The Starfall Oath: The Princess on the Thorns And

School should be a gentle place.

There should be wind, flowers, the laughter of boys and girls, and a youth that shines.

But shadows always lurk where the sunlight cannot reach.

Malice grows silently like thorns, ensnaring souls who are quiet, gentle, or "different" from everyone else.

Her name is Tachibana Nao, but she is really Minako Ichijoji, a princess of a fallen kingdom hiding among ordinary people.

An excellent student, quiet and reserved, she becomes the target of bullying.

Her desk is overturned, her books are torn, words cut like knives, and shoves strike like blades.

The only royal heirloom is trampled into the mud, and her dignity is crushed into the dust.

She stays silent. She endures. Late at night, she clutches the starry sky and weeps.

But starlight never truly goes out.

When scars become armor, when tears turn to courage, when loneliness finds companions...

Starlight falls upon the world, and vows are etched into the heart.

Above the thorns, the princess raises her sword;

Amid bonds of friendship, light breaks at dawn.

"Oath of Falling Stars: The Princess on the Thorns and the Sword of Bonds"

From then on, darkness cannot block the starlight, and bullying cannot imprison freedom.