Nancy

“Child, now I will teach you how to wave at a crowd.”
“Teacher, do I really need to learn something like waving ?”
“Child, using your normal speed of waving, if you wave continuously for one minute, how many times will you wave in total ?”
One minute later...
“Teacher, I waved eighty-eight times.”
“Then, the last time I went on a parade with the king, how much time did it take ?”
“About three hours.”
“Now, child, let’s do some math ! If you waved eighty-eight times in one minute, after waving for three hours, how many times will you wave in total ?”
“Fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty times.”
“Child, now let me ask you a health education question : if you wave continuously for fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty times, what will your hand look like ?”
“...I don’t know.”
“That is why, child, you are now learning how to use one thousand waves to handle one parade. Or do you want to wave a full fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty times during all of your parades in the future ?”
“Teacher ! Please, you must teach me how to wave !”
― Yu Wo, 騎士每日例行任務

“Child, you are finally going out to carry out missions. As your teacher, I am extremely relieved, but there are some instructions that I must give you before I can truly be at ease.”
“I will definitely be careful, teacher.”
I felt extremely moved ; my teacher is truly very concerned about me !
“Yes, child, you must be careful ! Remember, a Sun Knight must always maintain his graceful demeanor, regardless of time and place.”
I nodded my head obediently.
“Teacher, I will complete my mission very gracefully.”
(Back then, I had gone through a lifestyle involving lots of falling down for several months already. On average, I would have to look for a cleric once every three days to cast a high level healing spell on me to cure the wounds I receive from a particularly nasty fall.)
My teacher shook his head and said, “Child, completing the mission gracefully is but the basics.”
“Then what’s more advanced than that ?”
“Child, you must remember, when you have failed your mission and are near death, at that time, you must...”
“Pray to the God of Light ?”
“No, you must contemplate what sort of pose you will die in, and if that pose will be accompanied by a serene expression or a heroic one. Still more important is the question of whether you will die from a single thrust to the heart from your enemy or if you will slit your own throat, and so on and so forth. Only after all of the important circumstances surrounding your death have been planned out and arranged perfectly can you pass away in as graceful a position as possible ! Even in the face of death, a Sun Knight must die very gracefully !”
“...”
― Yu Wo, 騎士基本理論

“The harsh God of Light will punish you for your sins.”
― Yu Wo, 騎士基本理論

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland