, disarming her. She utilized her knife and angrily hurled punches at Majeur, furiously claiming that she knew she would try to betray them at some point. Pinning Majeur onto the ground, L'auriculaire repeatedly and angrily wished death upon her while trying to push a knife through her chest, but Majeur pushed her attacker's head upward. Immediately, this allowed Revy to shoot L'auriculaire in the back of the head, killing her and splattering her blood on Le Majeur's face

48. #48Le Pouce

    Keys: Le Pouce

    NAME Le Pouce NIHONGO ルプス INFORMATION GENDER Female AFFILIATES L'auriculaire L'annulaire Le Majeur L'index AFFILIATION Les Cinq Doigts Service d'Action Civique FORMER AFFILIATES Les Cinq Doigts WEAPON Jericho pistol RACE/NATIONALITY Afro-French STATUS Deceased FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 102: L'homme sombre Part 1 IMAGE GALLERY LESS Le Pouce (ルプス Rupusu) was the leader of Les Cinq Doigts, a five-member unit of France's Service d'Action Civique (SAC). One mission she had as a member was to go to Roanapur and hunt down a man called "La Mouche." Her name is French for "the thumb," also being her codename in Les Cinq Doigts.

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    Le Pouce was a young African woman with a skinny build and long, dark hair styled into locs. She wore a bullet-resistant black pantsuit with black gloves and shoes. In addition, she carried a Jericho pistol for a weapon. History

    Sometime in the mid-1990s, Pouce led the other four members of Les Cinq Doigts (L'index, Le Majeur, L'annulaire, and the first L'auriculaire) to Nigeria to hunt down a man called La Mouche for his involvement in planning the 1989 attempted coup in Burkina Faso. Pouce went to the country on sketchy intel, which led to them walking into a trap. The first L'auriculaire helped her comrades escape but at the cost of her own life, angering Le Majeur.[1] Pouce viewed her death as an unavoidable sacrifice due to their soldier life, and soon a new L'auriculaire took the place of the first L'auriculaire. Soon after her death, SAC's network pinpointed La Mouche's likely location to Roanapur in Thailand, so the five women headed there. L'homme sombre

    In Roanapur, Pouce and her four comrades arrived, then looking for any Black man that matched La Mouche's description as a tall Black man. At a fight ring run by Ronnie the Jaws, the Frenchwomen relaxed and waited for the fixed match between Somsak and Kittikhun to end. Hearning L'annulaire's complaint about being in Thailand, Pouce assured the group that her intel was absolutely accurate then. Majeur still had skepticism stemming from their botched operation in Nigeria, but Pouce asserted that they were sticking to their current plan. When the fight ring referee asked the crowd if anyone wanted to volunteer to fight the winning boxer, Majeur volunteered, much to the anger of the ring's crowd who were betting on the boxer. Pouced watched Majeur dodge the fighter's punches and knock him out, infuriating the crowd and causing the promoter's henchmen to take Majeur into their office.

    As Pouce continued sitting at her table, Majeur was quiet while the Black promoter interrogated her, and she only asked him his height and if he was familiar with several African names associated with the events that took place on September 18, 1989 in Burkina Faso since he matched the physical description. With the promoter confused and angry, Pouce and the other three women entered the room to back Majeur up, prompting the promoter to order his men to kill them. Acting quickly, the women drew their pistols and easily killed the henchmen except the promoter to interrogate him.[2] In a later incident, they began to interrogate another Black man, but L'auriculaire accidentally killed the man prematurely, remarking that they had killed 5 people so far. When L'index stated that too many killings would draw even more attention, Pouce responded that they just had to keep at it and be patient since their informant was missing.[3]

    Not convinced, Majeur responded that bad intelligence would get one of them killed again, to which Pouce replied that she would make sure that she would not let that happen a second time. With Majeur still adamant, Pouce said that they chose a lethal line of work and added that the first L'auriculaire had to make a sacrifice, angering Majeur enough to draw her weapon on her. When the other three women also drew to discourage Majeur from shooting, Pouce reminded her that the first L'auriculaire voluntarily saved them because their squad was exposed. Seconds later, Majeur sheathed her pistol and walked away, frustratingly remarking that it was not a good reason to die.[4]

