The Knights of the Bck Lion had a very busy m for the first time in a long time.

  The knights and servants who spent most of their days chatting and l uhe pretense of training were busy sharpening their dull bdes and creaking armor.

  The servants who had already worked hard were half-mad.

  And the viander of the knights, Agnes, who was overworked and stressed out from all the work she had to do.

  "Why is the training ground like this? 't you make it a little er somehow?" "What I do about the dents ione floor? We o call a mason to fix that." "Didn't you say that two months ago?" "Oh, it's already like that?"

  Looking at the administrator who was scratg his head while making a fuss, he had to suppress the urge to stab that shameless face right away.

  'God. Today, one soul is beied here again. Please…'

  She, who has no oo rely on but herself, mumbles a prayer in her head today as well.

  She barely mao maintain this mess of an order on her own, and what she was increasing every day was not her swordsmanship, but her patiend faith.

  She was barely maintaining her posure, but.

  "Okay. Well, that aside, what about the captain… no, the captain?"

  "Ah. He's preparing for the handover in the office. When the netain es, call him then…"

  "Ahhhhh!"

  When she heard the captain's whereabouts from the administrator, she ended up exploding.

  "A handover, what the hell. He's probably just locked up in the offid l around! I tell without even looking!"

  As Agnes screamed and started causing a se, the administrataze turo her chest.

  —Gnce

  The administrator whistled inwardly as he looked at Agnes, who ulling out her hair. The distinct size made the pin uniform look obse.

  Whehe vice-captain made a violent move, there was something to look at.

  'Yeah, that's why I'm still stuck with this stupid knight order.'

  How I do something about it? No, it's impossible. She's a woman who doesn't fall for that rascal captain's btant pursuit.

  So it's enough to just show off. He thought so and tio act calmly, pretending not to know anything.

  "Should I call the captain?" "

  No, that's fine. I'll go myself. So that the administrator do his best until the end."

  "Ah, anizing the handover data. Okay."

  Agnes sighed as she watched the administrator's back as he sauntered away.

  'Even though he's a brat... Do you think I don't know?'

  Even in this busy time, he sat there gng at the chest of the woman who was doing her job. She wasn't even doing her job properly.

  inally, she should have repced him right away, but there was something in oween these inpetent guys, and the administrator was in cahoots with the captain.

  'How their as be so disgusting?'

  Now, he didn't even bother to e up with an excuse to run away, so he reparing for the handover.

  Of course, Agnes had already finished preparing for the handover a long time ago. It was over a week ago.

  The captain, who was supposed to be the head of the Knights, and the administrator, who was supposed to be the spine, were both so rotten.

  Her suffering as the vice captain could only get worse.

  "Haa..."

  However, apart from Agnes' suffering, there really wasn't much time left.

  The only thing that was right was the faname.

  Until the unfortunate one who would bee the new leader of the Bck Lion Knights arrived.

  Agnes roughly grabbed her tangled, sky-blue hair once more and shouted in frustration.

  "Bck Lion Knights, all gathered!" "All gathered!"

  Still, seeing her subordinates lined up iraining grounds, each of them looking like knights, gave her a sense of relief.

  How long has it been sihose pitiful subordinates have raised their voices so loudly?

  Suddenly, as that thought occurred tnes felt a deep sense of guilt as she reflected on her own situation of having to feel moved by such trivial and obvious things.

  "Bck Lions! Are you ready to wele the new leader?" "Yes! That's right!" "Good. Just stay in formation and wait."

  Agnes left her subordinates on standby and headed to the leader's office.

  It was the same routine as the Bck Lion Knights. If something happened, she would somehow ha on her own a it to the Knight ander.

  But that would end today. No, it had to end.

  —Bam, bang, bang!

  Agnes roughly knocked on the office door and shouted. Her ched fists were even strohan usual.

  "The 13th Bck Lion Knights' Inauguration Ceremony and the 14th Knight ander's Inauguration Ceremony are ready! Now, you just o e out, ander!"

  "Really? You worked hard. I'll leave right away."

  "Nht away, you have to e ht away! There's less than 5 minutes left until the new ander arrives!"

  Even though time was of the essehe office door opened about 30 seds ter.

  "Phehe, the Viander is really charming when he's angry. But why did you have to do this until today?"

  The appearance of the Knight ander who came out of the office was truly a sight to behold.

  Not only was he not wearing his uniform, but he was also wearing pin clothes that were disheveled. His face was messy because he hadn't shaved his beard. His eyes were hazy, as if he had just woken up from a long sleep.

  Surprisingly, he looked more han usual. At least he hadn't drunk alcohol.

  'It seems he hasn't gone pletely crazy. If he had even drunk alcohol…'

  Agnes bit her lips tightly as she watched him. It seemed as if she had a lot to say, but was barely holding back.

  "…At least put on your uniform properly. The person you're ing with now isn't even your subordinate, ander."

  "ht. That's right. This is right. I wonder how great my successor will be."

  Not knowing who his successor is meant that he had ed the official dot that had been handed down.

  Until this moment, when he finally stepped down from his position as ander.

  With the highest ranking person like this, there was no way the knights could run properly.

  The only reason the Bck Lion Knights had not pletely fallen apart was thanks to Agnes.

