Ascendance of a Bookworm

"I am asking you today that the princess will be accompanied by Justkus, but how much is the princess really okay, despite the orders of Master Zilvester and Ferdinand Fong?

At the same time as I woke up in the morning, Richarda had asked me that question with a very harsh face. I think Richarda, the mother, has a very headache if her son is told to dress as a woman and attach it as a side service.

"I have a little anxiety, but I can't help but notice that there doesn't seem to be enough information from me or brother Wilfried at all. Yustokus is recommended by Ferdinand, so I believe we will not fail."

... It's bad for Richarda, who's so worried about me, but I've seen something a little scary, or I'm interested in Yustox's womenswear.

I'm going to the library this morning to magically supply Schwartz and Weiss, and I'm scheduled to meet with Anastasius this afternoon. There Yustox will dress up as a woman and accompany me as my sidekick.

I'm supposed to trade side services for one day today, and Richarda is going to work as a side service for Traugot.

"Justkus makes his preferred job a priority, so I'm sure he'll be the last to take care of Traugot. We need to keep a good eye out for how much work Justkus is doing as a side service."

I guess I'll do a check that'll poke the corner of the heavy box. Richarda glowed her black eyes.

After breakfast, until the opening time of the library, it was a discussion of territorial rivalries in a multi-purpose hall.

Territorial rivalries are like cultural festivals and sports festivals, if you think about them in Reino era. Central royalty, other realms of Aub, and student parents come to see it, so it's a place for students to come up with ideas and appeal to what they're good at.

They have teachers who show their lover's parents the good things and manage to empty up trying to get permission to marry them, or even though it's a place for the students to appeal, make it a place for their own research presentations, and various happenings every year.

First of all, it is a place of ditter battle for the knight apprentices. Compete to defeat the demons the teacher puts out by magic a little faster. This is also a floral form of territorial rivalry because at a glance you can see wins and losses, it's easy to see what works and it's flashy.

The ability is quite different from the beginning in a small territory where everyone will compete with a large enough number of athletes to be selected, but that is also the power of the territory.

Aerenfest is somewhat of a medium territory close to a small territory, and the land is large but sparsely populated, and the shortage of numbers must be compensated by strength.

However, as far as the previous Cavalier apprentices are concerned, their strength is still subtle... and there is plenty of room for growth. You should be able to increase your ranking by expanding your magic with magic compression, studying about the demons, and training in formation and collaboration.

"Angelica and I will be the centerpiece of the attack this year, under Leonore's instructions for studying demonic weaknesses and past achievements. Unfortunately, we still can't move as much as we can call collaboration."

Angelica nodded at Brother Cornelius's words. He fights Dunkelferger and learns the importance of collaboration, but the practice is just getting started. My uncle said he would work out in the spring, so next year will be pretty good.

"I, before Ditter, intend to give the Knight Apprentices the blessing of God of Martial Arts, but will this be treated as cowardice?

"... Lady Rosemayne's blessing is a valuable ploy that Aerenfest can use. If you pray for a Ditter victory in your pre-departure dorm, there's nothing more comforting."

I hope Leonore didn't see you in the other realm. Looks like a sloppy backhand with a gray level close to black that

And for civilian apprentices, territorial rivalry will be a place for them to present their research results, including improvements and inventions of magic tools and medicines. They sell their technology to the center with materials that summarize the actual objects and research results they've created.

The clergyman announced his own magic equipment here and apparently bought it out in the center to make rough money. He says it's been a place for Hirschühl's research presentation for years since he graduated as chief cleric.

"Will Haltmoot list anything?

"I'm doing Rosemayne's research, but I haven't got enough conclusions to make yet."

... Now I thought I heard some horrible words, empty ears?

"To be precise, this is a study of the difference between the magic we learn and use in the House of Lords and the blessings and protections used by Master Rosemaine. In the House of Lords, you will acquire God's will, you will get a stamp, and then you will be able to deal with God's protection. Lady Rosemayne could have handled God's blessing without Starp, could she?

"Aren't blessings handled in greetings"

Even if there is no starp, everyone will be blessed if they get demonic stones to release their magic at the baptismal ceremony. Hartmoot looked lightly at my words.

