Master of the brave.

Imperial Knights Headquarters.

The building contains the headquarters of the Central Knights, which oversees the Knights of the Four Aspects of East, West and North, mainly the imperial Shimrug, and the headquarters of the Knights of the Court, whose main task is to protect the imperial Shimrug and dignitaries.

A Knights related facility was built around it, and one of its buildings was given an office by the Lloyds.

The room is lined with desks and chairs for the stewardship of Captain Lloyds, Deputy Chief Kelvin, and Rock, Wedge, and Leno, but was somewhere idle in the room because the ten knights were originally assigned as subordinates under one ten horseman.

The role of the Lloyds squad in the Knights will be dominated by reconnaissance missions.

On a daily basis, the troops will be trained for reconnaissance missions, but other combat training must also be provided to the general soldiers as knights.

And naturally, during training, paperwork also exists.

At a time when the Imperial Knights' shortage of manpower prevented them from replenishing their rear units in time, the Lloyds Platoon received its servitude, and it was the best possible situation to do its daily work.

The captain, Lloyds, also had a face as a nobleman named Earl of Elsted, so he tended to keep the squad away.

Originally, households and identities are ignored while they belong to the Knights (with no exceptions, and if they are just royalty like Cornelia, that identity is naturally taken into account), but Elsted territory is an area adjacent to Petersia where the situation has been pressing lately here.

Even though he belongs to the Knights, there's no way Lloyds won't deal with it more than being a lord of the land.

For that reason, when Lloyds first visited his squad's room in a week, a gaze of resentment flew in from his men at the same time.

"What? Looks like we're all tired. Especially Rock. You look pale, huh? Are you okay?"

"... Yep. After two weeks, Raul's questioning attack has finally weakened…"

"That's unusual, Captain. Is your territory okay?

"Thank you. I guess there's no progress, for better or worse. Even if I'm not in the realm, my wives over there are doing well. I just need to figure out a way to cover the Empire."

When Lloyds gleefully drank the water Kelvin offered, he exhaled and wiped the sweat that blew out on his forehead.

"Can't you ask us to reduce the number of trained soldiers assigned to us even more? We also have school classes..."

I also looked at Lloyds as Wedge nodded to tune in with Leno's weak blur.

Aside from their assignments, Rock, Leno, and Wedge are also required to attend at a minimum as Cavalier students.

"Rejoice, Lino. That's what I stopped by today. You don't have to train soldiers for a while."

"Huh? Really!?

"Yay! Wow, that helps. I haven't been able to get enough sleep lately because of my school assignments!

Rock and Leno's face sparkled in Lloyds' remarks, until then exhausted and somewhere dark.

But contrary to them like that, Kelvin only looked disgusted with his face somewhat.

"Oh, my God, Deputy. You look disgusted?

"No... it's about the captain, so there's a back anyway, right?

"Ha ha, that's the vice president. Naturally, I don't have a mission."

"Right," "I thought," to Lloyds, who joyfully rocks his belly and laughs, "Rock and Leno also drop their shoulders disappointingly.

But I immediately squeezed my face tight and waited for Lloyds to speak.

"So what kind of assignment is it?

We're searching for a kidnapping.

"Is this a kidnapping?

Kelvin frowned.

Such incidents are usually supposed to be the role of the city's security guards.

It shouldn't be the kind of job the Knights would be involved in.

"A few days ago, Miss Isaleah of Count Behmond's house was kidnapped. A senior nobleman is the victim, so the Guard sent a request for help to the Knights. Miss Isaleah is a student of the Knights School, just like you, and an associate knight. You're eighteen years old.

"Kidnapping? Aren't you actually running away or something? Running off..."

"He said that the day he was supposedly damaged, he was planning to return home from the Girls' Collar of the Knights School to the Behmond Castle in Imperial City, but he found a necklace that seemed to belong to your lady on the way to the mansion.

I guess I cut it a thousand times when I rubbed it against the killer. There's also been a report of people in the vicinity hearing contentious noises. "

"I see."

"You're a noble lady, but you didn't have an escort, did you?

Nodding at Locke's inquiry, Lloyds wiped the sweat that blew out on his forehead again, drinking water and teasing his mouth open.

"Miss Isaleah is an associate knight. I can use Body Enhancement Magic, and I remember it in my arms. It seems that there have always been things in the city without escorts.

The girl was kidnapped despite her resistance. Whatever the killer's purpose is, you can assume he's got a lot of fighting power. "

"But, Captain. Why did you give us that assignment?

"It's not just our platoon. That would be appropriate, so there are three platoons whose scouting missions are specialized. In other words, one squadron was to be searched. You're a halfway platoon with nowhere to go.

I guess the squad with the right numbers assigned this task to the half squad because they're going to be chased to guard the Kensei dinner party that starts tonight.

Therefore, starting at noon today, meetings will be held with each platoon and guard unit that will be on this assignment. Keep your eyes peeled at the paperwork we have here by then. "

"Okay."

Kelvin receives the documents on his behalf.

"Oh well. There's going to be a welcome ceremony for Raul tonight."

"Winn is Cornelia-sama's squire, so will he be joining us?

"Nice. Guess we'll have a treat or something"

"Sure you will, but Winn's a squire, so I think he's a squire's holding room."

Lloyds tells Lino, whining as he returns to his seat, to keep his eyes down on the paperwork.

"Huh? The Winn guy won't be at the dinner party, will he?

"What the hell, Rock? The Winn guy, he wanted to go out to dinner?

Lloyds blinked his eyes, as he said he heard something unexpected about Locke's questioning.

"No, the Winn guy isn't, because Lady Leticia will be there."

"Will Lady Leticia attend? It's unusual... well, isn't it strange to leave because it's a dinner party that welcomes people to visit"

"Yeah, well, it is."

Rock thought Leticia would have accepted the invitation because Winn would be present.

(Don't you think Master Leticia will be disappointed if Winn doesn't answer?

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The bureaucrats of the Empire, who were suddenly visited by the royal family of friendly countries without any prior mention, rushed around to prepare for the welcoming ceremony.

Raul Ort Lyon, a prince of the great kingdom called the Kingdom of Lyon and famous for his [sword saint].

I am a national guest.

The country must be mentioned and welcomed.

Nothing is screaming at this but the bureaucrats of the Empire.

Officials in the official building of the Kingdom of Lyon in Simlug were also to run around the Empire City.

Raul's outfit is a travel costume bundle, which is not what a prince deserves very much.

It was decided to rush around the Grand Chamber of Commerce for royal nobles throughout the Imperial capital and tailor the clothes and decorations the royalty deserved as soon as possible.

In case of an emergency, a considerable amount of gold and coins is stored in the public building, but the fact that a lot of money has been accumulated in craftsmen is such that nearly half of the gold and coins stored have been lost.

Anyway, it was not until about two weeks after the day Raul exchanged his sword with Wynn that the lion's vigorous work by the officials of the Empire and the Lyon Kingdom Hall managed to prepare for the welcoming ceremony and dinner of the King of Lyon Prince.

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The Great Hall of the Imperial Palace of the Lemursil Empire.

Here now, after the ceremony of welcoming [Kensei] Raul Ort Lyon as the King Prince of the Kingdom of Lyon, the dinner party was held as it were.

Dinner hosted by the royal family was greeted by the leading nobles of the Empire staying in the Imperial Capital.

Emperor Alexei has already resigned on the grounds of ill-health after attending the welcoming ceremony and briefly stating his words of welcome.

At the end of the ceremony, Raul became the guest of honor at the dinner party, with a gleaming grin on his face, dealing with the nobles who, one hand after the other, would visit to greet him with a glass of wine received from his service.

During the journey, the hair, which was completely untreated and bossy, was properly pruned, and the beard was properly bladed.

Only the swordsman who bears the title of [the strongest on the continent] [Kensei] meets and is forged a fierce flesh. And an elegant, cool-eyed, honest appearance worthy of the prince of a great power.

That standing, dressed in a garment made by the craftsmen with more hanging over their arms than I would have thought they would have had it tailored as soon as possible, is exactly what they deserve as heroes as princes of the great powers.

When the greetings of the leading aristocrats were over, he was surrounded by gorgeously dressed aristocratic princesses who continued to visit him to greet him.

"Hey, are you having fun?

In such a blooming flower, it was Alfred, Prince of the Lemursil Empire, who came and spoke plainly to the circle that would hesitate to step in if he were a young man.

I was just talking to the girl who said Raul was a countess' courtier.

