History Manga / Knights

* NiceHat: Euphemia's hat kicks ass, and gives you the British finger while doing it.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: In the fifth volume, [[spoiler:Nina, Mist's love interest]] falls into the hands of the church and is brutally tortured, going as far as attempting suicide in order to avoid betraying Mist, who has been watching the entire thing from afar through a scrying pool, completely unable to come to her aid.

* BurnTheWitch: Happens a lot in this series. The Church is entitled to a witch's property without justification or investigation, and if a priest gets to put enough people to the torch, he or she becomes a saint with [[StockSuperpowers super powers]]. So the only people in the setting who have anything to do with magic are [[CorruptChurch the church]].

%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mist, Euphemia.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mist, Euphemia.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy

* KnightTemplar: Anise.

* RapeAsBackstory: Euphemia was locked in a prison and repeatedly raped by the guards until she was rescued by Mist. The experience led her to realize she could use her body as a weapon.

The story is set in a medieval world in the grips of a hysteria about witchcraft. The plot revolves around a squire, Mistletien (Mist), and his potion-maker sidekick Euphemia, as they travel around the countryside rescuing girls accused of witchcraft, and meting out justice on those responsible.

This series provides examples of:

* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: Mist and Nina have a child, and Euphemia is pregnant with Leo's child.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Poor Nina.

* CosmicDeadline: Imposed by ExecutiveMeddling, as the manga was dropped from serialization when Dengeki Gao went out of business. Very noticeable in Volume 5, as a a story which had been planned for a much longer time span wraps up in only 5 chapters.

* DeusSexMachina: Lets Euphemia take down hordes of men and their horses. And their ''horses''. [[RuleThirtyFour Yeeessss...]]

* EthicalSlut: Euphema.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: The Crown Prince.]]

* FlatEarthAtheist: Mist, with hints of NayTheist. He loudly and boldly declares that both God and Satan are myths crafted to inspire fear, and that the witch hunts are a sham... then heads off to chat with an ''actual witch''.
** Actually, this is not a case, as it is revealed that Euphemia just uses old medical knowledge to make aphrodisiacs, not witchcraft. One can make a case based on the existence of Saint's relics, maybe.

* HandsomeLech: Leonardo.
* HarmfulToMinors: Poor, poor Mist...

* HugeRiderTinyMount: Oh, Leonardo.
* HumanSacrifice
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Leonardo]] realizes the error of his ways and joins Mist to stop the witch-hunts.

* IfICantHaveYou: Nina to Mist after the misunderstanding with Euphemia, going so far as to give the Saint [[KnightTemplar Anise]] information on him so that they could be TogetherInDeath.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy [[LoveMakesYouEvil and Evil]]: Nina, temporarily.
** Euphemia isn't shown as being a whole lot better, at least in [[spoiler: letting Nina believe that she and Mist are getting it on]], but in her defense [[spoiler: sheltered, lovelorn, and [[IdiotBall occasionally dumb]] Nina hit her BerserkButton pretty hard]]. Once the two of them actually ''avert'' PoorCommunicationKills, stuff gets a little better...for a while, anyway.

* LukeIAmYourFather

* TheMedic: Euphemia.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Nina and Mist. [[spoiler: Interesting subversion, it's not a conversation between the two of them that clears things up but [[MsFanservice Euphemia]] finally telling the truth to Nina and Nina realizing just how close she was treading to the {{Yandere}} line. Results in a CMOA for both of them when they [[BigDamnHeroes team up to save Mist's life]].]]

* PrisonRape: Euphemia suffered this as a child.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Euphemia.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Euphemia. Boy, does she ever.

* RoaringRampageofRescue: [[spoiler:Pretty much the entirety of the last two chapters, after Nina gets captured by the crown prince.]]

* TokenMiniMoe: Nina.

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: Prepare to die.

* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:Nina is the first accused witch we see.]]

* [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Slash Slash Slash Uh Oh]]: Wilhelm versus Odo in Chapter 4.

* TheMedic: Euphemia.
* TheUndead: [[spoiler: It turns out the Saints are this, with a healthy dose of MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil thrown in.]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Anise. Also a WhiteHairedPrettyGirl, in case there wasn't [[EvilAlbino reason enough to be wary]].

* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter]]

* MsFanservice: Euphemia. And how.

* PrisonRape: A rare female example.

* SadisticChoice: Creepy priest Balthazar sets Mist up for one in the second chapter, leaving him struggling to save the only girl who's ever smiled at him on seeing his real face while [[DirtyCoward Balthazar]] has free rein to beat the shit out of him. Surprisingly, he doesn't TakeAThirdOption; see the entry under DeTerminator.

* PrehensileHair: Anise.

* TheUndead: [[spoiler: It turns out the Saints are this.]]

[[* spoiler: BabiesEverAfter]]

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Carefully averted with Mist, playing on the difficulties of being of African heritage in an overwhelmingly white medieval community.)

* DeTerminator: Mist. Takes a stab in the stomach in Chapter 2 from his own sword while trying to rescue the DistressedDamsel, then ''pulls it back out again'' and uses ''the flat'' to beat down the guy who stabbed him. [[spoiler: Then he does it again in Chapter 15 when facing Anise, with a little help from Euphemia's drugs and TrueLovesKiss...]]

* DeusSexMachina: Let's Euphemia take down hordes of men and their horses. And their ''horses''. [[RuleThirtyFour Yeeessss...]]

** Actually, this is not a case, as it is revealed that Euphemia just uses old medical knowledge to make aphrodisiacs, not witchcraft. one can make a case based on the existence of Saint's relics, maybe.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy [[LoveMakesYouEvil and Evil]]: Nina.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Nina and Mist. [[spoiler: Interesting subversion, it's not a conversation between the two of them that clears things up but [[MsFanservice Euphemia]] finally telling the truth to Nina and Nina realizing just how close she was treading to the YanDere line. Results in a CMOA for both of them when they [[BigDamnHeroes team up to save Mist's life]].]]

* RescueRomance: Mist and Nina.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: In the fifth volume, [[spoiler:Nina, Mist's love interest]] falls into the hands of the church, and is brutally tortured, going as far as attempting suicide in order to avoid betraying Mist, who has been watching the entire thing from afar through a scrying pool, completely unable to come to her aid.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The scene where [[spoiler:Mist's mother]] is burned at the stake. Also, a good ol' fashioned dose of HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

The story is set in a medieval world in the grips of a hysteria about witchcraft. The plot revolves around a squire, Mistletien (Mist), and his potion-maker sidekick Euphemia, as they travel around the countryside rescuing girls accused of witchcraft, and meting out justice on those responsible.

* CorruptChurch: Played dead straight, to the point that the ChurchMilitant knights may as well be shouting "[[Warhammer40K For the Emperor]]!" One even specifically says "You doubted God. That is the sin of heresy." before violently murdering someone, Commissar-style.

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* [[{{Blossfechten}} Bloßfechten]]: The attacks in this series are named after --and mostly reflect-- real strikes and techniques used in Medieval German swordsmanship. Highly notable, seeing as though a Japanese manga got around to this while Western works still tend to ignore it.

* FanDisservice: YourMileageMayVary, but cute naked women? Awesome! Most of them are only naked because they're being tortured hideously by members of the CorruptChurch? That's...less awesome.

* SadisticChoice: Creepy priest Balthazar sets Mist up for one in the second chapter, leaving him struggling to save the only girl who's ever smiled at him on seeing his real face while [[DirtyCoward Balthazar]] has free reign to beat the shit out of him. Surprisingly, he doesn't TakeAThirdOption; see the entry under DeTerminator.