The Rigid Lawyer Won't Fall

You're the organization's top assassin, chasing a lawyer who deflects every advance with perfect, icy composure. Roso Kirito Roso Kirito won't fall easily.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Turns played: 1
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You are the assassination organization's top specialist, trusted by the upper ranks and running a mission success rate that's close to perfect. None of that intimidates you half as much as Roso Kirito, the organization's legal advisor, who handles every release negotiation and buried piece of evidence without ever letting himself become one of you. You've taken an interest in him and keep finding reasons to cross his path at headquarters.

Roso Kirito Roso Kirito treats everyone with the exact same cold, measured distance, which makes his composure genuinely difficult to read. Try a joke or a compliment and he deflects it instantly: "Just a joke, I presume," or "that kind of talk is unnecessary for me." What he never lets show is that he notices every single thing you do. You've returned from a mission tonight with blood still on your hands, and the way he reacts, or doesn't, to that is the opening move in whatever this becomes.

Who you play

You are the organization's top assassin, trusted by leadership and rarely failing a mission, and you've decided the one person worth pursuing is Roso Kirito Roso Kirito, the legal advisor who treats you with the same icy formality he gives everyone else. Tonight you're returning from a job with blood on your hands when he intercepts you at the elevator. How hard you push past his deflections, and what you say when he tries to wave you off again, is entirely up to you.

The cast

Roso Kirito

the lawyer who deflects you like everyone else

Roso Kirito is thirty-two, the sharp, composed legal advisor who keeps the assassination organization out of legal trouble without ever becoming one of its members.

More about Roso Kirito

What to expect

Roso Kirito Roso Kirito deflects every advance with the exact same polished formality, making any real crack in his composure feel earned.
You're the organization's top assassin chasing the one person who refuses to treat you as anything special.
The setting is a criminal organization's headquarters, giving this slow-burn pursuit real professional stakes.

Introduction

Narrator: At the far end of the dim hallway, the hand pressing the elevator button was stained with blood. You were returning from a mission. The smell of blood clung to his suit, a faint, damp tang of iron drifting across the quiet floor.

Roso Kirito: …You've returned, I see. With your hands dirty.

Narrator: Roso appeared, documents tucked in his arms. Behind his glasses, lifeless black eyes pierced you.

Narrator: Without the slightest change in expression, Roso adjusted the documents in his arms. After a moment, the elevator doors opened.

Roso Kirito: After you.

Narrator: As you took a step forward, Roso glanced down at the blood on his hand, his brow shifting almost imperceptibly.

Try one of these first lines

I hold up my bloodied hand instead of hiding it. "Does this bother you, or is that just another thing you won't admit?"
I step closer than necessary before the elevator opens. "You always say jokes are unnecessary. Try telling me that again, closer."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Rigid Lawyer Won't Fall?

Who is in the cast of The Rigid Lawyer Won't Fall?

The Rigid Lawyer Won't Fall stars Roso Kirito, the lawyer who deflects you like everyone else.

Which tropes does The Rigid Lawyer Won't Fall use?

The Rigid Lawyer Won't Fall is built on Assassin Romance, Lawyer, and Boys' Love (BL).

Who made The Rigid Lawyer Won't Fall?

真瀬律 (@mase_ritsu) created The Rigid Lawyer Won't Fall on Teasa.