    Elsewhere at night, Pouce and the women barged into a building with several drug dealers associated with Hotel Moscow and killed them all, only leaving Jinx, a Black man, alive. After they shot him in the knees, Jinx claimed not to know anything about their date or the names that they mentioned, so Majeur prepared to kill him, but men from Hotel Moscow showed up, forcing the women to flee, leaving Jinx alive. After Rock and Revy talked to Jinx and Rock deduced the possible next targets besides Dutch, they traveled to Isaac's antiques shop to talk to François Modibo since he was possibly a target. As Rock, Revy and Shenhua finished speaking to Isaac, the Frenchwomen showed up outside, with Pouce telling the others to go inside while she remained in the car.[5] Majeur and co. entered the building, warning Revy to move out of the way since their business was with Modibo. To their annoyance, Revy, Shenhua and Modibo easily pushed back the Frenchwomen, forcing them to retreat. Although the women got into the car and Pouce started the engine, L'auriculaire asked Pouce not to drive yet. Immediately, L'auriculaire drew her pistol and intentionally shot Majeur directly in her left eye, incapacitating her. Pouce was shocked but she drove off after L'auriculaire shouted that Majeur was dead anyway, leaving their comrade behind.[6]

    About a day or two later, Majeur returned to her safehouse where Les Cinq Doigts resided, feigning forgiveness for abandoning her.[7] All the women were skeptical, but Pouce assured them that Majeur was fine, elaborating to Majeur that she was glad to see her alive. Accordingly, Majeur told them about La Mouche's location via an informant whom she talked to. She clarified Dutch's particular location in three days where he would be exposed, and Pouce agreed to the date while rejecting L'annulaire's suggestion that they do reconnaissance first. Three nights later inside the nightclub, the women confronted Dutch, but Balalaika and her Vysotniki surrounded them, beginning a gunfight. Pouce and the women called for Majeur's help, but she had already run out of the trap area, angering L'auriculaire in particular since she was suspicious about Majeur's return.[8] As the firefight escalated, Pouce ordered L'annulaire and L'index to use suppressive fire in order to escape. L'annulaire tried to kill Dutch but she herself got murdered, and L'index was shot by Balalaika immediately after surrendering, demoralizing Pouce. With two Frenchwomen killed, L'auriculaire chased down Majeur while Pouce continued thinking what to do as she was cornered, soon leaving her cover.[9]

    She managed to escape the Vysotniki but was severely wounded, leaving behind a pool of blood. After Revy killed L'auriculaire, she noticed Pouce's trail of blood, so she, Majeur and Shenhua followed it. Majeur then found Pouce bleeding and sitting upright on the ground, and Pouce asked why she betrayed them. Majeur replied that it was all because of the first L'auriculaire's death, to which Pouce apologized for as well as the failed Nigerian operation. In a saddened state, Pouce stated that she knew Majeur set the trap but wanted to believe her, enraging Majeur, who shot and killed Pouce after hearing her confession. Then more or less nonchalant, Majeur remarked that Pouce was a selfish and manipulative person who used others for her own gain, and she left the establishment

49. #49L'index

    Keys: L'index

    NAME L'index NIHONGO ランデクス INFORMATION GENDER Female AFFILIATES Le Pouce Le Majeur L'annulaire L'auriculaire AFFILIATION Les Cinq Doigts Service d'Action Civique WEAPON Jericho pistol RACE/NATIONALITY Arab-French STATUS Deceased FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 102: L'homme sombre Part 1 IMAGE GALLERY LESS L'index (ランデクス Randekusu) was a member of Les Cinq Doigts, a five-member unit of France's Service d'Action Civique (SAC). One mission she had as a member was to go to Roanapur and hunt down a man called "La Mouche." Her name is French for "index finger," also being her code name in Les Cinq Doigts.

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    L'index was a young Arab[1] woman. She had medium-length, loose black hair, a skinny build, and tan skin. Additionally, she wore a bullet-resistant black pantsuit with black gloves and shoes, and she carried a Jericho pistol for a weapon.

