Ascendance of a Bookworm

"Dear Mine, what will happen to the mitzvah?

One day, when the middle of winter was near, Fran suddenly said so on his way back to the room after the service ceremony.

"Adulthood? I was just finishing my baptism, though?

"Master Mine's, it's not. It's Rosina's bar mitzvah."

Apparently the laughter leaked by accident. Fran hurries to hold his mouth and correct it. I opened my eyes to unexpected words and opened my mouth to Pocan.

"... Rosina's, mitzvah?

"Yes, Rosina will be an adult at the mitzvah at the end of this winter"

"And I didn't know..."

I couldn't even grasp the event that would be a milestone in my side of the service. I can't hide my dismay from the Lord.

"Adult folds, clothes worn on a daily basis as gray witches from the temple are paid. If you're an orphanage witch apprentice, that's it, but sometimes gray witches who serve are given gifts by the Lord."

That's what Fran tells me about the mitzvah in the orphanage. The cleansing is carried out early in the morning, wearing newly paid clothes and offering prayers and thanks in the prayer room. That means we'll be done by the 3 bells where the Lower Town mitzvah begins.

In other words, the baptisms and mitzvahs of the children in the orphanage would have ended while I was practicing fesh peel.

"Wow, I haven't been able to do one thing to celebrate the orphanage kids..."

As the director of the orphanage, how about that? I've been busy since I came to the temple, but I don't feel that's an excuse. Fran laughed furiously at me when the blood caught on.

"Master Mine, an apprentice, is basically unable to attend the temple ritual, so you can't help but know it. Summer mitzvahs and fall baptisms ended while Master Mine was asleep, and fall mitzvahs were kept busy with winter support. Besides, if we don't celebrate before, and it starts all of a sudden, there will be inequality."

Children in orphanages must be basically equal. It's not a good idea to have disparities, Fran says. But even if I couldn't give you something, I think I could give you something to celebrate.

"Dear Mine, don't think of any gifts for orphanages. It could be a big deal later."

Even though I am an orphan dean, I may no longer be able to give gifts, when the dean changes. When I turned ten, I decided to go to the House of Lords. It's not that long before I can be the orphan dean. Fran says he wants you to think about what lies ahead.

"Besides, it's a gift for the side service, but since Master Mine usually gives things as rewards for the side service, I just thought they might be given to milestones as well, not necessarily what they need"

He took the trouble to tell me because I didn't seem to notice. Fran is right. I had no idea of the season in which I was born to serve my side. Rosina knew that adulthood was close, but she had no idea when it was a mitzvah.

"Thanks for letting me know, Fran. Think about what to give Rosina.... Did Fran get anything from the clergyman during the bar mitzvah?

"I got a pen and ink. I still use the pen important. At that time, I was very happy to feel that I had been recognized as one person."

Fran said so with a broken face. I'm sure Fran gave me some advice about Rosina's mitzvah because I remember how happy she was.

We must think of a gift that will please Rosina as the Lord. My senses are often off, so I need to investigate what the hell a mitzvah gift should give.

Start a familiar inquiry.

First I thought Lutz...... but Lutz won't come until the blizzard stops. Speaking of familiarity within the temple, there is only the Chief Cleric.

"Chief Cleric, my side service grows up, but what kind of things do you normally give to an adult celebration?

When I asked the question at the end of my help, the Chief Cleric looked at me for a moment and muttered rudely, "... that's a rare and decent question for you," then coughed Cohon.

"If you're going to give a gift, it would be good for the other person to use it for a long time. It's a gift for a celebration in public. I think it would be a good thing to use at my usual job. What I give you is pens and ink."

"If you think about Rosina's work with something you normally use...... is it an instrument?

Um, and when I said that remembering Rosina's normal life, the chief clergyman narrowed his eyes cold and sober.

"Fool. What do you do with giving away expensive instruments like you don't have for a sidekick bar mitzvah? Buy your share first before giving it away to serve."

The chief priest pissed me off, so I just decided to withdraw.

"... right? Thank you for your feedback. I'll think of something else."

