Prologue: A Sudden Proposal
Fourteen years into my possession of this body.
For someone who'd been dropped into a romance fantasy novel, my life had been anything but romantic—nothing but a relentless stretch of monster hunts and barbarian raids. As bleak and empty as the blizzards that howled past my window every season of the year.
My life.
That was what it meant to live as Roen Kraus.
At least I'd been born with a gift for the sword. Without it, I would have ended up just another useless young master of the nobility—neither one thing nor the other.
And so I arrived at nineteen. Having walked the knight's path with stubborn diligence, I was finally ready to claim the rewards of all that work.
Except—
"Become the bodyguard knight to the young lady of the Weiss Grand Ducal House."
"...What?"
Father.
Isn't that proposal a little too sudden?