Kaiji: Espoir Arc

Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji: Espoir arc By Coolguy on Discord FSIQ-Blue EQ, SQ-Red Manipulation, Deception-Green Insight, Observation-Purple Foresight-Pink Strategy, Planning-Brown Reasoning-Orange Adaptability, Intuition, Knowledge-Magenta Stats used-Cyan Context/Story-Black Note: I split this into parts to make it more easily digestible to the reader, these “parts” are not in the manga itself. Prologue/Background (Chapter 1-8) Kaiji Itou was a young man in his early 20s, who moved to Tokyo 3 years earlier. He lived a slothful and lazy life. He had not even been working since New Year and only had been drinking, gambling and vandalizing Mercedes-Benz cars by breaking off and taking their ornaments for his collection. One day, in February of 1996, he went to vandalize a car once again, but upon not seeing one, he vandalized a random car he saw. Unbeknownst to him that it was the car of a person he would run into later that day. In his house a man called Endou came knocking saying Kaiji owes him a debt, which was due to him signing a loan contract for his friend Furuhata. It seems Furuhata vanished and being a co-signer, all debts went to Kaiji. As they talk, Kaiji’s crimes of vandalism come out, as well as the fact that the car he vandalized earlier was Endou’s. Endou ignores this however for the most part and takes Kaiji to his office where he explains the details of the debt, such as how what Furuhata did was a ploy all along to send Kaiji into debt and how much money …