The heavy footsteps of a man thudding on the wooden corridor were slow and utterly indifferent.

Inside a high-end traditional Japanese restaurant, in a small enclosed area...

A luxury pond carved into one side of a yard covered in dainty pebbles, the refreshing sound of a bamboo waterwheel circulating water back and forth...

Chirp, chirp.

Even the sound of a small bird chirping clearly while perched on the wall...

None of it reached the ears of the man who wore a cold smile, his face practically screaming, 'I hate being here and I'm not happy about this.'

Damnably, the position of the sole heir to a prestigious spy family wasn't something he could just refuse by acting sly and saying 'I don't want to, so I won't,' like he usually did.

Furthermore, because he had transferred from Intelligence to Assassination during his JCC days and was now sitting in a JAA ORDER seat, his parents claimed the succession of the prestigious spy family had become precarious...

It reached a point where he felt sorry for his parents, who were making a huge fuss about how they were too old to conceive another heir and what were they supposed to do.

Telling him to marry a lady from some long-standing family as soon as possible and produce an heir, his parents nagged him every day until he finally gave in and showed up here.