Normal Assassin

* Assassin
* Salesclerk

**Normal Assassin** is a minor character who first appeared in Scissor Seven Season 2.

## Character History

### Season 2

In Super Scissors, Seven runs into him in a public men's restroom. Seven confuses him for a cosplayer, which offends Normal Assassin and provokes him into attacking Seven. Normal Assassin is defeated easily, and Seven leaves him to lament about his normalness in the bathroom.

He seems to have stopped being an assassin in favor of living on Chicken Island.

### Season 3

In Farewell, Normal Assassin is seen gossiping with Spring-Wind Ichiro and Fa the Gambler about how Seven supposedly killed Redtooth. He seems to be scared of Seven and runs away when he greets them.

### Season 4

In Overnight at the Store, Normal Assassin now works at a convenience store with Spring-Wind Ichiro as his second job. It's revealed that he's never received a single assignment ever since becoming an assassin, as he fails to qualify for receiving any assignments. He finds working as a salesclerk to be mundane, but takes his duties seriously, unlike Spring-Wind Ichiro. One rainy night, Spring-Wind Ichiro runs out with stomach problems and leaves the store to Normal Assassin, who decides to practice his blade techniques while there's no one there. A burglar comes to rob the store, threatening to shoot him if he didn't comply. The burglar steals his phone and forces Normal Assassin to help him scratch all the lottery cards with him. After all of them turn out to be duds, he then demands that Normal Assassin make him some cart noodles. He adds a lot of spicy sauces to the dish to catch him off guard, but trips and dumps it on the floor.

Annoyed, the burglar starts to leave. Normal Assassin uses the opportunity to reveal a pair of tongs, which he uses to take off the burglar's ski mask. With his face revealed, Normal Assassin tells him to turn himself in, as the CCTV has already caught his face. The burglar decides to just shoot and kill Normal Assassin for seeing his face, leading to a scuffle within the store.

Throughout the episode, Normal Assassin had been thinking back to his previous memories. Not long after the scene in S03E01, but before he became a salesclerk, he went to get a haircut. He was intimidated by the SMT Hair Salon, so he went to the other hair salon on the island right across the street. It wasn't until he entered that he realized that the barber was Seven. While getting his hair cut, he asked why Seven was wasting his abilities as a barber despite the fact that he received no customers. Seven replied that it was because he liked giving people haircuts, and unintentionally reveals that he also works part time to sell beef offal. Normal Assassin asks if what Seven told him when they first met was true, to which Seven rhetorically asks back if that's really that important.

In another flashback, Normal Assassin tried to defend another child when he was young, but got beat up by the bullies instead. He's disappointed that he failed to defeat them, but the other boy comforts him, thanking him and saying that having Normal Assassin even show up in the first place made him feel lucky. Upon seeing a discarded losing lottery ticket, he realizes that people who are important really aren't that important after all.

The burglar tries to pick up his gun, but Normal Assassin throws a soda bottle and knocks it to the door. It opens, revealing a soaked Spring-Wind Ichiro who had returned and forgot to bring an umbrella. The two of them manage to take down the burglar, and sit outside to relax. Spring-Wind Ichiro wonders how Normal Assassin could be so brave that he's stupid. Normal Assassin eats a popsicle and gets happy at seeing part of the losing message, "thank you", to which Spring-Wind Ichiro asks again why that would make him happy. The two of them stay there until morning. A strange man comes up to them with a photograph and asks if the subject is their friend, waking up Spring-Wind Ichiro as they look at the picture.

Normal Assassin wonders if they count as friends even if he only went to his place to get a haircut. Spring-Wind Ichiro tells him that he once got a cool haircut and managed to strike up a conversation with a girl he liked with that, so Normal Assassin then wants to ask Seven to help him find an opportunity to talk with a boba-selling girl that he likes. He then remembers that the man was looking for Seven and asks him why. He tells them that it's also to get a haircut and asks for Seven's phone number and to borrow their phone. Spring-Wind Ichiro offers him, sarcastically asking if he's from Xuanwu Country for not having one on him. He then finally identifies the stranger as White Fox, one of the seven Shadow Killers.

It's assumed that White Fox attacked them in order to keep either his own identity a secret on the island or to prevent them from calling Seven and warning him of White Fox's arrival. Normal Assassin bravely attacked back, but was ultimately defeated. He appears again in S04E09 in Spring-Wind Ichiro's flashback as he overcomes his previous accidental cowardice.

## Appearance

Normal Assassin initially wore a dark blue cloth tied around his face and a lighter dark blue bandana tied around his head, so that only his eyes are exposed. He wears a hanfu robe that is the same color as his bandana, with teal lapels, light blue arm guards, and a darker blue belt. His pants are the same color as his face mask and he has white bandages wrapped around his lower legs. He has a sword sheath on his back, with the strap crossing over his shoulder.

He used to have have long black hair, but had it cut short by Seven at the Dai Bo J Hair Salon. Currently, he has replaced the cloth around his mouth with a white medical face mask, and wears a salesclerk apron when he's working at the Share Fun mart.

## Personality

Normal Assassin speaks in a monotone voice and seems to be proud of his status as an assassin, since he gets offended when Seven asks him if he's wearing cosplay. However, after Seven defeats him he becomes sad and wonders if he's too generic, perhaps suggesting that he has a desire to stand out. He later comes to terms with being "normal".

## Relationships

### Seven

Normal Assassin meets Seven in a public bathroom and gets extremely offended when Seven first mistakes him for a cosplayer and then insults his outfit. However, when he gets defeated by Seven, Seven cheers him up by saying nobody else in the show looks like him. After Normal Assassin learns that Seven apparently killed Redtooth, he becomes afraid of him, but soon after realizes that Seven may be strong, but not violent.

### Spring-Wind Ichiro

Normal Assassin gossips with Ichiro about Seven, having likely become friends by the time they become co-workers as salesclerks. Spring-Wind Ichiro later keeps getting up to attack White Fox after the latter taunts him for being a good coward, thinking back to Normal Assassin.

## Trivia

* Normal Assassin's design is a reference to common depictions of ninjas or assassins
* His assassin rank is #11,279
* He shares the same Chinese VA as Lee Zard
* In S02E01 "Super Scissors", Normal Assassin appears to have a different, uncredited voice actor