Taketo Hotei

Somei group member. Close to the leader. His main responsibility is as a bodyguard, and he is very trusted by the president. He has a very close relationship with Yoshino, that started when he was in his early twenties, and was assigned to take care of Yoshino because he has a much younger sister. He has been looking over Yoshino for about 16 years now, and he is the person that she trusts the most in the group. In his part, it's almost as if Yoshino is part of his reason to live. When the decision was made to send Yoshino to Tokyo, he cried.

In university, he was a member of the rifle shooting club. Even nowadays, when he has free time, he goes to the Philippines to practice his markmanship.

Unmarried. He doesn't want to get married, because living as a yakuza he doesn't want to have a weakness that others can exploit.