“An oshi is the most sacred being in a maiden’s life, the one she admires above all.” “Just look at my oshi… Sir Clive is wonderful again today.” Alice, youngest daughter of the prestigious Morgar ducal family in the Kingdom of Cranbell, quietly murmurs this as she gazes at a young man two years her senior who is a candidate for the royal guard. Clive is her childhood friend and the second son of the neighboring Reylan viscount family.books.rakuten+1 He is currently training in the Reylan family’s garden, aiming to pass the exam for the royal guard—known as the most difficult test in the entire palace. Because their estates are side by side, Alice frequently comes and goes at the Reylan household.cmoa+1 Then one day, Clive suddenly visits to tell her: “For a while, I won’t be able to see you. I’ve been ordered to join a monster subjugation.” Her beloved oshi Clive might lose his life on the front lines. Unable to sit still in the face of that possibility, Alice offers an earnest prayer to the gods—and then…
