fic set in a vaguely fantasy/medieval setting where prince katsuya is the son of king touichirou, adopted into the royal family purely for his magical bloodline and has about the same relationship as canon- dependent and desperately grateful (even though he shouldn’t be)
then, one day while watching his rebellious little brother shou (who is the crown prince, the “real” son, and yet doesn’t want any of it) he either gets bullied, tricked, or otherwise bamboozled into losing his guards and getting stranded in the middle of the city. And no one recognizes him, because prince katsuya always stays safely inside the royal quarters of the castle, never making a single public appearance. Thankfully, a strange man, a “master class wizard” with no magic is kind enough to help him for the afternoon until he can find a guard who actually recognizes him
only, the fake-wizard reigen was interesting. He said awful (obviously untrue, right?) things about the king and the wars he was raising, even though dissenters got executed for far less. Katsuya sneaks out, on purpose this time, just to see him once more before someone arrests him. And then again, and again, with the fake persona ‘Serizawa’ who was just another commoner. And he meets Reigen’s apprentice, with actual powers far beyond anything the prince has seen, almost like he might be the prophesized ‘true heir’ from the old forgotten bloodline that king touichirou has suppressed knowledge of. Slowly, he learns that maybe his adoptive little brother is more than just childishly rebellious, and that maybe there was a good reason for that, and that -just maybe- he should be too.
A fic in which a member of royalty pretends to be a commoner and falls in love with a commoner who doesn’t believe in royalty.
















