Ascendance of a Bookworm

After the award ceremony it was lunch, and after lunch the socialization by the nobles began, but I was told by the clergyman to return to my room. He's already moved too much today.

"But after this, I'm told there's a greeting from your father's second wife and her son, Nicolaus..."

"Your health is more important than a greeting like that, isn't it? Remember that you are in a state where you can move with magic equipment. Now, if I fall, I can make plans starting tomorrow. We don't have time to leave for the House of Lords. You don't have to think about that, you know?

I fall preoccupied with the chief priest, who begins to say how much about what happens if he falls ill. The emotion of being worried about the clergyman decreased at once in inverse proportion to the time the clergyman overlapped the words.

... I stopped it with only the first word, and he was a very good man, Chief Cleric.

So far, it is the Chief Cleric who knows more about my physical condition than anyone else. I shall return quietly to my room, even to stop the words of the long priest.

"Okay. As Master Ferdinand said, I will return to your room today. But tomorrow is my first day, so in the morning I will show my face in the children's room. I have greetings from the kids after the baptism ceremony, and I want to know what's going on. In the afternoon we will come to Mr. Ferdinand's office, so please gather the informants from the materials we gave you the other day."

That's all the Chief Cleric seemed to know what I wanted to do. "Hmm," he says, slightly frowning.

"Aren't we going to give you the information fee in the House of Lords?

"In the dossier I gave to Master Ferdinand is the one who is graduating in the two years I sleep. Those attending the House of Lords will pay in the House of Lords"

The material Darmuel compiled for me on the information gathered in the House of Lords was also read by the Aerenfest leadership. I wondered if anyone would be happy with the information I didn't need very much, just as it was worth the information differently between the chief cleric and me.

Then, there was a difference between the information that I thought was important, and there seemed to be some information that I would like to continue reporting. I elected those who brought me such important information, and I took a firm information fee from the departmental budget of those who were informed and pleased.

Civilians unfamiliar to me were flattered by the charges for information, but they could not escape seeing the lords and their knights pay generously with bitter laughter, paying me comfortably.

Thus have I prepared the money as originally planned.

"Speaking of which, you were selling information to various places. Okay. We'll arrange to get together in the afternoon."

"It helps."

"So it's only tomorrow that your sister is in the children's room?

When I and the Chief Cleric separated themselves from each other about tomorrow's plans, Charlotte lowered her brow sadly and looked at me. I remember Charlotte saying that even in the castle we only have time together for the service dance and dinner, and I get stuck in words.

"... that may happen. I'm not just going to greet the kids and meet them face-to-face, but I really don't have time for my two year delay."

Seeing the growth of Wilfried and Charlotte at the awards ceremony, and of everyone in their contemporaries, I am saddened by my lack of growth and remember the sense of crisis. It is certain that he will be insulted by the fact that his appearance has not grown at all. If you're 10 years old and you can't do it for granted, you're disqualified as a Lordship Candidate. That's why, at the very least, I want to be able to study and be late enough to go around.

Besides, if you're thinking about improving your overall Aerenfest grades, first of all, no one will follow me if I don't improve my grades. If I can grasp the current situation in the children's room, I want to spend my time studying myself.

"I know how your sister feels. So are you sure you want to prepare a reward for delivering to the kids on the first day of tomorrow? There are children who have been waiting for the treats made by your sister's cook."

"Yeah, of course. I'll be ready tomorrow."

I laughed and answered, but I was cold sweating inside.

While I was gone, I didn't even turn to the fact that the two exclusive cooks were preparing the prize treats, so when I was bad, the preparations nearly duplicated.

... Good. Charlotte pointed it out to me.

Nevertheless, I think. Preparing sweets costs a lot of money. Sugar is as expensive as an idiot. Even if we were to use honey, which is still cheap compared to sugar, it would have been very difficult if we were to prepare sweetness every day. Regardless of me making my own money, have the two of you had enough money?

... Now that I hear it, it may be weird that I pay for it, but what I started on my own, you two just got caught up in it.

Hmm, and as I thought, Wilfried narrowed his deeper green eyes.

"Rosemaine, you're going to run the children's room all by yourself again, aren't you?

"Yeah, that's what I started on my own with my thoughts, and whatever it was while I was sleeping on drugs, I'm feeling better, so I can't put any more strain on you two."

When I said so, Charlotte also glanced at me with a blue-eyed, murky face. I honestly find myself confused, staring at my pretty sister with her stuffed eyes.

