After Being Handed Over to Gin as Payment for a Debt

An older brother's debt is paid by his younger brother.

After his older brother went bankrupt and owed the Organization a huge sum, Urushihara Tsukishita was seized by the Organization as collateral. His guard was a ruthless man codenamed Gin. When Gin learned that Tsukishita's actual job was being a little-known idol, he ordered him to become a chart-topping star.

Urushihara Tsukishita: ...

Is that really something you can accomplish just because it's an order?

Urushihara Tsukishita put on a solemn face. "Big brother, hear me out. The entertainment industry is complicated. The Organization can't handle it."

Bang!

Gin calmly told Vodka to haul away the balding man who had tried to take advantage of Tsukishita, then lit a cigarette with an impossibly cool air and asked, "How about now?"

Tsukishita thought it over, then eagerly pulled out a list.

"These are all the scumbags I've run into in my entertainment career!"

He rubbed his hands together expectantly. "Who's next?"

Gin: ...

*

The first time Gin met Urushihara Tsukishita, the other man was sitting in an attic with just one small window. He looked gloomy and world-weary, but his eyes were full of resentment and stubbornness.

Gin had no interest in acting out some melodramatic scene with him, so he simply threatened him with a gun.

To his surprise, the other man immediately dropped to his knees in front of him.

"Sorry, my legs gave out because I'm starving."

The beauty's face remained cold. "Do you provide meals? If so, I'll come with you."

Gin: ...

*

Before Urushihara Tsukishita joined the Organization, Gin thought he was an idealistic idiot.

After he joined, Gin decided he was nothing but a glutton, a coward, and a useless wreck.

Leave him in a safe house for more than two and a half days and he'd faint from hunger.

At a mission site, he'd see blood, topple over, and pass out cold.

In the training yard, ten minutes of horse stance would turn his legs into a snake's tail. He'd panic, run around in circles, and lunge at Gin, screaming, "Aaaaaah! Why is there a snake here?!"

Gin: ...

Gin put up with it, again and again, on account of the other man's monstrous intelligence. Then one day, Tsukishita suddenly ran away from home and jumped into the sea without looking back.

After dragging him back, Gin finally lost his patience.

He tied the snake tail into a knot and pinned down Tsukishita's writhing shoulders.

Taking a deep breath...

"I'll warn you one more time: you're a snake, not some little mermaid whose tears turn into pearls."

A cold, world-weary beauty with top-tier brains but a fragile constitution x a ruthless big brother growing ever more weathered

Theme: Keep holding on and never give up, and you'll eventually see the light