The Fable

Fable is a professional assassin whose reputation in the criminal underworld has grown so large that simply continuing to work is attracting dangerous attention. His boss orders him to disappear into Osaka for one year, live under the name Akira Satou, and stay with his partner, who will pose as his sister. The condition sounds simple but may be harder than any contract he has taken: he is forbidden to kill anyone for the entire year.

Akira attempts to learn civilian life from the beginning, from finding ordinary work to dealing with neighbors, but the local yakuza do not see a legendary killer’s presence in their territory as an innocent vacation. Surrounded by men who want to test him and others who hope to use him, Fable keeps landing in lethal situations that he must solve without relying on the one solution he has spent his entire life perfecting.