Trapped behind protective walls all her life, Asteria was in a cage of ignorance about the outer lands- the forest and all that lived in it. There were stories about the plague that infested the lands. Every decade, they would send a knight to end it all so that the people of Sahala could finally claim what was once their home. But when the Queen suddenly decides to send a young woman out on the quest to slay the plague that was the Smoke family (a bloodline said to possess the criminal element), a new story slowly unfolds for Cerberus Smoke and Asteria Saelys, revealing truths hidden in centuries of lies.