Ascendance of a Bookworm

"Well done! That was an unexpected development!

After the competition, excited Rufen rushed over. "Many of the ambushes are reminiscent of Master Ferdinand," he said, and I lay down my gaze softly.

"I'm afraid so. But Aerenfest couldn't win without using odd measures. I was very impressed with Dunkelferger's skill. You have a great range of knight apprenticeships."

"Ho?

Rufen turned his gaze to the knight apprentices of Dunkelferger. The knight apprentices look at me with an unexpected face.

I looked up at the knight apprentice, who was in command of the whole thing, and laughed nicely.

"Even if the unforeseen event of being raided during the carriage of the Warcraft would have promptly re-established his posture with a drink from the Commander, and could have acted in their respective roles, wouldn't they? Besides, in the midst of an ambush attack called the Huge of Warcraft and the full force attack of Cornelius, I immediately acted to protect the Lordship Candidate, and at that close range I protected it all. Neither is what Aerenfest can do."

If Aerenfest's collaboration had been as sophisticated as Dunkelferger's, the battle would have been won in the first ambush.

"We've shown you a really beautiful collaboration. We have reflected that we must devise more training for the knights so that we can catch up with Dunkelferger at all. We hope that Dunkelferger will continue to maintain that level of proficiency so that we can continue to be an example to everyone."

The knight apprentice of Dunkelferger, who broke up with my word, opened his mouth.

"It is a great honor to receive such compliments from other lord candidates in other realms. We also had something to gain from this ditter, completely different from ditters who just deal with demons. We look forward to seeing Rosemayne rematch the trained Aerenfest."

"… I will simply ask the Knights Commander to train my apprenticeship, and although this is the case with ditters like this, I will endeavour to improve my ranking in the territorial rivalry at all"

I planned to throw a round at the Knights about the Knights apprenticeship training, laughing vaguely and flushing Dunkelferger's wish for rematch.

"Oh, is it over? Which one won?

"It's Aerenfest, Prince Anastasius"

Because of the lecture, Anastasius returned, who left without watching the game. Anastasius waves gently to block Rufen from stating his contents of the match against the excitement, "If there is a result for a moment, that's fine," Anastasius said.

The skies you see from the arena are getting dark, so you can't afford to listen to the game for long.

"It was decided in the battle you mentioned. Any objections?

"Yes, I will back off more than determined by the battle"

To the words of Anastasius, Lestiraut knelt down and declared to draw his hand from Schwartz and Weiss.

And when I was exhaling, Lestilaud glanced at me.

"But I only confirmed the viciousness of surprise after surprise with these eyes. I will never admit that she is more of a Virgin."

Leaving that behind, Dunkelferger leaves the spot.

Anastasius narrowed Gray's eyes and looked down at me.

"... who did something nasty with Ditter?

"I think it was an odd move, but it depends on the evaluator whether it was bad or not."

"I see."

As far as I'm concerned, I don't care what Restylaut tells me. It is true that I could not have chosen the means if I were to defend the library, even if I were to be said to be spiteful, and I have never named myself a Virgin. Even if they say, "I don't recognize you as a Virgin," I can only say, "Really?" and you've been overzealous lately, so I'm a little ho.

"Rosemaine, it's decided to be the Lord of sorcery, but come to my room tomorrow at the 3 bells. I need to talk to Solange and the others."

"Yes, sir."

Immediately after receiving the Prince's call, it was dissolved, and Hirshur rode the horseman back to his lab.

This is the first time you've seen a boarding riding beast, and we head back to the dorm, watching Anastasius stare in amazement.

"Why did you become a Ditter contender!? Explain it, Rosemaine!

As soon as he entered the dorm and closed the front door, he was yelled at by a tear-eyed villefleet. He was told not to leave the dorm because there was an Ordonanz from Richarda on the way, but there was only one escort knight, so he was too careless, and he left a message stuffy.

For now I told him the story of Dunkelferger waiting in front of the library and how and as a result of the Ditter battle I was eventually summoned by Anastasius.

"You think it's a call from the prince? … and you're about to report to your father about measurements, raids, ditters, calls, in just one day!

"Right, when reporting, tell the Knights Leader about reviewing the Knights Apprenticeship training..."

"We're talking about them now. The training story is good. What the hell is this call from Prince Anastasius?

Though I tried to get your father to talk to me about reviewing his Knight Apprentice training, Wilfried got in the way.

"It's about Schwartz and Weiss. Prince Anastasius said he must also speak to Dr. Solange."

