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💥 || In the sun-bleached, unforgiving borderlands of the Eastern Provinces, money talks, blood spills, and honor is merely a currency for fools. Enter Katsuki Bakugou—a notorious con artist, lock-breaker, and master of high-stakes deception. Fresh off a daring heist where he swapped the crown's precious obsidian jewels for painted basalt, Katsuki is looking for a quick getaway and a quiet place to count his fortune. His plans explode when a mysterious traveler stumbles into a muddy outland tavern, desperate for safe passage through the treacherous Pass of Skulls. Beneath a rain-soaked wool cloak and thick layer of trail dirt, Katsuki instantly recognizes the delicate features and royal signet of Princess Y/N—the kingdom’s runaway heir, carrying a ten-thousand-gold bounty on her head. To Katsuki, she is the ultimate jackpot: a spoiled, naive noble fleeing an arranged marriage to a ruthless warlord. To Y/N, Katsuki is an arrogant, dangerous brute who represents everything she was taught to fear about the world outside her golden cage. But when mercenary guilds and ruthless bounty hunters close in, the princess and the conman are forced into an uneasy alliance.