My Childhood Friend the Demon Knight Hates Me Chapter 12

The Capital Arc Part 3

Chapter 12

「Ah, that’s not right, Suria-san. The correct angle is 45 degrees.  The way you lift the chest is also not right. Your posture is incorrect, also straighten your back more. Alright, once more.」

Skin as white as that of a delicate doll, and long blonde eyelashes. Long strawberry-blonde hair that reaches down to the waist, with standing posture that’s perfectly in position.

It’s a beauty different from Reiss, the beauty that elegances oozes out, the word 『Lady』would be the first you will utter from your mouth if ever you see her for the first time, elegant is not enough to describe such beauty.

――――It’s already five days since we’ve arrived in the church.

Every single day, for the purpose of accomplis.h.i.+ng the role of Spirit Princess for the ceremony and audience with the Spirit Queen, is being thoroughly whipped with all the proper etiquette and behaviour that I must conduct.

My reaction at first was 「Eh? Isn’t it just attending a ceremony, ringing the bell lightly, offering a short prayer and bowing in front of the Spirit Queen? If that’s it, I can do it.」, I was thinking it was as simple as that.

I really want to hit the previous me who was thinking stupid thoughts like that.

Well, there is definitely no mistake that I will ring the bell, but before then, there are a lot of rituals to be done.

The every tiny details is really troublesome.

The prayer is long* , it was required to read it in clear and loud voice with proper intonation and rythm, the outfit to be worn by the Spirit Princess is uncomfortable, it was really hard to move with.

It was said that it was given to the first king who performed a simple swords play in front of the Queen with his spiritual mana, it was one of the 『Queen’s Treasures』.

Anyways, the task as the Spirit Princess to attend the ceremony was beyond what I had expected.

And in the first place, the tradition was that the high priest from the church would choose a n.o.ble’s daughter.

In order not to offend the Queen during the ceremony, it is necessary to perform the traditional way, I’m wondering if there are children who will want to learn such absurd methods.

But, it seems like I’m better than most people.

As what had Rinze said, it was rare for someone like a country girl to be here.

「Etiquette? Dancing? Brim of elegance!」, even though I don’t have any of those.

It was necessary to teach me everything from the start, and everyday I was in a mess.

…….and most of all.

「Yesterday was also good, a beautiful grat.i.tude. You’ve also got used in handling the sword. As I told you earlier, channeling spiritual mana to the sword will let you handle it for longer period since it reduces its weight, making you get used to it a lot faster. Have you already got accustomed in channeling large amount of spiritual mana?」

「I, Is that so? Then……」

「Then. Now, before you forgot the feeling of getting used to it.」

Kuuuh, how about taking a break? But those words had already disappeared before I can even voice them out.

Marina Levione, the person tasked to teach me.

From the Levione Earl household, a n.o.ble family that dates way back to the kingdom’s history. She is my predecessor who had served as the previous Spirit Princess and is said to be 『an earl’s daughter who has the beauty and highest spirit mana capacity in the kingdom’s history』.

Discarding what the rumors says, she’s really an elegant lady that has been thoroughly refined, and as you can see, a very tender person…. There’s nothing to dislike from.

But her lectures are definitely harsh.

My first encounter was.

「I’ll tell you this earlier, Suria-san. I’m a perfectionist.」, and I felt chills in me while smiling after saying those. And somehow it resonates on how Reiss was called the Demon Knight, there’s a feeling of similarity.

「Sa~a, from the start.」

…….really, like a demon!

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「S, Suu? Are you alright? Somehow, it seems like you’re in tatters.」

「Somehow, it’s finally over……」

I got out of the training hall especially reserved inside the church, I sat down in a long bench in the courtyard. Today’s training has finally ended, Marina-san already went home.

While I was having my special training, Urr is playing together with the other spirits in the church, he suddenly appeared in front of my face.

「Somehow, I wonder what did he say……Honestly, I didn’t expect that the role of the Spirit Princess would be this hard. I’m tires……it’s not enough to heal me……」

Urr then said to me, who was looking at the wode garden with empty eyes, 「Healing? Do you want me to heal you? Then I’ll immediately heal Suu!」, with a rustling sound from his water tail, he was wiggling it.

It’s alright Urr, I was slightly healed by your cute actions.

Urr is here, Roa is taking good care of me, his trying hard appearance is really fun to watch, it should have been enough to heal me. It’s just that the mental fatigue had already piled up. And everyday I’m missing Allevel.

But fortunately, tomorrow, Marina-san needs to attend something, so there will be no training for tomorrow.

Since it just going to be a self-study, if possible I want to go out to the city to take a break.

……… But in order for me to go out, I need to ask that guy to accompany me.

Aside from being a knight that accompanies me, Reiss also needs to practice for the audience with the Queen, that guy who already have perfected the teachings of the Knight Order seems to have already perfected the training.

Because of that, he sometimes came to see me at my special training which gives me a lot of pressure. I wonder when will he stop that. How lucky, he got much free time since he’s just an escort.

Since he’s got such free man, he has a lot of time to spare. I was thinking of asking him for a favor to accompany me.

But I won’t.

I don’t want to ask that guy a favor.

Honestly speaking, I want Roa-kun and Urr, the three us (two person and one pet?) to go to town. But it seems that Roa-kun is also busy with other things aside from taking care of us. Because of the cases of disappearances, the priests of the church is all having tasks and is busy everywhere.

The cases haven’t yet solved and just the other day, another case of eight people that disappeared came to light.

The safety of the people that went missing is worrisome.

Thinking about the incidents, as I thought, it would be better not to go out to town after all. Ah, but, if I miss this chance, I won’t be able to enjoy slowly sightseeing the capital. And if I don’t take this chance to take a break, I will really break from the training.

That’s right, because of the special training, I fixed my long tea colored hair together, it gave me a lot of trouble.

Suddenly, sounds of footsteps on the ground reached my ears.

Raising my head up———— I saw the figure of Reiss approaching me.

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