A few days after the clergyman scolded me, about the day the snowstorm weakened. Tulli, Lutz and Benno came to my room with three of us.

"Mine, how are you?

"Touri, Lutz!... Ah, even Mr. Benno"

"I'm going to study at the orphanage, but you two need to talk."

Touri only said hello and headed to the orphanage to study, but Lutz and Benno came into the room.

Benno changes his expression when he realizes Darmuel's presence.

"Dear Mine, I would like to ask you to keep one near-adult Dapla as a service training."

Benno said he wanted me to educate a Dapra named Leon in my room. I turn my gaze to Fran, who will be educating in service.

"Fran, is it okay if I take this story?

"I've been able to entrust administrative tasks to Rosina and Vilma lately, so it's no problem to just teach them how to serve at lunch"

I sighed lightly, realizing that Fran's expression was only a little tense.

"Okay.... Dear Benno, please send me someone who has received an education other than salary because the only way to teach here is how to serve."

"Non-service education?

Benno turned out to be a strange face. The Gilberta Chamber of Commerce is thoroughly educated to behave properly towards its guests. It was also thorough when I and Lutz came in and out.

Benno met us as a guest in the back room, so I was never left unhindered by the clerk. I guess that's why Benno thinks it's okay to let whoever out.

"Fran will serve as a teacher, but he is a gray cleric and an orphan. I categorically reject people with inadequate education who despise or underestimate the role of teacher."

Fran tells me that even if the attitude toward the customer is thorough, there are about half the clerks who can be polite toward their employees. While I was in the back room discussing business, Fran, waiting at the store, said there were clerks who occasionally turned an unpleasant glance.

"Ho, was that the store? I do not seem to have enough education, and I am very sorry for what I did. Assuming Leon can't do that, I'll cut the Dapra contract immediately, so I want you to let me know right away."

"Fran, is that okay? Anything else you'd like me to ask for?

"Right. I don't mind letting Leon serve lunch, but you can't even look after your meal here. Because the food here is for Master Mine."

"... I know. Don't worry, I'll take care of you just like Lutz when it comes to eating."

Since Benno and Fran have begun discussing the details of their work education, I invite Lutz to ask softly.

I need to talk to Lutz.

"What is it? Are you gonna do something about it again?

A slightly alarming colour appears on Lutz's face, and Benno and Fran also stop talking in Lutz's words and turn their gaze towards me.

"Softening is terrible. Rosina said it was a bar mitzvah. You know what an adult gift is? At Rutz's, Zasha, your brother's about to be an adult, isn't he?

"I think I'll give Brother Zasha a work tool. He's a little small for kids at the christening."

In the artisan's house, it seems that the tools given during the baptismal ceremony can be slightly lighter or smaller so that even children can handle them. Some people buy along the way, and some are given over. If not both, they are given work tools as a single person when they are adults.

"Are craftsmen work tools? Dear Benno, what does a merchant give to an adult celebration?

"In my case, it was a decoration for my family. Give Dapla some clothes. We give them both as a necessary gift to be able to get out before the nobles."

"Don't you have it in Dalua?

"Yes."

He won't bother to give Dapra a celebration of adulthood, which is absolutely necessary for the store ahead of him, and then he will also take him to greet the nobility, but Dalua won't bother to do so because there are so many things about it when his contract expires.

"Decorations and clothes aren't bad either...... You don't usually use Rosina."

"But if you're an adult, you'll start putting your hair together, and you can have a bow or something, right?

Maybe even a hair decoration with small decorations. Write on your grooming tools and calligraphy board.

"If you need a gift, order it early through Lutz and you'll be ready"

"I'm afraid so."

Benno finishes his meeting with Fran, goes back to the store and Rutz says he's going to the orphanage. I also decided to head to the orphanage to see how Tulli was doing with Fran and Darmuel.

"Touri's doing his best. Mine, next time you write to him in simple words."

"Yeah, I will. Thanks, Lutz."

