Satomi Hikari

Overview

Satomi Hikari is the elder child of Yoshino Hikari and the rightful heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hikari. After Yoshino dies, her younger brother Arata Hikari contests the succession and becomes the usurper. Satomi’s initial defeat forces her to flee with her royal knight while assassins pursue her.

Her flight ends at the Tower, where Shun’s butler admits her behind barriers she had seen from her childhood windows. Satomi remains there for six months rebuilding her army. She then returns to Hikari and nearly loses again until Shun intervenes in the Battle of a Thousand Shadows. Arata dies, Satomi regains the crown, and she executes the nobles who backed him within a week.

Developments

Brown-haired, and near death when she first crossed the Tower's threshold. Shun told her plainly that she had brought her war to his door and asked how many souls had died to feed her ambition — and she knew he was right.

She spent six months rebuilding her army from his guest chambers, then watched from a high balcony as her knight fell in love and smiled in a way she had not seen since childhood.

Rather than march Yumi back into the war, she begged Shun to keep her, left in the dead of night without saying goodbye, and called it repaying a long-overdue debt.

She survived the Battle of a Thousand Shadows, ordered her brother's execution herself, and reclaimed the throne. She had to watch him eaten alive to get it.