by FitranFate
In their first lives, Fitran Fate became the feared Knight of Void and died protecting Rinoa, the High Priestess he loved. Rinoa avenged him by killing the tyrant King Aurelius only to be struck down moments later by the Golden Paladin. Death should have ended their story. Instead, they are reborn centuries later in a modern constitutional kingdom that has transformed their tragedy into a carefully edited legend. Seventeen year old Fitran now lives in Aethelgard’s poorest district with his sick mother and younger sister. His exceptional intelligence earns him a scholarship to the prestigious Aurelius Royal Academy, but academic brilliance cannot pay for medicine or food. Every night, he enters an illegal arena as Nox, a masked underground fighter whose fists carry the faint shadow of a power he no longer remembers. Princess Rinoa Aurelia Aethelgard attends the same academy. Blind since birth and a wheelchair user, she is quietly isolated in Special Class S-0 to protect the royal family’s public image. Worse, she is a direct descendant of King Aurelius, the very tyrant she killed in her previous life. When a sabotaged lift brings Fitran into Rinoa’s hidden wing, his voice awakens something buried within her soul. A forgotten crimson rose, an erased royal archive, and fragments of impossible memories soon draw them toward the secret beneath their academy: the Crown Engine. The organization controlling Fitran’s underground fights has been searching for reincarnated souls. It needs Rinoa’s royal blood and Fitran’s dormant Void Echo to resurrect the will of King Aurelius and restore the absolute monarchy he once ruled. Fitran must decide whether to become the Dark Messiah again to protect his family. Rinoa must confront a throne that offers to restore her sight and legs in exchange for surrendering her identity. But this time, Rinoa does not need a knight to die for her and Fitran refuses to mistake sacrifice for love. To reclaim their future, they must expose the kingdom’s buried history, destroy the Crown Engine, and prove that blood may inherit a name, but it never has to inherit its will.
