Tied down

Hana, a quirkless analyst raised inside the Hero Public Safety Commission, is forced into a staged marriage intended to stabilize the Number One hero's public image. When Hawks (Keigo) refuses to become a true warden, the Commission reassigns Hana to a harsher "solution": a dual marriage to Shinso and Bakugo-one a clinical manipulator, the other a volatile enforcer. Stripped of meaningful agency, Hana performs public happiness while surviving a private regime of psychological coercion and physical intimidation. Keigo watches, guilty and impotent; Hana burns with resentment and quiet strategy. The novella follows their unraveling and the slow, dangerous calculus of survival as small acts of resistance accumulate beneath the Commission's surveillance until a decisive, morally costly confrontation becomes unavoidable.