In her room, Odette stood by the window, daydreaming again. She wasn't thinking about Rion, but about her mother. Soon she would get married. She would walk down the aisle without someone by her side, no family at all.
Even though her marriage to Rion wasn't the one she expected, still it was her wedding day, and she was feeling nervous.
"Mom… I miss you," she mumbled.
Outside the palace, a man with black hair and ruby eyes was stepping in through the border of knights. His arrival brought a powerful pressure. The wizard knights who had been assigned to guard the palace immediately stood up. They all knew the figure of the Great Wizard Aathreya.
The ordinary knights, who didn't know Aathreya, were confused when they saw their friends lined up and saluting the ruby-eyed man.
