Ascendance of a Bookworm

"So shall we hurry and get dressed? Elvira is waiting for you."

Wearing all sorts of things so as not to be cold, I am made to change for ease of movement in the castle. Then take a box with souvenirs for your mother to the room that Otilier was preparing for you.

Today I talk to my mother about a book I shouldn't have room for, so the only person on it as a side service is Otilier, and Angelica was the only one to escort me.

Richarda shall be in his room, and he shall unpack the luggage which I have brought back from the temple. Because the chief cleric said that I should take care of the baggage I had taken from Hirschühl.

"Richarda, this one's been processed, and this one's unprocessed."

"It's okay, princess. It's got a bill on it, so I know."

Otilier is close to her mother and she is a friend who meets her personally often. Apparently it was your mother who asked Otilier to serve me when I was to go up to the castle.

"Thank you for waiting"

When I got to my seat, O'Tillier told me, "I've given your family permission to have a sweet time, so I don't mind if they break my attitude," he told me.

I showed the prepared tea and sweets in bites, and I just tasted the tea, and I'm going to get to the point. When his eyes met, his grinning mother sparkled her pitch-black eyes.

"Rosemaine, have you read my book?

"No, I haven't been able to read everything yet. Just one story about a knight's story. I haven't had a whole day in the castle, and you wrote to me that it should only be opened in a room."

I appeal to your mother that she keeps her promises. Mother nodded contentedly.

"If you're keeping what's written in the letter right, that's fine. It's a book you shouldn't put out there."

"I saw what it was all about once, but... you found a good painter. The illustration was amazing."

... The chief cleric sparkles in three increments.

When I said that while hiding the voice of my heart, my mother let her face shine with joy.

"Phew, isn't it? I ordered it. After all, love stories can be matched by beautiful pictures."

By having Burma paint an illustration of me modeling the chief cleric in a knight story, he was willing to create a knight story that gathered all the stories of the romantic system.

"But the book your mother made can't be sold widely because you have to hide it from Master Ferdinand, can you? I think the revenue will be lower, but did Geebe Haldenzel give you permission?

"The book I gave Rosemaine was for special concession to my friends, and I showed it to my brother and sold it as a Haldenzel book because I let another painter write an illustration, so I have absolutely no problem with it"

… the content is the same and the illustration is different? Gil and the others, maybe you were asked to do a very troublesome job urgently.

The first printing should have been undertaken at the Rosemaine workshop in order to regulate the opinion with the mother. It was reported that without leaving any trace, all the failures and everything were taken away, but I have not heard that there were two types of illustrations and they struggled.

"We didn't get reports from the workshop that there were two kinds of illustrations."

"Never leak anything else, I told the Plantan Chamber of Commerce. I was wondering how far I could protect you, but the Rosemaine workshop people are excellent."

Mother says she had confirmed that the Plantan Chamber of Commerce could keep the secrets of its customers well, but was relieved that the workshop people in the temple did not report them to the clergyman and did not know how much secrets could be kept.

"If Master Ferdinand finds out, Hardenzel's printing business may be frustrated, and if it does, I, your brother, will scold you badly."

A book whose illustration is not the chief cleric is selling there in a good way, and Geebe Haldenzel says he intends to continue pushing the printing industry like this.

"I, next, would like to write a story about Lord Ferdinand's time in the House of Lords. However, when I changed the illustration, I wondered if it would be noticed if it was passed through my eyes, so I couldn't step out..."

"I think you'll just notice that. It's too dangerous."

The Legend of the Chief Cleric of the House of Lords has many surprising episodes. But if you put that together in a book, the clergyman will undoubtedly find out.

"There has also been talk in the House of Lords about Master Ferdinand. You may be up for discussion at a tea party, and vice versa, some of you may be reluctant to talk about it, so I let you gather information...... do you see?

I asked Otilier to put out the box I had brought with me: "It is a souvenir for my mother". Inside of this is what Rhoderich diligently sums up the legends of the priesthood that we have all gathered.

Your mother said, "Well! What a lovely souvenir," he happily takes out the contents of the box and goes through them one after the other.

... I'd love to read your mother's book too. Because it doesn't have to be the sheriff's illustration.

Your mother seems to really like clergyman information, and she says, "Oh, this is how material gathering is told, isn't it?" "Isn't there a most important love story in it," he said, inquisiting the information with one comment at a time, quickly dividing the information at hand into stories he knew and didn't know.

