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* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Dexter realizes that he's evil, but has been programmed to [[EvenEvilHasStandards live within a]] [[LawfulEvil set of standards]] that are supposed to place him above common murderers. He sometimes allows himself to fantasize that he is a dark avenger of the innocent. Occasionally, when his target reveals that their victim had it coming too (such as a gay boy who killed his gay-bashers before they killed him), Dexter forces his need to go unsated that night.

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* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': [[Characters/DexterDexterMorgan Dexter Morgan]] realizes that he's evil, but has been programmed to [[EvenEvilHasStandards live within a]] [[LawfulEvil set of standards]] that are supposed to place him above common murderers. He sometimes allows himself to fantasize that he is a dark avenger of the innocent. Occasionally, when his target reveals that their victim had it coming too (such as a gay boy who killed his gay-bashers before they killed him), Dexter forces his need to go unsated that night.
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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Almost all incarnations of Kira fall under this trope, with the exception of the one profit-driven CorruptCorporateExecutive. Most notably, the main character Light is a mix of KnightTemplar and AGodAmI, believing that he will become the "god of the new world" by completely eradicating the world's criminals. True to the series' penchant of showing what happens to HeWhoFightsMonsters, a good number of the Kiras [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jump Off the Slippery Slope]] into KnightTemplar (such as Light himself) or just plain AxCrazy (such as Mikami) territory.

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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Almost all incarnations of Kira fall under this trope, with the exception of the one profit-driven CorruptCorporateExecutive. Most notably, the main character [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] is a mix of KnightTemplar and AGodAmI, believing that he will become the "god of the new world" by completely eradicating the world's criminals. True to the series' penchant of showing what happens to HeWhoFightsMonsters, a good number of the Kiras [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jump Off the Slippery Slope]] into KnightTemplar (such as Light himself) or just plain AxCrazy (such as Mikami) territory.
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SubTrope of VillainKiller. See also SmitingEvilFeelsGood, VigilanteExecution, VigilanteMan, KnightTemplar, PayEvilUntoEvil, HunterOfHisOwnKind, TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, NinetiesAntiHero, BullyHunter, DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind, and AssholeVictim. Compare with the similarly named WifeBasherBasher, which they often are too. Contrasts BountyHunter and ProfessionalKiller, while they may also hunt serial killers, they are OnlyInItForTheMoney.

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SubTrope of VillainKiller. See also SmitingEvilFeelsGood, VigilanteExecution, VigilanteMan, KnightTemplar, PayEvilUntoEvil, HunterOfHisOwnKind, TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, NinetiesAntiHero, BullyHunter, DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind, and AssholeVictim. Compare with the similarly named WifeBasherBasher, which they often are too. Also compare SympatheticMurderer. Contrasts BountyHunter and ProfessionalKiller, while they may also hunt serial killers, they are OnlyInItForTheMoney.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Twister}}'' features someone who not slays serial murderers by twisting their heads around.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Twister}}'' features someone who not slays serial murderers by twisting their heads around.
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* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': Edward Cullen spent a few years killing serial killers, during his "rebellious" phase against Carlisle's vegetarian vampirism philosophy.

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* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': Edward Cullen spent a few years killing serial killers, during his "rebellious" phase against Carlisle's vegetarian vampirism philosophy.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Anathema}}'', your job is to murder people in order to control the global population. Players can choose to act as this. Additionally, if you fail to meet your daily kill quotas enough times, other shrouds will hunt you down and destroy you.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Anathema}}'', ''TabletopGame/{{Anathema|2011}}'', your job is to murder people in order to control the global population. Players can choose to act as this. Additionally, if you fail to meet your daily kill quotas enough times, other shrouds will hunt you down and destroy you.
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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Almost all incarnations of Kira fall under this trope, with the exception of the one profit-driven CorruptCorporateExecutive. Most notably, the main character Light is a mix of KnightTemplar and AGodAmI, believing that he will become the [[CatchPhrase "god of the new world"]] by completely eradicating the world's criminals. True to the series' penchant of showing what happens to HeWhoFightsMonsters, a good number of the Kiras [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jump Off the Slippery Slope]] into KnightTemplar (such as Light himself) or just plain AxCrazy (such as Mikami) territory.

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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Almost all incarnations of Kira fall under this trope, with the exception of the one profit-driven CorruptCorporateExecutive. Most notably, the main character Light is a mix of KnightTemplar and AGodAmI, believing that he will become the [[CatchPhrase "god of the new world"]] world" by completely eradicating the world's criminals. True to the series' penchant of showing what happens to HeWhoFightsMonsters, a good number of the Kiras [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jump Off the Slippery Slope]] into KnightTemplar (such as Light himself) or just plain AxCrazy (such as Mikami) territory.
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** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' has the Tradition of Euthanatos. The Euthanatos view existence as a continual cycle of death and rebirth — "the Wheel" — and those who unbalance the Wheel through atrocities must be dealt with so that things can be set right. A specific version within the Tradition of the Cult of Ecstasy is The Children's Crusade, who specifically target child abusers. It's noted at several points that even their erstwhile foes in the Technocracy typically turn a blind eye to The Children's Crusade when they act against one.

