The Knights are now being treated as part of the kingdom's military organization, but once, when this country was founded, the Knights seemed to refer to monks armed to protect or fight Saint Ahar together.
For this reason, the ritual of having holy water sprinkled in the church on the cloak, which is still the official courtesy of the knight, remains customary. It seems that the water of the altar fountain on which the remains of Saint Ahar stand is treated as holy water as it is, which I saw when I performed the rite of oath. It seems somewhat profitable because it is a fountain that will not wither for a thousand years after Ahar's death.
On the day the applied Knights became officially effective, I was coming with the Earl of Teresia to the Grand Temple of Missorua with Claudia and Oscar.
Claudia and Oscar put their sleeves through the Knights of Cardia costume for the first time today, but they look better than I thought. As a knight, the cloak is white because it is a private knighthood, but that was what made the two of us have a clean image.
Claudia, especially slender and beautiful and Rin, even looks like a prince or something. In fact, the cloak wrapped around the royal family and its Kingsguard knights is pure white, and the only difference with the private knights is in terms of whether it contains embroidered gold or silver.
It's a festival in the church, so I'm also a non-abbreviated knight costume, but the cloak is the color of my eyes...... I mean, it's dark scarlet to match the color of my father Owe's eyes. I don't really like that color like blood wet.
"Was it a little too soon?"
Claudia reacted perfectly when Count Teresia looked at the water clock placed in the hallway and said so.
"Well, can I, uh, walk around a little bit?"
It's a rare rubbed voice. She doesn't look very good either. Even Claudia the boulder couldn't seem to remain calm on a day when years of dreams come true.
Claudia, who had always hoped to become a knight, was so impressed that the moment she put her sleeve through today's knight costume, she almost fell. Of course she knew that her plans would be ruined if she fell and was injured, and Claudia rebuilt herself by dragonfling her limp, leaning back. … can you say that it has been fulfilled and rebuilt?
Oscar wanted to be a knight as well, to the extent that he looked proud, so I feel like I know how much Claudia was scorched by a knight by comparison.
"Count, it would seem better for him to change his mood a little bit."
"Hmmm......, right. Let him walk in the courtyard until the priest arrives."
The Earl of Teresia turned his slightly dazed eyes to Claudia, but he shook his head small and gave me permission. Let him walk, the word was directed at me, so it would mean taking care of him.
I nodded one, picking Claudia's sleeve and descending outside the handrail in the corridor. Claudia follows me with great flutter.
The courtyard of the Great Temple of Missorua is a garden, while also serving as a passage.
The Great Shrine has buildings to the east, west and north, mainly in the courtyard, and only the south building is open to the civilian population. To the north was a monastery combining the abbots' living spaces, and to the east a cathedral, including a small cathedral to the west, housed dark penance rooms and other facilities entered by oath rites.
"It's a courtyard... you don't have flowers. It's an unusual garden."
That's what Claudia said about the pompous courtyard, and I agreed with it, "Right." The courtyard at the end of the descent consisted of all the shrubs and grass, some of which, if you look closely, were white and small flowers, but no matter how you look at them, they were far from ornamental flowers.
Claudia wandered around for a while, but crouched into the shadows of the shrub in a faint manner and sighed. It's really unusual, he's feeling weak from nervousness.
"... I'm sorry, Lord Eliza. Will you leave me alone for a moment? Because I can't move from here."
"Ha...... I get it. But just a little bit."
"Helpful"
I was tempted to leave Claudia alone who was distracted, but I couldn't thrust her hopes, and I reluctantly decided to move about two shrub hedges to the back of the courtyard.
The courtyard grows taller as it enters the back of the hedge tree. There were some rose trees, but no flowers on them. I'm not that deep in plants, but if you look closely, there are a few other trees that should be flowering at this time of year mixed together, but I don't see any flowers.
Strangely, when I looked at the trees, I found a large number of traces of wax at the tip of the branch.... Are you cutting off flowers and, no, cutting them? I don't know why, either.
As I tilted my neck and looked around, I heard a grass treading from the north side. Is it a monk in the north?
Clarifying his ears with sound reveals that the person is apparently sprinkling water on the trees. I can't seem to get used to the work itself because sometimes I hear too much water spilling, no matter what I think.
I thought a little and looked back the way I had just come. Claudia told me she wanted time. It's still early to go back. I had no choice but to try not to kill the sound and proceeded to those who were sprinkling water.
"... is anyone there?
Apparently, my insignificant assertion of existence was duly guessed.
The questioned voice belongs to the boy about before the critical voice change. The colors of vigilance are mixed. What can monks be wary of in the Great Temple?
"I'm just strolling through the garden. Don't worry."
When I answered, there were signs that the boy was relieved of the tension beyond the hedge.
"... children?
No, you'd be a kid, too.
As he said so only in his chest, he circled around the hedge and the boy showed himself.
Unexpectedly opens his eyes.
Because the boy's face, which I should have met for the first time, was familiar.
That moment was the first time I...
It was the moment I met a being who was the main character in the maiden game.