I started Courrune because I thought that if I helped as many people as I could, then maybe some day someone would show up and they'd be able to love me. [ eats grapes as he talks about it. so many things started from his single-minded search for love ] I was really lucky when Hugo joined me—he's my best friend and partner. Courrune was just us two for most of those years.

But the Corps are a group of citizen soldiers, I guess you could say. We were created to help protect Coene, which is the commoner district, since the Royal Guard was often..... preoccupied.