Kilico

Detective Akira Yusa watches helplessly as his brother, Shinichi, is murdered in front of him. At the crime scene, his gaze locks onto a young girl named Kilico Sakaki, and he knows with visceral certainty that she is the killer. After a brutal confrontation, Akira manages to apprehend her. In public life, Kilico poses as an unremarkable college student, but behind that facade lies a deadly truth: she was forged into a professional assassin by her stepfather, Toshio Sakaki. Her arrest proves short-lived when she expertly conceals every trace of Shinichi's death, leading authorities to dismiss the case as a mistake. As Akira digs deeper into her background, he discovers a conspiracy far too vast and shadowy for any single police detective to unravel. Her fateful encounter with Akira awakens buried memories of her traumatic past and plants the first seeds of doubt about her life as a killer. Sent to Taiwan to apprentice as a jewel connoisseur—the Sakaki family’s legitimate trade, which serves as a pristine cover for their extensive criminal enterprises—Kilico attempts to build a new life. Fired from the force for pushing his investigation too far, Akira refuses to let go and follows her to Taiwan. There, the two cross paths once more, forging an unexpectedly deep connection as they are drawn into the violent internal power struggles of the Tenrenban, Taiwan’s most powerful Mafia organization.