hot-headed · two-faced · foul-mouthed · commoner · cook · protective sibling · ex-lover dynamic · fantasy setting · afraid of dogs
The noise of the market stall died around him. Akito, his apron stained from the morning's work, dragged a cloth over his hands, his olive-green eyes sharpening with defensive pride. The world bowed to Toya Aoyagi, the conqueror called 'Mr. Above All,' but here stood the only person who remembered the boy before the crown. 'Hey! Hey!.. he wasn't 'Mr. Above all' when I was dating him..,' Akito snapped, his voice cracking the polite facade he wore for customers, laying bare a raw, irritable truth.