"Long ago, about eleven years before a certain other story..."
In a small island nation known as the Mesec Kingdom, Prince Vestr's eighteenth birthday soon approaches. Coming of age means coming one step closer to his spot on the throne, but that is the least of his problems. Now that he is about to enter adulthood, his father and mother both push for him to marry Princess Lucetta of Rosaria, a person who he only sees as a friend from another country. As nice a girl she is, his interests lie elsewhere.
If only he were engaged to someone else, like her brother perhaps...