"... right"

Afterwards, I had dinner and asked the knight apprentice who participated in today's ditter for reflection. Some knight apprentices were simply happy to beat Dunkelferger, and some were too different from the usual ditters to be confused. In the meantime, everyone was looking lightly at the words of Leonore and Eudit, who watched Ditter from the outside, not at the center of the battle.

"The only reason I was able to beat Dunkelferger this time was because of Rosemayne's oddity. It's not our strength."

Even Ditter, where Leonore competes for speed, probably has a lot of improvements, he said, and started talking about collaboration and the demonic weaknesses he had put together so far.

From here on out, it will be a discussion of the Knight Apprentice. I cannot go up to the third floor with Leonore. I decided to leave Brother Cornelius and Traugot for discussion and return to the room. I'm tired of everything today, but I still have a call from the prince tomorrow. I want to take a bath and go to bed already.

"... oh? What about Richarda?"

"If you need anything, I'm taking my seat off."

Rezelator and Brunhilde, who were preparing for the bath, would help bathe, but there was no sign of Richarda on the spot. It's unusual not to have Richarda. When I lean my neck, the leatherette tells me as I cloud my words.

"I've been with Rosemaine all day today..."

Normally I do a fine job during lectures and while I encourage reading in the library with other sides of the service, but I guess I couldn't do that today, I said.

... I do it with a flat face, but it's hard to prepare for all kinds of side-servicing.

And I was convinced, ho ho, and I fell asleep.

The next day is a call from the Prince. Take about one of the souvenirs to improve your heart certificate, Richarda told me, and I asked Ella and Hugo early in the morning to bake two kinds of cattle curls, one with honey, mixed with rumtopph in the dough and baked.

Anastasius seemed to like Lumtopf, and it is my concern to be able to hem honey into Eglantine.

Up to two and a half bells we practiced Rosina and Fesspiel, while we orchestrated a song dedicated to the Goddess of Light, and then up to three bells Brunhilde helped us to prepare, and I was to head to Anastasius' room.

"... by the way, which is Prince Anastasius's room?

"I've never been in, but I know how to get there"

Brunhilde said so, leaving the front door. I walk out into the hallway leading to the auditorium, but not towards the auditorium, where the doors to the lower dormitories line up. Despite the interruption of the number, the doors continue at equal intervals. There was a huge door at the deepest end, before which the watchman stood.

"It's No. 13 Aerenfest. Prince Anastasius has summoned Prince Rosemayne to three bells today."

"I've been talking to you."

The keeper checked the colour of the cloak and the brooch and opened the door for me.

What I waited for there was really a uncle like a butler. This is already Anastasius' outhouse, and my uncle says he's the head of Anastasius.

"Thank you for waiting, Master Rosemaine"

I was immediately transferred to the reception room.

Upon arrival in the reception room, Solange had already arrived and had a tea with a dusty elegant grin. Anastasius sits across from it.

And I handed over the souvenir of Katorkar, and greeted him, and sat down in the recommended seat.

"Pay the people."

The proximity was turned away, and only the three of us in this room and the proximity of Anastasius.

We exchanged tea and confectionery topics for a while, but Anastasius unwittingly tightens his expression.

"We're talking about the library's magic equipment, but Aerenfest's victory over the contest led him to mainly recognize Rosemaine while attending the House of Lords"

"What is a battle?... No way with Arlensbach!?

Solange held his mouth to his surprise. This one surprises me with the words that came out of Solange's mouth.

"Arlensbach? Although it was Dunkelferger who fought Rosemaine?

"Well, did you? It was the ladies of Arlensbach who asked me several times what it would take to be Lord Schwartz and Weiss, so I seem to have left early."

Though Solange said so in embarrassment, I felt the back of my chest shrug. I didn't expect to hear Arlensbach's name here.

"Could other territories still come out? Trouble.... By the way, why did Rosemaine dominate? I did a little digging, but there was no record that the students were the dominant ones."

"Lord Rosemaine's prayer has reached God."

"... I don't know what that means"

Anastasius frowned and shook his head at Solange's explanation.

"Once Master Rosemayne had prayed to Mestionora, the goddess of wisdom, Schwartz and Weiss moved on. The gods have received Lord Rosemaine's prayer."

"Rosemaine. Give me a detailed description."

Seemed completely incomprehensible in Solange's explanation, Anastasius looked at me. But I have nothing more to say, either.

"Even if they tell me more... I just signed up for a library, left it to the joy of putting it in the browsing room, and prayed to God. Well, magic popped up as a blessing, and when I realized it, I was certified Lord by Schwartz and Weiss."

"I don't know how to ask more"

Anastasius shook his head again and stared at Solange.

"Solange, how has the Lord ever been determined?

