The Church and Hymns

Morning.

Flora woke up early.

She had just started her student council internship, and it wasn’t necessary to wake up so early, as there were also specialized servants in the school who handled the chores.

But she was already used to getting up early.

Today was their third day in the academy, also the first Friday.

The academy adopted a two-day weekend system, and they would return to the mansion in the evening.

Of course, students might hold tea parties, dances, and salons in the academy at night or on Saturdays, but it had nothing to do with them.

Ryan had already declined the invitation from the Eastern Region royalty.

After the three of them had breakfast with Andera in the cafeteria, they were about to head to the classroom when they encountered someone on the road.

He was the third son of Count Garcia of the Southwest region, Joey Garcia, whose territory was near Gonzalez’s territory.

Flora immediately showed off Ryan’s, but she’s good at many people’s favorite subject.

“What do you want?”

Ryan’s face immediately turned sour when he heard where he was from.

“I’m here to invite Your Highness to an appointment,”

The other party politely presented an invitation.

Flora received it on his behalf, inspected it without a trace, and didn’t find any poisonous fog or magic for contact and detonation, then handed it to Ryan.

At the same time, she noticed that there were still people spying on them… and this time, they were clearly related to the Holy Song Knights.

Count Garcia’s third son reluctantly bid farewell to the two.

Flora immediately informed Ryan of what she had just observed and gave a preliminary inference:

“Your Highness, I estimate that they don’t want you to attend the appointment; they want others to think that they are in contact with you.”

“I see, they just want to make Ryan misunderstand the nobles.

There are still many fish who escaped the net among the nobles.”

Sean laughed heartily.

(Your Highness, I think we must clarify this matter as soon as possible.

The other party’s purpose is clearly to make you turn hostile to the church.)

The glorious church of the Empire originated from the reorganized Taoist Association hundreds of years ago.

After Emperor Tom defeated the tyrant Hannibal, due to the widespread destruction and the suffering of the people, and the great defeat at the hands of the barbarians, the Empire urgently needed to recuperate.

Therefore, the glorious church, which advocated “inaction,” was made the state religion.

Although the current Emperor William’s ascension to the throne and the beginning of the dismissal of a hundred schools led to a decline in the position of the glorious church, it was still a force to be reckoned with domestically.

Putting aside everything else, the church’s most frequent activity was to eliminate demons and uphold justice, even taking charge of some medical and disaster relief responsibilities…

Therefore, while the glorious church was deeply trusted by the people, it also had a great influence among the middle and lower classes.

Although from its origin, the Black Dragon Knights were in a competitive relationship.

But in reality, due to the large number of ordinary people and the different work and development directions of the Holy Song Knights, the two sides could actually be potential allies who could internally transform and cooperate with each other.

In fact, that was also the case. Even if Sean’s reputation was very poor, and he always put on a stern face, the Holy Song Knights still maintained a neutral attitude towards the Black Dragon Knights.

So, when Sean went to school, he preferred to take a detour and go through the southwest side of the Holy Song Knights’ garrison.

And now the situation was very obvious.

After finding it difficult to deal with Sean directly, these people began to think of using the divisive tactic to create a rift between Sean and the Black Dragon Knights and the Holy Song Knights, to further isolate Ryan’s efforts.

“What do you plan to do?” Ryan asked.

“I want to directly question Mr. Enso about the situation.”

This was not a solution Flora came up with.

In fact, she also wanted to deal with it herself simply, so the other party would understand.

However, facing those tricks that could only be used by old hands in officialdom,

The rotten, putrid smell of blood, blood, and pus was more likely to be a lot bigger, and because they didn’t know much about the other side,

If she just listened and let it be, and waited for the other party to come and settle the score, it wouldn’t end well.

So the best approach was to assume that the other party was mentally challenged, take the initiative, state their intentions to them, and act recklessly.

However, Flora also knew that Ryan wasn’t good at or didn’t like doing this kind of thing.

Because she clearly hadn’t done anything wrong, yet she had to explain herself to others, as if she could seek the recognition and approval of others, and it also had a slightly self-deceptive taste, which made people feel subtly aggrieved and angry.

“Your Highness, please leave it to me. I will also pay attention to safety!”

Sean’s reputation was well-known. Flora didn’t plan to meet the other party secretly, so there was nothing to worry about.

But to prevent Ryan from worrying, she specially added this sentence.

“Mm,”

Since it had come to this, Ryan naturally wouldn’t refuse, but considering safety, he still decided to wait in a remote place, just in case.

On the way, Flora quickly noticed Ryan’s plan, and she didn’t stop him.

Because some excessive protection could just let everyone know that Ryan cared about her.

It would also be possible to trace the reason if Ryan cancelled the appointment later.

Resdi was eighteen years old this year, in his seventh year.

“That maid… isn’t that the Crown Prince’s?”

“Who is it? What is she doing here?”

“The Crown Prince is also at the staircase entrance. Is something big going to happen?”

As soon as Flora arrived, she became the center of attention, and everyone was whispering.

Flora had anticipated this situation and quickly found a student related to the Holy Song Knights in the hallway and asked him to help call out Jacondi.

“You’re the Crown Prince’s attendant maid, what do you want to do by looking for Jacondi?”

After hearing Flora’s intentions, this student immediately showed a look of vigilance.

Then, two more students, also noble children related to the Holy Song Knights, rushed over aggressively.

The Holy Song Knights didn’t have many gifted students in the Royal Academy, about five out of a hundred.

Because they were basically from middle-class noble backgrounds, they were a bit like the Lion family and loved to stick together.

“I, I’m just here to pass on a message; I have no malicious intentions.”

Flora deliberately showed a look of being a little frightened by this situation, and the three of the Holy Song Knights were embarrassed instead.

The church opposed bullying the weak.

As the Holy Song Knights were the sword of the church, even though the three hadn’t formally joined the Knights, they wanted to join, so naturally, they were too embarrassed to bully Flora, such a “weak woman.”

“Wait a moment…”

One of them was about to go to the classroom to find someone, but found that the handsome young man with red hair and golden pupils had already walked out.

“What do you want?”