Ascendance of a Bookworm

I'm Bonifatius. The year is over 60, but I still don't feel like losing to the young.

The son of the previous generations of lords sometimes turns the job of assisting the lords even now that they have retired from the Knights. Until now, I wanted to avoid it as much as possible, but I've been a little excited to go to the castle here lately.

... because Rosemaine is here!

I am now fiercely moved. My granddaughter is too good and cute.

With that tiny frail body, Rosemaine accomplished her baptismal ceremony and revelation splendidly as temple chief as a large number of nobles stared. In the meantime, I now try to shelter the children of Zilvester, dealing with nobility and decency.

... Nevertheless, I am angry. Don't complain about Wilfried to my Rosemaine!

Elvira says, "She wants to be a good sister who can protect her sister, so it's strictly forbidden to serve her," so this is the only way to keep an eye on her.

If I hadn't been stabbed with a nail from Calstead and Elvira saying that if I touched Rosemaine I was dying, I would have had a drink as such an intermediate nobleman, my grandfather, and shut him up and kicked him in the ass.

Speaking of which, it's hard for Rosemayne to remember when it was "like Master Bonifatius, you just have to let the force shut the other person up. Because Rosemaine has all that magic," Elvira said.

If you have the strength, you can use it, but it's a hassle. By the way, "Father must have been removed from the lord because that's the way he thinks," Calstead told me, but that's not true. You avoided me because I didn't want to take such a troublesome position.

... Nevertheless, my granddaughter is really amazing that even though she has no strength or arm enough to graduate just because she was hit with some snowballs, only magic is enough to support Aerenfest at her leisure.

It was a smiling scene last winter when the kids were throwing snowballs at each other as they were watched by a large number of knights, including me, to be free of danger.

But that was until Rosemaine, who makes Seko and Snowballs, was targeted.

When Rosemaine was suddenly unconscious when she was hit with a posposposse and a snowball, Wilfried, who was throwing a snowball, and his alumni, of course, the knights who were watching her surroundings turned bright blue. Ever since I saw that weakness, I've been scared and I don't touch Rosemaine.

... you're going down with a snowball? If I touch it, Calstead's right, it could kill me.

"It's time for us to get some free time."

"Uhm, right"

With the seven bells, apparently the children are leaving. He greets the Lords and their wives and leaves the Great Hall greeting those close to him. On that occasion, I also moved the place around for the children to pass by.

... for what? Of course, it's decided to say hello to Rosemaine.

"Good day, Master Bonifatius"

"Oh, so that a good night's sleep may come with the blessings of Schlartraum"

"I'm afraid so."

... um, my grandson is the most adorable. It's not very funny that you can't call me "uncle" in public, though.

By the way, the only time I could get Rosemayne to call me Uncle was while I was helping provide magic when I first met him at the baptism ceremony and when there were no lords and wives in the spring.

"Thank you, uncle, for everything," he said when he was helping supply Wilfried with his magic. Wilfried didn't even have the energy to thank him, but Rosemaine always smiled and thanked him.

... Now that I think about it, that was a contact with a precious Rosemaine who wouldn't let anyone else get in the way. Yeah, I hope it's time for the Lords' Council, early next spring. Finally, I hope the meeting is a little longer.

As I immersed myself in the memories of the Lords' Conference, Vilfleet, who was supposed to have left earlier, came into the Great Hall in his arms. Lamprecht, an escort knight of Wilfried, is also with him.

Feeling something dangerous about that rush, I looked around instantly while strengthening my vision with physical enhancement. As far as the surrounding reactions are concerned, I don't see anyone who seems to know what's going on.

"We were raided so close to the northern distance! The escort knight is engaged right now. One of them is in possession of Starp! Lady Charlotte and Lady Rosemaine are divided on the far north side! First aid!

"Knights squads 1-4 are for rescue! Shut down the hall for the rest! Think the nobles who are not here are suspicious!

With the fury of Zilvester, his surroundings wandered, and those of the Knights began to move to seal off the Great Hall at once.

"Calstead, I'm going to rescue Rosemaine!

Even though they have already left the Knights, if anything, they are often conveniently driven out. It makes no sense if you can't move at a time like this. It's my role, my grandfather, to help Rosemaine out. "Thank you, uncle. Love it" doesn't give way to anyone.

"Father up!?

At the same time Calstead's hurried voice echoed the screaming voice of Zilvester.

"Ferdinand, go! Stop Bonifatius from doing too much!

"Again impotent..."

Ignoring the interaction behind me, I run straight towards the north away as I slip through a door that is being closed by a knight. Fortifying my legs with physical enhancement by magic, I ran through the knights one after the other about to rush.

...... I still can't beat the young man! I'll be the first!

There is quite a distance from the main hall to the north. For a moment I thought that if I had a horseman like Rosemayne, it would be fast, but I ran through with all my strength using physical strengthening.