  "But, the uniform I'm wearing after such a long time is so stiff that it's a bit hard to wear. Could you help me, Vice-Captain?"

  "...Please stop talking nonsense. Could you please show us your true colors as the leader of the Bck Lions at least for the st moment?"

  As Agared at her chest and gred at the ander who was deliberately sullen,

  A servant came running in front of the office.

  "The carriage is just ing in. It seems that the new knight ander has arrived!"

  At the servant's urgent shout, Agnes hurried downstairs with a stiff expression.

  The ander looked at her back with a sinister gaze and smiled faintly.

  "The's go. Finally, goodbye to this b pce."

  Agnes gulped as she stood in front of the two-wheeled carriage that arrived at the guard post.

  For the past few years. How horrible have my days been, supp a rascal who acts however he wants uhe prote of his family.

  The reason why I held back the urge to submit my resignation dozens of times a day and held on was because of my sense of responsibility as the vice-captain of the Bck Lion Knights, a position I've held since my days as a squire.

  And the hope that a proper person would take over someday.

  From what she had heard, the new knight ander was a war hero who had distinguished himself otlefield.

  In that case, he would at least be a better person than the current knight ander who had used tricks to stay in the rear.

  With a glimmer of hope, Agnes waited for the carriage door to open.

  —Bam!

  "Glory to the Imperial Family! The main building is the Vice-Captain of the Bck Lion Knights, Baron Ihelm… Uh…"

  And then, Agnes, who was about to introduce herself in front of the new Knight ander, was at a loss for words.

  That was because the person who got off there was a giant who far exceeded her expectations.

  "You're the Vice-Captain?"

  A huge man wearing pitch-bck armor stood in front of Agnes, and the top of her head barely touched the man's chest.

  A tremendous sense of pressure. Agnes slowly looked up at the man with trembling eyes.

  A knight is a superhuman being who has surpassed human limitations, and Agnes was no different.

  In addition, as the Vice-Captain of a knight order, she was far superior to ordinary knights.

  "Small."

  However, at the words of the man standing in front of her, she felt like she was the prey fag an unstoppable predator.

  Agried with all her might to resist the momentum the man was giving off.

  —Poohihihihing!

  "Hey, why are you guys ag like this all of a sudden? Whoa, whoa!"

  The horses pulling the carriage the man was riding in suddenly started foaming at the mouth and running wildly. Was it because they felt an instinctive fear at the momentum emanating from the man?

  Fortunately, the suffog atmosphere did not st long.

  "But they are sharp and well-polished. You are a great knight."

  The man gri Agnes, who was tense, and patted her shoulder.

  Then, the fierentum disappeared in an instant as if it were a lie, and the horses that had been making a fuss finally became calm.

  "Go, thank you!" "I'm Wolfgang of the Schwarz family. Please take care of me from now on, Vice-Captain."

  It was clearly just a simple gesture of friendship, but even that simple act was filled with sucredible force that her battered shoulders felt numb.

  'I guess it was a test... '

  However, apart from that, the man's words tio linger in Agnes' mind.

  'You are a great knight.'

  Sihe current captain, who was like a disaster, took office, the Bck Lion Knights had fallen to the point where their flory was o be found.

  She had been carrying out her mission while enduring the men's sinister gazes and teasing.

  However, this rge man.

  He had a more manly appearahan anyone else, but uhers, he didn't even pay attention to his ow, which was so cumbersome that he wao cut it off.

  He tested her skills that she had quietly cultivated as a knight, and aowledged it.

  The path she had walked so hard was aowledged by su extraordinary man.

  In fact, it may have been nothing more than a trivial greeting, but even if it was, Agnes was grateful.

  How much had she been starving for such a warm word?

  As she looked at the man's face full of scars, Agnes felt an inexplicable emotion rise within her.

  "Where should we go now? I want to see the fay new subordinates."

  "Ah. They are all gathered at the training grounds. I will guide you there."

  "I look forward to it. I only imagine how great my new subordinates will be."

  However, Agnes could not help but feel miserable at the new knight ander's expected response.

  Clearly, even from the brief appearance he had shown just a moment ago, the man was a great person who was too great to even pare to the current Knight ander.

  Oher hand, the pitiful state of the Bck Lion Knights she beloo looked so shabby in parison.

  Of course, the cause of the Bck Lion Knights' downfall was close to an unavoidable force, including the inpetent leadership.

  heless, she felt a strong sense of responsibility for not being able to stop it.

  'Haa…'

  If only she had been a little more capable, if only she had e from a family so powerful that she could trol her inpetent superior.

  The Bck Lion Knights wouldn't have fallen into such ruin.

  "Is that you?" "Yes, that's right."

  However, a hope slowly began to sprout in a er of Agnes' heart.

  This man seemed strohan anyone she had ever seen.

  This huge, trustworthy man who seemed to have everything at his feet.

  Wouldn't it be possible to restore the glorious image of the Bck Lion Knights, once called the sharpest bde of the empire?

  'Yes, this person. Perhaps...'

  At some point, Agnes's mind naturally pictured the majestic image of the knights who were reborn because of the man.

  She also pictured herself standio a male lion who was bigger and strohan anyone else leading the Bck Lions.

  A faint blush came nes' face as she imagihe future that would e.