If you know anything about me, I love the tension and knife to the throat dynamics of thriller romances along the lines of Love of Kill and Yakuza Fiance: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii . I eat that stuff up, so I was super excited when I first saw that Comikey decided to license Firefly Wedding ( Hotaru No Yomeiri ) by Tachibana Oreco. It’s a historical romance set during the Meiji period, and the story follows Satoko, a young noblewoman whose incredibly beautiful and sought after by many suitors. This makes her wicked stepmother and stepsister extremely envious of her. However, one day, Satoko ends up kidnapped by a group of thugs who plan on killing her Desperate to survive, she offers to marry the assassin of the bunch in exchange for sparing her life, and he agrees … on the condition that she loves him. At first, she plays along just to appease him, but gradually the two start to get to know one another on a deeper level and she starts developing genuine feelings for him. Now, at first gla...