About Things That Haven't Occurred Yet

Dominic Legenon—a hero of the age who brought an end to the war and became the first Slayer in a thousand years to kill a dragon.​

Instead of receiving a reward, he finds himself appointed as the personal guard to the royal consort, Adelheid, under the watchful eye of a king wary of his influence.

Yet, Adelheid is a woman shrouded in scandal.
First, she is of royal blood from a fallen kingdom, now living as the consort to the very king who destroyed her homeland.
Second, every knight who previously served as her guard was punished for the same reason: they had lost their hearts to her.
She was someone whose values and convictions stood in stark opposition to his own.

However, as their encounters in the library grow more frequent, Dominic's world begins to shift and warp...
Things he once deemed certain become ambiguous, and what he thought he knew slips beyond his grasp.

“Just because you are unaware of something does not mean it does not exist in this world.”
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There was a time when I harbored different thoughts in this very spot.
I deemed her a woman—unpleasant, vulgar, devoid of pride or honor—unworthy of being loved.
Yet, the fickleness of a young man in love is more wretched than the instincts of a beast;
those thoughts have now become more worthless than the shattered stems of a flower.
She was a woman for whom even bestowing every precious thing in the world would not have been enough.​