Through an audience with the leader of the Element Network, Haruka learns more about Mamoru's past--how his aspirations to master all forms of combat led him to a military training facility in the U.S. and from there to service with the Element Network. It was on a mission to stop TPC, a criminal group responsible for abducting children in Chechnya, that Mamoru first encountered the hitman Jesus...and lost his eyesight...
Hiroshi Takashige (たかしげ宙) is a Japanese manga artist best known in various manga communities in Japan and overseas for his work in Spriggan and later in Until Death Do Us Part.
An origin story (the source of Mamoru's blindness) earned a fifth star this volume, although I suspect the story also served to introduce a character named Jesus (a name I'd just as soon they had not chosen for an assassin).