Leonore

Leonore (レオノーレ, Reonoore) is one of Rozemyne's knight attendants at the Royal Academy.

A girl with violet hair & indigo eyes. Rozemyne describes her as looking more like an apprentice scholar than an apprentice knight.

While she seems like a gentle person most of the time, when she's training her fellow Apprentices she shows an utterly merciless streak, making them run until they drop and repeating the process right after they recovered from drinking rejuvenation potions. When the second year student Judithe asks to join the training, despite not yet attending the Knight's Course, she is treated just as harshly as everyone else.

While she considers herself nowhere near as bibliophile as her master, Leonore does have a far great appreciation for books than most other knights, which played a part in her being recommended to serve Lady Rozemyne. After some consideration Rozemyne decided to go with the recommendation and chose her as one of her retainers.

Leonore accept this assignment in part due to her father saying that it is her duty to do so and partly to get closer to her crush Cornelius.

After the ditter game against Dunkelfelger Leonore spends quite some time together with Cornelius doing research in the library. Rozemyne muses that the two working together in the same carrel almost seems like a date.

While Leonore is rather fond of Cornelius, it does not appear like she can worke up the courage to tell him that. Rozemyne cheers her on internally, but restrains herself from getting involved to avoid her influence as a sister and archduke candidate making a mess of things, as well as showing favouritism among her attendants. Since Cornelius is quite popular among the Ehrenfest Ladies near his age, any such interference might have wide-ranging consequences better avoided.

When Cornelius - prompted by Rozemyne - says he already knows who he will ask to acompany him for his graduation ceremony and that he will ask her himself when Rozemyne offers to ask in his place, Leonore looks crestfallen, apparently not expecting Cornelius to choose her.

A few days later Rozemyne has to return to Ehrenfest for the Dedication Ritual, only spending a single day at the castle, before moving to the temple. Since Leonore is still a minor, she isn't allowed to guard her mistress anywhere other than the castle and thus decides to return to the Royal Academy. She expects that her family, particularly her father and uncle, will subject her to a constant barrage of questions about Lady Rozemyne and would very much prefer not to be stuck in the same building as them for several days.

Back at the Academy she continues her research, tries to keep an eye on Hartmut for his mother Ottilie to prevent his obsession to lead him to do something contrary to Lady Rozemyne's wishes and mercilessly trains the other Apprentice Knights, much to the approval of Professor Rauffen who was worred that after winning their last ditter match, Ehrenfest might rest on their laurels.

Since some of Ehrenfest's Knight students have become arrogant after their surprise victory, Leonore is only too happy to accept Rauffen's suggestion for setting up a re-match with Duneklfelger, so the students can experience first-hand how inadequat their abilities and especially coordination really is without Rozemyne there to make up the difference.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 3 Following the conclusion of their first year at the academy, Rozemyne's new retainers began to also serve Lady Rozemyne at the archduke's castle. Though before Leonore could start to guard Lady Rozemyne, she first was mandated to be trained by Bonifatius.