𝒲𝒾𝓃𝓉ℯ𝓇 𝒲ℴ𝓃𝒹ℯ𝓇𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹： 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓌 ℴ𝒻 𝓉𝒽ℯ ℱ𝓇ℴ𝓏ℯ𝓃 ℋℯ𝒶𝓇𝓉

𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 2： 𝑆𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛

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Being told that I'll never be first...
...is the thing I hate most.
Life's not fair.
Isn't playing dirty a skill all its own?
All that matters is winning.
If I can't overthrow the world, I'll turn everything to sand!

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Summary

With the Spelldrive tournament just around the corner, the dorms began their preparations to form teams that will represent them during the competition. However, participating students seem to mysteriously get injured one by one, so Y/n and Grim decide to investigate the matter.

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Banish the traitors from my throne,
Let their cries be drowned in gilded stone.
No noble shall ever rise or stand—
Break their chains, then bind their hand.

For what is use of a pawn if you cannot control it?

My soul decays in cursed gold,
A crown too heavy, a heart grown cold.
Yet still I chase that sacred flame—
To bring her back, to speak her name.

A tyrant forged from grief and pride,
A golden wish the stars denied.
But if damnation is the price to pay,
Then let the world be cast away.

A masquerade of thorns I weave,
Where no man speaks, and none may leave.
Their lies, their masks—I'll tear apart,
To guard the flower close to heart.

Untouched by sin, by rot, by time,
My Lilium, so pure, divine.
You will bloom in light once more—
At dawn's first breath on golden shores.

-Valentina, Guardian of Golden Ambition

Opera: Lament of the Cursed King

Once, there was a kind-hearted prince—gentle, compassionate, and devoted wholly to his beloved little sister. Sheltered from the world's cruelty, he was a soul untouched by darkness.