First in Line to the Throne [Western Fantasy]

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When he woke up, Kalisto found himself a shepherd in the Middle Ages.

Then one day, a magnificent knight came to him and said, "Your Highness, I've finally found you. The throne of the Kingdom of Roderick is waiting for you to inherit it. Please return to the kingdom at once."

Kalisto: "???"

As the nominal first heir to the Roderick dynasty, Kalisto owns twenty-five vast provinces, but every one of them is controlled by countless nobles from all across the kingdom.

He has a royal order of honor knights, forged at great expense, but its members are all idle, spoiled young aristocrats.

He has a regent brother bound to him by blood, but that ambitious brother is always eager to swallow up Roderick.

...This is a hellish situation from the start.

But Kalisto always knows exactly what he needs to do.

He purges the provinces from top to bottom, drives the corrupt nobility from the stage of history, and breathes new life into the kingdom with fresh blood.

He reforms the knightly order, turning the knights' sons into sharp blades, rekindling their martial spirit as ancient songs of glory ring out.

He reunites the royal bloodline, brings the royal house of his homeland to its knees, and proclaims the unity and peace of the eastern continent.

Before the coronation, Kalisto sits atop a high dais. The lively crowd is reflected in his eyes, the cheers of his subjects ring in his ears, and his fingers brush the golden crown forged from crystal.

Under the gaze of his people, the young king crowns himself.

"I never regret a thing, because... glory never fades."

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Blurb:

Even though the Church has fallen, the last holy knight still walks the earth.

Clad in silver armor and wearing a sacred helm, he follows his code, battling monsters and protecting the weak through his own actions. He neither grieves over the Church's demise nor despairs that darkness rules the land. No one in the mortal realm has ever seen the face beneath his helm.

He hardly speaks and always travels alone. Everyone thinks he is cold as ice and impossible to approach.

It is only after this kindhearted holy knight takes in an orphan and names him his heir, keeping him close and guiding him by word and deed, that others catch a glimpse of the tenderness beneath the sacred helm.

The orphan cared for by the holy knight is small, pale, and frail. Whenever others look his way, he hides behind the knight, making them sigh that he is unfit for high society and unworthy of the knight's sincere devotion.

No matter what others say, the holy knight believes his heir is innocent and kind, sincere and righteous, the purest light and the very embodiment of his code.

As time passes, the heir grows taller, until he even stands a head above the holy knight, filling him with pride.

But before the knight can prepare himself, demonic horns sprout from his heir's head, and a devil's pointed tail slips from beneath his clothes. The holy knight sees a blood-red gleam in his heir's eyes and is pinned to the grass, taken at the other's mercy, plunged into the depths of agony and ecstasy.

Only then does the holy knight understand: that was no orphan. He was the lord of the night, the king of devils.

His ambition will never end, and his conquests will never cease.

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When the holy knight's former companion breaks through the emperor's blockade and reaches the palace where he is imprisoned, hoping to help him escape, he hears the knight's cool, clear voice from beneath the dark helm and armor.

"I won't leave. He is my responsibility."

Theme: Never submit to reality. Choose to keep climbing upward instead.