"Rosemaine! Where!?

I turned the corner a few times and saw the black one and the knights engaged. Strengthens vision. But I don't see Rosemaine or Charlotte around there. I guess the rest of the escort knights led us to the northern detachment. I just have to make sure you're okay for now.

"Is Rosemaine safe? Ah!?

I jump from behind on a blackcrumb screaming like that, shaking up my fortified arm and smashing one. At the next moment, a blackcrumb fell to the ground made a blunt sound of bong and exploded.

"Whew!? What!?

The blood, fluid and guts of the blackheads splashed around with the cut black cloth, and the knights who were responding were splashed by a blast that revolved around the blackheads.

Suddenly exposed to the smell of dark blood, the knight takes a splash of flesh with his face. I saw it at the edge of my sight and I scolded him instantly.

"Don't get distracted! You fool!

With my anger, the frightened tension returned, and the knights regained their posture, but then chained and, in turn, the blackcrumbs that were engaged began to explode.

Previously, there have been times when enemies have been crushed or truncated with weapons. But even though I had done nothing, I hadn't seen much of the enemy blow himself up on his own, and I frowned unexpectedly.

"I'm not sure what's going on, but for the enemy to disappear on its own, fine. Is Rosemaine safe there?

"... I don't know. We have confirmed that Charlotte was taken and chased with a horseman."

"This useless!

Drinking a knight who was there, I rushed to a wide open window. If the enemy dies on its own, there is no need for a long stay here. My role is not to sweep enemies or gather evidence to define the culprits. It's Rosemaine's rescue.

It was at the same time that I rushed over to the window and Angelica, Rosemaine's escort knight with the bright blue Charlotte, returned.

"Oh, are you all right, Princess Charlotte?... Where's Rosemaine?

"Your sister was exposed to someone. Use your own escort knight to help me... so..."

To the words of Charlotte in tears I opened my eyes and looked at Angelica, the escort knight.

"Cornelius is following us now. If I deliver the princess here too, I intend to go after her, so thank you, Bonifatius, the princess."

Angelica tried to give Charlotte to me, but quite far from my fortified eyes, but I see Cornelius going down to the woods in white.

"Wait, Angelica. Rosemaine is my granddaughter. I'll go!

So that I could push Angelica and Charlotte away, I flew out into the winter night sky, and emerged the horseman, and jumped on board.

Moving the wings produces loud feathers, so explore the surrounding sounds while sliding and descending not to move too much. Still concentrating and picking up the sound, I could hear the foot of a horse running toward the front entrance side, further ahead of where Cornelius was going down, in the woods that were spreading to hide where the lower worker would move.

... is that it!

At the same time as I open my eyes, the horseman makes a bassling feather and slaps the sky. At the full speed of the horseman infused with a massive amount of magic, he rushed out the cold night sky to the place of destination.

I pour my anger-filled magic into Sturp so as not to let any more kidnappers get away with it as I penetrate it with a horseback. Immediately ahead of Sturp, the magic began to gather scattered with bees and white sparks.

When the solidification of the magic grew bigger than my face, it was close to where I could see the horse running without strengthening or anything. I wave down the stamp and strike the consolidation of my magic all the way into the direction of the horse's path.

Shun and the white light leap into the woods as they draw long tails. Shortly after, there was a loud explosion. The trees disappear, the sound of birds and small animals screaming and escaping objects make the forest noisy. I would have been surprised by the sudden explosion and driven by fear. The horse went wild and began to run wild.

"The fool who took my only granddaughter was you. Ahhh!

Towards a horse who runs a mess, I jump off a riding beast, releasing my magic with momentum like stretching down a horse.

My intimidated horse stood from the front, blowing bubbles and stopping. At the same time, a man holding the reins is thrown out of the horse. When I left the man to wrath and crush, I immediately searched for Rosemaine.

I can see the consolidation of the cloth bracketed on the stiffened horse. Cut off the string immediately, rescuing the cloth stiffening, he kicked the horse falling toward us in the opposite direction, with his reinforced leg.

"Rosemaine, are you in?

The cloth wrap is so light that I suspect it really has children in it. I shook it a little bit, and the cloth shapes broke apart and became the shape of a person.

"I haven't heard back! No way, isn't he dead!? Rosemaine, I'm gonna get you out of here right now!

I was bloody annoyed that no matter how clear my ears were, I grabbed the edge of the cloth and pulled the cloth as I hurried to get the rosemaine out of the cloth.

"Hmm!"

When I pull the cloth with all my strength, the weight of the rosemaine goes around and the cloth spreads wide.

Oh, it was too late when I thought. The cloth peels off, and the rosemaine that flies out into the air flies in unexpected directions as it rotates laterally at high speeds. Reaching out to you is unreachable.

