Three months after Gin and Rum were arrested.
Tokyo, Haneda International Airport.
As a Boeing 747 that had crossed the ocean slowly landed on the runway, the former Miss Kir, Mizunashi Rena—now Hondou Hidemi—finally set foot once more on the land where she and her father had once fought.
Over the past three months, she had returned to her country with honors as an agent who had successfully completed her mission, receiving generous commendation from her CIA superiors.
Hondou Hidemi had also reunited with her long-lost younger brother. With the enormous bonus awarded by the CIA, she took him to America, arranged housing and schooling for him there, and opened a new chapter in life for the Hondou family, who had suffered so much.
As for herself, she had landed a good desk job at CIA headquarters in Langley. It came with status, a handsome salary, and no need to risk her life on the front lines like before.
Everything had been wonderful.
But the CIA was no ordinary organization.
What kind of life one wanted to live was often not up to the employees.
So, after enjoying that leisurely semi-retired life for a while, Miss Hondou was caught off guard by a new assignment from the CIA:
"Return to Japan and work within the 'Noah Organization.'"
The so-called Noah Organization, like The Black Organization in the past, did not actually have an official name of its own.
It was merely because the man who represented this mysterious organization always called himself "Noah" that intelligence agencies around the world, including the CIA, had conventionally dubbed it the "Noah Organization."
Hondou Hidemi knew a little about this organization as well.
After all, she had been among the first CIA agents to deal with Mr. Noah.
And during that brief period of