Hot Ice, Cold Flame (5)

In truth, their first meeting hadn’t gone well.

El Roscadi was the leader of the resistance guiding those people. She had once served the Flame Emperor as her lord, but……

She was a traitor who had turned against the Flame Emperor after becoming disillusioned with the tyrant he’d become. And she was none other than the Flame Emperor’s own daughter.

[……Where have you come from?]

[I-I came because I want to join the revolution!]

[Your hair looks exactly like the Flame Emperor’s.]

[Ah.]

Her face was already well-known, to say nothing of the fact that she’d come as a spy without even making the most basic disguise of dyeing her hair.

It was only natural that she’d be arrested on the spot. And that was their first meeting.

To put it kindly, she was innocent; to be blunt, she was an idiot. But he didn’t dislike her pure passion...