Akutagawa-senpai Is the Ideal Man

Higuchi had never been able to forget the boy who had left without saying goodbye.

She never expected to meet him at her new company, let alone become his direct subordinate.

Higuchi came from a jujutsu family, but her cursed energy was weak. Fortunately, she was beautiful enough to serve as a bargaining chip in an arranged marriage.

She wanted none of that. At fifteen, she followed the advice of an online friend called Kenji-chan and ran away. She skipped grades, got into the University of Tokyo, and after graduating joined a top pharmaceutical company, where her career took off.

But the good times didn't last. She accidentally stumbled upon her boss making a deal with a massive international crime syndicate, and was immediately targeted for assassination.

With nowhere left to turn, a boy in a long black coat appeared out of nowhere and casually resolved her crisis.

Higuchi was overjoyed, only to watch the boy's frail body suddenly collapse.

She took him home.

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Akutagawa-senpai seems to hate her.

Higuchi was troubled. After becoming Akutagawa-senpai's subordinate, she gradually discovered another side to her new company: the darkness deeply rooted in this city.

She was Akutagawa-senpai's direct subordinate, but he was strict with her. He never let her get involved in his missions and even stopped her from getting close to their other coworkers.

That is, until the day Akutagawa-senpai was badly injured and the boss discarded him like a pawn.

Higuchi's own position became awkward too.

But what she couldn't stand was seeing Akutagawa-senpai humiliated by the enemy!

She had to save him.

Akutagawa-senpai seemed surprised, but could only say helplessly, “Sorry for troubling you again!”

So Akutagawa-senpai had remembered it all.

They say the Port Company has a blade without a sheath...

“No. I'll be his sheath!”

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Akutagawa-senpai is so adorable!

He pays attention to his subordinates' mental well-being and goes out of his way to comfort them, although it sometimes backfires. He carefully picks out a gift for his senpai at a gift shop, although he accidentally makes fun of his senpai's height. He makes time to go shopping with his younger sister, although Higuchi gets the wrong idea.

Who would have thought that the cold-blooded assassin Gin was actually a soft, sweet girl?

Higuchi looked at a photo she'd taken not long ago, then turned around and asked, “When are you going to officially introduce me to your sister?”

Akutagawa-senpai, who was using his ability to do the housework, blushed and didn't dare look at her. “It's up to you!”

Akutagawa x Higuchi. I want to give Akutagawa a happy ending, and also portray an ordinary woman who holds on to the light in the darkness, grows, and transforms.

Theme: Though the world may kiss me with pain, I will answer with a song