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Yurika, a young woman in Tokyo's underworld, works as a honey trap: she lures powerful men into hotel rooms, drugs them, and stages compromising photographs for an organization that uses them as blackmail. One job draws her into a conflict between rival factions and the gangster Kizaki. She tries to survive by playing each side against the others, only to find that her every move has already been anticipated.
Kizaki's highest pleasure is scripting another person's life, not violence or money. He arranges circumstances so that a person's own choices, even acts of rebellion, lead to the outcome he designed. This kind of domination works because the victim experiences each step as her own decision, so her agency becomes the means of her control.
Beneath the visible city lives a class of people with no stable identity, family, or institutional protection. Their disappearance goes unrecorded. Criminal and elite power uses these people as tools because they can be spent and erased without consequence, so their invisibility is the very quality that makes them useful and endangered.
Against a controller who can foresee rational self-interest, the only space left for freedom is an act the planner did not predict, often one that is costly or self-destructive. On this view, autonomy is not the ability to win but the small unscripted margin where a person refuses to behave as calculated.