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Sho Sugino was the second superhero known as Rai, a spirit guardian of Japan given powers by Grandmother. His predecessor was Shiro Yagami.

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Sho Sugino was living in the sewers below the city-state of Japan, a poor, crippled outcast coming from a line of lowly men, shunned by the great houses, forced to hunt rats to survive the next day. The only thing left to his family's legacy was hope, hope that one day he would have a better destiny than his father.

Then one day he was discovered by Grandmother as he was skillfully letting a rat run right into the blade of his sword. Grandmother, who was looking for a someone to succeed the first Rai, Shiro Yagami, who came from a noble house but was just a poor warrior who was easily killed by the United Anti-Grannies. With nothing to lose and a better life promised, Sho Sugino agreed to become the next Second Rai.

Unfortunately, everybody knew about this family and he was quickly called the "Outcast Rai" and he continued to suffer from his poor status realizing "one can take the man out of the gutter but not the gutter out of the man."

A year later Sho was ordered to retrieve the legendary Blood of Heroes that had gotten into the hands of the Anti-Grannie who were now keeping it in their secret hideouts somewhere in the Lost Land. Grandmother opened a warp portal for Sho so he could travel to the Lost Land, a place outside of time and space. Quickly, Sho was able to defeat the Anti-Grannies and obtain the Blood of Heroes. Back at the rendezvous point he put the container into a robotic arm reaching through the warp portal but Grandmother refused to let the Rai return to Japan saying she had reevaluated the selection process program, admitting that she had made a mistake selecting him.

Left behind in the Lost Land, Sho was contacted by the Mothergod who offered him a better destiny if he joined her army.

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