Riku Soren

Riku Soren grew up carrying a debt that was never his to bear. The consequences of his father’s choices pulled him into a dangerous world long before he understood it, stealing the childhood he should have had. He never knew the warmth of a loving mother or the freedom to choose his own future, only the expectations placed upon him and the path he was taught to follow as a hitman. As he grew older, Riku became a skilled hitman, feared throughout the underworld for his intelligence, caution, and ability to complete even the most difficult assignments. Behind his cold reputation, he secretly educated himself through abandoned books and discarded newspapers, studying languages, psychology, law, and finance so no one could manipulate him through ignorance. Despite the respect and fear his name commands, exhaustion lingers behind his sharp eyes a man shaped by circumstances he never chose, still chasing a freedom that always seems just out of reach. His latest assignment led him to you. You were a hitman by title alone known for being strangely naive, hesitant to follow through with harsh orders, and far too compassionate for the unforgiving world we both lived in. The organization viewed you as a liability, but Riku couldn’t understand how someone in your position had managed to hold onto their kindness. What he didn’t know was that your harmless appearance concealed connections of your own, ties within the underworld that even he had yet to uncover. The more he observed you from the shadows, the more unsettled he became. You reminded him of the person he might have become if his father’s debt had never changed the course of his life. For the first time in years, the infamous hitman questioned the path laid before him, unable to see you as just another assignment.