Amazake-no Knight's & Magic: Volume 5 (Light Novel)

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7183-8861-1
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Knight's & Magic (Light Novel)

The war for Kuscheperka's fate continues in volume 5!

After Jaloudek's disastrous showing in the previous battle, both sides have taken a step back to rest, regroup, and strategize. While Ernie and co. want to build up to drive the invaders out, the other side has their own shifting goals...

How will Jaloudek combat the 'Nightmare of Micilie'? A new weapon of some sort? Some innovative new tactics? They do have a revolutionary engineer on their side too, after all...but Ernie and his friends won't be resting on their laurels.

So all that remains is the clash between these two revolutionary minds! This battle will be inevitable as both New Kuscheperka and the war ramp up to the next stage: the fight over the capital, Dervankhul!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amazake-no, Hisago

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kurogin

Chen, Kevin

Leseproben

Kid was pressured by the smile, but he didn’t take long to prepare himself for what was about to happen.

Queen Eleonora was raised in a gilded cage, and the war had been a great shock to her. As she had recovered from this shock, she had also gradually awakened to her sense of responsibility as a queen, which was why she’d started to change her mannerisms. However, such a change caused some recoil, it seemed, as every once in a while she would show an extremely impish and mischievous side. This came out especially often when Kid was around.

“I’m glad to see you doing so well, Helena!” Emris Jeijer Fremmevilla nodded exaggeratedly. He was watching this lively exchange from the neighboring table as he attempted to take a full hand of confections and eat them.

Isadora Adalina Kuscheperka was sitting next to him, and she caught that in time to slap the food out of his hand. “Yeah, yeah. Why do you have to make a mess out of everything, Ris? Don’t do that. Just please eat like an actual noble, with a fork and knife.”

“Eating in tiny bites like that just isn’t for me.”

Isadora pouted, and her silent glare intimidated Emris into picking up a fork and stabbing it into the cake. He continued to carry the whole piece into his mouth, to which Isadora reacted by bringing a hand to her cheek with an exasperated look.

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After everyone participating in the tea party had their chance to enjoy it and take a rest, Ernie popped up.

“Please excuse my lateness.”

“Ah, you’re finally here, Ernie! C’mere! Here, we made sure to leave some cake for you.” Addy eagerly prepared a place for Ernie beside her, patting the open seat once she was done.

Ernie accepted this goodwill, sitting down in the proffered spot without fuss. He took a sip of the tea he was immediately offered, and he let out a sigh of contentment.

Addy was positively beaming, being flanked by Ernie and Eleonora, but let’s leave that aside for now.

“The taste of tea after some hard work is exceptional,” said Ernie.

“Thank you for all your hard work, Lord Echevalier. We rely on you for so much,” Eleonora said.

“Oh, please, don’t mind that. I was late just now because I was having so much fun getting all the materials in order, after all,” the boy replied.

While the Kuscheperkans seemed apologetic, those of the Order of the Silver Phoenix were quite a bit more cavalier about all the work Ernie was doing, treating it as just another one of his flights of fancy. In truth, if they left him to his devices, Ernie would immerse himself in his research endlessly.

Martina and Eleonora took a collective breath and let it out, their features softening as they did so. This tea party was set up to give Eleonora a break, but it was also a place for a certain important discussion to be held.

“Lord Echevalier... I have something I’d like to discuss with you,” Eleonora started.

“Stop it with the ‘lord’ stuff; it’s too much for me. Thank you, but while I’ve been given a knight order, I don’t possess a peerage. Please, treat me casually.”

In this world, the position of knight did not automatically confer a minor peerage. Knighthood was more like a job, especially since it was basically an intermediate step to becoming a knight runner, a title which pointed to one’s ability to handle silhouette knights.

Eleonora was already troubled as to how to proceed, even though she’d just barely broached the subject. While she inexperienced as a queen, the fact that Ernesti Echevalier was just incomprehensible was also a factor.

Even though he was seventeen—the same age as her—he was basically the same height, despite being a boy, and he had features so lovely he be mistaken for a girl. At first glance, he looked so slender and delicate it was impossible to think he was built for violence, but in truth he was the strongest knight runner and in charge of his own order. Furthermore, his Ikaruga had capabilities so ludicrous that it started to be feared by friend and enemy alike after the battle over Micilie; its overwhelming achievements had led it to be called a god of death.

