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== History ==
 
== History ==
 
===Light Novel Volume 1===
 
===Light Novel Volume 1===
Saitoh is accepted to an interview for a job position at a corporation, completely unaware he is applying to an assassination company, Murder Inc. He manages to impress one of the interviewees by reciting the time he had almost killed someone at Koshien in the past. He receives an offer two weeks after the interview. When he arrives at the company he is surprised of their true operations. After months of undergoing training he is given his first assignment to assassinate a political figure but can't muster the courage to do so. Because of his failure he is directed by his superior to transfer to the Fukuoka Branch the following day or risk being eliminated by the organization.
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Saitoh is accepted to an interview for a job position at a corporation in Tokyo, completely unaware he is applying to an assassination company, Murder Inc. He manages to impress one of the interviewees by reciting the time he had almost killed someone at Koshien in the past. He receives an offer two weeks after the interview. When he arrives at the company he is surprised of their true operations. After months of undergoing training he is given his first assignment to assassinate a political figure but can't muster the courage to do so. Because of his failure he is directed by his superior to transfer to the Fukuoka Branch the following day or risk being eliminated by the organization.
   
Once arriving in Fukuoka City he gets situated and then heads to get his assignment from his new superior. After receiving the details of his target, Jun Murase, Saitoh heads to Murase's residence and waits for Murase to return home to complete the task. Before he can do that, he encounters Jiro and his helper Misaki and unaware that they also have come to capture Murase, he gives his target's name instead of his own when asked, resulting in him being kidnapped by the two.
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Once arriving in Fukuoka City he gets situated and then heads to meet his new superior who gives him a fake ID with the name Takeda Itou and an assignment to kill Jun Murase. After receiving the details of his target, Saitoh heads to Murase's residence and waits for Murase to return home to complete the task. Before he can do that, he encounters Jiro and his helper Misaki and unaware that they also have come to capture Murase, he gives his target's name instead of his own when asked, resulting in him being kidnapped by the two.
   
He wakes up in an empty warehouse by the sea. Jiro and Martinez are there. They introduce themselves as avengers and proceed to torture a high school boy who murdered a cat in a cruel way in front of Saitoh. Once they're done they kill the boy and Jiro prepares to beat Saitoh up, assuming he is Murase who beat a man to death. Saitoh tells Jiro he's actually an employee of Murder Inc. and asks him to take his business card out of his pocket as proof. Jiro apologizes and lets him go and offers him his own business card.
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He wakes up in an empty warehouse by the sea. Jiro and Martinez are there. They introduce themselves as avengers and proceed to torture a high school boy who murdered a cat in a cruel way in front of Saitoh. Once they're done, they kill the boy. Jiro prepares to beat Saitoh up, assuming he is Murase who beat a man to death. Once Saitoh can speak, he tells Jiro that he's actually an employee of Murder Inc. who was sent to kill Murase and asks him to take his business card out of his pocket as proof. Jiro apologizes, lets Saitoh go and offers him his own business card.
   
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Saitoh goes back to the hotel where he's been living since arriving in Fukuoka and goes to sleep. When he wakes up, he receives a call from his superior, congratuling him for killing Murase and presenting it as an accident. Saitoh calls Jiro to ask if the avengers killed Murase but they did not. Saitoh goes to the entertainment district and decides to use some of the money he's been paid for Murase's death to have fun there.
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The next morning he wakes up at the hotel. He realizes a dead woman is on the bed next to him. He recalls that he was very drunk the previous night and a woman different from the dead one approached him but doesn't remember anything else. He flees the hotel room in a hurry.
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Some time later, while wandering around the city, Saitoh learns from the TV that the woman's body has been found and he is a murder suspect under his fake name Takeda Itou. He decides to go to Bar Babylon where Jiro is the manager and explains the situation to Jiro who tells him he must have been set up. Saitou asks Jiro to avenge him by placing the blame back onto the real culprit and offers to pay him with the money he got for Murase's death.
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Saitou stays hidden at the bar while Jiro leaves. When he comes back, he tells Saitou that he found out who set Saitou up and takes him to an apartment building in the city by car. [[Xianming Lin|Lin]] and [[Zenji Banba|Banba]] are already there. They're waiting for the targets, who locked themselves inside an apartment, to call a cell phone that Banba has taken from their associate. The phone rings. Banba drops the call, the door of the apartment open and Reiko comes out. Saitou recognizes her as the woman whom he met the previous night. Jiro tells Reiko that to avenge her having framed Saitou, she will take the blame for the murders and renders her unconscious. Lin and Banba go into the apartment to look for Yusuke but can't find him until he ambushes them with a gun. Jiro can't help them because he's holding Reiko, so Saitou grabs a signed baseball from the cupboard and throws it at Yusuke, incapacitating him. Jiro asks Saitou to join the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens baseball team as a pitcher but Saitou is hesitant. Jiro takes him to a nearby hotel and gives him the bussiness card of Saeki's cosmetic surgery clinic and suggests to Saitou to change his facial features. Saitou sees that as an opportunity to escape both the investigators and Murder Inc. and heads to the clinic some time later. After the operation, he calls Jiro and accepts the pitcher's position.
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During his first game with the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens, he's hit on the head with a ball by the opposing pitcher while in the batter position. He realizes that the pitcher looks similar to the batter whom he hit years ago in the same way and that Jiro and Misaki are smiling.
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==

Revision as of 01:45, 14 January 2018

Saitoh (斉藤, Saitō) is a recent university graduate employed by Murder Inc. who is transferred to the Fukuoka Branch after failing an assassination assignment handed to him. After the events of the first volume of the light novel he leaves the assassination business behind and resumes a normal, quiet life.

