Snow Romance

“How about being friends? Being friends with the emperor is not an opportunity that comes around easily.”

As if he could see right through Lehardt’s thoughts, Icarus firmly drew a line.

“Throughout my life, I’ve never had something like a friend, and I plan to never have one in the future either.”

Lehardt also seemed to have expected that as he smiled faintly. Then he rubbed his chin and muttered,

“Then I suppose only the lover’s position remains.”

Icarus barely swallowed the liquor he was drinking and burst into violent coughing.

***

Lehardt, emperor and war hero, is warned by the high priest about a disaster and danger that will befall the empire.

Following the high priest’s advice, he goes to seek out the monster of the snowy mountain, but that monster, the great mage Icarus, refuses to come down the mountain.

With no choice, Lehardt stays in the snowy mountain in order to bring him along.

As Lehardt rubs against the prickly Icarus, he gradually comes to realize feelings he cannot understand, and one by one remembers the ties bound up in the past.