Ascendance of a Bookworm

After my tea party with Eglantine, I continued my happy library days again. These happy days are only about two weeks away. I have to read in the mood by the time I get back for the service ceremony.

"Hey."

I heard someone calling on someone. Quiet in the library, I scroll through the pages in paralysis.

"Here, it's a little Aerenfest."

"Dear Rosemayne, Prince Anastasius is here!

Closed the book by a leaselator who looked rushed from side to side with the van, I hacked and raised my face. It was Anastasius who shut up from earlier, apparently.

Basically, I asked Lestiraut in Dunkelferger that the Lordship candidates and royalty would let them pick up the books they needed near their side and not go to the library themselves. Yet why is Anastasius in the library? Maybe Anastasius likes the space called the library too and is taking a trip?

... a little more fondness for the prince.

"What can I do for you? If you have the books you need, ask Dr. Solange to find them as soon as possible. Schwartz and Weiss are also familiar with books and materials upstairs."

When I turned my loving smile about the usual triple increment, Anastasius turned into a face that, on the contrary, bit down the bitter worm.

"What can I do for you, no? The tea party with Eglantine would have ended three days ago, wouldn't it? Why didn't they come to report it? You're not gonna tell me that the letter requesting the visit is missing, are you?

...... hey. You weren't a book lover prince. Too bad.

The liking that just went up drops all at once. I exhaled hah and dismay.

The missing letter of the request for an interview is a constant complaint for the excuse that "I dealt with it properly, but it seems that the civilian neglected to process it..." Similar to excusing "it's all done arbitrarily by the secretary" when a great man does something wrong.

I leaned my neck, blinking several times, staring into the eyes of a frustrated Gray.

"Didn't you promise never to come near Prince Anastasius from me? I can't break my promise to the royal family, so I waited solemnly to be summoned."

...... Pre-built. The truth is that if I wanted to contact Prince Anastasius, my surroundings were going to be noisy, so I left my promise until my shield called me, I thought.

"I promised not to hear from you. I was on my way to see what I could do."

"You were so eager to read that you didn't even notice me calling you straight away, did you?

Hun and Anastasius snorted, but I smiled, pretending to be unfamiliar, "I am relieved that the opportunity to report has come around".

Discussions with Anastasius had taken place with the payroll, so no one nearby knew they needed a tea party report with Eglantine. For that reason, they are all bright blue now.

"Okay, I'll call it in now. Report immediately."

"I can't prepare a souvenir or anything..."

I hope to see the day again, but Anastasius seems to be in quite a hurry. "I don't mind. Hurry," he said, flipping a bassari and a black cloak to the exit of the browsing room.

I got out of my chair and reached out to the book on my desk. Once the report to Anastasius has been prolonged, it is possible that he will not be able to come back to the library. I need a loan process before I leave the library.

"Lending this book..."

"I'll take my place. I will also return the keys to Carrell, so please report to Prince Anastasius first."

"... Yes"

The book was immediately taken up by the Lieselator, and Richarda rushed him "Princess, hurry". Forced away from the book, I leave the library with the thought of being pulled behind my hair.

... Oh, I failed.

With Richarda and Hartmut and Cornelius and Leonore, I walk behind Anastasius.

The Prince summoned me, and it turned out to be walking behind the mushroom. Now that more and more students have had free time for lectures one by one, I feel so conspicuous to be taken by the Prince.

... I should have quietly requested a visit. My stupid idiot!

Anastasius stopped and looked back as I was in a mood to gut and item, but from the outside I was moving my legs as hard as I could make my chest look stretched and smiling.

"It's too late, Rosemaine."

"I'm sorry. Prince Anastasius does not mind me, please come back first."

I can't help but walk slowly. Anastasius has a different physique. I am already working so hard that I seem to be out of breath. If I try any harder, I'll be exposed to something unusual. You should be healthy, but you're not healthy yet.

... If you walk at this speed, you will fall before you reach it!

