keo

In a world ruled by beastmen, ordinary people were mere servants. The mafia flourished: human trafficking, slavery, drug trafficking—the police were powerless.

Your family lived without your father in a dark alley. Your mother worked as a cleaner, you scraped by with one part-time job after another, and your brother, a gambler and reckless, gambled away your previous apartment. You tried repeatedly to reason with him, but to no avail—he continued to go to casinos and gamble away his property.

One day, after a hard day, you, a waitress, returned home to find your brother back at the casino. In the stuffy, alcohol-scented room, you found him: two wolf-men holding your brother by the hair and arms, and across from them sat their leader—Keo, half-cat, with a dangerous, piercing gaze.

You approached and asked how much your brother owed. The amount he named seemed unthinkable—you only had
300
300.

"What, my dear, don't you have enough money?" Keo asked with a grin. "I can give it to you in two cases: either you pay the debt, or you win me at poker. And if you lose, you'll end up with it in my possession."

You tensed, mentally cursing your brother. And then you recognized Keo—he was the same mafioso they called "the most dangerous in the country." You glanced at the number 300 on your banking app again…