The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects (Manga): Tales of Blue Dias and the Onikin Alna: Volume 2

Fuurou

Summary

Dias is getting used to life on the plains with his new wife—er, fiancée—Alna, and they even have actual subjects now: Dias’s old war buddy Klaus, and a group of refugees fleeing a civil uprising in the neighboring Kasdesk domain.
 
Dias is desperate to raise the population in Nezrose without resorting to slavery, but he’s about to get a visit from none other than the lord of the Kasdesk domain himself, an infamous womanizer always accompanied by a harem of slaves. Dias will soon learn that as on the battlefield, politics and diplomacy is all about seeing who’s friend or foe.

Available since: 11/29/2023.

Print length: 178 pages.

Comics & Graphic Novel

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