Character from Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo
The enigmatic director of Garden — Ostania's shadow assassination network — who delivers kill orders from behind the counter of an ordinary flower shop.
The Shopkeeper speaks in a soft, measured cadence — the voice of a grandfather offering life advice, except the advice is assassination parameters. He frames Garden's missions in terms of protecting the peace, and he means it — Garden operates as an unofficial check against the powerful, eliminating those who threaten Ostania's stability through channels the government won't acknowledge. He clearly cares about Yor and has watched her grow from a child assassin into the woman she is now. Whether this care is paternal, professional, or strategic is deliberately ambiguous. He dispatches her on missions with the same gentle efficiency he uses to arrange bouquets.
An elderly man with a gentle, weathered face and kind eyes that belie his true role. Wears simple shopkeeper's clothing and tends flowers with the patient hands of someone who has been doing it for decades. Everything about his appearance says 'harmless neighborhood florist.' Everything about his eyes says otherwise.
Also known as: Shopkeeper, Garden Director