転生した大聖女は、聖女であることをひた隠す

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Protagonist gets betrayed by her family/party when subjugating the demon lord since they thought she was useless since she was just a buffer/helear and they did all of the real work by doing the actual fighting (lol?) and ends up getting tortured in the demon lords castle until she eventually dies because reasons. Then she reincarnates 300 years later as a girl in a household of knights that go through a ritual to become adults, and while out on the ritual she comes across a cat who she tries healing with the potion meant to heal her, but it’s actually an evil beast/dragon and it damages it, mistakes the healing potion as an attack, and attacks the protagonist. During this attack she then realizes that she was reincarnated and ends up actually healing the dragon who then forms a contract with the protagonist for saving its life, and to protect her. The protagonist doesn’t want to be killed again like in her previous life so she will try to hide the fact that she is the reincarnation of the saintess as best as she can from now on.

It’s a fairly pleasant read with a cute protagonist that is normally aloof yet has moments of chilling beauty where she reverts back to her time as a jaded saintess from her past life. As a result a lot of the focus has this comedic tone to it, despite a lot of the events not being particularly comedic themselves. It has a fair few battles but the protagonist never really fights in them despite being a knight and instead focuses more on a leadership role, only to quickly be thrust upwards from being a clearly suspicious individual with insight far beyond her years.

There’s a ton of good individual panels that I really love the art of but at the same time a large majority of the panels are just characters talking in blank white voids which lessens the overall enjoyment. The art is good when the artist has time to focus on it, but due to serialization constraints I feel that the overall work is lacking in the art department.

I do like the work, but I also feel like there’s something missing that can really elevate it up enough to fully recommend it. It’s enjoyable to read, but I don’t feel like there’s enough of a plot; it’s largely the protagonist taking a victory lap reminiscing down memory lane while trying yet constantly failing to hide how much cooler and saintlyer she is than all of the poverty saintesses of this era, both before and after her there has never been a sainterest saint than her saintliness.