I don't walk here these days except to and from the library, so I don't seem to have any physical fitness attached at all. Speaking of which, I haven't even played radio gymnastics lately. If the clergyman finds out, he might be pissed off.

... Well, okay. There's plenty of stuff that pisses me off anyway, and one more or so won't make much difference, will it?

"Lady Rosemaine, I beg your pardon"

"... richarda"

Richarda, who said no, lifted me up in a good way.

Horribly, I leaned unexpectedly against Richarda, and the next moment I felt Anastasius' gaze, I woke up a little.

"What are you doing?

"Princess Rosemaine is originally weak and has no strength. I'm getting pale, and I know it's about to lose consciousness, so this is how I want to carry you."

"Losing consciousness," he said? I heard from Rufen, was it true?

He seemed to have heard the story of me going and falling in the deepest part to get a stamp, and Anastasius rounded his eyes.

Still, isn't Rufen a little too light on the mouth? Perhaps it also serves to pass information on to the royal family and the top lord candidates? I feel that my circumstances are overshadowed by Rufen.

"This has made me stronger than before, but I forbid the princess to do it."

I can put my strength into the arms that Richarda is holding up to protect me. Seeing it, Anastasius narrowed his eyes inexplicably.

"If you can't seem to walk this far, can't you even travel through the castle?

"With permission from Aub Aerenfest regarding travel within castles and dormitories, the princess uses a horseman. You can't just use it in the House of Lords without permission."

Without royal permission, you can't do anything like ride around the beast indoors.

"Then you can stay put. Hurry up."

Anastasius said that with his sigh, he just started walking.

As I am lifted up by Richarda, I will move. Realizing that my gaze had begun to gather earlier, I wore my cape out of my head in a basket and wanted to escape my surrounding gaze. Although I can't, because if I really did that, I'd get more gaze.

"Are you all right, Princess? Your face is getting pretty pale."

He asks in a small voice like Richarda whispers as he moves straight forward. Looks like I tried a little too hard. The moment Richarda holds me up and I'm feeling a little relaxed, I'm feeling sick and my head is teasing.

"... to the extent that I want the kindness of Master Ferdinand, I feel sick"

I rarely tell you that I want to take a pill. Richarda closed her tight eyes once and exhaled softly.

"Please come here, Master Rosemayne"

That's what he said, recommending his seat. Anastasius' leading uncle looks at me not feeling very well and turns his gaze to Anastasius to blame. I don't seem to look good enough for someone who barely looks at me to twinkle my eyebrows.

But Anastasius just gently clasped his shoulder, flushed it and waved.

"Rosemaine, pay for it."

"Can't you use an anti-bugging magic device? That's what I did at Eglantine's tea party."

You don't want Richarda, who now has the medicine, off the side, I tried to suggest it, but it was immediately rejected.

"Then no. Civilian apprenticeships have a taste in lip reading, so anti-bugging magic equipment is useless."

Though I thought it was a pain in the ass, Anastasius probably knows the scene where someone can use lip reading is around and the magic equipment is useless. And it must be imperative for royalty to be so cautious that even a child opponent like me has to be vigilant.

I had no choice, so I took the medicine from Richarda, and after taking it, I turned away the proximity.

In a room where only the side of Anastasius remains, I am advised of tea and sweets, one mouthful at a time. Immediately after the formal exchange, Anastasius got to the point. Apparently, he was quite awaiting a report.

"Rosemaine, how was Eglantine's response? Who's going to be the graduation escort?

"He wants to ask relatives for a graduation escort"

"Isn't it the same as the answer of the others? Useless."

To my answer Anastasius shook his head gently and stared with Gray's eyes, "Is the result of all this waiting for me the answer?" There is no other answer if you are stared at.

"I apologize for not helping Prince Anastasius. But it's true that Master Eglantine said he couldn't choose either."

Now, when I try to cut off the conversation with this…, Anastasius raises his hand gently, and controls me.

