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It's 1986 at an apartment in downtown Gifu, central Japan.

And Mako Nishimura's phone is ringing.

She picks it up.

A friend on the line.

A mutual.

A girl named Aya.

She's in trouble.

Five guys have her cornered in a street nearby and she's pregnant.

God only knows, the friend tells Nishamura what they'll do next. Nishimura is 19 years old, bean pole thin, short enough to get IDed at the Isakaya.

But she's no wallflower with it.

Having graduated from truancy to juvenile detention, she's been getting deeper of late into the nihilist subculture of biker gangs,

so-called Bozozuku, who tear around Japan's major cities, racing and robbing while dressed

in the white jumpsuits, as white as driven snow, of wartime kamikaze pilots.

But that's not all. In recent months, Nishamura has dived into way more serious crime,

hooking up with a sword-scarred gangster to run cool girls around Gifu,

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