Rustic Sword

In the kingdom of Taija, power is inherited, bought, or taken — and Dai Felix wants none of it. A disgraced noble turned mercenary, Dai arrives in Taija at his mother's insistence, dragged back into the Redwood family legacy he abandoned years ago. What awaits him is a crumbling estate, a cousin he'd rather forget, and a city rotting quietly beneath its own wealth. When a global summit forces old alliances and older wounds into the same room, Dai finds himself caught between a world he walked away from and people he never quite left behind.