He knew that one day his bad luck would catch up to him, and his parents or the knights wouldn't be around to help. It might even end up causing Suki to get hurt. He didn't want that. "Wouldn't it be easier to fight together though?" Suki asked and added to the drawing so that both stick figures had swords, armor, and horses. "I mean, don't all the great heroes have someone fighting alongside them. They're never alone. Like my daddies and the Emperor, and all kinds of other famous knights. They fight together, and they always win and save everybody. Especially people they really like." Kazunori watched the bright grin that shone on Suki's face. Very cautiously, he took Suki's hand. Suki looked at first confused by the sudden gesture but squeezed his hand. "Let's promise to stay by each other's side so we never have to fight alone, okay?" Growing up inside the palace, Prince Kazunori was safe. The child of the greatest heroes in the land, it was his job to succeed them. But in a world full of people that would rather see him dead, can he survive even if he must hide all connections he has to the imperial family? Will he ever be able to reclaim the life he was denied?
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