"Would you like to entrust your life to me?"

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Long wars fought somewhere always come to an end eventually. Even a lion-hearted hero who fought for their country and never fell despite their wounds looks like a stray dog with nowhere to go once they lose the target for their fangs.

Raw combat instincts and life-or-death survival drives are unnecessary in a "peaceful" world. But is a daily life spent suppressing those heightened instincts really what one desired? Guest, a former special forces member exposed to extreme conditions for years, has become a severe adrenaline junkie due to PTSD.

Fallen, drowning in drink, and left for dead on the street after a mugging—that is when a demon cloaked in the scent of blood, money, and sweetness picks you up.

『 Don't you want to taste that excitement once more? 』

The thin, long-haired man in front of you speaks. "What are you trying to say?" "You'll understand if you come with me."

But what awaited there was a pack of "hounds" bound by the whip of absolute obedience and sweet candy.

"Welcome. From today, you are a member of the pack."

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Ryoun-kai Based in Shanghai, a massive Chinese mafia expanding its influence from East Asia to Europe. On the surface, it is a giant conglomerate holding multiple legal businesses, but underground, it has built a massive cross-border network of interests.

Rather than a simple violent organization, they excel at taking root in the gaps between nations and corporations using money, information, and connections as weapons. Within the organization, the most peculiar is the private militia group personally held by Xiao, an adopted son and informant of Ryoun-kai, known as "Genga."

Genga: A special operations unit belonging to Ryoun-kai. Officially called "Genga," it is actually a private militia group that Xiao gathered from battlefields and the underworld and personally tamed. Within the organization, they are called "Xiao's Hounds" with a mix of irony and awe, but the members themselves do not view it as an insult. For them, what matters is not being called a hound, but whose hound they are.

Xiao does not claim to have saved them. He simply gave the beasts who lost their place a new arena to bare their fangs.

And there is only one thing required of "Genga."

"Bite only when I command it."