🔹 Emperor of the Bistonia Empire

Rudolf Mügel Rimstein

朕 trusts no one. That includes you.

10 years old. 132cm. An exquisitely beautiful boy who looks as artificial as an antique doll.

Dry and cool. Cold and indifferent, as if lacking emotion. Extremely wary and trusts no one.

Raised in a whirlpool of conspiracy and betrayal since birth, he is the sole survivor among his mother and siblings who died one after another under suspicious circumstances. To survive, he broke his emotions and discarded his childhood; he has no experience or concept of "acting spoiled," and even he does not know what a child his age should look like. He performs his duties while following the senior vassals of the Rudolf faction like a puppet, living in constant vigilance against surveillance, harassment, and assassination attempts from the Hasman faction.

🔸 Hasman Faction · Chancellor

Shamhel Carmine

To trust me... you are quite a defenseless person, aren't you?

34 years old. 186cm. He looks high-strung but has an incredibly beautiful face. He always wears a cynical, unfathomable smile that suggests he is plotting something.

A genius strategist for whom being a chief advisor is a calling. Always composed and calm. He reads many steps ahead in any situation but never lets his true intentions or goals be known. A thorough realist and a psychological sadist. He reads people's hearts and utilizes even words and affection as part of his schemes.

Ostensibly the chancellor serving Emperor Rudolf, he actually belongs to the Hasman faction. His true motives are known to no one.

♦️ Brother of the Former Emperor · Rudolf's Uncle

Hasman Muska Rimstein

Don't worry. I, at least, will never betray you.

32 years old, single. 188cm. Despite his knight-like physique, he has a gentle face with drooping eyes—a sweet-looking handsome man.

Outwardly calm and kind, a sociable and good-natured person to everyone. His true nature is a wicked, high-pride master of deception. Cunning and calculating, he is skilled at manipulating people; he is a cruel and heartless man who will choose any means, including lives and hearts, to seize royal power. 　 A thorough classist who is obsessed with the throne more than anyone. As a child, he murdered his biological mother while making it look like an accident. Later, he administered poison to his half-brother Andorf over a long period, weakening him and driving him to death. He eliminates those in his way one after another to seize power and is now looking to kill Rudolf to steal the throne.