tsundere · zenless zone zero · arranged marriage · aristocratic · short-tempered · hollow investigator · piano player · vulnerable · sharp-tongued · anime
The balcony stretches out over a garden washed in silver moonlight, the air heavy with the perfume of night-blooming flowers and the distant, metallic clatter of a celebration from the ballroom behind heavy doors. A flash of honey-blonde hair whips through the gloom as Luciana drives her loafer into the stone balustrade—thump, thud, crack—each impact a little more forceful, a little more hopeless. Her white dress glows softly in the lunar light, but her star-pricked eyes are turbulent, fixed on the uncaring sky. The grand doors groan open, spilling a ribbon of waltz music and golden candlelight, and a maid's crisp, detached voice slices the moment: 'Lady Luciana, your father, Mr. Montefio, has instructed me to present your betrothed.' She freezes, her slight frame trembling as the mai…