What Makes a Knight Stand?

Al was a s*ave born from a prostitute. Constantly being bullied and degraded, Al’s life was hard but as long as his elder sister, the only family he had, was with him, he felt like he could withstand anything. But one day, his older sister sold herself to a noble to obtain money to free Al. Despairing, Al was ready to give up, but with his friends’ encouragement, he started working, hoping that one day he could buy back his sister. However, a few days later, a servant of that noble came to him and handed him a bag, claiming he was delivering the body back to its place because disposing of it was troublesome. At the very moment Al looked inside the bag, his mind broke. “Why are we, despite also being human, being treated like tr*sh by people? We all have the same ears and same eyes, and the same color of blood, but it doesn’t matter to anyone. Are we not human?” He needed to know. He needed to prove them. Al had decided. From now on, Al and his sister would always be together. As he gently rubbed his belly, Al made a vow. – The next time, it will be their turn to pay the price. With those words in his heart, he devoted his whole life improving himself and planning for this single goal. Knowledge, power, deceit, bribing, betrayal; everything was valid. The first step was to rise through the ranks of the military, no matter the means. It was going to be him the one to stand at the top of this unsightly world full of madmen.

There was a boy in Gerinzel, a small village in the Kingdom of Ilios. The boy's name was Cruz Linzar. Born as the second son of a poor farming family, he had nothing to inherit and felt inferior about having nothing. As he spent his days tormented by a vague sense of something, a man suddenly appeared in the empty village. The mysterious man, his name unknown and his face obscured by a mask, appeared before the boy. At his waist was a special sword wielded by a "knight."