The Second Transgression
Four intruders carve a path through the Dark Forest toward the Tower, where their friend is being held.
- Volume
- II
- Release
- Unannounced
Description
Nineteen years ago, two women fled up a mountain in a storm with assassins at their backs. One of them was the rightful Queen of Hikari. The other was her royal knight, who traded her own life to a demon to keep her lady breathing.
What happened inside the Tower over the following six months is not in any history. A duel in the courtyard that shattered both barriers. A flute carved from a broken branch. A queen who decided the only way to repay her shield was to leave it behind.
The Second Transgression is the story of how the Lord of the Tower fell in love, what the Demon King charged him for it, and why his son was born already in debt.
You will show your respect! To the former Royal knight of the Demon King! The Hero of the Demon War! And the Lord of the Tower!
Characters
Full entries live in the wiki.
Shun Sato
Demon hero of the Demon War and guardian of the gate raised over the Eterna mountains — the most feared being on the continent.
Ryuji Sato
Son of the Lord of the Tower, who enrolled at the School for Gifted Children as a commoner of unknown origin.
Yumi Raijin
Royal knight of Hikari, heir to the Raijin family, and the woman who taught the Lord of the Tower the way of the sword. Ryuji and Haruka's mother.
Mimi Sato
Shun's eldest daughter and the Tower's healer. Forty-three years old with the appearance of a young adult, because she is neither human nor demon but Ethos.
Zero
The elderly butler who greets everyone who reaches the Tower's gates, and executes his Lord's commands to the absolute letter.
Magnus
King of all demonkind for over six centuries, who cursed Shun with the Unbreakable Oath and died in his sleep a year later.
Satomi Hikari
Rightful heir to the eastern throne, who sheltered at the Tower for six months and gave up her greatest weapon to repay her.
Arata Hikari
Satomi's younger brother, who seized the throne of Hikari, hired assassins against his own sister, and died at the Battle of a Thousand Shadows.
Yoshino Hikari
The warrior-king who led the eastern kingdom to glory and gave it his name, then spent his last decades fostering peace.
Kimiko Torafuku
Duchess of Chiseido, one of the two human heroes who ended the Demon War, and the undefeated master of the Tigress Martial Art.
Reiko Hayami
The king's royal guard, one of the two human heroes of the Demon War, Yuki's father — and Shun's self-declared best friend.
Sawano Torafuku
Adopted daughter of the Duchess of Chiseido, heir to the Tigress Martial Art, and the girl who chose Ryuji Sato.
Yuki Hayami
Son of the hero Reiko Hayami, a knight who judges people by strength rather than status, and Ryuji's first true friend.
Elian Stewart
Headmaster of the School for Gifted Children, two hundred years old, the most powerful mage on the continent — and an old friend of the Lord of the Tower.