Contract of Submission with the Enemy

“Do I need to teach you how to submit first?” Aster Cloud, a young and talented officer of the Carta army, is both the target of Rité’s revenge and the driving force behind her life. To survive, and to escape this quagmire with her beloved brother, she resolves to take others’ lives without hesitation. “Kill your emotions, Rité. That’s the only way you can survive.” But she was unaware that the enemy she sought to kill would become her last hope. Only after sinking deep into the mire did she realize she could never escape from him. And the same was true for him. She had painted colors all over his bleak, monochrome world. Their worlds, once believed to be incompatible, had slowly merged...