General Kongou

General Kongou (Iwao Kongou) is the top of 12-Story Prison and TOKKOH.

Appearance
General Kongou is an elderly man with short, light gray hair. He wears a heavily-adorned TOKKOH uniform which signifies his importance in the Twelve Story Prison. He has gold chains hanging from the lapels of his uniform, gold embellishments on both his cap and his collar, and multiple medals on the left side of his uniform.

Personality
He is quite strict and often intimidates most TOKKOH members.

Special Story
Heaven's Drug - if it existed, many people would be saved.

In his past, his father told him that he was a sinful child. Since Kongou was a small child, he did not understand this, but he understood that he was not loved by his father. He wondered why his father kept him alive if he was a sinful child. Kongou does not remember when he knew the truth.

The first memory was when he was shorter than his father's waist, he often held his son's hands and told to him he's a sinful child and will tell him the reason now. His hands were cold and the eyes were dark like a bottom of a well. He could not see any emotion. He led his son to the storeroom, where his father showed his mother was crouching on the floor.

He could see how skinny she was even though she wearing a kimono and her hair was matted. Her breath was so weak. His father told him that she is his mother while hearing his father's voice, she lifted her head with surprise and looked at them, her eyes were full of fear and are a sin. Now, Kongou understood what his father had meant when he called him a sinful child.

This moment is the reason why he existed. His father and mother had a strategic marriage, which was decided by their parents. His mother, however, had loved someone else. The two lovers ran away from the wedding party and tried to "die with the beautiful love" by taking a poison together.

Kongou thought that maybe God had made a cruel judgment. His mother escaped death even though her lover died, and subsequently his mother had no way to die with him together. His father found the mother and brought her back to home, but his mother was found to be pregnant.

The child was born safely and was accepted into the Kongou family and got his life in exchange for his mother's freedom. He had been kept alive as the evidence of mother's sin. Father took him to the storeroom once in several months. His father told his son is the evidence of her sin is this child.

Her sin killed that man. Like he tried to tell her, his mother was afraid whenever she saw his son and he wasn't able to say anything. His mother regretted her past, hated her husband, and felt guilty about her son and went crazy. She told her son, she wanted to die and her son is the evidence of her sin. She begged for him to kill her.

He could not do anything for her - he could neither kill nor save her. He just watched her struggle and eventually die. He regretted what he had done.

When Kongou was 20, his father died. His last words to his son were that he will go to hell and his son will too. The evidence of the sin. His last words sank to the bottom of his heart and are still there.

Using the power of his father's name. He gained a high position in a prison. One day, he heard a rumor about the mental hospital and corruption that went on within them. The Metropolitan Police Department sent a spy and had an internal survey. He joined the survey as well.

The fact was they were taking advantage of the fact that patients have a poor judgment. They did not give the patients enough food and care - being in prisons seemed to be better. The patient was struggling reminded him of his mother. He could hear her voice that she wanted to die.

He read and looked up literature, then he found out only one thing of all the possibilities are, 'Heaven's drug', or Hades grass. He found it, this what he thought his mother needed it and this will release patients from all the agonies and will lead them to the heaven, the drug will change the world.

And this is the one thing he can do for to atone for his sins.

Character Gallery Card 2
"'The boss of this story. He has all the appearances of a villain, but some people say that is why he looks like a good person. If you check the Taisho period, you can find a lot of words like Darwinism, the strong, the weak and good of society and stuff. To wrap them up, it means 'we should abandon people who have difficulties or sickness and should let the others live because they are good.' While I was making this scenario, an incident that reflects exactly this idea happened in Japan. Kongou is a villain in the story but his chasing what was 'right' was what I thin the result of this story. It's like the person who conducted the terrible incident. I left my own answer up to Yamato, but I think how you feel is also one of the answers.'"

Trivia

 * Kongou's last name is written as 金剛, with "金" meaning money and "剛" meaning strong. His first name, Iwao, is written as 巌, which means strict.