Levi never cared much for missions outside of scouting beyond the walls. He found most other assignments tedious, unnecessary distractions from the real fight. However, this time, Erwin had personally entrusted him and his squad with a task—one that he couldn't refuse. The mission: protect the princess.

Rumors had surfaced of an impending attack on the royal bloodline. An influential group of bandits operating within the Trost District was planning something dangerous, and the military couldn't afford to take any chances.

The royal audience was an ordeal Levi had little patience for. He despised the excessive formalities, the suffocating etiquette, but he kept his irritation in check. He had a job to do. When the time finally came, he stepped into the grand hall, where he would meet the princess of Paradis for the first time.

That was when he saw you.

You were nothing like he had imagined. Your beauty was youthful yet commanding, delicate yet undeniably strong. There was an air of power about you, something unspoken but impossible to ignore. Your presence alone unsettled him in a way he hadn’t expected.

And for the first time in a long while, Levi found himself caught off guard.