"The stories I know about Master Ferdinand were all the information I saw from Eckhardt, so it's fun to know the stories told in other realms."

Time has passed since the chief clergyman was in school, he's told by a pedigree, so he's reasonably exaggerated, and he's just right for stories.

"It was a freshman named Roderich who put this together."

"Rhoderich... you are an old Veronican, intermediate aristocrat who fell into the fold of a hunting tournament, Master Wilfried"

"You know very well, Mother"

"What do you do without remembering the danger?

"... just because my parents told me I didn't mean anything to Roderich."

"Yeah, you bet. But the scariest person is the one who carries the detriment without malice like that. It's easy to be alert if you're a clear enemy, someone who's malicious."

Mother speaks with a troubled, deaf face.

"Nature and intermediate and junior nobles will gather together once we realize that this force is larger and more profitable. In order to protect ourselves, it is their virgin art to try to follow those who are a little more dominant. I don't mean to condemn that way of life, but for that matter, I can't put my credibility down either."

It's a safe way to live, even if you think about how different identities can dramatically change your treatment, but keep it wrapped around long objects. He says he thinks differently than the clan of lords and senior nobles who have to be the flag heads.

"Rosemaine, you very often let emotions take precedence over interests to judge things. I'm not worried about putting my favorite lower nobility aside and being betrayed by a change in the force chart"

"I can't believe it's a betrayal... Dermuel and Philine have served me well"

Neither of us is that type. Especially Darmuel, the knight of escort who defended me with his life in jeopardy. If I were the type to betray, I would not be in this world for long.

As I sifted and shook my head, my mother nodded, "I know".

"The loyalty of Darmuel and Filine will be real. I have as many ingredients as I can judge."

"Huh?"

When I round my eyes, my mother laughs nicely, being told that she has enough ingredients to be able to say that the loyalty of Filine, whom she left to her side since entering the House of Lords, is genuine.

"Don't take a sweet look at my network."

"Dear Rosemayne, Elvira was an excellent civilian."

O'Tillier says that and laughs, gazing at her mother.

Seeing how the civilian apprentices struggle in the House of Lords myself, and organizing the information that comes together, I now know the excellence of a mother whose tea party can gather various information from various places in the gathering of information.

"Rosemaine, unless you treat me so crudely, there will be no shaking of Darmuel or Filine loyalty. But don't assume it leads to other intermediate or lower nobles"

"... ok"

I was stabbed in the nail for acknowledging Roderich's hard work with his mother's best eating cleric legend, and I wanted to sidestep him, but don't trust him easily to sidestep him.

"Besides, it's reasonable to raise the rewards slightly from 60% of the same faction, Rosemaine."

"Huh?"

"While showing the fairness of properly rewarding those in hostile factions as well, those in your own faction cannot be taken in by their faction unless they treat you preferentially and make you think you should be on your side. Allies and enemies are treated the same way, and there's no point in belonging to a faction. Besides, I don't normally feel good if treated in the same line as the hostile faction people. I know you have a sweet sense of the faction, but if you don't remember it's like that, you'll be dissatisfied with your side."

"... Yes"

Where and how much do my words and deeds flow from in the House of Lords? There was no such sermon from my adoptive father or from the chief cleric.

"After you moved to the temple, Richarda's report came up. There's more to the story of whether to put another dorm janitor or not than the dorm janitor Hirshul can barely guess in his absence."

"Administrator, is it?

Since Aerenfest has not received much interest from other territories so far, it was expected that the first year wouldn't spread so much, even if I wanted to send out an epidemic, I wouldn't be invited to a tea party.

But because of me, unexpected relationships have arisen with the royal families, the upper lord candidates, the teachers and the most influential places in the House of Lords. We need information to figure out where Aerenfest connects to at the Lords' Conference, but we can't guess at all the dorm warden who has started researching Schwartz and Weiss.

"For this reason, we have an opinion on whether we need someone who can report in detail on the state of the House of Lords and your deeds. From Master Ferdinand."

... This is the "slightly worse plan" the Chief Cleric said!? I mean a janitor for me, right?!? Not a little, not very!?

Ooh, and in front of me with my head, my mother dropped her gaze and sighed at Rhoderich's summed up clergyman legend.

