Ascendance of a Bookworm

When I finished my errand at Hasse and returned to the temple, Fritz, with a slightly more serious face, was waiting. It is unusual for frizz to always laugh quietly with unwavering serenity.

"Welcome back, Master Rosemaine. We need to hurry up and get something in your ear about Dirk."

To the words of Fritz, which I can see in haste, I was hacked. Speaking of which, I've been leaving it alone for another year or so regarding Dilk's magic powers.

Last year I snuck up on Dilk's magic lightly with Tau's fruit, but from now on, the same thing should happen again and again. What will happen to the treatment of Dirk will also have to be discussed with the Chief Cleric.

"Chief Cleric. I, if I may, would like the Chief Cleric to hear it with me. May I interrupt your room?

Things about Dirk concern Count Bindebalt, so I can't talk to him big time, and when I'm on my own, he decides to get angry again.

"Oh, okay. Let's get ready."

I go back to my room with a little quick frizz.

And when Nicolas and Monica helped me and changed from outdoor to regular, I looked around the room once. We must divide in our brains the one who takes us and the one who leaves us, and allocate the work.

"Brigitte will you stay for a little break? Nicolas, make Brigitte some tea. Monica asks Vilma to make a report by drawing up a roster of orphans deposited in Hasse today. Zam, take a good look at Monica's paperwork."

"Yes, sir."

And when I had finished giving all the instructions, I took Fran, and Fritz, and Dermuel, and went to the room of the chief priest.

"Oh, you're here."

"Chief Cleric, please pay for it. Can the escort knights leave Dermuel and Eckhardt, and Fran and Fritz for the side service to leave the room?

"... right"

The clergyman, who looked around at the face of the member to whom I had called his name, waved gently with a small grunt, "Again, trouble?"

The side service of the clergyman who saw it starts to move simultaneously. The side service that was preparing the tea gave way to Fran, and the side service that was clearing the paperwork stopped hands and quietly left the room.

Make sure all the fritz are out and close the door tightly.

"Well, Rosemaine. What happened? What happened?

To the word of the chief cleric, who sipped Fran's tea, I turn my gaze to Fritz. Fritz nodded cocklessly once, opening his mouth.

"I was told earlier by Vilma that the magic of Dilk seems to have increased suddenly here recently. They're asking me to respond."

"Dilk?"

To the whining of the frowned chief cleric I immediately add about the dilk.

"I'm a eating baby with a subordination agreement with Count Bindebalt..."

"Ah. It's time for magic to build up"

Even if you don't remember Dirk, the word "eating baby" means you soon found out what to do. I nodded heavily.

"That's right. What shall we do? Do you want me to serve you? Too much magic involves life and death, so I want to deal with it quickly."

"Hmm, now it's better to have a little magic."

The chief clergyman stood up softly and put on leather gloves that would not pass the magic, bringing a black demon stone from the cabinet. Put it in a leather bag, and give it to me.

"I can't get my pre-christening child out of the orphanage. I hope you absorb magic with this demonic stone. Be careful not to touch it yourself, as it will suck your magic away when you touch it. Fran or Vilma, you should let them do it for you. If you let him touch the baby's skin, he'll absorb it."

"Thank you. Fran, take this."

When I left the leather bag with the magic stone from the chief cleric, I immediately offered it to Fran. It would be better to keep it with Fran than I will have it and manage it.

"... and then what happened to the breaking of Dirk's subordination contract, though the real issue for me is going to be this?

When I gave the leather bag to Fran, I asked the clergyman how Dirk was treated. It's been about a year and a half since Count Bindebalt was captured already. Exactly, the situation should be over that you're busy and not around the corner.

Oh, and after I said it small, the chief cleric made a difficult face. I go into my thoughts as I tap my temples tongues with my fingertips.

"So far, I haven't particularly got my hands on it, but I wonder what's wrong with it. Until now, I've had no particular problem leaving it unattended, but now that I'm thinking about it, should I change it to you? But it's also about creating weaknesses..."