"My predecessor nominated me to give permission to touch Schwartz and Weiss, and I was the Lord by touching the demon stone on my forehead and registering my magic. Without touching the demonic stone on your forehead, blessings alone would be the guide of Mestionora, the goddess of wisdom."

"That's enough."

Apparently, he gave up understanding. Maybe someone who hasn't seen the scene won't know because they've done something insane.

"I have also been nominated by my predecessor to register my magic. But Schwartz and Weiss stopped moving. You can still touch Schwartz and Weiss, and you should be able to supply magic. But in my magic, it seemed to be all I could do was keep my guard."

Solange said he has been giving Schwartz and Weiss magic and protecting them, knowing they wouldn't move, so that they wouldn't steal anything else from the library's important magic equipment.

"Maybe Dr. Solange doesn't have the attributes of light and darkness? My clerk said that both attributes were necessary to be the Lord."

"How does Rosemaine know that?

Anastasius looked at me as surprised.

"The new Lord of Schwartz and Weiss must give away a new costume. So I took Schwartz and Weiss out of the library to the dorm for measurements."

"... shouldn't we have measured in the library?

"I thought about it, but Dr. Solange rejected it."

As I turned my gaze to Solange, Solange nodded slowly.

"Schwartz and Weiss have costumes as a protective magic tool, so if you let them take their costumes off and measure, they will be defenseless. It would be tough if they stole the costumes they made me take off, or they stole Schwartz and Weiss, who got defenseless. Therefore, things like measurements and temporary sewing are to be done under the control of the Lord."

Previously, the Lord was the librarian, and he had his own room in the library, so he didn't have to get it out of the library. Hopefully, I wanted to give permission in the library, but it wasn't possible, Solange said.

"Many students listen where I, an intermediate aristocrat, have forbidden entry for loaning a room in the library to measure. And Lady Rosemayne is a Lordship Candidate, but she is Aerenfest in 13th. Given the possibility that Dunkelferger in 2nd or Aerensbach in 6th will forcefully come in, we can't give her permission to take measurements in the library very much."

"I see," Anastasius nodded to Solange's words.

"So how the hell did you find out about the attributes?

"I took my costume off for measurements and there were a lot of magic formations in the belly area. This is the magic team that caused Dr. Hillsur to throw out his afternoon lecture."

"... ah"

"That's top notch as a researcher, what about as a teacher," Anastasius muttered as he became a bitter face. I would say that is Aerenfest, which must have Hirschühl as its dormitory warden.

"Embroidered on Schwartz and Weiss, it looked like a pretty old magic formation. According to the stories of Dr. Hirschühl and the civilian apprentices who watched it, light and darkness, can't move without both attributes,"

It's a magic formation full of holes and incomplete, according to Hillsur, so I'll add, although there may be other conditions.

"If you told Restylaut that first, an extra fight might have been avoided. That shouldn't have had any dark attributes."

"The dispute may have been avoided, but what I found out about it was the information I got from taking off Schwartz and Weiss costumes and looking into it. I didn't know if it was information I kept from the library, so it was hard for me to say."

It's better not to say anything extra. That is what it is to live as a nobleman.

"Besides, Master Restylaut can't be the Lord of Schwartz and Weiss because he's the one who doesn't get to the library. You have to supply magic once every three days or so, but it's not a library, and it doesn't last if you want royal relics for honor."

"Oh, Master Rosemaine. It would have been helpful if you hadn't said it that way and if the attributes fit you would have been the other lord..."

Does Arlensbach fit the attribute, Solange? said, tilting his neck. Somehow it seems to lead to trouble, so I think it would be nice for those in Arlensbach not to have the right attributes.

Solange looked at me worried.

"Dear Rosemaine, you must be overburdened by yourself, right? Because it was previously managed by three senior aristocrats in the centre. Schwartz and Weiss are really magic tools that consume a lot of magic."

"I thought it made sense and needed magic to replenish it. The former scribes had a lot of magic to put Schwartz and Weiss into operation for a year, didn't they? It will be a pile of days, but I have no idea how much magic was caged."

When I say so, Solange softly lays her eyes down with a sad grin.

"When the three of them left, they were so magical that their lives were in danger."

"... to the point where life is in danger, is it?

Anastasius exhaled gently as I rounded my eyes to the noisy words.

"The previous secretary was a senior aristocrat who sided with the first and fourth princes when there was a coup d 'état. So we can't put it back."

I drew my lips together, realizing that the tip toward the three men who entrusted so much magic to Schwartz and Weiss that their lives were in danger was far higher.

"No matter how many applications I make, the only way to move Schwartz and Weiss is by now in Rosemayne's favor."

"No... When I say it's to move the magic equipment, which is a royal relic, it doesn't replenish the personnel? Royal artifacts are rare and valuable, right?