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** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' has the Tradition of Euthanatos. The Euthanatos view existence as a continual cycle of death and rebirth — "the Wheel" — and those who unbalance the Wheel through atrocities must be dealt with so that things can be set right. A specific version within the Tradition of the Cult of Ecstasy is The Children's Crusade, who specifically target child abusers. It's noted at several points that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even their erstwhile foes in the Technocracy typically turn a blind eye to The Children's Crusade when they act against one.one]].

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* ''Manga/BrutalSatsujinKeisatsukanNoKokuhaku'': The protagonist, Dan, is a man who takes it upon himself to enact sadistic, lethal, and often [[DeathByIrony ironic]] punishments on people he believes to either have a good chance of dodging the law or are doing reprehensible things that aren't illegal.

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* ''Manga/BrutalSatsujinKeisatsukanNoKokuhaku'': The protagonist, Dan, Dan Hiroki, is a man detective who takes it upon himself to enact sadistic, lethal, and often [[DeathByIrony ironic]] punishments on people he believes to either have a good chance of dodging the law or are doing reprehensible things that aren't illegal.
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* ''Manga/BrutalSatsujinKeisatsukanNoKokuhaku'': The protagonist, Dan, is a man who takes it upon himself to enact bloody retribution on people he believes to have a good chance of dodging the law.

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* ''Manga/BrutalSatsujinKeisatsukanNoKokuhaku'': The protagonist, Dan, is a man who takes it upon himself to enact bloody retribution sadistic, lethal, and often [[DeathByIrony ironic]] punishments on people he believes to either have a good chance of dodging the law.law or are doing reprehensible things that aren't illegal.
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* ''Manga/DeadMountDeathPlay'': Misaki is an assassin well-known in the underground for the fact that she only kills mobsters and other killers. This is not because she has any actual compunction against killing "Good People", it's just she'd never taken a contract one until Polka.
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A violent, psychotic killer with a FreudianExcuse gets sick pleasure out of the suffering of his victims. It sounds like he is your basic SerialKiller, right?

He would be, but instead of terrorizing the innocent, the Serial-Killer Killer terrorizes the guilty. He spends his life tracking down serial killers so he can give them justice. In short, he is a vigilante, who thinks himself divine justice incarnate. For this reason, [[PoeticSerialKiller he kills them in the same way that they would kill their own victims]].

Distinct from HeWhoFightsMonsters, because He Who Fights Monsters is more about good characters turning evil in the process of hunting evil, whereas this is more about someone who is evil, or crazy, or both from the outset. Arguably, this guy can be ChaoticGood and be an AntiHero, although he walks a VERY dangerous line to become the KnightTemplar.

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A violent, psychotic killer with a FreudianExcuse gets sick pleasure out of the suffering of his their victims. It sounds like he is they're your basic SerialKiller, right?

He They would be, but instead of terrorizing the innocent, the Serial-Killer Killer terrorizes the guilty. He spends his They spend their life tracking down serial killers so he that they can give them justice. In short, he is they are a vigilante, who thinks himself themselves divine justice incarnate. For this reason, [[PoeticSerialKiller he kills them they kill serial killers in the same way that they said serial killers would kill their own victims]].

Distinct from HeWhoFightsMonsters, because He Who Fights Monsters is more about good characters turning evil in the process of hunting evil, whereas this is more about someone who is evil, or crazy, or both from the outset. Arguably, this guy they can be ChaoticGood and be an AntiHero, although he walks they walk a VERY dangerous thin line to become the between that and KnightTemplar.
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* ''Literature/ADowryOfBlood'': Constanta, upon becoming a vampire, decides to dedicate herself to killing and feeding off the most odious or evil of society. Her victims range from rapists, killers and war profiteers to just general AssholeVictims like people who would spit on a beggar or harass and grab a woman.


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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Madame Vastra, a Silurian living in Victorian London, ''eats'' UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, apparently with Inspector Abberline's blessing. [[ToServeMan Her species naturally preys on primates,]] so this trope gives her an at least quasi-legal source of food.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]", Madame Vastra, a Silurian living in Victorian London, ''eats'' UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, apparently with Inspector Abberline's blessing. [[ToServeMan Her species naturally preys on primates,]] primates]], so this trope gives her an at least quasi-legal source of food.



* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': "Stitch In Time" has an unbalanced female scientist use her time machine to go back and [[KnightTemplar execute]] famous serial killers before they hurt anybody. Her resulting RippleEffectProofMemory does not improve her mental state…
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In the very first episode, "The Man Who Was Death", Niles Talbot is an executioner who was recently fired after the death penalty was abolished in his town. As a result, he goes on a killing spree, killing those who murdered people and escaped justice by various means of electrocution. However, eventually karma bites him in the ass when the tables are turned on him and he is executed using his preferred method just as it was reinstated.

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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': "Stitch In Time" "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E1AStitchInTime A Stitch in Time]]" has an unbalanced female scientist use her time machine to go back and [[KnightTemplar execute]] famous serial killers before they hurt anybody. Her resulting RippleEffectProofMemory does not improve her mental state…
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* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In the very first episode, "The "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS1E1TheManWhoWasDeath The Man Who Was Death", Death]]", Niles Talbot is an executioner who was recently fired after the death penalty was abolished in his town. As a result, he goes on a killing spree, killing those who murdered people and escaped justice by various means of electrocution. However, eventually karma bites him in the ass when the tables are turned on him and he is executed using his preferred method just as it was reinstated.



-->If they kill multiple serial killers, wouldn't they be a Serial Serial-Killer Killer?

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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': It could be argued that Rorschach fits in this trope, though he is more commonly placed as HeWhoFightsMonsters.
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* The hidden killer in ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' lures other people who had killed and escaped justice from the legal system to an island and kills them one by one, as a result of his MoralSociopathy manifesting as an urge to kill living things combined with a strong sense of justice preventing him from going after innocents.
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** Likewise, ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' zigzags this trope with regards to the complicated relationship between hunters and Slashers. Hunters are all too aware that they are one bad HeWhoFightsMonsters jag away from potentially becoming a slasher; on the other hand, slashers make suitable targets, and nobody's really going to mind if overkill happens. However, VASCU, the faction that primarily deals with Slashers, is a notable aversion of this. They may focus on supernaturally-empowered serial killers... but they're a branch of the FBI, which means Slashers need to be arrested and prosecuted legally if possible. Of course, some of these Slashers are supernaturally charming or unstoppable engines of destruction, which means conventional justice is difficult if not impossible, which makes this trope apply, which is what VASCU is constantly on watch for because of the aforementioned HeWhoFightsMonsters problem...
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* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': Vino is an incredibly violent assassin, and generally prefers to kill by smashing his targets' faces into the ground from a moving train. However, he takes pride in only killing other criminals, and refuses to do jobs on people who are not guilty. In its main plot aboard the Flying Pussyfoot, Vino actually can be considered the most heroic of those involved, as his brutal murder spree only involves the cultists and gangsters who were trying to harm the passengers. He even saves the [[ThoseTwoGuys comic relief]] from certain death.

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* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': Vino is an incredibly violent assassin, and generally prefers to kill by smashing his targets' faces into the ground from a moving train. However, he takes pride in only killing other criminals, and refuses to do jobs on people who are not guilty. In its main plot aboard the Flying Pussyfoot, Vino actually can be considered the most heroic of those involved, as his brutal murder spree only involves the cultists and gangsters who were trying to harm the passengers. He even saves the [[ThoseTwoGuys comic relief]] from certain death.



* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': Both [[OccultDetective Shiki]] and [[RapeAndRevenge Fujino]] . This is part of the reason why the part of the story where they fight is the only one where both antagonists get out okay, more or less. (Well, that and the one where the antagonist has MindControl to stop Shiki from attacking him…)

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* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'': Both [[OccultDetective Shiki]] and [[RapeAndRevenge Fujino]] . This is part of the reason why the part of the story where they fight is the only one where both antagonists get out okay, more or less. (Well, that and the one where the antagonist has MindControl to stop Shiki from attacking him…)
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This is Serial-Killer Killer (someone who kills a serial killer), not a serial killer-killer (someone who repeatedly kills killers). The killers in And Then There Were None each had only a single killing event.


* ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'': U.N. Owen. The killer of the novel invites a number of people who have gotten away with murder to a deserted island. He then proceeds to either eliminate them personally or to set up situations where they are manipulated to kill each other or to commit suicide. Once everyone else is dead, the killer commits suicide, the final act of a murder-suicide plot. While the novel is one of the inspirations for this trope, it differed from it somewhat. "Owen" (a pseudonym) was a spree killer and not a serial killer. Most of his victims were ordinary murderers, while a few of them had either killed people by accident or by negligence.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': One episode has a woman deceive who can't handle that she killed a torturous murderer.

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* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'': In ''The Rhesus Chart'', Bob has a low opinion of vampire hunters for this reason. He notes that vampires are serial killers by necessity (they can't go more than six months between victims lest the extra-dimensional parasites that empower them start feeding on their brains), but "A VampireHunter is a serial killer who hunts serial killers."