"It is not just a blessing to give out magic, but a prayer in the name of God, to obtain effective protection. For me, those two things are different, but for Rosemayne, they're the same thing."

It's a new discovery, Hartmoot said, but it was also a new discovery for me. It's all a prayer to God for me. Greetings, blessings in the temple, and God's protection are all things that emit magic by uttering God's name.

... ahhh, but could there be a lot of difference between when you feel like you're being pulled out of magic on your own and when you can work hard and magic yourself? I don't know, so it's a bad idea to think.

"In the meantime, Haltmoot should do a little more meaningful research."

"Right. Next year we will be doing research that can be presented. Master Rosemaine's research is not going to be complete in a lifetime, so I'm going to take care of it after graduation."

... Stop! Don't make it that life-work!

"Research on Schwartz and Weiss seems to dominate this year's research presentation, Dear Rosemayne."

That's what Filine said to me holding my head. It seems that a lot of research is also needed to create a new costume, and Hirschühl gave it to the main study because Aerenfest has to work together.

"You wanted Ferdinand's material as soon as possible for that. I was surprised by Dr. Hirschühl yesterday."

Filine's smug tone reminds me of yesterday.

Upon learning of my return by Ordnants, Hirshur jumped into the dorm yesterday afternoon with an impatient complexion to pick up the Cleric Chief's souvenir.

It was Justkus who responded to Hillsur. I was asked to put in Dunkelferger's refusal to rematch Ditter in exchange for research material on Schwartz and Weiss, and henceforth to stab the nail so that he would not apply for rematch against me.

"If I can confirm that what I asked for is done, I'll give you the other half," Yustox said when handing over the materials, and Hirschühl seems to have acted immediately. I came to get the other half before dinner that day.

He came like a storm, and when he caught a bunch of materials, he looked at Hirshur, who had left like a storm, and said, "I didn't think I'd be finishing the negotiations without a minute of bells. I've never known Dr. Hillsur to have had a competent aspect other than research," said Haltmoot.

... Nevertheless, it's called my adoptive father, it's called Dr. Hillsur, and maybe Aerenfest is a land pattern where people at the top only move as they're interested. Trouble.

And for side-service apprentices, territorial rivalry becomes a place for guests to cultivate and disseminate fashion.

So far, Aerenfest has had few visitors, except the guardians of their territory.

Without something new or noticeable, guests from other territories will naturally stay away. The time for territorial rivalry is not that long, so you will naturally head to where you are interested or noticed and where people are gathered.

Even the parents and Mr. and Mrs. Aub Aerenfest quickly turn to room to interact with other realms. We have to go because no one's coming even if we wait.

Apparently Brunhilde regretted so much that no matter how much he brushed his bare arms, he had no place to take advantage of it.

Brunhilde is tense when he brushes everyone's hair up with a phosphor, as he did during the advanced ceremony, as he has lots of things to appeal to this year with phosphors, hair decorations, cattle curls and plant paper, and Aerenfest has attracted quite a bit of attention in previous social periods.

"I don't know how many visitors there are and I'm not anxious," Lieselator said. It seems that Justkus said that there are two lord candidates, me and Wilfried, and that a new fashion has arisen that, unlike before, doesn't make me feel ready no matter how much.

It would be nice to have a happening within our grasp, but it could turn out worse than last year if things got out of hand.

"... oh? Who is it?

An unintentionally unfamiliar woman came into the multi-purpose hall. The real Richarda is behind me, though it looks a lot like Richarda. Someone else.

The moment I wondered who it would be, Traugot, who covered his face all the time asking me to give him a break, caught my eye. When I look up unexpectedly, Richarda looks very disgusted.

As she sewed among all those who gazed astonishingly, the woman proceeded loosely, kneeling before me with graceful manners.

... this is Yustox dressed as a woman! Wow, you look like a properly classy old lady!

In front of me was a middle-aged woman who looked a lot like Richarda, who just looked youthful in the skin, not the yustox she was used to seeing. Since it is cold in winter, everyone wears clogged clothes at the neck, the throat buddha is completely hidden, and the only skin exposed is the face, as it is worn neatly to the gloves.

