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Yumi

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Yumi Sawamura is a former hostess whose life became inextricably entangled with the violent world of the yakuza through her connections to Kazuma Kiryu and the Tojo Clan. Surviving trauma, memory loss, and betrayal, she reinvented herself as Mizuki to protect her daughter Haruka, demonstrating remarkable resilience while never losing her capacity for love.

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