Avetsut has broken free from the shackles of the Melyora Empire, but that is only the first step in Weiran's plans to tear the empire apart. When an unexpected loss leads to a surge in his death-related abilities, he finds himself split between his goals and the attention of an other-worldly being.
Crown Prince Ranjali Melyora knows all too well the danger that Weiran and his rebels present. Too bad his father is more concerned with politics than the growing discontent fomented by Weiran's band of traitors. When a marriage is arranged between Ran and a wild princess from the north, he must come to terms with trauma he'd hoped to bury, all while learning to lead an empire.
Kita is doing her best not to think about the empire at all as she searches for a father she barely remembers. Her search is interrupted when her ward is kidnapped, sending her down a path that leads to a revelation: perhaps the reality-warping worldmakers of old are not quite as extinct as the everyone thought, and perhaps her own abilities are greater than she knew.
The three of them find themselves barreling down a path toward calamity, and the fates of the empire and its citizens are all at stake.