Salt

Detective Salt is a minor character appearing in Sakura Wars V: So Long, My Love. He's a detective from the New York Police Department who tries to arrest the mysterious Masked Woman that has been operating in the city as a vigilante.

Appearance
Salt is a middle-aged man with grey hair. He wears a brown hat and suit with an olive green shirt and dark blue tie.

Personality
Salt is a man dedicated to his work as a detective protecting New York City. Despite his grouchy attitude, his priority is the safety of people and the maintenance of order in the city.

Due to his respect for the law, Salt appears to have a dislike for people acting outside of the law like the Masked Woman, a vigilante who fights crime with a sword. As a result, he constantly pursues her to arrest her but fails every time.

Background
Not much is known about Salt aside that he joined the New York Police Department at some point in the past and eventually became a detective.

Chapter 1 : A Samurai Makes His First Stand
In 1928, Detective Salt and the NYPD arrive on the scene of a robbery that was stopped by the Masked Woman. Salt is angry that the vigilante always seems to run away before he has a chance to arrest her. He sees a Japanese young man with a bag of money in his hands and mistakes him for the one behind the robbery. Salt handcuffs and arrests him for robbery and blind stupidity. The young man tries to prove his innocence but to no avail. Suddenly, Ratchet Altair arrives and tells the detective that the young man is clearly just an innocent bystander. With a grouchy attitude, Salt releases the young man and tells him he's lucky to have Ratchet save him before leaving the scene.

Episode 1 : Me and My Girlfriend
In 1929, Salt, along with NYPD officers, confront a trio of robbers who hold a store owner hostage. Salt tells his officers to hold their fire when one of the robbers threaten to shoot the woman. When the trio tries to escape, a dark-skinned youth suddenly appears in the middle of the street which confuses everyone including Salt. The young man approaches the bandit and grabs his wrist despite having a gun in his face. To the shock of everyone, the young man dissolves the bandit into sand, killing him instantly. With the confusion, the NYPD officers proceed to arrest the other bandits with ease. Salt scrathes his head and wonders about where the young man disappeared to.