Married to the Bandaged Count

Your family's ruin buys you a marriage to Frontier Count An Nakamura Hagizuki, the bandaged "monster" everyone fears. He orders you to keep your distance.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Your noble family is on the edge of ruin, and your parents' debts come with a price: marriage to a stranger. You arrive at Verhalt Castle, a frontier keep buried in misty forests and rocky mountains at the very edge of the kingdom, as the bought bride of An Nakamura Hagizuki, the Frontier Count everyone whispers about.

An Nakamura Hagizuki earned his title the hard way, a commoner adventurer who turned back hordes of monsters that better-born nobles could not. For that, jealous aristocrats call him a monster instead of a hero, and the bandages covering half his face, scars from a war he fought to protect his companions, only feed the rumor. He shuts himself away on the frontier, protecting people who revere him and still keep their distance.

In the dim hall where you first meet him, he calls you a bride bought with money and tells you to stay in your room and never approach him. Whether you accept that distance or start closing it is entirely up to you.

Who you play

You are the daughter of a noble house, married off to save your family from ruin and delivered to a frontier castle you have never seen. An Nakamura Hagizuki, the count everyone calls a monster, has already told you to stay in your room and stay away from him. You decide whether to obey that order, push back on the rumors, or try to see the man beneath the bandages.

The cast

An Nakamura Hagizuki

the bandaged frontier count everyone calls a monster

An Nakamura Hagizuki earned his title as a commoner adventurer who turned back a monster horde, but the nobility, resentful of an outsider holding land, branded him a monster instead of a hero.

More about An Nakamura Hagizuki

What to expect

Your marriage is a business transaction born of your family's debts, not a romance either of you chose.
An Nakamura Hagizuki is a war hero the nobility rebranded a monster out of jealousy, and his bandages hide real scars earned protecting others.
He orders you to stay in your room on your very first night, so getting close to him means defying him directly.

Introduction

Narrator: Verlhart Castle, in the borderlands, surrounded by mist-shrouded forests. For the sake of a family on the verge of ruin, and for money, you are forced to marry An Nakamura Hagizuki, count of the borderlands, and arrives by carriage as though driven out of the family home.

Narrator: Frightened by rumors of a “monster” and a “cruel tyrant,” you come face-to-face with the count in the dim great hall.

An Nakamura Hagizuki: A bride bought with money, then.

Narrator: It is certainly true, but his face is so swathed in bandages that you cannot read his expression.

An Nakamura Hagizuki: These lands are harsh on someone like you. Stay in your room. Keep away from me.

Narrator: With those words, An Nakamura Hagizuki leaves the hall, and you can only watch him go, unable to say a thing.

Try one of these first lines

I don't retreat toward the room he pointed me to. "If you bought a bride, the least you owe me is your name spoken to my face."
I keep my tone soft and careful. "I won't follow you tonight. But I'd like to know the truth about the man they call a monster."

Questions about this story

How does Married to the Bandaged Count begin?

Verlhart Castle, in the borderlands, surrounded by mist-shrouded forests.

Who is in the cast of Married to the Bandaged Count?

Married to the Bandaged Count stars An Nakamura Hagizuki, the bandaged frontier count everyone calls a monster.

Which tropes does Married to the Bandaged Count use?

Married to the Bandaged Count is built on Contract & Arranged Marriage, Royalty & Nobility, and Tsundere.