Ascendance of a Bookworm

"Master Mine, instead of Delia, would you like to put in a new side service?

To Fran's sudden inquiry I leaned my neck with Coteri. Unlike winter, I don't live in a temple, so there shouldn't be so much work as having to put in a replacement for Delia right away.

"Do you need it right away?

"They think you should let them in"

With Dilk gone, I can handle it if Fran and Gill are in charge of hard work now that I can sleep at night, but I don't want Rosina to do anything that hurts my fingers, so I'm going to need a replacement, Fran said.

"If you mean it, you can rest assured that there is something sweet about Mayne who is still worried about Delia throughout this period, so you can point the emotion towards Delia at others."

I was stuck in words a long time after my sweetness was poured out. He was seen somewhere somewhat searching for Delia in a slightly gallant space.

Fran is right, it would be better to get rid of Fran and Rosina's worries for the future than to worry about Delia, who has left forever. I exhaled softly, and laid my eyes down once.

"... right. If I were to put in a new gray witch, would it be Monica and Nicola?

Monica and Nicola are the two people who have been helping Ella cook all winter. The two recommended by Vilma already know that they work well twirling, and they can leave it to the cooking assistant, not just the chores.

As a matter of fact, it's time for an Italian restaurant to open, so the cook leaves Ella and goes to the store. Ella is going to have more recipes here, which means she has made the choice to stay here and has negotiated for Benno. And Benno is supposed to coach the next cook he sends in. With Monica and Nicola, Ella knows her mind, so I think it's easy to work.

"Monica and Nicola? Master Mine, are you okay holding both of you?

Fran, who knows the economic situation in this room, frowned anxiously. Sure, I'm just a little anxious in some seasons, but I'm also getting additional orders for winter handiwork, and I think if the picture book sells properly as it is, I'll be fine.

"You've both been working hard during the winter, haven't you? If you choose one, it will be hard to ask for help again in the winter, so if you can hold it, I'd like to ask you both at once."

"I don't think Master Mine has to worry about that..."

Rosina laughs bitterly, but spending time in an orphanage and serving is clearly a change in treatment. I know, and it's hard for me to choose one.

"You can feel safer than letting Delia serve you. Do you want to go speak to the two of us?

"Yep. Neither of us should have any experience in side-servicing, and given the length of our education, maybe we should speak up early. What do you think of Fran, the educator?

Before the Italian restaurant opens and the kitchen is less staffed, the two of us have to remember the chores in the room. However, because Rosina can't set an example, the educator of chores becomes Fran. If Fran can't afford it, education is difficult.

"I can afford some paperwork now that I can turn it around to Rosina"

"Shall we contact Vilma and go to the orphanage tomorrow?"

I just had an appointment for tomorrow, and the conn and the door to the room were knocked.

My side service comes in on its own, and the priests and the temple officials of the side service use the bell. Only Lutz and Touri, the civilians, do the knocking.

"Could it be Lutz? But I think it's a little early to go home."

I haven't had that much time since the 5 bells rang. Fran goes down to the first floor to greet me, and I go out to the stairs and look down on the first floor.

Darmuel opened the door with an alert face. There was Lutz, as expected. But not just Lutz, but Tulli was with him.

"Come in, both of you"

When Fran invited them in and tried to close the door, he said from a little distance, "Wait!" I heard Gil screaming. As Fran waits with the door open, Gil lets her breath out and runs over.

"Thuri, what's wrong?

"Mine, I'm here to pick you up. Let's go home together."

Tulli laughed nicely as he saw me rushing down the stairs.

"It's dangerous, isn't it? Mine will protect you."

When Touri says so while slapping himself in the chest, Gill also comes out of the side, as he countered, and shifts his chest in a royal manner.

"I will protect Master Mine, too! Because it's flanking!

I'm happy with the motivation of the two of you, but what about the increase in numbers? When he looked up at Darmuel, who was to serve as an escort, he shrugged his shoulders.

"... it would be more dangerous to have more escorts."

"Right? You've given me my concern, so thank you only for today, Dear Darmuel. I'll tell Touri not to come again."

I can't help what's come. It's a little early compared to usual, but we all just decide to go home. When I get Rosina to help me get dressed, I get home quickly.

"Fran, please contact the orphanage. I'll hurry home today."

"Yes, I did. We look forward to your return soon."

Leaving the temple, Lutz and Gill, before, followed by me and Tulli, walk down the boulevard in the form of Darmuel walking behind me.

"I'm glad to hear it, but Touri won't be able to pick me up anymore."

As I walk, I beware of Touri. Touri tilted her neck so that she didn't know what it meant.

"Why?"

"Even if it's dangerous, even though I'm the only one who can protect Master Dermuel, sometimes I can't protect both of you if there's Thuri."

No matter how much Darmuel is a knight, there is limited that he can do. And my escort, Darmuel, deserves it, but in an emergency, my safety will be paramount, not necessarily helping Tulli. They may be left behind when they run away, or they may be used by the scumbags if they are bad.

"If something really happened, Touri would be more dangerous."

