Does Asta Become A Royal Knight Novels & Stories

Back to the present, Elva pushed Natalia off her and stood up, smoothening down her royal uniform which showed the rank of a right hand assistant. Every maid, cook, guard and even the gardeners working at the palace had their special uniform. But in all, they had the noble symbol of Astheria on them, which was a sleek, silver sword embedded in the middle of a reborn phoenix bird. "Nat, you have to be ready right now because your tutors are already on standby! Then after the theoretical, you have waltz class, music lessons, tennis practice, then..." "Hitting you in the face with a tennis ball?" She asked with a flat look. Elva chuckled in a wicked way that said; 'You wish!'

“Nothing’s wrong, Sola. I was just wondering why everyone seemed to be so busy today.” Lunarys perked up from Valery’s other side. “Oh, I know! Cousin Astoria said that important people are coming from Astanza next week.” Valery frowned, “From Astanza?” Astanza was a kingdom to the north. It was a member of the United Kingdoms Alliance alongside Vesperia and the three other wealthiest kingdoms in the world; Luminara, Zhurin and Kholand. Queen Astrid herself was an Astanzan who used to be a Civilian Knight before being nominated for her uncle’s Courtship. So visiting dignitaries from the Astanza were commonplace in Vesperia.

The emperor looked at me as if he's waiting for me to bow to him too, Shan nudged me. I looked at the emperor sharply. " I don't bow down to anyone. " I said. The emperor laughed. "I like your boldness. " He commented, i remained silent. He shook his head and smirked when he saw i was holding Shan's hand. " You do know that the royal family doesn't allow any cut sleeves to run the empire. " "And you do know that I'm not part of your family and i will never be. " I snapped. Shan held my arm to stop me.