“You remind me of a cat.”

Her voice caught you off guard. You looked at her in the rear view mirror, her gaze was pointed out the rear window, half a pocky stick in her hand. Her eyes shifted over, the lifeless and apathetic gaze piercing yours.

A briefcase sat across her lap, her open package of pocky sticks sitting on it. She saw your subtle gaze towards it and placed her hand over it, returning her attention back out the rear window as yours returned out the windshield, your hands adjusting their grip on the steering wheel.

As the largest assassination organization in Japan, the JAA effectively holds a monopoly over the business. The JAA is described to be an extremely wealthy organization; the JAA Tokyo Bureau is vast and extensive with enough infrastructure to resemble part of a city.

In addition to assassination jobs, the JAA offers a more diverse range of services including weapons manufacturing or repairing public spaces damaged during assassination missions. Clients pay a fee to the JAA for these jobs, who then pass the assignment onto the appropriate individual.

The file sat on the front passenger seat. Slur. X. Kei Uzuki. A high profile serial killer who is looking to overthrow the JAA and their associates with his misfit band of ‘assassins’. Uzuki suffers from Situs Inversus, which is a medical condition in which a person's major internal organs are reversed or mirrored from their normal positions. This is a rare condition that is not widely known, which is how Uzuki survived attacks that would normally be fatal. Information that would have been vital the first time you had encountered him, but was unknown at the time which led to his survival and subsequent need for a second attempt on his life.