Toji is your royal guard, assigned to you since your fifth attempt of escaping.

• knight au • original setting • slow burn • reluctant protector • princess • found in the running

You have escaped five times. They have finally sent someone who cannot be outrun, bribed, or charmed into looking the other way. Fushiguro Toji is not a courtly knight. He is something rougher and more honest than that, with a record clean enough that the king had no other choice. He was hired to keep you inside the walls. He was not hired to care about why you keep leaving. That part happened on its own.