"... ok"

And he swelled his cheeks, and looked at me with displeasure. "Even I protect Mine," even with such a pretty face, no. Regardless of who you are, it is unacceptable that Thuri might be in danger.

He passed through Central Square and continued south toward Craftsman Street to get to the house, turning toward the house. From the boulevard into an alley with few people, I walked a little and met Otto. It's like he's also on patrol, with a spear-like weapon in his hand, walking around a little bit.

"Mr. Otto, it's been a while"

"Mine!

Otto, who found me, shines his face.

"You were safe. Good. Now you don't have to let the squad leader bust you."

How disturbing that the word "safe" is in the first voice. Could it have done something that my father would have busted me?

"... did you do something to him?

"It's not me, the Keeper of the East Gate."

That said Otto flaunted his shoulder. Otto himself was not standing at the gate as a gatekeeper because he was doing paperwork inside, but apparently he is being driven out to wipe his ass by making the mistake of having a gatekeeper at the East Gate busted by his father.

"After noon today, the squad leader told the chief of each gate that there was something important to talk about, so I contacted the chief outside of the East Gate, and it happened while I was at the center."

"Huh?"

I blinked at Otto's words.

Perhaps the important story of my father is that "because of the absence of the lord, there will be no new permits"? I have a terrible feeling about it.

My father said it was his day shift, but he went to the East Gate, a place of work, a lot earlier than he took over. He then immediately spoke to the chief of the east gate and asked him to convene the chiefs of each gate and gather the chiefs in the center. So he told her that the lord's absence and permits could be forged, and she went back to the East Gate.

"But it was already after I passed the aristocratic carriage. I didn't think my permit was forged because the sergeant didn't hear from me. The squad leader heard about the breakdown when the gatekeeper took over. How come you haven't communicated the important matters to all the gatekeepers, 'cause you're furious with the sergeant. I ran to the temple to make sure Myne was safe. Didn't I see you?

I look unwittingly up to Darmuel for the word carriage of the aristocracy that was passed through rather than whether I have met or not with my father. I just opened my eyes to say Darmuel couldn't believe it either.

"You said you put the carriage through!? No way, the other day...?

"Yes. You know something. The nobleman. Right now, I'm mobilizing all the soldiers at the East Gate, except the gatekeepers, and I haven't found them yet. Have you been to the aristocracy yet?

Otto tilts his neck because there are knights at the gates into the aristocratic city, which I thought would soon be found. The sense of crisis and urgency does not seem to be shared at all among the soldiers, even though the lords say that extra nobility is forbidden to enter the city.

"I guess I contacted the Knights!?

Dermuel caught a fish and yelled at Otto, but Otto thought with his eyes narrowed and his hands on his chin.

"... what do you think? Did the sergeant? The squad leader just popped out, maybe not yet."

"Let me know right away, you idiot!

As he hoisted his eyebrows and scolded Otto and flew away, Dermuel immediately took out the glowing tact. "Huh? Your nobility......?" and instantly in front of Otto, Darmuel launches the red light, which is a rescue signal.

Now the Knights should come, and with a little relief, the moment I looked up at the red light rising high in the sky with Hyun, the figure of Thuri, which was on the edge of my sight, suddenly disappeared.

"Huh? To..."

Soon after I looked back, my vision darkened. When I wonder if I feel floating all the time, I start to rock with gakungakun.

"Uh-huh!?

I could tell from the feel of my hands holding my back and feet that someone was carrying me in charge. Though I tried to panic, I can barely move around just because it feels like a wobbly cloth on my hand.

Looks like he was strapped up, wearing something like a hemp bag, even though he thought about how a little light would plug in.

"Ha, help..."

"Mine! Touri!

"Give them back!

I heard Rutz and Darmuel screaming from across the darkness and multiple footsteps coming after me. Apparently, Touri was also exposed with him. I feel like I heard Thuri scream.

Even considering the hustle and bustle on the boulevard is getting farther and farther away, it seems to be running down the alley.

"Squad Leader! There's Mine in that bag!

"What are you doing to our daughter!

When I heard Otto screaming and wondered if my father's anger had sounded, my body circled. He seems to have been thrown out to prevent his father from attacking, and while his vision is dark, and he can't even recognize what is happening to him, he is thrown into cobblestones softly, striking all over his body.

"Ouch!"

"Mine!?

"Master Mine!

At the same time as the hurried voices of Rutz and Gill, the bag was pulled much more at the mercy of his strength, and his body was awakened. While I was black-and-white my eyes in the dark, Bassar momentously removed the hemp bag, and suddenly my vision improved. My eyes tickle when I suddenly come out of the dark to the bright spot.

I looked around as I sat back, blinking several times. There is Lutz and Gill peeking into me, and Otto's figure on the right with his father and beyond, teething with his weapon in place, and Darmuel's hindsight guarding his surroundings to protect me.

"What about Touri!?

"There..."

Ahead of Gil's purple eyes, which burn in shame and anger, was the figure of Thuri, who was being taken hostage. I saw a man trying to escape while poking a knife at Tulli, and a Thulli stretched out into fear, breathlessly holding his gaze fixed on the knife.

