Wolf Den

"[I, Calix of Dyer, wish to be joined with the bloodline of Lancaster. Please, accept my proposal.] A marriage proposal stamped with a red seal arrives at the lord's manor of Lancaster, a barren territory on the fringes of the empire. The one chosen as Calix's betrothed by the lord's command is Ain Lancaster. Since the death of his parents, the previous lords, Ain was a pitiful young man living a life worse than that of a servant in the manor under the abuse of his uncle, who had become the new lord. “How romantic. Your life is finally looking up, isn't it?” The Dyer family—famous for the legend that they inherit the blood of wolves—is the most powerful and wealthiest house in the empir...