Iris Knowblade

**Iris Knowblade** is a character in the series who is also known as sword saint.

## Appearance

woman was standing there, surrounded by several monsters. She had a wolf cut of peach-colored hair and slit pink eyes. She was wearing a silver breastplate, a jet-black cloak, and a single sword.

## Background

Iris has been fascinated with swords ever since she can remember and honed her skills to become a knight eventually. However, the House of Knowblade, where Iris was born, was a great noble family with the title of duke, and Iris’s father did not allow Iris to become a knight.

Therefore, although Iris originally wanted to attend a knight’s school, her father forced her to attend a girls’ school for the daughters of noble families. Naturally, Iris rebelled against her father’s decision. But with the pressure from the Knowblade family, and with the persuasion of those around her, she reluctantly entered the girls’ school.

Her parents intended for her to enter a girls’ school to learn how to behave like a lady and to prepare her to marry into another noble house or royalty eventually.

However, Iris never abandoned her sword, regardless of the school she attended.

Furthermore, the school she entered was not a normal school, but the prestigious Artemia Girls’ Academy, and the headmistress was a legendary witch who had once worked as an S-class adventurer despite being a noblewoman.

That’s why, even though it’s a girl’s academy, there were classes to learn how to defend oneself, and Iris didn’t neglect to practice voluntarily. As a result, Iris acquired abilities that far exceeded those of her classmates and obtained a power that overwhelmed even the teachers.

Then, the headmaster of the school, who was interested in Iris’ abilities, introduced a certain person to Iris. That person was the former “Sword Saint,” who would become Iris’s master.

Since her predecessor was also a woman, she took an interest in Iris, who also wanted to pursue the path of the sword. Iris had a talent for swordsmanship, so she officially became an apprentice, and from there, she became even more devoted to swordsmanship.

However, she could not neglect her studies, so she reluctantly continued to attend the girls’ school. Although she devoted herself entirely to the sword, she was blessed with many friends. The other students were all girls who were ladylike and seemed to have a hard time with the self-defense classes, but they were surprisingly compatible with Iris. The girls learned self-defense from Iris, and Iris learned how to act like a lady from them.

Gradually, Iris’s mindset began to change. At first, Iris had no interest in anything but swords, but by the time she was about to graduate, she was as interested as any woman in topics such as romance and marriage.

And when Iris finally graduated from the academy, her father could do nothing about it, as she had already surpassed her predecessor and taken over the title of “Sword Saint.”

No matter how much influence the Knowblade family had as a duke house, a “Holy” who dealt with the “Evil” enemy of the world was treated with more importance in some countries, so Iris’s father no longer had the power or strength to control Iris’s life.

That’s why Iris’s father had given up on her. He gave up on the idea of marrying Iris off to another family and decided not to interfere with her. This was exactly what Iris had wanted.

However, after graduation, her friends got married one after another, and she became the only single person left in her class. This was when she started to think about marriage for the first time.