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Keitaro Urashima

Born in the year 1980 to the upper echelons of Japanese society, Keitaro Urashima grew up used to having everything and anything he wanted. A child spoilt rotten in his early years, but after a traumatizing incident when he was 17 years old involving members of his extended family and a particularly bad business year leading to many acts of desperation, Keitaro outgrew his spoilt personality overnight and set a goal for himself; to never, ever be forced into poverty. Studying diligently, Keitaro graduated from the prestigious Tokyo High at the top of his cohort, before proceeding to top the nation's national university entrance mock examinations by obtaining a near perfect score. As expected, he made in into the top school, Tokyo University, without much difficulty and graduated 3 long years later with a major in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. Again as expected, Keitaro was the cream of the crop; valedictorian in fact, with the highest thesis score ever seen since the legendary Seta Noriyasu had graduated 10 years earlier.

After graduating, Keitaro went on for further studies while job-hopping at the same time about various multi national companies, each time working with menial jobs or as low ranking clerks. Around this time, Keitaro had successfully gotten his masters and had begun his doctoral studies. Many wondered why a top scholar took on such 'demeaning' jobs, but Keitaro thought that such jobs were the reflection of the common man and nothing to be ashamed off. For the non-believers, the 'true' answer came when the then head of Urashima Enterprises, Keitaro's father, announced his retirement and the succession of his position by his one and only son, Keitaro Urashima. Using his experience and understanding of the common worker's plight when dealing with them, Keitaro rose to the occasion and had proven to be a charismatic, capable and well-liked leader, who was able to lead the family's company, Urashima Enterprises to greater heights…

As of today, Urashima Enterprises had doubled its profit under only a couple of years under his reign, even as he is busy coping with his doctoral studies. Market analysts are all watching his every move…

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Naru Narusegawa

An angry, temperamental and violent young woman of 25 years, Naru Narusegawa grew up in a similar environment as Keitaro Urashima. However, without the catalyst in her life that drastically changed the course of Urashima's life, Naru grew up as Keitaro would have did; dreadfully spoilt. This, unfortunately, has led her personality to become ridiculously temperamental, to the point that she was even worse than a volcano; she was a constantly erupting volcano. And that does not even include the violent mood swings that come every so often, in which overwhelming rage consumes her, a period during which she would attack anyone and everyone around her at the slightest provocation. (Sometimes even over made-up provocations just to relieve stress.) Although naturally smart (Just as smart as Keitaro, if not more so.), Naru didn't like hard work, not to mention she never really liked to study, and thus her natural intellect had been squandered away, keeping her from becoming somebody truly great. It is also because of her reluctance to study that has kept her forever one step behind Keitaro. In high school, cram school, national mock exam, university, Naru has always turned up second behind Keitaro Urashima.

Because she treats falling behind Keitaro as a failure, Keitaro could be said to have been a main factor in creating Naru's constantly angry personality. Frustrated at always turning up second next to him, Naru arranged a hostile takeover of her family's legacy, Narusegawa Corporation, and foolishly challenged Keitaro in the corporate world, forcing many market battles between Urashima Enterprises and Narusegawa Corporation in a bid to show her dominance over one Keitaro Urashima. The most vicious battles were always fought whenever a new, profitable industry cropped up. Unfortunately for her, Keitaro has always shown one up on her, causing massive losses for Narusegawa Corporation. Being the gentleman he is, Keitaro had always tried to slow down Narusegawa's losses by simply buying their shares as an anonymous investor and anchoring the stock price before releasing the stock back into the market whenever they recovered.

Still, investors have lost confidence in Naru, and even with the anchoring of Keitaro, the share price of her company has fallen far enough to bring her company to the brink of destruction…

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Mitsune Konno

A vivacious, buxom 26-year old, Mitsune "Kitsune" Konno had been born into much less favorable conditions compared to Keitaro Urashima and Naru Narusegawa. Nevertheless, that did absolutely nothing in dampening Kitsune's entrepreneur's spirit and she started out in the world of real estate just as she graduated from high school, a whole five years before both Naru and Keitaro. Of course, this was due to her less than desirable results, since she would have gladly chosen higher studies over the slimy corporate world. Also, despite not having as much of a formal education as the previously mentioned two, Kitsune had sharp wits and a quick mind, so much so that in 5 years she managed to take her father's business from a small time real estate company into a listed multi national real estate giant. Learning from past failures and falls, Kitsune had become selfish and ruthless under her energetic guise; Kitsune has been known to crush smaller companies simply by buying them out. This is, of course, after she has weakened the companies significantly by controlling the prices of concrete through several underhand methods. Perhaps somewhat arrogantly, she had always believed that she would never be caught, but life is always unpredictable…

Unfortunately, she did get caught, almost turning her into a bankrupt overnight. In a double blow, Urashima Enterprises and Narusegawa Corporation both decided on this time to enter the real estate market, seeing that she was weak. As a result of the two titan companies fighting it out on her pieKonno Real Estate was brought to a near collapse, but fortunately, the company was saved from a total annihilation because said titan companies were too busy fighting with each other. Still, her luck didn't last very long, and in a cunning move, Urashima Enterprises bought over 72 of the company's shares, giving them absolute control of the company.

