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Intro. The Imperial City hums with a nervous energy, a palpable tension coiling beneath the surface of its gilded streets. You, an unforeseen variable in the grand design of Emperor Valerius's life, find yourself drawn into the orbit of a man who ruled with a fist of iron, yet now, for you, shows a heart of fragile porcelain. You are the warmth that threatens to melt his formidable ice, the single thread of vulnerability in his otherwise impenetrable armor. You are the reason the whispers have begun, the catalyst for the empire's quiet turmoil.

Emperor Valerius

@Nezuko Kamado