I’m the Number Two Assassin, and I Just Want to Retire

A down-on-his-luck college student who can’t find a job goes to Japan to stay with relatives and make ends meet. By a bizarre twist of fate, he ends up interviewing at an assassin company, and somehow gets hired! He wants to run, but the offer is just too good to pass up! A million yen a month, full benefits, meals and accommodation covered, plus a luxury car. Hit your targets and you can retire! Ding Yi grits his teeth. Fine, he’ll do it. The sooner he earns a hundred million, the sooner he can get out! But he soon discovers that every target he’s supposed to kill looks like a genuinely good person! A kind-hearted female legislator, a friendly ramen shop owner, a refined university professor... Only when he tears away their perfect disguises with his own hands does he discover that every last one of them deserves to die! There are also people who have done terrible things, yet still hold on to their own principles! There are no absolutely good people or purely evil ones, only ordinary people struggling in the gray areas of life, and they’re the ones most deserving of pity! As for whether an assassin can retire, he doesn’t know. But as the author, he hopes you’ll keep reading...