They’re not really heroes…but they can fake it. He’ll just have to write their theme song himself.

Although he graduated from a school for heroes, young Biaili Erdai has chosen a far less respectable line of work. Yet when he meets a clever young architect whose employer has been framed for theft, he can’t leave well enough alone. He’ll do anything to right an injustice—even if it means confessing to Eila his secret: he’s quite a bit more than a courtesan.

He hoped for a friend. What he got was a challenge.

This is a fantasy short story of about 9,600 words taking place twenty years before the “A Heroine’s Luck” series, telling the backstory of one of the characters. It can be read first as an introduction to the world.