Midori Yata

Aya and Hisaki share a connection that goes beyond that of a normal master and his familiar: they’re also a dysfunctional brother and sister duo who are constantly at each others’ throats! But when a face from Hisaki’s past threatens to tear them apart, will they be able to keep from strangling each other long enough to see each other through?

After three long years of endurance, I’ll finally divorce you—Asha has endured endless cold treatment and scorn from her husband, Rejes, who treats her like nothing more than a servant. One day, she discovers a mysterious book containing a message written in Japanese, awakening memories of her previous life.This world, she realizes, is the setting of the novel Forbidden Love that she once read, a story about the “fated romance” between the Queen and Rejes. If the story follows its course, Asha will be consumed by jealousy, attempt to assassinate the Queen, and be executed as a villainess. There’s no way she’s letting herself die as a disposable pawn in someone else’s love story! Determined to defy fate and rewrite the narrative, Asha begins her quiet resistance, planning her counterattack for three years later—when all the conditions will finally be in her favor. Thus begins a thrilling tale of revenge and rebirth, where past and present lives intertwine, and one woman takes destiny into her own hands.

Three hundred years have passed since the fate of nations was decided by "battle competitions," in which knights fought to win or lose by shattering the life stones attached to each other's helmets, instead of wars. Nina was born in a village that produced excellent knights, but she was not able to use a sword as well as the other girls around her, and she lived an unhappy life. However, a knight named Licht suddenly recruits her into the knighthood, saying, "You are the one I have been looking for."