Damuel/Story

Damuel's failure to protect Myne during the extermination of the trombe cause him several issues. He was forced to borrow money from his brother to help pay for his part of Myne's replacement ceremonial robes. He was also demoted to apprentice knight and was assigned to serve the shrine maiden Myne in the temple. This caused friction with his fiancé and they separated.

During his time at the Royal Academdy, Damuel would write study guides for fellow students instead of hunting. Writing study guides enabled him to make money to help him pay his way through school. He did this rather than hunting as he made more from the study guides, then he could from hunting the creatures. Ferdinand finds out him writing study guides and that he is also in debt and asks him to help with the temple paperwork while Myne is in his office, which he will pay him for.

During his time with Myne at the temple, he kept a low profile, and not many people knew he was a noble. During the confrontation at in the common section he surprised Otto by pulling out his schtappe and calling for help. When they were trying to get to Ferdinand's office in the temple and were intercepted by the High Bishop and Count Bindewald. The High Bishop was surprised to see a knight protecting her.

He is currently serving Rozemyne as a personal bodyguard with Brigitte.

Damuel delevolped a crush on Brigitte and eventually even asked her to marry him. Their difference in mana capacity prevented their marriage and as such he requested a year to achieve a similar mana capacity as Brigitte. He succeeded in reaching his goal and wished to marry Brigitte, however he could not move to Illgner as he wouldn't be able to protect Rozemyne as her guardknight.

It was revealed by Ferdinand that should Damuel have accepted the marriage proposal and moved to Illgner, then he would have come to an early death since he knew too many of Rozemyne's secrets.

While Rozemyne is attending the Royal Academy for her first-year courses, Damuel is mercilessly trained by Bonifatius. Even when Rozemyne returns and Damuel is there to greet her when she comes through the teleportation circle he's covered in cuts and bruises. Rozemyne remarks how he looks a lot stronger, thinking to herself that it is not just due to the muscles he put on, but also a more determined and self-assured look on his face

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 5

In the summer after Rozemyne's first term at the royal academy, Matthias, the son of Viscount Gerlach finds out about an ambush that his father plans on the carriages carrying Rozemyne's grey priests and the Divine Instruments to the wedding ceremony at the border gate with Ahrensbach, but is unable to arrange a meeting with Lady Rozemyne due to being repeatedly turned down my her guardians, he gives a letter to Roderick, who is to pass it on to Philine during a shared lesson for scholar apprentices, so she can then inform her master.

When Roderick hands the letter to her, both she and Damuel - who is guarding her at Rihyarda's request due to worries about so many members of the former Veronica faction being present, while a considerable portion of the Knight's Order and Florencia faction members are on their way to the wedding - assume it is a love letter. Only once Philine reads the letter in her room does she realize the gravity of the situation and immediately storms to the others to inform them, at which point Damuel immediately contacts Lord Bonifatius via Ordonnanz. Thanks to everyone's quick reactions Bonifatius is able to inform the Knight's Order in time for them to prevent the ambush from succeeding and he praises them for their good coordination.

Once Bonifatius has been informed and the situation is calming down, Damuel expresses his sympathies to Philine, that it had not been a love letter after all, Philine nearly bursts out in tears, leaving Damuel deeply confused and floundering. Philine shouts at him that she wishes for him to not find a girlfriend or wife until she comes of age. Damuel retorts that she is being this is just too cruel, after which Damuel is further teased by Rozemyne's female attandents due to him still failing to pick up on something that he just can't seem to figure out.

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