Envoy Shintonono

"*You really aren't a hero. Winning like that goes against chivalry. A true hero is someone who strikes down his foe out in the open and faces his enemies head on.*"

**Envoy Shintonono** (新殿之使, *Nīdono no-shi*) is an Imanity commoner from the Kingdom of Cornelia and a resident of the village of Johto. She is a member of the Shintonono family and the successor of Shintonono Temple Dojo.

She is a **gold rank** adventure, a founding member of the **S-Class** hero party, Warriors of Justice, and is the second second-in-command. She is the childhood friend of the hero, Lester Dubsky and his close/most trusted confidant. She goes by the name **Sword Saint** or her alias, **Roseguard**

After after saving the Kingdom of Synclea, Envoy becomes engaged to Lester, alongside the princess, and thus making her one of the queens of Synclea.

## Profile

### Physical Description

Envoy Shintonono is arguably regarded to be a stunningly attractively and beautiful women. She is of average height who is in her early twenties. She has a voluptuous and curvaceous body, as well as a well toned physique, attributed to her extensive training she has undergone in her family's dojo. She has long waist-length black hair that she wraps in a ponytail and that is tied with a blue ribbon with bangs hanging over her forehead. Her face is described as regal-like and pretty. She has jade-colored eyes and a birthmark on the back of her neck.

When it comes to her attire, she dons a short blue overcoat covered with a pair of pauldrons. Her armor of choice is the Unbridle Armor, composed of gauntlets, leg Chausses, and hip armor, making it light for mobility purposes. She keeps her sword in a scabbard located on her left leg.

She is also shown to wear a martial arts gi, village clothing.

### Characteristics & Traits

Having been raised in a shrine/dojo, Envoy possesses a stern, disciplined and stoic personality. Although her training emphasizes on obtaining self-control as with most other forms of martial arts, at her core, she is an impulsive and brash tomboy, prone to making hasty decisions based on her emotions. Overall, she is a hardworking, kind and caring girl who passes her time on practicing her swordsmanship and martial arts.

Since her childhood, Envoy is extremely sharp and wise with an excellent grasp of people's subtleties and relationships. Her kind and compassionate personality won't let her ignore trouble around her giving her a lot of hardships. She's also very smart and capable enough to process things without much explanation which impressed even Atreus. Atreus even considered Envoy to be the brain's of Lester's party, as well as the true leader of the group that led them to become an S-Class team, and the most dangerous because she could calmly analyze every situation and come up with an optimal solution, unlike Lester, who simply charges into a situation without thinking while also letting his emotions control his actions.

While Envoy is the level-headed member of the party, she is not perfect and she can be quite hasty and is prone to jumping to conclusions, Envoy is quick to draw her sword to confront anyone she thinks is threatening or suspicious. She does apologizes for her actions but also unintentionally insults the person for her assumptions based on their behavior or appearance that led to her accusations.

Envoy does tend to get annoyed and mad easily but when she gets extremely mad, she begins to growl and salivate uncontrollably, as well as her veins popping. Atreus compares this state of anger to a dog, much to her chagrin.

Envoy is a maiden at heart who isn't interested in dating a man who isn't stronger than her. However, because of her status as a Gold-ranked adventurer, coupled by being part of the Hero's Party, as well as her above overall combat prowess, she fears that she will never find a man that satisfies her criteria. While Atreus commented that she is strong for a human, there is nothing extraordinary special about her.

Having been raise to uphold honor as a warrior, She possesses a tunnel vision of how battles should be conducted. She believes she should be on the front lines so that she can follow the footsteps of her father, whom she greatly admires as one of the world's greatest warrior. She has a distain with other occupation that are not close-combat such as assassins, archers, magicians, which she believes there is no honor fighting in the sidelines.

Envoy has a romanticize view of how a hero must be and how battle must be conducted. Growing and listening/reading about great heroes who saved the world from the evil

Her perception of good and evil are influenced by her teaching, human are good and non-human are evil. She automatically assumes they are enemies and won't hesitate attack.

#### Hobbies

Having been raised at her family dojo, Envoy has grown to enjoy training in Martial Arts and her swordsmanship. Ever she is doing nothing important, she is seen practicing. She also enjoys collecting swords.

#### Dislikes

She dislikes dishonorable tactics, such as using underhanded tactics or gorilla warfare strategies. She believed one must face each other head on. She dislike cowardice

## Battles Records

Record
 Envoy vs Emilio | Academy sparring match | Won

## Trivia

* Envoy Shinonono is the variant counteroart of Sword Saint from goblin slayer.
* Although she is technically the vice-captain of the warrior of justice, all see her as the true leader.
* Her interest in Lester is because he meet the criteria of her type of man, accepting his flaws and awe.

## Reference

https://goblin-slayer.fandom.com/wiki/Sword\_Saint

1. https://cautious-hero.fandom.com/wiki/Rosalie\_Roseguard