Yori is a Half-Blood, the son of a noble-born and hismistress. Raised alongside the king's degenerate legitimate children, hisintelligence and grace become the focus of their jealousy. After one fight toomany, the bastard is thrown into the streets with his mother, where they facethe harshness of common life. Alcoholism, prostitution, and the challengesof this new life forge in him a soul of iron, driving the young man to doanything necessary to take...