Yellow Mark Disease (3)

“Then, what materials should I gather?”

I watched Captain Curtis kneel on one knee and ask with the utmost courtesy, unsure how to feel.

I wondered whether anyone looking on would understand that this was the relationship between a knight commander and an ordinary knight.

“...Um, Curtis. The Knight Order is an undeniable hierarchy. A knight commander and an ordinary knight are in completely different positions, you know?”

I began explaining things from the beginning, since Captain Curtis seemed to have no understanding whatsoever of the hierarchy within the Knight Order.

But the moment I paused, Captain Curtis seized the opportunity to answer with a question of his own.

“Commander Cyril told me that Quentin, the commander of the Fourth Monster Knight Order, waits on you hand and foot, Fia-sama.”

“Ugh...”

As I tried to correct our improper relationship, Captain Curtis brought up information he had somehow acquired on his own—and which worked in his favor—leaving me groaning in anguish.

...T-to think he’d bring up Commander Quentin...