"Wow! Rosemaine!?"

Shortly afterwards, Ferdinand, apparently following me, caught Rosemaine on the verge of hitting the trees, so I got nothing, but I really thought my heart would pop out of my mouth.

And when Ferdinand found out Rosemaine was being dosed, he took Rosemaine to the temple.

Honestly, I don't want to keep cute rosemaine, such as in the temple, but regrettably, I don't know how much medicine I give Rosemaine, and as Calstead said, if I touch it inadvertently, I'm going to die.

... because you were in danger earlier.

I'd rather do what I can for Rosemaine. With that in mind, I decided to track down another horse with the caught up Cornelius.

"Let's go, Cornelius"

"Yes, uncle."

The other horse was also excited and rampaged, making it easy to discover and quickly capture the killer. But here again, it was the man at the bottom who was holding the reins, not the nobleman who uses the starp.

There must be nobility in the killer than Cornelius sees where Rosemaine was caught in the magic net.

"Who gave you the order?

"I don't know. He was a nobleman in a black outfit. I was just ordered to do what I was told."

I've explored the surrounding signs for any other signs of people, but they don't seem to be there in particular. In the meantime, the red light of the request for rescue rose in the woods as I was tying this man up.

Face to face with Cornelius, he hurries to the back of the woods, where the request-of-rescue rot rises, holding a downward working man who immediately caught him.

At the tip of the red light, Angelica had captured one black-crushed nobleman.

"Dear Bonifatius, can you help me because I can't carry it?

"Leave it to me. You did it, Angelica.... Now, where's the fool who got his hands on my granddaughter?

I left the black cloth covering the kidnapper's face to me. Some meat seems to have been grabbed together, "Ouch!" and a soft scream.

I was stripped of the cloth, and there was a face that looked up at me, with a pitiful lowering of my eyebrows.

"Viscount Joisoturk, who..."

"Dear Bonifatius, I am!

"Shut up!"

Viscount Joisoturk was the Third Lady of Calstead. He is a relative of Rosemary. Though at the edge of the edge, in an instant blood rises to the head that the face of the edge of those who join our clan has emerged.

I clutched and poked at Starp so he wouldn't beat me to death with anger and momentum. And he bites his giddy, tight back teeth and looks down at the guy who's gawking and shivering.

"Open your petition in front of Aub Aerenfest.... I can't help but feel desperate to twist them right now. Don't open your extra mouth."

I took Viscount Joisoturk and went back to the castle, capturing him at Starp and dragging him in one piece with a man who worked underneath him.

"Cornelius, report to Aub Aerenfest. I will keep this fool from escaping. Angelica will accompany you here. That's why I can't act alone."

"Yes, sir."

Just a short drop off Cornelius returning to the castle while giving the knight a signal to complete his mission, and I head with Angelica to the prison.

He threw Viscount Joisoturk into a cell to capture the sinful nobleman. Then, after wearing the shackles to put on the criminals to seal the stapes and listening to the opening of a single petition, they bite the monkeys and handle them so that they can't escape.

"Angelica, stay put until there's a call for Aub Aerenfest."

"Yes, sir."

When I sat in the chair dokah, I exhaled small compared to the men Angelica had captured and me.

"Master Bonifatius is strong, isn't he? I was exposed in front of him with physical strengthening."

"... you saved Princess Charlotte, didn't you? Besides, it's better."

I think Angelica is quite strong for the intermediate nobility and is a relatively good user of the magic of physical strengthening. If you don't let your whole body go magic yet, it doesn't seem to strengthen you, so there's a lot of magic wasted. But he's doing well that year.

"Are you sure? For I infuse magic into strengthening my body, I have no magic left over. Plus, I can't do more than one at the same time, even with a little bit of it left."

Angelica once pulled her lips together with regret.

"I could have helped Master Charlotte out on my own this time, if I had been able to get the horseman out while using physical enhancement. Then I think Cornelius could have protected Master Rosemayne."

Angelica snugly dropped her shoulder. But listening to Charlotte's rescue, I don't think Angelica would have caught Charlotte if she hadn't strengthened herself. Rosemaine is also quite impotent.

"If you couldn't do what you were supposed to, then reflection is necessary. But I can't help but moan about what I can't do from the start. What do you think you can do?"

I am more magical than the others because I am the son of a lord. And since I have been using physical enhancement for years, partial enhancement is also a favorite, and I can only enhance the areas I want to strengthen to breathe.

But physical strengthening is difficult. If you get used to it, you can enhance it efficiently with less magic, but you need a lot of magic until you get used to it. Therefore, it is difficult for intermediate nobles, as well as advanced nobles, to try to strengthen their bodies. It's going to be tough until we can use it.

"You just have to try to do what you can't do. Increasing the amount of magic is the shortest way to improve physical strength, but this is all difficult..."

