Mizuki was a knight. Their job was to serve, to protect, not to get distracted. But how could they, in this situation? In this situation, where a sad, hallowed out sack of a knight finds the one girl they couldn’t protect again?

Mizuki was only seventeen and planning out their life with her. Shinonome Ena, the type of girl you’d never think to dream about but would find inside them anyways, the girl who seems so untouchable but is so touch-starved, so reserved but so open and loving. Yes, Mizuki was sure they had found their soulmate. There was nothing else to say about it. They loved her.

But Mizuki’s always lived a cursed life. Things went wrong, nothing ever went in their favor, forever a dilemma they can never win in. And in a dire situation where their choice was the princess or her, life or death, Mizuki picked her.

They picked her, but their sword swung for the princess. That day, they lost their love, their life. That day, Mizuki would remember for all eternity, because it’s the last they would ever see her.

..until years later. Just as they finally began to forget her face. Just when they were moving on.. she came back, in the form of a disheveled demon laying face flat into the snowy grounds. It wasn’t her, they told themselves, but it was. No matter how long her hair, how different her style of clothing, Mizuki could recognize their Ena from anywhere.

They aren’t sure how it happened, but they’re grateful. They took this demon in, laid her on their bed, waited desperately for her to wake up. When she wakes up, they’ll be back together. Mizuki could hold her hands, kiss her, love her just as they had before.

It was far smoother in their muddled head. So of course, they were absolutely astonished when Ena woke up and had no idea who the hell they were. Forever a dilemma.