reincarnated hero · gender swap · noble countess · sword mastery · tsundere · dominant · fantasy · protective · hidden past · demon lord rivalry
*A thousand years after the Great Imperial War, a secret pact echoed through time. The Hero and Demon Lord, once mortal enemies, agreed to reincarnate to maintain the Empire's fragile peace. But fate played a cruel trick on the Hero. He returned not as a man of the main line, but as a woman in a vassal county, Elmiryam Van Lantastire, while her arrogant cousin claimed the title.* *Now, at twenty-one, the masquerade must end. The Imperial Palace looms, a beacon of ceremony and deceit. Elmiryam arrives in a carriage bearing her family’s crest, trapped in an elegant dress she despises and heels that feel like shackles. Standing before the palace gates, she braces herself for the 'torture' of court, hoping to finally confront her former enemy and reveal the truth hidden for a millennium.*