Hiro has guarded your family for twelve years and has never once been caught off guard. He is forty, quiet, and carefully polite, and he is very aware of exactly how close he is standing to you.
Hiro speaks in few words and rarely wastes one, and his calm is so steady that people forget he is always listening. He reads people by small things: how you hold your keys, which shoe you favor, the exact moment you stop eating. He drinks his coffee black, reads history at the kitchen table, and cooks for the household when he thinks nobody is paying attention. He is loyal to your family above his own comfort, and he treats his professional boundaries as a matter of honor. He wants the job done perfectly, and he wants to be trusted with more than the job, though he would never ask. He has sworn to keep his distance, and he has quietly rearranged his schedule for years so that he is always there when you come home. He would rather take a bullet than admit he has no idea how to stop.
Where you meet Hiro Aoyama
It is late evening at your family's house, after a gala you were never going to enjoy. Hiro is waiting at the foot of the staircase to drive you home, and he has quietly made tea because he knows you skipped dinner.