I'm the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire! (Light Novel) (2025)

The exciting spin-off to the hit series I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! (By the author of Trapped in a Dating Sim.)Emma has just taken her first step as a knight. Emma’s new job? Commander of a squad of useless layabouts. Just as her efforts start to change minds, a pirate base is discovered on Alias. What will happen when an elite force is sent in from the home planet to eliminate them?! An epic new tale of a failure’s rise to glory in the Intergalactic Empire begins!

EMMA’S PROTOTYPE MOBILE KNIGHT—SHELVED?!Emma, test pilot for an experimental mobile knight called Atalanta, heads to the Seventh Weapons Factory for upgrades. But the prototype's development team is visiting, and they seem to have lost faith in Atalanta! When a strange engineer nicknamed the “Mad Genius” warns against piloting the mobile knight, development seems on the verge of grinding to a halt. On top of that, who's behind the mysterious organization pursuing the prototype craft?! Find out in the second volume of a failure’s rise to glory!

A KNIGHT SCHOOL REUNION!Starting her new mission aboard the Melea, aspiring knight of justice Emma crosses paths with former classmate Russell. He’s an elite knight now, and his jabs at the Melea—and at her—could turn idealistic Emma into a nervous wreck. When top knight Marie takes a shot at training Emma personally, it's a chance for the young knight to prove her former classmate's trash talk wrong. But how badly did Russell rattle Emma? Can this B-rank knight still buckle down and bring her A game?!

DOES THE MELEA PASS MUSTER?!After training under Marie's wing, Emma has finally managed to move the hearts of the Melea’s crew—just in time for them to join the Empire’s war!But before they’re permitted to head into battle, the Melea’s notoriously laid-back crew has to prove they’re ready. The inspector who turns up to take stock definitely doesn’t mesh with the ship's slackers…and the quirkiness on the team developing a new mobile-knight unit adds fuel to the fire.Staying focused on justice will be a challenge while Emma's hemmed in by countless eccentric comrades—especially if those comrades start to clash…