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    Before her affiliation with Les Cinq Doigts, she worked for the French government, not yet having her code name. L'homme sombre

    As a member of Les Cinq Doigts, she helped her comrades Le Pouce, Le Majeur, L'annulaire, and L'auriculaire complete covert missions on behalf of the DGSE. In the mid-1990s, Les Cinq Doigts got a new mission to hunt down "La Mouche," who was profiled as a Black man who is 2 meters tall and worked for anti-French forces in Africa. The five women went to Nigeria on ambiguous intel, and their operation there ended in them being surrounded. To help her comrades escape, the first L'auriculaire sacrificed herself to let her comrades flee, getting murdered in the process. Soon, a new blonde-haired woman replaced L'auriculaire,[2] and their intelligence network, the Réseau, provided Les Cinq Doigts with more credible intel that indicated that La Mouche was in the Thai city of Roanapur.

    Accordingly, the five Frenchwomen arrived in the city and began targeting and killing tall Black men in the city, including a fight promoter working for Ronnie the Jaws. In that particular incident, they went to a fight club and sat down to watch a fixed match between Somsak and Kittikhun. Seeing that Le Majeur was listening to a song, L'index asked her if she could listen to it too. Once Majeur volunteered to fight the champion boxer and won, she was escorted to the angry promoter's office, asking the Black promoter if he was familiar with several names and the date September 18, 1989. When the promoter found her questioning ridiculous, L'index and the other women entered the office to back Majeur up, killing the promoter's henchmen but sparing him to interrogate him.[3]

    Some day later, they interrogated another Black man and yet again killed him quickly. L'index then asked Pouce what their next action was since more murders would draw even more attention to them.[4] Pouce responded that they needed to be patient, but Majeur adamantly continued to say that she did not owe Pouce anything after she got the first L'auriculaire killed. L'index told Majeur to let go of her grudge, but the latter pulled a gun on Pouce after she claimed that the first L'auriculaire's death was a sacrifice. As L'index and the others had their pistols on Majeur too, the latter soon sheathed her gun and walked away, prompting L'index to stand down.[5]

    After the argument between Le Pouce and Le Majeur, L'index went to a café with L'auriculaire and L'annulaire, and she told L'auriculaire about Majeur's grudge against Pouce due to the former accusing the latter of intentionally getting the first L'auriculaire killed. The second L'auriculaire responded that Majeur should not be so angry since casualties were expected in their line of work, but L'index replied that Pouce could at least be considerate toward Majeur, adding that Majeur had a little sister that the first L'auriculaire reminded her of. Finishing their conversation, L'auriculaire coldly stated that they could lose another member if Majeur continued to let her feelings interfere in their mission.[2]

    Around this time, L'index and her comrades almost killed Jinx, another Black man who was contracted under Hotel Moscow. When Hotel Moscow arrived at the bloodbath, the Frenchwomen fled, leaving Jinx alive. The next Black man that Les Cinq Doigts tracked down was François Modibo, who worked at Isaac's antiques shop. Accordingly, the women arrived outside the store and Le Pouce waited in the car while the other four entered the building.[1] Seeing Modibo behind the counter, the four Frenchwomen threatened to fight Revy, Shenhua and Modibo, but Revy shot L'index first, knocking her back but being uninjured due to her bullet-resistant suit. As Les Cinq Doigts were pushed back by their enemies' superior fighting, L'auriculaire wanted to retreat, so the women began fleeing to the front door. To help Majeur escape capture by Shenhua, L'index tossed a stun grenade in the store, momentarily disorienting Shenhua. As Majeur struggled to get away, L'auriculaire aimed her pistol and fired at Majeur, hitting her in her left eye, incapacitating her. L'index and the others were shocked, but L'auriculaire yelled at Pouce to drive, and the women left Majeur behind to escape.[6]

    Later the next night, Le Majeur returned to Les Cinq Doigts' safehouse, surprising the other women enough to draw their weapons.[7] A confused L'index stated that L'auriculaire informed everyone that Majeur died at the shootout, to which L'auriculaire responded that she thought Majeur got killed after her capture. Majeur retorts that L'auriculaire should have aimed between the eyes to kill her, but Pouce interrupted them, saying that she was glad Majeur returned alive. L'auriculaire remained skeptical while Majeur discussed what happened during her disappearance to L'index and the others, mentioning that she got intelligence on La Mouche's next location in three days at a nightclub. Accordingly, the women planned an ambush for that night, and they entered the club and waited for Dutch to enter the building. L'index spotted him and informed the others of his presence, prompting the women follow him.

