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Jack Hachiya (ジャック・八屋) is Wayne Uedera’s younger brother. He appears exclusively in the manga Sorrowful Cross Knife.
Profile[]
A sworn younger brother who was once in the same situation as Wayne as an orphan. The police are after him as a suspect in a murder incident.
(Translated from the Square Enix website)
Appearance[]
Jack has short blond and black hair, with the black part of his hair having a cross-shaped section cut out of it. He has a horizontal scar running across his face between his eyes and nose. Jack wears a black shirt and green pants.
Personality[]
Jack retrieves Eliza's lost wallet
Jack is violent and rough. He dislikes prostitutes and often gets into fights with them and their bodyguards. He sees himself as a lone wolf learned from Wayne and tries to act on his own, and refuses to tell others what he feels. He owns a custom cross-shaped knife as his main weapon and views it as his "wolf's fang."
In the past, Jack was kinder and looked up to Wayne as his brother and mentor, and cared for Eliza. Over time he changed, and developed feelings of resentment to Wayne for leaving them behind.
Background[]
Jack disapproves of Eliza's prostitution job
Jack is an orphan who was rescued by Wayne and became like a brother to him and fellow orphan Eliza Masuda. The trio took residence in an abandoned underground sewer room and promised that it could be a place they could return to if they needed help, with a key to the room given to each person.
Jack sought to become a strong lone wolf like Wayne and obtained a cross-shaped knife as his personal weapon. When Wayne left them, Jack strived to take care of Eliza in his place and would get into fights for money. Eliza became a prostitute and attempted to pay him back for everything he’d done, however Jack became disgusted and abandoned her. In truth, Jack loved Eliza and didn't want to see her become a prostitute, but was unable to tell her how he really felt. Jack eventually made a name for himself as a thug.
Relationships[]
- Wayne Uedera (older brother figure, best friend)
- Eliza Masuda (younger sister figure, love interest)
- Inspector Schneider (enemy)
Role in the Story[]
Jack is assaulted by Schneider
Jack is introduced beating up some thugs who intruded on his turf, and is then beaten up by Inspector Schneider. Rose and Wayne come to his rescue and pay Schneider to leave him alone. Jack gets angry at Wayne for helping him and starts a fight with him, but Rose forces them to stop.
Later, the police discover a prostitute Olivia Fukatani has been robbed and murdered. Schneider assumes Jack to be the killer because the victim had a cross-shaped stab wound. Wayne investigates, believing in Jack’s innocence, but things take a turn when a second prostitute belonging to Primavera is murdered and Eliza claims to have witnessed Jack doing the deed. With Jack nowhere to be found, Primavera and Schneider’s police ramp up their search. Wayne checks out an abandoned bar he and Jack used to frequent and is attacked by gangsters from the Alfred Family, who claim Jack murdered one of their lieutenants and want to bring him in. After this incident, Wayne implores Primavera to assist him and stakes out the sewer room from his past.
Jack is forced to kill a mafia boss to survive
When Wayne heads to the sewers, he finds Jack waiting for him. Jack attacks Wayne with his knife and demands that Wayne draw his gun and kill him. As they fight, Wayne is taken aback by Jack acting so beastlike. Wayne sees that Jack is still following the combat lessons he taught him so long ago, and aims his gun and then drops it right when Jack is about to strike. Jack is surprised by this sudden move, and Wayne smacks him upside the head.
Jack calms down, and Wayne says he didn't kill him since he promised not to kill anyone. Realizing that his brother still trusts him, Jack asks for his help. Jack explains that he really didn't kill the prostitutes, and recounts how he was captured by a mafia lieutenant and was forced to kill him to escape. Wayne has a discussion with him about the nature of wolves, and apologizes for not teaching him that wolves need companions to survive. Jack relinquishes his cross knife as a sign of him no longer being a lone wolf.
Wayne cries over Jack's death
The Alfred Family group from earlier heads into the sewers to continue searching for Jack. Wayne holds them off while Jack escapes, and reunites with him at the sewer exit. As they leave, Jack is suddenly shot and killed by Schneider. Schneider reminds the angry Wayne that Jack was wanted dead or alive, and threatens to kill him too if he doesn't hand over the cross knife. However, Rose and the rest of Primavera arrive with evidence that Schneider killed Olivia and framed Jack for the murder. Schneider is arrested by American police, and Wayne cradles the body of his best friend.
Wayne meets with Eliza again, having discovered that she was the murderer of the second prostitute, and asks why she framed Jack. Eliza talks about how she hated how she and Jack changed, and felt that Jack betrayed her first by not approving her prostitute job. Wayne explains that Jack really did love her and cared for her but just couldn't say it, and Eliza cries with regret that she never realized it sooner.
Although Schneider has been arrested, the police refuse to let it be known that an American cop is a killer, and so the public will know Jack as Jack the Ripper. Wayne and Eliza have a final farewell at Jack's grave, where Wayne leaves behind his cross knife and promises to come back.
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