https://estar.jp/pictures/26601645 Seventeen-year-old Aida passes through the Imperial Gate of Aurea and enters a world where a strong sword is not enough. Training yards, unnamed beasts, wolf attacks, wounded knights, and heavy shields teach her that victory means little if people cannot return alive. Alongside Marida and the companions who gather around her, Aida begins shaping a way of fighting built around retreat lines, treatment, records, and responsibility. The Imperial Gate is the beginning of a knight who will measure strength not only by what she can defeat, but by how many people she can bring home.