Phantom of Inferno

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Phantom of Inferno is a visual novel game distributed by Hirameki International (a subsidiary of the Japanese visual novel publisher Hirameki). It came out in Japan in 2001, and then was distributed in America by AnimePlay in 2003.

[edit] Plot

Phantom of Inferno is a story detailing the life of a 15-year-old Japanese boy who is kidnapped and brainwashed by a malevolent secret crime syndicate called Inferno in order to be one of their top assassins. Inferno is supposed to be a sort of United Nations that exists only for assassin guilds and crime syndicates.

[edit] Characters

Zwei

The title character of the story, Zwei was a perfectly ordinary tourist before witnessing an Inferno assassination, and being kidnapped. He was able to allude his pursuers long enough that they realised he had a natural survival instinct that was perfect for an assassin. He had his memory erased through a combination of drug and hypnotherapy. The name Zwei is simply a code name to show he is the second experimental assassin created by Master Scythe. When he escapes to Japan, he changes his name to Reiji.

Ein

An assassin with such skill she was given the codename, "Phantom", a designation given to only the best killer in Inferno. She was found by Master Scythe and was his first test subject to be given his assassin processing treatment. She has no memories of her past, and is incredibly apathetic. When she escapes to Japan, she changes her name to Ellen and claims to be Zwei's sister.

Claudia McCunnen

A beautiful executive of Inferno who is quick to befriend and manipulate Zwei.

Lizzie Garland

Claudia's loyale friend and bodyguard.

Master Scythe

A scientist with sadistic delusions of granduer. He is the creator of Ein, Zwei, Drei, and the members of Zwerrenshvestain.

Isaac Wisemel

A brutal executive of Inferno, and leader of the Los Angeles gang, the "Bloodies".

Raymond McGuire

A quiet and calculating Columbian drug lord who other executives of Inferno are quick to obey.

Drei

Used to be Cal Devens, a young girl that Zwei roomed with while he was still in America. After an attempt on his life, Zwei took her for dead and was forced to leave America to go into hiding. Now she's a psychotic assassin who has returned to exact a terrible revenge.

Zwerrenshvestain

Six girls who all went through Master Scythe's finalized assassin creation process. They are nearly the same quality of killers as the first three, and took nowhere near as much time to train since the process to make them was based on all the originals data. They all wear white carnival masks and are named: Vier, Fünf, Sechs, Seiben, Acht and Neun.