"Um, Chief Cleric? I'm asking if I could destroy it..."

Speaking to himself with a bump, speaking to a clergyman who was somehow contemplating himself, the clergyman looked at me with a difficult face engraved between his eyebrows.

"Until now, it was best to leave the contract unattended"

"Why?

"It's already been contracted, so don't you worry about contracting with other nobles. If we'd maintained the status quo, we wouldn't have had to turn a blind eye to the extras."

It was the easiest current situation to keep in an orphanage without having to worry about being taken by other nobles with connections to criminals in other realms, without being neglected to take care of life, the chief clergyman said in a past form.

"... has anything changed?

"It's Georgine."

"Huh?"

I wonder what the hell Georgine is back in Arlensbach. Dirk and Georgine were not connected at all, and I leaned my neck.

"It was unintentional and unexpected to us that she would be the First Lady of Arlensbach. You'll be busy with your job as First Lady for a while, but if you can spare some time to find out about Aerenfest, it'll reveal something about Count Bindebalt."

"Is the Earl of Bindebalt an Arlensbach nobleman?

Speaking of which, you were a man of influence south of Aerenfest, and I thought back to the raid at the prayer ceremony.

"As much as I didn't know about the former temple chief. At the time of the incident, Georgine was the Third Lady, so he was probably not informed about the incident. Because I don't think the Lord of Arlensbach will actively spread the scandal that his country's nobles have stormed in other territories. But if you look into it as the First Lady involved in politics, you can see all sorts of things. She's in a position to know."

"I see."

I'll try to snort with a face like I figured it out for once, but to be honest, I have no idea. What will change if Georgine is found out about the Earl of Bindebalt or Dirk?

"Ha...... It is a well-known fact that you are the temple director and the orphan director. With Count Bindebalt's covenant as a shield, they might tell you to drop in the dilk, or they might look into the orphanage."

"Will the Lady Lordship of a Big Territory do that to an orphan who eats himself?

"You don't have the ability to gather information at all," the chief priest, who heard my views, glanced at me.

"You are the adopted daughter of Gilvester, whom Georgine resents and hates. And, above all, it is also one of the causes that drove the former temple chief to death, a body so important that he still sneaks in after marriage. That's what Georgine learned on this visit."

"Huh!?

In the name of watching me not behave at will, how does the clergyman, who was drawn to the temple, know the actions of Georgine during his stay? The Chief Cleric gives me more detailed information to make my eyes black and white.

"At a tea party with factions with lots of interaction with Arlensbach, where the lord's mother was losing her legs and momentum, the Viscount Dardolph blew various rumors into Georgine," she said.

"Viscount Darldorf?

"He's the mother of a knight who failed to perform his escort duties and scratched you to grow a trombe. It's really troublesome not to be guilty because I'm just stating what I know as a tea party rumor story instead of standing out and making contact with you"

Even though it's important for your protection, I didn't want to know such scary information. The Chief Cleric teaches me a lot more than that.

"Going forward, on behalf of the mother of a lost lord, influencing the faction from Ahrensbach will also increase Georgine's voice at Aerenfest. In the meantime, it's hard to argue that the eating, which had a subordination contract with Earl Bindebalt, an Arlensbach nobleman, belongs to Arlensbach"

It seems that there are many who can easily take away the dilk if they want to, such as the pressure from Arlensbach, the request from the relatives of the Earl of Bindebalt, and the nobility of Aerenfest rooted in Georgine.

"Just take up the orphan and make things up against you when it comes to the orphanage, and the legend of the Virgin that you've been creating will be less powerful. You can't predict what kind of disadvantage you're going to work at the moment."

"Then, if you reschedule with me, they won't take it away, will they? Didn't you say you should sign with me at first? Break your subordination agreement with Count Bindebalt and reschedule it with me."

That should make it harder on the surface. It would be easier to protect than in a situation where you don't know who's coming from where. I don't want to keep Dirk in such a dangerous state.

"I can make a contract, and it's easier in terms of protecting Dilk if I do. But if you think about approaching you or, conversely, have a grudge, Dilk's presence can be your weakness."