"Sister, when you're busy preparing yourself, why don't you take it in alone?

"Huh?"

"Your father said it was your job as a lord's child to educate in the children's room and improve Aerenfest's grades, right?

"Oh, yeah."

Charlotte scolds me with a smile as she approached her, trying to lower her face slightly above her. Pong and his shoulder were also slapped by Wilfried as he resisted being scolded by his sister.

"So, Rosemaine. The work must also be done by us, sons of lords. It must not be more monopolistic. If we don't do anything, we'll be treated as incompetent. Would it be understandable if you were smart?

They were both no longer entirely beings that I had to protect. As a son of a lord on a reciprocal basis, I am about to do my job. Then I will determine the extent to which the two of us can do, and assign the work.

"Okay. Let's take a look at tomorrow's children's room and share the work."

Suggesting to share the job, Vilfleet brightened his expression all the time. And, heh, stroking my head with my chest stretched so well that I was good at it.

"Uhm. Then rest for today. It's going to be tough tomorrow."

"I don't want your sister to fall again."

Did Charlotte also gladly get a job from me, breaking his expression?

I go to the door to get out of the cafeteria, wondering if you two want to do your job.

"Rosemaine"

"What is it, Master Ferdinand?

And when the chief priest had called me to rest, I looked back.

"My body needs to be able to rest, but my head is still moving and I'm fine. Keep reading the material you're handing over."

"Pleasure."

When I went back to my room and asked Richarda and Otilier to help me finish the bath and the change of clothes, I was asked to carry the crate of material that was being given to the clergyman to the side of the bedroom.

"Not at all, Ferdinand boy. If it's not good for you, if you give the princess a rest, you'll have to ban me from reading."

Richarda said so in a puffy and angry manner, but I take the book out of the crate and spread it out on the bed, exhaling a ho and a relieved breath. It's bad for Richarda, who worries about her health, but I spend most of my time reading. When the clergyman told me to keep reading, the clergyman looked like God.

"There's so much to remember before you go to the House of Lords. I have to read it. Ugh."

Although Richarda is angry with the clergyman who is challenging him to rest, I think the clergyman may have hidden me from the nobility. It was just an obviously unfavourable gaze that looked at me with a curious eye that hadn't grown in two years in the Great Hall, mocking me.

I was prepared for it, but I got sick of whispers that interacted with more gaze than I expected. I was sheltered by Wilfried and Charlotte, but to be honest I was so tired just being on the spot.

Then, the next day, I go to the children's room, having Richarda and Otilier take the treats that Ella prepared for me.

The journey to the House of Lords began today and Hugo was to be moved to the kitchen of the House of Lords as the first wave.

Hugo says, "So that Ella can live in peace, so that Hugo can hold on. You should report anything to me as soon as it happens," so you should be able to set up a proper living environment.

I basically do not want to let the young girl out into a place that is out of the Lord's sight. For this reason Ella is to move on the day I go to the House of Lords.

Not only cooks and downworkers, but naturally, student mobility also takes place. Today is the day Angelica, the final year, leaves for the House of Lords, so the only two escort knights on me are Darmuel and Brother Cornelius.

"Tomorrow Cornelius is heading to the House of Lords, too, right?

"Yes, we get ready to come into the dorm from the senior classmates we're used to and welcome the lower classmates."

I went into the children's room, listening to Darmuel and Brother Cornelius about the entrance and the advanced ceremony.

"Good day, sister"

"Good day, Charlotte"

When I entered, the children's room was deliberately flattered. Regardless, the students were not at all face-to-face with the children who had completed their baptism in the two years I slept, so some of them looked at me with a strange face like, "I heard about it, but were you really there," and who was not known to exist in the first place?

In the meantime, Wilfried withdrew my hand, and stood before everyone, and raised his hand, and watched.

"Some people will not know their faces because they have been asleep for treatment for a long time over two years. Introduce: Rosemaine, my sister and Charlotte's sister. Those of you who are old enough to know that they have created the books, the cartas, the cards and the sweetness that is not found here."

...... hey, what introductions do you give me!?

Hii, no, no, no! and Charlotte soothes over beside me breathing, adding further with a lovely smile of nickel.

"Sister Rosemayne is the Virgin of Aerenfest, who blesses Aerenfest with a great deal of magic, even if she is asleep. Even if you've never seen him, you've heard about him, haven't you? I have great respect for your sister."