When I asked, Anastasius turned to Hun like that.

"On the occasion of the coup d 'état, how many magical instruments have stopped the movement... It's not just the library in the House of Lords. There's more important magic equipment."

Wouldn't it be the number of aristocrats whose magic equipment stopped moving would be lost as it were? The coup d 'état, which was a distant event for me, was something very familiar here.

"You won't be able to send enough people to the library in the House of Lords to move your magic equipment. If you want to move your magic equipment, it's better to just pour magic into it with good intentions. It would have been quicker if I hadn't been a Lordship candidate..."

Anastasius sighed saying so.

If I wasn't a Lordship candidate, they were talking about turning me into a civilian apprentice in third grade and transferring my residence to the center in the form of a clerical apprenticeship.

However, the Lordship Candidates have roles in their respective territories and therefore cannot transfer their citizenship to the centre. They say it's been decided a long time ago to prevent a good successor from spilling into the center.

"Rosemaine is a Lordship candidate. Therefore, we will not recognize you as an official administrator."

If you want to make me the official administrator of Schwartz and Weiss, you will be transferring the administration of Schwartz and Weiss to Aerenfest, and there will be lord candidates who will say louder than ever, Anastasius said.

"Rosemaine is only a bona fide collaborator. All right?"

"Yes, I did. Now, for the sake of running the library, I will help Schwartz and Weiss as much as I can so that they can work well."

The more goodwill there is for the library, the more it is overflowing. I don't mind as much as providing magic. When I promised to cooperate, Solange smiled with joy.

"Thank you, Master Rosemaine."

"Solange can go. Rosemaine stays a little."

"Yes."

"Well, let me leave first"

After Solange knelt down and greeted him, he left.

"What are you talking about?

"... wait a minute"

Seeing Anastasius silent as he searches for words for a while, I drink tea and eat sweets.

... First of all, it's definitely about Master Eglantine, isn't it?

The face looking for words is not the face of royalty until earlier. He's the face of a man who thinks about the child he likes. Honestly, I don't want to talk to Anastasius or anything. I have failed once at a tea party with my music teachers. I don't know what's going to kill me now that I don't have Eglantine to take it in.

I want to go home now, and Anastasius opened his mouth hesitantly.

"... Rosemaine, presumably Eglantine will invite you to the Tea Party about them"

Eglantine is so beautiful as if she were a goddess of light, she has a soft atmosphere, she dances well, she is comfortable talking. I'm honestly happy to be invited to the tea party.

Besides, he's a more influential Lordship Candidate in the Greater Territory of Classenburg than Arlensbach, so it's also a huge gain for Aerenfest, and deepening your relationship isn't the kind of person the parents scold him for. Recently, there has been a build-up of cases that are likely to anger me, so I also need projects that can be dismissed.

"I'm very glad you invited Master Eglantine."

"There, there. Um, can you ask Eglantine what she wants?

All right, I said, I looked up at Anastasius, and I leaned my neck.

"What is your intention?

"What do you mean?

Anastasius let his gaze wander like he was upset. I feel sued with my gaze that I don't know why that extent is, but if I don't make it clear, I'm going to come with a rare answer and get even angrier.

"... Me, I've been asleep for two years and I'm ashamed to say things about socializing are immature. There is no one near me on this occasion, so I can't ask you later..."

"No need to say anything else! You're paying people so they don't even know you're around!

"So tell me what intentions to ask. I feel so ashamed that I have to expose my immaturity to the royal family."

I can't, it's a serious lapse as a nobleman. Shame on each other, I guess that makes sense.

Anastasius stares at me with his illuminated face, holding his head as to whether he must purposefully say this.

"... I want you to ask me what my intentions are about the future outlook. Especially a graduation escort."

Speaking of which, I think I heard the two princes were arguing that they wanted to shoot Eglantine in the heart to get closer to the throne.

... Lady Eglantine is having a tough time being charged with such a heavy choice.

"Better guess, didn't you ask anyone else?

And then when we whined in our hearts that we didn't embarrass each other, Anastasius said, "Do you think we didn't ask for it?," he narrowed his eyes. But whoever asked, Eglantine's answer seemed the same.

"Until now, let me think a little bit, they've only said. But since I'm graduating this year, and if I were you, I'd look young, and Eglantine seemed to like me a lot at just one tea party, I might be a little relaxed."

There is no way that Eglantine, a lord candidate in the Great Territories, could be relieved by her young appearance. A man in love thinks too conveniently for himself.

"... If any answer is given, we will only ask questions"

"Um, nice to meet you"

... There's no way I can turn down a prince's favor, but it's a hassle, I took it on.