Asogi Genshin

Genshin Asogi was a Japanese exchange student along with Yujin Mikotoba and Seishiro Jigoku ten years before Ryunosuke Naruhodo's arrival in London. He is the father of Kazuma Asogi.


One day Asogi discovered that Klint was living a double life. He was secretly the capital's notorious serial killer, known as the Professor, and was responsible for the deaths of four of Great Britain's nobles.

Unable to resolve the problem via legal routes, Asogi took matters into his own hands and directly confronted Klint over his crimes. This confrontation pushed Klint to confess to Asogi that he was indeed the Professor. With this confession heard, Asogi made a proposal to Klint to allow his friend to experience an honorable death: that they duel to the death with swords.

Klint accepted Asogi's proposal with two conditions: that he be allowed to write a last will and testament confessing his crimes, and that Asogi would ensure protection for Klint’s pregnant wife as well as his unborn child. Upon mutual agreement of these conditions Asogi and Klint dueled, with Asogi reigning supreme. Afterwards, Asogi fled from the scene and was witnessed by a number of servants working for Klint, but there was not enough evidence to prove that he was responsible for Klint's death.

Klint's blackmailer, Stronghart, wanted to avoid people discovering the identity of the Professor (and subsequently, his own role in The Professor's murders) at all costs. Having become privy to the identity of The Professor, Asogi became a threat to Stronghart. To this end, Stronghart orchestrated a devious plan.

Stronghart coerced several people into helping him frame Asogi and make him appear to be The Professor. Tobias Gregson was coerced into ordering thugs to attack Asogi. These thugs attacked Asogi while he was outside with Barok van Zieks. Concealing that their true target was Asogi by pretending that their target was Barok, the thugs stole Asogi's trademark ring from him.

With this fabricated evidence, his ring, along with the previous witness testimonies, Stronghart managed to convince all relevant authorities that not only was Asogi responsible for the death of Klint, but was in actuality the notorious serial killer "The Professor" responsible for the deaths of four other nobles before Klint. In spite of Asogi not possessing The Professor's trademark weapon, he was arrested and detained as a prime suspect for The Professor.

After smuggling Asogi out of prison, initially the plan was to secretly retrieve Asogi from his grave in Lowgate Cemetery. Stronghart recruited Asogi's fellow student, Seishiro Jigoku, for the task by promising to help Jigoku secure the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs back in Japan. However, catastrophe would strike following an unforeseen event. Enoch Drebber, a local university student studying science, came to Lowgate Cemetry seeking fresh corpses to study.

Drebber selected the plot in which Asogi was located, unearthing him. He then witnessed Asogi 'rising from his grave'. Soon thereafter, Stronghart and Jigoku showed up to the grave, having discovered the fact that Drebber had seen Asogi alive.

Upon this discovery, Stronghart and Jigoku were seized with terror. They realized that Drebber would more than likely tell others that he had seen the Professor seemingly rise from the dead. This would in turn uncover the plot to break Asogi out of jail, and subsequently would reveal other related plots - such as the plot to conceal Klint van Zieks' identity as the Professor.

Unable to allow his plan to be ruined, Stronghart chose murder: he convinced Jigoku to murder Asogi by shooting him in the chest with a gun. The gunshot wound instantly killed Asogi, causing him to fall back into his now-real grave. The resulting blood splatter from the gunshot covered Drebber and his camera, leading to Drebber fleeing from the scene in terror. With Drebber gone, Stronghart and Jigoku reburied the now-dead Asogi in his grave.