... Stop it! It hurts my shining eyes at the expectations of the children I believe in! No more hurdles!

I wanted to get away with denying everything I could that I wasn't the Virgin anymore. But there is no escape for me, sandwiched by Vilfleet and Charlotte and surrounded by more escort knights.

Having been drawn my hand by Wilfried, I had to smile for now, sitting in the chair prepared by Richarda and letting her pull her cheeks.

"Allow me to greet Rosemaine"

By the words of Wilfried there can be a line before me for greetings. That being said, it's just the kids until they head to the House of Lords, so there's just over 30 of them even when they get a greeting from everyone.

Next to me were Wilfried and Charlotte, and before them the children, who had just finished their baptisms, began to greet them side by side.

"Allow me to pray for blessings upon the harsh sorting and rare encounter of Avelibe, God of Life"

"I forgive you."

With a small light of blessing I answer my greetings with a smile. Among them was the appearance of his half-brother, Nicolaus, seen in yesterday's revelation.

Kneel before me and cross your hands. Bright chestnut hair moves fluffy.

"Allow me to pray for blessings upon the harsh sorting and rare encounter of Avelibe, God of Life"

"I forgive you."

"I'll see you first. My name is Nicolaus, son of Knights Commander Calstead and Tordelide. Later, get to know each other."

"Nice to meet you"

When he finishes his modeled greeting, Nicolaus leaves the spot. As a sister, the moment I thought I was a little closer..., Brother Cornelius called me "Dear Rosemaine".

Brother Cornelius, with a smile similar to your mother's, is looking down at me. "Have you forgotten yesterday's caution?" I smiled back, too, at the smile I was asking.

"... I remember"

"I'm relieved"

At the end of the greeting, the newly entered children were handed out stone slabs and Mauritz began to do a brief test of how much basic letters and calculations could be done.

At the same time, Carta and Trump games were started in the last division of the team last year, focusing on Wilfried and Charlotte. He said it's to find out how much strength he's gaining between spring and fall.

I look around as I sit in my chair. Over the course of the two years they came up with their own ideas and found out very well that the children's room operated without any problems.

"Today's prize is the first treat Rosemaine has prepared in two years"

To Wilfried's words, the kids, who had never eaten Ella's treats, just tilted their necks with a decent face. It was the students who changed the color of their eyes and saw the prepared treats.

"Dear Wilfried, let me be serious here"

"There's a battle you'll never lose."

"Huh, you can't forgive me for picking you up."

A boy who once got serious about Karta gets a sad scream every time someone takes one.

"Dear Rosemaine, this will be the dossier I have compiled about the children's room for the last two years. Would you like to see it?

"Of course, Dr. Maurice."

I received the results so far from Mauritz and looked at the material.

"From what I've seen, it seems to be running well. Since we seem to have a thorough foundation from this material, it looks like the computational problem could use a little more difficulty."

"Do you still want to raise it?

I nod cocklessly at Mauritz, who gazed at me as if I were surprised.

"I received the life of Aub Aerenfest to do as much as possible to improve my overall territorial performance. We'd love to have Dr. Maurice with us."

"Yes, sir."

"Nevertheless, you've annoyed Dr. Mauritz. Me, I didn't plan on sleeping in the winter, so I only left a memorandum regarding the children's room. It must have been tough without detailed instructions, huh?

I hear that a memorandum that merely bulleted out what must be kept in the children's room in the winter and what I would like to try was given by the clergyman as my instruction. The recipient didn't know what to do and I think it was tough.

"... To be honest, the first year was a lot of different places, and it was tough. If this one was noticed by Dear Rosemayne's fine preparation and care, it was repeated trial and error. In the second year, by improving it, we were able to create a flow for children's rooms to move."

Mauritz's face saw the confidence he had worked hard for two years. For this minute, it doesn't seem like it would be a problem to leave it to Mauritz.

"I have to bury what I've been asleep for two years, so I can't come to the children's room tomorrow. After that, please."

"Sure, I got it"

Mauritz kneels and crosses his hands. That's when they got Karta's battle. The winner says, "I won -!," he poked his fist up, and saw Wilfried tapping his fist on the floor with regret.

We call the victor team by team and give him the treat, which is a prize. As everyone watched with envy, the winner in his mouth shook like he felt innumerable.

"Come on! Another battle!

"Brother Wilfried, teaming up is the first step."

"Grunt!"

Charlotte will renew the team division of the students from victory and defeat, as Wilfried rises with his mouth in a letter to the battle.

