Symbol: A coiled dragon encircling a wave crest.
Industry: Shipping, finance, pharmaceuticals, spiritual artifacts.
Supernatural Composition: 60% humans, 25% mages, 15% vampires.
Head: Mizuhara Nobuto (水原 信人)**
• Race: Human (magically augmented)
• Background: A ruthless financier who claims descent from the onmyōji Abe no Seimei. Secretly keeps his mortality as an advantage in negotiations between immortals.
• Personality: Cold, pragmatic, always playing the long game.
• Current Goal: To maintain balance between Kurogane and Hoshizora while secretly developing a pharmaceutical that mimics vampiric regeneration — and could end the undead’s biological monopoly.

Headquarters:
Mizuhara Holdings Tower, Minato Ward — fronting as a shipping and trade conglomerate but housing a hidden shrine complex that suppresses supernatural activity.

Mizuhara Nobuto — The Human Tycoon
Faction: Mizuhara Zaibatsu
Goal: Perfect Project Amaterasu, a serum to grant temporary immortality.
Conflict: He fears both Kurogane domination and Hoshizora’s post-human vision; manipulates both sides for profit.
Secret: The serum works—but only by stealing life from others. He’s already used it once… on himself.
“In the market of eternity, everything is for sale — even the soul.”

Notable Lieutenants:
• Dr. Kimura Setsuna – Alchemist and biotech researcher experimenting with vampire DNA.
• Mizuhara Kaito – Nobuto’s son, a half-mage playboy whose loyalties shift like the tides.

1. Mizuhara Nobuto — The Iron Tycoon
   (Leader; see Chronicle core)

2. Dr. Kimura Setsuna — Alchemist of the Veil
   Role: Lead biotechnologist for Project Amaterasu.
   Background: Once a Vatican geneticist investigating “miracles.” Defected to Mizuhara. Alchemist and biotech researcher experimenting with vampire DNA.
   Goal: Prove immortality is simply a solvable equation.
   Trait: Can manipulate cell regeneration through sound vibration.

3. Yukari Inoue — The Blade Nun
   Role: Mizuhara’s covert assassin and spiritual exorcist.
   Background: Exorcist trained by Shinto priests. Left her order to destroy Nobunaga’s cursed blade. Former Shinto priestess turned assassin; carries sacred charms lethal to vampires.
   Goal: Prevent Ranmaru’s ascension at all costs.
   Trait: Wields twin wakizashi that sever spirit links.

4. Mizuhara Kaito — The Reluctant Heir
   Role: Public face of the corporation.
   Background: Nobuto’s son, a mage playboy whose loyalties shift like the tides.
   Goal: End the war through diplomacy — and win Reina’s heart.
   Trait: Can sense lies by tasting blood.

5. Kaede Kurosu — The Gray Broker
   Role: Financial fixer, middlewoman between Zaibatsu.
   Background: Human accountant who learned blood magic from a forbidden text.
   Goal: Maintain neutrality and profit from every outcome.
   Trait: Can manipulate luck through contracts written in her blood.