Rutz seems to be a Tulli teacher sometimes. He says he's just doing what I got him to do last year, but thanks to him, Touri can keep up with his studies without being totally in the orphanage kids.

"Now let's calculate this"

Today's temple class seems to be practicing calculations. I turn to Vilma as I see Tulli with a difficult face in front of the calculator.

Vilma and Rosina served under the same Lord. Vilma might be helpful if she asks what she got for the mitzvah.

"Oh, speaking of which, Rosina was an adult this winter."

"It is. I'm worried about the gift then. May I ask what Vilma received when she was an adult?

When I asked, Vilma had a complicated grin.

"When I grew up, it was right after Christine left the temple, so there was nothing in particular."

"... Huh? Let's celebrate Vilma..."

I didn't think you weren't getting it. Vilma laughs when I rush to suggest that to Vilma.

"Dear Mine, if you care about something like that, you'll give it to other parties."

Vilma said because Delia and Gill, who were in the orphanage, also had no gifts during the baptism ceremony.

"If you give it to Gil, Delia, and everyone, not just me, wouldn't the celebration of adult Rosina be sumptuous? Plus, only one person with nothing, Fran, could feel complicated."

"Hmmm......"

I just want you to be happy, but it's hard.

Vilma glanced at my face thinking with her usual laid-back grin.

"I am delighted with anything I can get from the Lord. Besides, anything Rosina wants is always music related.... Well, how about a new score or something?

"New score! That might be good."

"... if it wasn't such a rare score, it might be difficult because Master Christine had it in his possession"

Preparing a rare score is easy. I visited the Chief Cleric the next day.

"Chief Cleric, I'd like to present you with a new score for Rosina's Adult Celebration, so how do you write a score"

"What the hell are you gonna write a score for?

"... although, of course, the song I remember?

If it's hard to find a song here that Christine, who was an art witch, didn't have, just wake up the song in my memory to the score. If you know how to write a score, it's not that hard to prepare a score.

"Song? In that dream, huh?

"That's right. Other than that, I can't think of a song that Rosina doesn't know about."

Fran, bring the fesh peel from the room.

"Yes, sir."

While Fran was in the room picking up instruments, I was being taught how to write scores by the clergyman.

The way this score is written, naturally, is not the same as the one I remember. If it's just the scale, I can manage to write from the scores I've been getting, but I have no idea what other symbols or promises are.

"Thank you for waiting"

"Thank you, Fran"

As I pin and claw the little fesh peel that Fran brought me, I search for the sound in my memory.

"Is that it? A little different. Is it this way? Oh, yeah, yeah. Like this...... hehe......"

When I found out about a bar of sound, I wrote it down on the score, asking the clergyman how to write it.

"Chief Cleric, isn't this the wrong way to write here?

"... that's enough. Give me the fesh peel."

The clergyman seems to have quickly become impatient in my way. It was when the five bars were completed that the fesh peel was taken up by the chief priest of the harsh expression.

The clergyman, who set up a small fesh peel for children, stares down at me.

"You sing. I'll take the sound. And how much faster I write than I teach you how to write a score."

I am urged with a sharp gaze to mumble the song with humming. The clergyman raised his hand lightly on the way, so he stopped the song there.

Then the chief clergyman began to play with fesh peel up to that part. As he opens his mouth gently to a series of unmistakable sounds, the chief cleric plays it several times, adds the appropriate arrangement just right to play it with fesh peel, and writes it down to the score.

... Chief Cleric, seriously all-purpose.

Not only was the main melody of the classical song sung in my nose song, but the score quickly came up with an arrangement for fesh peel.

"Don't you remember the other songs?

"... there are few songs I recite enough to play myself, but there are a lot of songs I remember, if only to the extent that I sing them in my nose"

The chief cleric nodded satisfactorily in my reply.

"Now sing"

"Huh?"

"I was just wanting a new song too. Yeah, three songs would be nice."

Because of this, I also secretly mixed the anime songs. Just watching the clergyman play an animated song to confirm the sound or add an arrangement made it a bit more fun.

"Write this down with your hands and give it away."

