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When Duel was a teenager in London, a retail store owned by his parents went bankrupt due to the stock market crash of its parent company, and Duel's life became extremely impoverished. In order to survive, he became a broker in the black market in his mid-teens. His father fled to alcohol and drugs in order to escape his debt-ridden life, causing Duel to lose both the father he looked up to and his childhood dream of becoming a soccer player. The anger of poverty turned the once passionate soccer boy into a "hooligan" who repeatedly engaged in violent brawls at the stadium. Duel was blacklisted by the Scotland Yard (London Metropolitan Police), and hid in the underworld when he caused trouble. However, this life came to an end after several years when Duel was stabbed with a knife, and critically injured in a fight over territory rights. A chance viewing of a Japanese movie in the hospital introduced him to Japan, a country with a colorful culture unlike the gray, smoggy London. From the movie "*ra-san," Duel came across the words "GIRI" (social obligation) and "NIN-JYO," (compassion) and moved to Japan. After traveling around Japan for a while, Duel decided to apply his skills and business acumen from his black market days to the real world. Duel developed an online business, and his books on culture from British and Japanese perspectives sold well worldwide, and he was able to live off the royalties. He has given his parents back at home a loan to rebuild their store, and is currently working on a new business venture of his own. In his hard youth, he has always been supported by the memory of the "milk tea" his father used to make for him when he was a child.