I Picked Up a Banished Knight and She Became My Dog

Claudia, a female knight, was branded a 'hopeless, inflexible fighter with no real combat sense' by the royal capital's Holy Knights and cast out. Wandering with nowhere to go, she arrived at an old fortress on the frontier, where she met the young man who managed the keep as its instructor.

A clear morning after the rain. In her hands was a single wooden sword, handed to her by the young man.

Though her eyes wavered with uncertainty, she kept her back perfectly straight, never letting her knightly decorum slip. When the young man spoke gently, acknowledging the beauty of her form and the solidity of her fundamentals, a soft smile bloomed across Claudia's face.