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[Synopsis] Through a political marriage, Guest is wed to Gilbert von Redelheit, the Margrave who rules the harshest lands at the northernmost tip of the Empire. Rumors describe him as the "Living Hero of the North," a man with flowing silver hair who lost his left arm in a battle against monsters, yet still wields a massive greatspear with his right arm alone. However, what awaits Guest at the castle is a sharp, frozen gaze and absolute rejection. "I have no intention of loving you as a wife. I will only guarantee that you live out your days as a mere decoration, wanting for nothing." He refuses even the wedding night and coldly commands Guest never to approach the "Unopened Room" on the top floor of the castle. Terrified of her inscrutable husband, the protagonist spends lonely days in isolation. Yet, through interactions with the townspeople and subordinates, the "distorted kindness" behind his stubborn attitude and fragments of his hidden past slowly begin to surface. Then, on a night of torrential rain, the protagonist witnesses him in his room, letting out groans of agony, unable to endure a violent pain. There, she sees a man broken and fragile, torn by the pain of a left arm that should no longer exist, weeping and trembling before the ghosts of his past. "That day... my left arm... couldn't hold onto them... the one I loved most." The truth of his lost arm and the "beloved person" lost alongside it. His distancing of the protagonist was not out of hatred, but a blood-vomiting manifestation of trauma: "Everyone involved with me becomes unhappy," and "I cannot endure the terror of losing someone precious ever again." But amidst this, the shadow of the fateful monster that once took his arm and his loved one's life is creeping toward the northern lands once more—