Kazuma Asougi

亜双義 一真

Age: 23
Gender: Male
Occupation: Student/Defense Attorney

Ryuunosuke's closest friend, a prodigious student who recently became a defense attorney and who plans to travel the world.

Personality: Asougi is loyal and intelligent, with a keen sense of justice and progressivism. As an attorney, he aims to both protect the innocent and reform Japan's legal system, believing that modernization, transparency, and fairness are necessary to ensure just trials throughout the country. His confidence in his skills occasionally flirts with arrogance, but he's almost always able to back up his talk, even if he isn't always quite as quick to 'think outside the box' as some attorneys we know.

Misc Facts: Asougi has trouble with tongue-twisters, to the point that he wears a headband as a way of expressing victory over one that vexed him for months. (Unfortunately, he got the tongue-twister wrong to begin with.)

Friends and Family: Close friend of Ryuunosuke. Student of Yuujin Mikotoba and partner of Susato Mikotoba.

Name Origin:
Japanese: Takumi has commented that the name comes from Asōgi (阿僧祇), a word denoting the rather large number of 10^56 (from Chinese origin). The kanji of his first name can be read as "one truth", while his last name contains one of the kanji for "justice".

Spoiler: DGS-2
"Sougi" can also mean "funeral rites" - a nod to his eventual fate. His sword's name, "Karuma", is taken directly from the Japanese name of the von Karma family.


Background: Asougi is a skilled, well-liked student at Teitou Yuumei University who became friends with Ryuunosuke after a somewhat disastrous debate contest. After demonstrating the qualifications to become a defense attorney, Asougi was chosen to travel abroad to England as part of an exchange program.

Spoiler: DGS-2
Asougi's business in London seemed to go beyond study, however - he mentions to Ryuunosuke that there was something there "he must do". Furthermore, the government assigned detective Satoru Hosonaga to guard Asougi, believing there was a chance he would be assassinated. But before the details behind any of this could come to light, he was accidentally killed.

Spoiler: DGS-5
While we still don't know Asougi's full past when DGS ends, the final thing we learn in the game is that he was one of four people mentioned in a top-secret telegram from the British government to the Japanese government, alongside "A. Sassha", "T. Gregson", and "J. Watson".