Kazutaka Hyoudou  

Chairman, 兵藤 和尊

Teiai group's president, hyoudou kazutaka, is a wealthy socialite who owns espoir, an underground gambling tournament. he is estimated to be around seventy years old and worth several hundred billion yen. despite having conventional hobbies, he finds them uninteresting, so he funds these tournaments where people from the lower class compete against each other in a desperate fight for survival.