    Walking up to him, the Frenchwomen then confronted Dutch, addressing him as La Mouche of Burkina Faso. To their surprise, Balalaika with her Vysotniki of Hotel Moscow surrounded them, telling the women that they would end up as pig food. Immediately, the Vysotniki began shooting at them, scaring the club customers out of the building.[8] L'index and the three women began taking cover, with L'auriculaire angrily yelling that Le Majeur set them up and promised to kill her. While L'index, Le Pouce and L'annulaire engaged in a firefight with the Russians, L'auriculaire chased after the fleeing Majeur elsewhere in the club. After L'annulaire got killed by the Vysotniki in her attempt to charge at Dutch, the distraught L'index immediately surrendered, putting her hands up and calmly pleading for her life to be spared. To her dismay, Balalaika laughed at her request and retorted that she was not a true soldier, shooting L'index right in the forehead, killing her instantly

50. #50Verrocchio

    Keys: Verrocchio

    NAME Verrocchio NIHONGO ヴェロッキオ INFORMATION GENDER Male AFFILIATES Moretti Bikey AFFILIATION Cosa Nostra WEAPON Bernardelli P-018 pistol RACE/NATIONALITY Italian (Sicilian) STATUS Deceased FIRST APPEARANCE MANGA Chapter 11: Bloodsport Fairy tale Part 1 ANIME Episode 03: Ring-Ding Ship Chase ANIME VOICE JAPANESE VOICE Banjō Ginga ENGLISH VOICE Scott McNeil IMAGE GALLERY LESS Verrocchio (ヴェロッキオ Verokkio) was the former boss of Cosa Nostra's Thai branch, which was known as the Verrocchio Family under his tenure.

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    Verrocchio was an adult Italian man with a tall build and tan skin. He had a short crop of blonde hair and small light-colored eyes. He wore a tan overcoat with a dark necktie and dark-green dress shirt. Additionally, he carried a Bernardelli P-018 pistol for a weapon.

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    Verrocchio was an impatient person who had no respect for anyone but himself, as shown when he beat up a subordinate who disagreed with him and when he constantly insulted Balalaika by calling her "Fry-Face" and insulting her Russian background. History

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    Only in the anime for this arc, Verrocchio was seen eating some food at a restaurant and saw Dutch walking in front of the building. He asked one of his men if Dutch was working for the Russians, and his subordinate responded that the Lagoon Company would take jobs from anyone so long as they met their price.[1]

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    Annoyed by Hotel Moscow's tightening control of Roanapur, he attempted to use the child assassins, Hänsel and Gretel, to kill Balalaika. When the murders of Hotel Moscow members began throughout Roanapur, an emergency Council meeting was held between Mister Chang, Balalaika, Verrocchio, and Abrego to discern who was behind the killings. While exchanging insults with Balalaika, Verrocchio claimed that one his own men was also murdered, telling Chang that the murders were likely the work of an outsider who was unfamiliar with how Roanapur operated. All four crime lords agreed to a truce until they found the killers on Chang's recommendation. Balalaika left the meeting by insulting Verrocchio once more and sternly warning the crime lords that she would get violent revenge on the perpetrators, be they comrades or enemies.[2]

    After the meeting and after Balalaika and Mister Chang of the Hong Kong Triad agreed to combine forces, Verrocchio held a meeting with his Italian subordinates the next night since Balalaika was still alive. In a fit of rage, he angrily told his underlings that the twins wasted time by unnecessarily killing Hotel Moscow members instead of killing Balalaika. When Moretti recommended that they should have cut their losses and turn on the twins, Verrocchio beat up Moretti, smashing his head against a wall and kicking him on the ground repeatedly. When Verrocchio stated that the Sicilian families of the cupola would be angry with his failure, Hänsel and Gretel showed up. Enraged, the Italian leader furiously shouted that he thought he told them never to come to the Italian headquarters. Not fazed, the twins laughed and pulled out their weapons, prompting Verrocchio to pull out his own pistol. Quicker on the draw, the two twins slaughtered Verrocchio and the men in the room, making the whole town know about their approximate location. In the aftermath, Chief Watsap questioned Chang about the attack since he was right outside the headquarters when the massacre occurred.[3]

    After his death, his role as Cosa Nostra's Thai branch leader was taken up by Ronnie the Jaws.

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