The Hearing

While escorting Calix to the Platinum Council for the hearing, Azel was troubled.

Azel's ancestor was 『Kaisel Tis』, the protagonist of the fairy tale ‘The Noble Knight’.

He had been an unnamed commoner, but 200 years ago, during the Game of Thrones, his outstanding swordsmanship and sense of justice earned him recognition and a title from 『Lukael Archer Novarens』, one of history's greatest sage kings.

After that, House Tis became the model of a righteous knightly house for generations, and took pride in it.

The same was true of Azel's father, and Azel had been proud of him.

Azel vowed that one day, when she was older, she too would become a righteous knight like her father and protect the weak.

But her father was branded a traitor and killed for releasing freemen who were fleeing because they could no longer endure their lord's tyranny.

Afterward, her mother, who had barely survived, taught her to follow the justice of strength, and Azel, traumatized by her father's death, lived by her mother's words.

Though she pretended outwardly that everything was fine and played the part of a dauntless knight carrying out orders for justice, she rotted away inside a little more every day.

She knew the missions were unjust, but endured by forcing herself to believe they were just; by the time she met Calix, she had reached her limit...