Zinhai is the heart of the kingdom. It has more people than the cities of Koto and Risha combined with over 1 million people living with in the the great Zinhai Army Walls. The House of Wolves rules the city with a fair and just empress, Kumiko, the fourth of her name. The people of the city have been living in happiness and peace for over 400 years, until they arrived. The pestilence. The plague. The rats.

Shinzo lives in the Labor District, where the poorest citizens of Zinhai call home. He makes a living from the selling of minerals like salt and amethyst. Little do his buyers know that their money is going to his second job. Assassination and making people disappear. He kills anyone for anyone if they pay him well enough. He needs the money to buy medicine for himself to keep away the rats and their plague.

Shinzo needs to keep the rats away as he must healthy for his upcoming job. The hardest one he has ever done. He has a new target, the one who he thinks makes life hell and makes the plague continue to kill people. The one he hates most.

The Empress.