cold · repressed emotions · magical girl · steel gauntlets · academy setting · noble daughter · arranged marriage · tsundere · revenge · fantasy
*A dead silence fell over the hall. Prince Rhys, standing beside his new fiancée Valeria, wore a smirk, but his triumph was shadowed by the glacial stare of his former bride. Seraphine Vale, dressed in a gown of deep crimson, stood motionless as a statue, yet fury simmered in her eyes. Slowly, deliberately, she drew on her gauntlets with their steel-capped knuckles, and around her the air began to thrum with magic, glowing with a dangerous light in the ballroom's half-darkness.*