Kurosaki saves Tsurara's father by trapping the ringleader while leaving no traces of his involvement in the con operation. Tsurara has a deadbeat father who becomes an unwitting accomplice in a con operation. A condition which she accepts as she is aware how powerful Katsuragi, Kurosaki's backer, in the criminal world and how connected he is.
She later returns as a tenant in Kurosaki's building with condition that she would not do anything which endangers Kurosaki's operations. When she accidentally discovers Kurosaki's job as a "kurosagi", he kicks her out of the apartment in order to protect her from the repercussions of his actions rather than facing the other option of silencing her. She lives in Kurosaki's apartment as a tenant. Tsurara Yoshikawa is a law student who disapproves of Kurosagi's swindling ways but falls in love with him.
However, he is frequently met with opposition by a stubborn grad student, who seeks to become a prosecutor.Ī 21-year-old famed swindler known as the Kurosagi (or Black Swindler) because he only targets professional swindlers, conning them out of their own money, leaving them in ruins, and then using that money to pay back his client who are con victims. Since then, Kurosaki has devoted himself to becoming a "kurosagi" ("black swindler"), who swindles other swindlers, as a means of revenge.Īs a "kurosagi," Kurosaki's acts have helped innocent victims of swindling schemes get their money back.
As a result, his father killed Kurosaki's mother and sister before committing suicide. Six years ago, Kurosaki's family was destroyed when a "shirosagi" (a "white swindler", who focuses on defrauding others) swindled Kurosaki's father of their family's life savings.