"Nevertheless, you still have so much information about Master Ferdinand in the House of Lords. I'm surprised."

"Yeah, I was surprised, too. According to those who have gathered information, it appears that Aerenfest is in a better position to know other territories than Aerenfest"

Less is spoken of the priests who have entered the temple, and the legend of the priests who are now attending the House of Lords has emerged as the first to know. At Aerenfest dorms, they say more than half of them would be exaggerated or talking about someone else.

I can't tell if it's true or false, so I let it flow.

"How can there be so much discrepancy in the amount of information?

"Because Ferdinand's grades were too good, he bought Veronica's anger and everyone at Aerenfest didn't say anything."

That's what your mother said with her sad eyes down.

Though the mistress's son, the chief cleric is a lord candidate who was baptized as the lord's son. By the time the Chief Cleric had advanced to a high school year where he attended the House of Lords and obtained immovable status as a meritocrat, Veronica's two daughters had already gone out to daughter-in-law to another realm.

There are only two remaining Lords candidates in Aerenfest. If anything happens to Zilvester, the clergyman will automatically reach the seat of the next lord. Even if it weren't, the sense of crisis would have increased somewhat if we had seen a situation where he was not motivated by Zilvester and entrusted with more than half of his job as an assistant, with such a brilliant achievement as to make him famous for other realms.

"I've been a tough hit on Master Ferdinand since the time of the baptism ceremony. But in the final year of the House of Lords, since my predecessors lay down sick, and the more I showed excellence, the worse and worse the hit. The surrounding people couldn't seem to get their hands on it. So Lady Zilvester was advised to flee to the temple."

Speaking of which, I have previously heard that my father was unable to attend the funeral as a relative because he entered the temple just before his death. When I think about the clergyman who was not at the death of his parents, Veronica's demeanor only seems too terrible.

"If you could have stayed in the castle a little longer, you could have seen your parents die, right? I'm sorry to hear that, Ferdinand."

"... Probably, yes. Since Master Ferdinand entered the temple a little while ago, it was officially announced, so he should have actually gone to high altitude a long time ago."

Apparently, the lord's funeral will take place after the lord's meeting. It was reported at the Lords' Conference that the next Lords were approved and returned to the Territory for funeral. They do it sparingly because of the arrival of neighboring lords and nobles. Until then, they will use the magic of stopping time to preserve the body.

For this reason, there seems to be a difference between the actual date of death and the date of death publicly announced. Mother said that even if it wasn't supposed to be public death, it might actually have been.

... If that's really the case, it's good though.

"Master Ferdinand is now active without blinding people. That's enough for me."

"... why would your mother let Master Ferdinand in so far? Now anyway, wasn't it hard to stand out and take sides before?

If that was all neglected, Veronica would undoubtedly have scorned me just to take the side of the clergyman. Trouble, Otilier lay her eyes down sadly instead of her mother, who lay her hands on her cheek and tilted her neck.

"Master Elvira was also neglected by Veronica."

"Huh?"

"It's not a secret or anything, but my mother was a half-sister to Veronica."

"My half-sister, is it?

The material that was prepared to remember the noble name was a list, and the lineage diagrams that I had seen revolved around your father's lineage, so I had no idea what your mother's lineage was.

"When it comes to Veronica's half-brothers, I've heard they were so neglected..."

Both the former temple chief and his half-brothers should have been firm enough to refuse to pick up their luggage after death. I didn't think that was your mother's kin.

"Earlensbach's princess was to marry my uncle, my lord's brother, the first cause of the current commotion."

The princess, who was less magical as a lord candidate for Arlensbach, seems to have fallen in love with her earlier brother, who came to watch a territorial rivalry. If it were a less influential territory like Aerenfest, even the less magical princess of Aerensbach would appreciate it, according to her father's power, and she has put it in. In a way that can push your mother's aunt, who already had two children in the First Lady, away to the Second Lady.

He said the lord at the time, who was concerned about the disturbance, would drop the daughter of Count Risegang, who was also the largest force in the territory, from the candidacy of his predecessor's brother for the next lord. And they held back the Count's displeasure by holding Uncle Bonifatius's father in office as a successor and letting his daughter in from the Count Risegang family to Uncle Bonifatius.

Although the princess of Arlensbach, who has been married in such a state, remitted her three sons, she has always wanted to return to Arlensbach, saying, "It is difficult to live in such a country".

