“Edwin, this is the headquarters of the White Knight Order, right? I didn’t come to the wrong place?”

“Yes, you came to the right place.”

A forced smile involuntarily slipped out.

Behind Linart, who was talking with Fabian and Moore, stood knights of the Guardian Knight Order, lined up in red cloaks.

Most of them were looking around the headquarters of the White Knight Order with curious eyes, but some knights were seen frowning as if they were displeased.

There were about ten members?

Considering the elite personnel for monster subjugation, it wasn’t a small number, especially as they preferred to form in small groups.

“He really came.”

“We’ll be attending classes together starting today?”

Had the schedule for monster subjugation been pushed forward due to the appearance of a monster in the village?

“Even so….”

Bringing the knights and declaring to attend classes from today.

I glared at Linart’s back as I finished talking to Fabian and faced the knights of the Guardian Knight Order.

I had tried to think well of him since he was Daisy’s brother.

“Will it be okay?”

“What?”

“You don’t like the knights of the Guardian Knight Order.”

A group tightly packed with arrogance and stubbornness, where only male nobles can join.

That’s how Rosebelia evaluated the Guardian Knight Order.

Most of those who looked down on Rosebelia as a female knight were knights of the Guardian Knight Order, and they had to be in the same space.

“Ed, I’ll go first.”

“Where are you going? You’re not going to the commander, are you?”

Edwin asked with an anxious look.

“That… sounds like a good idea?”

“You’re going to argue with the commander?”

Argue with the commander. As if.

I shrugged lightly and calmly replied.

“More like I have something to organize. So, I’ll be back.”

Even with all the concessions, I could tolerate attending classes with the Guardian Knight Order. It would be easier to take people who know something rather than those with no basic knowledge about monsters.

Then, all that was left was the issue of titles within the White Knight Order and Guardian Knight Order.

The White Knight Order called only seniors by the title “Senior” and called peers or juniors by their names.

But the Guardian Knight Order, where there were no such distinctions, used the title “Sir” for each other.

So it was right to unify the titles to ‘Sir’. Of course, it should also be applied equally to female knights.

As I quickly arrived in front of the main building, I stopped at the sight of a familiar back.

“Senior Vanessa?”

“Rosebelia?”

Vanessa was lingering in front of the building as if contemplating whether to go in.

“What are you doing here?”

“I didn’t want to run into those Guardian Knight Order fools, so I ended up walking here. What are you here for?”

When Rosebelia wore the White Knight Order uniform with a cloak, there was always at least one or two knights of the Guardian Knight Order who picked fights. Vanessa must have had similar experiences.

“I’m also here for that, to see the commander.”

“The commander?”

“Just avoiding them when passing by is avoidable, but if we have classes together in the White Knight Order, we have to face them continuously. I think proper title arrangements are necessary.”

Rosebelia once held resentment over the improper establishment of titles for female knights.

When she first became a novice knight in the White Knight Order, she had a few fights with Guardian Knight Order knights who treated her not as a knight but a lady.

Rosebelia stopped such confrontations after facing prejudices that were deeply entrenched in them, almost like a belief.

Not with a mocking intention, but those who believed it was natural to treat a female knight as a lady were more common than she thought.

Their prejudices were deep and solid like roots that couldn’t be pulled out at once.

Realizing this, Rosebelia gave up expecting them to change, occasionally reprimanding only those who blatantly mocked her.

“Well, those fools will either go on about being mere ladies or call us by ambiguous titles. But what will change if you talk to the commander? The opponents are the Guardian Knight Order. They are hypocrites, tightly bound by a sense of privilege.”
The resentment in Vanessa’s face as she vented her longsuppressed emotions was palpable.

“They come all the way here to attend classes because they care, so why should we be inconvenienced because of them? It’s only right that knights are addressed as Sir.”

“I agree with you wholeheartedly, but those old fogies will never call us that, will they? Complaining about how to address a woman as Sir, it’s all too predictable.”

Vanessa, who had been glancing at the side building where the guardian knights were, had a smirk on her lips.

As a commonerborn female knight, Vanessa may have been treated even more harshly than Rosebelia, and the thought of it made anger rise in her heart.

“Still, I will speak up. The class isn’t over, we also have to go on the monster subjugation together. I don’t want to feel fatigue from titles there.”