He snorted. "My brother liked to think that he and the rest of the group were modern samurai in a way, bu no. Former yakuza - organized crime, if that's not a term from your world. I used to be an enforcer." V probably didn't need much in the way of explanation of what one of those was.

"Not anymore, though. Now I'm the guardian of my city. ... Literally. Supernatural stuff. Which I also didn't think existed a bit more than a month ago."