News opens with Roydon Lester, Atheron's richest man, offering $100 million and a nationwide search for his son missing ten years and marked by a red birthmark. In a hotel, the famed fighter called the War God is hiding as a janitor. A woman asks him to distract Roydon, saying Roydon abandoned her and her mother and she cut ties. Later, men hunting a runaway C-list actress harass the janitor; he fights back, leaving them hospitalized. He refuses to quit his shift. The reward and Roydon's hunt still loom, threatening his secrecy.