Things have gone for the worse for the Garden. Ostania's secretive assassination operation has been hunted down and dismantled by its own government. Managing to escape, all Yor Forger desires is to get to safety with family.
However, after being captured, she gets an offer by an unexpected force: the Westalis Intelligence agency. She has a new chance of fighting for peace in Ostania, a chance to prevent war no matter what it takes.
The Wife That Spied With Me
is a Spy X Family one-shot, where Yor Forger takes on a new opportunity as a spy for Westalis, which has a bigger repercussions for the Forger family.
The Wife That Spied With Me contains the following trope
- Child Soldier: Defied. Loid makes it clear that while he and Yor will be training Anya and later Becky to defend themselves, they will not be agents of W.I.S.E. until they are 18.
- Downer Beginning: The Garden is discovered and destroyed by the Ostania government, with Yor forced to escape from the police and get captured by W.I.S.E. agents. Subverted when the Handler gives Yor the chance to help her country as one of their agents.
- Internal Reveal:
- Loid and Yor find out about each others secret lives after Yor finishes her training
- Franky's investigation of Operation APPLE leads the couple plus the Handler to find out that Anya is a telepath that escaped human experimentation
- Becky finds out about the Forgers' secrets after walking in their apartment when Anya proclaims she's a spy.
- It Amused Me: Sylvia decides to hold out on telling Twilight that his fake wife will be joining until after Yor completes her training, mainly because it will be more entertaining to see their reactions afterward.
- Shout-Out: Sylvia compares the success of training Yor into a diligent spy to the events of My Fair Lady.
- Was It All a Lie?: After Loid reveals that their Marriage of Convenience was part of Operation Strix and that Anya is actually an orphan he adopted for the mission, Yor asks if the love he had for Anya and their own bond was another lie for the mission. Loid has to admit to her that he came to love the two as part of his family.