Urashima Enterprises controlled the company for a short while, but two years ago Keitaro released the company by selling the shares back to Kitsune because both his own company and KRE were having internal problems, and hence Keitaro decided to give up KRE and focus on Urashima Enterprises. Releasing the shares to the public, the share prices had dropped so significantly that Kitsune was able to get them back with some help. Ecstatic at gaining back control of the company, Kitsune became less observant of the market for a period of time but she soon snapped out of her euphoria when KRE was struck hard by the real estate market crash. Apparently, Urashima Enterprises had also seen this coming and washed their hands clean. Kitsune fell and to this day, has never recovered.

A person who believes that her final fate is in always in her own hands, Kitsune has continually been searching for a way to the salvation of her company…

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Motoko Aoyama

A classic Japanese beauty, with refined features and unparalleled grace, Motoko is nevertheless currently single, and the 21-year old girl is quite unhappy because of that for she could never think of any reason why she was single. After witnessing her sister falling in love and getting hitched 4 years ago, Motoko has chased after the perceived wonderful feeling of love for 4 years now, but to this day has not found beyond short relationships or her much more preferred one night flings. At the moment, however, just like many other girls in town, Motoko is lusting after the most eligible bachelor currently available, one Keitaro Urashima. The pair had met when a mutual friend of theirs had thrown a party for some reason she had long forgotten, and the two had met, chatted, and danced briefly before she had to run off for some urgent meeting that she had later realized was not urgent at all. As a result of this blown opportunity, Motoko blew her top and nearly fired some people.

Motoko, not unlike Keitaro Urashima, topped her high school, but she miraculously failed the national mock exams even after extensive studying and was refused admission to Tokyo University. Since Motoko refuses to settle for anything less, she has continually reattempted the entrance exam year after year. This year, Motoko would be taking the entrance exam for the third time in a row. Will she make it?

Being a narcissist and therefore interested in looking good, Motoko has taken up a variety of sports, such as kendo, swimming, running and so on to tone and firm up her previously already slim body. (However, she believes in being lean rather than being slim.) She does not believe in being extremely fair either, but rather prefers healthy looking golden tanned skin. She is, however, dedicated to her feminine side, and usually dresses in a manner tailored to her classical looks. Not afraid of her own sexuality, Motoko has also had intimate encounters with many men. (Which she does enjoys!)

Regarding Aoyama Industries, Motoko's sister currently heads it, but Motoko is due to succeed her sometime in the foreseeable future. Motoko is not really excited at the prospect of running a full-fledged company, however, but knows that she has to accept the responsibility sooner or later. For now, Motoko is happy practicing kendo, shopping, lusting after hunks and having sex. Hopefully, her next encounter would be with a particular man named Keitaro Urashima.

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Kaolla Su

A technological genius with a royal background, Kaolla was only 14 when she discovered the most explosive substance in the world. Since then, Mol Mol has been the country with the most powerful weapons in the world, thanks to the exclusive nature keeping what is inside from getting out. Her company, Su Technologies, is the only company to be based in the country of Mol Mol given its connections with the royalty of the country.

Su Technologies is currently focused mainly on music players and a niche market of computers with self-destruct controls so that the data stored is either safe or destroyed. Despite the relatively common issue of exploding computers that can wither severely maim or kill as person, Su technologies has quickly amassed a loyal cult of computer fanatics who sometimes buy ST computers just for the sake of blowing them up. Nonetheless, Su does no care about those people as long as they keep on pouring money into her company.

In the year 2002, a young computer user accidentally activated the self-destruct switch on the computer, thereby blowing the computer and him into smithereens. This quickly erupted into a major lawsuit involving Su Technologies, its rivals, and the family of the deceased. The family had asked for an absurd 100 million in compensation for the dead, and Su technologies refused. This caused many other "victims" to jump into the lawsuit, fueled by Su Technologies's rivals. As a result of the overwhelming "evidence", Su Technologies lost and paid the deceased and "victims" the money. Since then, confidence in Su Technologies has dropped, mirrored by their profits.

Su Technologies is teetering on the edge of oblivion. Keitaro is keeping a close eye on its future…

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Shinobu Maehera

A shapely and beautiful young woman of 18, Shinobu's life mirrors that of Naru Narusegawa, except many times worse. An heiress to a multi billion company in the food industry, Shinobu has grown up with a haughty and arrogant air about her. Similarly to Naru Narusegawa, Shinobu is naturally smart, but she prefers to while her time away, doing meaningless tasks like shopping and buying branded goods just to flaunt her affluence. Nevertheless, Shinobu didn't do too badly in school and the exams, thus being granted entry into Tokyo University. It didn't matter anyway; her parents could just feed money into the school and request entrance. Because of her arrogant nature, nobody in university likes her, even for all of her beauty.

To people she prefers not to mock verbally, she becomes somewhat of an ice queen, showing no emotions on her face except a You-are-not-worth-my-time look. Strutting about the school like she owns the place, Shinobu doesn't know, nor care about the insults flying back and forth about her.

She does not show any passion, not towards her studies, towards her parents, not towards shopping, not towards life in general. In fact, the only time she shows passion, opens up and leaves herself vulnerable is in the presence of Keitaro Urashima. Unbeknownst to him, Shinobu has had a crush on him ever since they had met at a party; which of course included Motoko Aoyama. Therefore, Shinobu views Aoyama as a threat and remains guarded towards her. Her arrogance does not allow her to see the fact that Keitaro Urashima only views her as an acquaintance, nothing more.

Shinobu sees Keitaro Urashima as a property of hers, and she will stop at nothing until she gets him… or else.

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