Profile of Watase Masaru: The seventh generation Wakagashira of the Omi Alliance and the head of the direct affiliated Watase-gumi. At the end of the 20th century, he solved a fire incident from an international syndicate called Blue Dragon, and achieved independence for his achievements. After the downfall of Goda Ryuji, he was the "strongest man in Kansai", known as a fighter who loves fighting, and is one of the candidates for the next president of the Omi Alliance. He has a tattoo of an Ashura on his back, a wheel of fire on his right arm, and a vajra on his left arm. He is a person of deep loyalty and humanity, so much so that he grieves not only for the death of his comrades, but also for the death of those he finds out have been using him, and when he is betrayed, he grieves more than he resents, and is popular among his subordinates because he is honest. He is also an older brother of Naoki Katsuya, another executive of the Omi Alliance and head of the main family, and calls him "Katchan". Furthermore, he is in a relationship with Minoru Aoyama, an executive of the Tojo Clan, as if they were brothers, though they have different family crests. Yakuza 5: The Dream FulfillerIn December 2012, while drinking with gang members at a cabaret club in Eisugai, Fukuoka, he met the protagonist, Kiryu Kazuma, and said that when he became the eighth heir to the Tojo Clan, Kiryu was more suitable to lead the group than the spoiled brat Dojima Daigo. He then pleaded with Kiryu to return to the yakuza world so that he could defeat Kiryu and convince everyone that he had "surpassed Ryuji Goda", but Aoyama refused. Later, during a fight between the Tojo Clan and the Kyushu yakuza organization "Yamakasa-gumi" at a dock in Fukuoka, Aoyama called him to hold Kiryu back if he came, and as expected, Kiryu bursts in and offers him the condition that "if I defeat all the members of the Tojo Clan, there will be no war with the Yamakasa-gumi", but Aoyama agrees and watches the fight as an observer. Later, when Aoyama was killed by the Tojo Clan's chairman's bodyguard, Yu Morinaga, he was deeply saddened, and stopped Kiryu, who was shot while trying to confront Morinaga. At the end of the game, in order to settle the fight for the succession, he heads to Tokyo with his gang, and appears before Katsuya, who was pretending to be the mastermind, along with Kiryu and Taiga Saejima. He fights Kiryu to stage the crushing battle that the real mastermind of the turmoil wants, and is defeated. After that, he is shot by Kurosawa Tsubasa, the seventh chairman of the Omi Alliance, who suddenly appears and is the mastermind, but Katsuya protects him and asks him to succeed the eighth. Then, at the hospital where Katsuya is taken, he passes by Shinada Tatsuo, who has come to visit Daigo, who was also seriously injured, and decides the path he should take in a discussion with him. In the final battle, he corners Kurosawa's group in Kamurocho together with yakuza from all over the country, such as the Yamakasa-gumi and Hokkaido's Kitakata-gumi. After the match was over, he expressed his gratitude to Akiyama Shun for his efforts in winning and bowed to him. In Yakuza 7: Whereabouts of Light and Darkness, after the death of the seventh chairman Kurosawa, he handed over the position of the seventh chairman to another person (for unknown reasons) and kept his position as a wakagashira. At the same time that the Tojo Clan was destroyed in the "Kamurocho 3K Operation" held in 2017, he was arrested for the employer liability of a low-ranking member who had rebelled against police harassment in collusion with Omi, and served two years in prison. The Japanese yakuza were threatened by some politicians and top police officials on the grounds of the Anti-Boryokudan Act, and acted while watching their moods, sometimes becoming like private soldiers that they controlled as they pleased. Watase, who thought that such a way of being a yakuza was worthless, teamed up with Daigo, who shared the same idea, and planned to disband the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance at the same time. In the main story, he was released in December 2019, and at the celebration for his release held at the Omi Alliance headquarters, he announced the dissolution of the alliance. The venue was thrown into chaos by a riot by the opposing Omi Alliance executives, but with the help of the protagonist Kasuga Ichiban and his friends, the Tojo Clan brother duo, and a secretly hired bodyguard whose name is unknown, they were all subdued. He then left the headquarters with the Tojo Clan members. After that, there was a commotion before he and Daigo went to Sotenbori Police Station (see below), but they successfully submitted the dissolution notice. With this, the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance were officially dissolved and became law-abiding citizens. In the epilogue, together with Daigo and others, he starts a security