"Dilk is already like his body, so he's been weak for a long time. Consider protecting it."

I wanted to help Dirk. The light of my blessing flew to Dirk. For me, it's already been treated like a body.

To my words, the chief cleric meditated his tight eyes and whined in a low voice cursing, "How far are you going to increase your body, you fool".

"It's easy to sign a contract to protect it, but unlike the beginning, your environment would be changing, too, wouldn't it? If I sign with you, that baby can't be in an orphanage. I'm going to grow it under you, but where are you going to grow it?

I can't get into the castle, and I can't ask my mother to do it, even though it's treated like a home. It was pointed out to the clergyman that in the end he would take care of himself in the temple chief's office, but that the burden of side service would only increase.

Previously, Dirk had a contract with the Earl of Bindebalt, so he was to leave the orphanage and be raised in the temple chief's office. Now that the former temple chief of the pickup is dead, and the Earl of Bin DeBart, the covenant lord, is also being captured and not in an environment where he can be raised, he keeps it in an orphanage as a child with no one to raise.

Naturally, if I make a covenant, I must take it.

"No way, are you going to add more side service for parenting?

"Ugh... Sure, given that aspect, I'd like to keep it in the orphanage until it's critical."

Above all, if I were to take it away, I would be separated from Delia, who is not allowed to leave the orphanage. I want to avoid pulling Dirk apart from Delia, who cares about him as my brother, until he's critical. At least not until the baptismal ceremony, which has to be divided between the men's and women's buildings.

"Um, as far as Dirk's location is concerned, can't you just keep the status quo and transfer the contract to me?

"There is no convenient way to do that.... No, wait. Nothing."

"Is it true!?

That's right, Chief Cleric! and when I struck my hand and rejoiced, the chief clergyman looked very reluctant.

"I don't care a bit about imitating Zilvester, but if we let him have a stated contract so that he can contract by pushing his blood sentence when the danger is imminent and the need arises, can he raise him in an orphanage while preventing him from being used to the point of criticism?

"... I see"

Speaking of which, I was helped by my adoptive father's contractual magic equipment on the earthen field. About a year and a half ago seems like a distant past event.

"I will cancel the Earl's contract, so sign your name on the subordinate paperwork and let the trustworthy around Dirk have it."

"Yes."

I sign and fold into the covenant made by the Chief Cleric.

To a mere subordination contract, I don't seem to make magic equipment that I can wear from time to time, and what I am given is a piece of paper. If you push the blood judgment to the name of the dilk that I speak for, it will come into effect.

"Thank you for your help. As for magic, I will continue to consult with the Chief Cleric to absorb it from time to time with demonic stones."

"That's fine."

After finishing the discussion, when I got out of the clergyman's room, I quickly headed to the orphanage. Because given the look on Fritz's face I've been carrying on the story, I thought it might be a pretty bad situation.

"Vilma"

When I go to the orphanage, Vilma, who finds me, rushes over for a small run.

"Dear Rosemaine, lately, when Dirk started crying, he started getting bumps in his face. So..."

To Vilma, who appealed as she grated, I looked back at Fran. Fran nods gently with a leather bag containing black demonic stones.

"Vilma, I came earlier in consultation with the Chief Cleric. It's okay, bring the dilk over here."

"Yes, I did. Delia, Delia! Bring Dirk here."

I heard Delia's "yes" reply from the back to Vilma's call.

Immediately, he joins hands with Dirk and starts to see Delia coming this way. Dilk was getting a lot bigger after a while of watching. He is able to run in such a tight, peeky motion that whenever he falls, he is not crazy, wiggling his heavy ass around in diapers.

... Is Kamil as big as this?

I have not seen where Camill walks because I saw it in the fall mitzvah in the distance but was held and fixed from behind by Touri so that he would not move around on his own.

"... Dilk is growing a lot"

"Yeah, every day is a surprise streak."

Tickles and Vilma laughs, clouding her eyes worryingly after she sees Dilk.

