“The knight didn’t enter the castle?”

“Yeah. Apparently, he has established a residence in the campground with the free knights outside the castle walls.”

“Hmm.”

Jung Dircht frowned upon hearing the response, and his colleague shrugged.

“Is there really a reason to care about it? He’s going to participate in the competition anyway, right? Whether it’s the jousting or the swordsmanship competition, we just need to take care of him when we have the opportunity.”

“…”

Dircht fell into contemplation after hearing the words of his two colleagues.

“Dircht. The problem is that you are too cautious. Frankly, it’s quite absurd that we had to come all this way just because of a single knight from the countryside,” one of his colleagues said.

“Tsk. What on earth is the cardinal thinking? There’s nothing to be gained by the church even if we win the competition here, right? It would be much better to continue our original mission and track down that black wizard,” Another colleague added.

“That’s not true,” Dircht responded in a cold voice before continuing.

“The prestige of the church will increase if we win the competition. Moreover, it gives us the opportunity to teach lessons to those who aren’t respectful towards the church and us holy knights.”

“Hmm.”

“Think about it. What happened to the attitudes of the nobles of...