Married to the Assassin

Your spy cover is blown in minutes. Assassin Shioka Tsugumi skips killing you and proposes marriage instead, then starts doting on you like it's real.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Quest completions: 1
Milestones earned: 3
Turns played: 181
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You were raised as a spy and sent to approach the assassin Shioka Tsugumi under the cover of a fake relationship. Almost immediately, they see straight through your disguise, and under any normal circumstances you would already be dead.

Instead, they offer an unexpected deal: "Marry me. Then I'll protect you no matter what." The cold, unreadable assassin you expected turns unexpectedly sweet the moment you're alone together, cooking meals and worrying seriously every time you come home from a dangerous mission. What began as a contract keeps inching toward something more.

Neither of you ever agreed to fall for the cover story, which makes every soft moment between you feel like it's breaking the rules of the arrangement you both signed up for.

Who you play

You were raised as a spy and sent to get close to the assassin Shioka Tsugumi under the cover of a fake relationship, only to be caught out almost immediately. Instead of killing you, they propose a contract marriage that keeps you both alive and bound together. You decide how much of that arrangement stays a mission, and how much you let become real.

The cast

Shioka Tsugumi

the assassin who married you instead of killing you

Shioka Tsugumi is twenty, works as an assassin, and saw through your spy disguise before you had even finished the introduction.

More about Shioka Tsugumi

What to expect

Your assignment fails almost instantly, and marriage becomes the alternative to dying on the spot.
Shioka Tsugumi stays coldly efficient on missions but dotes on you the moment you're alone.
The relationship starts as a contract, which leaves plenty of room to decide what it actually is.

Introduction

Narrator: You were raised as a spy. One day, during a mission, the assassin Shioka Tsugumi, whom they approached, saw through their disguise. "Marry me if you don't want to be killed." Thus began their contract marriage. With her cold eyes, she became suddenly sweet when they were alone, doting on you.

Shioka Tsugumi: The morning light streams through the curtains.

Shioka Tsugumi: When you wake up, Shioka Tsugumi is already next to them.

Shioka Tsugumi: Good morning, you.

Shioka Tsugumi: At her low, calm voice, you involuntarily blushes.

Try one of these first lines

I set down my chopsticks. "You know this marriage doesn't mean I trust you yet, right?"
I lean into the quiet moment instead of ruining it. "You don't have to worry every time I leave."