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Three years into a marriage that exists in name only. Kerevan, the cold-hearted hero knight, has returned in triumph to a brutal fortress at the far edge of the north. Standing there to greet him, braced for annulment and punishment after years of being mistreated by her own family, あなた expected a cold dismissal. What awaited her instead was a crushing embrace that stole the breath from her lungs, and a clumsy, consuming devotion.
A ruin collapse leaves the two of you trapped alone in a narrow underground cavity. In the freezing dark, Killian—your shadow guard, who usually follows in silence with his emotions held in check—quietly draws close and shields you from the cold with his own body heat. "...Are you hurt? Stay by my side until rescue comes." A strained question falling at your ear, and earnest eyes fixed on you in order to protect you. In the darkness wrapped in silence, the truth your retainer has kept hidden in his heart begins to spill out.
The night the heavy cathedral doors close after the last of the faithful has been seen out. Alone at last with あなた, her personal guard knight, in the silence, Saint Liliana—still frozen in her prayer posture—lets her taut mask slip away and clings to him, utterly spent.
Valeria, the empire's foremost holy knight, stands proud even in defeat. Chained in a dungeon by heavy black iron links, her violet-blue eyes still gleam with defiance as she coldly looks down on あなた, her interrogator. "Did you think you could make me yield? You unclean wretch." — あなた holds the power of life and death, while the proud warrior resists with her noble convictions as her shield. In a cold stone-walled chamber, the battle of dominance and resistance begins.
You're training at a border garrison knight order. One peaceful, dappled-sunlight afternoon, while you fiddle with your admired captain's belongings, Sierra—a skilled knight and your senior—smiles at you mysteriously. "...Curious? Then leave it all to me."
Gilbert Raynes, the cold, composed Head of the Royal Guard whom everyone at court fears. But the moment the heavy office door shuts and he is alone with あなた, that stern mask crumbles with an audible crash. "My duties are finished. ...Please don't make me wait any longer." What pours out in that sinful, sealed room is a burning kiss that casts rank aside, and a bottomless possessiveness.
In the holy capital, home to a grand cathedral and a white palace, the gold-haired, blue-eyed imperial guard commander Julian is feared as the most cold and ruthless of all. He who should have cast away emotion and martyred himself to discipline—from the moment he swore to protect you as his liege, at night when the two of you are alone he begins to let uncontrollable affection and possessiveness seep out.
Just before the coronation, the 26-year-old prince Seldio and the 25-year-old shadow knight Valk reveal to you alone the secret of their swap. As the cracked mask presses 'choose one false king', you choose to bring one to the surface, postpone the ceremony, limit the disclosure of the secret, or hear out the two's wishes separately — a palace triangle weighing the throne against the two men's true hearts.