Characteristics

Appearance

Saitoh has brown and well-kept hair and is usually seen in a formal brown business suit in illustrations.

Personality

He is often described as timid and fearful and is prone to near tears under stressful situations. While he had been taught all the techniques and skills in hand-to-hand fighting or using knives at Murder Inc. he has nearly forgotten all of that knowledge. Due to his inabilities he will often thus depend solely on others to help him resolve issues such as handling assassins sent after him or an incident he was framed for.

Saitoh does have a huge interest and love for baseball. In his narration he frequently makes comparisons of current situations he is facing to particular set-ups that occur in baseball games. Because of an incident that happened in a game where he accidentally hit the batter in the head with a pitch he made he developed the 'yips' and has become unable to throw a ball, afraid he would end of hitting and injuring someone the same way as in the past.

Background

Saitoh was part of a veteran school in the Kanto region of Japan and participated in their baseball club, which he was the ace pitcher of the team. His school team managed to make it to enter Hanshin Koshien, where the Japanese National High School Baseball Championship is held. During one of the matches, however, Saitoh pitched a ball that hit the batter in the head, which ended with him hospitalized and in a coma. He received trauma from the incident and unable to pitch he resigned from the team and continued on solely with his academic career.

History

Light Novel Volume 1

Saitoh is accepted to an interview for a job position at a corporation in Tokyo, completely unaware he is applying to an assassination company, Murder Inc. He manages to impress one of the interviewees by reciting the time he had almost killed someone at Koshien in the past. He receives an offer two weeks after the interview. When he arrives at the company he is surprised of their true operations. After months of undergoing training he is given his first assignment to assassinate a political figure but can't muster the courage to do so. Because of his failure he is directed by his superior to transfer to the Fukuoka Branch the following day or risk being eliminated by the organization.

Once arriving in Fukuoka City he gets situated and then heads to meet his new superior who gives him a fake ID with the name Takeda Itou and an assignment to kill Jun Murase. After receiving the details of his target, Saitoh heads to Murase's residence and waits for Murase to return home to complete the task. Before he can do that, he encounters Jiro and his helper Misaki and unaware that they also have come to capture Murase, he gives his target's name instead of his own when asked, resulting in him being kidnapped by the two.

He wakes up in an empty warehouse by the sea. Jiro and Martinez are there. They introduce themselves as avengers and proceed to torture a high school boy who murdered a cat in a cruel way in front of Saitoh. Once they're done, they kill the boy. Jiro prepares to beat Saitoh up, assuming he is Murase who beat a man to death. Once Saitoh can speak, he tells Jiro that he's actually an employee of Murder Inc. who was sent to kill Murase and asks him to take his business card out of his pocket as proof. Jiro apologizes, lets Saitoh go and offers him his own business card.

Saitoh goes back to the hotel where he's been living since arriving in Fukuoka and goes to sleep. When he wakes up, he receives a call from his superior, congratuling him for killing Murase and presenting it as an accident. Saitoh calls Jiro to ask if the avengers killed Murase but they did not. Saitoh goes to the entertainment district and decides to use some of the money he's been paid for Murase's death to have fun there.

The next morning he wakes up at the hotel. He realizes a dead woman is on the bed next to him. He recalls that he was very drunk the previous night and a woman different from the dead one approached him but doesn't remember anything else. He flees the hotel room in a hurry.

Some time later, while wandering around the city, Saitoh learns from the TV that the woman's body has been found and he is a murder suspect under his fake name Takeda Itou. He decides to go to Bar Babylon where Jiro is the manager and explains the situation to Jiro who tells him he must have been set up. Saitou asks Jiro to avenge him by placing the blame back onto the real culprit and offers to pay him with the money he got for Murase's death.

Saitou stays hidden at the bar while Jiro leaves. When he comes back, he tells Saitou that he found out who set Saitou up and takes him to an apartment building in the city by car. Lin and Banba are already there. They're waiting for the targets, who locked themselves inside an apartment, to call a cell phone that Banba has taken from their associate. The phone rings. Banba drops the call, the door of the apartment open and Reiko comes out. Saitou recognizes her as the woman whom he met the previous night. Jiro tells Reiko that to avenge her having framed Saitou, she will take the blame for the murders and renders her unconscious. Lin and Banba go into the apartment to look for Yusuke but can't find him until he ambushes them with a gun. Jiro can't help them because he's holding Reiko, so Saitou grabs a signed baseball from the cupboard and throws it at Yusuke, incapacitating him. Jiro asks Saitou to join the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens baseball team as a pitcher but Saitou is hesitant. Jiro takes him to a nearby hotel and gives him the bussiness card of Saeki's cosmetic surgery clinic and suggests to Saitou to change his facial features. Saitou sees that as an opportunity to escape both the investigators and Murder Inc. and heads to the clinic some time later. After the operation, he calls Jiro and accepts the pitcher's position.

During his first game with the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens, he's hit on the head with a ball by the opposing pitcher while in the batter position. He realizes that the pitcher looks similar to the batter whom he hit years ago in the same way and that Jiro and Misaki are smiling.

Trivia

  • At the end of the first volume of the light novel he becomes the pitcher to the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens grass-lot baseball team.

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