Fukuhara, on the other hand, was not enthused to learn his beloved daughter was having a baby with a criminal. The Yakuza boss swore to himself years earlier that Eiko would never marry a gangster after her mother was murdered in a botched attempt to assassinate Fukuhara himself. So Fukuhara put a hit out on Yuto, but he escaped his would-be homicide. In his flight, Yuto stole the ancestral Fukuhara murder sword and one of his boss’ cars. Yuto then faked his death, ensuring he could never show his face in Japan — and therefore be with Eiko and their baby boy, Sora — as long as Fukuhara was in power. Yuto eventually sent Eiko a letter telling her he was alive and working on a scheme to come home to her. Destroying Fukuhara through Endo’s plan was that scheme.