Originally Yustox had a neutral face, so I can see him wearing makeup. Are you even stuffing a lot, I'm afraid it looks slightly better than Richarda's, but it doesn't feel uncomfortable when I see it painfully. Is the colour of the hair dyed or is it not gray hair, but a shade that looks brown?

"Thank you very much for your patience. How about that, princess?

"... can Justkus also change his voice?

"You just have to change your voice a little bit."

They can make a feminine voice when they change where they can also sound. The trick is very feminine, whether it's because you observe a woman closely, practice well by yourself, or are you used to dressing as a woman from day to day. Somehow, it resembles researching and training feminine movements with kabuki and ability and making more feminine movements than ordinary women around.

"If this doesn't seem to be a problem, I would like to attend the women's tea party in this way."

"If there seems to be no problem today, I don't mind"

"Then when you look like this, do not call me Goudrune."

"... goudrune?

It was almost at the same time that I leaned my neck and Traugot screamed.

"Uncle, please, stop naming your mother by that figure! Don't you have a female name close to your name, like Justina or Justine!

"Well, I don't like it, Traugot. Disturb me like that. … and they fail because they only have the shallowness to think of using a name that connects them to who they are."

The fussy laughing Yustox woman's outfit apparently looks a lot like Traugot's mother, Goudrune. Who knows the goudrones, not just because they are distracted, but because they look terribly complicated?

The gaze of all those previously caged in criticism and contempt gradually turns into a sympathetic caged raw and warm one, as Traugot, who is attached to his uncle dressed as a sidekick, holds his head with a crying face, "Give me a real break". A gaze that sounds like you could hear "pathetically......"

... Could it also be aimed at gathering sympathy for Traugot? No, you don't seem to think about that at all.

He looked at me with such a troubled face that Hartmoot was behaved unscrupulously in Yustox's womanly guise that he did not lose any femininity when he was talking to the disturbing Traugot.

"... Dear Rosemaine, Um, is this womenswear, as a proximity, a necessary skill as a civilian? It's very impudent, but I don't have this kind of technology. If Lady Rosemaine wants you to wear it, I will work hard in good faith."

I told you to learn civilian work from Justkus, but I don't remember telling you to acquire women's clothing skills. I shook my head in haste.

"Haltmoot doesn't have to be able to wear women's clothes or anything. I do not seek such things. There will be a way to educate and cooperate with women's civilian so that they can come with the information they want. This womenswear is a hobby of Justkus, not the ability I am looking for in Hultmoot"

Civilian apprentices around him became clearly hoarse in my words and, conversely, Justkus looked a little dissatisfied.

"It's not a hobby, Princess. It's the most efficient way to get information. If you want to get solid information with your own eyes and ears, isn't that a reliable and convenient technology"

"... is it an efficient way?

"Haltmoot, you mustn't be flushed!

Feeling something dangerous about Haltmoot, who began to think with a strange look on his face, I hastily stopped. Yustokus stops me smiling like that. Haltmoot, of course, began to talk about the usefulness of women's clothing towards the students on the spot.

"Princess, it's not about being flushed, it's about the person choosing. If you think your information is more reliable than other people's information, wear women's clothing separately from technology…"

"Welcome aboard, Justkus! Drag O'Tillier's son into a strange path with a bright future. Not at all!

With the thunder of his mother, Richarda, falling, Justkus shrugged his shoulders like "Shit". He seemed to put up with it to the point of criticism as a service to me, but at last, he broke up with Kannon Bag. Richarda's furious sermon began.

The appearance of Justkus resembles Richarda a lot, so it's like having two Richardas, but one in your mother's face and the other in the expression of a son who played a prank and got pissed off, which makes me a little crazy.

"It's an order from Ferdinand Fong or Aub Aerenfest, so you have no choice but to attach them to the princess! I didn't mean to do this! When I do something to discredit Aerenfest, I have the authority to dispose of it. Don't forget that. Nice!

"... I know very well, Mother"

With Richarda stopping Justkus' rampage, we can finally make our way to the library.

Dropped off by the worried Richarda and Traugot, who held the area around his stomach, I take Goudrune and his neighbors to the library, not Justkus. It's been a long time since I've seen Schwartz and Weiss.

