but not the essence
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“'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair,'” Tsukishima says from behind him, and Kuroo freezes. “You said it makes you feel better because nothing is absolute. Tyrants fall and are forgotten. But don’t discount the present quite so quickly, just because it might not last into the future.”
“I’m no hero, Kei,” he says roughly. “I’m just a millionaire genius with too much trauma, too little sense, and too much time on his hands.”
“The thing about heroes,” Tsukishima says meditatively, “is that they’re made into an archetype. You don’t have to be an ideal to still be a good person, Tetsurou.”
Kidnapped for the weapons inside his head, millionaire industrialist Kuroo Tetsurou finds that escape doesn’t come easy even with an iron will and a piece of revolutionary technology in his chest. But when enemies both near and far from home threaten the new life he’s building for himself, Kuroo will need more than an iron suit and a gun-wielding, colour-coding assistant to save the day.
And that’s only the beginning.
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- Part 1 of but not the essence
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“You must marry well, Tooru,” his mother says the evening before they return to the castle. “We can’t weather the same storm again. You must marry an appropriate Seijan woman from a good family. If your sister has a boy our next king could be the first monarch with direct outlander blood since the 1700s. You cannot afford to be foolish.”
Heir to both the throne and the mantle of his country's legendary protector the Green Lion, Tooru the First of Aoba Johsai is determined to do everything right. There's vibranium to protect and royal scandals to quash - he doesn't have time for anything but excellence. Whether pointing a gun at his prospective brother-in-law, provoking politicians, sleeping with a millionaire weapons' dealer, and waging a silent and one-sided war of attrition against his best friend's girlfriend counts as 'right' is...debatable.
But a king is made, not born, and throughout it all, from age five to twenty-five, is Hajime.
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- Part 2 of but not the essence
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It probably says something that the first mission they take after seventy years on ice turns into a mess of inexplicable scientific phenomena, but what that something is, Daichi really doesn't want to know.
He has enough on his plate: pop-culture references he doesn't understand; self-proclaimed 'genius, millionaire, athlete, philantropist' Kuroo Tetsurou; the king of a mysterious country who can deflect bullets without looking and punches gods in the face; gods, apparently, right out of Norse Mythology; and a scientist suffering from the kind of lab accident that means he turns into a giant grey stony rage monster whenever his serotonin levels drop.
But when the stakes get even higher and the fate of the world rests on their shoulders once more, there's no time for squabbling. Secrets come to light and relationships are tested, but they're the good guys. Aren't heroes supposed to get a happy ending?
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- Part 3 of but not the essence