Women were considered as dainty little intricate flowers who should stay home and cook and clean or do something ladylike. Girls who went for fighting courses weren't considered as delicate or a woman and those who didn't were treated like spoilt little aristocrats. Society didn't accept girls holding onto daggers and swinging them back and forth because they perceive it as something wiry only men should do - and it made Sehee choleric. 

Sehee wants to show women who are fervor for foils or blades - such as herself - no need to mask their literal self. How things can be more beautiful when you display your ardor into lecture. And she found the upcoming tournament the perfect occasion to prove her assertion. But with her mother nagging about how scandalous it is to fight amongst the men, she finds it hard to practice her combative skills. 

So when her father suggests to her a group of young delinquents to engage in fisticuffs, she immediately accepts. There, she learns how much each individual suffers from utterance just like her and how maybe the barbarous and savage people aren't always what they are labeled by society. 

"We are not mages or warriors or wizards. 

We are the fighters who fight for what they believe is right. 

And society just has a way of labeling us as criminals

because we are not as beautiful or strong or wonderfully made

as each of them are."

POSTER BY VANIVICI AT STARDIVARIUS