Thou, as My Knight, Vol. 1

by Rintaro Hatake, Hino (Artist), Zoe Womack (Translator)

In this world, people known as Informationists sell their supernatural abilities for use in armed conflicts. When Tsuhima Rindou, an ordinary Informationist, agrees to help a fallen noble named Holly defect from the Balga Empire, he isn’t expecting anything more than a typical escort mission. But there’s much more to his client than she’s letting on, and Balga is intent on keeping her within its borders, dispatching their army and several elite Informationists to apprehend the duo by any means necessary. Can these two souls, bound only by a business agreement, survive the grueling journey and web of conspiracies that await?

248 pages, Paperback

Published February 10, 2026

Reviews

[Sebastian Fernandez · Rating 5 out of 5]

The antics of the plot kept me on my toes the entire time. The plot took effort to follow as there’s a lot of political tension and tactics going on. How every single time I put it down I was disappointed I had to go do something else. While there are slower moments at certain points of the story, it never once got boring. The world building was excellent and well thought out, not only the setting, but the power system as well. I fell in love with the core cast for various individual reasons. Though they had some strange names I can remember each of them. In the cast there were some heavy hitters and weaker cast members as well(Very mixed bag in my opinion).My favorites being Tachibana, then the two main characters Holy & Tsushima, followed by Causa.

Overall:
Plot-S
World-SS+
Characters-A+
Battles-A+
Imagery-A

Worth the read In my opinion

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

In his afterword, the author says that he started this in high school. While I am honestly very happy that he was able to revise and publish it, I am also not in the least surprised he wrote this in high school.