Seems to be splitting up well, and the way the kids helping the two of us are, I somehow found that the inside of the children's room is largely divided between the Wilfried and Charlotte.

"Dear Rosemaine,"

In the meantime, Philine calls out to me as she asks me how things are going. And when I saw the plaque in his hand, I knew immediately what Philine had.

"Philine, can you show me?

"Yes, Master Rosemaine"

With his face shining, Filine showed me this and a collection of stories she had compiled herself. Although what I wrote in the early days is indescribable and difficult to read in my child's speaking language, I have become accustomed to writing over the course of two years and my letters are getting better and better. The wood plaque, which I could see at a glance until the way the words of speech were becoming written, was filled with Philine's efforts, and I felt my cheeks loose.

"You wrote a lot"

"Master Rosemayne has made a book about the knight who spoke of my mother. Other aristocrats were very happy to read my mother's story."

The collection of knight stories I made also contained some stories I had gathered from my children. They said that the children of the lower aristocracy who found their story in the books loaned out in the children's room after I fell asleep seemed very pleased.

... I would have liked to see that.

"I didn't think what I told you about my desire for materials would be a book. I've been desperately collecting stories since then, Roderich."

"I read Rhoderich's story. It was a lot of fun. I'm going to fix it in writing and turn it into a book again. Could Filine have written all her mother's stories?

In my inquiry Philine laid her eyes down sadly and shook her head as she sifted.

"I couldn't write everything. Some stories I forgot… I miss that so much"

"Filine, there are several defined shapes in the story, and there are stories that resemble wonders in the story of distant lands. The House of Lords will have students from different territories, right? As you listen to a lot of stories, you may recall something."

Why don't you talk to a lot of people? and when I suggested, Philine laughed at the dullness after rounding her eyes like a young leaf.

"Dear Rosemaine, perhaps you intend to do a collection of stories in the House of Lords as well?

"Yeah, that's right. Isn't this a great opportunity to gather stories other than Aerenfest"

And when I answered so with my breasts stretched, Philine knelt on the spot, and crossed her hands.

"I, Filine, as a civilian apprentice gathering information from all over the world, promise to dedicate my stories from all over to Master Rosemaine."

"Looking forward to it"

The next moment, an upset deliberately ran into the room. Strange tensions fill the room in an instant. Some of the students opened their eyes and headed this way as they panicked.

"Dear Rosemaine, did you welcome Filine nearby?

"... proximity?

I did not know why, and I turned my gaze to Brother Cornelius. Soon Brother Cornelius comes forward and shakes his head.

"No, you don't. I was watching next to Master Rosemaine, but there were no such words. It's just that Philine accepted Lady Rosemaine's request. In the future, it may be taken as a proximity, but not at this time"

As soon as Brother Cornelius said so to quell everyone, by the way, the breath of relief leaked. At the same time, Filine falls back with a wooden plaque in her face like she has no place for herself.

One girl opened her mouth like she was determined to do something.

"Hasn't Master Rosemayne decided to stay close yet?

So I finally figured out what was going on. Wilfried already has a good bunch to say surrounding. I'm also in Charlotte. Naturally, I must also determine my proximity. From the point of view of a child who is unlikely to be close to the two of us, my proximity must be a hasty appointment from now on, and it must be an aim.

But there are parents behind the child. It is not easy for me to determine my proximity by my taste.

"Of course, side proximity is what you need. I'm also going to talk to the lead sidekick Richarda and put in a new one. It's natural to make new decisions, mainly about those who serve in the House of Lords, isn't it?

"... have you decided yet?

It is no exaggeration to say that if we were to prioritize those who belong to your mother's faction as students in the House of Lords, it would be roughly decided.

... I don't know who I'm a candidate for. We have to laugh and delude and stretch out here and ask Richarda and her mother.

"We have a candidate. It will only be officially announced once you are in the dorm."

The strange tension in the words dissolved and disappeared, and the students scattered away.

... Right, side by side? I have to think about that, too.

Four bells rang and it was time for lunch. When I take my lunch, this time I ask Richarda to take the money and go to the Cleric Chief's room.

"Richarda, my proximity is about a candidate, isn't it? In that faction..."

"Yes, of course."

"Tell me later. The factions will have changed a lot in the course of two years."

"Yes, sir."

After hearing so much on the road, it seems that now the only people who can be said to be close to me are the three escort knights, Richarda and Otilier. Because I'm not here, they took off the sidekick apprenticeship once. That way, you can also serve Charlotte.

