Oct 22, 2025
I don't read a lot of reijou stuff because I was never really a fan of it, but I gave this manga a read (due to it being yuri) and found it to be quite enjoyable.
It starts with our main character, Clarice, agreeing to an arranged marriage with the infamous Dark Knight to pay for her bedridden sister's treatment. She finds out under all that armor, the Dark Knight is actually a woman, a large-built woman called Frost. Although initially Clarice only did this to save her sister, she quickly finds herself falling for the Dark Knight for real.
Each chapter shows Clarice doing her best
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to win Frost's trust and love. She bakes cookies for her, prepares tea for her, cooks for her, sends food to her chamber, all that shenanigans. She also tries to erase the scary image of the Dark Knight everyone has, more specifically the maids of her own manor, which doesn't really bode well. Peaceful time.
As you can probably guess, there is no real plot to this manga. And it doesn't need to have one either. It's fine the way it is, just chapters of silly pranks by Clarice to get her husband(?) pay attention to her. But then I'm sure around chapter 8 or 10, the author must have been notified that this will be axed, because the story suddenly has "plot" and let's just say it's not good. The "main plot" involves around the conflict of two side characters who have brought nothing meaningful to the story up to chapter 8 or 10, and yet suddenly they're in the spotlight for the finale. Clarice and Frost are tossed to the side, basically acting as supporting characters now.
The manga is not bad by any means, but because it had such a strong start, ending it like that made it a worse experience as a whole. Such as shame this didn't sell well among Japanese fans that it had to meet such unfortunate ending.
That being said, I still enjoyed reading it. It's a short manga, so I definitely recommend you give it a read as well.
7/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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