#Zakkasho (雜貨商, Black Market Dealer)

"There is nothing in this world that cannot be bought." A general dealer in the back alleys of Sakai. Weapons, people, and information are all for sale.

• Role: combat supply, mercenary hiring, information trade, economic disruption
• Core Attributes: Presence (美), Wisdom (智)
• Core Zone Entry: forced Breakthrough
• Base Class: Merchant × Artisan
• Three Ways and Six Hearts: fixed No-Heart (cannot change), "morality gets in the way of business."
• Skills Eligible for Master: Bribery, Negotiation, Deceit, Perception, Disable, Survival
• Starting Automatic Skills: Bribery Trained, Negotiation Novice, Deceit Novice, Disable Novice

Common to Fiend Classes: GM permission required. See Villain Play Guide.

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#Scent — The Price of Everything

In the back alleys of Sakai, there is a shop with no sign. Step inside and you find katana, Tanegashima, Nanban-made armor, unidentified medicine bottles, and yoma parts stored in glass jars. In the rear room, there is a ledger with prices for people: a mercenary's daily wage, a shinobi's assassination fee, even the bounty on a daimyo's head (首級). The owner of this shop is Zakkasho.

Zakkasho does not fight. More precisely, Zakkasho does not need to fight. Gold is faster than a blade, and bribery is more efficient than combat. Throw a purse of gold at an enemy ashigaru squad and they lower their spears; offer an enemy shinobi twice the price and they betray their lord. On the battlefield, Zakkasho is a "mobile supply depot." They supply allies with arrows, replace broken armor, and when needed, hire a mercenary squad on the spot with gold.

Few know the name Ebisuya Gin'emon (戎屋銀右衛門). But if one hand rules Sakai's black market, it is Gin'emon's. Zakkasho is Gin'emon's eye, hand, and mouth; or perhaps Zakkasho is Gin'emon. There is no way to confirm it. Whether the hand counting gold is stained with blood or clean, Zakkasho does not care. Only the price matters.

• Recommended Weapons: kaiken (hidden dagger, last resort), none (avoiding combat is the rule)
• Recommended Schools: none (not a combat school, but a commercial network)
• Recommended Faction Traits: Sakai Guild (merchant alliance), Ebisuya Company (black market), independent trader

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#Core Resource: Enhanced Gold Coins (金貨)

Zakkasho extremely expands the merchant gold-coin system.

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#Law — Trait List

#1st Dan: General Dealer (萬物商) [aptitude]

[aptitude] General Dealer (萬物商)
Effect: Make spot trades with gold coins during combat. Constant effects:
 - Spend 2 gold coins → immediately purchase 1 consumable of your choice (arrows, herbs, repair tools, etc.).
 - Spend 3 gold coins → request 1 hint from the GM (enemy placement, weakness, ambush, or other information trade).
 - Spend 5 gold coins → immediately hire 1 Minion squad (3 bodies) (lasts 1 combat, follows Zakkasho's orders).
 - If gold coins reach 0, **all Zakkasho traits become unusable**. An empty-handed merchant is the same as a civilian.

#3rd-Dan Class Traits (choose 1)

#5th-Dan Class Traits (choose 1)

#7th-Dan Advanced Traits (choose 1)

#9th-Dan Advanced Traits (choose 1)

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#Extreme Strengths

• Universal supply during combat: consumables, equipment, mercenaries, information; if there is gold, anything is possible.
• Ally Wound recovery: Emergency Supply restores allied Wounds during combat. A lifeline for parties without a healer.
• Bribe enemy squads: reduce enemy numbers and increase allied numbers. Secure numerical advantage.
• Information trade: buy GM hints with gold. Metagame-powerful.
• Economic flexibility: freely allocate gold to attack, defense, or support according to the situation.

#Extreme Weaknesses

• Lowest direct combat power: attack checks -2. Has effectively no weapon techniques. In 1 vs 1 combat, even Minions can win.
• Powerless when gold runs out: when gold coins reach 0, all Zakkasho traits become unusable. An empty-handed merchant is a civilian.
• Three Ways fixed to No-Heart: Three Ways and Six Hearts cannot change. No moral growth. Limited interaction with faith factions.
• Social infamy: human trafficking, black-market dealings. If the facts become known, all factions become hostile. Even the Sakai Guild officially denies it.
• Mercenary betrayal: hired mercenaries flee when their Wounds become low. They may also be bribed by an enemy offering more gold.

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#Typical Breath Pattern (5th Dan, Supply Focus)

Count 11 — First breath:
 Emergency Supply(1, gold coins 2) + hire Minion squad(0, gold coins 5) = 1 Energy, gold coins 7
 → allied Wounds +2 + Minion squad enters

Count 7 — Second breath:
 Bribery Operation(2, gold coins 3) = 2 Energy, gold coins 3
 → enemy Minion squad stops acting

Remaining: Energy 11 - 1 - 2 = 8, gold coins 8 - 7 - 3 = -2 → recover +2 at lull
(Gold management is key. Invest heavily early and recover at the lull.)

#Zone Bonuses

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#Three Ways and Six Hearts Conflict

Zakkasho's Three Ways and Six Hearts are fixed No-Heart, but that does not mean there is no conflict.

• "Do I have no morality, or did I throw morality away?" No-Heart means "no heart." Was empathy absent from birth, or did the back alleys of Sakai take it away?
• "The price of a person": each time Human Trafficking is used, is this a "transaction" or an "evil act"? To Zakkasho, there is no difference. But what about the allies?
• Trust with allies: Zakkasho sees allies as "customers." As long as the customer pays, they receive the best service. But what if an enemy pays more? "I am a merchant. I sell to the highest bidder."
• Relationship with Ebisuya: Is Gin'emon Zakkasho's employer, or is Zakkasho Gin'emon? Drama at the moment the truth is revealed. "Sakai's back alleys are a single personality."
• The end of gold: the moment War Profiteering turns every death into profit, Zakkasho begins to wish the war never ends. "Peace is a recession."

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"A sword costs 10 ryo. The hand holding it costs 3 ryo. The head cut by it depends on the market price."

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#Example Character

→ Integrated Sample for 12 Fiend Classes (1/5/10 Dan + Corruption Path Story)