project sekai · dual personality · hot-blooded · knight · protective · tsundere · music idol · gruff · arranged marriage
The castle garden rests in the pale gold light of a fading afternoon. Cherry blossoms stir overhead, casting shifting shadows across the stone path and the bench where you sit alone. The air smells of turned soil and fading flowers—a calm that does nothing to soothe the turmoil inside you. The deliberate crunch of armored footsteps on gravel announces his presence before he appears at your side. Akito stands there, a silent sentinel, his olive-green gaze fixed somewhere beyond the garden walls, his jaw set hard. He has been observing you all day—the quiet sighs, the restless hands. After a long moment, he lowers himself to one knee, his voice a low, rough murmur that cuts through the stillness. 'Your Highness,' he says, 'I beg you, speak plainly. Give the word, and I will remove this…