"Vilma, you don't have to worry. I have spoken to the Cleric Chief and borrowed demonic stones that absorb magic. Suck the magic out of the dilk and your symptoms will heal."

"I'm afraid so."

Dirk ran and stuck to Vilma, who laughed like a ho. Praise me, I'm just looking up at Vilma.

"Uh-oh."

I crouched a little on the spot in a very smiling mood, like watching Kamil, and peered into the dilk. As soon as he does, Dilk clings to Delia so that he knows people, shakes his head reluctantly and escapes me. I was a little shocked to remember that Camille was crying too.

"Dear Rosemaine, it's been a long time. Dirk, please."

kneel before me as Delia makes to embrace her clinging dilk.

As I nodded lightly and turned my gaze to Fran, Fran took out the demon stone and knelt before the dilk. At the next moment, Dilk began to cry, hiding behind Delia to scare Fran.

"Also, Dilk. Don't cry. There's a bump in my face..."

With that said, Delia, who had deceived Dilk, saw Fran's demon stone and quickly changed his complexion. At the same time, a tight hug to protect the dilk.

I think he remembered a situation where the former temple chief sucked out his magic. Delia's behavior is more of a little mother than a sister.

"It's okay, Delia. If you don't want to take root like the former temple chief, you won't be in that dangerous state. It's more dangerous now that you have too much magic than that. Dilk is scared of Fran too, so you should have Delia absorb it. Delia would be able to absorb it while looking at Dilk's complexion, wouldn't she?

After a moment of hesitation staring at the black demonic stone offered by Fran, Delia gently took it. And with the look of fear, make it touch Dilk's hand.

"Ahhh."

I guess the magic is flowing. Dilk looks at Delia with a strange blink of his eyes.

I am also well aware of the feeling of accumulated magic flowing through me. My body feels lighter and it feels pretty good.

Dirk was in a good mood and reached for Delia.

"... Is it time?

Dilk is turning away a little bit. On that occasion, Delia releases the demon stone from the dilk and returns it to Fran.

"Dear Rosemaine, thank you. Now you can live in peace."

And he laughed with joy, and looked at me. I nod lightly to Delia and respond, then tighten my expression a little.

"Delia, I spoke with the Chief Cleric earlier about Dirk's subordination contract. I'd like to talk to you both about that, if you don't mind?

Delia glanced lightly at my words, correct her posture, and Vilma nodded cocklessly with a serious look.

"It has been decided that the subordination agreement between Count Bindebalt and Dirk will be broken. From now on, you'll be in an orphanage as just a child eating."

"Good, Dirk"

"However, I cannot say enough that nothing comes from the officials of the Earl of Bindebalt or the nobility of Aerenfest for magic"

Delia and Vilma's face stretched out and looked at me. Hold your shoulders so Delia's hand protects the dilk. It looked terribly similar to the hands of the family who tried to protect me.

With a chest ache for nostalgia and love, I offer the two of you the deed of subordination that I had for myself.

"This is a subordination agreement with me. If you get a contract, Dilk won't be able to stay in the orphanage. But it will do some good to protect Dirk himself. I'll leave this with Delia."

"... Dear Rosemaine, what do you mean by depositing?

Vilma blinked her eyes, as she could not understand that it meant depositing rather than contracting.

"I think of Delia as Dirk's sister, so I'm depositing this contract with Delia. Delia will decide when there is any danger, and push Dilk's blood judgment to this name. That completes the contract. Once the contract is completed, I promise to protect Dirk as my Lord."

Delia looked at me as she was surprised. Compare the covenant with Dirk and me, and nod slowly. There was a smile on his lips that seemed nostalgic.

"... I know that Master Rosemaine will keep his promise. 'Cause I don't doubt it anymore or ride sweet words."

The water-colored eyes of a caged Delia of trust, unlike before, stare straight at me.

I'm a little sorry that if Delia had all this trust around the time she served, it would have been like tying Delia to an orphanage.

At the same time, I felt that I was going to be able to have a new relationship with Delia from now on.