"Yes, no..."

Blood caught on, tears floated, and a perfect focus on the tiny, trembling Touri. The whole body of blood rolls right up and the magic sweeps through it. In an instant my indulgence bag broke.

"Mine!?

"Master Mine!?

I rise slowly. I remember this feeling where my body was hot enough to boil but my head core was chilling off.

Having served in the temple for the past year or so and performed rituals using demonic stones, I seem to have become much more accustomed to the treatment of magic than I thought myself. I can see that the intimidation that was directed at all those in sight when it was directed at the temple chief is now also capable of setting goals.

"Hey, what are you going to do to our Touri?

If you glance at the man pushing the blade hard on Thuri, the man's complexion keeps changing. The face, which was red with anger and excitement, turns blue like it was stained with fear and turns into a purple, dull black color as if it had been stopped even by breathing. A man tries slightly to escape my intimidation, but he can barely move, keeping his eyes open and his face stretched.

"Get your filthy hands out of Touri now. Otherwise, you'll die. You are."

In the sense that the flow of time around me has slowed down, I slightly intensify the pressure of magic directed against the man who began to tremble by blowing bubbles from the edge of my mouth.

"Ugh... ah"

The moment the man's mouth moved slightly, he made a noise with Hyun, the blade flew away and stabbed him firmly in the arms of the man catching Touri.

"Huh?"

It was almost at the same time that I blinked my eyes to surprise and regained reason, and that my father, who held the dagger, jumped at the man. A man who could not move under intimidation cannot be avoided, and receives a blade.

"Wow!

When I wondered if the man's scream and blood splash had gone up, I made sure my father would poke at me and Tulli rolled out of between the two rubbing each other.

Gil and Rutz immediately rush over to Touri and wipe the returning blood of a man splashed on his cheek.

"Touri!"

"Are you all right!?

"... I was scared"

Something glowed at the edge of my sight the moment I took a step toward the Thuri I was also entering. Looking back at Ba, I see a ring glowing held by a different man - probably the one who tried to grab me - from having a rub with my father. Instantly I understood that the Devil's Stone ring was glowing with magic, and I cried out to my father, who was stabbing a man with a stop.

"Dad, avoid it!

"Gunter, back off!

"Gu!?

A magical shield-like appeared on Darmuel's left hand, which thrust his father, playing the magical light that had flown upright. You didn't think it was going to play, the man tries to retreat, looking at Darmuel like he was upset.

"The opponent is magical. I'll deal with him here! Return to the temple and let Master Ferdinand know!

"Got it! Otto, hold Mine!

I slipped my hips and held Touri gaggedly, and my father began to run wildly towards the boulevard. Lutz and Gill followed my father as haphazardly. I will be embraced by Otto, and I will return down the main street to the temple.

"Mine, you're bleeding..."

While running, Otto skewed his face in pain. At the end of Otto's gaze is the blood that flows out of his knees and passes to his tibia.

"Earlier, when you were dropped,"

Though I was not in any pain due to excitement, as soon as I saw the wound, the pain hit me. When I look at my own blood, I think of the blood splash that went up from the man earlier.

"... Mr. Otto, this is a bad situation, right?

As I inquired, Otto raised a screaming voice as he saw Lutz and Gill walking through the situation as they sewed up the boulevard people-waves, leading his father in charge of Thuri.

"What else does it look like!?

"I just wanted to make sure you weren't mad at me for asking for help"

I pressed my thumb against the wound of my knee, and when I applied blood, I pulled out the necklace that I had always worn and pressed blood all the way against a black stone like Onyx.

The stone glows golden for just a moment, and then there's just a golden flame swinging in the black stone, with no sign of anything in particular happening. Is it some kind of contact flying towards Zilvester or some kind of transmitter magic device that informs me where I am? I tried to push my blood sentence, but I have no idea.

"What, that?

"It's an amulet. If things go badly, they're gonna help us."

I slip the necklace into my clothes again, not knowing what it is for. By then I had arrived in front of the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce.

My father gives immediate instructions as he lowers his touri in front of the store.

"Touri and Lutz are waiting at Otto's house with Otto"

Lutz looked up at my father, exhaling in a rough breath.

"Uncle Gunter, me too..."

"Out of the way."

"'Cause Gil's going, isn't he?"

"Gil is of the temple. You're not."

There is no need for a man who cannot fight, and when my father trumpetes Lutz's plea without regard, he turns his strong gaze to Otto, who sends me down.

"Otto, please Tulli. I'm taking Mine to the temple."

"Squad leader, Mine. Be careful."

Otto grips his fist and bends his elbow. My father held his fist in the same way, and when he bent his elbow, he gently put his fist against Otto's fist.

"I'm fine. The Knights are starting to move."

Without altering his stern expression, my father pokes his fist up and shows it above. I saw a horseman made of demon stone running through the sky. Probably heading for Dermuel's. Looks like we'll be able to rendezvous soon.

"Let's go, Mine"

"Yeah."

When the Father lifted me up, he ran for the temple.