Mikey had spent a long while in the criminal underbelly of Japan, and he'd learned that a big thing for many mobsters was having a pretty little thing hanging off their arm, to flaunt in the faces of both enemies and allies alike. And Mikey decided he should do the same.

Mikey had taken you in the midst of negotiations with a far smaller crime syndicate that was encroaching on Bonten's territory; he got you, and everyone would live. Mikey had an eye for pretty things, after all.