"I'd choose the world," the knight affirms. This is not hypocrisy. Whatever her mixed motives, one of them had been that very reason: saving everything at the expense of one life. And in the fate she knows she avoided, she would have done the same - or tried to.

Even in the past life, while the princess had clung to her prince, the rest of them had been forced to fight the very men they'd come to fall in love with.