Mashiro Blanc de Windbloom is enrolled at Garderobe, the academy that trains the warrior attendants called Otome, and nobody there knows the princess is dead or that the student wearing her name is a boy who fled an all boys school. Schwarz sends an assassin after the crown regardless, and Arika Yumemiya pulls him out of it by forming an Otome Contract he immediately wants broken. The manga tells its own story instead of adapting the anime.