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About

Chihiro Ashihara lives a quiet life as a high school student until a stranger shatters her normalcy by revealing her hidden identity as a princess from a fallen kingdom. This visual novel RPG blends schoolyard routines with sudden leaps into swordfights and political intrigue as she navigates two worlds. Players guide her through memory fragments, romantic entanglements with restricted suitors, and battles against monsters using a bow-and-arrow combat system. Choices shape relationships with allies like her teacher and childhood friend while figuring out the mystery of her homeland’s destruction. The game balances slice-of-life moments with mythic stakes, forcing tough decisions between personal desires and royal duty. Its mix of mecha-inspired action and dating sim elements creates an uneven but passionate tone. While not widely discussed in Western circles, it remains a niche title for fans of branching narratives and 2000s-era JRPG aesthetics. The PlayStation Portable version’s portability helped expand its reach, though its 2008 release date means the story feels distinctly of its time.

Storyline

The heroine Ashihara Chihiro is a normal high school girl until one day a mysterious man informed her that she is a princess from Toyoashira. Following this alarming piece of news, a battle with a monster ensues where she discovers her powers as well as that of her teacher and best friend. More discoveries about her past and her fallen country are made when she wakes up in the world she fled from when she was a child. After battles against monsters she realized her role in this calamity as "Ryuujin no Miko" and that to revive her country, she has to go to war with the enemy nation that has invaded hers in the first place. During her adventures, she met up with a number of charismatic men, starting with her teacher and her best friend. But as a princess, falling for these men is prohibited. Together with the troubles that romance brings, Chihiro has to face the final battle with her bow and arrow as her only true ally.