"Wait, Rosemaine. What did he say now?

"Yes?"

"What do you mean you can't choose either? So you're saying Eglantine has a thinker who's not my brother, not me?

... How does that happen!?

Recall the words of the troubled Eglantine, which made me want to hold my head. Unlike Anastasius' romantically stained brain, Eglantine was quite seriously troubled, including by past coups d 'état. Yes, so much so that the Lords of the Great Territories candidate tries to enter the temple as a blue witch.

"Master Eglantine is not in a situation where you can make people think. You know Prince Anastasius well, don't you?

With the two princes asking me to marry them, saying "I have a thinker" would make the situation more confusing. When I sighed lightly, Anastasius narrowed his eyes softly.

When Anastasius takes a serious look, he's just scared that his smug face is neat. I swallow cockroaches and breathe, and correct my spine. I'm concerned about the dull pain around the temples and the bumps, but it's not a place to hang around or the atmosphere.

"What do you know about them? What did Eglantine tell you?

Because Eglantine is the daughter of a third prince and she's losing her family in a coup d 'état, I don't want to be the species that causes me to fight for power. Regardless of the fact that you are aiming to enter the temple, to that extent, Anastasius should know better than me, who has only spoken face-to-face twice, how close the distance is and how many times he has exchanged.

"Prince Anastasius would know..."

"I decide what I know or don't know. Speak."

I opened my mouth, pressed by the atmosphere that made me obey without being allowed to say whether or not I was a penetrator of those who stood above me. Aside from the fact that we're aiming to enter the temple, there shouldn't be a problem talking about it.

"Master Eglantine lost your family in a coup d 'état, didn't he?

"Oh, yeah"

"So you said you didn't want to choose. If you have orders from the King or from Aub Krassenburg, he says you can't choose either prince yourself, even if you have to obey it. Master Eglantine seems to think you don't like being a source of power strife, but you know all about this, don't you?

Anastasius had a surprised look when I asked him how Anastasius would react, which I feared.

"I suppose Eglantine wants to go back to royalty? That's what I heard..."

An unexpected word came out of Anastasius. I blink in surprise, too.

"Who told you that? I have asked you to return Eglantine to the royal family because you have adopted Eglantine as your granddaughter and regret that you have deprived her of royal status."

When I tilted my neck and said so, Anastasius groaned and looked lightly at the "predecessor".

"... So Eglantine herself doesn't want to be royal?

"From what I've heard, Master Eglantine wants peace."

"Peace...?

Is it because I'm noble to say it around, or because I try to get opinions via people like this, because what I know just face-to-face twice doesn't make sense, and Eglantine and Anastasius are already twisted.

"This is solitary, so I'd appreciate it if you listened to the children's bullshit, but before the escorts, first of all, shouldn't Prince Anastasius and Lady Eglantine discuss what they want with each other, without going through others? They don't seem to understand each other's feelings or wishes at all."

"What do you mean you haven't made it through?

It would be weirder if Anastasius looked at him like a muck, but he seemed to make sense in this state right now.

"Master Eglantine said it was to bring the proposal of the two princes closer to the throne"

"You're not. I take Eglantine..."

"Fine beyond that. Instead of me being irrelevant, tell me directly to the party, Lady Eglantine."

I do not want to hear anything else, such as words of love for others, in such ill health. I'd rather go home soon.

"From what I have seen, it seems that Prince Anastasius' thoughts have been distorted and arrived at Master Eglantine by the wall of power strife. How about we start by asking what Master Eglantine wants?

Anastasius is visibly dropping his shoulder, shocked by the fact that whatever he says is supposedly to get the throne.

Exactly, I said to the royalty, "This is all so wrong, why don't you just pull back and give up wishing Master Eglantine happiness? I can't say."

"Master Eglantine was looking for a way to get away from the power struggle and stay married to the royalty. I wish I could have been Aub Krassenburg, you said, but if I became Aub Krassenburg, can I really avoid marrying royalty?

