The Fable was serialized in Weekly Young Magazine, and the first part has now been completed, and it has also been made into a live-action movie. The Fable, a man known as a genius at killing, has been ordered by his boss to not kill anyone for a year and live as a normal person. Calling himself Sato Akira, the Fable tries to live peacefully with his female partner Sato Yoko (also a pseudonym). While Fable tries to meet good people and enjoy his daily life, for some reason dangerous trouble keeps coming his way. I would like to introduce the protagonist of this work, Sato Akira, aka Fable (pseudonym), a man who is like a 5-year-old except for his killing skills.
The strongest assassin, Fable, feared as Fable (Fable)
In modern Tokyo, there was a man who was feared as the strongest assassin, "Fable (Fable)". The man, who was trained to be an assassin from a young age, killed 71 targets in six years. He is an assassin who was nicknamed "Fable (Fable)" because of his transcendent killing skills, which made people involved say that if there was a "killing" event in the Olympics, he would definitely win a gold medal. In the story, the man is called Fable, but Fable is a term referring to the organization he belongs to. Neither he nor the people in the organization call themselves Fable, it is just what people around them call themselves, and the organization does not have a name.
Fable is ordered by his boss to live as an ordinary person for a year without killing anyone
Fearing that he had killed 71 targets in six years and was too conspicuous, the boss of the organization gave the man the false name of Sato Akira and ordered him to live as an ordinary person for a year without killing anyone. Akira, a boy who is like a 5-year-old except for his killing skills, will acquire the senses of an ordinary person and live a peaceful life to learn how to live a normal life. However, the conditioned reflexes of a man trained to subdue an enemy within 6 seconds are incredible, and he realizes that this is not easy.
What is the ability of the strongest assassin with overwhelmingly dangerous fighting abilities, Fable?
He is always trained to defeat his enemies within 6 seconds, and when fighting, he has the technique to kill them instantly without wasting time. There is an anecdote about one time he took down a Yakuza gang, wiping out 10 of them in just 2 minutes, and most of the bodies were killed with a one-shot kill, hitting either the head or the heart. He primarily uses a Nighthawk and his favorite knife as weapons, but he was taught that with wisdom and ingenuity, he can handle almost anything, making him a versatile man who can use ingenuity to get by in any situation. When he blended in with the general public, his boss told him to leave all his weapons behind, but he took his Nighthawk and knife with him.
The man who could win a gold medal if there was an Olympics for killing
Not only his killing skills, but his ability to instantly sense the position of security cameras, his incredible judgment, and the skill and armament of his opponents surpass those of his peers, and these are considered to be a kind of "savant syndrome" rather than the result of hard work. The assassins in the story say that if there was an event for "killing" in the Olympics, he would win a gold medal, and he is evaluated as being on a completely different level. He is the strongest character who has never had any particular difficulties in killing in the story.
Are you Son Goku?
It seems that once you confront the assassins that appear in the story, you can guess their skill to a certain extent from their murderous intent and presence, but the Fable can completely hide the murderous intent and presence of a strong person, so he can play the role of an ordinary person who has been caught up in an encounter with an experienced assassin. If it's the first time they meet, even assassins belonging to the same organization cannot see through him, and his appearance is that of a warrior race that can control his fighting power.
The Fable can use "Mugoku"
He has acquired the skill to freely switch his brain, and by making a funny face and touching his forehead with his fingers, he can speak in dialects from Kansai to Hiroshima, Kyushu, and Tohoku. He has also demonstrated this routine of switching on his brain several times, and it seems reasonable to assume that he can do something like the technique "Mugoku" in "Kenka Gaigyo", which is serialized in the same magazine.
Is it hard to become an ordinary person? Something is off about The Fable
As a child, he was left alone in the mountains to train his murder skills, so he sometimes behaves in ways that are not unreasonable but deviate from common sense. For example, he eats edamame beans with the skin on, watermelon with the skin on, and writes the name of his favorite third-rate comedian in the hobby section of his resume, which is somewhat off. Also, from his many years of survival life, he can sense poison with his tongue, but he has an extremely sensitive tongue and cannot eat hot things without blowing on them, so he makes his partner Yoko do it for him. He also sleeps naked when he's at home and in an empty bathtub when he goes to bed.
The Fable is weak when called a professional
If someone starts a fight, the Fable will subdue them by conditioned reflex within 6 seconds, but he doesn't like violence or killing, so he won't kill unnecessarily. He seems to be proud of being a professional, and is very weak to the words "as a professional". After receiving orders from his boss, he has become careful not only about how to subdue the opponent, but also how to lose pathetically, and has an obedient personality that follows orders properly.
The Fable who loves the third-rate comedian Jackal Tomioka
He loves the third-rate comedian Jackal Tomioka, who is active on TV, radio, commercials and dramas, and when he appears, the Fable, who usually doesn't laugh at all, bursts into laughter. Although Yoko calls him a third-rate comedian because of his dirty comedian style of being naked with a tie, he seems to have received many offers for physical jobs, dramas, commercials, etc., and seems to have received a fair amount of praise. The cast of the live-action version is Daisuke Miyagawa, who fits the image perfectly.
Super Wild Child Fable
Since he was a child, he was left alone in the mountains to train, so he seems to retreat to the mountains to keep his senses sharp. When he does so, he carries almost nothing but the clothes on his back and no special equipment. Fable has always had sharp senses, but he was forced to acquire them after being thrown into the mountains, and it seems that these experiences are the reason why he has become ingenious in making use of various things and has an extremely sensitive tongue.
Fable wants to live in peace... but will trouble come to him?
He tries to enjoy the life of an ordinary person by keeping a pet and getting a normal job. However, even though he doesn't want to get involved at all, a female colleague is threatened by a vicious yakuza and almost turned into a rag, a stalker colleague is targeted by a terrible unscrupulous company, he finds an old enemy and almost gets killed, and in the end, he ends up getting involved in the underworld.
Design company "Octopus" and Fable
Through a chance encounter with a girl named Misaki, he is hired as a delivery person at a small design company "Octopus" at 800 yen per hour, but later, his eccentric sense of illustration is discovered, and he is gradually entrusted with design, and his hourly wage increases to 900 yen and 1000 yen. He cares about his ordinary colleagues, the president and Misaki, and when Misaki is targeted by the yakuza and is about to be forced to work as a delivery health girl, he cooperates with his sister Yoko to rescue her, and he is a special person to Yoko.
What is the boss's true intention?
There was actually a reason why the boss made Fable live as an ordinary person. The times had changed and the organization, which had been centered on assassinations, had to change its structure. Furthermore, since the risk of being an assassin like Fable had become too great in this day and age, the boss's goal was to have him lose his killing skills and adapt to being an ordinary person.
[The Fable] Summary of the main character Fable
The genius assassin Fable was given a mission to "not kill anyone for one year." A man who is like a 5-year-old except for his killing skills, struggles to become an ordinary person, but dangerous cases come one after another around him. The first part of The Fable has now finished, and the second part will be serialized from this summer. The live-action movie was also good! It's violent, but it's also a heartwarming work, so I recommend it!