The lady had a smile on her face that seemed to wander if she were a man in line, as she pressed her busty breasts against Raul's arms, but she gave the man a disgruntled look of "stay out of the way" for a moment when he approached her.

But when he realized that the man who approached him was the Crown Prince of his own country, he hurried away from Raul.

The surrounding daughters also walk away from Alfred with a wretched look on their face.

"Hey, Alfred. I'm very entertained with a big welcome."

Raul greeted Alfred with a friendly grin, even though he was open and heartfelt from his young daughters.

"I just wanted to say, I really didn't want to be such a big deal, but I even used my fake name in disguise."

"There's no way you're not going to make a big deal out of all that flashy behavior in that prominent place, is there?

Alfred chipped his glass of wine into Raul's glass.

"He's a neighboring royal, one of the heroes who saved the world. If that's what you came to, you'll have to welcome the country. [M] Not to mention this situation."

Though the country is different, both are royal and close in age.

The two had been dating each other as equally positioned friends since before Raul's visit to the Empire as one of the brave lines.

The two, toasted together in a glass, dampen their lips with wine.

Women all over the venue turn a hot glance at those two.

Though Alfred had no choice but to leave Raul because he appeared, he was still famous as the king prince of Lyon, the great power, and he couldn't help but worry about Raul, who looked pitiful.

"Look, the flowers are also shaming the poor maidens sending you a hot gaze."

Let Alfred gently hoist a glass of wine for them.

"You have to respond."

Alfred urged me, and Raul had no choice but to smile.

The two smiles, who could be said to be the protagonists of this feast, were somewhere shy and then whispered joyfully at each other.

"Yes, yes. That's how it goes."

"I'm not good at this kind of thing, so I went down the sword path."

"You know, you're pretty much in the hall."

"Naturally. For once, he's still a prince. But I can't be as loving as you are."

What was the expression? On the back. Raul vomited viciously with such a whisper that it could only be heard by Alfred standing next to him.

"Raul, you're breaking my smile, aren't you?

Alfred also returns to Raul like that with a whispering, teasing mixed voice.

Because royalty is now bickering with each other, everyone hasn't hesitated to approach the two of them, but the truth is that Alfred had no less flocks of court flowers than Raul.

Raul can't do much to imitate a friend who wanders through those flowers in a floating manner.

At that time,

"Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Cornelia, Lady Leticia, Duke of Mavis. Come in!"

The venue quieted back for a moment with his voice, and then the twirl filled the venue.

"Whoa, there's two more flowers."

At the end of Alfred's gaze, two girls enter the venue from the entrance to the Great Hall.

The gaze of the entire venue pours on the two girls, who march down the entrance.

Many of them belonged to men.

Leticia boasts golden, glowing hair and beauty, and Cornelia with dark, lustrous hair and a clear atmosphere. Each is a beautiful girl with a contrasting atmosphere like the sun and the moon.

The two surroundings quickly formed a circle of people, as did Alfred and Raul again.

First the powerful aristocrats push and ask for opportunities for the still young single men around them to speak.

"Yeah, yeah. My sister was very popular."

Watching how it was, Alfred was narrowing his eyes.

The two also gather the gaze of all the men and women in the venue.

The opponent makes himself a princess of his own country and a duke and a warrior.

The women, too, just as these two opponents would have better aspirations than feelings of jealousy.

(Hmm? That's...)

So soon Raul noticed that gaze.

That a single courtier is sending a dark-emotioned gaze to Leticia.

"Hey, who's that?

Raul, concerned, tried to ask Alfred, who stood next to him, what she was, but by the time Alfred saw where Raul was showing up, the young lady had already disappeared.

"Is something wrong?

"No..."

Leticia's beauty and her fame as a brave man.

It's not strange that some of them have feelings of jealousy as the same woman.

In the end Raul misled, "No, it's nothing," he said.

Leticia's social standing and strength cannot even be harmed by the fact that she intends to do harm.

There was something more worrying about Raul than that.

(Letty, I hope it's not caustic. Wouldn't be all over me later, would you?

From Raul's position, the small Leticia figure could not be seen as if hidden in a hedge, but now it could be deduced that her face would be drifting a grumpy aura with a smile affixed.

(Speaking of which, it was also dinner when Letty and I first had it. Letty back then -)

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(You're like a doll)

That was the impression Raul had when he first met a girl called the Brave One.