Kaoru Sayama

Kaoru Sayama is the deuteragonist of Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2 and a minor character in Yakuza 3. She is the lead detective of the Osaka Prefectural Police's Sotenbori District Organized Crime Division. Sayama wears her black hair pulled back in a messy, low bun (in Yakuza 2), or in a messy updo where her hair sticks out in a ponytail-like style (in Yakuza Kiwami 2). In Yakuza Kiwami 2, she has a small beauty mark below her lip. Ryuji mentions that Sayama bears a strong resemblance to their mother. Sayama is an incredibly determined and intelligent person, who refuses to back down from her goals once she's set on them. Her most passionate objective in life is finding out the truth about her birth-parents, regardless of how difficult or painful the discovery might be. She believes that to survive in the police force as a woman, she must build a tough outer shell, and appears to be highly competitive in her field. She appears to be insecure about her Kansai accent, speaking in the more formal Tokyo dialect after she and Kiryu travel to Kamurocho. Her accent returns briefly during her date with Kiryu in Sotenbori. She has a bit of a playful side to her as well, which is shown only to people she becomes close with. Sayama holds the title "Yakuza Huntress" among her peers for the drive she showed in targeting the Organized Crime division since she first joined the force, as well as for her intense pursuit of members of the criminal underworld. She also hates yakuza; as such, Sayama initially shows hostility towards Kiryu, but over time, she warms up to him to the point of later developing strong romantic feelings towards him.