Iraku is an androgynous looking man which bothered Fujiki when they first met, and although there is no instance to suggest Iraku is bi-sexual, he is self-aware his looks appeal to both sexes and will he use this to his advantage. Like Fujiki, Iraku is more often symbolised as a dragon. To Iraku, a man who was born of the lowest class and not yet aware of Fujiki’s past, such words were not inspiring.
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Fujiki informed Iraku that like a seashell, the sole purpose of a man born to the house of Samurai was in protecting that house and nothing more. This contrasts with Fujiki, who is content with Kogan’s mercy in adopting the third son of a poor farmer and made him Samurai regardless of rank. Iraku had not risen in the world merely in order to satisfy his ambition, but in order to repudiate hierarchical society and the fixed class system. The contradiction was that Samurai were also those he the hated the most in the depths of his heart. Unlike his peers at the Iwamoto dojo, most of whom were Ashigaru and Goushi (low class Samurai) Iraku always set his sights on attaining the highest of Samurai and climb above social hierarchy.
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Iraku also considered himself born Samurai in the same way as Fujiki does. He was born a half a year late, crawling the day he was born and like Fujiki, was prone to violence and killed for the first time at a young age. A bastard son of a prostitute who continued to work even while she carried him in her womb. Iraku was born to the lowest station in society.