"Thank you"

I put the clergyman's hand-written score in the desk drawer and began to copy it there, anticipating when Rosina was doing paperwork with Fran.

Write a copy of the score for the four songs, ask Lutz to make a hole, and spell it with a string.

"Done!

And it was Saturday at the end of winter, the day of the mitzvah.

Delia and Gill work hard to carry the water early in the morning, and Rosina cleanses herself. And wear the new grey witch costume handed out from the temple.

Until now, the skirt length, which has been as long as a calf, will be of such length that you can just see the toe of the shoe, which will tie your hair.

"I feel a little wasted getting Rosina's hair tied up."

I felt a little lonely when I thought I would no longer be able to see Rosina with her chestnut hair down with a fluffy, wavy, luxurious vibe.

Delia stares enviously at Rosina tying her hair up.

"It's a waste! I want to be able to tie it up quickly, too."

Unlike Vilma, who ties her hair together with a tight, crunchy feel, Rosina leaves her feminine and fluffy.

Originally an adult looking Rosina tied up her hair to make her look like an adult woman as soon as possible. What a colorful flair it takes for the creased white neck muscles to be exposed and the sparkling delayed hair to remain on the collar feet.

"Rosina's really pretty."

Ho, and exhale with admiration, and when I look at Rosina as an adult, Rosina flickers and laughs like a little lit.

"Me too! If you grow up, you'll be more beautiful."

"Right. Delia's gonna be beautiful too."

Bitterly laughing at Delia against Rosina, I said "Congratulations" to Rosina and sent her to the mitzvah that takes place in the prayer room.

"Come on in, Rosina"

"Yeah, I'm coming, Master Mine."

Today, both blue and gray clerics are driven into the ritual of adulthood, so there is no help from the chief cleric, and there is no fesh peel class because there is no Rosina.

I take Fran and Dermuel to the orphanage because I'm not very free, ask Vilma to make me some Paru cake dough. I'm not going to teach Ella the recipe, but when I bake it on the basement of the women's building, the smelled kids come by, so I decided to make the dough in the women's building and bake it in the kitchen in my room.

"Vilma, can you come to my room for Rosina? There's a man, but if it's just the face you see, you'll be fine now, won't you? Rosina was with us the whole time, and I think Vilma would be more than happy to celebrate."

"... right. I'm also a little used to dealing with gray clerics in the dining room and workshop, and I'm just going to interrupt a little bit."

Vilma, who holds a bowl with cake dough, also returns to her room with her. After Fran and Dermuel watched as they were surprised, Vilma opened the distance to a point where she was not nervous and walked me.

"I'm back now, Master Mine"

"Welcome back, Rosina. I've been waiting."

Rosina came back to the room after the mitzvah before the 3 bells rang. Gently pull Rosina's hand as she comes upstairs, recommending a seat.

"Master Mine?

"Keep Rosina sitting."

"But you can't sit without the Lord"

Looking up at Rosina to solidify and wondering what to do, Fran sighed and pulled the chair as if she had no choice.

"Rosina is right, Master Mine. If you want Rosina to sit down, first, Master Mine will sit down."

When I got to my seat quietly, Rosina took her seat too, bewildered. Fluffiness and sweet scent approaching from the kitchen.

"Vilma!?

Staring at Rosina, who opened her eyes in amazement, she grinned deeper, and Vilma put the paru cake in front of Rosina with cotries.

Delia starts making tea with a serious look next to it.

"It's Rosina's celebration today. Master Mine suggested I bake it."

"... looks very tasty."

After staring at the paru cake and the carefully filled tea, Rosina's blue eyes moisten carefully, looking around at the faces of everyone aligned to surround the table.

I asked Fran to take a score from my desk.

"This is a celebration from me. If you like, practice and let me listen."

"... it's just a song I don't know. How, like this...... Thank you. I know, Master Mine. And I'm really, really glad you're all here for me."

With the score I had bound in my chest, Rosina smiled brilliantly.

"Happy adulthood, Rosina. May the gods bless your open future."