"Dormitories in the House of Lords are places to live. I can't stay in the attitude I've been working on. You will see the vegetables of that person. It's not a bad place to choose."

… On the contrary, I can also see the vegetarian figure. This is troublesome.

When I went to the clergyman's office, an informant had already been gathered.

It would be because he was summoned by the clergyman, the lord's half-brother. There was a set of young men who seemed to have no place for themselves and those who appeared to be their superiors, lined up with pale faces.

"Everyone looks pale, but how was it collected?

I told him to come as soon as he finished lunch.

... If they call me that, then I won't even get my lunch through my throat and my boss will fly with me!

This stomach is starting to tingle. I'm so sorry.

"It's not for reprimand that I called you up. Instead, make it a little easier because it's for labor and praise."

When I spoke so, the young men stroked down their breasts as if they were in horror, and their superiors looked at me with interest as to what the hell was going to happen.

"I thank you for your dedication to gathering information in the House of Lords during my long sleep. It's late, but I'll give you the reward."

The youngsters raised their faces with the expression that they had already forgotten such a thing.

"The Deputy Commander of the Knights was delighted"

"Aub Aerenfest was impressed with the focus"

I called each of them by its name to give them money with apologies for their labor and their tardiness, and with words of good will and encouragement from now on.

"It's a brilliant talent for the Aerenfest leadership to focus on. We look forward to working with you."

"Make an unmistakable effort"

Dropping everyone out of the room with a motivated face can start studying right away. By the time we get to the House of Lords, we really don't have time.

"Dear Ferdinand, will it be all right for me, to head to the House of Lords?

"All the studies you're doing right now are for you. You'll pass, but you'll need more than that. There's only one reason I educate you. [M] Do you understand?"

The chief priest's stern golden eyes looked at me. While my work is accumulating, there is only one reason why the Chief Cleric teaches me to study clearly, and so on.

"Don't be ashamed of yourself as a lord's child, do you?

"... well, that's the thing"

And the day came when I would take packing classes to the critical, and I would travel to the House of Lords. To make my way to the House of Lords, dressed in a black based costume with a loess cape and brooch close to a mountain blown color, I headed with Richarda to a room with a transfer formation.

In a dark room with no windows, the transfer formation appears to float. A large amount of baggage packed around him was piled up by men into the transfer formation.

It is the Lord and his wife, Charlotte, and their uncles and knights, the clergyman and his escort, Brother Eckhardt, who are here to see me off. Since Wilfried moves next to me, I have both Wilfried and Brother Lamprecht. We've got a whole family.

"Rosemaine, watch your body. I look forward to seeing you back for a tea party."

"I'm looking forward to it too, Mother"

"There's Cornelius over there. Not so worried, but be careful with your body."

"I worked out. With Angelica and Cornelius, you'll be fine. Darmuel should go to the House of Lords with peace of mind because he will work out better while he is away."

Darmuel seems to be trembling at his uncle's words, but there is nothing I can do.

... Come on, Dermuel.

"Be careful with Arlensbach and live your life. Civilian apprenticeships are offered when you want information, so that you don't get involved."

"Yes, sir."

Nodding to his adoptive father's words, his adoptive mother tells him, "Say hello to Wilfried". Looking at the recent growth here, I think it is up to me to be greeted, but I will snort.

"I look forward to hearing from your sister in the House of Lords."

Charlotte, say hello to the children's room.

"I'll take care of it"

At the end of the day, it was the Cleric Chief who spoke to me.

"Okay, Rosemaine. Just make sure you pass all the exams and come back by the service ceremony."

"... Dear Ferdinand, isn't that a little reckless?

The service ceremony is in the middle of winter. I think it's too reckless for me to be asleep for two years and unprepared.

In my words the chief cleric smiled invincibly.

"As my work accumulates, what the hell do you think I did for short-term intensive courses?

"You did say the other day that this study was for you, didn't you?

"Yes, it's for me"

To the chief priest, who snorted with a poisonous grin, I draw my cheeks all the time.

"Um, do you mean yourself in this case, possibly, Master Ferdinand!?

When the clergyman smiled frigidly, he avoided a clear statement about the answer.

"I believe you can do it. Make sure you finish your exams as soon as possible and come back before you do anything extra. Any reply?"

...... Humph!

I also avoided articulating the answer, and when I turned only to smile, I rode into the transfer formation.