To The Eternal Knight (2 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 209

“A statement as commander? So you’ve only just come to your senses now?”

Duke Roselini snapped, speaking toward the crowd around him. As if his flushed face from moments ago had never existed, he sneered at Nerea with a look of utter disdain.

Taking that as their cue, the former Emperor’s faction and the nobles who had been swayed by the mood began regaining their composure as well.

“Exactly my thought. Even if she hasn’t formally received her knighthood as a commander, to recite the knight’s oath at a deployment ceremony—without even intending to use other knights as mere witnesses—is simply unacceptable.”

“No matter how desperately she wants everyone to know she has His Imperial Majesty’s trust, this was going too far.”

Open criticism of Nerea began spreading. Even among the nobles who had just moments ago been delighted by the lovers’ beginning, a few strict ones nodded in agreement.

This occasion was, after all, unmistakably a deployment ceremony.

Even if they conceded that Count Nerea Esteban hadn’t properly undergone her investiture, to treat such an honorable event—where thousands of knights and soldiers were departing for war—as if it were a personal affair was outrageous.

Aside from a few still caught up in emotion, the crowd gradually began falling into the atmosphere Duke Roselini had intended.

“What’s wrong with a knight pledging an oath? The Imperial Palace Knight Order knights are cheering and applauding more fervently than anyone else!”

Uther Opinion and the First Knight Order knights protested the nobles’ mounting momentum in their own way.

The knights faintly understood just how conflicted Count Esteban had been before accepting the position of commander.

Despite having every reason to feel disillusioned toward the Castarti imperial family itself, from the moment she began personally leading their training, she had already become far more than a war hero or commander to them.

Thus, it was only natural that they felt disgust toward the nobles raising objections over something the very knights deploying to war didn’t consider an issue.

The banquet hall’s atmosphere began splitting in two—entirely contrary to the unified spirit expected at a deployment ceremony.

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