Yor is assigned a new mission by the “Shopkeeper”—someone with skills comparable to hers and who was possibly her master. He tests her by distracting her with his lovely garden, but by dodging his surprise attack Yor proves that she’s ready to not only defend herself from attacks, but to “end any evildoer at any time.”
In this case, Yor is not being tasked with ending anyone, but with protecting the last surviving member of a mafia family, Olka Gretcher, and her infant son.
Olka is seeking asylum in another country, but the man who took over the crime family is sending all manner of bounty hunters her way. Olka will be traveling via luxury cruise liner, which just happens to be the exact same cruise Anya wins in a raffle by reading the mind of the official who is scamming everyone else.
It’s quite the coincidence; one that has Yor contemplating for the first time whether this will her last job as Thorn Princess.
Yor, Loid, and Anya take a train to the port town from which the Princess Loreliei cruise liner, pride of Ostania, will depart. It is a massive ship, close enough in size to the much older Titanic, and while Yor, Loid, and Anya are aboard, so are a number of people seeking to find and kill Olka.
Yor must undertake a job in the same venue where her family is taking an ordinary vacation by sheer coincidence. With all the unknown variables in play it already feels like it’s not going to be smooth sailing.
When Yor meets Olka, she’s in full-on disguise as Shaty Grey, wife of a department store magnate. Her “husband” takes one look at Yor and is skeptical that she’s enough to protect his “wife”, but Matt from City Hall assures him that Yor is strong and more than capable of protecting “Shaty”.
That said, Yor is weary of undertaking this mission in such close proximity to her family, which she’s come to see as not fake.
While Yor is aboard the Lorelei under the auspices of “advanced urban planning”, Loid and Anya are simply there because she won a raffle, and accept that Yor will be busy on official business. Olka, meanwhile, dresses Yor in one of her leisure dresses in order to blend in more.
While Yor manages to gain the trust of both Olka and her young son Gram, the cruise ship is essentially a den of vipers, with one particularly focused individual listening in on multiple conversations on the ship via strategically placed bugs. As soon as Yor and Olka are speaking plainly to one another, this person picks up on it and zeros in on “Shaty Grey’s” cabin.
No doubt Yor will have to flex her not inconsiderable skills to defend Olka and her son, while also trying not to expose her skills to Loid and Anya. At the same time, I have no doubt that both Twilight and Anya’s ESP would come in handy for Yor, so we’ll see how successful she is in keeping her mission a secret.
At any rate, I’m just glad we’re finally getting a Yor-centric story that explores whether she even needs to keep killing now that Yuri is largely self-sufficient and she has a fine husband and daughter.
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