Project GB is an official initiative by Re:Library.

“Nice to meet you, young lady. I’m Magritte Gautier. I serve as the leader for the vanguard troop, belonging to the knight order’s 12th mobile unit.”
“Likewise, my name is Djimon Ritsman¹. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
“I’m Raisa Urnova. It’s a pleasure, young miss!”

After I came home from school that day, I was introduced by Papa Howard to two women and one man. One by one, I shook hands with each of the three guests from the knight order.

I’d always imagined knights wearing full plate armor, but they wore short, stiff-looking camel-colored riders’ jackets and leather pants. On their feet were knee-high boots—or perhaps they were shin guards, since they were covered with white plating. They had taken off their gloves as they were indoors and had put them on the sofa nearby.

Just by looking at the gloves and shin guards, one might mistake them for full-plate knights, but the design was more like plate-covered rider boots or gloves rather than medieval armor. It looked distinctly modern.

If I had to compare it to something, their outfits reminded me of pilot suits from a sci-fi movie. Or maybe even people in charge of exterminating, well, something. Still, I thought they were cool—probably because it stirred something in my inner weeb heart! The emblem on their chest also looked cool. It depicted a sword with two pairs of wings, held by gauntlets, all placed in the center over a shield. That was the national emblem of Aurora.

Three knights wearing the national emblem were now in our home. Magritte Gautier was about the same height as Alicia. She was a sharp-looking, beautiful woman with dark brunette hair braided and set at the top of her head. Her jacket had one more line on the shoulder patch than the others, likely there because of her position as troop leader.

Djimon Ritsman stood a head taller than Magritte. His short-cropped black hair and deep gray eyes gave him a strong-willed look, but his gentle smile revealed a kind personality.

Raisa Urnova was petite, with shoulder-length honey-blonde hair that looked reddish in certain light. She had a truly beautiful smile.

“I apologize for interrupting you during your talks,” I said.
“Nothing of the sort. We just finished and were wondering how to pass the time. It’s fortuitous that I finally get to meet the famous princess.”
“N-No… that’s… I’m not…”
“She is as charming as they say she is.”
“I’m going to brag to the whole troop that I got to meet Amukham’s princess today!”
“Huh? What?”

What did they mean? Why were they calling me a princess? Just before I could tell Miss Magritte that I was no princess, the other two of her group joined in. Was this because they were all knights? Was this some knight-only rule where they treated each girl like a princess? I also really wished that Papa Howard would wipe that huge grin off his face.

While I stood there completely flustered, the three knights departed. I was only half-aware as I went to see them off while they got on their horses. But then, I finally snapped back to my senses and turned to Papa Howard.

“That was awful! Why didn’t you say anything?! I-I’m no princess! That was so embarrassing!”

I protested, my face burning with shame, but Papa Howard simply nodded and mumbled to himself, “Hmm, those are quite a sight to behold! Good, good.”

As he said that, Mama Sonia suddenly appeared.

“Haven’t I been telling you that you’re a princess all this time, Susie?”

She said it with such a big smile that I couldn’t help but flinch with both embarrassment and a little happiness.

“Do not worry, young miss,” Elrose explained.

The knight order had always been based in the Royal Capital.

Even though nobility had been abolished more than 150 years ago, people in the capital still strongly respected the noble class. For people like them, based in the Royal Capital, treating the daughters of former lords as princesses came naturally.

I believed it was all too old-fashioned. Besides, I wasn’t even a lady! I was a commoner! Yet they’d still called me the rumored princess. I didn’t remember rumors about me spreading to people I had no clue existed!

“It’s because of your recent activities in Cope Town, young miss…”

I couldn’t say a word in response to Miss Elrose’s smiling face.

Besides, what I had done could hardly be considered as activities!

Feeling a bit uneasy, I returned to my room, changed clothes, and started helping with dinner prep.

I needed to snap out of it, focus, and give it my all in the kitchen! Tonight, we’d decided to cook the Amukham Boar we hunted the other day, and I was in charge of the main meat dish.

The Amukham Boar wasn’t a Demonic Beast but just a wild animal native to the Amukham Forest, similar to the Jackalopes.

Its flavor was a little peculiar and had somewhat of a gamey smell, but it was well-loved for its richness.

While it looked similar to one of the Demonic Beasts I’d eaten before, its taste was completely different. The memory of the Demonic Beast’s meat was enough to make me cry. I’d been traumatized by it. So, tonight I was determined to overwrite that trauma with this boar meat! I was so getting it out of my system!