The Reincarnated Sword Saint Wants to Take It Easy or Umarekawatta Kensei Wa Raku O Shitai is a web novel that's been adapted to manga form.
Alta Schweiz is an absolute prodigy in swordsmanship. The youngest officer of the Sirius Black Knights Order in history at a mere 12 years old, he nevertheless just wants to take it easy in life. But his superior assigns him to a special mission, to attend Fiorum Academy as a teacher, and act as bodyguard to the noble, Iris Reinfel. Iris is yet another prodigy in swordmanship, that she's been called the 'Sword Saint Princess', potential successor to the Sword Saint, the absolute master in the way of the sword.
But Alta has a secret. In his previous life, he was Raoul Isalf, the titular Sword Saint, living for nothing but the sword. Now reincarnated with all his previous skill intact, he just wants to take it easy, but unfortunately events force him to take matters into his own hands, and perhaps finding a reason to live other than the sword...
The Reincarnated Sword Saint Wants to Take It Easy provides examples of the following tropes:
- Badass Boast: When Adyl Gratts notices that his magical energy has been drained by the Mystic Silver sword, Alta gives one:Alta: You've heard of the silver sword, but you didn't know about this effect, because I've buried everyone who I've fought against with this sword.
- Child Prodigy: Alta Schweiz, thanks to retaining his past skill as the Sword Saint.
- Cool Sword: The Sword Gang members each wields a unique one. Alta also has one, Mystic Silver, which is famed as Raoul Isalf's own blade.
- Fights Like a Normal: Alta's biggest secret is how his Mystic Silver sword drains the mana of everyone in its radius, so all the duels he's won is fought purely by skill. No one knows of this property, because no one has fought him and survived the encounter.
- Lonely at the Top: In his previous life as Raoul Isalf, Alta strives to only be the best swordsman, walking the path of the sword by himself, no matter how bloody. He ultimately reached it, be acknowledged as the Sword Saint, the absolute strongest in the world, and realized that he had nothing else left to live for.
- Master Swordsman: Iris Reinfel is famed for being a young one, and each of the Sword Gang members is this, but none of the can hold the candle to the original Sword Saint, Raoul Isalf.
- Skeptic No Longer: Adyl Gratts finds the idea that Raoul has been reincarnated into Alta ridiculous, but after failing to land a single blow on Alta despite his best effort, he accepts that the child standing before him is the reincarnated Raoul Isalf.
