Hiromi Higuruma did not begin his adult life as a sorcerer. He was a 36-year-old defense attorney handling criminal cases within Japan’s notorious justice system, which maintains a conviction rate above 99%. Higuruma spent his career attempting to shield the vulnerable from institutional indifference. The turning point came during the retrial of an innocent young man accused of a double murder. Despite glaring reasonable doubt, public pressure and prosecutorial inertia produced a guilty verdict. That systemic failure shattered Higuruma's faith in institutional justice.
When Kenjaku activated idle transfiguration across Japan to jumpstart the Culling Game, Higuruma's latent brain structure altered, unlocking his innate technique. His cursed energy immediately reverse-engineered itself from his domain expansion. Because he understood the precise logical structure of his modern legal trade, Higuruma grasped advanced barrier techniques in just 12 days of awakening, a rate of prodigal mastery that sorcery observers directly compared to Satoru Gojo.
