Ken Kurosawa, a Japanese-American, is a street criminal who lends himself out for money to care for his sickly younger sister Mariko. Ken was known as Double K, and he was slain by customers after agreeing to be with his sister for her birthday. Ken reappears as a Hellspawn seven years later. (It is highly indicated that Ken returned to Earth at the same time as Al Simmons, as numerous events in the original comic parallel those in the sequel.) Kurosawa, like Al Simmons, has no memories at first and is challenged by the Clown very soon after awakening. Clown momentarily departs the manga, to be replaced by a faerie-like entity known as Beelzebub. He reappears as the Violator.