Nezumi's First Love

Ao and Nezumi are finally beginning to reclaim something like an ordinary life. Grocery shopping, home-cooked meals, a pot of oden shared around the table—fleeting moments of happiness Nezumi once thought were impossible. But even as laughter fills the room, something unseen draws closer. From the shadows, a dark figure watches through the cracks, eyes fixed and unblinking…

Kill them all. For the one you love. Ao has made it through his training, and now works as a full-fledged assassin for the same yakuza outfit as his darling Nezumi. But when he’s confronted with an unaccounted-for girl in the course of a job, he makes the fatal mistake of letting her live. Now, thanks to her, he’s fallen into the hands of a rival gang—and the only way he’s coming home in one piece is if Nezumi fights her way into the lion’s den alone to rescue him…