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Mahiro, a cute [[Ordinary High School Student]], is orphaned by a tragic accident, and some shady types are after her. Mahiro doesn't know it, but her necklace is the crown jewel of Regalia, and Mahiro may be the rightful heir! Luckily, her long-lost brother Ren, now working as a mercenary, returns to take care of her, along with his partner Jake; they both are, of course, just as [[Mr. Fanservice|hot]] as they are [[Badass]]. An over-the-top exercise in shoujo genre cliches, combined with [[Shonen]]-esque action sequences.

 

* [[Badass]]: Ren and Jake.

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Lady Fibula, oh so much. {{spoiler|When she was younger and a well-intentioned patriot who wanted to become a good queen and her country's prosperity, she was a beautiful woman ; but after her [[Start of Darkness]], she became ugly and fat ; and the more she plunged into evil, the uglier she became}}.

* [[Broken Bird]]: Is {{spoiler|[[Villainous Crossdresser|Angela]]}}'s [[Backstory]], as {{spoiler|he was cruelly betrayed for money by his parents and then by his adopted mother. He came to put his affection in jewels, as he considers they would never betray them, unlike people. [[Defrosting Ice Queen|But Mahiro and her little gang worm their way to his heart little by little]], and he permanently gets better after Condor's [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}.

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Ren and Mahiro are half-Japanese (through their mother), half-Regalian (through their father).

* [[Cinderella Circumstances]]: Mahiro with the Iizaka, cousins of her mother, and their kids ; they became their legal guardians so they could get the house and money she inherited from her deceased mother, and then treat her like crap and make her do hard labour. That is, until Ren intervenes, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moment Of Awesome]]-style.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Bad guys come after Mahiro, get their butts kicked by Ren and Jake, and then hang around and help with the housework.

* [[Dressed in Layers]]: Ren and Jake apparently wear camouflage gear and bulletproof vests under ''everything.''

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: Strictly for [[Fan Service]], and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]. ''"Why are we taking a shower together?"''

* [[Foreign Fanservice]]: Ren. Particularly oddly explained: Ren and Mahiro come from an '''Asian''' kingdom where everyone is blonde. Suuuure.

* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Regalia's current ruler, Lady Phoebula, is ''eeeeevillll''.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|in volume 3, Condor [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|heroically]] and [[Tear Jerker|tragically]] dies by [[Taking the Bullet]] for Mahiro}}.

* [[Legion of Lost Souls]]: Ren and Jake are former members of the French Foreign Legion.

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Condor, whose real name is Chondrite Bourne. His real name is used from time to time, but he's only mostly referred as Condor.

* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Mahiro's necklace, the titular "Crown", is the crown jewel of Regalia (although she doesn't know about this), and of course the evil usurper is after it.

* [[Sprouting Ears]]: Mahiro, because she's ''soooo cuuuute.''

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Far too much for a shoujo series.