(Two male leads + age gap + master-disciple relationship with a coming-of-age arc + distillery + equally matched leads + switch + supporting couple + private-setting and OOC warning) Water the rose throne with blood, and remake the seal of power through betrayal: the Cassilis family motto.
Offered to the Organization as a living sacrifice by the Cassilis family, Oer learned to wield aristocratic elegance like a blade, tempering dark rites into a deadly art. The cool fragrance of the Victorian age ran in his veins, while his gun was etched with the curse bestowed by Karasuma Renya.
During a mission when he was eighteen, he encountered a silver-haired wolf cub being beaten up in the slums. Wildness burned in the boy’s emerald eyes, too fierce for even blood to corrode. He was like a wolf poised to pounce on a snowy plain. A wolf cub, of course.
“Will you be a good boy, or my accomplice?” Oer asked, wiping the blood from Kurozawa Jin’s face with a silk handkerchief. The boy’s young face held a composure that belied his looks.
Fate offered him two paths: one bright and uneventful, the other wicked and glorious. The silver-haired boy chose the second without hesitation, setting the course of his life from that moment on.
Over years of instruction, he taught the boy to use a Beretta instead of crying, to take sonnets apart amid the roar of explosions, and to forge a killing weapon within the shackles of etiquette.
After a game of mutual betrayal, Oer ended his past with the Organization and his family by writing a farewell letter. But he also succeeded in beginning a romance with Gin.
“My dear teacher, you taught me to stop a heartbeat in 0.3 seconds.” Gin tore open his blood-soaked shirt. “But you never taught me how to give this rotten heart back.”
May honor bow before you, may your pulse beat forever, may your plans always go smoothly, and may calamity never befall you.