... I've tried to draw a genealogy diagram, but it's getting too complicated for my head to hang on. Your blood ties are so tight.

And after exchanging her third child, the princess suffered from poor postpartum fatigue, leaving a young child behind to die, and her mother's aunt, who was being pushed by the Second Lady, was to return to the First Lady.

The first child left was a man, the most magical of all, so he was to be raised as a trail. My second child is Veronica, and due to the abundance of magic pulling out the group at Aerenfest, I was to be educated so that I could be the first lady of my next lord.

While ill, the third child the princess had been forced to give birth to was too low in magic. He said that he could not ask his mother's relative, Arlensbach, for a back shield or a pick up, but was to be sent to the temple.

And a few years later, with the death of the first boy, Veronica was supposedly to grow up in frequent contact, drowning and dependence with her half-brother, who had been sent to the temple.

"By indulging, Veronica, who became the Lady of the Lords, began to harass her half-brothers. It would have been easier to target that child's nephew or niece than its older brother or sister. Me and my brother were hard hit in different ways."

Being the son of Geebe Haldenzel, he was usually not so obvious, but when he was invited to a tea party full of women, there seemed to be an indescribable amount of harassment.

"My uncle was worried about the condition, and he tried to protect me from isolation by engaging me with Master Calstead."

That is why she said that her mother built a faction that gathers all those neglected by Veronica, and that she came to marry her from Flavelturk, defending Florencia, who is snored by Veronica, and struggling to shelter Ferdinand, who is persecuted as the son of her mistress.

"Since my predecessors rose to heights, I have been more responsive to Haldenzel, ruled by your brother. Haldenzel would be north of Aerenfest, wouldn't it? Winter is a lot tougher than around here. Higher taxes are responsible for people's lives and deaths."

The whole territory is in a cuttlefish state, so I really can't just exempt Haldenzel. It seems Haldenzel's damage was greater than others as taxes on the whole were raised.

"Thanks to Rosemayne, your brother said he was saved."

He said Haldenzel breathed back when the plentiful and magical Little Holy Grail arrived, Veronica, who had harassed him, was repelled and the faction led by his adoptive mother and mother became the largest faction.

"Besides, your brother sold more books than I expected that were half-hearted. Your brother wants to spread the print more in Haldenzel."

"That's very nice of you."

I just need paper, naturally for printing. And although I would have planned to build a plant paper workshop at the same time, they haven't been able to build a new plant paper workshop because I fell asleep.

Knowing the success of Ilkner, this is the same with the other Geebes who wanted to reach out to the paper industry.

"Besides, you're also tied up in contract magic about sales, right?

The merchant's covenant I made, magic, is the covenant of the city of Aerenfest alone, but it is Aerenfest with an aristocracy that buys books, and until I woke up it was forbidden by my lord to spread printed matter to other territories.

The scope of contract witchcraft is vague, but we have no choice but to sell it through the Plantan Chamber of Commerce than to know what conflicts. The number of books is low. Anyway, I'm in trouble with this state for a long time to come. They also require the dissolution of contract witchcraft for this purpose.

When I heard it, I accidentally held my fist on my lap.

"Rosemaine, you seem to have been protected from the brink of a very good man."

"Huh?"

"The Plantan Chamber of Commerce was hard pressed to contact Aub Aerenfest for more information on the contract, no matter how many questions your brother asked."

Surrounded by senior aristocrats, Benno said he didn't say anything about the contract that might reveal my past.

"He tied it to the Rosemaine of the period he was spending in the temple, and he said it was necessary to protect the Rosemaine of that time"

"... Yes"

Benno desperately thought to create an opportunity to meet me face to face so that I could remain in a relationship at all, even if something like being taken away from me by the aristocracy. And it's contract magic that Lutz made me ready that I might be in danger.

"But in order to protect you, you will already be too small in that contract. Aren't you going to need a new contract that was for you today to expand your books and printing?

"... is this a new contract?

"That's right. The absence of a contract does not change your relationship with the Plantan Chamber of Commerce. Why don't you make a new contract to suit you now?

Where the contract has changed, the connection isn't broken. You just have to sign a new contract.

That's what your mother says.

... but that's not Mine and Lutz's contract anymore.

Instead of words that no one could say, I exhaled softly.