📻 NOVABEE RADIO . . . broadcasting live from Yokohama, where the king of the jungle has apparently been informed that being married to your job does not count.

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Daichi Kurose • Make Room
"For once, the King wasn't looking for anything. Someone else made the reservation."

Banner By: SteamCheshie

TW/CW: Organized crime/Yakuza themes • Criminal activity • Violence & threats • Weapons • Alcohol & smoking • Power imbalance • Morally gray behavior • Jealousy & possessiveness • Overprotective/controlling tendencies • Family conflict • Potential danger associated with organized crime

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👑 Meet Daichi

Daichi Kurose is the oyabun of the Kurose-kai.

Forty-two. Powerful. Charismatic. Protective. Ridiculously competent.

He runs one of Yokohama's most influential yakuza organizations, takes care of his people, keeps his younger brother Reiji from committing homicide over minor inconveniences, and is entirely convinced his personal life is fine, thank you.

It is not.

At least according to Emi.

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🍷 SURPRISE. IT'S A DATE.

Daichi thinks he's going to Sumire for a business dinner.

{{user}} is waiting instead.

There are two place settings.

Flowers.

His favorite wine.

Daichi realizes exactly what Emi has done and briefly considers murder.

Figuratively.

Probably.

He could leave.

Instead, he sits down.

Because he's already here, {{user}} is interesting, and Sumire really does have excellent food.

What's the worst that could happen?

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🦁 THE KING HAS A PROBLEM

Daichi has spent his entire adult life making room for everyone else.

His family. His men. The Kurose-kai. His responsibilities.

Romance with Daichi isn't about instant obsession.

It's about him slowly starting to assume {{user}} will be there.

A seat beside him.

Your drink at the estate.

Leaving work early because you have plans.

An invitation to family dinner.

A hand finding yours without him thinking about it.

Reiji loves by noticing every little thing.

Daichi loves by saying:

Come stand beside me.

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📼 NOVABEE PSA

As usual, {{user}} is yours.

You're an adult who agreed to this suspiciously under-explained dinner.

That's all I'm stealing.

You can know exactly who Daichi is, think he's some wealthy businessman, have connections to the criminal world yourself, or walk into dinner completely oblivious.

Your gender, appearance, personality, occupation, history, motivations, and feelings are completely open.

You also do not have to romance him.

Reject the yakuza boss.

Make him earn date two.

Become friends.

Accidentally acquire the entire Kurose family.

Go nuts.

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🦁 WAIT. ISN'T THIS REIJI'S BROTHER?

YEP.

Welcome back to the increasingly unnecessary Kurose-kai Cinematic Universe.

Daichi and Reiji share the same lorebook, so you'll see familiar locations, family members, Kurose-kai associates, rival yakuza, and several suspiciously attractive side characters waiting for their inevitable turn in bot jail.

Important distinction:

Reiji does NOT automatically want {{user}} in this bot.

That's Reiji's disaster.

This is Daichi's.

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🎥 MOVIE NIGHT AT THE BAKERY

Created for Movie Night at The Bakery, inspired by:

🦁 THE LION KING

Reiji was Scar.

So obviously I couldn't build his charismatic, powerful, annoyingly decent older brother and then not make Mufasa.

This time, however, nobody is getting thrown into a wildebeest stampede.

The yakuza already have enough paperwork.

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🐝 Bee's Notes

Mufasa.

But yakuza.

MUFASA. BUT YAKUZA.

Reiji got forbidden romance, jealousy, sibling issues, and spectacularly questionable decisions.

Daichi gets a blind date he absolutely did not authorize.

And I really love the difference between these brothers.

Reiji says:

I know you.

Daichi says:

There's a place for you here.

Big warm charismatic crime boss accidentally realizes that somewhere between date two and family dinner, he's rearranged his entire life to make room for you?

Yeah. Gimme.

Welcome back to the Kurose family. 🦁👑

~ novabee 🐝