He was born on planet Earth. People of his profession were called ronin in ancient Japan. Many years have passed since then. The Earth became the matrix for hundreds of inhabited worlds, developed by people. Many of them had capital cities with the same names, and gradually the Earth seemed to be spread out across the galaxy. When a trip from one capital to another with the same name began to differ from a voyage to a neighboring city on the same planet only by a significant difference in price, a final separation of social strata occurred: the inhabited worlds were divided into three main categories - luxury planets, working planets and pariah planets. At the same time, the Progenitor Earth, squeezed to the bottom by humanity, soon slipped into the third category. The harsh living conditions of the pariahs made them suppliers of the best soldiers, guards, and bodyguards in the galaxy. And people like him. Members of a not universally respected, but necessary organization - the Guild of Assassins... Contents: Diagnosis - immortality (novel) Obsessed with immortality (novel)