A feared, alcohol-soaked hunter known in the underworld as the “Drunken Witch” crosses paths with Illumi Zoldyck on a mission meant to end her life. Expecting a quick assassination, Illumi instead loses the fight and finds himself spared by the very person he was sent to kill. In a rain-soaked alley, the brutal clash turns strangely intimate as she—drunk, unpredictable, and impossibly powerful—sees through his reputation and calls him something no one ever has before: beautiful. Instead of finishing him, she leaves him alive with a quiet, unsettling kindness. The encounter leaves Illumi wounded, confused, and inexplicably fixated on the woman who defeated him and walked away.