Angelica is an intermediate nobleman. You have more magic for intermediate nobility, but it would be difficult to increase it any more. Hmm, Angelica shook her head slowly as I frowned.

"Now I am in the midst of increasing my magic with a rosemaine-style compression method. … I haven't had enough yet, but I'll add more"

"He said it's a rosemaine-style compression method!? What, is that!?

According to Angelica, a method of compression of magic conceived by Rosemaine, a little before the start of winter social circles, seems to have been taught by Rosemaine and the Lord and his wife's escort knights, then part of the Knights. He said the Vilfleet escort knight was still judged to be an observation.

"I didn't hear there was such a way to compress it."

"... Though I don't think Master Bonifatius needs any more"

"That's weird. I'm going to have to know my grandfather before anyone else knows what Rosemayne's thinking, right? What kind of stuff?

"I'm tied up with contract magic so I can't teach it, so I just have to file an application with the Lords and their wives and ask Master Rosemaine to teach me directly. Lady Rosemaine is the only one who can teach."

Looks like you got more chances to talk to Rosemaine. Hmm, nodding, I engraved "Let Rosemaine teach you how to compress magic" into my schedule inside me.

"All right, Angelica. If there is more magic in them, I will train them. I spare no effort to work adequately as an escort knight for Rosemaine"

"I'm glad, Master Bonifatius. Best regards,"

Motivated Angelica's blue eyes looked straight at me. And the two of us exchange a gassy, hard handshake. Thus I got a new apprentice named Angelica.

"If you can strengthen your whole body, you should train for partial enhancement next"

Until Cornelius came to call, I started talking to Angelica and her demon sword, Steinluke, about physical enhancement tricks.

How dare Angelica possess a demon sword given magic by Rosemaine, and this demon sword speaks. Besides, they pick up the voices around them and remember them.

"Angelica, give me that demon sword..."

"I can't give it to you. Stynrook is an important demon sword that Master Rosemaine has put his magic into for me. Does Master Bonifatius think that he can give others what he has received from Lord Rosemaine?

"... right. Sorry."

There's no way I can give someone else what Rosemaine gave me. I know exactly how Angelica feels.

... but I also want a gift from Rosemaine.

Because of this, how about I also raise the Devil's Sword and have Rosemaine pour out some magic?

Cornelius came to call me when I was serious about making demon swords.

"Grandpa, it looks like we're ready for questioning."

According to reports from Cornelius, nobles were returned after contacting Aub Aerenfest about the capture of the killer. The aristocrats, who had been proven absent from the scene in the Great Hall, quickly returned to their respective halls, being watched by the Knights to see if anyone made any suspicious moves.

At the same time, they interrogated nobles who were not in the Great Hall - mostly in the service of the Lords' clan. It seems to have been proven absenteeism at the scene immediately, as it is all about the side service that is putting the lords' bedrooms in order and the side service that is taking care of the lords' children.

"Earlier, Master Ferdinand returned from the temple"

"Okay, let's go. Angelica, use physical enhancement only on the arm area as much as possible, hold this"

"Yes, Master!

When I handed Angelica the outline of the working man I was tightly tying up, she nodded loudly and Angelica received the outline.

Angelica is only trying to strengthen the arm part, but magic is still flowing throughout. Still, only the part of my heart and arms carries a lot of magic, so I guess it's somewhat successful.

"... Master?

Surprisingly, Cornelius compares me to Angelica. Angelica nodded proudly, gripping the outline.

"I, Monsignor Bonifatius, am ready to work out."

"What a favorite..."

I keep a drink in Cornelius whining about incredible, sane, etc.

"If I tried to work him out, what would a weak man say trying to escape right away!

"With all due respect, I've never escaped. By and large, has your uncle ever let you escape?

"Hmm! There's no way I'm letting you get away with this.... Yes, Cornelius. Let's train them too. You don't have the strength to protect Rosemayne. You don't need a champion."

Hopefully, I can protect Rosemaine directly, but for once I was the son of a lord, even though I was a previous generation. Unfortunately, I can't be Rosemaine's escort knight. Going far, but to protect Rosemaine, I'll start from where I train my escort knights.

"... Dear uncle, does the Rosemaine escort knight mean the same for Dermuel and Brigitte?

"Um, similarly"

Not a problem for more strong escort knights.

After a little thought, when Charlotte is exposed, like this one, and things like Rosemaine's escort knight goes to salvation, Rosemaine's protection still gets thinner. That makes no sense.

... For one thing, do all the Lords' Guardian knights work out again?

I head to the lord's office, thinking about how to train my escort knight.

As I was going up the stairs, I groaned every time a criminal I was dragging hit the steps with the gon. Shut up, but ignore it. My brain is busy.

... Rosemaine, your uncle will do his utmost to strengthen the escort knight.