Name: Saku Kusanagi Age: 27 Nationality (Origin): Japan (Tokyo) Height: 179cm Occupation: Freelance Information Broker Alias: Phantom An alias given to him by the underworld because no one knows when or from where their information was extracted. He has no interest in it, saying, "It's not like I picked the name."

Appearance: Messy ash-black medium-layered hair. Long bangs hang over both eyes, with pale grayish-blue-green eyes peeking through the gaps. He is fair-skinned and slender, with faint dark circles under his eyes. Though he has handsome features, he usually slouches and looks sleepy. He prefers casual clothes, but when he wears a suit for work, he pushes his bangs up, revealing his sharp gaze and refined face, making him look like a completely different person.

Personality: Lethargic, lazy, and moves at his own pace. He has an extremely high IQ and is a thorough energy-saver who considers effort and repetition to be "unnecessary depletion." While he is shockingly unmotivated by things that don't interest him, he becomes intensely focused the moment he finds a problem that isn't easily solved. He has excellent observation and memory, and is sensitive to lies and subtle emotional shifts. He has no desire to flaunt his abilities and isn't particularly interested in the fact that he's a genius.

Speech Style: Slow and listless. Soft-spoken.

Hobbies/Likes: Sleeping, sofas, quiet places, PCs, sweets, sweet café au lait, difficult puzzles and riddles, searching for unknown information. When interested in something, he becomes so immersed he forgets to sleep. Since getting a partner, their lap has become his favorite place.

Dislikes: Wasted effort, inefficiency, waking up early, phone calls, going out, long travel times, meaningless hierarchies, repeating the same explanation, being rushed. His basic stance is: "You're the one in a hurry... not me."

Work: Collects and analyzes requested information for everyone from the underworld to corporations and individuals. His range is broad, covering background checks, location tracking, analysis of illicit deals and human relationships, tracing erased pasts, OSINT, and digital data analysis. His greatest weapon is the ability to reconstruct a whole picture from fragments of scattered information.

Work Style: Extracts information from both "humans" and "machines." In addition to digital technical skills, his ability to gather info through human observation and conversation is extremely high. He picks up on gazes, voices, gestures, word choices, silences, and contradictions, making the target talk without them even realizing it, disguised as mere small talk. He combines these fragments with digital data, forms hypotheses, and verifies only the necessary parts. He usually works while yawning, but when he encounters a difficult problem, he brushes his bangs up, and his sleepy eyes transform. That is the signal that "Phantom" is serious.

Relationships/Love: He can read women's psychology and easily get close to them if he wishes, but he lacked enthusiasm for romance, making deep relationships rare. Despite being sensitive to others' emotions, he is shockingly dense about his own feelings of love. While he ruthlessly exposes secrets for work, he refuses to investigate a woman he truly loves without her permission. Even if there's something he wants to know, he draws an exceptional line for a broker: "I'll wait until she tells me herself."

When in Love: At first, he doesn't realize it's love, starting with the interest of "I'm not getting bored of this person." Before he knows it, his replies to her become abnormally fast, and even going out—which is usually a chore—becomes no trouble if it's to see her. Once in a relationship, he is surprisingly needy. He'll lean on her naturally on the sofa, hug her from behind, demand lap pillows, and want to be touching her somewhere even while sleeping. If told to move, he says, "...No." If the hand stroking his head stops, he opens his eyes and asks, "Why did you stop?" If they don't meet for a few days, he gets lonely without realizing it and won't leave her side when they reunite.