A world that feels strangely familiar yet utterly alien. A world where there was no Second World War, and in 2020 high-tech armies of corporations fight for world domination against aristocrats who wield magic. There, he was thirty-five. Here, he isn’t even fifteen—yet problems fill up the hundred percent: hatred of unexpected relatives, a bastard’s braid that has erased the family crest, the contempt of everyone around, and a forbidden gift whose use threatens with execution. And on top of that—he has to go to school.