Kim always wanted to be a fireman, if only because of the hat. When his naval officer father is killed in a minor skirmish with the enemy nation of Karupatani, all of Kim's plans are sent awry. Instead, he is shipped off to a prestige boy's school, whereupon a dorm lottery lands him in a bunk next to Prince Dillon of Hahr. Several years later, as the prince's faithful squire, Kim is sent on a top secret mission back to the land of his father's killers...