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2	''Candy & Cigarettes'' is a manga by Tomonori Inoue, of ''Manga/{{Coppelion}}'' fame. It ran in ''Young Magazine the 3rd'' from 2017 to 2021.
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4	Hiraga Raizou has just entered retirement from the Japan Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). But hearing his grandson is afflicted with a rare disease costing a million yen a month in treatments, he resolved to raise the necessary money for his grandson's sake. Seeing a job ad seemingly tailored to his skillset brings him to the 'Desperado' used books store, and he is sent for a trial work... as CleanupCrew for the assassin employed by the organization, the little girl Suzukaze Miharu.
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10	* BadassAndChildDuo: Played with in that Hiraga himself is a badass, but it's the kid Miharu who pulls the trigger most of the time.
11	* BigBad: Musou Saburou, the leader behind The Greatest Bond. Overlaps with DiabolicalMastermind.
12	* NebulousCriminalConspiracy: Known as 'The Greatest Bond' in the underworld, it comprises {{Dirty Cop}}s, {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, {{Corrupt Politician}}s and more within its ranks.
13	* DissonantSerenity: Director Kinume's expression barely changes from 'disinterested look'. [[spoiler:Not even when she approves the hit on her own biological father.]]
14	* EnfanteTerrible: Miharu is Desperado's primary hitman. At one point her would-be-victim called her a 'murderous demon-child', and her response is for him to keep talking as it 'makes her tingle'.
15	* HealthcareMotivation: Raizou takes the job to earn money for his grandson's medical treatment.
16	* MurderInc: The Desperado used books store is a front for the SS Agency, a government-sanctioned (or so they claimed) extralegal entity seeking to bring 'justice' to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections those who would otherwise evade it.]]
17	* PuttingOnTheReich: The assassin agency is called "SS", and its logo looks very close to a stylized swastika. And they're the ''good'' guys (for a given value of "good")!
18	* RetiredBadass: Raizou is a retired officer whose training comes in handy for his new career.
19	* ReusedCharacterDesign: Hiraga is basically [[Manga/{{Coppelion}} Dr. Coppelius]] minus the cracked glasses.
20	* {{Revenge}}: Miharu's prime motivation of becoming a hitman. [[spoiler:Her father knew too much and The Greatest Bond eliminated him and his family. Miharu missed the hit and swore vengeance to all of them.]]
21	* ShoutOut: Henry Magritte wears a bowler hat and carries an apple, which is briefly in front of his face, just like ''The Son of Man'' by his namesake Creator/ReneMagritte.

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