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* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'': In ''The Rhesus Chart'', Bob has a low opinion of vampire hunters for this reason. He notes that vampires are serial killers by necessity (they can't go more than six months between victims lest the extra-dimensional parasites that empower them start feeding on their brains), but "A VampireHunter is a serial killer who hunts serial killers."" He even compares them to [[Series/{{Dexter}} Dexter Morgan]].



* ''Literature/TheRhesusCharts'': The narrator describes {{Vampire Hunter}}s as this, even making a direct comparison to Dexter.
* ''Literature/TheSerialKillersClub'': Jeff Povey's point of view character manages to be invited into the titular organization after he takes down a serial killer… and begins to kill off the membership, one by one. He ''says'' he's not a serial killer himself… but he kills again and again…

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* ''Literature/TheRhesusCharts'': The narrator describes {{Vampire Hunter}}s as this, even making a direct comparison to Dexter.
* ''Literature/TheSerialKillersClub'': Jeff Povey's point of view character manages to be invited into the titular organization after he takes down a serial killer… killer... and begins to kill off the membership, one by one. He ''says'' he's not a serial killer himself… himself... but he kills again and again…again...
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* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'': In ''The Rhesus Chart'', Bob has a low opinion of vampire hunters for this reason. He notes that vampires are serial killers by necessity (they can't go more than six months between victims lest the extra-dimensional parasites that empower them start feeding on their brains), but "A VampireHunter is a serial killer who hunts serial killers."
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* ''Series/AshVsEvilDead'': [[Franchise/EvilDead Ashley Williams]] has gained quite the reputation as a SerialKiller who leaves bodies dismembered and blasted beyond recognition, all of which is true… except for the fact the people he kills are [[DemonicPossession people or corpses possessed by the]] UltimateEvil that gleefully slaughter anyone who gets in their way ForTheEvulz. Ash himself lacks any traits of a SerialKiller, however, and is more of an insane DirtyOldMan. {{Lampshaded}} in the aptly-named "Killer of Killers".

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* ''Franchise/DotHack'': Haseo, the Player Killer Killer from .hack//Roots'' and ''VideoGame/DotHackGU''. [[PlayerKilling Player Killing and Player Killer Killing (ad infinitum)]] is SeriousBusiness in the World.

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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': "Stitch In Time", an episode from the 90's revival, has an unbalanced female scientist use her time machine to go back and [[KnightTemplar execute]] famous serial killers before they hurt anybody. Her resulting RippleEffectProofMemory does not improve her mental state…

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SubTrope of VillainKiller. See also SmitingEvilFeelsGood, VigilanteExecution, VigilanteMan, KnightTemplar, PayEvilUntoEvil, HunterOfHisOwnKind, TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, NinetiesAntiHero, BullyHunter, DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind, AssholeVictim. Compare with the similarly named WifeBasherBasher, which they often are too. Contrasts BountyHunter and ProfessionalKiller, while they may also hunt serial killers, they are OnlyInItForTheMoney.

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SubTrope of VillainKiller. See also SmitingEvilFeelsGood, VigilanteExecution, VigilanteMan, KnightTemplar, PayEvilUntoEvil, HunterOfHisOwnKind, TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, NinetiesAntiHero, BullyHunter, DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind, and AssholeVictim. Compare with the similarly named WifeBasherBasher, which they often are too. Contrasts BountyHunter and ProfessionalKiller, while they may also hunt serial killers, they are OnlyInItForTheMoney.
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See also SmitingEvilFeelsGood, VigilanteMan, KnightTemplar, PayEvilUntoEvil, HunterOfHisOwnKind, TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, NinetiesAntiHero, BullyHunter, DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind, AssholeVictim, and VillainKiller. Compare with the similarly named WifeBasherBasher, which they often are too. Contrasts BountyHunter and ProfessionalKiller, while they may also hunt serial killers, they are OnlyInItForTheMoney.

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SubTrope of VillainKiller. See also SmitingEvilFeelsGood, VigilanteExecution, VigilanteMan, KnightTemplar, PayEvilUntoEvil, HunterOfHisOwnKind, TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, NinetiesAntiHero, BullyHunter, DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind, AssholeVictim, and VillainKiller.AssholeVictim. Compare with the similarly named WifeBasherBasher, which they often are too. Contrasts BountyHunter and ProfessionalKiller, while they may also hunt serial killers, they are OnlyInItForTheMoney.
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* ''Manga/BrutalSatsujinKeisatsukanNoKokuhaku'': The protagonist, Dan, is a man who takes it upon himself to enact bloody retribution on people he believes to have a good chance of dodging the law.

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