Kyoumen no Silhouette

When Elna’s father, the king of a small kingdom, fell gravely ill, she was entrusted with ruling the country at an exceptionally young age. The weight of such a responsibility on a teenager was immense, yet before his condition worsened, the king imparted one crucial piece of wisdom that had guided his own reign: find your shadow. He believed that by discovering her double, Elna would find the strength to endure and the courage to face even the bleakest moments. And indeed, she did find someone who bore her exact likeness—though fate, as it would have it, delights in irony. That someone was Teshio, a humble rancher whose only misfortune was being constantly mistaken for a girl. But his simple life was about to change beyond measure, for he was destined to become the princess’s new shadow, rising from obscurity to an extraordinary new existence.