I never imagined that I would end up like this. End up in a place like this. A world filled with things that didn't exist. At least not outside of suppuration. There was no way that all I would see, all that I would do, all that would happen to me could be real. But it was. According to the upper crust of society, the nobles and the kings and queens,these things only existed in the uneducated peasants' superstitions and beliefs. They only existed in stories that were told for amusement. They were wrong. So wrong.

I spent twenty three years living in between the upper class and the lower class. Never knowing if the stories, the beliefs and superstitions my mother taught me were real of just nonsense like my father insisted. Now after twenty three years of living this kind of life, I was expected to accept it all as fact. Worse, I was expected to be a part of their world. To be one of them. To be a leader among them. Me. The bastard child of a low class, uneducated peasant woman and an upper class, high ranking, educated man. Me. The pride and joy of a mother. Me. The shame of a father.

My name is Takaba Akihito and this is my unbelievable story.