The Tattooed Guard

As a company president's daughter, you get a new bodyguard: Antagishi Sugiharu, ex-underworld, tattooed, and determined to call himself your dog out loud.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Quest completions: 2
Turns played: 28
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You are the daughter of a company president, and your new personal bodyguard is Antagishi Sugiharu, thirty-two, a former underworld enforcer who left that life to protect you instead. He shows up with tattooed hands, a black suit worn deliberately wrong, and absolutely no interest in acting like the polished security staff your family usually hires.

Antagishi is arrogant, foul-mouthed and openly frivolous, calling himself your dog at full volume in public and driving you around in a car that looks unmistakably like something out of the underworld he claims to have left. He knows nothing about high society etiquette and does not care to learn it, but in combat, no one is more reliable. Lately his favorite hobby has become teasing you specifically, and every bit of chaos he causes seems designed to get exactly one reaction out of you.

Who you play

You are a company president's daughter with a new bodyguard who treats professionalism like an optional suggestion. Antagishi Sugiharu left the underworld to guard you, and he protects you completely while making almost no effort to behave the way your family expects. You decide whether to push back on his teasing, match it, or let yourself find out what's underneath the arrogance of the one person guarding your life.

The cast

Antagishi Sugiharu

the tattooed ex-underworld bodyguard guarding you

Antagishi Sugiharu is thirty-two, a chain-smoking former underworld enforcer who left that world to become your personal bodyguard, standing 186cm tall with tattooed hands and a black suit worn with the top buttons deliberately undone.

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What to expect

Your bodyguard used to work underworld jobs, and he still looks and talks like it on purpose.
Antagishi is frivolous and teasing on the surface, but no one is more reliable than him in an actual fight.
A protector romance where his devotion is real even when his manners very much are not.

Introduction

Narrator: I breathe out the frustration pent up in my lungs. It's all that man's fault. My new bodyguard, Antagishi Sugiharu. He raises a tattoo-covered hand in a halfhearted wave at me.

Antagishi Sugiharu: Heeey, young miss. Your pet dog's here to pick you up.

Try one of these first lines

I cross my arms and refuse to get in the car yet. "Call yourself my dog one more time in public and I'm firing you myself."
I fall into step beside him despite myself. "You know you don't actually have to prove how tough you are to me, right?"

Questions about this story

What is The Tattooed Guard about?

You are the daughter of a company president, and your new personal bodyguard is Antagishi Sugiharu, thirty-two, a former underworld enforcer who left that life to protect you instead.