"Himesama, Kitata"

"Welcome back, Himesama"

Schwartz and Weiss, who found my figure, approached me with a chick and circled around, "Welcome back, welcome back". I'm glad you're so welcome.

I looked around in the library, stroking the demonic stones of Schwartz and Weiss' foreheads to provide magic. Lots of bookshelf clearance, faint.

"Dr. Solange, you're kind of missing your bookshelf a lot."

"Welcome back, Master Rosemaine. The final exam is getting closer. Everyone must be desperate. There are a lot of gaps in the bookshelves these days, but Carrell is full."

As Solange puts it, unlike previous libraries I know, there are so many users today. Although there is no private language, the sound of each making is constantly heard like different waves. And there's no relaxing atmosphere, and the unique tingling tension before the exam seems visible.

There is a dispute over securing a reference book and a carrel, and I look anxious for my classmates to keep finishing the lecture.

"If you're going to be reading today, you might want to go in your own room"

"As a matter of fact, I was returning to Aerenfest for too long, and it has been decided that I will be socially insensitive from now on until graduation. I'd really like to read slowly in the library..."

"Well, well..."

Couscous and laughed Solange said, "Socialization is an important place to study in the House of Lords. Master Rosemaine will be fine," he encourages.

I tilted my neck with my hands on my cheeks so that Goudrune, who was watching how it was, could think a little.

"You can read it for a break after a determined day of socializing. Let's borrow one book and go back."

"Goudrune, are you sure!?

... Justkus is a freak, but a competent and good man!

Goudrune narrows his eyes so that he laughs bitterly when he finds himself getting a good liking.

"If you're a princess, you'd be more motivated if you had a little reward."

"I'm out. Now, come and find the book."

"We don't have that time. Schwartz, Weiss and the princess would like a copy of the rental process for a book they have never borrowed before."

Goudrune catches me to hold my shoulder and say I won't let him get away with it. Even if I wear gloves and make them feminine, the power to hold my shoulders belongs to men. It's not like Richarda to apply or subtract force.

While I was surprised by the unexpected feeling of the crushing hand, Schwartz and Weiss moved out with a chicken.

"Okay. Sagittarius."

"Dashimaki no Izumo"

And I asked Goudrune to take the book, which had completed the lending process, and began to walk the road back to the dorm in a floating mood. I look at the goudrone walking often and feminine, and I remember the words I had heard before.

"Goudrune, where is the unopened library? You told me when it was, right?

That's exactly the information you told me on Szczeria night to wake up drowsy. Although there has been a change in the number of clerks and books, there will be no change in the existence of a library that does not open.

Maybe the unopened library is an open library, but the change is fine for me.

"I've never heard of such a story. Are you talking about the House of Lords?

The closest friends also turned their curious eyes to the goudrone for the word "unopened library", which made them feel so mysterious. Goudrune smiles calmly and shakes his head slowly.

"I don't know where. That's what the scribe at the time said while I was in school. There is a library that no one but the royal family can open."

"... Huh? Can't you open it other than royalty, can't I?

Let me hope for it, and when I swelled my cheeks, Goudloon looked at me as if I were surprised.

"Huh? Even though it's a library without opening, was the princess going to come in?

"If there's a book there, it's natural to want to read it"

"... how many people would have the same idea as the princess?

And he said so, leaning his neck against the goudrone, and I was in a terrible and unceasing mood. If there's any information there, I'll get in downtown, and even the women's clothes come perfectly, but I'm a common sense person, and I'm a little pissed off that you look like that.

"Don't you think Goudrune wants to know what books are inside and what they say?

"... If I let you in, I'm sure you'd like to know. But I'll give up at a time when I can't open it except royalty. Normally."

It's not like a tea party you can handle if you want to dive in, he shook his head and said. All of a sudden I just stare at the gourd runes that say things like ordinary people.

"Goudrune, isn't that how you say I'm not normal?"

"Princess, are you possibly completely unconscious?

"... Ugh, there's a little"

That's good, and Goudrune stroked his chest down and said, "A little?" Brother Cornelius made a surprised voice.

... Huh? A little bit, right?