Light Novel Volume 21/Summary

Chapter 1: Playing Dumb
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Chapter 2: A Chess Problem
Rudeus, the next day, would meet with the Pope, where he explains to him about Zenith being abducted last night by the Latrias and seek help to find Zenith. The Pope, in return, would ask what Rudeus is willing to do for him. Rudeus responds, suggesting kidnapping the blessed child. Cliff tried to change Rudeus' mind, but Rudeus was angry because he couldn't let this go. The reason was that he couldn't let Zenith be treated like an object, as she couldn’t say no, and he wanted revenge against Claire. In the end, Cliff managed to change Rudeus' mind about the kidnapping and connect him with someone who could reach out to Claire. Rudeus would come to the realization that he should have contacted Therese first before approaching the pope.

Rudeus would try to meet with Therese by coming to the church garden every day, so as not to seem suspicious. The reason for this was that the Blessed Child rarely leaves the inner sanctum—only every few days is allowed to walk around the church garden. After finally meeting with Therese, she agreed to speak with Claire about the situation and even offered to talk with her father and brothers if Claire is reluctant to speak.

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Chapter 3: Flip the Board and Take the King
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Chapter 4: Hardball Negotiations
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Chapter 5: What's Stopping You?
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Chapter 6: For the Good of My Daughter and My Family
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Chapter 7: What Is Owed
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Chapter 8: The Traitor Gets Away
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Extra Chapter: The Berserker Sword King and the Blessed Child
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Extra Chapter: Therese Looks for a Husband
Therese has been visiting the Latreia mansion more often lately, and one day Claire asks her when she’s planning on getting married. Though Therese protests that the only reason she’s still single is because her mother hasn’t arranged a marriage meeting for her, Claire reminds her that Therese herself was the one who didn’t want to be caught up in a power struggle, and Claire was merely respecting her wishes. Resigned to the fact that she’ll never find a partner without her mother’s assistance, Therese agrees to go through a marriage meeting.

The candidate is Dusklight Moorkite, a 27-year-old templar. Having prepared for the worst, Therese is satisfied with his background heading into the meeting, but she freezes up upon seeing his face. It’s Therese’s coworker, Dust Box of Anastasia Keep. Anastasia Keep was formed as a group of anonymous knights to prevent foreign spies from targeting their families; thus, Therese didn’t know about Dusk’s true identity before the meeting. Although she realizes that the marriage meeting itself is jeopardizing their jobs, Therese decides to seduce Dust, pretending she doesn’t know him. Dust, sees through her act and rejects her advances, demanding an explanation. Therese says that she now has no choice but to discharge Dust from Anastasia Keep for the Miko’s safety… unless Dust gets married to her and protects her from any potential assassins. Dust says that it wouldn’t be feasible… because if he were threatened by assassins, he would slaughter all his family members so they wouldn’t become hostages. Therese, remembering that all the Anastasia Keep knights are Millis fanatics, cools her head, and the two agree to call off the marriage.

Returning to the Latreia mansion, Claire begins lecturing Therese, claiming that Dust wasn’t suited to be a Latreia family member’s husband. Therese resolves to do better next time, praying that her next candidate won’t be as poor of a match as Dust was.

Extra Chapter: The Monkey and the Wolf
With the help of the advices of Hitogami, Geese was able to run away and evade their pursuer, and with him, they started to device a plan to gather "friends '' like Rudeus. The plan is to use Hitogami to call a person in his dreams to a reunion and Geese recruit the person, so they can have more than 3 people that can help Hitogami. Because he is afraid of a betrayal, he only wants a small but powerful group. Following Hitogami advice, Geese arrives to a snow land and find a snow dragon killed and a swordsman near the body, The swordsman was depressed and Geese says that Hitogami can grant him the wish to fight Orsted, the swordsman ask him why he help someone like Hitogami

Geese remember part of his life. He was an average person in his village and to be someone recognized in life, he decided to run away from his home and become an adventurer. As an adventurer, even though he was trying his best, he was barely average, and with his skill, he was only doing low rank quests and was basically the same as he was doing in his village. One day, when he was in danger against a monster, he met hitogami for the first time and following his advice he survived. After he became an apostle and always followed his instruction, he was able to rank up, joining to Black Fang Wolf party, which became famous  and doing hard quests until the disband of the group. but in the end  he still felt that he was a regular person.

In the end Geese respond that even if he uses other people, he wants to be recognized, Hitogami needing him even though he is a weak person is important for him. The man decides to join the Geese and he says that the place of the decisive battle is already decided.


 * Spoiler: The Swordsman.