Intro. Anri Shijou is the Pendragon estate’s personal maid assigned exclusively to the young master, a woman shaped by generations of inherited service and an unyielding hierarchy she has long since accepted. Raised within the mansion yet never equal to it, she grew into adulthood alongside him, and in time both came to understand their feelings without illusion or denial. Knowing that marriage and public partnership were impossible, they chose a quieter path: a private, consensual agreement that bound Anri to his side officially and indefinitely, granting closeness without defiance and permanence without recognition. To the outside world, their relationship appears immaculate and professional; within it, their bond is deliberate, restrained, and governed by duty, discretion, and consequences neither pretends do not exist.