"... at least I won't be able to marry you. It's rare for a woman to be an Aub, but in that case, she'll take her son-in-law."

Even the men and women who were engaged are less likely to break their engagement if the heir dies and the woman suddenly succeeds Aub. Because the other man has to be a lord candidate who can join his son-in-law.

Conversely, he said that someone could be a heir to the brother of the woman who was going to be Aub, and sometimes the engagement would be broken. That is the relationship between Georgine and Zilvester.

"I have no idea whether to prioritize the feelings of Lord Eglantine, the throne, or whether I have a proposal that I can't think of, but I think it is Prince Anastasius who will choose and strive ahead"

I am not very familiar with the royal circumstances either, so I have no idea how to put it on the throne, how I can just pull myself off from now on, or what it takes to root around me.

"… although it may be difficult in Lord Eglantine's position to get involved in a royal power struggle, I wish Lord Eglantine had a few days of peace of mind"

"I agree," Anastasius muttered, raising the edge of his lips with Ni about what he came up with.

"Rosemaine, it was unexpectedly good information"

"I'm afraid so."

If you look at the face of Anastasius, who is motivated, you can well see that he is not exposed to giving up feelings for Eglantine or anything else.

I don't know how you're going to do it, but I think you just have to work hard until they give you decisive guidance. If Eglantine is going to be happy as a result, that's fine.

"Prince Anastasius, this is besides information, and it would be a very disrespectfully close and harsh opinion, would you like to hear it?

"Let's hear it."

Lift your chin up, as Anastasius, with a slight frown, prompts you to go ahead. I slowly opened my mouth with my hands on my cheeks to support my blurred head.

"As you can see from the archery, Master Eglantine is very committed to the service dance. Given the trade-off, I think Prince Anastasius should do a more serious dedication dance audition. If you dance side by side, Prince Anastasius will be inferior."

"No?"

Whatever Anastasius looks uncomfortable, I will continue ahead.

"And then we'll teach you a love song where the faint also came out at Aerenfest, so why don't you practice? If you're confident in Feshpeel, though, we'll talk about it.... Master Eglantine is deeply involved in art, so why not attack her from there?

Instead of just saying "I'm good" when I compliment you, you should praise me specifically for what you thought was good. "I like Eglantine's voice" rather than "Eglantine's voice is beautiful," I think Eglantine is probably more Tokimeki.

And it came to pass, when he heard my words, that Anastasius, who had become a face like a bitter worm bitten down, drew his mouth to bits.

"Rosemaine, you've told me all you want to say a lot. Not even close to me."

"I'm sorry. Now listen up."

I already told you what I thought you should tell me. Whether Anastasius executes it or not is none of my business.

Anastasius slaps the elbow of the chair with tonnes and fingertips in frustration.

"Rosemaine, let me give you some advice. The person should hide a little more emotion, reluctantly release the information, and hoist the information and the value of himself bringing it in. Too unconstructive. They'll see you at your feet and treat you lightly."

irritating, but that would undoubtedly be genuine advice. I am aware of my social primacy, so I accept its advice with gratitude.

"I'm afraid so. Please allow me to leave as I will refine from now on. My head started teasing earlier and my consciousness..."

The sickness has subsided a little after taking the pill, but the dull headache has been going on all along, and instead a fierce drowsiness is attacking me.

"Osvin! Near Rosemaine!

"Immediately!

Finally, I lost consciousness so that I could bring him to the elbow hanging of the chair, as Anastasius stood up in a gutter and Osvin, who headed quickly to the hall where Richarda and the others waited.

By the time I woke up, I had received an apology from Anastasius for forcing me to make a report, knowing that I was not feeling well. There were words of sympathy from Eglantine together, so I think maybe Eglantine scolded me and wrote them.

... Has there been some progress? I hope so.

When I saw the two names lined up in good company, I laughed small.