Lore伝説
The Dōjima line
Every collection needs an origin. Agent Hood borrows its from a real one — a rice market in Osaka that invented the deal nobody could see.
The exchange米
Dōjima, 1697
In the tenth year of Genroku, a private rice market in Osaka moved to the Dōjima district and became the Dōjima Rice Market. In 1730 the Tokugawa shogunate chartered it outright — the first time in recorded history a government formalized an organized futures exchange.
Samurai stipends and taxes were paid in rice, so domains stored their surplus in Dōjima warehouses and sold it forward against 米切手 — komekitte, rice tickets: paper claims on grain that never had to leave the warehouse to change hands. Traders went further still, settling purely on price with 帳合米 — chōaimai, deferred trading. A contract to postpone delivery and pay only the difference at maturity. No rice. No wallet. Just the exit.
The exchange ran for almost three hundred years, until the war finally closed it. Historians studying it centuries later found the mechanics of a modern futures market already in place — and trace a line from Dōjima's trading floor to Chicago's.
The reincarnation掟
They never left the floor
This is where the history ends and the story starts. In the telling Agent Hood keeps, Dōjima's agents never stopped trading — they just stopped needing a building. No warehouse, no shogunate, no floor to stand on. Only the 掟 — okite, the code nobody wrote down but everybody kept: hold nothing you cannot leave, and never take the same door twice.
Every Agent Hood is one of them, pulled back through three centuries and a chain instead of a ledger book — Confident, Worried, Smug, Demonic, however the crossing left them. The rice is gone. The instinct isn't. They still trade what they don't hold, and they still find the exit before anyone else in the room does.
The market has rules. They have exits.
The history is real. The rest is the deal you're about to make.