By now, the Kuscheperkans knew that he had a somewhat strange value system, and that he prioritized silhouette knights over everything else. His drive was insane, and while it was nice that he’d strengthened his allies’ silhouette knights and created the missile javelin, he’d lately been going on a rampage in an attempt to defeat and take ownership of all the enemy’s silhouette knights.

On top of all that, he was the knight captain of the Order of the Silver Phoenix—the most powerful combat force available to New Kuscheperka—and a major player who supported their revival. In the first place, the order was incredibly mysterious. It was known that they’d come from Fremmevilla, brought by Emris when he’d hurried here to help his aunt, Martina. They also knew that this group defied almost all common sense.

The Order of the Silver Phoenix possessed the most powerful, cutting-edge silhouette knights, as well as unique centaur knights, which allowed them significant strength in battle. This alone made them very valuable, but they also provided the newborn country with the methods to manufacture powerful new silhouette knights of their own, and they’d even managed to quickly counter the levitating ships, which as of yet were still largely unknown outside of Jaloudek. Their range of activity had already far exceeded that of a normal knight order. And when it came to their captain, not even the New Kuscheperkan queen could afford to treat him crudely.

Normally, the queen should be dealing with Fremmevilla’s second prince, Emris. However, things weren’t that simple, and it seemed that the Order of the Silver Phoenix prioritized the word of their captain even over royalty. While they sometimes showed great exasperation at his antics and seemed to treat their captain rather casually, it was clear that the order had an unshakable bond of trust with their captain.

Ernie lacked a peerage, but he was a knight captain with monstrous strength, and as a result, Eleonora had to tread lightly. This made Ernie a rather absurd existence to them, as those from the Occidents placed heavy importance on lineage and the rule of nobility.

“Then...allow me to call you Sir Ernesti.” After some hesitation, Eleonora decided to treat him courteously as Kid’s friend.

However, it seemed this wasn’t as casual as he was expecting, and Ernie shot a look at Kid—who was standing behind the queen—and received a silent shaking of the head in reply. “Okay. If you’re satisfied with that, Your Majesty, then I am as well.”

Eleonora seemed a little relieved to hear that. She then drew a quick breath and broached the subject once more. “So, as you might have expected, I wanted to talk about the silhouette knight remains under your possession.”

She was talking about the contract the Kingdom of New Kuscheperka had signed with the Silver Phoenix Mercantile Company, which pertained to destroyed enemy forces. In this war, which made use of giant humanoid weapons, the wrecks that were left behind were an important source of remuneration. It was possible to recycle the destroyed machines for parts, and their hearts were so overwhelmingly tough that they could often be reused as they were.

The problem was that the order’s results were far impressive. With Ikaruga at the forefront, a mere three companies had managed to decimate an entire Jaloudekian brigade. And those remains were now firmly in the order’s hands.

“We have restored our home into a new kingdom, and we are about to strike back at Jaloudek in earnest,” said Eleonora. “In order to do that, we need as many silhouette knights as possible.”

The New Kuscheperkans had introduced the powerful new Laevantia during the previous battle, to accompany the Lesvant Viede, but those were just prototypes that had been forced into action. Fontanie and the surrounding towns were currently all working at a fever pitch, mass-producing this new model, but they still didn’t have enough. The Lesvant Viede still made up a majority of Kuscheperka’s army, but its extreme lack of speed made it exceedingly unsuited for offensives. They couldn’t afford to strike until they gathered enough Laevantias. In order to do that, they needed enough hearts and metal.

“That is why we would like to restore the wrecks that you possess and add them to our army,” she concluded.

Ernie and the rest of the Order of the Silver Phoenix had come from the Kingdom of Fremmevilla, Martina’s home, and were giving Kuscheperka their full support and cooperation. However, it wasn’t as if they were in the new kingdom’s formal command structure. In the end, they were just helpers, and their position required some delicate balancing.

“Many nobles still remain under the control of the enemy, and we are still harried by a lack of military strength. Returning to the wording of our contract...please...” Eleonora trailed off.

“Okay, I accept your request,” Ernie said readily with a smile.

Eleonora and the others felt a little cheated by how easy this had turned out to be, but they quickly got a hold of themselves. They’d learned by now that this boy’s smile...